More avant rock/jazzish shit. I need some.

[voerking]

Well, Voerking should have the answer then, according to my questionable inferences.

WHERE IS THE SOURCE?! WHO FOUND OUT THAT YOU COULD PLAY FAST AND TECHNICAL, WHILE STILL BEING ATONAL AND FUN?!

ha. i don't know. i joined Yowie 5 years ago. before that, i was in this band (with the bassist of the aforementioned Dazzling Killmen).
http://youtu.be/-O3_fsFz9ZM?list=PLDFOl ... RpkHh3aznA

[Eivind August]

Looking forward to new Yowie jams. Will check out Grand Ulena as well.

[D.o.S.]

Hey yeah that's a pretty rad band you're in brah.

[voerking]

actually, this thread made me realize that i've never actually heard Tera Melos. any recommendations of where to start?
i've seen that Nick dude in various gear videos, but i have no idea what that band sounds like!

[backwardsvoyager]

actually, this thread made me realize that i've never actually heard Tera Melos. any recommendations of where to start?
i've seen that Nick dude in various gear videos, but i have no idea what that band sounds like!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB39MPJFSfM[/youtube]

i'd do it chronologically starting with the untitled album, their newer stuff isn't bad but it's way different, considering your musical background i don't think you'd enjoy it as much as the earlier material (vince rogers is an amazing drummer).

[kbit]

Personally I think Drugs to the Dear Youth is the gem of their earlier material if you dont wanna go through their whole thing chronologically. & i think Patagonian Rats bridges their catchy and weird sides the best.

[voerking]

WHERE IS THE SOURCE?!

i've been thinking about this a bit. Grand Ulena started practicing around 98 or so. our touchstones were the No Wave bands (DNA, Mars, Contortions, etc), the 'punk jazz' from around 79/80 (James Blood Ulmer, Ornette's Primetime), the furthest reaches of prog (Univers Zero, 73/74 King Crimson, Art Bears) and various other things like This Heat, Massacre, and Beefheart (we had an instrumental mix of 'Lick My Decals' that was particularly influential). also, i was a HUGE fan of Dazzling Killmen (our bassists old band that played a very rigid form of prog influenced hardcore) so that probably factored into it a bit. current bands at that time didn't really enter into it much (although at the time, our drummer & shared a love of the first wave of Norwegian black metal, as well as frantic weird stuff like Crom Tech & Melt-Banana).
i think, for us at least, our music was a product of our relative isolation (pre-internet Missouri), deep listening, as well as our willingness to let things develop at their own pace until we figured out what it was that we were doing (we practiced for 2 years before we ever played a show).
I know Yowie had a relatively similar trajectory (for a while the drummer's previous band practiced in a room down the hall from us!).
a few years into it, we considered bands like the Flying Luttenbachers, Orthrelm, and Zs our friends & contemporaries. I was never particularly fond of the clean/tappy style of math rock that started to pop up around the same time.
so...that's the long answer. i think the short version is still "i don't know"

[D.o.S.]

yo I hope you post more friend I missed your contributions.

[Chankgeez]

This probably ain't what you're listenin' for, but it's what I'm listenin' to right now:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjfCsBS3GyM[/youtube]

[Eivind August]

Voerking: Thanks for the thorough reply! So many great bands mentioned. And some I'll need to check out.

I don't think there's a source, btw. Just the possibility within music/sound to play like this or that. Edit: that might be one of my most trivial deductions yet. Off to sleep!

[Chankgeez]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRbZLfrGrV0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX9bWhjTKK0[/youtube]

[RitalinCupcake]

This probably ain't what you're listenin' for, but it's what I'm listenin' to right now:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjfCsBS3GyM[/youtube]

I'm loving this.

[Chankgeez]

Nice. Yeah, they were an amazing band:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRTXkvNNjck[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCHPg3VBhLM[/youtube]

Also, for some reason, they're making me think of this band:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Hia3i3yBw[/youtube]

[Blackened Soul]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7D2Cl46o5Y[/youtube]

They became these guys

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XumI-JFvh7A[/youtube]

[PeteeBee]

#shamelessselfpromotion

uh...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJxd_Lu8VPA[/youtube]

Also, holy fuck dude your band rules.
What kind of bass is that?

thanks! it's a weird guitar/bass hybrid that was custom made by a guy who works at Sadowsky (while moonlighting on the side). i'm pretty sure it's a one-off.
we're about to record a new album (with this song on it).

Yeah... this is really tight. Really really really digging it.