Music

Ulver is underrated as hell. They started as a black metal band and expanded to soundtracks and retro synth heavy tunes. Super expressive and progressive band.

If the above iframe doesn't work, that's fine. I just wanted to try something 😄

Bandcamp Fridays—on which we waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels...

Damn, this is sad news. Considering how great voice he still has, I thought his health was in a similar condition. Then again, he is 75. I never got to see The Voice of Rock live.

Buckethead - Pike 151 - Fog Garden [Rock Instrumental]

A thirty-one-minute pike with four-tracks. It's mostly rock that gets heavier as it goes along.

The first track is experimental rock with high distortion guitar and an alternative percussion style. The second drops the distortion for a solo-style guitar.

The last two tracks get a bit heavier and feature a more mainstream sound with crazy solos. These two tracks were the pearl and they go by so quick.

The next Bandcamp Friday is coming up and I like to look for new and interesting bands. Would love to hear about lemming artists, or even some favorites I've probably never heard of.

To add to the discussion, here are a few of my favs:

• Sincere Engineer Found them on a random fluke and they quickly became a new favorite. Garage band style with just a great sound. A bit moody, but still high energy with really satisfying lyrics. They've got a new album that I plan to pick up myself.

• Gunship Fairly well known, I think, but I picked up Unicorn shortly after it was released and listen to it front to back regularly. One of the few synthwave albums I actually enjoy. The ripping sax solos on pretty much every track certainly help.

• aivi & surasshu A married duo that is probably most well known for their work on Steven Universe (that's how I found out about them). Their most recent album Meanwhile is such a wonderful mix of digital and acoustic. Very soothing melodies without lyrics. It always puts me in a pleasant mood.

Our continent has a long tradition of preserving and sharing knowledge through oral literature—songs, proverbs, and legends. During the colonial era, foreign researchers, institutions and labels recorded African musical heritage and took them away. Today, many of these sound recordings remain caged in museums abroad or locked behind academic paywalls, accessible only to researchers and those who can afford them.

To access the 14,000 recordings held by the African Music Archive, for example, you still need to travel to Mainz, Germany. Meanwhile, the International Library of African Music (ILAM), founded in South Africa in 1954 by ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey, has only recently begun digitizing parts of its vast collection and making them available online.

The question remains: who gets to access African cultural memory?

Kenyan sound artist KMRU explored this question in his 2023 album Temporary Stored. Blending sound synthesizers, field recordings, and archival recordings from the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium, the project liberates these stolen sounds from the colonial archive.

Today, African creatives and organizations are increasingly taking music preservation into their own hands. Empowered with digital technology, recording equipment, and online platforms, they are documenting traditional music, digitizing historical recordings, and creating new archives that are finally accessible to African audiences. Why does accessibility matter? Because preservation without access is still exclusion. Accessible archives help us reclaim culture, challenge colonial interpretations, and ensure African artists are the ones telling their own stories.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/49166962

I didnt realise I hadnt heard a live version of this before...

The whole gig is a great listen being the first US gig for 18 months, just before physical graffitti's release - the track select primarily is from IV/HOH/PG (No ultra long Dazed and Confused)

Buckethead - Pike 235 - Oneiric Pool [Rock Instrumental]

A twenty-nine-minute, single-song in seven-tracks. It builds from a softer rock into a harder rock as it goes along.

I thought it to be a very enjoyable song despite it being lighter than I usually prefer. Very nice melody and arrangement. What it lacked in heavy it made up for with quality. There's a lot of emotion behind this piece and it comes through.

one of my favourite hardcore bands in high school. honestly it still holds up. :3

I made this album(available only by torrent)! It’s my first full project and was hoping you guys would give it a listen! I also have a README included explaining everything about it.

Buckethead - The Cellar Yawns [Rock/Metal Instrumental]

This is the title track (track four) from Pike 154 - The Cellar Yawns. A ten-minute ultra-aggressive, metal-laden masterpiece.

The rest of the pike was more of a soft to hard rock blend that I did not enjoy as much as this song. It has that 'The Boiling Pond (Pike 016)' angry sternness about it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/45597380

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/45597333

I've put a YouTube link in the URL with a timestamp. The song in question has lyrics talking about "[inheriting a] troubled land" or something like that. It's clearly a sampling of some recording. When I first put this into a search engine, I got religious results. Now I don't get anything. Does anyone know what the lyrics mean?