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very well presented video, a lot of fun to just sit through and listen to it all.
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I do hope this young genius is recognized in music history! Wow.
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Love it sounded like he was playing a human powered synthesizer!
I ran across this guy’s video yesterday, just downright fun improvisation. These two guys should get together. lol
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I’ve been seeing some of his videos pop up lately. Some of them are surprisingly good. Some aren’t hah! Luck of the draw on a random walk about! It’s an interesting format.
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chock full of history
Worthwhile video essay, focuses quite a lot on musical artists.
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That was an interesting take. I’ve noticed you can’t do anything these days without people suggesting you use it to earn money. No hobby too small to be monetised.
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short watch, really worth while for us audio geeks.
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Also goes with my fascination with the Great grey Owl! Oh, wait this one is slightly different than the one I was thinking of. I will have to find that one and put it here.
I feel like someone flipped a switch to promote and push these guys hardcore. I am so split on it as the music is good but it sounds like theyre just a little bit out of tune or they connected to their amps through a slinky. Im not sure if it helps, hurts, or makes the music.
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A very viral moment. One of those critical mass things I think. I like it a lot, been a while since something actually new happened to popular music.
If you listen to an amount of non western music it is a lot easier to get your ear round. I particularly enjoy sufi inspired music, such as Omar Faruk Tekbilek, and Bhangra for example. The history of the western octave tuning is really interesting and has a lot to do with the physical design of medieval churches. However it is in many ways arbitrary.
I also think their music is very jazz influenced.
Also I recommend the original KEXP performance, because KEXP videos are very cool things:
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One of those things that surprised me when I started trying to understand how none western scales worked, is for the most part the math for the frequencies is all basically the same, they just have more than 12 notes in the octave and in most cases it’s just additional 1/2 notes.
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Octaves seem to resonate ( 
) within our brains, in some organic way. Although even then the concept is not as old as one might expect. So they have become almost universal although, as you say, how we divide them is still up for debate. I read an interview with those polka-dotted dudes and they mentioned Turkish rock as one of the influences for their “microtonal” style.
I have listened to microtonal stuff before though it is usually performed by western artists. Example: https://youtu.be/bvtF2Ie90m0?si=OSmuOhFD3UEez1OM
There is something here i like and dislike. I feel the sound itself is just very thin and sounds like a a toy with a dying battery, or the RNHP when you turn it off with music still going through it.
I also feel others lean more into that middle eastern sound while they kind of put it on top of a rock pallet.
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It has a Devo esque undertone to it if you ask me.
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Fair points, I think it’s much more jazz and punk than I think a lot of people seem to be appreciating, not really bass heavy genres, and just as you say not very middle eastern at all. I do think it is meant to be challenging, uncomfortable, the unusual notes are very in your face. They clearly have a very definite artistic intent going on. Choices like muffling the drums with cloth to reduce reverb and bass, making them punchy and hard, for example, certainly feed into what you are experiencing as a thinness. I can totally see them being very much something one either really enjoys or can totally leave. What’s interesting me most is the fact that their music has enough funk and swing to get people who otherwise would never listen to it to actively engage with it. That and the sheer artistry of their skills. Also I really enjoy their grooves
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