who plays *unusual* acoustic music?

[Abel]

It is not Romanian, it is Serbian.

And from a same director, Emir Kusturica.

And Tristan Tzara members are croatian.

I'm from croatia.

SERBIAN SWINES.

[xmoonxhowlerx]

PICKO HRVATSKA!

[412Wolfpack]

just listen to Cam Deas

[plagueship]

this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but i've always loved joan of arcs acoustic songs because their awkward time signature and key changes and interesting riff compositions not to mention the thought provoking lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CR6l2jzAPc

so much <3

it's all good, i like joan of arc and a lot of shit i didn't mention. i just didn't want to read another thread about folk punk and iron and wine.

[art]

Also not close to what post's author expected but you all should check two interesting acoustic bands:

Lobo-guara (brazilian duo)
Thoughts Paint The Sky (german band)

[plagueship]

i am going to check these bands out soon.

in the meantime, check out this really peculiar "folk black metal" band i came across. their blurb says they are "inspired by appalachian and eastern european folk music" which actually makes no sense if you listen to them, which annoyed me at first, but it's creepy and ambient and i like it.

In the Sea of Trees - Demo http://www.mediafire.com/?cg74hd9otu4ilr8

also, here is a barely-known constellation band with members of a silver mt zion and wolf parade, who are also awesome:

Fifths of Seven - http://www.last.fm/music/Fifths+of+Seven

also abel, please try to avoid rekindling any tribal warfare in this thread.

[windowshopforlove]

PICKO HRVATSKA!

Hahaha, gdje vas nadje?

I find it funny that North Americans would like this stuff. It's cool to see people appreciate it though, with all the flak we're getting lately because of that Serbian film shit. Fuck that movie.

[buckytoole]

it occurred to me it's so weird that most of what we think of "normal" music is only counted in multiples of 2 or 3 because you could really use any prime number (indian classical music goes up to 23 or something i think? also their number of notes in an octave is similarly large and crazy).

so who else plays weird acoustic shit?

how can notes in an octave be any more than 7 notes between octaves? that doesn't make sense to me?

i've never been great at music theory... but i do like most "prog" stuff...

when you said acoustic music my mind jumped first to this guy:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9405061922#

talented. that's been around forever though... not exactly news?
but makes a more interesting use of "acoustic" guitar than most instances i've seen? (to answer my question, yes, it does. why am i so unsure of myself? what i mean is, is it worthwhile/interesting to the rest of you?)

[plagueship]

it occurred to me it's so weird that most of what we think of "normal" music is only counted in multiples of 2 or 3 because you could really use any prime number (indian classical music goes up to 23 or something i think? also their number of notes in an octave is similarly large and crazy).

so who else plays weird acoustic shit?

how can notes in an octave be any more than 7 notes between octaves? that doesn't make sense to me?

and yet, just because you can't imagine it, doesn't mean it isn't real...

yes, in the west we have 7 notes per scale, or 12 half-steps per octave. but in the south asian subcontinent, they have simply a lot more differentiations of notes per scale. i haven't really studied it, so i'm not really sure how to explain it, but if you start researching indian classical music you will see. or if you just grab a sitar or something and start fucking with it. their scales just have more than 12 subdivisions. i can't really speak for why that makes sense except that it's their tradition...

[buckytoole]

it occurred to me it's so weird that most of what we think of "normal" music is only counted in multiples of 2 or 3 because you could really use any prime number (indian classical music goes up to 23 or something i think? also their number of notes in an octave is similarly large and crazy).

so who else plays weird acoustic shit?

how can notes in an octave be any more than 7 notes between octaves? that doesn't make sense to me?

and yet, just because you can't imagine it, doesn't mean it isn't real...

are we being passive aggressive? it's just hard to tell reading without tone...

it's not really existential, like inventing a new colour, they exist in the rainbow but we go for red blue green and such...

different subdivisions, makes sense, and it lends itself to the musical style... or rather the music is a product of how they treat/consider "notes"? it comes out of necessity playing something like a sitar?
what is it they say about language effecting the WAY in which we think? like the inuit having so many words all for "snow"... i don't think it's they're all synonymous, what we call snow and then maybe apply adjectives to describe further they don't have time for that shit, they just come up with specific names... like what do you guys call winter hats? it's cold up here, we call them toques. or if there's a more apt analogy, please.

the instruments used and ear training allows them what's maybe a more sophisticated/specific scale
while we're stuck on red/A with maybe a slide of bend they call it maroon or whatever...

i don't know if most people would have the ear to be so specific?