Currently Listening To...

[Kuridamo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dptgO6VzT58

[TeslaGuy]

Towa Tei - WORDY

[Superficial Fan]

Frankie Ruiz - Quiero Llenarto

Well, it is what I'm listening to, whether it wins me any points around here.

Kuridamo, if you want to embed youtube videos, there is a guide on how to do it on the first page of posts in this thread.

[Carlx]

^ Actually, I don't think salsa is totally unrelated to the Shiina Ringo's musical surroundings — I find awesome the way she manages to put some salsa (or other latin vibes) in songs such as Omatsuri Sawagi or Ringo no Uta solo version, making it flow so naturally.

[deadgrandma]

PJ Harvey- Long Snake Moan

Busted out an absolute classic today. Feels good man.

I still think To Bring You My Love is the album to put on when you can't decide which Polly album to listen to, it covers everything great about her in a neat 10 track package. Not my absolute favourite, but it still stops me in my tracks every time I listen to it.

[Superficial Fan]

Originally Posted by Carlx

^ Actually, I don't think salsa is totally unrelated to the Shiina Ringo's musical surroundings — I find awesome the way she manages to put some salsa (or other latin vibes) in songs such as Omatsuri Sawagi or Ringo no Uta solo version, making it flow so naturally.

It's hard to find anything totally unrelated. Usually when I post salsa I pick things from the harder side of it, which is what I would expect to be received best here, but also the type of salsa I listen to the most. So partly I was just acknowledging this particular song is on the sentimental side. "Omatsuri Sawagi" is great rhythmically (and otherwise). "Ringo No Uta" sounds to me like it has an underlying bolero rhythm, at least at times, or something close to it.

[Tokyo Jihad]

I know a guy like me should just nip these thoughts in the bud, but how cool would it be if Shiina Ringo grew into an artist again and stepped towards the avant-garde again? How cool would it be if she made a post-rock influenced freak out track? Imagine:

...meets...

...meets Shouso Strip. That would be such killer music. I think a mortuary or Yoko Ono needs to solicit Shiina Ringo to make a song; seems to be the only way these days.

[Tokyo Jihad]

Basically, she needs some drugs.

[Carlx]

^ But Shiina Ringo's music has never really been a work of expansive experimentation or communication (the closer to this I can remember is the Shuukyou-Souretsu dichotomy), it has mainly been condensed, manifiest energy. At least to my ears (and mind, right now, still a bit muddled up after a session of Dynamite Out).


Currently listening to:

Spinetta Jade - Ludmila

[Tokyo Jihad]

But neither were The Flaming Lips before 2008 (using Shiina Ringo as a baseline, I really wouldn't say prime-Ringo and them were in separate leagues.) And on KZK, she got pretty darn close to something like "Worm Mountain" I embedded.
It only takes a tiny spark for an artist to try something new, see the transformation from Shouso Strip to KZK, and then try to factor in releases in between. Hence my specification for an "artistic" condition above, however.