Are you discovering new music?


Hi 

What I see here in common everyone discovers new releases of the known stuff, but no one here reports any new artists or any new unknown and obscure artists.

Yesterday I've discovered Thirsty Moon german prog band of early 70's and I was wondering how dafuk could I live without knowing this magnificent band that released only 5 albums and all 5 are extremely desirable. Prior to that, I've discovered Ryo Fukui -- an incredible Japanese jazz-rock artist of 70's.

I've also been discovering excellent today's artists such as:

Antoine Boyer -- multi-talented young guitarist from France

Leo Pelegrino -- Baritone sax player and leader of TMZ busking band. He also formed the unique style of Brass House music -- this guy talent is probably beyond Charlie Parker

Valery Stepanof -- probably the most bad-ass keyboardist ever on the planet

Tigran Hamassyan -- He's been a while and has also unique style progressive jazz-rock blended with Armenian folk tunes

and finally, Matteo Mancusso -- he is a continuation of RIP Allan Holdsworth!!!

What are your recent discoveries of new artists or artists not too many people know? 

czarivey

Showing 1 response by whart

I think of the ’Gon as mainly a gear site. There are some long running threads, which credit due, involve people playing LPs or CDs and introducing others to the music they like. When I used to post more prolifically on the audio sites, I would always do a "non-audiophile records" thread as a counterpoint to the usual warhorses, which keep getting recycled. "Audiophile" is often safe, though people don’t think they are siloed but the reality is, if you are buying from Chad, Mofi or any of the usual suspects, most of their output is bigger sellers.

Going into obscurities for their own sake may give you dismal returns. There are some notable "known unknowns" that sell for big money- e.g a Decca UK pressing of Growers of Mushroom, but at this point, I don’t consider that to be an "obscure" record.

I got into soul and spiritual jazz because I liked it. A lot of those records are obscure-- even the stuff on the best known label, Strata-East, is largely obscure to most people, except for Gil Scott Heron’s Winter in America. (very cool Rhodes sound). I got deeper, into the private label stuff- Milt Ward & Virgo Spectrum (reissued recently as a needle drop); Jothan Callins, Winds of Change (OG only); Ronnie Boykins (The Will Come, Is Now); Woody Shaw, Gary Bartz and an almost endless number of side men that played on some significant records and made their own as well. Gary Bartz cut a direct to disc a few years ago with a UK collective, Maisha, that is revisiting the period in which Gary was extremely active as a sideman and featured artist; Nate Morgan is great to explore with a strong left hand on Nimbus West; Horace Tapscott had a collective on the West Coast that played in a church for 10 years- one of the albums, live is pretty staggering.

Whether this is something that appeals to others is not within my control. I think everyone should find their own niche that appeals to them musically and sonically.

I will tell you that my experience with streaming services has left me to conclude that they are rather shallow. For example, there is a bass player I follow--Cecil McBee-- take a look at how many offerings there are on your preferred streaming service for his work.

I’m not advocating one format over another but to get access, I don’t think streaming services are the answer for deep catalog stuff.

Have fun.