share your music recommendations!

[fablefound]

hellooooo, melonland!

first of all, can't wait to deep dive on some of the stuff mentioned here--i love going down musical rabbitholes.

second of all, i scrounged together some recs of my own. specifically, i went through my rateyourmusic page and looked for any non-anglosphere/j-pop options. here's what i got...

ahmed malek - algerian composer. he's on my "instrumentals to read/write to" playlist. 

hailu mergia - ethiopian jazz artist. dude's got a large body of work and also features heavily in my reading/writing instrumentals playlist. really quite delightful.

faye wong - lovely dreamy mandopop to check out if you haven't already...

memory drawers - i genuinely don't even recall how i found these guys, but they're a lovely manila-based band doing great indie pop-rock stuff.

grace jones - probably the biggest name i'm mentioning here and yes one squarely in the anglosphere but!! i like her stuff!!! british-jamaican legend who was also a mode and actress. started in disco and then became a new wave legend.

[infinitysnapz]

mooostly just Things I Like, but here's a few:

Underworld - Cups

will recommend underworld at probably every given opportunity. i've always liked their abstract lyrics, and their interesting processing techniques. there's a good 30 years worth of music to pick from. this particular track is chillout material (until the sudden change around 8 mins lol)


Mezzoforte - Early Autumn

early 1980s icelandic jazz fusion! easy listening, good fun


Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure

1970s electronic music by pioneering band Tangerine Dream. mostly ambient soundscapes, but there's also a fair bit of rock-iness too