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Dec. 17th, 2004 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kamomili've been buying some new music lately, following the leads supplied by CBC Radio One (in between all the fine current affairs programming) and the reviews in Eye magazine. I have discovered a used CD store that I like, which should facilitate this process.
I got, new, because I didn't know where to get it, Stefie Shock's Le Decor. I very much enjoy it despite the extensive use of keyboards. Quebec pop music seems to use the exact keyboard sounds I tend to avoid. Apparently Stefie is a big Serge Gainsbourg fan and emulates him to a certain extent. However I have no idea who Gainsbourg is except that his daughter was in my Toronto Life magazine. I have played it at work and the consensus is that it is certainly 60s influenced, some of it, with it's loungey, Sergio Mendes sound, Austin Powers feel for those of you who find that reference a little quicker. Some of it is very housey, and 80s electro-pop influenced. Hmmm. Altogether he does a nice album, with his low Leonard Cohen/Gary Numan voice.
I just listened once to a Manitoba/Dan Snaith album and I am enthralled. He plays keyboards, little noisemakey xylophone devices and all manner of sampling/protoolsing action, and some type of noisemaking that he did on the CBC Radio 3 compliation album... well not that one but another CBC one. It's supposedly trance music, I expected it anyhow to be more doot sis doot sis, but it's kind of guitary with breakbeats provided periodically by vinyl or however. And the xylophoney piece kind of reminds you of maybe gamelan or little raindrops falling, but it's certainly not cookie-cutter electronic music. Overall I have a gentle impression from the music, it's good for winding down; not aggressive in any way. Perhaps the person who reviewed it was into beats house type music, and identified with that part of it, but I enjoy breakbeat rhythms in music as well, but they're one of many many ingredients that go into his music. Manitoba's album is called Up In Flames and it got multiple mentions by CBC Radio One. It it up there with Broken Social Scene's Feel Good Lost, and watching my cat sleep, for feelgood experiences.
I got, new, because I didn't know where to get it, Stefie Shock's Le Decor. I very much enjoy it despite the extensive use of keyboards. Quebec pop music seems to use the exact keyboard sounds I tend to avoid. Apparently Stefie is a big Serge Gainsbourg fan and emulates him to a certain extent. However I have no idea who Gainsbourg is except that his daughter was in my Toronto Life magazine. I have played it at work and the consensus is that it is certainly 60s influenced, some of it, with it's loungey, Sergio Mendes sound, Austin Powers feel for those of you who find that reference a little quicker. Some of it is very housey, and 80s electro-pop influenced. Hmmm. Altogether he does a nice album, with his low Leonard Cohen/Gary Numan voice.
I just listened once to a Manitoba/Dan Snaith album and I am enthralled. He plays keyboards, little noisemakey xylophone devices and all manner of sampling/protoolsing action, and some type of noisemaking that he did on the CBC Radio 3 compliation album... well not that one but another CBC one. It's supposedly trance music, I expected it anyhow to be more doot sis doot sis, but it's kind of guitary with breakbeats provided periodically by vinyl or however. And the xylophoney piece kind of reminds you of maybe gamelan or little raindrops falling, but it's certainly not cookie-cutter electronic music. Overall I have a gentle impression from the music, it's good for winding down; not aggressive in any way. Perhaps the person who reviewed it was into beats house type music, and identified with that part of it, but I enjoy breakbeat rhythms in music as well, but they're one of many many ingredients that go into his music. Manitoba's album is called Up In Flames and it got multiple mentions by CBC Radio One. It it up there with Broken Social Scene's Feel Good Lost, and watching my cat sleep, for feelgood experiences.
