The Other and the Outre: The Maybe Not For You music thread

[Deli]

Diamanda Galás is an American musician, singer-songwriter, visual artist, composer, pianist, organist and performance artist, with an exceptional operatic vocal range of at least three octaves, if not four.

The performance art opera here is a method of scream singing, in her words “piercing, guttural screams of pain, crescendos of raw human sound, visceral primeval calls and episodes of silence form the extended aria of pain that is SCHREI”.

This is likely Diamanda’s most aggressive and difficult work- there are also jazz, traditional opera, rock and roll, and even a Chet Baker cover in her repertoire if you’re interested in exploring.

 

[Deli]

Sonny Sharrock-

From a wiki-


Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock(August 27, 1940 – May 25, 1994)[1]was an American jazz guitarist. One of only a few prominent guitarists who participated in the first wave of free jazz during the 1960s, Sharrock was known for his heavily chorded attack, highly amplified bursts of feedback, and use of aggressive sustain to achieve saxophone-like lines on guitar. His early work also features creative use of a slide.

 

[mhardy6647]

I was gonna toss DakkaBrakha into the fray, here -- sadly, since the conflict in Ukraine, they and their style of music don't seem so foreign nor esoteric these days.

The importance of music in eastern Europe/the Balkans* cannot be underemphasized.

Ahh, heck, I'll toss 'em in, anyway. Great stuff.



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* heck, and in Russia, too.

 

[Batty]

The Hu

 

[Kpatch]

The Hu

Heavy metal on traditional Mongolian instruments? Definitely MNFY stuff. Well done sir, well done indeed.

 

[J. Frum]

Circa 2002-2003, my college radio show was called “FMAO”, which stood for “For My Amusement Only”.

It was a free-form show, and I delighted in making the most jarring transitions I could between songs of diverse genres. I had like three fans, but they loved me.

The death-knell was when the stationrunners decided to that all DJs would have to play a certain number of songs off their playlists per hour. They had a few for different genres, but when I told them that the entire concept of my show was that I didn’t do genres, they saddled me with a drecky “alternative rock” playlist. I quit after that semester.

Listening to the tapes, it’s painfully apparent which songs I was being forced to play, and also that I wasn’t nearly as cool or clever as I thought I was.

I have fond memories of getting out of class, hurrying to my buddy’s campus-adjacent apartment where I’d stashed a Rubbermaid tote full of CDs that morning, doing a bunch of rapid-fire bonghits, and trundling back to the student union for my show. Good times.

 

[Kpatch]

And then there would be the odd bits, because they were just odd.

 

[J. Frum]

And then there would be the odd bits, because they were just odd.

I don’t know what I enjoy more, Lawrence Welk referring to it as a “modern spiritual”, or the simmering hatred I feel like the performers have for each other.

 

[MikeT.]

Except Bjork. Bjork is right out.

@prime minister , give @Kpatch a promotion to Senior Member! Great thread idea.

And oh, how about Ozark Mountain Daredevils? Couldn’t get enough of them, well, it was a long time ago.

 

[J. Frum]

What can we say about The Shaggs that hasn’t already been said?

 

[Tillerman]

A good deal of my music library consists of music that fits in this thread - at least based on the lack of interest from other listeners at my house.
Some examples in no particular order:

• Soft Machine (prog jazz/rock) - right from the beginning when I was introduced to them in high school.
• King Crimson (prog) - also right from the beginning, when I discovered them in junior high.
• Television - introduced by a friend from work.
• Esbjörn Svensson Trio - self discovered a while ago. Wonderful jazz trio that was quite innovative.
• Opeth (black metal/ prog metal)- starting with Blackwater Park (dirty and clean vocals) and Damnation (clean vocals).
• Zappa - starting with Hot Rats and then branching out forwards and backwards in high school.

 

[MikeyFresh]

 

[analog.distractions]

Can’t go wrong with this series of compilations from Finders Keepers.

Strain Crack & Break - Music From the Nurse With Wound List, Vol. 1 (France), Vol. 2 (Germany)

 

[Olson_jr]

I wasn’t into jokey with the exception of The Residents, who I was fascinated by.

In the late '70s, Mike, a friend of mine, invited a couple of us music junkies to his place for what he called a special project. He enticed us with free pizza and beer, it didn't hurt that his cute girlfriend always seemed to have several attractive lady friends hanging out there.

Mike had bought the Residents' LP The Third Reich 'n Roll and had become obsessed with trying to figure out all the different '60s tunes that they referenced on the record.

He played us the entire LP, and we might have guessed one tune that he had not yet figured out.

Then he started playing snippets he had recorded on cassettes. I should say repeatedly playing those snippets. Some of the stuff had what you might term, a ring to it.

"Is that from Blue Jay Way from the Beatles? Is that the organ from 96 Tears? Is that Venus from the Shocking Blue?"

Initially, it was fun, but after hearing the same 15 seconds 10 times it became quite tedious. Another friend suggested we listen to something different as a pallet cleanser. I was all for that.

But Mike decided we needed to listen to the LP again and try to make a timeline of what we were hearing. He already had a notebook out and added a timeline for side one. As much as I wanted to help, I could not take another listen and I had to bail before we got through the LP again.

Eventually, we parted ways when I found a different job.

The poor guy had several manic episodes, suffered through various addictions, and still managed to hold a job and raise a big family. He just died last year.

I wonder if he ever finished his project?

 

[Olson_jr]

A good deal of my music library consists of music that fits in this thread - at least based on the lack of interest from other listeners at my house.
Some examples in no particular order:

• Soft Machine (prog jazz/rock) - right from the beginning when I was introduced to them in high school.
• King Crimson (prog) - also right from the beginning, when I discovered them in junior high.
• Television - introduced by a friend from work.
• Esbjörn Svensson Trio - self discovered a while ago. Wonderful jazz trio that was quite innovative.
• Opeth (black metal/ prog metal)- starting with Blackwater Park (dirty and clean vocals) and Damnation (clean vocals).
• Zappa - starting with Hot Rats and then branching out forwards and backwards in high school.

DMAX99 from AK turned me onto EST, I played them quite frequently for a while.

Zappa was a long-time favorite, then I went through a spell when I could only listen to Hot Rats, Waka, and Wazoo. I have been listening to and enjoying his newly released Erie collection recently.

 

[mhardy6647]

maybe not so out there... but a little edgier than... I dunno... ABBA, I suppose.



and, since I mentioned "I AM" already -- since it's kind of a Meher Baba sampler, it gets a little... weird.
To wit (and, at some level, I rather like this).


Affirmation by Mike Da Costa

speaking of which (?!??) -- is this the place for Ken Nordine, or was he too mainstream?

 

[Deli]

In the late '70s, Mike, a friend of mine, invited a couple of us music junkies to his place for what he called a special project. He enticed us with free pizza and beer, it didn't hurt that his cute girlfriend always seemed to have several attractive lady friends hanging out there.

Mike had bought the Residents' LP The Third Reich 'n Roll and had become obsessed with trying to figure out all the different '60s tunes that they referenced on the record.

He played us the entire LP, and we might have guessed one tune that he had not yet figured out.

Then he started playing snippets he had recorded on cassettes. I should say repeatedly playing those snippets. Some of the stuff had what you might term, a ring to it.

"Is that from Blue Jay Way from the Beatles? Is that the organ from 96 Tears? Is that Venus from the Shocking Blue?"

Initially, it was fun, but after hearing the same 15 seconds 10 times it became quite tedious. Another friend suggested we listen to something different as a pallet cleanser. I was all for that.

But Mike decided we needed to listen to the LP again and try to make a timeline of what we were hearing. He already had a notebook out and added a timeline for side one. As much as I wanted to help, I could not take another listen and I had to bail before we got through the LP again.

Eventually, we parted ways when I found a different job.

The poor guy had several manic episodes, suffered through various addictions, and still managed to hold a job and raise a big family. He just died last year.

I wonder if he ever finished his project?

I adore the Residents. Their albums- Duck Stab is great, as is Eskimo, and The King And I, which is their Elvis tribute, is something I’d love to find on vinyl.

 

[Thermionics]

Funny, I did a similar kind of theme when filling in a couple of Saturday eves. at WRCT, the Carnegie-Mellon station, in the early 70s.
I offered a free Zappa album to the first caller throughout the evening - nobody called.

You went to CMU? My daughter is there doing the BxA program.

 

[Thermionics]

maybe not so out there... but a little edgier than... I dunno... ABBA, I suppose.



and, since I mentioned "I AM" already -- since it's kind of a Meher Baba sampler, it gets a little... weird.
To wit (and, at some level, I rather like this).


Affirmation by Mike Da Costa

speaking of which (?!??) -- is this the place for Ken Nordine, or was he too mainstream?

I've got that Jim Carrol on 45...

 

[geoff]

You went to CMU? My daughter is there doing the BxA program.

Me, my sister, my daughter, and my dad.