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siLLy puPPy wrote: 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.

I'm late getting back because I'm lazy, but if you just survey free improvisation, you'll find an intimidating amount of artists that would flood the lists:

Polymorphia wrote: siLLy puPPy wrote: 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.  I'm late getting back because I'm lazy, but if you just survey free improvisation, you'll find an intimidating amount of artists that would flood the lists: This isn't even close to the tip of the iceberg. There are other users here who know more about it than I.  One genuinely bonkers project that I had forgotten to mention is Esmectatons, which is spearheaded by our very own VOTOMS: https://esmectatons.bandcamp.com

Simon, Alvin and Theodore   

Hey, I noticed you had the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players on your weird RYM list. I was friends with Jason Trachtenburg in junior high and high school in Philadelphia back in the 1980s. He was a big fan of the Beatles. In fact his solo album "Revolutions per Minute" was very Beatles-influenced. He was a very quirky fellow, always made me laugh, and saw things in ways most people would never imagine. After school he went to NYC and I think did a lot of beat poet readings or something, and met his wife there. They moved out to the Seattle area and ran a dog-walking business on the side while also performing and recording music. I think the last I heard, they were back in NYC, but I haven't exchanged e-mails with him for several years now. 

I've tried again and again to write essay length lists of free improvisation artists and why I think they might be eligible for inclusion, but I keep forgetting to copy it before captcha obliterates it all. Not sure it's even worth posting at this point. This post alone has taken several tries.

Tom Ozric wrote: Simon, Alvin and Theodore

^ i love Middle Eastern fusion music. Will check that one out! Thanks :)

^ Yeah, some pretty weird (and very cool) stuff comes out of Japan. A very creative culture.