All Songs Considered Viking's Choice goes back to the future
Jan 2, 2024
Our resident Viking Lars Gotrich explores epic Japanese storytelling, soul-sampling powerviolence, ambient rap, and beautiful noise. Topics include unexpected sample sources in experimental music, the history of documenting everyday sounds, the relationship between time and memory, the concept of home, and the transformative power of music and collaboration.
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Music or Noise?
- Matmos' album "Return to Archive" explores the line between music and noise.
- They sample unconventional sounds from the Smithsonian Folkways catalog, like office noises and nature recordings.
Epic Storytelling
- Poil Ueda blends French Prague rock with Japanese folk storytelling.
- They retell epic medieval tales with Junko Ueda's vocals and the satsuma biwa.
Forgotten Histories
- Mayssa Jallad's album "Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels" documents a forgotten battle in Beirut.
- It highlights how erased histories can lead to repeating past mistakes.