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What have you been listening to lately? Any new discoveries or old favorites you've re-discovered?

Madness

Listening to a bunch of old T Rex and Bruce Springsteen

very soothing

YEEESSS to T-Rex. Golden.

Ooo, so, Youtube randomly recommended me The Dream of Flight by Christopher Tin. I believe it is from the Civilization 6 soundtrack. I have become obsessed with this song and have listened to nothing else the past two days. It is so beautiful, honestly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYN2P3E06s

Other than that, I've been listening to a lot of Sabaton lately, especially The Great War, their latest album.

Great War is a fantastic track!

I meant the whole album, but I love that song. The chorus of the song is the thing I've been randomly singing around my house for the past couple of weeks.

Christopher Tin has more cool works! He wrote two song cycles, both of which I recommend if you like Dream of Flight:

Calling All Dawns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR_rKSTM43I

The Drop that Contained the Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQLWkzPQFbo

There are interesting concepts behind both of them. He chooses a theme (circle of life/spirituality, and the water cycle, respectively). Then he finds texts about that theme in different languages, like songs, poems, prayers etc., and makes them the lyrics to his songs. The order of the songs reflects the circle, and the songs are musically inspired by the cultures they're from, with ethnic percussion, regional singing techinques and so on. And the cultures he uses are not Euro-centric!

To give you an example for what Tin does with the cycle idea:
Calling All Dawns has twelve songs, in three groups of four. These three movements are day, night and dawn or life, death and rebirth; the mood of the songs changes accordingly. There's a four note motif right at the beginning of Calling All Dawns that keeps popping up throughout the whole cycle. It's also the melody of the first and last song, at the very beginning of the first verses ("Baba yetu yetu ulie" and "Kia hora"). And because it's a cycle, it ends exactly like it starts, with the same motif sung exactly the same way with the same atmospheric background strings.

Drop is, imho, better than Dawns – Tin has clearly improved, Drop has more variety and subtlety – but both are good.

(If you don't want to sit through the whole thing, just listen to the first track of Calling all Dawns, Baba Yetu. The lyrics are The Lord's Prayer in Swahili. Like Dream of Flight, it's from a Civilization soundtrack, and it's pretty nice even on its own.)

Cool! I've actually already heard and love Baba Yetu before, so going to listen to the rest as soon as I have the time to spare.

I keep playing Myrath in the car. It's a prog/poppy/oriental metal band from Tunisia. "Tales of the sands" is beautiful even though I can't understand the arabic chorus. https://youtu.be/o1g62x7qybA

For recent discoveries I'd list Trepalium, who is a proggy death metal band with strong swing influences. "Moonshine Limbo" is bloody amazing. https://youtu.be/9QeIgsBQTHQ

thanks for the rec! Jamming to this now

You're welcome, I'm happy you enjoyed it.

Marc Rebillet

Currently listening to Depeche Mode (mostly the Songs Blasphemous Rumors and Shake the Disease) and The Cure (mostly Lullaby) more recently because I'm slowly turning myself into an 80's goth minus the hairstyle.

Also Florence + the Machine's new song Light of Love, as well as Rina Sawayama's new album (I found her through her song Flickers on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jeluOrjZOg absolutely love the style of the video too <3)

DEPEchE MODE!!!

I'm slowly realizing I too may have missed the 80s goth boat (my hair is not suited for the style either so w/e) but yay!

I asked you guys for songs about childhood abuse and someone reccomend The Mountain Goats and I am obsessed now.

Casefile for podcasts. Trying to get through all of them. For music, just a bunch of random stuff. -_-

Have you listened to the silk road ones? That was the "Case" that go me into the podcast.

Re: Whatcha Listening To

kaijinscendre - 2020-04-24 19:43 (UTC) - Expand

Rediscovered Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, so I've been listening to The Tracks of My Tears and Just to See a lot.

Great songs, both of those.

"You Really Got a Hold on Me" is another favorite of mine, along with "I Second That Emotion". I remember hearing the latter a lot as a kid, because it was on my mom's mix tape that she would play in the car during road trips :).

Re: Whatcha Listening To

(Anonymous) - 2020-04-24 02:01 (UTC) - Expand

McCartney aka the album with the cherries out of the bowl for the cover. It amazed me that he played all the instruments in all the songs.

I've been listening to The Pillows and Saves the Day.

Listening to a lot of Shonen Knife, lately. Also, Ramones.

I love the Ramones!

Listening to some old Ethiopian songs (Tizita to be specific). I don't speak Amharic (Or Tigrinya) but I really enjoy it. I play it while I work and helps me stay focused.

I always find it fascinating that something I'm listening to the first time is what someone might have grown up listening to - -the same applies for genres and sounds I grew up listening to -- there's so much music out there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnku5qUCiRU

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