LITE (Band)

As I said several months back, I had become absolutely fascinated with this band. In this span of time, I've read up about the band and heard nearly all of their released items, it was really fun for me to look up on them (though admittedly, difficult as the japanese wikipedia is well, in japanese. But here goes!

( note: if you just want to hear songs that I recommend, check out those in red )

LITE is a Japanese Math-Rock Band which has it's roots in Tokyo....

Left to Right: Akinori Yamamoto, Jun Izawa, Nobuyuki Takeda, Kozo Kusumoto

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Flimlets (2007)

Their first full album, entitled Flimlets is to me a somewhat transitioning period. Introducing and bringing the listener through, from a post-rock sound ("I Walk","Re") to their current math-rock style ("Human Gift"). This album has however, been hailed as one of the best math-rock albums avalible. Sadly, I have to admit this is my least favorite album of their discography.


Songs of interest: 

Parallel - An interesting piece. It manages to blend a calm soothing melody of which it seems minimalistic in its structure, with a fuzzied out, upbeat and tightly sequenced section snugly fit in the middle. Certainly a song where multiple influences can be heard. 

...Still, it is Quiet Around Here - Something that caught me. A very "airy" piece. The structure feels very regular.

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A Tiny Twofer (2007)

Their second studio album. It is an EP that was jointly released with Funanori. Their sound by now has distinctively changed, showing a clear tendencies to calculated musical madness... In an excellent and tasteful way of course! 

Akinori (drums) clearly leads the album here, pulling the band together and keeping everyone on the right track with his precise beats.I feel that this could be regarded as an introduction for Phantasia as can be seen not only from the overall change in sound, but also from their first released version of "EF", of which a second version was later released on their next album.

Songs of interest: 

TOMORROW - Starts with an extremely strong entrance, the drum beat remains constantly upbeat whilst the other instruments play staccato-like melodic riffs over it. It feels like running a circle, with the start and the end being similar and the entire middle portion, a different melody. (4/5)

Current Playlist

I have to do this more often! ... In any case, in order of time entered into playlist:

Foo Fighters - Word Forward
ANECHOIS - love+serenity
65daysofstatic - Radio Protector
Ling Tosite Shigure - DISCO FLIGHT
LITE - Red Horse in Blue
Switchfoot - Stars
Dave Holland Quintet - Free For All (Live @ Newport Jazz Festival)
65daysofstatic- Retreat! Retreat!
Aesthesys - Time is And Illusion
Mogwai - The Sun Smells too Loud
LITE - Image Game
Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante - ZIM
John Frusciante - Murderers
Banyan - La Sirena
Banyan - Lovin' them Pounds
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Live at Woodstock 1969)
The Reign of Kindo - City Lights & Traffic Sounds
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Noir Desir - Lost
Zack Kim - Cliffs of Dover/ If I Could Fly
Tommy Emmanuel - Angelina
Jon Gomm - Passionflower
Touhou - Bad Apple
Justin Koh - wet signal
Deepsea Drive Machine - Ray of Light
FULLARMOR - NAIAGARA [in katakana]
ACIDMAN - Green Chord
You Can't Explain Logic - May You Have Great Wisdom

I recommend a listen to any of these songs, anytime.

Diary?

I shall attempt to keep this updated every week /2 weeks/ month, depending on how i feel. just a catalogue of my itunes <50 folder. In order put inside the playlist.

Under The Counter - Noo Terabii [in katakana]
Foo Fighters -Word Forward
ANECHOIS - love+serenity
Foo Fighters - I Should Have Known
Foo Fighters - Bridge Burning
Nirvana - Lithium
King Crimson - Starless
LITE - Fade
Maybeshewill - Not for the Want of Trying
65daysofstatic – Retreat! Retreat!
65daysofstatic – The Fall of Math
65daysofstatic – Radio Protector
65daysofstatic – PX3
Maybeshewill – Seraphim & Cherubim
LITE – Solitude
Radiohead – Paranoid Android
Ling Tosite Shigure – DISCO FLIGHT
Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group – No.1 (Live)
The Samuel Jackson Five - Easily Misunderstood
LITE – Ghost Dance
LITE – Red Horse in Blue
JABBERLOOP – Fiesta
The Bad Plus – Flim
Russian Circles – Death Rides a Horse
Hiromi Uehara – Green Tea Farm
Maybeshewill – Last Time This Year
Deerhoof – Super Duper Rescue Heads! (Live in San Fancisco)
Mogwai – The Sun Smells Too Loud
Mogwai – Batcat
Arcade Fire – Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
TOE- “Guddobai”
TOE – I Do Still Wrong
65daysofstatic -  Pacify
Animals as Leaders – An Infinite Regression
Cloudkicker - Dysphoria

Post Rock, Nu-Jazz and Math Rock

Post Rock

Nu Jazz

Math Rock

I am deathly addicted to this band. Their album "Phantasia" is awesome. Recommended for those who have an obsession with listening to complex dissonant and/or very catchy riffs! Not recommended for those who dislike repetitive lines. 

Randoms

Local Music: Ambient Instrumentals

Makes me feel like I'm in space. Nice feel


70s Progressive Rock

The Pioneers of Progressive Rock


British Pop

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The Who (Band)

Just wanted to share some good music, don't think i know enough about the band to do a proper writeup yet...

The Who lasted from the 1960s to the 1980s... ah, what a good time for music... They created the genre "power-pop" which, I guess, was coined as though they had a "pop" sound, it was infused with more energy than other generic pop singles. They also had rock singles. They were, further, famous for instrument destruction- a feat that was repeated many times after.

The Who influenced many bands that came after- one of which was Pearl Jam, a band that I had talked about recently.

Substitute

As far as the lyrics go, Townshend's favorite song at the time was "Tracks of My Tears" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. Townshend loved the way Smokey sang the word "substitute" so perfectly ("Although she may be cute she's just a substitute 'Cause you're the permanent one") that he decided to celebrate the word with a song all its own. - Songfacts.com

Keith Moon... the Loon. The fellow on the drums- haha look at the way he's playing. Anyway, he was famous for exploding toilets at hotels that the band stayed in. Graduating from cherry bombs, to M80s, and finally to dynamites, he caused the band to be banned from staying at several hotel chains.

It was to note that it was him who recommended Jimmy Page the name for the band Led Zeppelin. (The name arose at the failed attempt on part of Page to create a supergroup, therefore a "Lead Balloon" it was spelt as "led" to avoid mispronunciation.)

However, he was quite wild and uncontrollable- often on drugs and alcohol. During an attempt to stay clean from alcohol he was given pills, however, he OD'ed on the pills and passed away.

You Better You Bet

First song on the album Faces Dances; the first album released after Moon died.

"You Better You Bet" was both the 4th and 55th video to be aired on MTV, making it the first video to be shown more than once.  - Wikipedia

Live at Leeds