Ok - this is gonig to be a bit of an odd mix of stuff - i'm sure I will miss loads of things off here but i want to give you an overview of what kind of stuff drives me...
Aphex Twin is probably the first name i will mention - always liked his music - i the first CD i got of his was Drukqs which has some wicked tracks on it - apparently all the prepared paino stuff that he has done on this was useing a midi controlled grand piano! and he prepared it then got the computer to actually play the notes - witch does sound like it could be true!
Just because its close on the alpabet - i will mention Autechre EP7 comes to mind particually. I do love electronica kind of stuff - oh before i forget there are some wicked net lables of there with a lot of electronica on them - humm - is it 8bitpeople? anyway - check out the music section of archive.org as there are some gemes in there....
Oh Air - favorite album of theres is the Virgin Suicides supose you would class this album as sadcore along with Eels and Black Box Recorder both of which i will come along to in due course
J. S. Bach!!!!! now he has to be counted as the king... everytime i was up at my dads when i was a lad i remember the 48 preludes and fugues as the thing playing from the piano - but just eveything he composed has a sence of genius about it - love it all!!!! Oh - if anyone fancys giveing the Bach double violin thing a go.....
Aimee Mann - mainly i listed to here a while back - love the film Magnolia and feel her sound track was wicked! Though I was a bit disapointed when i got her album 'Lost in space'.
oh that beautfully brings me to Badly Drawn Boy - now - hummm - something like when I went to Ireland on a orchestra tour back in 2001 or mayby before - 'The Hour of Bewilderbeast' was a CD i really lsiten too - i seem to rember it being a copy that i did before the tour and put some other quite random tracks on the end... i need to find that copy again as i really cant remember what the other tracks were :(
Oh this next ones a fun one.... what i have got called 'Band of Gitiano' in my iTunes.... a combenation CD put togeter by a guy called Loui (louibility by nickname) Sad thing was that i was never given the cd from him but copied it of an old house mate. Anyway - what it is is a selection of Klezma and Gypsy tunes - some of which the Destroyers cover, but along with it is a cople of Bulgarian Vocal tracks.... oh thats when i'm goning next....
'Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares' and quite frankly any other vocal folk music from Romaina is quite franly just amazing... if you haven't heard any of this - i want you to stop reading this and goto amazon!!!!!! Just the beauty of it... makes me feel like i'm on a top of a hill in the county side when ever I listen to it... such a nice escape from being trapped in Birmingham!
Oh where to now.... hummm... easy option is to carry on in my iTunes.... escape the flying visit to letter 'L' and get back along track with the 'B's... The next band i'm mentioning is 'Battles' mainly due to the fact they are amoungst my housemate Kosete's favoite bands - currently he's writing a peice based of infuences from them.. de de de de da de de da de de...... Nah they are a good band....
Of course i have to say the Beach Boys!!!! Along with the Beatles any kind of music list can't exist with out the two names!
Now i will have to mention a group of composers which opperate in a group called BEAST other wise known as the Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theater. Set up by Jonty Harrison. Just because I think this sums up electroacoustic music - and i have to mention it as i think there is a lot of exiting music happening within this world - true alot of it is quite random beeps but, christ i'm still only on B and family guys just come on tv (oh this is a wicked episode), but i'm intrested myself in how to intergrate live elements into electronic music and these spend a lot of time thinking about it!
Beastie Boys and The Bees are just some names that need to be mentioned
Ben Folds Five and Ben Folds. I think that guy is a wicked song writer and pianoist. I think there is a lot to learn of him.
the Beta Band espcially there three ep's. Its just a CD that i remember hearing about, an old mate called fran I think first played to us on headphones and there are some wicked tracks on it, i really should dig the CD out again... there wicked live too!!!
Bjork i think has put an amazing unique edge on all popular music - always streching where it going. Oh here something to watch - on a DVD 'Director's Series - The Work of Director Chris Cunningham' there is a wicked vidieo for a track 'all is love' which I think is a fantastic music vidieo. Also on that DVD there is tracks by Aphex Twin, Autechure, Squarepusher and Portishead. Anyway back to Bjork - lets just say shes got me through many a traffic jam - the forrest of dean with Bjork playing at full vol.... moveing about 5mph when I was lucky!!!!
Black Box Recorder the album 'England Made Me' means alot to me, it helped me alot when I was over in the states. Some wicked tunes to play to chear you up by being sadder than you are!!!
Boards of Canada wicked - all that you can and should say!
the Brodsky Quartet with Anne Sofie von Otter with an album called 'Island Dreaming' which is a wonderfull album, they are a really good string quartet and i kinda really like this CD.... I think most of the tracks on it are composed by a guy called Sculthorpe who to be honist apart from this CD, I havent heard any other pieces by. But I feel has wonderfull string writeing techneques, good to listen to.
Celloman is a band that I havent really worked out if I like or not - you know those albums that sometimes you like and other times you can't get into... but this has another interetsing story behind it... when having to tidy the office when i was working down at Soar Valley Music Centre, i came accrous an envolope with 6 cd's and a letter in it that was ignored but it was promoting a gig that this guy, Mr Celloman?? was doing. Seeing that the letter was promoting a gig that was happing a few years prior from finding this letter in the office, i just took a couple of the CD's. If it counts my sister and mother like the band, or is that a cellists thing?? you have to like a band if they have the instrument you play in the title. I'm sure Guitarman would be very popular, but Violaman sadly wouldn't do as well!
Ok - to side track this whole list thing - i'm just playing an album that I haven't really given a proper listen to yet and quite enjoying it... Its of the 'jazz' genera, but the sheep have to have something to listen and rave about. Anyway - a cd by bassist Ben Allison featuring a Kora player - Mamadou Diabate. I'm quite enjoying it, just listening to track 9, some wicked tunes and nice sound world.
anyway - back with the 'C's - the next group i'm going to mention is Cheval de Frise who are two french musicans, playing guiar and drums. I am told that this band should be labeled 'post-rock' but to be honist I can't really be arsed with catergrising music into catogories (apart from labeling depressing stuff sadcore - cheers to mike for the term!!). Music is just music really at the end of the day - i would classifie Cheval de Frise as Cheval de Frise!!!!!
Chris Morris with an album called Blue Jam bloody hilerious but very dark... the same guy who did Brass Eye... but this is a selection from a radio show that he did on radio 1. To have a 10 min sketch about a suisidal journalist - masterpeice!! But a really random one to get when on random shuffle going down the motoway!
The next guy i'm going to mention has just made me go bugger as was meant to return the scores to the libary 2 weeks ago... woops... anyway Cornelius Cardew intersting composer - this is not really the place to go into detail - but he worked a grate deal with improvisation - produceing the master peice Treatise which is a mad graphic score.
A brimful of Asha by Cornershop wicked single - forgot about this for ages but found it again, to be honist i've never been keen on anything else Cornershop have done but...
Anyway - that me upto done with A to C - theres a hell of a lot to go before i get to Z, but thats a start... but its kinda getting late now :( and peters have to sleep sometimes. Will post more up soon,
Peter ><>
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