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Alright alright! I originally thought about making this week's focus avant-garde or perhaps ambient, but I didn't wanna make the doorway for participation to narrow. So, what do avant-garde and ambient have in common — weirdness! And don't think I mean that in a bad way... I'm absolutely drawn to the strange & unusual. Listen to enough tunage and after a while ya start to crave something a bit different. So, this week I wanna hear your most out-there, bizarre, and downright odd musical suggestions. The stranger, the better!
How we do
In this weekly series, folks can chime in and drop links to whatever it is they've been listening to recently + browse others suggestions. You can follow the suggested genre if you'd like, but don't feel confined to it; you're free to suggest whatever you wanna. 🙌
If you're interested in having other discussions about music, consider following the aptly named #music discussions organization.
Let's get weird. Note: you can embed a link to your song using the following syntax {% embed https://... %}. This should work for most common platforms!
Looking forward to listening to y'all's suggestions! 🎶
Top comments (16)
I frequently go back to Brian Eno's 1978 album “Ambient 1: Music For Airports"... it's so nice. It really helps me focus and stay relaxed while doing work.
And if you like ambient or generative music, I have a few YouTube musicians I'd recommend:
Hainbach
OoraMusic
State Azure
Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz:
And here's another version from a group that attempted to even follow the crazy performance directions (it looks like they've blocked embeds on this one so you'll need to follow to youtube):
Woooooaaaaaaaa! 🤯
This is the wildest thing I've heard in a while and viewing the video on YouTube was totally worth it! The performance directions make it. 😂
This link has images of the sheet music for this, as well as a couple other crazy pieces by the same author:
socks-studio.com/2012/05/19/the-un...
I wouldn’t necessarily called this artist weird, but it’s definitely unusual and I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled upon this track.
Your browser is deprecated. Please upgrade.Vedic Love Song | Sanskrit - YouTube Music
Love as described in the Atharva Veda 6.8 A few people have been asking about this translation that is from RL Kashyap There is a sense that it is the light...
Oooo it is unusual — super peaceful and very cool. I love it when the harmonies come in; it's powerful but keeps its peaceful feeling. Thanks for sharing this one, Valeria!
Ever heard of outsider music?
A weirdness I like is when I listen to a song in a language I barely or don't understand, and still by the power of music and the energy of the artist, it makes a connection with me
I laughed so much with this japanese song about the dilemna of leaving your Futon in winter in a japanese home without central heating.
And I fell in love with Esperanto around 2006 partly because I didn't expect to hear something like "Chu vi pretas, chu vi pretas por la veno de Dolchamar?".
And then I asked what the lyrics meant and that was hilarious
I'm back with another one! The wonderfully weird Animal Collective.
Songs:
Recently started getting into some serious synthwave/chillwave revival stuff. Any form of electronic music is good for coding and keeping the focus. I love Boards of Canada, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk. I recently found Space Cassette by way of the synthwave scene, their work is just so damn chill.
Oooo heck yeah! I fell into a very similar musical space over COVID. I love the synthwave/chillwave genres and the bands that you mention are on point! However, I had never heard Space Cassette — I love this!
If you want something a bit more poppy with singing, I recommend checking out The Midnight... their album Monsters really had its hooks in me a couple years ago and I still frequently pop it on.
I also love Irving Force... it's quite a bit darker, heavier, but still very synthy. Street Mech is a good tune to show ya what it's all about.
But yeah, listening to all this synthwave sorta stuff actually resulted in me buying a modular synthesizer called a Moog Grandmother and other bits of equipment like a drum machine... it's a lotta fun making that sorta music.
Baby Metal - The Other One. Yup, the whole album
Holy crap! This rocks. 🎸
What?!?! Oh wild... I'm going to have to look into that. Hopefully he'll bring the tour close enough to NC for me to go experience it. Thanks for the heads up on this, Jordan! 🙌
Oh dang! Those are some limited dates... now I just need to convince my wife, haha!