Getting further into music in recent years, I've been finding things that has filled voids that have been there for a long time. Music that fills in gaps that I'd forgotten about. BUT... I've still not found any music that prominently features or is driven by BIG SCARY CHURCH ORGANS,,,, which is something I have wanted to hear since I was a little child. I mean,, I've got some Goth and Prog stuff with some Organs here and there, but not featured for more than small parts next to the guitars.
Can you guys help? You'd be fulfilling atleast 17 years of longing for this type of thing.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 May 2008 14:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.jazzloft.com/p-45259-hiroshima-lp.aspx
― Sparkle Motion, Saturday, 3 May 2008 15:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
John Shuttleworth
― Fer Ark, Saturday, 3 May 2008 15:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
Osso Exótico - Church Organ Works Charlemagne Palestine - Schlongo!!!daLUVdrone
― Mr. Hal Jam, Saturday, 3 May 2008 15:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, there's this J.S. Bach geezer you might want to check out.
― Soukesian, Saturday, 3 May 2008 16:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, that Bach dude.
― Brad C., Saturday, 3 May 2008 16:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
that sun ra piece sounds great.
― ian, Saturday, 3 May 2008 17:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
xp yes, and Messiaen.
― Frogman Henry, Saturday, 3 May 2008 17:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
which is the Klaus Schulz lp--i think it's Irrlicht--big scary droning organ...
― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 3 May 2008 17:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
I dont really have any/much classical music,, so forgive me for not really knowing the obvious ones
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
No worries . . you get to discover all of this for the first time. Enjoy!
― Soukesian, Saturday, 3 May 2008 19:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
I can mirror Robert's admission above about not knowing. I mean, where does one start?
I had a go with Stravinsky a few years ago because of emo boys Rites of Spring. There was another band on SST, Blind Idiot God that referenced the classics, and that's been about it. I'm not confident where to dip my toe in.
By default , given some of the 'rock' that I dig, I must like some of those old boys.
I would seriously like to discover classic 'classical' but ain't got a clue where top start.
― Fer Ark, Saturday, 3 May 2008 20:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
Would like to get that Sun Ra on CD.
― libcrypt, Saturday, 3 May 2008 20:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
My (limited) knowledge of classical music is pretty much entirely down to BBC Radio Three, and just following up on anything I heard and liked. As with any form of music, you aren't going to like all of it, but if you're already interested, you're sure to hear sounds that will just blow you away.
― Soukesian, Saturday, 3 May 2008 20:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
Bach- Great Organ Works sounds ideal for me,, there are so many versions of Complete Organ Works, so I'll start on the small 2-disc Great Organ Works which has lots of enthusiastic fans.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 May 2008 20:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
There's a great story about Carl Sagan discussing with NASA what sound recordings should be placed on the Voyager space probe to represent the human race to any alien civilization that might someday find it: NASA suggested some Bach, but Sagan opposed this because "it would seem like bragging."
― Soukesian, Saturday, 3 May 2008 20:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
Tim Hecker?
― Fer Ark, Saturday, 3 May 2008 21:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 3 May 2008 21:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
Hurtin- did you see him in '71 though?
Fuckinrocker
― Fer Ark, Saturday, 3 May 2008 21:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
I didn't see anything in '71
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 3 May 2008 22:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
The kaleidoscopic pictures of Virgil's ass are a classy touch.
― Soukesian, Saturday, 3 May 2008 22:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
lock thread
― poortheatre, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
scariest music i ever heard was this Lutheran church organ in Stockholm
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 19:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
Wow, fantastic album cover!
― Oilyrags, Monday, 5 May 2008 14:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
Watch Carnival of Souls. Great use of extremely creepy organ music, plus a genuinely scary movie. Herk Harvey shows up in my nightmares from time to time.
― deusner, Monday, 5 May 2008 14:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
can't lock the thread yet, nobody mentioned Hermann Nitsch's organ works.
search mutantsounds for "orgelkonzert", also his CD Komposition Fuer Orgel.
― sleeve, Monday, 5 May 2008 15:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
hurting, i am so happy you put virgil fox heavy organ up there! love it. and some of the best bits are his between-tune rants.
BACH HAS THE RED BLOOD! HE HAS THE COMMUNION WITH THE PEOPLE! THEY TRY TO PUT THE GREATEST MAN OF ALL TIME UP ON A DUSTY SHELF AND SAY HE CAN'T BE INTERPRETED WELL THEY'RE FULL OF YOU KNOW WHAT AND SO UNTALENTED THAT THEY COULDN'T GET IN THE HOUSE OF MUSIC ANY OTHER WAY!
― andrew m., Monday, 5 May 2008 15:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
Great movie about "big, scary church organ music" that cannot be missed:
http://www.apparitionfilm.com/
Saw it at St. Bart's w/ live accompaniment, pried my head open....
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 5 May 2008 15:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
There are a ton of French organ composers who have written massive, imposing works: Messian, Massenet, and Langlais come to mind initially.
― HI DERE, Monday, 5 May 2008 15:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
Big! Scary! played by this man:
Some of it's quiet, but some is really huge. All good.
― dr. phil, Monday, 5 May 2008 16:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
There are these moments where it sounds like he's just SLASHING across the keys on the loudest registration available, out of tempo. It's brutal. Beautiful.
― dr. phil, Monday, 5 May 2008 17:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- HI DERE, Monday, 5 May 2008 15:52 (5 hours ago) Link
whoa, i had no idea massenet wrote organ music. some others are Tournemire, Widor, DuprE, Vierne, Jehan Alain and DuruflE-- but no one is biggers or scarier than Messiaen.
― poortheatre, Monday, 5 May 2008 21:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
Also, if you live near any actual churches that have big fuck-off organs, I would suggest attending a service or, if possible, a concert - because no stereo can really recreate the pew-shaking bass and presence of a real, big-ass pipe organ.
― o. nate, Monday, 5 May 2008 21:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
the motherfuckin' BAND CHEST motherfuckin' FEVER
― Lawrence the Looter, Monday, 5 May 2008 23:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.enricobassi.it/garthenpharaosfront.JPG
― Mark Rich@rdson, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 01:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Mark Rich@rdson, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 01:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
Keith Jarrett - Hymns/Spheres (1976)
improvisations recorded on a 18th century pipe organ of the Ottobeuren Abbey, a Benedictine abbey in Germany. microtonal effects acheived through careful movement of the stops.
the CD contains only the calmer sections, you want the 2 LP vinyl. pretty demonic.
the first piece of Messiaen's for organ that I got completely into was La Nativité du Seigneur, it's got the riffs
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 01:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
re: Hymns / Spheres: http://www.subcin.com/sorcerer.html
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 01:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
& I have also been enjoying this album recently
Buxtehude organ works, v.1: Buxtehude and the Mean-Tone Organ / Davidsson
https://www.gothic-catalog.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=LRCD-1090-91
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 01:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
+ recent conversation sparked by whiney's interview with eYe:
Jon Gibson's 'Cycles'
BOREDOMS FANBOY CLUBHOUSE
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 01:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
you should also try Max Reger.
― sparkletuna, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 12:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Vuh" by Popol Vuh. Obviously.
― Tom D., Tuesday, 6 May 2008 12:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
^^^ the truth
less scary than deeply spiritual imo but what amazing music
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 19 August 2010 16:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
― albino python on cocaine (corey), Thursday, 19 August 2010 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not solo organ, but:
― Blau, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dude, THIS:
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yes-Parallels
― Sabbath to Ulver: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
I got into Jacula recently and they are a dream come true for me, they turned into Antonius Rex and i have yet to listen to those. They are still bringing out new albums.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 December 2010 17:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Expanding my horizons here...I grew up with an organ in the house but until recently my taste has been limited to jazz, rhythm and blues and movie soundtracks.
How is that Popul Vuh album? It's not my "thing" but looks enticing.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink