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Joined: July 27 2010
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 11:48
To all I send this transmission: Sup?
I haven't posted a new band for almost a week because I'm gonna do a big post now featuring two very lovely bands who performed a show yesterday the 27th in the OzenBar- the venue that is owned by Tel Aviv's (possibly best) CD store- The Third Ear (Ozen is ear in Hebrew so that's why the venue's called what it's called).
The first band is undoubtedly the coolest Israeli band today and possibly ever: Kruzenshtern & Parohod!!!!
Look at their beautiful faces!!!!
They are what could be called... Klezmer-hardcore-death-jazz-oriental rock. f**k yeah. Every time they have a show is a sign for mass celebration (the mass being about 50 people...) to rejoice with wonderful experimental music and compliment each other on their T-shirts of some obscure band ("Residents T-Shirt, right on man! *epic freeze frame high five*). They have one of the weirdest most entertaining and hilarious shows around. The band's bassist and main composer Igor Krutogolov (the one on the left) plays like a drunk Russian 5,000 year old dragon being released from its cage.
Observe some epic faces from yesterday's show (sorry for the crappy quality the camera sucks and I'm a terribly photographer):
Epic faces observed? Good!
The band hasn't released any new album since 2004's "Songs" (which is very recommended if you like being a good person), but the band has plenty of new material which it's currently playing in shows. As good as the early first two albums are, the new material sounds GODLY. A lot of the new stuff features much heavier blast beats and funky klezmer and there's not one song where I explode from laughter just from the sheer joyous weirdness. There's one part in the show where Igor rocked too hard (and was probably somewhat drunk) and he just sorta tripped backwards into the crowd (your's truly almost got a bass to the face), and continued playing from the crowd. Eventually when the band went into this weird improv he went into the middle of the crowd, and played this simple groove just over and over. I would've taken a pic but the flash would've completely ruined the epicness. Eventually he just started singing (like he always does) in this eccentric gibberish. It was so hilarious yet so powerful. One of the most memorable moments I had from any gig.
Overall K&P did what they always do. BE. f**kING. AWESOME. Every time they play a show I get excited.
And now some snippets of them (just for you <3) from youtube. Honestly they don't really do justice to how good this gig was, but they're still awesome vids:
This last one is a great quality vid of their joint show with French avant-freak-math-folk rock duo Vialka. That was truly one of the best gigs ever!!!
Enjoy K&P!! Hopefully if you're ever in Israel you'll check them out.
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Posted: October 26 2011 at 02:20
^ Thanks! Very much appreciated. I don't think that hardcore is necessarily polar opposite of prog. Prog can have hardcore elements (check out NoMeansNo to see what I'm talking about) and Prog can have hardcore moments (honestly to many bands I like have these elements. Try Uz Jsme Doma, Cardiacs, Spratleys Japs bla blaa bla). I rather like hardcore myself, only screamo is a bit of turn-off until I heard La Dispute.
Haven't really posted much on these forums yet, but I randomly checked out your blog today and just wanted to say thanks! I've liked all of the bands you've posted so far, especially Three Trapped Tigers. Pretty sure I've heard La Dispute before, but never really took note of them. I'm probably alone on this, but I rather like post-hardcore and even hardcore, though it's one of the genres that is practically the polar opposite of prog.
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Posted: October 23 2011 at 00:20
^ LOL the Israeli Tourism Ministry is going to make me disappear during the night some day. But they deserve it! That city's crap.
PLUS they're building a freaking Star-Trek Theme Park in Aqaba (apparently the king even made a cameo appearance sometime in the 60s), so yeah... Any scuba diving Trekkies?
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Posted: October 22 2011 at 09:56
colorofmoney91 wrote:
I used to listen to Virus a lot, but their new album sounds exactly like the previous 2 and got kind of boring. Their rhythm section is pretty sweet, though.
hm yeah I'm yet to listen to the second album, but listening to the third I can't say I hear much progression, though the tracks are at times more upbeat than anything on "Carheart". I still enjoyed it, I have to give it more listens.
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Posted: October 22 2011 at 08:27
I used to listen to Virus a lot, but their new album sounds exactly like the previous 2 and got kind of boring. Their rhythm section is pretty sweet, though.
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Posted: October 22 2011 at 01:17
Hello to all!
I haven't posted for almost a week now because I was in the southernmost city in Israel: Eilat. It is located in most Northern part of the Red Sea, and ends at the border with Sinai. Scuba diving and sleeping on the beach with the desert wind on your face is always a blast. Also you get to wake up to this:
What you're seeing is Aqaba in Jordan (though the fog and the fact the sun is directly behind the mountains is why you can't see any buildings) and probably somewhere there's also the border with Saudi Arabia. This was around 6 a.m. Not the worst view in the world.
Eilat itself though is really a dreadful city. Disgusting and dirty. So if you ever go to the Red Sea desert, either go to Sinai or to Aqaba or Saudi Arabia. If you want to go to Eilat stay away from the city itself and keep it to the coast line. I'm sorry I just hate that city with a fiery passion.
But anyway back to music!!
So anyway being in the desert for 4 days I had to hear some very desert-y style music. Dry distortion, dissonance, Arab scales. And what country says desert better than... Norway.....
Yep! I'm talking about the most un-black metal Norwegian metal band: Virus
This honestly more or less the only good official picture I could find of the band. It's pretty epic nonetheless.
They've just released a new album which I bought about a month ago and am yet to give it a proper listen. Instead I have been coming back to their masterpiece debut "Carheart" again and again and again until it has finally sunk in. The songs aren't that insanely complex, but have such a creepy atmosphere to them that it keeps attracting you back and listening to every tiny detail. When I finally conquered it I found myself with an album that would stay with me long after every listen.
The band can't be categorized. The only tag I could tag it is "Metal" but that to isn't completely true. It's a unique sound, though it feels almost cozy and recognizable, until it stabs me in the back.
It's almost I guess post-metal I would call it. The heavy and eerie guitar sounds slapped to yo face by Czarl (that's his stage name I suppose) is just as much there at times to build the atmosphere as it is to give the song melody. The fact that his guitar is in drop-C tuning also really, really, adds to the heaviness. The bass by Plenum is what actually drives the songs forward. A lot of spastic lines at times, upbeat at other times keep this album from sinking in complete mellowness. The drumming is so dry... not in a bad way. More like literally dry. Lots of this very tight snare sound, crisp ride cymbals and such.
In the end you have the feeling as if you're a hermit in the middle of the Saharan Desert trying to cope with not completely losing it.
The vocals are also some of the best I've heard. Czarl sound like a freaky biblical prophet, and provides such classic lines such as "my armor is sticky/ with the semen of god"- pretty freaking cool...
Have ye some listens:
Probably my favorite or one of my favorite finds in 2011. I'll probably talk about their new album sometime in the future.
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Posted: October 16 2011 at 11:49
Totally not prog, but I do enjoy this band that hails from my home state. I've been listening to Wildlife on and off for the past few days. Really fantastic considering the screamo post-hardcore label.
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Posted: October 16 2011 at 10:09
'Ello!
So I think whenever my ears come in contact with the word screamo/ post-hardcore my face becomes something similar to a rotten prune on LSD. But once again I have found out that any band and any music style is listenable at least by me if it sounds weird... in a good way.
The band I'm talking about is Michigan's "La Dispute":
Don't they look adorable...........
But hey! Their music's not bad at all! I guess you can call it experimental indie post-hardcore. Prominent bass (always a good thing!), twin guitars, a rather wild drummer, and a vocalist who randomly goes from shrieking to singing. The thing that scares me I guess most about post-hardcore is the lyrics: super whiny I-hate-my-life bla-bla-bla-boom-I-shot-myself. Well I guess the lyrics are sort of very much about suffering and hate and suicide, but I think the thing that makes me like their lyrics so much is that they don't use these general, general, vague, and melodramatic statements. The best example I think is from the best song from the album "King Park", where the vocalist describes a shooting with so much detail, that you more feel like get a complete disturbing image in your head. It makes you shake your head more because you just understand what he's talking about, not because you relate yourself to the situation.
I can't completely explain what's so different about "La Dispute" from other post-hardcore bands I've had the unfortunate fate of listening to. But I think it's their brutal honesty. They feel very real, not polished and poppy and gross. Also there's the technical characteristics, like the math-rockish guitars, and great bass, and the generally different song structures which I think separates them from the average screamo guys...
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Posted: October 14 2011 at 00:49
colorofmoney91 wrote:
I'm digging this Three Trapped TIgers, though I'm not hearing any ambient music on any of these tracks. Great stuff regardless.
I chose the louder songs in general, just because I dig them more. Listen to the LP and you'll see what I mean. It's not full on ambient songs, just these spacious atmospheres and sounds.
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