Give me a song, I'll describe its visuals

[Crazyjayde]

Self-explanatory. I'm on the bus and this caters to my needs (need to write, need to english, need to music although I can't go around listening to my albums). Any happy hardcore is automatically discarded as full of bubbles.

[hi19hi19]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2U7k63pdxU

The sax solo from Deeply Woven, skip to 20:43
It's several minutes long.

[noname219]

Edgar Varèse :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-R3F3ZVbi8

Or wait, I have something better :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxOCgbk_N7c

I'll probably send you a more serious 3rd track.

[Crazyjayde]

Originally Posted by noname219

Edgar Varèse :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-R3F3ZVbi8

Footage of La Planète Sauvage arranged in a nonsensical collage where most of the sounds are mouthed by the characters. The film strip is recorded scrolling in front of the camera as Edgar Varèse does all kinds of harsh manipulation to it. Like slicing the reel with a utility knife and dropping paint on it.

Interesting piece of musical history but honestly suffers without its context. Hey I don't mind electroacoustic but in a listening context it's too clever for its own good.

Originally Posted by noname219

Or wait, I have something better :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxOCgbk_N7c

I'll probably send you a more serious 3rd track.

Péloquin is naked on a balcony screaming insanity and throwing spoiled milk to passerby. Sauvageau is not faring any better in the alley downstairs playing violin out of stray cats. You are on a washing machine thumping through the streets but you can't quite hear it because there's water in your ear and you just can't. get it. out.

Why do you want visuals? That's basically what you can hear. Fuck you I'm going to have this one in my head.

[noname219]

Originally Posted by Crazyjayde

Péloquin is naked on a balcony screaming insanity and throwing spoiled milk to passerby.

"-Hey! Look at that guy, he's throwing spoiled milk and screaming obscenities to passerby!
-Dude that's just Claude Péloquin, third time this week he's done it.
-Oh, makes sense now."

Also try this song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0SsSM1Q8sU

[Crazyjayde]

Originally Posted by noname219

"-Hey! Look at that guy, he's throwing spoiled milk and screaming obscenities to passerby!
-Dude that's just Claude Péloquin.
-Oh, makes sense now."

Fixed

Also if you guys want to try it out, do this one. I'm all ears

@hi19: True that. Hadn't figured how it was related to Cynic. Makes more sense now.

[lurker]

Originally Posted by noname219

I'll probably send you a more serious 3rd track.

varese is a serious pick tho

[Crazyjayde]

Believe it or not, that's why I took it seriously.

[yo man im awesome]

Oh also, can't look for a link right now but Animals As Leaders - Modern Meat

Would love your take on that too

[Ohaider]

one of my favs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB3z4ibHSbE

[Crazyjayde]

This will be fun. Will wait until at home with a comfortable setup. You guys can submit more than one song really.

[Crazyjayde]

Originally Posted by Ohaider

one of my favs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB3z4ibHSbE

- I swore not to come back here. Still never figured out why they'd leave the neons on though.

It was deceptive for how bleak that school was. Its new facade was all the more pretentious and she'd snicker at its sight. The window panes were stretching the halls across its side. She could look inside surprisingly well from afar but it was that sinking feeling nothing had changed that pulled her closer.

She knew the inhospitable turned desolate in silence though never quite understood what it meant. Hostility freed the lobby and stood there placid, unobstrusive below the neon-turned-haven. The humid floors glistening in between shimmers. The pervading void beyond the light dust particles would drift in and out of. The buzzing she'd notice echoing up to the glass. A welcoming warmth crossed her. "All along" she'd think just now; she just never did before.

Yet she still couldn't reach inside so she settled for a lamplight beside in the court where she laid on the green.


This song surprised me halfway through at how effectively evocative it was, like some sort of repressed nostalgia, or that right kind of exhilarating melancholy. Mental stillness. Wanted to slowly cook up something real clean for it and turned out honest. Ah well.

I see Koner and all I'm thinking is I need a focused mind for it. Sleep it is.

Edit:

Originally Posted by yo man im awesome

Oh also, can't look for a link right now but Animals As Leaders - Modern Meat

Would love your take on that too

Yeah I'm sure Noname has the CD. That's going to be interesting though. It always turned me off how artificial it all sounds, we'll see if that comes through.

[yo man im awesome]

Originally Posted by Crazyjayde

Yeah I'm sure Noname has the CD. That's going to be interesting though. It always turned me off how artificial it all sounds, we'll see if that comes through.

I'm assuming you're talking about AAL as a whole. Artificial in what way? I just saw them live recently and they play their songs to the tee.

Also, Modern Meat is easily their calmest song, and is nothing like the rest of their first album.

[Crazyjayde]

@rayword: You got me interested with Brainiac and those two other records I've had on my list anyway. Ween still has this elusive status to me and Jesus Lizard is pretty genre defining.

@ymia: No you got me wrong, I mean the first album. Which I believe is the self-produced one with Mansoor from Periphery? It lacks nuance and even then it's dividing. Distortion and cymbals in "Thoroughly at Home" for example give enough texture to support its sharp counterparts and legatos. But then most of it sounds awfully tubular ("Tessitura" is exactly that). It's like their rigs cut out the resonance and the instrumentation becomes stale and rigid.
In contrary, there's an awesome sweep around the first minute mark of "Behaving Badly" where that sort of sound is put to good use. But then the background chords also come out super dry and it doesn't help it stand out. That section basically represents my beef with the album.

Will do more of this tonight. Really looking forward to the recs I see.

[yo man im awesome]

Originally Posted by Crazyjayde

@ymia: No you got me wrong, I mean the first album. Which I believe is the self-produced one with Mansoor from Periphery? It lacks nuance and even then it's dividing. Distortion and cymbals in "Thoroughly at Home" for example give enough texture to support its sharp counterparts and legatos. But then most of it sounds awfully tubular ("Tessitura" is exactly that). It's like their rigs cut out the resonance and the instrumentation becomes stale and rigid.
In contrary, there's an awesome sweep around the first minute mark of "Behaving Badly" where that sort of sound is put to good use. But then the background chords also come out super dry and it doesn't help it stand out. That section basically represents my beef with the album.

Okay I see what you mean. I just personally enjoy the sound. Honestly their most recent album blows the previous two out of the water, I have have personal preference to Tempting Time, Modern Meat, CAFO, and Song of Solomon.

I'm not very good when it comes to speaking technicalities with instrumentation and production, but I'm pretty sure I understand what you mean. I think their most recent album "The Joy of Motion" would be much better for you. Off of that album personal favorites are Ka$cade, Tooth And Claw, Mind-Spun, and Nephele.

Excited for the descriptions though. And here's the youtube link plus 1 more because I can:

Modern Meat

Scale the Summit - Evergreen (Starts at 0:15-1:46)

[choof]

http://thomaskoner.bandcamp.com/track/paris-hour-seven

just want to see if we have the same visuals

[Crazyjayde]

Originally Posted by choof

http://thomaskoner.bandcamp.com/track/paris-hour-seven

just want to see if we have the same visuals

The last man alive isn't so sure he's alive. In fact, he might never have awoken. Seven hours in wandering lackadaisically in a comatose state, his vision blurred, suspended between past and present. An halcyon voyage as if living not his final moments but the earth's.

As of speaking, he is standing on railroad in front of a derelict freight train, inquisitive. Still his head rushes from the motion, from imprints of palpable memories. The soundscape is muffled and swarming from the direction where glaciers rest. Following the tracks he reaches the Gare de Lyon. Snow engulfs the station terminal and ice riddles its enclosure, cleft up to its roof. Yet he can still hear the surrounding bustle, and through the clock's reflection, he can see it. An announcer voice booms out of a loudspeaker, fallen to the floor.
Cognition fades and the sights become fugitive. The experience is reduced to mere abstraction, some kind of minimal synesthesia, as if looking closely through stained glass. A sudden signal shatters the illusion.


Actually my bias might be pretty skewed here since I've known La Barca's concept for a while and understand the french samples in the song. Think of it as an assemblage of what I think the project stands for.

[rayword45]

I don't have access to YouTube links but these are short as hell

Pussyfootin - Brainiac
Ingrown Mayo - Ween
Wienerschnitzel - Descendents
St Patrick's Gay Parade - Arab on Radar
Leider Geil - Deichkind
Spread Eagle Beagle - Melvins (this one is long)

[Crazyjayde]

Probably a good idea to state I'm fighting my impulse to look at artworks, I guess I'm conditioned like that. Too suggestive, prefers a fresh mind, yadda yadda.

Originally Posted by hi19hi19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2U7k63pdxU

The sax solo from Deeply Woven, skip to 20:43
It's several minutes long.

A sudden, vivid spark in the sky. Silent ceasefire. The mammoth sun has collapsed, its core the crux of creation. Swaying visions of distant constellations. Now merging for a moment. Two prodigious apparitions of lights in an embrace. Mezmerizing delusions. An engulfing passion nonetheless. Millions of suns drifting, some surely approaching. Somehow they all know, but still gaze. Over at the tower, a man, near shadow given its haste, rings a bell.

Went with a little musical context with this one. Djent-like progressive is something that can be very sterile at times. Feels like I have to know my way around this solo and man, that soloist. Why that part especially?

[hi19hi19]

Originally Posted by Crazyjayde

Feels like I have to know my way around this solo and man, that soloist. Why that part especially?

It's a comfortable home halfway between Sun Ra and Dream Theater.