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Zapruder
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- Posted: 09/02/2012 08:43
- Post subject: Comfort Zones...
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Hey guys - new to the site and all that.
Here today to find out what you lovely people consider to be inside of your musical comfort zone. I'm imagining most of you guys on BEA listen to some derivation of rock, based on the charts I've seen. I'm pretty interested in finding out how many of you guys regularly listen to jazz/funk/world music/minimalism/medieval comp's - what have you.
Anyways, try listing the genres/artists you normally listen to and then give a genre you'd like to get into that's outside of your comfort zone. I'll try and give out some rec's and hopefully some other people can help you out too.
I'd like to get into world music if anyone knows where to start with that.
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cartoken
The Seer
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Age: 39
Location: Paris
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- Posted: 09/02/2012 09:14
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try Made In Medina by Rachid Taha, it's fabulous !
there"s a thread called world album of the day, it's just what you're looking for 
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weedygonsalez
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- Posted: 09/02/2012 10:10
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My comfort zone shifts every few months; right now I'd feel weird listening to anything other than modern neo-soul/R&B or fingerpicked American folk/blues. In general, I suppose I usually fall back into My Bloody Valentine or Pavement during transitional periods.
"World" music is a tremendous nut to crack, since it's much more of an umbrella term than an actual genre, but my favorite slice of the world of music has always been Brazil. Jorge Ben was the gateway into the sounds of tropicalia for me, and no place is better to start listening to samba than the collaboration of Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz.
Also, Tuvan/Mongolian throat singing is the absolute coolest sounding shit ever.
Last edited by weedygonsalez on 09/02/2012 10:20; edited 1 time in total
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CellarDoor
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Age: 39
Location: Marseille
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- Posted: 09/02/2012 10:20
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Hello !
My comfort zone is limited to all things post-punk.
Also, I am NOT trying to get into country or Justin Bieber, so no recs please.
Something for Zapruder :
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Clube Da Esquina by Milton Nascimento/Lo Borges
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Zombie by Fela Kuti
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Saoirse
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- Posted: 09/02/2012 10:22
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I guess I could try listening to some yodeling... other than that I'm not really adverse to any particular style cuz I'm such a liberal hipster
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Borve Baunehoj
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- Posted: 09/02/2012 10:29
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My comfort zone is limited to music that sounds good
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Zapruder
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- Posted: 09/02/2012 10:42
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| CellarDoor wrote: | Hello !
My comfort zone is limited to all things post-punk.
Also, I am NOT trying to get into country or Justin Bieber, so no recs please. |
Try Filth by Swans - it's post punk related - but only marginally. It's more No Wave, which I guess you could say is post-punk's weird uncle.
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Guest
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- Posted: 09/02/2012 10:42
- Post subject: Re: Comfort Zones...
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| Zapruder wrote: | | I'd like to get into world music if anyone knows where to start with that. |
"World" music is a bit vague IMO. The world has all kinds of styles of music. But anyway, personally, I feel a bit finished with conventional rock music and actually enjoy more the challenges of music I feel less familiar with.
Listing a few "world" albums that should be easy enough to get into:
• Mamer's "Eagle" plays central Asian instruments, is sung in Kazakh, and has a slight touch of throat singing mixed in, yet manages to stay comfortable to western ears.
• Serge Gainsbourg's "Histoire de Melody Nelson" has the french storytelling, talk-singing sort of thing. I'm not sure if that style has a name.
• Triana's "El Patio" combines Prog Rock and Flamenco.
• Shivkumar Sharma's "Call of the Valley" I find to be a strong gateway into Hindustani Classical style of music.
• Milton Nascimento's "Clube da Esquina" is a light psychedelic pop thing from Brazil.
• Can's "Tago Mago" for some Krautrock from Germany. It's raw and has some catchy songs and some, uhh, "experimental" stuff.
• and lastly, Boredoms "Pop Tatari" for some Japanese noise rock, which I hesitate on recommending because based on my experience - you'll either love it or hate it, and there seems to not be much room for in-between.
(Just edited "Tago Mago" in the list after posting)
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Zapruder
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- Posted: 09/02/2012 10:48
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| anothergreenworld2 wrote: | | I guess I could try listening to some yodeling... other than that I'm not really adverse to any particular style cuz I'm such a liberal hipster |
| anothergreenworld2 wrote: | | cuz I'm such a liberal hipster |
Oh, wow. lel. Try searching Franzl Lang on Yt if you were serious about the yodelling. I would give you the link myself - but I'm not too sure as to whether the forums accept youtube links or not.
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weedygonsalez
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- Posted: 09/02/2012 10:49
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This is an incredibly extensive undertaking, but if you truly want the world music experience than hunt down anything and anything from Richard Bishop's Sublime Frequencies label. They specialize in collecting and releasing the hyperregionalized music of all genres as they seed and develop from all over the world, from funk in North Korea to Syrian folk.
Here's their wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_Frequencies
Bishop's solo exercises in his interpretations of world styles are also essential. Freak of Araby is one of his most recent ones, and an album I treasure greatly. The man is a legitimate guitar god.
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