What are you listening to?
What are you listening to?
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- Nairn6
- I've never done this (except sarcastically) but I've just upvoted my own post here.
How have I never heard this before?Nairn - It's from fucking 1983.
Nineteen. Eighty. Three.Nairn - There's a lot of good Japanese ambient music from this era.yuekit
- Definite strands of her work in Susumu Yokota's work, I now realise.Nairn
- lots of was commissioned by big corps - https://www.theguard…Fax_Benson
- I don't get the 1983 referencecanoe
- Two things, I guess - 1st: It's taken me nearly 4 decades to hear this; 2nd: it's got a timeless quality - I could as easily imagine this being a fresh release.Nairn
- CAN all over this; CAN did all this in 1968Krassy
- link pls?Nairn
- OK, misspoke. Actually CAN 1973: https://www.youtube.…Krassy
- Also Brian Eno 1980: https://www.youtube.…Krassy
- @krassy - thanks for that. 'Can' seems like an entirely different kind of trip for me, but a worthwhile one I'd not come across before, so thank you!Nairn
- Hang on, you have never heard Can? :-o midori takada okay, this is an old fav of mine but only got huge when it was reissued in 2016. Can are the greatest.kingsteven
- but yeah, they're nothing alike. Japanese minimalism is more comparable to 60's modern classical avant than kosmischekingsteven
- @kingsteven links to examples of "60's modern classical avant" pleaseKrassy
- Charles Ives -> Moondog -> John Cage -> Steve Reich, La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Philip Glasskingsteven
- Can are a generation after... as inspired by beatles, hendrix, amon duul psychedelic rock as they were with the above. While there is amazing Japanese psychkingsteven
- Funny, I know all of those, and many from generations after, but Can themselves? Never 'eard of 'em.Nairn
- and fuzz from the same era I don't think there's a comparable Japanese band to Roxy, Can, Kraftwerk until YMO (i'd love to be proved wrong)kingsteven
- i always think with the exception of harry hosono and a few others, this 80s music skips a generation again and has it's roots in jazz, Japanese traditional,kingsteven
- American minimalism and the sound digital synthesisers. About as far from rock n' roll as you can get...kingsteven
- Heh sorry, got interrupted by a phone call half way through that :D The members of Can individually are all incredible too. You've heard of Jaki Liebezeit,kingsteven
- Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt, Damo Suzuki maybe? honestly you have hours of amazing music to listen to for the first time, i'm quite jealous.kingsteven
- '71 -> '78 in my Japan music knowledge is Isao Tomita, Flower Traveling Band and nothing between. Doing some homework and listening to Japan Blues NTS mixes hahkingsteven
- I wish I could +1 KingSteven's sidenotes.Nairn
- I've never done this (except sarcastically) but I've just upvoted my own post here.
- garbage1
Kevin Morby - Hail Mary
He's got a good prime-Dylan / Bill Fay vibe.
Battles - Juice B Crypt
They're whittled down to two members, but this entire album still brings the fire. Currently on tour, and I highly recommend seeing them live.
- Fax_Benson2
- <3 Johnkingsteven
- not sure if it's a new album or just an EP but it's good.Fax_Benson
- spunji1
Just got home from seeing Yo-Yo Ma at the Sydney Opera House.
- Noggin1
FKA Twigs goes all Kate Bush
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