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Post by inkmeister on Apr 25, 2013 12:49:46 GMT -6
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Post by DungeonDevil on Apr 25, 2013 19:39:10 GMT -6
I was chatting about Lustmord over on K&K a while back. Very big fan. I also highly recommend "Place Where the Black Stars Hang". Very atmospheric, very creepy for that 'you won't leave this dungeon alive' kinda vibe. I also got the newly released complete 3-disk Conan the Barbarian OST from Intrada. It's got everything including that cool music from the "Tower of the Snake" scene. Steve Roach's work has some good stuff too esp. the massive "Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces" and the 70+ minute dark ambient work "Darkest Before Dawn".
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Post by archersix on Apr 25, 2013 21:17:06 GMT -6
The stuff from the original Conan movie is fantastic. I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan. They have a lot of songs that can get gamers in the mood, so to speak. Invaders, Trooper, and my favorite:Hallowed be thy Name. still more...Flight of Icarus, and they even wrote a song about a certain ancient conqueror: Alexander the Great.
Most of these are on youtube.
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Post by thorswulf on Apr 25, 2013 21:37:53 GMT -6
Big BOC fan myself. Those guys gotta play Call of Cthulhu!
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Post by zeraser on Apr 26, 2013 6:24:20 GMT -6
MACHAUT!!!!!!! AWESOME.
Worth noting is that during his life Machaut was as famous for his poetry as for his music - poetry which often came to construct its meaning in relation to the other (older, often religious) texts it was set alongside in his motets and chansons. In that respect he kind of reminds me of the OSR.
For my money, the Ensemble Gilles Binchois has the coolest recordings out of Machaut's music, often supplementing it with historically informed percussion - but I'm afraid I don't know the state of medieval music groups well enough to say that there's not a hipper ensemble out there, so it's probably worth snooping around for a couple different recordings.
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Post by idrahil on Apr 26, 2013 7:11:28 GMT -6
When I was doing an adventure involving the arrival of the Duke in a local Baron's castle I the music song from Game of Thrones when King Robert arrives in Winterfell. Helped me plan out random encounters, NPC personalities, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbBAtQ7bLis
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Post by inkmeister on Apr 26, 2013 8:02:29 GMT -6
Cool Zeraser; I wondered if you would know Machaut's music, since you have struck me as being really informed about music. About the medieval stuff; I had the privilege and fortune to see a free(!!) medieval concert put on last week at UNM, as part of the conclusion of a lecture series (which I did not attend, sadly, since I did not know of it), on Medieval Myths and Monsters. Awesome. Anyway, all the music was supposed to relate in some way to old myths and monsters. One piece, by a composer named Solage, called Le Basile, was about the basilisk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH2MVgUTIUYAnd Machaut had one about an epic python slain by Apollo's arrow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3jYDfqMYMkAlso music about fairies, unicorns, dragons, etc. DungeonDevil, I appreciate the further Lustmord recommendations; I've heard Where The Black Stars Hang - awesome stuff. I love his collaboration with Robert Rich, called Delusion Fields. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27D9QHD5XE&list=AL94UKMTqg-9BgrjUPxNN4vQllleUHoPAMVery inspiring for fantasy/post apoc.
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Post by inkmeister on Apr 26, 2013 8:41:23 GMT -6
Time to discuss some metal. One of my gaming groups would always have the classic/hard rock station going when playing, and we enjoyed it. Actually that game got kind of weird, as we all ended up playing anthropogenic animals, and we formed a band in the game that was going to be called Thunder Cats, but we decided to go by Beasts Of Thunderous Discord instead. One of the characters had some kind of weird saxophone of building, or something like that. I'm no longer so into the drinking and pot smoking with D&D that I was in those days, but what the hell, it was fun. Here are maybe some slightly less obvious metal picks (some of which I pulled from an awesome oldschool blog, the name of which I sadly cannot recall): 3 Inches of Blood: they are modern metal but obviously influenced by 80's power metal. Here's a track called "Quest for the Manticore." www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Y-bVJTXVEThe Sword - Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians - awesome post apoc metal with sweet music video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI7227GHvQYI have always really enjoyed Meshuggah's brand of "intense" metal. Too many good albums or songs to pick, but I'll throw out one with a good music video. Bleed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD00O1uFf54Also: "I" www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBEUTntgMOIAnd some Death Metal... why? I think it's the perfect music for the ORcs, Ogres, Goblins, etc: ORigin: The Aftermath www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sQw3J7Pu2YThis should get anyone in the spirit of D&D, old school style: Manowar "Gloves of Metal" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4qTi7cDtI4
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 11:31:39 GMT -6
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Post by dizzysaxophone on Apr 26, 2013 12:09:21 GMT -6
Great thread inkmeister. It is great to read discussions like this after receiving my music degree.
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Post by inkmeister on Apr 26, 2013 17:19:27 GMT -6
DizzySaxophone, I'm glad you enjoy the thread, and kudos on your music degree. Are you a performance major, specializing in sax music? Is jazz your specialty? Jazz is an intense area of interest for me, but for whatever reason I don't relate it to fantasy nearly as much as various old music styles and so on. But If there was one that would come to mind, it would definitely be b* tches Brew by Miles Davis (it is one hell of a psychedelic journey): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6yP7EiiK0 - the second track from the album, with cool video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Acy8Z9jkw And full album. But what music inspires you in regards to fantasy, Dizzy? Gronan - thanks for posting some music, I'm checking it out now! So far I especially like the Bo Hannson, LotR stuff! Cool recommendation.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Apr 27, 2013 13:31:55 GMT -6
Yeah, I'm big into Jazz too, but, erm, it's not really S&S-oriented -- unless you count Mingus' "Put Me In That Dungeon" LULZ. It seems that, with SciFi gaming we have many more choices than with fantasy, but if you include movie OSTs then I suppose the options increase. Years ago Dead Can Dance had a Renaissance-ish album that came out when I used to work in the music biz (late 80s/early 90s). If it's a Middle Eastern/Mesopotamian vibe in your campaign, the OST from the Last Temptation of the Christ by Peter Gabriel is very good. Back in the late 80s it was hip to sample folk music and I remember the Mystery of the Bulgarian Women (Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares) being used by many artists, including VAST (BTW, what ever happened to him?). I've always loved Gregorian chant which is perfect for a Mediaeval monastic/clerical setting, but I've only got one album (simply called CHANT), but I'd love recommendations for other CDs.
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Post by inkmeister on Apr 27, 2013 16:05:53 GMT -6
I'm by no means an expert on any music (I do play classical guitar and some keyboard, and some electric guitar, but I'm merely an amateur/enthusiast). DungeonDevil, I intend to investigate some of the artists and soundtracks you mentioned, probably later today. Thanks for listing some stuff, and by all means, contribute more. Who among us wouldn't be enriched by some new music? As to old style chants and the like, here are some cool ones. Perotin (13th Century) "Beata Viscera" www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0KX_Wr_kAoSome Medieval Ambrosian chant, from Milan: www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PU4ycRzwqDcHildegard Von Bingen (an immensely talented woman from around the 12th century); HEaven and Earth www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRrjFUGeNCEMore Guillaume De Machaut - awesome stuff, much more dark in character than what I had posted before: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc14fC0VdoI&feature=relatedAnd moving forward to the renaissance period, some beautiful (heart-achingly beautiful) vocal music from Josquin des Prez, De Profundus Clamavi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfVnqU8hyxU&feature=relatedEnjoy!
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Post by Hawklord on Jul 17, 2013 11:28:56 GMT -6
Uriah Heep gets a lot of play on my stereo. King Crimson, Gentle Giant and Hawkwind also make for good, prog-tastic inspirational music while designing. I have that Bo Hansson album on vinyl! Tony
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Post by krusader74 on Mar 10, 2014 3:35:16 GMT -6
Also music about fairies, unicorns, dragons, etc. Recently, I've been looking to traditional ballads from England and Scotland for inspiration. Allow me to elaborate-- Francis James Child (1825-1896), nicknamed "Stubby," was recognized as "the best writer, best speaker, best mathematician, the most accomplished person in knowledge of general literature" in his class at Harvard. In 1860 he published an 8-volume set, collecting 305 ballads from England and Scotland, known as The Child Ballads. In addition to the lyrics, these volumes also contain copious commentary. You can find these books on sacred-texts.com, project gutenberg, and google books. As an example, consider Child Ballad #35, " Allison Gross" (sometimes "Allison Cross."): SUMMARY: This ballad is a variation on the "Beauty and the Beast" story. Allison Gross, the ugliest witch in the north -- also identified as a nereid, unseely fairy, elf and hill troll -- offers the narrator splendid gifts to be her lover (=leman). He rejects her. She blows a grass green horn three times (hornblase = hornblower = witch), strikes him with a silver wand, utters some magic words, and turns him into an ugly wyrm (=dragon). He remains trapped in this monstrous form until Halloween, when the Seelie Court (=good fairies) pass by, and the Queen of the Faeries (=Rhiannon) uses her silver wand to change him back into a man. Here is an illustration of this story by Vernon Hill (1887–1972): You can find the lyrics and commentary in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 1, Part 2. Malinky is a Scottish folk band specialising in Scots song. They cover "Allison Cross" on their album "Last Leaves" and also the Various Artists compilation album "Songs of Witchcraft and Magic": There's also a 40 second MIDI clip of the melody on Mudcat MIDIs here.
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