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Music Monday — What are you listening to? (Strange Edition)

Michael Tharrington on June 05, 2023

cover image source: polarist Alright alright! I originally thought about making this week's focus avant-garde or perhaps ambient, but I didn't wan...
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Michael Tharrington

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

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Vincent A. Cicirello

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):

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Michael Tharrington

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. 😂

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Vincent A. Cicirello • Edited

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...

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Valeria

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...

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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!

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Michael Tharrington

Ever heard of outsider music?

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Edited

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

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Michael Tharrington

I'm back with another one! The wonderfully weird Animal Collective.

Songs:

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George Johnson

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.

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

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.

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James 'Dante' Midzi

Baby Metal - The Other One. Yup, the whole album
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Michael Tharrington

Holy crap! This rocks. 🎸

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Michael Tharrington

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! 🙌

 
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Oh dang! Those are some limited dates... now I just need to convince my wife, haha!

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Dendi Handian • Edited

I'm revisiting DragonForce recently, some of their new music has some retro metal vibes and then I found this song. Maybe a little bit fit to the topic.

and actually this 'Strangers' song is a banger