What are you currently listening to?
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 10:19 pm
Inspired by the extremely interesting "What are you currently eating?" thread, I figured I would make one based around my greatest obsession, music. I warn you, I may get a bit technical on occasion.
Let us know what you're currently listening to (or have been listening to a lot recently)!
I will begin with the score to The Tempest, by Elliot Goldenthal. This is an absolutely genius score that I have been addicted to ever since first hearing it. For most people it will probably be a very difficult listen, and it's extremely different from what one might expect from a Shakespeare adaptation, but give it a chance and maybe in time it will win you over. Here are some highlights:
"Hell Is Empty" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxbPCyYmqSw An incredibly dark and unrelenting track with thunderous walls of fluttering electric guitar noise, and ending with atonal ambient wailing saxophones (don't ever expect to see those four words in conjunction again).
"Full Fathom Five" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYiNHot6Z3s Some of the most gorgeous guitar soundscapes I've ever heard, gloomy but beautiful, and featuring Ben Whishaw singing original Shakespeare lyrics. The last minute and a half is particularly fantastic with a vocal pedal point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedal_point) suspended over alternating chromatic mediants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_mediant).
"Brave New World" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULYoAyCxRME A very ambient piece constructed almost entirely from string harmonics. At 1:04 cellos start doing some harmonic glissandos, one of my personal favorite string techniques. Here's how it's done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQBh9ADp98 . Finally the piece climaxes with swirling guitars.
Let us know what you're currently listening to (or have been listening to a lot recently)!
I will begin with the score to The Tempest, by Elliot Goldenthal. This is an absolutely genius score that I have been addicted to ever since first hearing it. For most people it will probably be a very difficult listen, and it's extremely different from what one might expect from a Shakespeare adaptation, but give it a chance and maybe in time it will win you over. Here are some highlights:
"Hell Is Empty" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxbPCyYmqSw An incredibly dark and unrelenting track with thunderous walls of fluttering electric guitar noise, and ending with atonal ambient wailing saxophones (don't ever expect to see those four words in conjunction again).
"Full Fathom Five" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYiNHot6Z3s Some of the most gorgeous guitar soundscapes I've ever heard, gloomy but beautiful, and featuring Ben Whishaw singing original Shakespeare lyrics. The last minute and a half is particularly fantastic with a vocal pedal point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedal_point) suspended over alternating chromatic mediants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_mediant).
"Brave New World" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULYoAyCxRME A very ambient piece constructed almost entirely from string harmonics. At 1:04 cellos start doing some harmonic glissandos, one of my personal favorite string techniques. Here's how it's done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQBh9ADp98 . Finally the piece climaxes with swirling guitars.