'Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organs''Music for 18 Musicians''Six Marimbas''Sextet'etc.
― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
I need to make an all-vibes complilation for this girl I'm totally geeked about who loves the vibes. I dug through my mp3s and here's what I have:
Stereolab: The SpiraclesStereolab: Velvet WaterStereolab: BrakhageAmerican Analog Set: Sharp BriarAmerican Analog Set: I Must Soon Quit the SceneAmerican Analog Set: Gone to EarthAmerican Analog Set: Slow CompanyAmerican Analog Set: Modern DrummerTortoise: The Suspension Bridge at Iguazú FallsBill Perkins: Little Bird/Little BoatBruno Battisti D'Amario: SimplementeDave Pike: SausalitoWalter Wanderley: Take A Chance With MeCloud One: Disco JuiceVisit Venus: Kinski Disko Fox MachineYonderboi: YonderboiThe Art of Noise: Eye of a NeedleA Tribe Called Quest: Vibes And StuffJeru the Damaja: Jungle MusicA Tribe Called Quest: Vibes And StuffJeru the Damaja: Jungle MusicJ-Live: A Charmed LifeHenry Mancini: Brief and BreezyRoy Ayers Ubiquity: The Third EyeRoy Ayers Ubiquity: Mystic VoyageTipsy: LiquordelicBroadcast: Arc of a JourneyBroadcast: You and Me in Time
OK so I'm probably not going to keep all of these. I want really celestial, romantic, deep vibes so she'll listen to it and be like, 'I love the vibraphone. I love that he made me this comp of vibraphones. Now when I think of the vibes I totally think of this guy... OMG I LOVE THE VIBES AND ALSO I LOVE THIS GUY!!!!'
That's the best case scenario. But you catch my drift. Vibes for a girl that I'm super into. Who can hook me up?
― Public Radio (public_radio), Thursday, 12 October 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 12 October 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Public Radio (public_radio), Thursday, 12 October 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Thursday, 12 October 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― monocle (Sean Miguel), Thursday, 12 October 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― monocle (Sean Miguel), Thursday, 12 October 2006 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Not terribly representative of the rest of their debut album, but it fits the query.
― 35 Hertz (35 Hertz), Thursday, 12 October 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link
"Playground Love (Vibraphone Version)" by AirThis instrumental version wasn't on the Virgin Suicides CD, but I believe it was available as a B-side on a couple of Air singles and a few various artist compilations. It's sublime and well worth seeking out. (The original vocal version on the soundtrack does have vibraphone, too, just not as the focus.)
"Unnatural Habitat" by the Greenhornesfrom the Broken Flowers soundtrack CD. Instrumental track, lots of vibes.
― monocle (Sean Miguel), Thursday, 12 October 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I left 'Playground Love' off of here because it's not going to give her sexy, dreamy vibes. It's going to give her macabe vibes, and I'm not going for that. Same with the Twin Peaks soundtrack. I'm not trying to freak this girl out, I'm trying to seduce her. Come on guys! Not that I don't appreciate the suggestions.
― Public Radio (public_radio), Thursday, 12 October 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Public Radio (public_radio), Thursday, 12 October 2006 05:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 12 October 2006 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― yetimike (McGonigal), Thursday, 12 October 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I bought this on vinyl when it came out (mid/late 80s, iirc), but got rid of it soon after (I liked my Felt doing jangly 3 minute pop songs) & haven't heard it since. I wish I still had it now.
'Buzzin Fly' by Tim Buckley is my favourite use of vibes. And 'Solid Air'
― bham (bham), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
monkey man - the rolling stones
― vain_bowers, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Lord Finesse - Soul Plan, or Lord Finesse - Soul Plan (Instrumental) if you don't find lines like "opponents i check 'em, i got skills out the rectum" particularly dreamy. More Roy Ayers. Highly recommended.
― subroc back to haunt, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cfs3.tistory.com/upload_control/download.blog?fhandle=YmxvZzM4NzUyQGZzMy50aXN0b3J5LmNvbTovYXR0YWNoLzAvMTMwMDAwMDAwMDAyLmpwZw==
― total mormon cockblock extravaganza (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/a/ayers_roy~~_coffyorig_101b.jpg
― expletive for lady parts (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I love marimaba and vibes vibes so I'm bumping this thread. I could post a bunch of things but I'll just leave these here for now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8hZvsnzeA4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcCHRW8G9yY
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 27 May 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2kn_N155cE
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), Saturday, 27 May 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
Actually probably the whole album Ki Motion, which is on Youtube also..
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), Saturday, 27 May 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/19247287#t=2040s
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), Saturday, 27 May 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
the first track on midnight sound by flanger (atom heart and burnt Friedman, I think)
― brimstead, Saturday, 27 May 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if those Mkwaju Ensemble records will get reissues in the wake of 'Through The Looking Glass'.
This often gets mentioned along with those. Reminder to self to give it a proper listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBCdn4-bn4w
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
HOPE SANDOVAL - SUZANNE
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah if I snuck in some marimba I'd totally blow it. The marimba is like the poor man's vibraphone.
― Public Radio (public_radio)
DUD.
surprised jimi hendrix's "drifting" hasn't come up here yet; the vibes overdubbed onto it make the song.
i listen to a good chunk of tuned percussion myself. just yesterday i was listening to the cover of "a hard day's night" by the yugoslavian band "indexi" which has some surprising and welcome vibraphone in it. last year's record by thor and friends is also very heavy on dreamy and minimal marimba.
i also really enjoy the quartertone marimba. i have a recording of a quartertone marimba duet i really enjoy.
when it comes to classic jazz, lionel hampton gets all the press but i have a great fondness for red norvo. his composition "dance of the octopus" is super, and he also does a good solo marimba version of "in a mist". just recently i picked up a couple really nice sides he did in '43 or '44 with stuff smith!
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Righthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFPK5paOXnU
― Paul, Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGZmzwCvQQ4
― salthigh, Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
lotsa vibes on late Throbbing Gristle, "In The Shadow Of The Sun," "Journey Through A Body," etc.
― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:55 (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcoFZBbidw8
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
You guys!I need to make an all-vibes complilation for this girl I'm totally geeked about who loves the vibes.
I wonder how it went with this girl. Maybe the lack of an update is telling...
Also Eberhard Weber's Fluid Rustle has some outstanding vibe and marimba work from Gary Burton.
― J. Sam, Saturday, 27 May 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
christian burchard's work with embryo (his primary axe is vibraphone but he also plays marimba) should definitely get some props, even if i wouldn't quite classify "kosmische" in the same category as "dreamy" myself.
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Saturday, 27 May 2017 22:06 (seven years ago) link
A thing I love is the syncopated tuned percussion / DX marimba part in 80s synth pop, often introduced in the latter part of the song.
Franco Battiato - Bandiera Biancahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i483knGRppA
Propaganda - Frozen Faceshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oms1Wge8Vo0
Accentuated to great effect in the (Echo Of) version.
Words With The Shaman - Part 3 (Awakening (Songs From The Treetops))https://open.spotify.com/track/47VcNjcN46hPC4qiw3SbCy
Also - nested parentheses in the title.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 29 May 2017 08:17 (seven years ago) link
David Sylvian with Jon Hassell, Steve Jansen & Holger Czukay, that last one. Not 'pop' as such but too nice not to mention.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 29 May 2017 08:20 (seven years ago) link
Not particularly dreamy (although ymmv), but Jason Adasiewicz is doing great stuff on vibes these days, occasionally in a group with Peter Brötzmann but here solo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPyawprk90Y
― heaven parker (anagram), Monday, 29 May 2017 12:33 (seven years ago) link
Josiah Stienbeck's Banana project mixes vibes and marimba with LA art rock folks to a very dreamy effect
https://leavingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Monday, 29 May 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
Barry Adamson - Vibes Ain't Nothing But The Vibes
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 29 May 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
Stereolab's "Fiery Yellow" off Mars Audiac Quintet comes to mind, but I can't find a YouTube.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Monday, 29 May 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
"Moving Through Time" by Angelo Badalamentifrom the Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me soundtrackhttp://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000002MF9.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpgInstrumental vibes with a little cello as well, somewhat haunting, but dreamy, too -- like a lot of Lynch's stuff. It's a beautiful piece.― monocle (Sean Miguel), Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:33 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Was thinking of and meant to post this exact song when I saw the thread revive. I sometimes think this might be my favorite Badalamenti piece from any Lynch project.
― Trockasturm Hoar The Ramming Battle Ceraton (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 June 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Walt Dickerson is hitting this spot for me. 'Life Rays' is so spacey.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 1 July 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
Yes, that album and his "Visions" album with Sun Ra are terrific mental air conditioning.
― Liquid Plejades, Sunday, 1 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
Great descriptor and yes Visions is ace. I’m not completely familiar with his output but everything I’ve heard has been a treat.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 1 July 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
My ringtone is Lionel Hampton doing "how high the moon"
― brimstead, Sunday, 1 July 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
Was thinking about him yesterday because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Sun_(Lionel_Hampton_and_Sonny_Burke_song)
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 July 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
Donald Fagen - The Goodbye Look
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 2 July 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
Makaya McCraven "In the Moment": lots of vibes
― mahb, Monday, 2 July 2018 08:29 (five years ago) link
Milt Jackson - Vibrations
― calzino, Monday, 2 July 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOHPUkPylQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMLflVEM3Q
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 July 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDGhJtEsmj8
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 July 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
Heh, I used to post as Publicradio. If I recall, she liked the mixtape. we dated for a while, then broke up. That was over a decade ago. My wife doesn't care about vibraphones but that's fine.
― 3×5, Monday, 2 July 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
Need some Cal Tjader in here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGlJIobj5c
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Monday, 2 July 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Get hip.
https://masayoshifujita.bandcamp.com/
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5sg-igH5ds
― velko, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 05:11 (five years ago) link
Ordered this one from a person on Discogs the other day after I posted in here. I remember having it on CD several years back, but, for surely idiotic reasons, I purged all my Cal Tjader, so away it went. I really remember much about the album besides it being a really cascading swirl of Cal's vibes and Al Zulaica's Fender Rhodes. Quite looking forward to hearing it again.
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Thursday, 5 July 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
*don't really
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Thursday, 5 July 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
cmon, 5:55 forward is the section:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzbDhE5_YbM
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 5 July 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
This is a lovely performance (love the foil on the vibes):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBOeuRRqVZMc
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3nYwxO9q8
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
1st of all, ^^^^^ that hutcherson track from Oblique is the greatest thing ever2nd of all, WALTER DICKERSON albums, where have you been all my life, I love this guy.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
My first thought was Bobby Hutcherson "Mirrors"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maEbMC2XuKY
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4yLzVj0pos
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
the vibraphone is so sweet. sometimes I can hardly believe it's an instrument
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
I've made a spotify playlist based on the recommendations on this thread (and another marimba + vibes one with friends on facebook).
Enjoy all five hours + of it:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5dtl7S9x7lVFhLofmxnHOK?si=4YNtZzAkQECipb7A7Rz9cQ
― giraffe, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
Oh and a couple of lovely things spotify itself suggested.
― giraffe, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
The album I was going to recommend was in the OP. Been listening to Matchbook quite a lot lately.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
xp thanks for putting that together, giraffe! i'm enjoying it right now
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
The vibe accents in this song are subtle, but essential to its mood.
David Axelrod - The Sick Rose
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
I just heard this song by a '70s band I'd never heard of that features a virtuoso marimba player as one of its main musicians!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYOn9snPso
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
oh dude, starbuck is friggin' hilarious.
the little "heh heh" before the chorus is obviously classic.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
ugh yeah that singer gives me the creeps
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7DotvLIlSI
"Village Soul" - Lennie Hibbert
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
Not sure where else to post this, but RIP Khan Jamal:https://www.wbgo.org/music/2022-01-11/khan-jamal-vibraphonist-who-merged-free-jazz-and-fusion-in-a-spiritual-vein-is-dead-at-75
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89t6pE91tN4
― enochroot, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link
aw man :(
― aegis philbin (crüt), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
khan jamal really nailed a particular sweet spot for me. Everything I’ve heard by him is pretty sublime, he floats on this dreamy spiritual jazz cloud, very sunshiny and capable of really haunting tracks which hint at some kind of vast longing and loneliness. “Lovely afternoon” from his INFINITY album is very um lovely but also had this somewhat late night noirish undercurrent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjd2VOGaLKs
― omar little, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
He has this great album from 1987 (first one I heard), Thinking of You, which manages to avoid some ‘80s jazz pitfalls while at the same time using newer sounds. Synth washes on the title track with vibes is an unexpectedly intoxicating mix.
― omar little, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
I've always been partial to "The Traveller", which I had long assumed was from like 1973, but discogs says it's from 1986. Very late night noirish:
― enochroot, Friday, 16 December 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
Walt Dickerson, folks, THE MANdude cut his sticks in half so he could play closer to the rack and therefore faster… also soaked his mallets in some special solution to dampen the sound and make them “dreamier” and less harsh
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 10 March 2023 02:13 (one year ago) link
Sun Ra on piano iirc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtBtuvq581U
their duo record is a tad somnambulant for my tastes, but I really like this album. Never seen the movie
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 10 March 2023 10:50 (one year ago) link