The Originality Thread

[duga]

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Akphaezya - Anthology II Links From The Dead Trinity.

If you are going to mash up genres then at least be semi proficient in those genres and this band does it really well. Mixing Jazz and Metal is by no means new but balancing the sounds and still making a listenable sound with a recognisable theme makes a damn good album. It's groovy and it's heavy and that works for me.

This was damn good...I needed something like this! I've been trying to satisfy a metal craving but I haven't found anything to my liking. This may be it.

As for influences...I'm going to return to a classic (at least a classic around these parts):



While not as jazz-filled as your post, they are definitely one of the first bands that I heard that took such disparate sounding genres and combined them into something very interesting.

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Or how about this:

It's the future whether we like it or not so let's hope it sounds as good as this.

I don't think I'll touch this one, but that was freaking crazy.

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Originally Posted by duga

This was damn good...I needed something like this! I've been trying to satisfy a metal craving but I haven't found anything to my liking. This may be it.

As for influences...I'm going to return to a classic (at least a classic around these parts):



While not as jazz-filled as your post, they are definitely one of the first bands that I heard that took such disparate sounding genres and combined them into something very interesting.

A minor memo here: I'm not one for black metal vocals (just a personal preference), but I love the music on this and how it switches and morphs into totally different styles...and I really like those little sound flourishes of an electric piano melody here and even wind chimes there. I don't feel qualified to comment on what the influences might be, but it'll be interesting to read what others have to say. I'll definitely be looking up more of Sigh's music.

[Mondo Bungle]

If you ask me Celtic Frost's Into the Pandemonium should be an obvious influence on Sigh.



Not so much in a musical sense, although CF were definitely influential in both black metal and avant-garde metal scenes, but more so with the experimentation. This album features loads of experimentation combined with the usual thrash/black metal of CF. We can even see some dance elements on the song "One in their Pride". Sigh was known to incorporate dance/disco elements into their music as well. CF = major influence on avant-garde metal, and most likely Sigh.

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

Originally Posted by duga

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As for who I think inspired Shuggie, I think I can definitely compare him to Sly Stone.

or his Dad

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Shuggie was of course inspired by his father -- he played guitar with Johnny Otis's band early on in his teens and Johnny's influence is all over his debut album Here Comes Shuggie Otis (1970), recorded when Shuggie was only 14. Johnny composed all but one of the tracks and also produced that album. By Freedom Flight (1971) Shuggie was beginning to get out from under the wing of his dad -- with Shuggie writing all but one of the songs (notably the psych-soul classic "Strawberry Letter 23"), although that release was also produced by Johnny. By the time of Inspiration Information (1974) Shuggie came into his own, playing all of the instruments himself barring strings and some horn overdubs. And on Inspiration Information the Sly & The Family Stone influence became evident -- I think if you consider, for instance, tracks like "Runnin' Away" and "(You Caught Me) Smilin'" on There's a Riot Goin' On you can detect traces of influence on Shuggie there. Also, I wonder if Shuggie was inspired by Sly & The Family Stone's final album Small Talk which was released earlier in '74 and also used string arrangements, was lighter in tone than their previous releases and had similar Curtis Mayfield-ish curlicue guitar stylings throughout.