Thanks for picking my recommendation. Glad you both enjoyed it. For a while in the latter half of the 90s / early noughties it would be a rare month that passed without me listening to either Pioneer Soundtracks or The Jazz Age at least a couple of times. I cast my net wide where music is concerned and don't really make a distinction between genres and sub-genres. There's two types of music as far as I'm concerned. Music that's worth my time and music that is not. But this kind of sweeping, melancholy, haunting form of song writing is something that really appeals to me. It does work best in the small hours of the morning through good headphones with a bottle of wine to hand. Might be a bit greedy but I'm going to hit you both with another recommendation. Bit different this one. No orchestration. But the melancholy is 100% present and correct. Check out WE DON'T NEED NOBODY ELSE by the magnificent, should have been massive Whipping Boy. Keep up the great work. :-)
They come in colours everywhere, they comb their hair. Which will also serve as a comment related to the excellent string backing. I could find out nothing useful about that string quartet, but I was reminded of Puccini's Crisantemi which has a somewhat similar ambiance (chrysanths are the Italian funeral flower).
As a first listen I liked it, especially the guitar. Nice melancholic guitar with a touch of tremolo and a touch of Whammy bar at one point. Some nice chord choices too. Strings can often either enhance or ruin a good song, but in this context they sounded right for this song. Good choice. At this point you can probably expect I am going to do a request, as haven’t done one for a while. Been getting into the back catalogue of The Passage recently, and almost forgotten how good they were. They were founded by a member of the Halle Orchestra and were the first band to incorporate John Cage’s aleatoric composition method in pop music and still make music you could dance to. The song I would like to request is XOYO from 1982. Jon might know this song, probably the first pop song about the possible downside of genetic engineering, but I think Andrew might enjoy it too.
Thanks for picking my recommendation. Glad you both enjoyed it. For a while in the latter half of the 90s / early noughties it would be a rare month that passed without me listening to either Pioneer Soundtracks or The Jazz Age at least a couple of times. I cast my net wide where music is concerned and don't really make a distinction between genres and sub-genres. There's two types of music as far as I'm concerned. Music that's worth my time and music that is not. But this kind of sweeping, melancholy, haunting form of song writing is something that really appeals to me. It does work best in the small hours of the morning through good headphones with a bottle of wine to hand. Might be a bit greedy but I'm going to hit you both with another recommendation. Bit different this one. No orchestration. But the melancholy is 100% present and correct. Check out WE DON'T NEED NOBODY ELSE by the magnificent, should have been massive Whipping Boy. Keep up the great work. :-)
Postwar jazz is my deaf spot, but I agree with Duke Ellington - There are two types of music, good music and the other sort.
Good choice ;)
They come in colours everywhere, they comb their hair. Which will also serve as a comment related to the excellent string backing. I could find out nothing useful about that string quartet, but I was reminded of Puccini's Crisantemi which has a somewhat similar ambiance (chrysanths are the Italian funeral flower).
As a first listen I liked it, especially the guitar. Nice melancholic guitar with a touch of tremolo and a touch of Whammy bar at one point. Some nice chord choices too. Strings can often either enhance or ruin a good song, but in this context they sounded right for this song. Good choice.
At this point you can probably expect I am going to do a request, as haven’t done one for a while. Been getting into the back catalogue of The Passage recently, and almost forgotten how good they were. They were founded by a member of the Halle Orchestra and were the first band to incorporate John Cage’s aleatoric composition method in pop music and still make music you could dance to.
The song I would like to request is XOYO from 1982. Jon might know this song, probably the first pop song about the possible downside of genetic engineering, but I think Andrew might enjoy it too.
Thanks Terry. Added to the list.
Cheers, Jon.