From: Adeline ()
Date: May 5, 2008
Subject:
Re: (amb) What other music do you listen to?
I usually look fairly uncoordinated when asked this question from the non-ambient initiated. It takes too long to explain about
Eno-and-sonic-wallpaper-and-is-that-music?-and-why-I-like-it-and-how-is-it-different-from-new-age-and-what-about-Yanni?-and-oh-I-love-Enya!! (wtf?)
So then I'll side-step into other areas - jazz, electronica, or indie or post-punk or modern classical or (place most genres here).
I don't think I'm answering the question Adeline asked appropriately though. So, knowing we all have the context down...
Ambient is my bread and butter...but for other meals I have a voracious appetite for things that have the sound and feel of latter-day Talk Talk.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again...love, love TT's "laughingstock" and "spirit of eden" discs. There is very little that is better in my book. It's
served as the basis for seeking out anything directly or remotely influenced by them. It certainly is a rare strain of music. There are the obvious
followers like Bark Psychosis, Pluramon and Bed and the ones that have a natural inclination like Movietone, Tindersticks, Slowdive's "Pygmalion"
or The Necks or even The Dirty Three.
It's a kind of music that is anchored with rhythm, has an almost undefinable textural fabric, an appreciation for silence in between notes, and a mixture of
large genres without being exactly pigeonholed into any. In the case of TT, it's chamber music vs. a rock structure soaked in modern jazz that will
use errors to it's own advantage.
I listen to "laughingstock" almost 11 years after first hearing it, and still marvel at the complexity of what has proven to be IMHO the finest music
I've ever listened to.
Alongside ambient that is.
Jason
infractionrecords.com
Onnow : PJ Harvey - White Chalk
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Subject: Re: (amb) What other music do you listen to?
I never used to listen to country either (with a bit of an exception for
Johnny Cash - I don't own any, but I've a certain fondness for a few of
his songs), but I've since discovered Jolie Holland and the Be Good
Tanyas. That's about it though! I'm sure there's more out there I could
like, but I've not really had much of an urge to go looking. So country
will probably remain one of the gaps in my music collection too.
on now: The Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven
Isomorph wrote:
> Adeline wrote:
>> I thought it would be interesting to hear what else people on this
>> list listen to, and how many people stick mostly to ambient and
>> closely related genres. And also, for fun, any types of music you
>> absolutely would /not/ listen to...
> Country is about the only thing I really wouldn't listen to. Has no
> appeal to me at all. But I grew up listening to metal and punk. When
> I'm at work writing code I listen to ambient and psy trance most of
> the time. When I'm in the car driving I listen to mostly punk and
> metal. Occasionally rap, top40, etc.
> http://www.myspace.com/isomorphmusic
>
>
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