Feeling sick of listening to the same half-whispered, slurred English singers who pronounce every ‘s’ as ‘sh’? Are you looking to expand your musical horizons to the extent that you can find yourself in another universe? Take a look at these different music genres, drop the idea that ‘current’ and ‘new’ means ‘good’, and you very well might just find your latest old jam.
Lots of people really hate “Prog rock”. Those who love prog will frequently argue that any kind of hatred directed at bands like ‘Emerson, Lake and Palmer’ or ‘Yes’ must derive from ignorance; you just don’t get it losers The elitism and the apologetic embrace of intellectualism can put off the uninitiated, in exactly the same way that the bar-destroying, bad-mouthed and saliva-soaked masses of awkward teenagers have been a turn-off to punk for many.
Is there a barrier to entry into the ‘Zeuhl’ sub-genre of Prog? The avant-garde musician and writer Dominique Leone summed it up quite well: ‘Zeuhl’ is about “what you’d normally expect an alien rock opera to sound like”. You’re human, how could you possibly ‘get’ that?
Originally from France in the late 1960s, Zeuhl translates to “heavenly” in the language of “Kobaïan”, a “foreign” language that was created by Christian Vander, a drummer in the band “Magma”. The musical vibratory qualities certainly induce a sense of alienness (or maybe it should be the world) together with a sense of magnificence that reflects the boundlessness of the universe … or something like that. Cosmic. Stay tuned for more different music genres.
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