Angine de Poitrine is blowing up the internet

[Stephen Cowell]

https://youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?si=9aGM_8T33wIsSdaA

Either you get it, or you don't.... but it's hard to look away. Mad microtonal with looping and infectious grooves. The comments section is not to be missed either. These guys just changed music.... they're from Quebec.

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[Don R Brown]

Well.....I admire the novelty and "outside the box" approach. I listened to the first 2 minutes, then a few random 10-second samples along the rest of the video. Not my cup of tea, thanks.

[Bill Sinclair]

Yeah! Microtonal music tends to make me feel anxious but the grooves had me from the start. A six-minute looped instrumental that doesn't get boring is an accomplishment in itself. Midway through the video my ear seemed to be getting more accustomed to the "in-between" notes. (It should, considering how often I'm unintentionally playing them on my steel! ) Thanks for posting, Stephen, my jam buddies were just talking about those polka-dot people last night. Now I know.

[Stephen Cowell]

Yeah! Microtonal music tends to make me feel anxious but the grooves had me from the start. A six-minute looped instrumental that doesn't get boring is an accomplishment in itself. Midway through the video my ear seemed to be getting more accustomed to the "in-between" notes. (It should, considering how often I'm unintentionally playing them on my steel! ) Thanks for posting, Stephen, my jam buddies were just talking about those polka-dot people last night. Now I know.

There's a slew of 'hot take' and OOB videos... one commenter said the blues are actually microtonal and I have to agree... bending notes is a big part of it, a lot of emotion lives between min3 and maj3. And pushing the 5 up just slightly makes me sit on the edge of the chair! Anyway, big fan now, it's on the commute bluetooth, got an Etsy t-shirt on the way.

[Dale Rottacker]

Can't believe I watched the WHOLE thing ... Certainly NOT my main cup 'o' tea, but there's no denying their musicianship and creativeness. In some ways they reminded me a bit of DEVO, and some of their rhythms I could have sworn I was hearing the band Tool.

That drummer was NUTZ playing with authority, keeping it interesting throughout the performance and his timing was "crack on". I can't even wrap my head around all the different aspects of what that guitarist was managing and all with perfect timing. His left and right brain synapsis must be on "FIRE".

On a side note, if I had to dress like them and the time exorbitant amount of time it must to get into all that garb, I'd never have time to practice, hence making me play even worse than I do now.

[Jim Cooley]

Pentatonic scales really are overrated.

[Stephen Cowell]

Pentatonic scales really are overrated.

Yep... thinking about taking five steps to go up 2 frets makes me happy... might be my early trombone experiences that led me down this path!

[Stephen Cowell]

(snip)
On a side note, if I had to dress like them and the time exorbitant amount of time it must to get into all that garb, I'd never have time to practice, hence making me play even worse than I do now.

I guess you'd say they 'commit to the bit'... one would argue that you have to do things like this to get noticed. The whole 'triangle religion' thing I find appealing... lends more to the 'alien-like' atmosphere. If you see someone wearing their T-shirt at the Jamboree it will probably be me.

[Brooks Montgomery]

Amazing. I loved the comment “eat this AI”

[Jon Voth]

At first glance, no. But has so grown on me. Really dig it. It's a bit like Pantera.

[Lee Rider]

I see more and more musicians using loopers. Bill Frisell has been using a Line 6 looper for years. When I play jazzy stuff with a friend he uses one for the rhythm guitar, then we play over that. Useful and it can be a real creative tool as in this video.

Thanks for posting

[Dave Mudgett]

I like it. Seems like another evolutionary step in a long line from Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) and Frank Zappa, with looping. There are some live things out there where the guitar playing seems to me to channel some of Zappa's guitar playing, which I always felt was under-rated. Or David Lindley's explorations with middle-eastern tonalities, going back 60 years.

I have always wondered how Beefheart would have been received if he came along 50 years later after the advent of online platforms like youtube. People used to yell at me for playing his stuff. "Stop playing that $&!%!"

[John Hartley]

YouTube musician and theory popularizer David Bennett has a recent video on their microtonality and what they do to make it more ‘palatable’ to western ears.
https://youtu.be/91QWp6Ygx7c

[Stephen Cowell]

Vol1 still on constant play with the car stereo... makes traffic disappear.

Mudgett... my fave Beefheart is Orange Claw Hammer, a poem... that's where I am with him. Van Vliet came from art... he was an 'art brut' musician. He tortured his musicians to get what he wanted from them... and he got it.

Hartley... I can see where this is not that far from 'western' music... simply dividing the half step in two gives us the possibilities to depart gently from conventional tonality. Lots of chromatic stuff going on... this is one easy way to use the 24-tone scale. Love their use of dissonances... you get precise repeatable dissonances with 1/4 step tuning. And normal tonality is nearby, just skip frets to get it. The layered harmonies stretch my brain!

These folks have been compared to everyone... it's just not apt, they're not the bastard love child of a Gizzard/Clown/Primus/etc orgy, they're their own thing. Perhaps Snakefinger/Residents at their best... but this stuff rocks a lot harder. And the looping of necessity brings in minimalism e.g. Philip Glass' repetitive phrases. I saw the Glass ensemble perform, looping/sequencing would have saved a lot of work!

Anyway, most shows sold out, they're having a good time touring everywhere. Vol2 drops April 3rd. I am fanboi. Here I am at the Jamboree with my T-shirt, as threatened:

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[Brooks Montgomery]

Their name is clever too—Translation:
severe pain in the chest and left arm, caused by heart disease.

[Dave Mudgett]

Mudgett... my fave Beefheart is Orange Claw Hammer, a poem... that's where I am with him. Van Vliet came from art... he was an 'art brut' musician. He tortured his musicians to get what he wanted from them... and he got it.

Yeah, Beefheart wasn't really exactly a 'musician' in my mind. And Zappa wasn't exactly easy-going with his musicians either. Neither of them could play everything that their minds imagined. To the point where, later in his career, Zappa mined heavily from computer-generated music to realize some of his ideas. To me, music comes from the mind. But realizing/actuating what's in the mind's eye can be an issue.

These folks have been compared to everyone... it's just not apt, they're not the bastard love child of a Gizzard/Clown/Primus/etc orgy, they're their own thing ....

FWIW, I'm not really 'comparing' them to anybody. 60 years of massive influences and technology changes makes true 'comparisons' impossible. But as I listened to that clip, my mind immediately went to Beefheart and Zappa. And following up with other links did not dispel that. To say that I see them in a long line going way back does not refute the idea that "they're their own thing." They definitely bring something new to the party.

Their name is clever too—Translation:
severe pain in the chest and left arm, caused by heart disease.

Angina Pectoris

[Bob Shilling]

I'd been ignoring this—thinking it was another AI gimmick. Rick Beato did a review with some clips, and - whoa! - these are real musicians, and good ones too. My first thought was that they're good but not my cup of tea,. It's find of grown on me though.

Beefheart and Zappa played together since High School. I wonder about the back-story on these guys.

[Stephen Cowell]

They've upped their game... lights in the heads, the whole light show is more integrated:

https://youtu.be/uJXRKY_hkfM?si=h9wtdI255MC_gzmc

... and this song is a real banger, one of the new ones from the new album.

[Stephen Cowell]

When DJ Cummerbund does you, it's like Weird Al, you know you've arrived.

https://youtu.be/dSIG-YEWHL8?si=X9mI197JNjMgnNZJ

Turn on English subtitles... not sure what boobs has to do with it, but 'breast-enhancing night lights' are offered.