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Post by gouge on Aug 17, 2014 21:51:34 GMT -6
this is a thread for people, bands, albums, gigs we should hear, that in your opinion show case great talent and great engineering. no need to post music that lacks artistic content and was clearly created to fill a product void.
whatever genre, this is a celebration of quality outcomes but lets keep it contemporary.
on the indie front i'm starting with this recording. might not be everyones cup of tea but it works for me and kicks me in the pit of my stomach
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Post by littlesicily on Aug 17, 2014 22:49:53 GMT -6
Anything by these guys. Gonna see them live in Nashville soon. Insane musicianship!
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Post by littlesicily on Aug 17, 2014 22:53:23 GMT -6
And this guy!! Cory Henry… my new favorite keyboardist of any genre… here are a few examples.
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 17, 2014 23:42:54 GMT -6
I've posted about this guy here before to general indifference. But, he has a new record out that is sonically stellar, IMO. Which it should be considering that he also does a boatload of producing work.
My understanding is also that he records pretty much live off the floor and with minimal overdubs. And, the recording is usually done over four or five days.
If you wanna tell me his voice is an acquired taste - I will not argue.
Joe Henry:
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 17, 2014 23:44:04 GMT -6
Just wanna add - cool idea for a thread. Looking forward to see what comes up!
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by gouge on Aug 18, 2014 2:06:38 GMT -6
cheers Geoff,
i'll track down some more Joe Henry. great recording. depth and clarity for miles.
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Post by gouge on Aug 18, 2014 2:08:09 GMT -6
I'll throw Marc Ribot, John Zorn and co into the mix. amazing stuff. ceramic dog gets a lot of playtime with me as well.
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Post by matt on Aug 18, 2014 7:49:10 GMT -6
Rocco mines the space opened up by Jack White, but there's plenty of room in there, IMHO. And he puts his Resonator through an SVT. Gotta love that.
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Post by henge on Aug 18, 2014 9:29:39 GMT -6
Anything by these guys. Gonna see them live in Nashville soon. Insane musicianship! Looks like somebody's been practicing!LOL Fantastic voice. |
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Post by henge on Aug 18, 2014 9:33:02 GMT -6
I've posted about this guy here before to general indifference. But, he has a new record out that is sonically stellar, IMO. Which it should be considering that he also does a boatload of producing work. My understanding is also that he records pretty much live off the floor and with minimal overdubs. And, the recording is usually done over four or five days. If you wanna tell me his voice is an acquired taste - I will not argue. Joe Henry: Cheers, Geoff Wow, great writing and production. Thanks for this. |
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Post by henge on Aug 18, 2014 9:38:35 GMT -6
Rocco mines the space opened up by Jack White, but there's plenty of room in there, IMHO. And he puts his Resonator through an SVT. Gotta love that. Fantastic! Killer voice as well but that tone and playing!! Whoa... |
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Post by henge on Aug 18, 2014 9:43:50 GMT -6
I'll throw Marc Ribot, John Zorn and co into the mix. amazing stuff. ceramic dog gets a lot of playtime with me as well. Never heard of Ribot before. Love his tone,attitude and playing. |
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 18, 2014 11:42:33 GMT -6
cheers Geoff, i'll track down some more Joe Henry. great recording. depth and clarity for miles. He's had an interesting career trajectory. His first four or so records were pretty straight up Americana, alt-country, whatever you want to call it, with the Jayhawks as his backing band. I think his lyrics on the early stuff are up there with anybody. Then he got more interested in rhythm and jazz and his songwriting changed and the production veered to the more atmospheric. Like this: I believe he started doing outside production work around the time of this clip (I'm gonna say late 90s?) The most recent one that I linked above is a bit of a return to the early stuff perhaps, but he clearly is a very different songwriter than he was at the beginning of his career. I haven't loved all of it, but I've always found it interesting. Cheers, Geoff |
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 18, 2014 12:08:50 GMT -6
i believe Joe Henry wrote Madonna's "don't tell me"?
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 18, 2014 12:18:13 GMT -6
i believe Joe Henry wrote Madonna's "don't tell me"? Yeah, he's written some stuff with her. He's her bro-in-law. Cheers, Geoff |
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 18, 2014 15:51:41 GMT -6
I'm also really liking the new Roseanne Cash record.. Here's a couple examples:
Nice vibe on that one.
Just an amazing tune, IMO. Oh, the background vocalists she gathered for this ain't too shabby either: John Prine, Rodney Crowell, Kristofferson, Tony Jo White. Really like the arrangements on both, bringing stuff in and out all the time. One of the biggest problems I hear with hobbyist mixers like myself is that the arrangement is static. All the instruments just plowing away through the whole tune. Contrast, grasshopper.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 18, 2014 23:24:19 GMT -6
Ok. One more from me, and I promise I'll stop.
(Would love to hear more especially from styles I'm not really up to speed with - modern Nashville, hip-hop, metal etc. etc. But whatever is out there and sonically good and floating your boat songwise.)
Produced by Tony Visconti with vocal assistance from Ian Hunter.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by sinasoid on Aug 19, 2014 10:51:02 GMT -6
Been obsessed with how St. Vincent uses direct distorted guitars in her sound.
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Post by mobeach on Aug 19, 2014 12:35:14 GMT -6
One of the best musicians ever.
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Post by jcoutu1 on Aug 19, 2014 14:21:35 GMT -6
I'm a big fan of Minus the Bear. Here is one of my favorite cuts of theirs...
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Post by Guitar on Aug 19, 2014 18:30:20 GMT -6
I think I just want to dance, any more, and to have my mind blown open. Sometimes you want a singer though, or a rocking band. Both of these songs give me goose bumps on an emotional level, and impress me on a technical one (one more than the other).
My main man Thom
My girl Claire
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Post by Guitar on Aug 19, 2014 19:01:47 GMT -6
Been obsessed with how St. Vincent uses direct distorted guitars in her sound. I'm obsessed by how genuinely nice she is... and also how she look, hahaha. |
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Post by mobeach on Aug 20, 2014 4:45:54 GMT -6
I think I just want to dance, any more, and to have my mind blown open. Sometimes you want a singer though, or a rocking band. Both of these songs give me goose bumps on an emotional level, and impress me on a technical one (one more than the other). My main man Thom My girl Claire Interesting, what genre does that fall under? |
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Post by Guitar on Aug 20, 2014 13:24:41 GMT -6
Hard to say. It's strongly electronic, but it's also pop, and vocal. Basically what you've got here are two singer-songwriters using keyboards, computers, and drum machines rather than acoustic guitars. You can play "Ingenue" on piano, I've done it and so does Thom Yorke in his live show, and you can play "Genesis" on acoustic guitar and it sounds great. I guess you'd call it a more contemporary approach to songwriting. Songwriting plus "production." Even though this dates back to the '80s or even '70s with Kraftwerk or whatever. I just think it sounds way bigger now because the equipment today is capable of bigger sounding production. Those DAT machines in the '80s, and those gated 12-bit snare samples or whatever, could never sound this huge, I don't think. Even the Roland JD-990 from the '90s sounds way grittier and less hi-fi than its direct modern equivalent, the Roland Integra 7, just to give an example about the equipment itself has changed a lot over the years.
And obviously a Nigel Godrich production (Atoms For Peace, here) is using the most opulent vintage and modern gear possible, including tape machines, vintage Neumann condensers, Neve consoles and whatnot. I don't think a lot of similar music from back in the day was made with this kind of Beatles'-esque high production value. The keyboard in this song is probably a classic Sequential Circuits Prophet 5.
The Grimes song was recorded with an SM58 and Garage Band, so it sounds a little rougher, but, it's been expertly mixed by someone, probably in a more decked out studio, after it was tracked. So it still sounds pretty good by modern standards. The arrangement and music is all Grimes, though. The synth keyboard is probably the Roland Gaia.
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Post by gouge on Aug 20, 2014 20:56:05 GMT -6
Medeski, Martin & Wood
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