What Are You Listening to Now 7.0

[litfan10]

Wind and Blue

Omie Wise

nice mellow prog/rock from Portugal. Worth a listen IMHO

 

[litfan10]

Kama Sutra

Syndone

heavy in your face jazzy prog from Italy. Really good.

 

[Blind_Justice]

shameless self-promotion:

They Dream Of Starfish - CyberMass
https://soundcloud.com/christian-pohl-911553212/cybermass?si=275170a4864e457e9325d627d4d4ab5d

We hit something of a creative roadblock recently. To work around it, we've gone back through our stack of demos, half-finished ideas and other sound files piled onto my hard drive and "Week 2", our first real song, was chosen for an upgrade. A few new synth parts, some better-programmed drums and some of Dani's haunting melody lines turned the old clunker into something quite nice. For those interested, here's the source material.

They Dream Of Starfish - Week 2
https://soundcloud.com/christian-pohl-911553212/week-2?si=d9799d6d00c14b16aab6fa15bfe32d2a

 

[Blind_Justice]

Since it's still Sunday and Second Advent (plus I'm sick and tired of Christmas merch being wheeled out in early September, for fuck's sake), here's my cure for the Christmas blues.

King Diamond - No Presents for Christmas
https://youtu.be/5a5fHMlb4V0

...because the elves are too busy turning their brains into sherry pickles. Good plan, boys.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Swiss + die Linksradicalen Schlagerstars - Advent, Advent

A punk Christmas carol, best described as "warming". Probably not going to be played in shopping centres though.

 

[Lady2020]

River. The Mayries.

 

[Lady2020]

Same Old Lang Syne. Dan Fogelberg.

 

[Haulover]

Aquilus Bellum I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiJE7HErVfE

This is my find of the week.

It's hard to describe the sound - black metal over lush, orchestral-sounding keyscapes, full-on metal guitar work, long piano passages, acoustic guitars, angry black metal - it's all there!

Aquilus is actually a 1-man band, which usually means the music lacks the layered complexities of a band of creatives. Aquilus is an exception to that rule.

Well worth a listen!

 

[Handley_Page]

Jimmy Smith: the Cat.

 

[TadOverdon]

Easy listening...I can feel my joints creaking in the December cold, dagnabit!

Paris Jazz.

 

[litfan10]

A Passage Through Mother Nature's Diary

Ola Lindqvist

lovely Swedish folk prog

 

[Blind_Justice]

Aquilus Bellum I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiJE7HErVfE

This is my find of the week.

It's hard to describe the sound - black metal over lush, orchestral-sounding keyscapes, full-on metal guitar work, long piano passages, acoustic guitars, angry black metal - it's all there!

Aquilus is actually a 1-man band, which usually means the music lacks the layered complexities of a band of creatives. Aquilus is an exception to that rule.

Well worth a listen!

My metal mag of choice also pointed this one out. I'll give it a spin.

Have you (or Litfan) heard of an outfit called Cyclopean Walls? They play "oldschool prog metal like late '90s/early 00's", whatever that's supposed to mean. Didn't click with me, maybe it's more your taste?

 

[litfan10]

My metal mag of choice also pointed this one out. I'll give it a spin.

Have you (or Litfan) heard of an outfit called Cyclopean Walls? They play "oldschool prog metal like late '90s/early 00's", whatever that's supposed to mean. Didn't click with me, maybe it's more your taste?

Nope, New one for me but I will check it out.
Be safe and well!

 

[litfan10]

Cardinal XI

More of the Same Old Days

forty plus minute sci-fi prog/metal epic by a one man band out of France

 

[litfan10]

The Ringmaster Part One

Robert Reed

 

[Haulover]

Have you (or Litfan) heard of an outfit called Cyclopean Walls? They play "oldschool prog metal like late '90s/early 00's", whatever that's supposed to mean. Didn't click with me, maybe it's more your taste?

Nope - not familiar at all. I'll also try it out, and see how your, my and Litfan's tastes coincide - or differ

 

[litfan10]

The Ringmaster Part One Bonus Disc

Robert Reed

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Alison Krauss and Union Station - Live

 

[litfan10]

Enter the Dreamlands

Cyclopean Walls

B_J made me do it...

 

[litfan10]

My metal mag of choice also pointed this one out. I'll give it a spin.

Have you (or Litfan) heard of an outfit called Cyclopean Walls? They play "oldschool prog metal like late '90s/early 00's", whatever that's supposed to mean. Didn't click with me, maybe it's more your taste?

I played one of two albums. It was okay enough that I'll listen to the other but it feels very background noise to me.

 

[litfan10]

Christmas Muzak

Various

back in the bookstore today so mindless holiday instrumental muzak

 

[Haulover]

Christmas Muzak

Various

back in the bookstore today so mindless holiday instrumental muzak

Have you thought about playing something more adventurous in the bookstore?

 

[litfan10]

Have you thought about playing something more adventurous in the bookstore?

Ha! Typically, I have a rather elderly clientele who read bodice-ripper romances or mysteries. During non-holiday season I play a lot of prog. Fortunately, my store is 100 feet below the threshold of me having to pay royalties on what I play. I have had numerous elderly regulars come up with a scowl, "What in tarnations is that wild noise?!?!?"
Sigh
They're in the store for a half hour at most whilst I'm in there eight hours a day, six days a week - prog it is.
Good thing I'm not a fan of death growls....
Could you imagine if Blind_Justice was in charge of the playlist?
I'd be calling for ambulances constantly

 

[litfan10]

A Christmas Carol

Choruscant

a very proggy interpretation of Dicken's Christmas Carol.

Definitely something more adventurous!

 

[Blind_Justice]

Ha! Typically, I have a rather elderly clientele who read bodice-ripper romances or mysteries. During non-holiday season I play a lot of prog. Fortunately, my store is 100 feet below the threshold of me having to pay royalties on what I play. I have had numerous elderly regulars come up with a scowl, "What in tarnations is that wild noise?!?!?"
Sigh
They're in the store for a half hour at most whilst I'm in there eight hours a day, six days a week - prog it is.
Good thing I'm not a fan of death growls....
Could you imagine if Blind_Justice was in charge of the playlist?
I'd be calling for ambulances constantly

Careful, careful! I know both how to read a room and my palate includes more than just ultrabrutal blunt face trauma. When I worked in a copy shop for two years, I claimed stewardship of the shop's sound system and my choice of a late '70s/early '80s classics playlist was appreciated by my boss and customers both. You can't go wrong with a mix of Queen, Dire Straits, ELO, Alan Parson's, Eagles and the occasional ZZ Top, Black Sabbath or Rainbow. I even managed to sneak in a few Iron Maiden tracks and no one threatened to fire me. Didn't change the fact that I spent more time sorting recycling papers than tending to the shop's IT systems (which had been in my initial job offer). Oh well, at least I had good music to sweeten the slave labor.