Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[Todd]

[hopefullytrusting]

Had to brute force to rediscover this song:

Dappled Cities' Driving Home at Night - and the rest of the album, of course - but this is a song designed to make your booty move - so infectious.

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

[brewski]

A stunning arrangement of "Scarborough Fair" by Jared Graveley, sung by Chanticleer and VOCES8. (Graveley is a bass-baritone with the former group.) The simplicity of the opening 20 seconds gives no hint of the elaborate, pungent harmonic progressions to come.

[hopefullytrusting]

Came across this artist on Bandcamp completely by accident - was looking for the soundtrack to Z for Zachariah, and she had a release with the same name.

Carly Zoladz's in a different season: https://krelboynegirl.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-different-season



I had to chat with Copilot to get some help explaining how it made me feel, and it suggested, and I agreed, with weltschmerz - "world-pain". There's something about her voice - the music is so stripped and bare - it made me feel.

[Karl Henning]

[hopefullytrusting]

Came across this artist on Bandcamp completely by accident - was looking for the soundtrack to Z for Zachariah, and she had a release with the same name.

Carly Zoladz's in a different season: https://krelboynegirl.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-different-season



I had to chat with Copilot to get some help explaining how it made me feel, and it suggested, and I agreed, with weltschmerz - "world-pain". There's something about her voice - the music is so stripped and bare - it made me feel.

Been looping this.

I've never felt so much pain - I find it achingly beautiful - oof, I sound like a damn romantic aesthete, lol.

[toledobass]

Spotify hipped me to Melody Gardot and have been listening to a lot of random tracks of hers recently.

[foxandpeng]

Sojourner
Premonitions

Almost no music of any sort recently, but this was tonight...

[Karl Henning]

Sojourner
Premonitions

Almost no music of any sort recently, but this was tonight...

Good to "see" you, buddy!

[hopefullytrusting]

Going way back: Ying Yang Twins' Thug walkin'

[Karl Henning]

[steve ridgway]

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

[hopefullytrusting]

Not quite Satanic Sabbat, but close enough: Dark Funeral's In the Sign

[hopefullytrusting]

Currently on loop: Ash with Naila - Gorgeous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4XFrFdT_tQ

My first interaction with this song is indelibly imprinted on my mind, which means - I will always love this song.

[hopefullytrusting]

The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane



I think the term ecstatic shouldn't be attached to music before it is experienced, as it sets up expectations that even the greatest music can hardly reach, and while this album is excellent - I would not describe my experience of the music as ecstatic, and that is a feeling I know well, as it is an experience, given its extremity, that I am almost constantly seeking simply to feel.

[Todd]

[AnotherSpin]

The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane



I think the term ecstatic shouldn't be attached to music before it is experienced, as it sets up expectations that even the greatest music can hardly reach, and while this album is excellent - I would not describe my experience of the music as ecstatic, and that is a feeling I know well, as it is an experience, given its extremity, that I am almost constantly seeking simply to feel.

Obviously, the word ecstatic refers to the music rather than to the listener's fleeting experiences.
 
Incidentally, Alice Coltrane's spiritual name, Turiyasangitananda, means "the bliss of the highest musical consciousness." Turiya denotes the fourth state of consciousness, which lies beyond waking, dreaming and deep sleep. Sangita means music, though in a spiritual sense it conveys the idea of divine or sacred sound. Ananda signifies bliss, the joy that arises from spiritual realisation.

One may compare it with the fundamental Vedantic notion of Satchitananda, which signifies the unity of being, consciousness and bliss.

[hopefullytrusting]

Another win for the Instagram algorithm: The Specials' The  Specials

[AnotherSpin]

Another win for the Instagram algorithm: The Specials' The  Specials

I was into that album from the moment it came out, and I still am. Same with the second one, More Specials.

A couple o' years back, after The Specials' frontman Terry Hall passed, people got well into the band, you'd hear their tunes on Insta and other busy spots.

[hopefullytrusting]

I think the goth subculture might be my next surfing expedition, at least musically: The Cult's Love



Another band I found because of Instagram's algorithm.