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Name a band as minimalist as young marble giants. Or is that a dumb example?

― Rush Rhees (Rush Rhees), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Beat Happening

― sexyDancer, Friday, 16 April 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

low

― Trever Booth (xjzico), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

gossip

is it minimal in style or set up?

― Trever Booth (xjzico), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

in style

― Rush Rhees (Rush Rhees), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The Necks, on Aether at least.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Anja Garbarek

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I checked Anja Garbarek out on AMG. Was a comparison to Stina Nordenstam, who I really like. Is the comparison adequate at all?

― Rush Rhees (Rush Rhees), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The Normal

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The Glen Branca Orchestra

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Suicide

― sexyDancer, Friday, 16 April 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Well... Anja and Stina both have high, girlish, Scandinavian-accented voices, and both can be pretty abstract and minimalist, but in different ways. Anja's more dance and jazz-influenced (daughter of Jan Garbarek), and her music is pristine where Stina's is grungey, if that makes sense. Smiling And Waving is a great album, really understated and sparse with lots of gorgeous strings.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

if you like Stina, you should also check out Sophie Zelmani's newest album "Love Affair". Similar in voice, but the music sounds more like a stripped-down version of Emmylou Harris' "Wrecking Ball". Kinda country, but way more sparse and dark.

Also see: Carpet People

― Avi Roig (Avi), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Sophie Zelmani is good. I like her way of sticking to her own style. Even if I find her a bit monotonous at times - in a bad way.

― Rush Rhees (Rush Rhees), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Marine Girls

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Polyrock (Changing Hearts, 1981, prod. Philip Glass)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Teenage Jesus and the Jerks

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 16 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Radical Songbirds Of Islam

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

fifteen years pass...

I'm very compelled by minimalist song-form/popular music (non-ambient, non-compositional). My whole life I've pretty regularly felt the need for music that nearly disappears, and where because there are so few moving parts, each part has maximum impact. Finding Low in 1996, Mark Hollis' solo record in '99, and Arthur Russell's 'World of Echo' were momentous, in this regard.

I finally made a mix that I've sort of been circling around for many years, that focuses entirely on the tracks that most fully embrace less-is-more, and it should really hit the spot if you, too, love music where the near-silences play as big a part as the sounds:

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/musicophilia_00__various_-_pith-echo_1968-2019_cover-a.jpg?w=1024

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/musicophilia_00__various_-_pith-echo_1968-2019_cover-b.jpg?w=1024

stream or download here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2020/02/23/pith-and-echo/

― Soundslike, Saturday, 29 February 2020 19:18 (six years ago)

Another set of mixes that explores a wider definition of minimalist popular and traditional music is 'Afrominimalism: 1966-1978'

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/00_musicophilia_various_-_afrominimalism-1968-1978_00-main_cover.jpg?w=1024

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/preview.gif?w=768&zoom=2

featuring: Roy Ayers Ubiquity · Augustus Pablo · Nite-Liters · Chrissy Zebby Tembo · Boscoe · Soul Throbs · Death · Fatback Band · Ramsey Lewis · Last Poets · The Meters · Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70 · Can · Kool & The Gang · Marvin Gaye · Nina Simone · Sly & The Family Stone · Don Cherry & Jon Appleton · James Brown · Kenya & Tanzania Folk Musicians · Milton Nascimento · Batsumi · Stevie Wonder · Alice Coltrane · Exuma · Gibson Kente · John Lee Hooker · Leon Ware · Hamza El Din · Howlin’ Wolf · Richie Havens · Yusef Lateef · George Duke· Jimi Hendrix · Cymande · Labi Siffre · Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway · Miles Davis · Bill Withers · Dadawah · Pierre Akendengue · Burning Spear · Bohannon · Shuggie Otis · Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari · Bobby Hutcherson · Syreeta · Herbie Hancock · 24-Carat Black · Dumisani Abraham Maraire · Hedzoleh Soundz · Osibisa

stream or download here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/afrominimalism-1966-1978/

― Soundslike, Saturday, 29 February 2020 19:21 (six years ago)

three years pass...

The latest Lubomyr Melnyk is a beautiful thing. https://jersikarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacred-thousand

― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Sunday, 11 June 2023 18:42 (three years ago)

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