roachboy

it often seems kind of difficult here for music threads to sustain themselves simply because there is a great diversity of interests here.
i think.
this is probably as a function of the range of ages of those who post. most of the folk who post here regularly seem younger, in a phase where they still identify quite heavily with various bands/musicians, etc.

the question posed in this thread seems to me to fit the pattern--what you associate with imagery, or with synasthetic experiences in general, with a particular release is (obviously) directly linked to the kind of music that moves you.
for example, i know about godspeed and link their first ep but not much after that--i kinda like tool, particularly their first three records, but have lost track of them a bit--burzum will pull me into a space parallel to what is described above with reference or opeth, but only if i am in a particular mood--i do not listen to the same types of music as what i see talked about here--i do not play the kind of music that i see others talking about here--so most of the time i feel like what i might write here is simply arbitrary for others. with the result that this forum is often something if a vacuum insofar as i am concerned.


to answer the question:

sun ra pretty consistently pulls me into a strange visual space.
as i am sitting here, "angels and demons at play" is on the soundsystem, and it is working my brain over pretty thoroughly. atlantis, magic city, when angels sepak of love, lanquidity, space is the place, concert for the comet kahotek, cosmic tones for mental therapy are among other preferred sun ra recordings----each seems to drag me into such a space, whether i like it or not.

the most hallucinatory music i listen to these days is the stuff i do with clairaudient, but i cant tell if this would translate for other folk--i have once in a while posted requests for feedback, and they get one or two responses (which i appreciate) before they fall like stones into the void of unused threads.

other stuff that does this:
there is a compilation called "austral voices" of experimental music from australia that is really amazing--in particular the alan lamb track that uses singing telegraph wires in southern australia as its source---the sounds, the distant metallic clanging, all of it--just amazing.
james tenney's postal pieces and forms 1-4 as well.

but there is lots of music that does this--glenn gould playing bach's goldberg variations for example.

alot depends upon how you listen to music--if it is the focus of your attention, if you have it on while you do other things.
and any perception of "atmosphere" changes over time.

btw: talk talk is a vastly underrated band.

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