WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[dannobasso]

Big Wreck, Devin Townsend and my own music to be released this year.
https://youtu.be/zisyWP5U6Po

 
https://youtu.be/mdhUvQdxHH8

[peoplechipper]

Cool! I met Devin maybe ten years ago with my friend Geoff; he used to manage a rehearsal studio where Strapping Young Lad played...so we're on our way to the bar after work and come across Devin sitting on a rock in a vacant lot about 2 blocks from that space; he was just watching the world go by i guess (a busy intersection) and he seemed to have no good story for being there other than to watch man/Ants at work...a funny meeting but even in that short interaction you could tell he was odd in a fun way...Tony.

[edwardofhuncote]

One of the advantages that comes from running around playing music with my friends' kids (Mom swears I'm trying to get waived into Gen Y) is being exposed to music I would not have discovered independently.  
 
So lately, singer/songwriter Raina Rose came up in our band's Friday night creative circle... here's a tune from a collaborative album I found to be just irresistible. Especially the bass line. =)
 
http://youtu.be/t9W5EOLolM4

[sonicus]

Nice tune, I like her voice.

[sonicus]

I am currently very interested in this unique group !  
FAUN , Beautiful music !  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVZ49y99AJI

[David Houck]

I've been listening to the other side of Devin Townsend.  Devin Townsend Project - Ghost 'By a Thread'

[cozmik_cowboy]

Well, Wolf, I have no idea what they're singing, but it sounds great!
 
Peter

[sonicus]

Dave , I like the Devin Townsend link , Thanks .  
 
 Peter, I am glad that you like  FAUN , I will try to find some of their work in English, and Instrumental  work and post it .  
 
Wolf

[peoplechipper]

Just came home from watching Faith No More; great show with amazing sound...my friend who I went with asked me how they write and arrange those songs; i told him I had no idea as I don't have the knowledge of all those styles of music, let alone how to make them mesh...truly amazing...Tony

[sonicus]

As I promised , With English translation ; Here is FAUN ,  This Cold Night
Faun-Diese Kalte Nacht (with lyrics and English translation)  
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0uN3REgIRk

[jacko]

Steve Gadd . 70 strong. featuring all of James Taylor's backing band including our very own Jimmy Johnson. Great stuff - mostly jazz and JJ gets a writing credit for a very nice tune.

[sonicus]

Eluveitie - Brictom  
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcGYY_T5-_E
 
I am enjoying exploring new musical escapades and influences for new possible projects and sounds. Life can be a continuous musical class room .

[David Houck]

Life can be a continuous musical class room.
 
I've noticed that as well.
 
   
 
Here's the classroom lesson I was studying a few nights ago:  Dream Theater's Illumination Theory, live with chorus and pit orchestra.  Very nice integration of the band with chorus and orchestra.  Maybe I was just in a more receptive frame of mind, but this seemed to me to work a lot better than a lot of other similar attempts to add orchestra to rock bands.

[sonicus]

Dave , The link that  you provided was interesting.
 
If you liked that , then EPICA , a Female fronted Symphonic Metal band is quite awesome in my opinion.___ She sings quite well ! I like it.  
 
EPICA - Unleashed (OFFICIAL LIVE)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxd6sxLxdys
 
My taste to what I listen to and would be willing to play and perform in keeps growing . What EPICA is doing and playing looks like fun .  The fact is that there is $$$$ to be made  in Symphonic Metal .  
 
(Message edited by sonicus on April 21, 2015)

[David Houck]

Wolf; that's kind of an interesting thought, and I started writing a long response, and then deleted the whole thing.
 
Your last post started with If you liked that.  What's interesting is I've been sitting here for a while now trying to figure out what like means.
 
I'll say this about Dream Theater as an example; I greatly appreciate their writing and musicianship (instrumentally; I have no idea what the lyrics are), and for that reason I tend to listen to them every once in a while (I don't listen to anyone often; well, I suppose I listen to Phil Lesh relatively often).
 
But I don't think I have any kind of emotional connection to Dream Theater's music, just a lot of respect.  And again, I'm just using them as an example.
 
So, in response to your query, if I liked it, well, let's just say I appreciated it.
 
I'm going to have to think for a while as to what like means.
 
As a starting point, apparently I like this: Chopin - Fantasie Impromptu - Valentina Igoshina.