Experimental/Post rock Appreciation Threa

 

May I ask why drone bands aren't in here? I think its a great genre, and very innovative and exciting, definitely "progressive", IMO and I tihnk if we're gonna throw math rock into post rock, we can surely throw drone rock in there too.

I'll try to do some research, and if we can find enough drone bands that you guys think are prog enough, we can add them in and open up the post rock genre to drone music.

Nothing you will find will disspoint you (hopefully).

It seems like this genre is a hit or miss... either you "get it" and love it to death, or just can't stand it and don't understand what the fuss is.

 

You should ask Philippe if any bands in the krautrock and progressive electronic sub-genres displayed on the site follow that description... If they do, we will have a refreshing angle to look at this issue.

So I talked to my friend who has much more knowledge of drone music than I do, and this is what he said

 

"some really good drone bands, in the realm of drone/ doom or doom metal type stuff are Sunn 0))), Boris and particularly Nadja, who are really amazing.
Sunn 0))) also has two side project type bands called Khanate (which are more noise oriented) and Ginnungagap, who play acoustic doom-- using acoustic guitars, tambouras, and other kind of 'native' droning instruments.
Also Boris & Sunn O))) just released a collaboration album together.

Acid Mother's Temple, a psychedelic band from Japan are really amazing... they have some drone music, like the other cuts on their album in which they play Terry Riley's In C, and songs like "what do i want to know?" are really the epitome of psychedelic drone, but a lot of their stuff is more heavy psych freak out hahaha

mmm... terry riley and la monte young are also considered kind of like the godfathers of drone music-- they are more in the realm of 20th century classical-- and are no where near the intensity of today's doom metal, but are still amazing to check out... as well as Tony Conrad (a friend of The Velvet Underground & Faust)

Some modern drone artists who are very different from the doom oriented stuff are Daniel Menche, who uses alternate sound sources to make his music (like broken glass), Molasses (a side project band of Gy!be, fly pan am, etc...) who sound more like droning, eerie post rock, and also some of David Kristian's less electro oriented work, like Room Tone... whom are all coincidentally on alien 8 records (www.alien8recordings.com), based out of Montreal

there is also a lot of really quite stunning drone driven experimental pop music like Animal Collective and Our Brother the Native, who also have a heavy folk tinge.

I also suggest you check out Folke Rabe-- just because of how subtle and almost completely 'non-musical' his compositions are... like a recording of the hum of a fluorescent light

if you're looking for anyone on myspace either check out Expo '70 (www.myspace.com/exposeventy), who are based out of Missouri, and are good friends with a friend of mine who makes music under the name Cantus Firmus (www.myspace.com/cantusfirmus)... but his music is more psych folk oriented, in the vein of popol vuh-- but is definitely worth hearing.

but i would say out of everyone i've listened-- Nadja, is the epitome of what you're looking for-- they have post rock, ambient, doom and heavy drone elements-- i would check out their only full length 'Truth Becomes Death'... really amazing stuff "

 

I'll try right now to get some more info on some of these bands and websites and such.

but if we stil want to give this drone thing a try... those are some bands he feels worthy of mention.