Darkroom
Sadie Campbell
2021

https://album.link/i/1581693500

Example:

New Artist to me. This is just an EP - and looking around she has not released an 'album' yet. So, I listened to all the tracks that she has on Tidal (10 total). The example above caught my interest with her power, gravel, lilt and tone. But this following track really impressed me.

Needless to say, I am now following this artist. 

One of the few "avant-garde" albums that I enjoyed listening to. 

 

Medicine Singers

The Powwow drums being the backbone during the whole album gave it a nice beefy rumble . 

 

Edited October 26, 20223 yr by robm321

19 hours ago, JoaMat said:

I just recently saw and really enjoyed Charlie Hunter live. This album sounds good, so I will check that out. Thanks for posting 

I was in the mood to "pitch a wang dang doodle".

Really, who isn't?

 

I didn't know this existed. Now I do and I am the better for it. 

 

So am I.

Another new artist to me - another strong voice.

five seconds flat
Lizzy McAlpine
2022

https://album.link/i/1604657567

Example:

I started to this listen to this a while ago, but it took me three days to get past the first song (above). It hooked me hard. Lyrics, voice, production (soundstage and close mic), and the use of silence was so well done. I had to switch from my daily listening on Bluetooth over to my AT L3000s to dig past the layers. And I was rewarded. 

Finally getting through the album and there is more of the same. I have not heard the use of pauses and silence so effectively since discovering Chris Thile and ‎Nickel Creek. There is something so captivating about bringing a song completely to a stop, makes me lean in and take notice as to what is next. So much more satisfyingly than throwing a wall of sound at me with all pots maxed. 

Needless to say this will go into heavy rotation for a while. 

I, too, am a big fan of the full stop.  Thanks for the inadvertant rec.

I am listening to my favourite band in the world, because, due to my inability to get my act together, I am not in New Orleans with them, where they are performing tonight.

I has a sad.

Here's their latest song and video:

 

^There's something in their music that reminded me of The Alan Parsons Project.

Miss '80s clubs.

 

^^ So many "looks" there.....indeed, what memories!

Lasse Thoresen's Lyden av Arktis (The Sound of the Arctic) from 2L. It's "an acoustic atlas: a musical expedition that reaches as far into the Earth’s interior as it does into our minds and souls. It stands both as a multi-dimensional cultural and historical fable and as an environmental statement — with a breadth that envelops hope, beauty and nature’s untamed forces, beginning with the Arctic wind’s warning whisper, and ending with humankind’s inevitable apocalypse." That last part signals how good this also would be for scary, loud, trick-or-treating music.

Ex:

 

Edited October 30, 20223 yr by blessingx

Remember That You Will Die
Polyphia
2022

https://album.link/i/1651208826

Example:

I was wondering if they were going to put something out soon, since they have been releasing a few tracks over the last year. Well here it is, and it does not disappoint. There is much Polyphia goodness here. There are a lot of notes being played in a 40 minute session. A handful of guest artists, so not all instrumentals, including the Steve Via collab (posted before).  I still really like the Playing God track, but I am really digging the Example- Chimera track on repeat now. I will have to take a listening break for a bit to recover my note quota, these tracks are rewarding to deep listening. 

Satchmo Plays King Oliver
Louis Armstrong
1960

https://album.link/i/1466704359 <-They only have the link to the mono - seek out the Stereo (worth it)

Example:

I guess I didn't wait too long to play more music. But it is Satchmo.... 

 

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain’s The Melody of Rhythm

 

Nosaj Thing's Continua

ex.

 

Edited November 3, 20223 yr by blessingx

Someone on the Boston Bruins hockey forum posts the Peanuts "dance" video after wins, and someone replied with this alternate version....methinks @dsavitsk might like and/or have seen this.  EDIT: and there's a Dead Kennedy's version as well 😊

 

Edited November 2, 20223 yr by skullguise

Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Rick Wakeman
2014

https://song.link/i/873134907

Example - well, the entire album:

A newer recording of an old prog classic of mine. I like this version, I still prefer the original, but it is a good telling and recording. 

Nemophila Discography Run (not saying much, they only have 2.5 albums)

followed by

Placebo Discography Run (yes, including the B-sides and covers)

I didn't like the last hey-i've-just-learned-to-play-the-piano-let's-do-lounge album but this one is quite good.