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A Beacon On The Barrow by Ice Dragon

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Downloaded a couple of live recordings again from the LiveJazzLounge, interesting and free...

Here's one that'll  be way off the radar of most folk here, but you never know, there might be those who can appreciate it.

After grabbing some Gershwin and the much lauded Mravinsky/Leningrad Tchaikovsky symphonies 4, 5 & 6 recently, I wanted something with more bite.

I was asked a couple of days ago to write a short eulogy-type statement for a guitarist who died tragically early a few years back, and as a result ended up checking out the most recent release by the band he used to play with - Colored Sands by Gorguts.  It turned out to be amazing.  Probably the most sophisticated album of this sort of stuff I've heard in a couple of years, and wholly committed to its amazing emotion-through-dissonance, grandeur-through-tortured-aggression aesthetic.  I bought a FLAC from bandcamp before I'd even heard the whole album on Spotify.

It does have one track that some here might be interested in though, as it's reminiscent of (perhaps) Shostakovich or similar stuff.  The rest of the album is rather overwhelming stuff by comparison, but it absolutely refutes the stereotype of metal music as knuckle dragging, unsophisticated stuff preoccupied with dragons.

Dave***t posted:

Here's one that'll  be way off the radar of most folk here, but you never know, there might be those who can appreciate it.

After grabbing some Gershwin and the much lauded Mravinsky/Leningrad Tchaikovsky symphonies 4, 5 & 6 recently, I wanted something with more bite.

I was asked a couple of days ago to write a short eulogy-type statement for a guitarist who died tragically early a few years back, and as a result ended up checking out the most recent release by the band he used to play with - Colored Sands by Gorguts.  It turned out to be amazing.  Probably the most sophisticated album of this sort of stuff I've heard in a couple of years, and wholly committed to its amazing emotion-through-dissonance, grandeur-through-tortured-aggression aesthetic.  I bought a FLAC from bandcamp before I'd even heard the whole album on Spotify.

It does have one track that some here might be interested in though, as it's reminiscent of (perhaps) Shostakovich or similar stuff.  The rest of the album is rather overwhelming stuff by comparison, but it absolutely refutes the stereotype of metal music as knuckle dragging, unsophisticated stuff preoccupied with dragons.

Thanks Dave that's interesting comment and sad news about their guitarist I've put the album into my Bandcamp wishlist and will have a listen to it some time soon. 

https://gorguts.bandcamp.com/album/colored-sands

Bert Schurink posted:

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Stevee_S posted:

Thanks Dave that's interesting comment and sad news about their guitarist I've put the album into my Bandcamp wishlist and will have a listen to it some time soon. 

https://gorguts.bandcamp.com/album/colored-sands

Hope you enjoy it.  It's pretty full on, the video I linked to is a kind of musical interlude half way through the album, rather than a representation of what the whole album sounds like.  But if you can get on with it, it's great IMO.  It is to extreme metal what Allan Pettersson's symphony no. 13 is to classical music.

From the band's site. 24-bit 48 khz. First impressions are very favourable.

Stevee_S posted:

Dave***t posted:

Here's one that'll  be way off the radar of most folk here, but you never know, there might be those who can appreciate it.

After grabbing some Gershwin and the much lauded Mravinsky/Leningrad Tchaikovsky symphonies 4, 5 & 6 recently, I wanted something with more bite.

I was asked a couple of days ago to write a short eulogy-type statement for a guitarist who died tragically early a few years back, and as a result ended up checking out the most recent release by the band he used to play with - Colored Sands by Gorguts.  It turned out to be amazing.  Probably the most sophisticated album of this sort of stuff I've heard in a couple of years, and wholly committed to its amazing emotion-through-dissonance, grandeur-through-tortured-aggression aesthetic.  I bought a FLAC from bandcamp before I'd even heard the whole album on Spotify.

It does have one track that some here might be interested in though, as it's reminiscent of (perhaps) Shostakovich or similar stuff.  The rest of the album is rather overwhelming stuff by comparison, but it absolutely refutes the stereotype of metal music as knuckle dragging, unsophisticated stuff preoccupied with dragons.

Thanks Dave that's interesting comment and sad news about their guitarist I've put the album into my Bandcamp wishlist and will have a listen to it some time soon. 

https://gorguts.bandcamp.com/album/colored-sands

The video part I like. The growling and the absolute violence of the rest of the music I don't like. So it will not land on my hard disk nor my wish list on Bandcamp. The growling I can only slightly bare with opeth as it well balanced with heavenly music.

Wandering Compilation by Silent Season

Bandcamp FLAC & MP3 320

Hiromi - Spark

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I remembered Hook's recommendation when someone else I knew pointed me in her direction, bought, and am consequently delighted. She can rock like Esbjorn Svensson, funk like Herbie Hancock, abstract like Keith Jarrett, but above it all she comes back to a lyricism that reminds me of Fred Simon (I can offer no higher compliment). The contrabass is deep and simple, and the drummer is as much a soloist as much as Moon was in The Who (at times it sounds like he's taking a battering ram to the castle gates). 

The sound is tremendous (I almost wish I'd sprung for the HDTracks 24/96 version but it's twice as much).

As there was a problem with the Freddie Hubbard album, Qobuz offered me another album to be downloaded (good customer service). So I choose the complete collection of John Williams...at 16/44.1

Bert Schurink posted:

Stevee_S posted:

Dave***t posted:

Here's one that'll  be way off the radar of most folk here, but you never know, there might be those who can appreciate it.

After grabbing some Gershwin and the much lauded Mravinsky/Leningrad Tchaikovsky symphonies 4, 5 & 6 recently, I wanted something with more bite.

I was asked a couple of days ago to write a short eulogy-type statement for a guitarist who died tragically early a few years back, and as a result ended up checking out the most recent release by the band he used to play with - Colored Sands by Gorguts.  It turned out to be amazing.  Probably the most sophisticated album of this sort of stuff I've heard in a couple of years, and wholly committed to its amazing emotion-through-dissonance, grandeur-through-tortured-aggression aesthetic.  I bought a FLAC from bandcamp before I'd even heard the whole album on Spotify.

It does have one track that some here might be interested in though, as it's reminiscent of (perhaps) Shostakovich or similar stuff.  The rest of the album is rather overwhelming stuff by comparison, but it absolutely refutes the stereotype of metal music as knuckle dragging, unsophisticated stuff preoccupied with dragons.

Thanks Dave that's interesting comment and sad news about their guitarist I've put the album into my Bandcamp wishlist and will have a listen to it some time soon. 

https://gorguts.bandcamp.com/album/colored-sands

The video part I like. The growling and the absolute violence of the rest of the music I don't like. So it will not land on my hard disk nor my wish list on Bandcamp. The growling I can only slightly bare with opeth as it well balanced with heavenly music.

That's entirely fair enough, it's not material that everyone can get into.  But for those who can get into it, trust me, it's superb.  And unlike a lot of similar-sounding music which is often derided by those with different tastes, it's properly sophisticated.  So it seemed worth mentioning as a curiosity from left field, by this forum's standards.

For my part I sometimes find Opeth rather insipid.  I've quite enjoyed them at times, and I bought My Arms, Your Hearse because I enjoyed the song Demon of The Fall.  But to my ears they lack the propulsive, raging angst that I look for in extreme music a lot of the time, so I only very occasionally find them satisfying.  But that's a comment about me, not about the band or those who like them.  They seem like a nice bunch of guys, too.

Since discovering this Gorguts album, I've also discovered Bartok's 6th string quartet and Oathbreaker, a band who blew me away when I saw them at a festival, but whose name I've only just remembered to check out.  Back to the download shops

I have just listened to the new Neil Young album, "Earth", on Tidal pre-release lossless hi-fi quality. The record, a live recording, is set for official release in June. It's a mix of stuff from his last album, "The Monsanto Years" and some older tunes, along with rather a lot of animal noises! The 30 minute version of "love and only love" is wonderfully OTT, with an elongated sound bite from Shine on You Crazy Diamond and ending with a very noisy gaggle of geese, with possibly some chickens on backing vocals. There is some excellent guitar work in his usual style as well.

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