Poems over tunes

[shakahislop]

 

[shakahislop]

there's a seam of this kind of thing in the nyc jazz/experimental world (which is still going strong, feels very alive, it's everywhere, a cluster of fifty musicians playing all over the city all the time, it never stops, it's there every night of the week)

 

[shakahislop]

this one is along the lines of what i've been searching for style-wise. will need to spend some time with it to see if it's actually good. it's hard to line up all the following: the music is good, the words are good, and the delivery is good. she uses a very clean and tidy mic, and is closely miked, not sure about the former but the close mic i like

 

[shakahislop]

a bit more literary, and with an actual recording budget presumably. quite polished. same principal features as the rest of this very important genre (part of the bardcore continuum) but a different sensibility. more like book at bedtime

 

[qwerty south]

this was my initial way into making music (nobody paid much attention).

if interested, search for postconcussionsyndrome on soundcloud and the set named "mixtape"

 

[qwerty south]

 

[qwerty south]

one of the greatest ever

 

[mvuent]

poems turned into voicescapes are the best. not exactly what the thread's about but a tradition worth mentioning imo.

"Song of the Three Holy Children"



"Sirens"



"Starsailor" (technically original lyrics, but written by a published poet)



"Horas Avolantes Numero, Mortuos Plango: Vivos ad Preces Voco" (ok this is really stretching it, not a poem but an inscription on a bell, but so good and so unmistakably in the same lineage that i have to include it)

 

[luka]

 

[shakahislop]

dissensus appropriate

 

[shakahislop]

 

[shakahislop]

 

[shakahislop]

a kind of depressed d&b

 

[shakahislop]

this was my initial way into making music (nobody paid much attention).

if interested, search for postconcussionsyndrome on soundcloud and the set named "mixtape"

i can't find it

 

[qwerty south]

i can't find it

thanks for asking:

 

[qwerty south]

was originally a poem

 

[qwerty south]

a kind of depressed d&b

shame his recent hip hop stuff isn't as good as his dnb stuff. great rapper

 

[qwerty south]

is this your work?

 

[shakahislop]

is this your work?

well sort of, it's literally one take, the first take, and it's other people's music and someone else speaking so. it is kind of interesting that i can do something like that and it's more to my taste than nearly everything else i've found in this vein