@yeso#9648 I will listen to these soon. I won’t have a chance to be alone for the next 36 hours or so, which I’m guessing would be the preferable way to listen to this music.
Thanks for sharing it.
they're tasteful and energetic covers of easy listening hits that are much more charming than the originals, and those qualities combined with the historical setting and what happened to the singer makes the listening experience pretty moving and emotionally potent (please forgive this moment of sincerity) at least to me.
Anyone remember this album from a while back? It's good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIRZjRjB1TQ
If there‘s a non-Japanese band I’d recommend, here you have it:
https://youtu.be/PB1k7CDVWVk
Also, South Korea also has some nice jazz artist like Kang Tae-Hwan and others. Now I'm a little bit tired, but the country has several nice ideas there (as other countries that have nice albums here and there).
@yeso#9708 I listened to the Khmer songs you posted. I definitely get the sentiment you’re describing. I feel a similar way when I read Chinese novels from the 20s/30s, in that brief interlude of stability before the Japanese invasion and civil war. I always wonder what would have happened to the characters just a few years after the story ends. Well, of course, it’s not exactly the same situation as with Cambodia — just similar melancholy feelings.
A lot of people in the youtube comments recommended the documentary [Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Think_I've_Forgotten). Maybe I’ll have to go watch that.
@xhekros#9719 Thanks! I’m going to have check out Jambinai’s other stuff. When you have time feel free to show off some more of what you mean when you say Korea’s got some nice ideas.
I don't remember how I found out about these guys. Their music has a very fun energy. Here are two music videos in which they play a tennis-like sport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYI8oc3uRns&ab_channel=StoneMusicEntertainment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33JnprOFH0w&ab_channel=%EC%95%88%ED%85%8C%EB%82%98Antenna
@saddleblasters#9765 Thanks! I‘m kinda lazy because this week has been full of work, but there’s quite of things to pack.
What I wanted to talk about tho was about free jazz. It‘s been quite surprising that the scene has taken a look at expanding their frontiers, and two prime examples has been South Korea and fusion (specially jazz with electronic music, which is not that new considering Herbie Hancock has been there, but…).
Some prime examples I’ve been hearing about at least had been Okkyung Lee and Kang Tae-Hwan. The latter has been growing up and had quite a long career, while the former has been rising up during the latest years. Also, there are also several nice groups that, while not very original, are at least interesting. Cotoba is an example of this: it's a math rock group very inspired by Japanese music, and you could see groups like tricot being one of their influences.
Outside of Korea, there's an album I found in Bandcamp which was really nice about electronic music in Indonesia, and it was shocking in a very good way. Here are the links:
https://youtu.be/Fy2LgBM5iGA
https://youtu.be/5p-5Lc0rDnE
https://youtu.be/2NUSp8Yvki0
https://ottosidharta.bandcamp.com/album/indonesian-electronic-music-1979-92
Heard this towards the beginning of the year, completely forgot about it, then saw it again just now on youtube:
https://youtu.be/09VrFxGu8_g
@yeso#9613 I came here to see if Shocking Shaking Days was already suggested and was very happy to see it was. One of my favorite comp records of all time.
yes I‘m uneasy sometimes about access to non-western music being mediated by these compilations but that’s maybe a different topic.
I am spending new year‘s alone, slowly working through a textbook – but I’ve been listening to some recentish Taiwanese pop while I do it, since I feel like I‘m too biased towards 80s and 90s stuff. Here’s a song I first heard yesterday about wanting to have a glass of beer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahQxV6A9Zd8
@tombo#10462 this is what i wanted to share the other day but it‘s doing the festival rounds so it got pulled. only the trailer is embeddable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nitTS2o1etU
it’s forty five minutes of absolutely insane music and game-like motion graphics. the whole thing can be viewed here as part of CTM Cyberia, a “virtual multiplayer festival environment and exhibition” which features a lot of game-adjacent artworks.
@xhekros#9794 Okkyung Lee!!!
I saw her live once in Minneapolis. She [scratched her strings with great intensity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCvNnz84f2k) for like an hour straight. It was awesome. I miss concerts.
@captain#18648 Yeah. It‘s sad because I started having fun in some of them (specially in concert clubs and pubs), but sadly the offer in my city is not much up my tastes since experimental jazz like this isn’t very much available (although there‘s a good jazz scene in my country). Okkyung Lee so far is one of the best in the country, and yes, there is a good Korean scene there as I’ve seen recently (Kang Tae-Hwan is another example of that, and sure there's more).
@xhekros#18742 It‘s a bummer your local scene can’t scratch that itch. I just moved to a new town in the middle of COVID and don‘t know yet what the music scene is like here at all, but I hope it’s got some of this kind of thing. I listened to some of that Kang album you linked above and was thinking, gosh, it would have been fun to see him do his thing in a live setting.
@captain#18764 Yeah. There‘s a lot of jazz and different types of musical scene, but the more avantgarde scene is… marginal. It doesn’t help that you have to be seeking that information, which makes it difficult.
@yeso#9597 khap
I do not have evidence but my partner told me recently that there is a group in Korea called Crying Nut
Elephant Gym is some great math rock from Taiwan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saccx5dTmKU
https://youtu.be/HW367HtrXE0
@kory#24246 this is exactly my favorite flavor right now thank you