like Sigur Ros and Mogwai. Know any?
Find it hard to write to lyrics.
there are some Sweet Japanese bands doing that... Cornelius, FPM, Pizzicato 5...
I think Emir Kusturica's band does instrumental , too.
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sigur ros sing a lot.
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They use their voices more as an instrument than communicating the lyrics.
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Thanks!
you too, chucko...
i think writing to the shadows would make me do some fucked up crazy shit.
i was ironic.
Am I wildly insane or has nobody mentioned Godspeed You Black Emperor! yet
wildly insane.
but yes, nobody has mentioned them yet and it is a god damn shame
explosions in the sky
sonic youth
múm
anywhen
no smoking
the lisbon pipers (best I can translate, they play bagpipes, "gaiteiros de lisboa")
I can't remember more
how could i forget Múm...... :cry:
now that we're at it:
Boards of Canada
Air
how's about
The Minibosses
DJ Shadow...but he's not a band...
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but he's GRREAT
Brad Mehldau
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Booker T and the MGs
Green Onions, motherfuckers! :evil:
Uh...
Beethoven
Moonlight Sonata, motherfuckers! :evil:
Sonic Youth is not an instrumental band.
explosions in the sky is the best~
A silver Mt. Zion along with their other names im not bothering to write out right now.
also, jazz kicks some serious ass....john coltrane and lee morgan being two of my favorites. get coltrane's blue train to hear the interplay of both of em.
Mono
Giardini di Miro
godspeed you! black emperor
Boards of Canada
i think ...
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ps. if there are lyrics, it is not instrumental.
Medeski, Martin, & Wood are a great funky jazz trio. These guys are young and not the jazz as one might think. They are kind of psychadelic at times while being funky or traditional on other songs. They are not for everyone but I happen to be a big fan of them. Download some of their studio work, Friday Afternoon, Shack Man, or Combustication, as their live stuff gets spacey.
Check out their cool website - MMW (http://www.mmw.net/)
Anyone remember a previous avatar for the one with the white backing?
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Early Day Miners, American football (neither are completely all instrumental)
Michael Sokolowski
Tim Reynolds
they do piano and guitar stuff with no lyrics with various artists. they even have some stuff together. all of it is simply fantastic.
explosions in the sky can suck a dick, namely mine.
outhud
prefuse 73
savath & savalas
yall fight the power, yall.
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exactly. I can not recommend this band enough. Both albums.
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exactly. I can not recommend this band enough. Both albums.
I've been listening to The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place and I can't get enough of it. I was just bewildered at how a group of people starts to write this kind of music. Such great, airy stuff.
nme.com/news
Godspeed You! Black Emperor quit over Iraq
Godspeed You Black Emperor have announced their split.
The Montreal post-rock innovators have called it a day, but not for the reasons of 'musical differences' cited by many retiring bands.
Instead, founder Efrin Menuck declared that the band had become untenable due to "an existential freakout" relating to the Iraq war.
Menuck told Drownedinsound: "The last American tour that Godspeed did was in the run up to the current war in Iraq. For what Godspeed did, it was very difficult for us to work out a way to communicate directly with the audience about what was going on."
He continued: "We could talk to people after the shows, or we could make announcements from the stage, but so much what Godspeed was, was one-way communication, and I had an existential freakout about that, that those tactics aren't valid anymore.
"People didn't need a rock band pointing in the direction of (how the world was at that point). Maybe what they needed is some clumsy words, a presentation that was a little more human."
But Menuck hinted that personal issues between the members also played a part in the decision to split: "On a personal level I now find (Godspeed) to be inappropriate. There's a complicated back story. I reached a point whereby I was no longer willing to contribute to the steering of the ship; it was like, 'Okay now, someone else point the direction, I love you all, but I need to ride shotgun for a while'. I think that bands do have a short shelf life."
Godspeed You Black Emperor formed in 1994 and released six albums and EPs, culminating in 2004's 'Tiny Little Hammers'. Since when they have been on 'indefinite hiatus'.
Quote from: mogwai on February 09, 2008, 09:29:57 AM
nme.com/news
Godspeed You! Black Emperor quit over Iraq
Godspeed You Black Emperor have announced their split.
The Montreal post-rock innovators have called it a day, but not for the reasons of 'musical differences' cited by many retiring bands.
Instead, founder Efrin Menuck declared that the band had become untenable due to "an existential freakout" relating to the Iraq war.
Menuck told Drownedinsound: "The last American tour that Godspeed did was in the run up to the current war in Iraq. For what Godspeed did, it was very difficult for us to work out a way to communicate directly with the audience about what was going on."
He continued: "We could talk to people after the shows, or we could make announcements from the stage, but so much what Godspeed was, was one-way communication, and I had an existential freakout about that, that those tactics aren't valid anymore.
"People didn't need a rock band pointing in the direction of (how the world was at that point). Maybe what they needed is some clumsy words, a presentation that was a little more human."
But Menuck hinted that personal issues between the members also played a part in the decision to split: "On a personal level I now find (Godspeed) to be inappropriate. There's a complicated back story. I reached a point whereby I was no longer willing to contribute to the steering of the ship; it was like, 'Okay now, someone else point the direction, I love you all, but I need to ride shotgun for a while'. I think that bands do have a short shelf life."
Godspeed You Black Emperor formed in 1994 and released six albums and EPs, culminating in 2004's 'Tiny Little Hammers'. Since when they have been on 'indefinite hiatus'.
This is not true by the way...
Quote from: thooor on February 18, 2008, 03:13:22 AMThis is not true by the way...
yeah, i know. but this is true:
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2916951
Following on from Friday's news story about Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Efrim Manuck who was said interviewee, has asked us to post these comments / clarifications on the subject:
"the internet remains a refuge for lazy writing and diminishing conclusions- the statements attributed to me in this 'news piece'
have been pulled out of their original context,
and pasted benath a misleading headline,
in the name of scoring some sort of bullshit 'news exclusive'.
godspeed's interminable silence will continue into the foreseeable future,
but it wasn't the iraq war that made it impossible for us to continue functioning as an active band-
a whole host of internal disagreements and external pressures contributed to us ending our long march together.
there were 9 of us in the band,
and i expect that if you asked each member to summarize the factors that led to our current hiatus,
you would get 9 different answers.
the truth is almost always both complicated and boring,
and can't be articulated via bullet points and pull-quotes,
especially in the hands of charlatans only interested in increasing their banner-ad rates by juicing their page-hit totals..."
yrs.,
efrim
While we are happy to offer Efrim a platform to air his views and thoughts on the subject, Drowned in Sound equally stands by the quotes and comments within the news story and does not feel they've been taken out of context and were a relevant matter to report. Not least given our admiration and interest in Godspeed... something that seems to be replicated by DiS users.
Hopefully, when the full interview is published later this month, all will become clear in a conversation held with Efrim on matters of A Silver Mount Zion and beyond... it was a fascinating, intelligent and engrossing chat, which hopefully you'll enjoy too.
That black dude in your avatar actually looks a bit like you if you were black.
Quote from: thooor on February 19, 2008, 04:01:44 AM
That black dude in your avatar actually looks a bit like you if you were black.
naw, that dude is way too good looking. oh snap!