Experimental/Post rock Appreciation Threa

Yea...those videos are crazy....

Check the Russian post-rock band SILENCE KIT - http://www.raig.ru/silencekit.asp

Has anyone heard of Diamanda Galas?

Yeah. That "experimental" in our "experimental/post-rock" genre is very misleading.
Can we change it?

I think it's better that way, without the "experimental rock" part. It can be very misleading as well. A lot of those post-rock bands barely have "rock" in them so people might get the wrong idea of the genre.

BePinkTheater wrote: Has anyone heard of Diamanda Galas?   She's incredible.     I think she is definitely experimental enough to be here in our archives.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Au8qiLEHYc   http://www.diamandagalas.com/

Great artist, deeply enjoy her works. A little while back we voted for her in the RIO/avant-prog team. From memory most of us voted prog-related, so I definitely think that is the section for her works.

So there's a Bell Orchestre review. 

Crookt, Cracky or Fly (1994)

Crookt, Crackt Or Fly is Gastr Del Sol's nightmarish creation, entirely of too upside0down moments which are either shallowly understood or to abnegate, in an act of frustration over bits of thing that speak incoherence. An album with full minutes of not saying anything but the character of wannabe artizans. Don't get in an alert state, something moves in a serious talk.

Firstly, it happens again that a debut is more nice and more interesting then the visibly more mature continuation creation (again, because the same thing I experienced over at Explosions). So Serpentine Similar has some real value, while C,C&F has much real hazard. Also the impression that the two are stylistically matching isn't vague - but real! Only that C,C&F is dead serious about the crimbled technique, while the debut suceeded in soft, but no that sloppy tasty coldness.

Secondly, C,C&F wastes enourmously on artificiality, with bonus music savor. There's rough eccentricity in every pinch of pinched pinching pinches and there are low funs in cluelss amorphous intentions. Structure in part which have their own shattering fractures, little is the acceptance of insensitive playing on levels of definitory modesty. Ugly! why do I have to say that word out loud?

Thirdly, "Efrim, sing to us!"

Fourthly, GDS musicians playlike they would burn schrapnel in a frying pan or they would like to sound integrally like burning schrapnel in a frying pan recorded on tape - as: stretchy guitar number 1, moody guitar number 2, picks and chops, melody in broken bitterness, polyphony of absent concept, text of hieroglyphic letters, a sign that you're really disturbed and want to spread panic minutes from the proper source. There are some dynamics included in the noisy package, even a rock dignity energy kick down the finale epic, but what else it to talk about when the style pays the pretentiousness price in itself?

N-dly, complements on GDS playing pure/purest intended experimental. But really of soothenings? Don't think so.

Loud voom. Not. Not at all!

Mirror Repair EP (1995)

In Mirror Repair EP, if you have the complete looks of GDS, you realize two fundamental things; the style has gone completely experimental and abstract droning; and; the style will only be experimental and abstract droning (meaning they're on one bandwith - several interpretation).

If you take this EP by the first or rookie impression, it's not such a bad choice. Liked some good moments and found the general mood as prime quality. And all that concisely and shortly. A surprise?

Yes, good to have this among your fuzed-up collection and deadly necesarry if you are a Gastr addicted.

Simplicity in really un-estimated words, hint of that rigorousity that wants you under control. more or less lowered glitch sounds and eruptions of short mood, technical ability, experimental virtuosity.

Not much, but that's what you always mean when you're actually pleased, but have to stick with limits: Gastr still noisy and cluttered, ideas still in a cliffhanger of obscurity, sadeness as a mono-color, the constant temptation of being themselves, but for themselves instead of for us.

Harp Factory On Lake Street EP (1995)

totally dismissable.

17 minutes! imagine that.

mild improvisation of nuances collages. orchestral, bangs, dissipations, disparations, minimal insanity, low profile. What's the point.

17 minutes. With four disappointing silent moments edit, that's 14 minutes. two parts of syrous smothering, 10 minutes. less tutti, 6 minutes. one more illusory part easily taken out, 2 minutes. Two minutes of good stuff.

'Nuff said?
No!
Actually yeah, nuff said.

I'll skip Upgrade & Afterlife. I need to listen to it a few more times otherwise I'm fooling myself (and you, who read my lines), in an appreciation.
I can tell that it's my nomination for Gastr Del Sol's best made album.

Camofleur (1998)

I would postpone Camofleur too, but I got some clear ideas already and alright.

The first sense of change in six entire GDS albums. Given that it is "2006 past 1998", it's a sad, sad, sad thing that it didn't progress even more. Anyway both the case that the roughness gets distilled with some flavor and that the new passion doesn't recognize less the tasty effects of grobian tones are unused.

I think I've read somewhere the tag "pop". Perhaps easy that uncomforts you would be best applied.

Talking sense into music, GDS are not far from GDS-like architects, but consider greatly a twist of faith in some emotions other than an un-synchonized heartbeat, taking melody in a sweetened inegality and doing some thematic mixes while on the "sounding good, feeling good, being of a caliber" issue.

Heavy work that species light. Prominent feature of GDS since it's no longer a wrapped sting in the face of a balanced view: experimental but also clarity.

(Yes, chamberry, give it a well-deserved try, but don't expect really stupendous things).

GDS in melodical experimental rockish genreless style. Last chance afterall, final choice.


Edited by Ricochet - December 18 2006 at 00:58

^ Yeah, that was me.

I listened to Kammerflimmer Kollektief on myspace some time ago, and really liked it (much due to their unpredictability, something that is often lacking in this genre) ! They're on the post-rock chart but only have my vote (yes) so far.

^ I heard some Rumah Sakit a few months ago (don't remember how or where though ) I seem to recall that it was rather math-rock-ish, but I could be mistaken though.

Just heard a sample off the new Explosions in the Sky album, it seems no real progress has happened. The sound is rather similar to their other works, which is not a bad thing per se, but I was hoping that they would do something more "out of the norm" this time. Oh well, it's better not to judge until I've heard the full album.