Nominate an album for me to listen to

[DannyL]

Street and Gangland Rhythms: Beats and Improvisations by Six Boys in Trouble | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

This album features jams on homemade percussion instruments by six 11- and 12-year-old African American boys living in New York City public housing, about 1955. These young, untrained musicians improvise the tunes and tales of their upbringing on this rhythmic release and draw inspiration from …

folkways.si.edu

 

[DannyL]

Bit of proto-rap there, be interested to hear what you make of it. It doesn't get really mad 'til the longer tracks at the end though.

 

[Murphy]

 

[vimothy]

this is one of the most magical things I've ever seen, two minute choral loop at the whitworth. arvo part turned up at one point looking like a homeless saint and gave my (then infant) son a cuddle

 

[vimothy]

probably nothing to do with the OP but it's a nice bit of music

 

[Leo]

young people music / old people music

comedy music

 

[luka]

My basic position is that there is nothing in the musical universe that can surprise me or move me or entertain me. That it will all register as bratty children misbehaving, whooping and hollering for attention.

 

[woops]

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My basic position is that there is nothing in the musical universe that can surprise me or move me or entertain me. That it will all register as bratty children misbehaving, whooping and hollering for attention.

maybe time to start recording / producing then.

 

[luka]

I want to have a YouTube channel like the spice & easy one.

 

[woops]

or embark on that india-only musical diet you threatened

 

[luka]

Foreign stuff can work on a jaded palette up to a point which is why people go that way after a while, but only to a point

 

[luka]

Lorca
Fourth Drawer Down
After Bathing At Baxter’s
Elements Of Life
Tonight’s The Night
What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me
The Future Of What

Elements of Life - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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This is like a very dispiriting speed dating reality TV show.

 

[the ig]

The Advent - Elements of Life

 

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[luka]

Do you like that? I find it really kitsch. The worst aspects of nineties techno.

 

[Clinamenic]

One of my favorite pieces, almost tailor-made for autists.

 

[version]

Do you like that? I find it really kitsch. The worst aspects of nineties techno.

Yeah, I do. It's a bit naff, but in a way I like. Similar sort of thing to those early Gibson novels and old video games.

 

[luka]

Fair enough we have a thread about how appealing that specific kind of naffness is after all