"Share some good music" Friday

Ok just discovered these guys! The Hu Band. They are Mongolian Metal. The use traditional ancient Mongolian instruments as well as modern instruments. The vocals are sung in Mongolian “Throat Vocals”.

At first I was like WTF… then I listened to several of their songs. Bought their music… love it! So unique! I find the larger two stringed, bow played instrument’s strings seem to be “fretted” by just applying pressure to the string but not holding them down to the neck??.. fascinating instrument.

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Wow cool!

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Hey, the Groove Jyoshi just played NYC :slight_smile:

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That’s… classic.
I have to admit I find listening while not watching the video is a lot less distracting. I hate it how the vignetting keeps the band out of sight… and the singer keeps the drummer out of sight by positioning herself right in front of him.

But that’s some gorgeous musicianship, and her vocal abilities are stunning.

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Late to the Friday party, I know.

Steve Topping is an English composer/guitar player whose talent seems to be inversely proportional to his determination to record and put out music. We know that, in 2018, he was still alive (he was selling the Strat he used on recording his last two albums), but he hasn’t released anything for over 15 years.

This song from his latest(!) album Late Flower, features Gary Husband on drums and the inimitable Jimmy Johnson on bass.

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Yeah, she’s good. She really shows off her vocal abilities in Creep. I absolutely love this cover of one of my favourite songs. It’s not got as dominant a bass line as Seven Nation Army though.

It does have 75m views. I can understand why. She’s awesome in this! :slightly_smiling_face:

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Rheia is a pretty solid album in general. Liking it.

Her voice reminds me a bit of Björk… in the first part, at least :joy:

Actually kind of, in that one.

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Please keep doing this, @peterhuppertz - surprising me with stuff I didn’t know, but oughta know! I need to check this guy out some more; if nothing else than for the rhythm section alone :smile:

PS: are you familiar with Chris Beckers? I think he is a compatriot of yours!

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some good metalcore, which is some kind of post-post-hardcore if we consider that post-hardcore was at first some kind of proto-metalcore … do you follow me ? :sweat_smile:

:v:

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Ha. You and me in the metal deep-dive play area here. These guys just came out with a new record, didn’t they? Not too long ago?
Cool stuff. I like it. I also love the band name. I also love Cowboy Bebop. I also love the music of Cowboy Bebop.

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I don’t know much about their discography, I have to dive deeper :grin: anyway I must admit I clicked on the video because of the Cowboy Bebop band name. good surprise.

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:heart_eyes:

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Ooh. That one starts out good. Their vocals remind me of someone but I can’t quite place it.

I respect post-rock bands that don’t take five minutes to start a song and yet still are effective at building mood.

Syberia kind of sits at the border between post-rock and post-metal. Their bass player gets some awesome tone.

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I like it when they don’t sing :joy:

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Aww. Not even a little bit?

@terb thank you so much for introducing these guys. They are wonderfully intense.

edit: drummer’s “cult leader” shirt looked cool, turns out the shirt is from a sludge band I had never heard of :slight_smile:

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It feels so wierd to watch that without the audience participation :slight_smile:

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just watched this live from the YT suggestions. this song is great, I can’t stop looping it and improvizing some bass lines over it :star_struck:

also very nice bass tone, at least I like a lot this kind of tone.

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