I don’t care for most of the newer “weird” bands. It seems to me like some of them are trying to hard to be quirky.
I like the classic alternative acts like Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Holger Czukay, and Adrian Belew.
Check out “Luminous Night” the new LP by Six Organs of Admittance. Actaeon’s Fall (Against The Hounds) Sounds like the lost soundtrack to Holy Mountain. Then it proceeds to drone with great minimalist electronics, less guitar noodling.
Broadcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJXst66-IYU
Not sure how weird, but was listening to some old Number Girl albums just recently. Dont think theyve been mentioned yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=511XG_l36bM&feature=related
Check out Health if you have yet to as well as This Will Destroy You, Broadcast is awesome Dan. I am a bigger fan of Coalter of the Deepers and Deerhoof than Number Girl. That said also check out funfunfunfest it will be awesome
Ah, all the young dudes. Reminds me that Sun Ra has sadly passed and reminds me of the time I saw Anthony Braxton at the old Jazz Workshop … now that was kind of weird. Buddy of mine used to go to the Five Spot in New York when Ornette was breaking in his band.
Those were the days.
@Doinel
Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk ,Albert Ayler and all of the other standards and greats are gone.You are very luck to have seen the birth of Free jazz and the transition from Bop. I have been lucky enough to see Dave Brubeck and Chick Corea, I would really like to see Herbie Hancock.
BORIS
They’re from Japan.
Indian Jewelry
Religious Knives
Jandek
pretty good sh*t.
whoops. double post.
good indeed. and weird.
Noveller is an electronic act from nyc that really melts minds.
Missed Indian Jewelry a few weeks back.
Big regrets.
“Buddy of mine used to go to the Five Spot in New York when Ornette was breaking in his band.”
Whoa, you’re showing your age (assuming you’re close in age with your buddy), dude! It would’ve been interesting to hear Ornette or Cecil Taylor during that era.
Jacob, I got to see Herbie and Wayne Shorter play, once. A college band backed them up. It was nice to hear the two legends live, but it was just an OK concert.
As for noise, Merzbow really blew me (and my ears) away the first time I heard him. It was some of the refreshing and innovative music I had heard. I really loved the way it seemed to get at the source behind music like hardcore metal and free jazz.
I also really like the group AMM with Keith Rowe, John Tilbury and Eddie Prevost.
schoenberg? stravinsky? i think an audience bursting into riot at the “rite of spring” is evidence of a strangeness (and a genius, of course, as it is stravinsky) than most if any “weird” bands today can claim.
hell yes, Laura
dan: i love indian jewelry. bet they would be really great live..
Jazzaloha: In early college I was really into noise music.. Never got real into Merzbow, but I loved Aube.. And Brighter Death Now, a little Genocide Organ, Whitehouse.. These days I need something more mellow, so I’ve been listening to a lot of Death in June.
My favorites include Blonde Redhead, My Bloody Valentine, Sigur Ros, Aphex Twin and Sonic Youth should come as no surprise. I am a fan of Velvet Underground as well. I’ve liked what I have heard of Broadcast. I will have to check on a few of these names if they’re at all like these. Faint melodies under white noise is like audio perfection to me.
Blonde Redhead, Sonic Youth are excellent. Dengue Fever is the shiet.
I saw Pharaoh Sanders at Yoshi’s in Oakland, frigging amazing!!!
I think from this point on, people should list some interesting local music. HM?
Leah Marie: I love Blonde Redhead and My Bloody Valentine too.. along with Cocteau Twins.. They have a similar sound. Mmm besides film, music is my other obsession. I’ve gone through a million phases through the years, so now my taste is pretty broad and eclectic.
Tom: Brainbow and Times New Viking are two really good bands from Columbus, Ohio, that I recommend people check out.. :) Brainbow would appeal to fans of godspeed or mogwai… and I’d say Times New Viking is comparable to Sonic Youth at times..
Brainbow sounds interesting…
you can check out their page on myspace.
Tom Waits
Guided By Voices
Any free jazz by Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Rashan roland Kirk
Skinny Puppy
Sun Ra
Hi Amanda,
Have you listening to the music often labeled electro-acoustic improv? There’s a bit of stuff that’s not so harsh and loud. I really like Merzbow’s stuff, but I can’t imagine people listening to the music for long periods of time. It’s not only loud and harsh, but there isn’t enough dynamics and variation.
What’s Death in June like?
“We need more unemployment, the shutdown of social services, a stagnant real estate market and rising crime. Then we can get our No Wave party on.” – KJ
Come to Cleveland, OH.
Jazzaloha, wasn’t familiar with the term electro-acoustic improv until I looked it up.. Don’t think I’m listening to anything that would fit under that category, but it sounds interesting..
Death in June is dark folk.. often referred to as neofolk. My favorite album is Roseclouds of Holocaust. Other similar artists that I recommend are Current 93 (also folk) and les joyaux de la princesse (dark ambient/neoclassical).
Kifah Foutah
Simon- agreed completely, and I got love for anyone who knows Double Leopards and Hair Police.
Shotzi- I too have met Jandek when he performed in Richmond VA a few years ago, He is actually quite nice and very approachable.