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cgod · 1363 days ago · link · · parent · post: 424th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately
There is a lot of innovative guitar playing coming out of Japan, I don't want to listen to most of it but It's still impressive. I think of bands like Tricot and Elephant Gym. The track by Bop is pretty good.
Yeah, people somtimes refer to it pejoratively as 'note salad'. I think what elevates Ichika Nito's piece for me is that he finds a real strong sense of melody. So no matter how complicated his overall playing is at any one moment, there's still a relatively simple musical idea to latch on to.There is a lot of innovative guitar playing coming out of Japan, I don't want to listen to most of it but It's still impressive.