OT: Need music ideas

ivar

I work from home a lot, and nearly always have some music playing.
I'm looking for some new non well-known artists to listen to.

Anything goes, except for techno/hardcore/etc. To give you an idea of what I listen to, today I've played Gotan Project, Dire Straits, Nicola Conte, Zuco103, KOOP, Aretha Franklin, Iron&Wine/Calexico and Kid Abelha (pretty widespread, huhh?) But like I said, nearly anything goes.

Lemme hear those personal favorites, unknown obscure bands, bad or good, but not something that is found on the front page of amazon or iTunes, etc. (It would help if they have atleast made a CD or have MP3 online, so I can listen to them as well)

:ear

behr655

Check out the Subdudes.

http://www.subdudes.com/

Here's a link to a performance.
http://www.subdudes.com/audio-visual/wolftrap.mp3

Bear

Andy

Cubanismo - CD called Malembe

ivar

behr655 wrote:

Check out the Subdudes.

http://www.subdudes.com/

Here's a link to a performance.
http://www.subdudes.com/audio-visual/wolftrap.mp3

Bear

I'll check m out, thanks!

ivar

Andy wrote:

Cubanismo - CD called Malembe

I Have 'the best of' from them I'll check out that album

ivar

ivar wrote:

I'll check m out, thanks!

as I'm listing to that mp3, i'm thinking.... hey, this sounds familiar.... sure enough, I have an album from them thanks though, they're not bad

DavidTO

Well, here's a mix of things you may not have heard of, or things that you may have forgotten about and should dig up.

iTunes links:

Zap Mama (World harmonies with R&B and Soul, little Hip Hop mixed in)

Ozomatli (East Side LA mishmosh of styles. Much better live, this band is still worth checking out on CD.)

Greg Brown--The Evening Call (Folk. This album is really well produced.)

Alpha Blondy (Reggae--especially the album Jerusalem)

Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder There's also an album not on iTunes by Ry Cooder and VM Bhatt called "A Meeting By the River." Amazing.

The Black Keys

Buddy Guy

Dr. John (especially Dr. John's Gumbo.)

Handsome Boy Modeling School--So, How's Your Girl?

Hot Tuna--Burgers

Issa Babayogo

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

John Hiatt

John Prine

Wilco, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley (of course), Skip James, Van Morrison with John Lee Hooker--Too Long in Exile, Muddy Waters.

Also, check out cmj.com for downloads of new, obscure music.

TylerW

I've encountered some decently earcatching stuff ovr the past year, here's two of the best that my bleary, early morning mind can come up with. Some of it is on the broad outskirts of techno (insomuch that it makes use of electronic instruments and sequencers) but I'd really scarce to call it that.

Rob Dougan - Furious Angels: hardly new, this album came out severl years ago, but I just discovered it last year, and its one of the most mindblowing albums I'v ever heard. Layer trip-hop beats, an orchestral score and then Tom Waits-derived lyrics and you have a startingpoint as to what his music sounds like. The lyrical content is pretty melancholy, but it all works within the framework.

Ratatat - Classics: This album could easily be the soundtrack to the coolest movie that you've never seen, because it doesn't exist. Good thing the soundtrck does, though. Two guitarists and a drummer create some of the most imaginitive soundscapes you've ever heard. Its all instrumental though, that might put some people off.

Both of these are available on iTunes, so its easy to give'em a listen.

ivar

TylerW wrote:

I've encountered some decently earcatching stuff ovr the past year, here's two of the best that my bleary, early morning mind can come up with. Some of it is on the broad outskirts of techno (insomuch that it makes use of electronic instruments and sequencers) but I'd really scarce to call it that.

Rob Dougan - Furious Angels: hardly new, this album came out severl years ago, but I just discovered it last year, and its one of the most mindblowing albums I'v ever heard. Layer trip-hop beats, an orchestral score and then Tom Waits-derived lyrics and you have a startingpoint as to what his music sounds like. The lyrical content is pretty melancholy, but it all works within the framework.

Ratatat - Classics: This album could easily be the soundtrack to the coolest movie that you've never seen, because it doesn't exist. Good thing the soundtrck does, though. Two guitarists and a drummer create some of the most imaginitive soundscapes you've ever heard. Its all instrumental though, that might put some people off.

Both of these are available on iTunes, so its easy to give'em a listen.

Will do, thanks!

ivar

DavidTO wrote:

Well, here's a mix of things you may not have heard of, or things that you may have forgotten about and should dig up.

iTunes links:

Zap Mama (World harmonies with R&B and Soul, little Hip Hop mixed in)

Ozomatli (East Side LA mishmosh of styles. Much better live, this band is still worth checking out on CD.)

Greg Brown--The Evening Call (Folk. This album is really well produced.)

Alpha Blondy (Reggae--especially the album Jerusalem)

Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder There's also an album not on iTunes by Ry Cooder and VM Bhatt called "A Meeting By the River." Amazing.

The Black Keys

Buddy Guy

Dr. John (especially Dr. John's Gumbo.)

Handsome Boy Modeling School--So, How's Your Girl?

Hot Tuna--Burgers

Issa Babayogo

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

John Hiatt

John Prine

Wilco, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley (of course), Skip James, Van Morrison with John Lee Hooker--Too Long in Exile, Muddy Waters.

Also, check out cmj.com for downloads of new, obscure music.

There's some really good stuff in here, thanks. I'll definitely be checking out the ones I don't know

fotodojo

My hearty recommendation: ccMixter.org

I have wasted a many hours of my life there.

alternatively stream in somafm.com .. SecretAgent being my fave .. (thought I am listening to Goovesalad atm).

Art Scott

Here is a few more to delve into................

Loreena Mckennitt, Amici, Bari Koral, Doug Kershaw, Beau Soleil, Bjorn Hallman, Blackmores Night,
Grayson Hugh, Christopher Caquette, Aeoliah, Mike Rowland, & Gary Stadler

Awais Yaqub

I have one i recorded it in mountains a live musical instrument i have extracted audio from video shell i send you ? guy is not popular but what a rabab he plays

wxwax

Clifton Chenier - a Zydeco master. This is my favorite CD.

Ry Cooder - Mambo Sinuendo

Ali Farka Toure - Talking Timbuktu (with Ry Cooder.)

DavidTO

wxwax wrote:

Clifton Chenier - a Zydeco master. This is my favorite CD.

Ry Cooder - Mambo Sinuendo

Ali Farka Toure - Talking Timbuktu (with Ry Cooder.)

I already mentioned that last.


Hey, I thought you didn't listen to music?

DavidTO

http://criticalmetrics.com/

Ann McRae

Okay, so I don't really choose the music around here. The expert says


www.pandora.com
www.batanga.com

Amadou & Miriam



ann

ivar

wxwax wrote:

Clifton Chenier - a Zydeco master. This is my favorite CD.

Ry Cooder - Mambo Sinuendo

Ali Farka Toure - Talking Timbuktu (with Ry Cooder.)

I like them. The Clifton Chenier Album, I need to be ' in the mood ' for though.

Ann McRae wrote:

Okay, so I don't really choose the music around here. The expert says


www.pandora.com
www.batanga.com

Amadou & Miriam



ann

I like the Amadou & Mariam - Dimance a Bamako cd, very nice.


I've also been listening to (iTunes links)

Room Eleven - Six white Russians and a Pink Pussycat

Feist - reminder (Mac lovers will perhaps recognize the ninth song of the album).

Eva de Roover - de Jager (Flemish/Dutch lyrics)

Charlie Dée - love your life more mainstream



Still open to more suggestions

Awais Yaqub

Here it is i uploaded few days ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyjtlPhcTU
here is guy who played it this is Rabab i recorded video and extracted audio from it to put it on the slideshow recorded with h5