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My father's got a better ear than mine, and more of a background for many kinds of music. I seem to be Blues deaf and Jazz deaf. It's just sort of there for me.
Well, I like filk. And much Classical music. And old musicals. And, I think, Celtic Rock. And Cats Laughing. And I like Heather Dale's stuff, and after about the 3rd or 4th listening, while looking at the words and singing along, I finally figured out that her song, "Tristan and Isolt", doesn't use rhyme. It's all done with assonance and alliteration. And the music. The words and the music are like the waves washing up on the beach. Heather's got a brief sound clip from the song on her website.
Her Call the Names, when I heard it, was the sound I'd been missing for a while, the reminder of why I've dragged myself to Pennsic in the past, though I'm still more inclined to do an sf con. And May Queen is a CD I've already played enough to give![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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I also like Talis Kimberly's Archtype Cafe, and I have no idea what sound that is. And I like Jethro Tull's Songs from the Wood.
My lack of music background is an odd handicap when I GM Cthluhupunk, as one set of PCs is in a band, and at least two of my players have a much better grounding in the non-filk, non-musical, non-Classical stuff than I do, as well as a better sense of what instruments go together to form a band.
So, I tried to create a band as something of a foil to Age of Consent, the Cthyluhupunk band. AoC has keyboards, vocals, guitars, a fiddle, and sensory dancer who probably uses bells at least some of the time.agrumer created the band, so the technical stuff probably works. He said they sound kind of like They Might Be Giants, IIRC.
The band I created, Maintain the Edge, has a drummer, a keyboardist, someone with mixing / turntables (I have no idea if that's the correct way to put it -- I'm copying from my notes), someone who does vocals, flute, chimes, and maybe percussions, and, at least in theory, someone who plays the double bass (ie, I've got this written down, but haven't actually fleshed out an NPC. I've got names for the other four musicians).
I've got no idea if this is viable, or what kind of sound it would be. Both agrumer andkent_allard_jr looked askance at me, trying to figure out what sound I had in mind. And that's the problem, of course. I had none -- I just wanted, y'know, a band. Does it actually work? Should there be a guitar in there somewhere?
I've also got a band called The Elementals in the game. This one is named after the Chinese elements -- Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. No idea what kind of sound it is, but probably Eastern, and as I've not actually said who does what, I haven't embarrassed myself by getting details wrong.
agrumer made me a mixer to start educating me. I like about 3/4 of the stuff on it, but I'm not sure I know much more about the music.
Got this urge to buy more Heather Dale stuff.
Well, I like filk. And much Classical music. And old musicals. And, I think, Celtic Rock. And Cats Laughing. And I like Heather Dale's stuff, and after about the 3rd or 4th listening, while looking at the words and singing along, I finally figured out that her song, "Tristan and Isolt", doesn't use rhyme. It's all done with assonance and alliteration. And the music. The words and the music are like the waves washing up on the beach. Heather's got a brief sound clip from the song on her website.
Her Call the Names, when I heard it, was the sound I'd been missing for a while, the reminder of why I've dragged myself to Pennsic in the past, though I'm still more inclined to do an sf con. And May Queen is a CD I've already played enough to give
mnemex a break from. I timed recent listenings to when he was out of the house.I also like Talis Kimberly's Archtype Cafe, and I have no idea what sound that is. And I like Jethro Tull's Songs from the Wood.
My lack of music background is an odd handicap when I GM Cthluhupunk, as one set of PCs is in a band, and at least two of my players have a much better grounding in the non-filk, non-musical, non-Classical stuff than I do, as well as a better sense of what instruments go together to form a band.
So, I tried to create a band as something of a foil to Age of Consent, the Cthyluhupunk band. AoC has keyboards, vocals, guitars, a fiddle, and sensory dancer who probably uses bells at least some of the time.
agrumer created the band, so the technical stuff probably works. He said they sound kind of like They Might Be Giants, IIRC.The band I created, Maintain the Edge, has a drummer, a keyboardist, someone with mixing / turntables (I have no idea if that's the correct way to put it -- I'm copying from my notes), someone who does vocals, flute, chimes, and maybe percussions, and, at least in theory, someone who plays the double bass (ie, I've got this written down, but haven't actually fleshed out an NPC. I've got names for the other four musicians).
I've got no idea if this is viable, or what kind of sound it would be. Both agrumer and
kent_allard_jr looked askance at me, trying to figure out what sound I had in mind. And that's the problem, of course. I had none -- I just wanted, y'know, a band. Does it actually work? Should there be a guitar in there somewhere?I've also got a band called The Elementals in the game. This one is named after the Chinese elements -- Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. No idea what kind of sound it is, but probably Eastern, and as I've not actually said who does what, I haven't embarrassed myself by getting details wrong.
agrumer made me a mixer to start educating me. I like about 3/4 of the stuff on it, but I'm not sure I know much more about the music.
Got this urge to buy more Heather Dale stuff.
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If you're wanting a more "earthy" sound, maybe something akin to Deep Forest?
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If we ever watch DVDs again, I should try to hunt down the documentary about TMBG, Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns (the core duo of TMBG being John Linnell and John Flansburgh). It's delightful.
BTW, I think Maintain the Edge would probably sound peculiar but by no means pointless. I come at this more from the classical end, and there are new-music ensembles in that world composed of unusual combinations -- one of the best-known is the Bang on a Can All-Stars, made up of six instrumentalists playing clarinet/sax, electric guitar, cello, double bass, keyboard, and percussion. Your band isn't out of line at all IMO.
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It's when and if they get into the sort of classic song-based music that I'd wonder about the feasibility of the turntable artist, unless s/he does something else (backup vocals? [rhythm] guitar? something straightforward like that wouldn't be out of line). It would certainly be interesting to hear the sound they'd put together, though.