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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
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Well, it was American Independence Day this week, and most of us had Monday off work to celebrate. We ended up listening to a lot of John Phillip Sousa because he wrote a lot of patriotic songs. If you can get past all the bad marching band performances of his work that you were forced to sit through as a kid, there’s some really great stuff in his repertoire. Many of his pieces have a similar structure to the 4-part chorales Bach used to write. There’s lots of great harmony and melody in there, even if the rhythm of a march is kind of stiff.
Someone suggested Zan* by Liraz and so I gave it a listen and really enjoyed it.
She's an Iranian born Israeli so I didn't understand a word of it, but I generally prefer using my imagination than listening to what lyrics say, unless they're really abstract lyrics. I don't think you can get more abstract than a language you don't understand ;)
After a couple of listens my favourite track is Shab Gerye which gave me a strong Khruangbin vibe.
Indeed the last track on the Liraz set live on KEXP is a cover off Khruangbin's latest album! She looks how I imagine a Persian princess in an Arabian nights story.
* Here's the full playlist for Zan