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On the avant side of things, there's Diamanda Galas:

Some Finnish weird bands:

Circle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vegSHX00B4w

Keuhkot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArnsN67qjY

Sweetheart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isnm09yWi5g

Jimi Tenor & His Shamans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiABca8J_pU

Eleanoora Rosenholm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrgxAbiXrlc

Sielun Veljet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxuNN2xCIJI

500 Kg Lihaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A2ssckJRss

Risto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a_810LiKf4

I stumbled upon this one day... The Idiots of Pennsylvania

https://idiotsofpa.bandcamp.com/

The earlier ones seem to be made of a lot banging on metal and stuff. They don't have any YouTube videos.

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mathman0806 wrote:

On the avant side of things, there's Diamanda Galas:

You beat me! I wanted to suggest her too.

Also:

"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski

progaardvark wrote:

I stumbled upon this one day... The Idiots of Pennsylvania

https://idiotsofpa.bandcamp.com

The earlier ones seem to be made of a lot banging on metal and stuff. They don't have any YouTube videos.

And no search results either other than the Bandcamp page. ;O

Tuzvihar wrote:

Tapfret wrote:

^lol, that falsetto is brutal. From his other videos it seems to be a regular feature.

It's not falsetto. He was a countertenor.

"...In actual practice, it is generally acknowledged that a majority of countertenors sing with a falsetto vocal production for at least the upper half of this range, although most use some form of "chest voice" (akin to the range of their speaking voice) for the lower notes..."

Regardless, in this context, it's pretty brutal.

Bandcamp

^ i saw Diamanda Galas live once. She is very, very strange indeed and on my list!

https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy

progaardvark wrote:

https://idiotsofpa.bandcamp.com/

Those weeks it felt like I was 100 percent ready to enjoy your musical world and have fondly visited your website.

Without surprise I prefer Superluminal Pachyderm to TIOP esp. Incoherent Brain Dump & Unsalted Pants – According to my angle of listening I don't see bogs at all in the music and there are no absurd harmonies but a lot of tension... But it is nice to detect similarities in those early recordings (esp The Cushions Smell like Poop).

Moron talk echoed (like the voice of a very powerful entity in a place where one can hear echoes...), mixed with both fresh and clean sounds, forming twisted harmonies into unsettling atmospheres, are an exciting recipe and IMO your projects should get some KUDOS at least for that reason.

Globally one could compare your style with Zappa's, but your stuff reminded me of no particular FZ piece or from another band except for All The Toilets Of The City, that sounds very close to Elephant Talk and Thela Hun Gingeet, and "It Smells Like Aunt Helen" close to (KCrimson's) Neurotica's

Arrive in neurotica

Through neon heat disease
I swear at the swarming heards
I sweat the foul terrain
I rove the moving scenery

...maybe Zappa's Sy Borg isn't very far. I'm curious about what albums others may compare some of your pieces to.

Clonus (6th The Idiots of Pennsylvania in the list) is not the same style but it sounds very promising.

(...This post gets closer to a review than expected... We'll see)

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Calling music "Weird" implies one doesn't get it... Either there's something to understand and a challenge, or it's a kind of zen koan and there's nonsense to sort of relax to.

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^ My mistake, period... Thanks for the effort of making it all clear.

Edited by jayem - April 08 2018 at 05:50

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Polymorphia wrote:

siLLy puPPy wrote:

I agree with you that that site has low standards of weirdness but i understand the inclusivity factor. Artists can be weird in different ways. I'm including visual appearances as weird such as Gwar even though the music itself isn't that strange. There are a lot of gray areas for sure but i'm not writing a discertation for a PHD, just a list! Thanks for these though, keep em coming :)

I'm just saying that there are entire genres that they and you could include based on what you've included already, which makes for probably a lot of work. But if you're up for it!

Agreed. Like Tuvan throat singing for example! Name a few and the weirdest artistst withing them. I haven't had time to even scour the suggestions on this thread yet but i will when i get the chance. It was basically a list that highlighted the website mentioned with new artists being added as i think of them.

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