Oh and speaking of a band I loved...that is now defunct...DELAIN members all split off from Martin Westerholt (sounds like some shit went down?)...and lead vocalist Charlotte Wessels (who I've met and is awesome!) has started releasing solo work on her Patreon, and this is one of the tracks.
I was sad to hear they'd split. I've seen them a few times and they're a really great live band, and I'm forever grateful to them for bringing the magnificent Cellar Darling over for their first UK show.
Yeah, I saw them 3 times I think total? All great shows. Met her at one tour with Xandria and she was super nice even though the wife and I were kinda sloshed.
'AI Software Creates "New" Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Doors & Amy Winehouse Songs: Hear Tracks from the "Lost Tapes of the 27 Club"
What would pop music sound like now if the musicians of the 27 club had lived into maturity? [...]
[...] The charts of 2046," Mark Beaumont predicts at NME, "will be full of 12G code-pop songs, baffling to the human brain, written by banks of composerbots purely for the Spotify algorithm to recommend to its colonies of ÆPhone listening farms." Seems as likely as any other future music scenario at this point.'
'Scientists Turned Spiderwebs Into Music, And It's Hauntingly Beautiful
Spiderwebs are some of the most alluringly complex natural phenomena that you are likely to encounter on a morning walk. Spiders use the minute vibrations in their webs to perceive their environment, so what might it sound like if we could actually hear their mysterious music?
This was the goal of a data sonification project that puts humans in spiders' shoes to experience spiderwebs. Researchers say the project could eventually be used to reverse engineer spiders' reality and communicate with the arachnids.
"When you see the structure of a spiderweb, it reminds you somewhat of a harp or a stringed instrument. So the question came up, 'What if you were to think about modeling these strings as vibrating objects?'" [...]
The result is hauntingly beautiful, a soft and constant rustle of bells. My cat looked at me strangely when I played the spider music[...]
[...] sonification translates data into interpretable sounds. The technique has been applied to a variety of data sources, from objects in outer space to the U.S. housing bubble to the effects of climate change on forest composition. But sonifying the structures of spiderwebs was a particularly fitting choice because spiders rely on sound and vibration to understand their environment[...]
"They're essentially blind, and so the way they experience the world is actually through vibrations, either through the web as a giant receptor of vibrations or by communicating with each other—they look for mates by tapping on the floor," [...]
[...] has shared the sonified data with the public in other ways, including as immersive performances pre-pandemic.
"You hear something that in the beginning sounds quite dissonant for the human ear, but after you spend some time in the web, it becomes strangely familiar," [...] Once you've spent enough time with the music, he added, it's hard to go back: "I've had this experience myself—when you go to one of our concerts, you go back to your car to drive home and you listen to some music on the radio or your cell phone, and it sounds kind of weird."
[...] For the average person, the project is a good reminder of the arbitrariness of the human perspective and the potential for music to change it[...]
"It shows that our human reference system isn't the only one. For something like a spider, there's a whole different way of experiencing the world, and now we have an ability to see that.""
It kind of went under my radar when they were originally launched, but holy crap, Them Crooked Vultures are a phenomenal band. Such a shame they only put out one album. Still hopeful that they will make a second one, even though it has been over a decade since the 'New fang' release. Killer line-up (Josh Homme - Kyuss, QOTSA; Dave Grohl - Nirvana, Foo Fighters; John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin) and killer album.
Yesterday, upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
Ola Kvernberg just realeased a followup to his amazing album Steamdome from 2017. Steamdome II: The Hypogean is a spectacular collection of music, and why aren't you listening to it already? Like Steamdome, this is a prog rock / jazz fusion, and I can't wait to see it live when society opens up again! I've seen Steamdome live three times, and I suspect I'll make it happen with this sequel too.
Here's a clip with the first 12 min or so of Steamdome to give a small sense of what it's like. The build up is part of the joy, I think, but if you want a clearer idea of what it all grows into you can start from around 8:30 or so.
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Take good care to keep relations civil
It's decent in the first of gentlemen
To speak friendly, Even to the devil
Pretty cool cover by a "super group" arraignment from Dave Grohl, with his daughter on vocals. It's from the soundtrack of a documentary Grohl has coming out called "What Drives Us", which is about different bands' early experiences, before stardom and money, when they had to all load into a van and drive around the country.
Link to a performance by the original group doing the song live > https://www.youtube....h?v=v2xehSjrzVs The late 70s - early 80s LA punk scene was crazy.
Band-Maid have released the performance of Warning! from their recent online show, which is being released on DVD and blu-ray at the end of this month.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
As the song's video indicates (timestamp 0:07) Aurora attributes this quote to a Cree prophecy:
'The earliest instance located by QI was in a collection of essays published in 1972 titled “Who is the Chairman of This Meeting?” A chapter called “Conversations with North American Indians” contained comments made by Alanis Obomsawin who was described as “an Abenaki from the Odanak reserve, seventy odd miles northeast of Montreal.”
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"Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money."
In later years Obomsawin became famous as an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Canada.
[...]
In 1894 the importance of conserving natural resources was recognized and expressed in a report by the State Fish and Game Commissioner of North Dakota. [...]
"[...] even now a few men can be found who seem willing to destroy the last tree, the last fish and the last game bird and animal, and leave nothing for posterity, if thereby some money can be made."
[...]
In November 1972 a version of the saying was used by another Native American who presented a talk at Harvard University[...]
"Thomas Parker, whose Indian name is Sakokwenonkwas, was the main speaker of the program. He said that he and the other Mohawks were from the Akwesasne reservation on the New York-Canada border. …
'Someday President Nixon and the other world leaders are going to find out that once they catch the last fish, once they cut down the last tree, they won’t be able to eat all the money they have in the banks,' he added."
It is not clear to QI whether the expression was crafted by Obomsawin, Sakokwenonkwas, or a third person. The lead time for publication of a book can be long, so Obomsawin probably used the words before Sakokwenonkwas spoke at Harvard.
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In 1995 a letter written to the New York Times employed the saying and attributed it to the “Cree Indians” [...]
QI would tentatively credit by Alanis Obomsawin with the saying. Also, the characterization “Native American saying” seems accurate in the sense that the two earliest known users of the statement were Native Americans. Yet, the phrase seems to have been crafted in relatively modern times, and thus does not have the deep historical resonance provided by age. Perhaps someone could ask Obomsawin about the expression.'
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