Currently Listening to

[Ulrich]

We won't get to anywhere, darling
Anytime this year
We won't get to anywhere, darling
Unless I dream you there

We won't get to Albuquerque
Anytime this year

[SueC]

This song is so utterly applicable it has never gone out of date.

[Pongo]

Swedish instrumentalist Christian Gabel. He's also the drummer in bob hund, in my opinion the best band from Sweden.

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[Ulrich]

"There are some people trying to find out who
There are some people trying to find out why
There are some people who aren't trying to find anything
But that kingdom in the sky..."

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No problem, if it can't be "embedded", just share the link, that's totally ok.

[Pongo]

That new Nick Cave album is excellent. He is just getting better and better, I think.

[Ulrich]

That new Nick Cave album is excellent.

I like it a lot. First time I listened to "Hand of God" in my car, it kinda blew me away!

What I heard from "Ghosteen" though, was okay, but I didn't like it enough to buy it.

[Pongo]

What I heard from "Ghosteen" though, was okay, but I didn't like it enough to buy it.

I bought it on Spotify
It's a bit difficult and requires close listening, not good for just background music. Growing on me every time I listen to it.

[Ulrich]

(No lyrics this time, instrumental track...)

It's a bit difficult and requires close listening, not good for just background music.

Well the music I heard was "nice", but I missed "songs", it was more like "reciting poetry". But never mind my "problems" with it - if you like it, do listen to it!
(N. Cave is so productive, I can't buy it all...)

[Pongo]

Well the music I heard was "nice", but I missed "songs", it was more like "reciting poetry". But never mind my "problems" with it - if you like it, do listen to it!
(N. Cave is so productive, I can't buy it all...)

I think that's what I found interesting. Poetry with a soundscape, or something. I played it to my son, who is studying music making, and he concluded that it hardly qualifies as music. I beg to differ. Music does not have to abide by the rules to be music.
I promise, I will listen to whatever I like

I do like the Barabara Manning song. Thanks.

Here's today's song:

[Ulrich]

I think that's what I found interesting. Poetry with a soundscape, or something.

Then you might like Marianne Faithfull's latest album (also with Warren Ellis in the role of the "soundscapist"!):

[SueC]

Well the music I heard was "nice", but I missed "songs", it was more like "reciting poetry". But never mind my "problems" with it - if you like it, do listen to it!
(N. Cave is so productive, I can't buy it all...)

I think that's what I found interesting. Poetry with a soundscape, or something. I played it to my son, who is studying music making, and he concluded that it hardly qualifies as music. I beg to differ. Music does not have to abide by the rules to be music.
I promise, I will listen to whatever I like

That so reminds me of something I heard on the Radio National music show this week. A composer by the name of R. Murray Schafer died recently, and they did a bit of a feature on him, including an interview from 20 years ago in which he talked about exactly that - that modern music is full of these rules and preconceived ideas about what music should be like, and he strongly disagreed with this approach. I really enjoyed that interview; it's in the section at starting at 39:00 here: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/musicshow/villagers-r-murray-schafer/13507302

Here's more on this composer: https://www.cbc.ca/music/r-murray-schafer-composer-writer-and-acoustic-ecologist-has-died-at-88-1.5404868

I'm currently listening to podcasts and ABC Radio National - and the Schafer interview was the highlight in a sea of interesting stuff.

[Pongo]

Then you might like Marianne Faithfull's latest album (also with Warren Ellis in the role of the "soundscapist"!):

That sounds very likely. Thanks for the tip. There are plenty of gems in MF's back catalogue and she mostly chooses to work with interesting and talented people. The film soundtracks Ellis and Cave have made together are also appealing to me. They have a similar haunting tonality to what is very present elsewhere in the Nick Cave universe of music.

[Ulrich]

The film soundtracks Ellis and Cave have made together are also appealing to me. They have a similar haunting tonality to what is very present elsewhere in the Nick Cave universe of music.

Yeah, I heard/saw some of them (e.g. "The Road") - seemed to me their music for "Wind River" echoed some "themes" used on "Skeleton tree".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnj50QiI4bg

[Pongo]

...that modern music is full of these rules and preconceived ideas about what music should be like, and he strongly disagreed with this approach.

This is such a big topic and one that I could discuss a great deal. Will take a listen. As with every other form of art, it's when you are breaking with conventions that you are, at least considered to be, groundbreaking and really interesting. I'm not sure it's possible to think of a world where there are no rules and ideas about what music should be like. But I do agree that it's maybe too much of that in what we call modern music. Don't get wrong, even though I like the truly artistic, I can lose myself to the beat and the melody of a well crafted formulaic pop song. I'll be back on the subject

[Pongo]

Yeah, I heard/saw some of them (e.g. "The Road") - seemed to me their music for "Wind River" echoed some "themes" used on "Skeleton tree".

Agree. They even used music from "Wind River" as intro music on the "Skeleton Tree" tour.