Randomly stumbled in here from all, but I’ve been listening to SnugglyBun recently! She’s a very obscure chip tune artist and also a member of the fediverse community!
Breakcore has been hyperactive recently. 20 new absolute bangers probably dropped in the time it took you to read this.
I’ve been looking for a particular type of jazz for years, but I don’t know how to explain it. Which makes finding it pretty much impossible.
If it’s not dark jazz that you meant, chuck a few examples here, we’ll figure out what it is.
The closest to examples I can give is probably years ago I had a cassette of a folk/jazz fusion by the Red Army.
That sounds intriguing. Would Nino Katamadze work?
The vocals are a bit overwrought for my tastes, but I like the guitar. Sounds like something I’d write if I tried to “sound jazzy”.
Another piece of the puzzle that might (?) make things clearer: I recently got into electro swing. I like bits and pieces from a lot of subgenres, but I can’t explain what subgenre my tastes would fall into. Maybe there isn’t one.
Is it noir jazz/dark jazz?
Did you just pluck that out of thin air? Haha. I do like the “lighter” end of dark jazz, though.
I have a whole template prepared with recommendations in this genre.
Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation
Compilations on Signora Ward Records (the label mostly releases industrial-noise, but has a bunch of these comps)
John Lurie’s soundtrack from ‘Down By Law’ plus ‘Variety’
Masonik’s ‘Solomon’s Shadow - The Five Framed’
Pram’s ‘Beluga’ and ‘In Dreams You Too Can Fly’
Metamorphosis Jazz Band’s ‘Godot - The Fragrance of Dark Coffee’ (from ‘Phoenix Wright Jazz: Gyakuten Meets Jazz Soul’)
Some of the soundtrack for ‘Cowboy Bebop’
Dave Ball and Genesis P-Orridge’s ‘Main Theme »Finale«’ (from the soundtrack for ‘Decoder’)
Jared Emerson-Johnson’s ‘Quiet On The Set’ and ‘The Office (Dream Version)’ (from ‘Sam & Max Season One: Save the World’)
Robert Wyatt’s ‘September The Ninth’
Trevor Duncan’s ‘Eastside Story’
Dirty Beaches’ ‘Landscapes In The Mist’
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and Bohren & Der Club of Gore — they’re not my cup of tea, but popular otherwise and may fit your taste.
Also the soundtracks for ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Lost Highway’, they’re quite atmospheric. And some of ‘Twin Peaks’ 2017 Cast Mixtape.
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Just popped into my mind. I’d have difficulty describing it.
You can also try seeing if this Telegram group has anything about ‘E:\music\dark jazz’, which is a community that regularly posts music in that genre in local social networks. At the least, there’s this tag search (perusable via the browser and without registration).
Or see the Spotify playlist from the same people.
https://neonnoone.bandcamp.com/
His mailing list is fantastic if you are at all into dark jazz/noir jazz/jazzwave. He focuses on other bands in the same genre, gives away codes for such albums, etc I’d say it’s incredibly niche, except it’s just another subgenre/subsubgenre, which are all incredibly niche. :)
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All is very quiet for me atm - I listen to music in bouts, and now is not one of those phases. If there was any recent discovery, it probably came from this com. If I like something I comment.
I’m always looking for good music, but it’s not like I don’t have enough.
I’m enjoying Dolven on bandcamp.
