I just came back from a friend's birthday; her husband is playing in a balkan jazz/rock band and they were playing all night long, that was fucking awesome. I missed Dvne (they were in Paris, and the price was ridiculously cheap) for her birthday and it was worth it, we (I was with my better half and my older kiddo) had lots of fun
Fuck YouTube ads! I avoid the platform as much as possible, but sometimes I have no other choices... It's regularly the case with #1001albums, and also sometimes for new releases (the new Beth Gibbons for example). When I'm home I can easily use yt-dlp to get the music locally without the ads, but when I'm at work I don't have this option and I'm suffering, a lot. I gave up listening to Beth Gibbons this week because 2 ads between each song is really unbearable
@thomas@mbr if you’re on android, newpipe is a great way to access yt without ads. It’s one of the few things I miss since switching to iOS. Now I’m using invidious, which is quite good but not as full-featured
@thomas I'm with you on this one, giving my money to artists is always the best option!
somehow it's even worse to use YouTube than watching TV or listening to the radio... That's not what I expected the Internet to be
DVNE's Voidkind is one of the albums I'm listening to the most at the moment. And it's a grower!
I was not really familiar with them before but what I like in this album is the diversity of sounds: some parts sound sludgy and remind me of early Baroness and other similar acts from the '00s, some parts are really progy in a Tool way, some parts are lurking towards post-metal with repetitive riffs and nice atmosphere. The combination of fry, throat and clear singing is the icing on the cake!
Today is my daughter's birthday. And among other things, we'll offer her a kalimba. At 3 she got a ukulele. At 1 a percussion set. I can't explain why (🙄), but she seems to like music 😄
Oh and of course my son got his own percussion set for his first birthday, and my parents offered him something with a xylophone, a cymbal and a small drum and he's almost never leaving his drumsticks, I feel like having a tiny version of a drummer at home now! #parenting#prouddad
@jxrxme@thomas thanks for the info! Somehow it seems to appear only on Apple Music for the moment, nothing yet on Bandcamp (where I got the original info). I'm really looking forward to hearing it (and now I know for sure that I'll again spend money before the end of the year in high quality music 😅)
It's not much but I really like this inventive cover of Pink Floyd's One of These Days on Black Meddle from Nachtmystium. Being kind of an homage to the Floyds it totally makes sense. And while you're at it, go listen to the full album and especially to Seasick, in 3 parts, that closes magnificently the record (I'm in love with the saxophone on this one).
#MusicWomenWednesday with Kaki King today. She's an amazing musician, first and foremost a (very talented & with a unique technique) guitarist and a singer, and she can actually play all the instruments on her albums (and notably do so sometimes live, with the help of the Holy Loop). King is very versatile, some of her work purely instrumental, sometimes acoustic, electric, more rock or more experimental, always great. I discovered her with Dreaming of Revenge in 2008:
Following last week #MusicWomenWednesday, let's continue to explore Karina Utomo's work with her main act: High Tension. She's not the only woman in the band as the drummer is Lauren Hammel, who's also playing (in a totally different genre) with Tropical Fuck Storm. High Tension is pretty brutal, their blackened chaotic hardcore being pretty dark... And their latest release talks about colonialism, oppression and the anti-communist purge in Indonesia in the 60s.: