Dreamy vibraphone and/or marimba music

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'

monkey man - the rolling stones

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.

http://cfs3.tistory.com/upload_control/download.blog?fhandle=YmxvZzM4NzUyQGZzMy50aXN0b3J5LmNvbTovYXR0YWNoLzAvMTMwMDAwMDAwMDAyLmpwZw==

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/a/ayers_roy~~_coffyorig_101b.jpg

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2kn_N155cE

Actually probably the whole album Ki Motion, which is on Youtube also..

https://vimeo.com/19247287#t=2040s

the first track on midnight sound by flanger (atom heart and burnt Friedman, I think)

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

HOPE SANDOVAL - SUZANNE

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!

Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFPK5paOXnU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGZmzwCvQQ4

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

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.

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.

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 Bianca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i483knGRppA

Propaganda - Frozen Faces
https://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.

David Sylvian with Jon Hassell, Steve Jansen & Holger Czukay, that last one. Not 'pop' as such but too nice not to mention.

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

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

Barry Adamson - Vibes Ain't Nothing But The Vibes

Stereolab's "Fiery Yellow" off Mars Audiac Quintet comes to mind, but I can't find a YouTube.

"Moving Through Time" by Angelo Badalamenti
from the Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me soundtrack
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000002MF9.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Instrumental 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.

Walt Dickerson is hitting this spot for me. 'Life Rays' is so spacey.

Yes, that album and his "Visions" album with Sun Ra are terrific mental air conditioning.

Great descriptor and yes Visions is ace. I’m not completely familiar with his output but everything I’ve heard has been a treat.

My ringtone is Lionel Hampton doing "how high the moon"

Was thinking about him yesterday because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Sun_(Lionel_Hampton_and_Sonny_Burke_song)

Donald Fagen - The Goodbye Look

Makaya McCraven "In the Moment": lots of vibes

Milt Jackson - Vibrations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOHPUkPylQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMLflVEM3Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDGhJtEsmj8

I wonder how it went with this girl. Maybe the lack of an update is telling...

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.

Need some Cal Tjader in here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGlJIobj5c

Get hip.

https://masayoshifujita.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5sg-igH5ds

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.

*don't really

cmon, 5:55 forward is the section:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzbDhE5_YbM

This is a lovely performance (love the foil on the vibes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBOeuRRqVZMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3nYwxO9q8

1st of all, ^^^^^ that hutcherson track from Oblique is the greatest thing ever

2nd of all, WALTER DICKERSON albums, where have you been all my life, I love this guy.

My first thought was Bobby Hutcherson "Mirrors"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maEbMC2XuKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4yLzVj0pos

the vibraphone is so sweet. sometimes I can hardly believe it's an instrument

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

Oh and a couple of lovely things spotify itself suggested.

The album I was going to recommend was in the OP. Been listening to Matchbook quite a lot lately.

xp thanks for putting that together, giraffe! i'm enjoying it right now

The vibe accents in this song are subtle, but essential to its mood.

David Axelrod - The Sick Rose

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

oh dude, starbuck is friggin' hilarious.

the little "heh heh" before the chorus is obviously classic.

ugh yeah that singer gives me the creeps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7DotvLIlSI

"Village Soul" - Lennie Hibbert

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

aw man :(

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

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.

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89t6pE91tN4

Walt Dickerson, folks, THE MAN

dude 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

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