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Not to contradict the writer in any way, obviously in popular music this format has largely disappeared. But even so there are lots out there and a ton of diver
by devindotcom 3y ago
Not to contradict the writer in any way, obviously in popular music this format has largely disappeared. But even so there are lots out there and a ton of diversity. Some from recent listening: James Blackshaw, Zoe Keating, Max Ananyev, Mary Lattimore, Anna von Hausswolf, Goldmund.
and of course Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebro, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Jack Rose, RIP.
Individual musical artists have so many more tools now that they can produce a whole song with multiple instruments plus vocals much more easily than 10 years ago, let alone 50. But the trend is still interesting to track.
- Agentlien 3y agoI find it fascinating that despite listening to a lot of music I don't recognise a single name in this list.
- leethargo 3y agoI know Zoe Keating (the cellist) mostly because of her looping setup.
- devindotcom 3y agoI listen to a fair amount too but someone's list from jazz or metal or some corner of classical would be totally unfamiliar to me too. Fortunately it's so easy to search for a name, click a track, and listen for 10 seconds that you can breeze through recommendations super fast. Of course lazy commenters like me don't link to representative tracks... perhaps a task for AI. "Go to top YouTube video for selected text" would probably suffice.
- jzb 3y agoYou might know of Ryuichi Sakamoto from his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra. (Or not, but YMO seems to have more name recognition.) Big recommend for Keating. She doesn’t have a large catalog, but her albums are fantastic. I wish she was more prolific. (I think she’s doing a lot of composing for TV and film.)
- TeaBrain 3y agoHiromi Uehara is a contemporary japanese jazz pianist and composer I'm a fan of. She's released a solid catalogue of 12 studio albums in the last two decades.