Cube - 2014-04-25
I hate to be this guy, but that's a tabla, not bongos.
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Kabbage - 2014-04-25 Huh, that's actually a linked tag too. Fixed!
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Kabbage - 2014-04-25 would you have been Cube's That Guy had the need presented itself
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Oscar Wildcat - 2014-04-25 Don't we have a dedicated username who serves that purpose? Too many cooks spoil the broth, and all that...
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Old_Zircon - 2014-04-25 You better believe it, Kabbage.
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Oscar Wildcat - 2014-04-25
Rather than J-pop girls, why don't you try mixing this guy and speed metal? I think it would make the veins stand out in your neck, no?
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EvilHomer - 2014-04-25 I've actually been toying with the idea of doing an Indo-Persian death metal album, using tablas and other "world"-style percussion instruments instead of a Western drumkit, and vocals similar to Azam Ali. It's gonna be a concept album, chronicling the rise and fall of the Mughal Empire, MOST BRVTAL OF ALL INDO-PAKISTANI EMPIRES. \m/ \m/
Later, I'd like to do a second project, MARATHA, which will have a similar metal-fusion approach, only with a happy, Bollywood-Hammerfall sound, instead of the more brutal Nile-meets-Opeth-meets-Dissection of MUGHAL. I could then get two separate bands together, one for MUGHAL, one for MARATHA, and have them play at the same shows, dueling back and forth.
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badideasinaction - 2014-04-25 Not gonna lie, started hunting around to find a video clip of the guy for sampling purposes with decent sound quality for similar ideas.
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Old_Zircon - 2014-04-25 I'm pretty sure there's already Indo-Persian death metal, I'll have to look into that.
If there were a PM system on here I'd offer you a totally legal backup copy for backup purposes only of the "Roots Of India" sample CDs from about 15 years ago.
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EvilHomer - 2014-04-25 The rhythms on Secret Chiefs 3 are too metal! Don't get me wrong, that's a good song, and Trey is one of my all-time favorite composers, but they're mainly just doing blast beats with world drums, instead of utilizing "authentic" South Asian rhythms. Also, the production reminds me of Disco Volante, which, while a great album, was definitely the Mr Bungle album I liked the least. The whole thing comes off sounding less like Indo-Persian metal and more like an unreleased hardcore section from "The Bends". Mr Bungle HAS done some work which comes close to what I imagine such a project would sound like - segments from "Techno Allah" and the tribal breakdown from "Goodbye Sober Day" spring to mind - but still, I think the Bungle team is too all over the place to ever really NAIL the style in question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnKbSf60pyM
...might be a bit closer to how I've always envisioned it. But really, that's just me; the rest of you probably have different visions on how this could work.
And OZ, I know there are Iranian, Pakistani, and Indian metal bands, but most of them take an Orphaned Land approach to cultural appropriation; that is, they hardly bother, and any influences they might derive from their land of origin tend to be just tacked on to an otherwise straightforward metal song (like a cool intro that sounds vaguely Pakistani). Unlike Scandinavia, where you can find tons of neofolk dorks just itching to incorporate non-rock sounds into their metal, there's not really a lot of dedicated indigenous folk-metal floating around in Southwest Asia (or if there is, I haven't heard much about it).
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EvilHomer - 2014-04-25 Oh shit, lest I forget:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epNVFmJw4uA
I know, I know, it's Amazonian, not Indo-Persian, and this track stays pretty acoustic all throughout, but this sort of percussion groove, just begging to GO BRUTAL AT ANY F'ING MOMENT.
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EvilHomer - 2014-04-25
I'm glad to see that the best bongo player ever is still more boring than the worst guitarist ever.
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Jet Bin Fever - 2014-04-26
Tabla is INCREDIBLY hard to play. Don't be deceived by how easy he makes it look here. There are several key motions and it takes years of practice.
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Kabbage - 2014-04-26 Have you dabbled, JB
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Jet Bin Fever - 2014-04-26 My friend played for years though, and I thought he got really good. He said he had barely scratched the surface though.
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