Originally posted on March 19, 2008
A moment to mention three Creative Commons (free downloads) goth groups you might want to do a search for if you like the genre.
Ofearia — Metal goth with a definite edge; and the lead singer isn’t at all bad.
Reverand Ghoul — a spookier side of things. Echo-atmospheric with some industrial shadings thrown in there.
Niteshade Kiss — a little more on the song side of the spectrum with some metal moments. Almost a very dark Smithereens, but not quite.
Try http://www.garageband.com/ and/or a general search to find some of this.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Zombina and the Skeletones
Oroginally posted on December 11, 2007
OK, those of you who read my Halloween entry know that I promised to get back to you on Zombina and the Skeletones. They are a Liverpool-based goth-camp-retro-post-B52s sort of group. And they nicely supplied some free downloads on a Creative Commons site (and now I’ve lost that reference). I notice there is some new stuff now on My Space, but this set of downloads I have checked out is earlier. Some of it sounds like the theme from the Munsters TV show of the ‘60s, and it’s all pretty amusing and not awful. Good for next Halloween anyway.
OK, those of you who read my Halloween entry know that I promised to get back to you on Zombina and the Skeletones. They are a Liverpool-based goth-camp-retro-post-B52s sort of group. And they nicely supplied some free downloads on a Creative Commons site (and now I’ve lost that reference). I notice there is some new stuff now on My Space, but this set of downloads I have checked out is earlier. Some of it sounds like the theme from the Munsters TV show of the ‘60s, and it’s all pretty amusing and not awful. Good for next Halloween anyway.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
A Little Halloween Music
Originally posted on October 31, 2007
Happy Halloween. I don’t know about you, but once you aren’t a kid or don’t have some young ones around to liven things up, it just doesn’t have that zip anymore. Still, there is music to be had. I tend to think goth, naturally, when I think of the day. So the classic Evanescence album Fallen (2003) will be playing.
I tend to get a backlog of listening items because I insist everything should be played five times before I file it where it should go. Why five times? It seems like just enough to decide what you really think of a piece of music, at least for me. Some of the best music takes that long to get into. So, for example, I could mention Zombina and the Skeletones (great name) or Inkubus Sukkubus as possible suitable Halloween listens, but I have not heard them enough to decide yet.
Of course, there are the classic Classics—Saint-Saens “Danse Macabre,” “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Dukas, and Mussorgsky’s “Night On Bald Mountain.” I have a particular fondness for “Danse Macabre” thanks to my elementary music teacher, the late Mrs. Dabzynski, who not only described the story and played the music every year, she also had us act out the parts—the regretful dead, the rattling skeletons, the blowing leaves, Death the violinist. Now that I think of it Halloween does fit my rather black mood of late. And the music can really bring the time nearer to your experience of life.
Happy Halloween. I don’t know about you, but once you aren’t a kid or don’t have some young ones around to liven things up, it just doesn’t have that zip anymore. Still, there is music to be had. I tend to think goth, naturally, when I think of the day. So the classic Evanescence album Fallen (2003) will be playing.
I tend to get a backlog of listening items because I insist everything should be played five times before I file it where it should go. Why five times? It seems like just enough to decide what you really think of a piece of music, at least for me. Some of the best music takes that long to get into. So, for example, I could mention Zombina and the Skeletones (great name) or Inkubus Sukkubus as possible suitable Halloween listens, but I have not heard them enough to decide yet.
Of course, there are the classic Classics—Saint-Saens “Danse Macabre,” “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Dukas, and Mussorgsky’s “Night On Bald Mountain.” I have a particular fondness for “Danse Macabre” thanks to my elementary music teacher, the late Mrs. Dabzynski, who not only described the story and played the music every year, she also had us act out the parts—the regretful dead, the rattling skeletons, the blowing leaves, Death the violinist. Now that I think of it Halloween does fit my rather black mood of late. And the music can really bring the time nearer to your experience of life.
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