link one song you’d like to share with everyone and give an explanation of why you enjoy it. explanation can be simple or complex, doesn’t matter

i’ll start: my song is the tom and jerry show by hiromi uehara. here is a longer version with a beautiful melodic section in the middle

basically i like it because it’s completely badass haha. extremely virtuosic, in a way that you don’t really see in contemporary (and tonal) solo piano pieces anymore. it’s also incredibly fun and you can tell how into it she is in the first recording. that’s always what’s most impressive to me, when people make slight mistakes but are so in the zone that no one notices and the whole experience is unchanged. the jazz harmonies and rhythms in the melodic section of the second version are just so juicy too.

  • Idliketothinkimsmart
    7·
    2 years ago

    Retrograde by Mr James Blake. Is a very good song. The synths that kick in quite literally transfer you to another dimension when you listen to it laying down with earphones.

    • chinawatcherwatcherOPM
      3·
      2 years ago

      really interesting mixture of things. voice has a kind of unique sound to it, almost kind of thin. the synth drop is sick but i also like the underlying bass line, especially when it starts to change more quickly. overall kind of bluesy in terms of the scale but not quite.

      • Idliketothinkimsmart
        3·
        2 years ago

        The blues-esque sound could be from the gospel music he said he listened to somewhere in an interview! Reminds me a lot of Hozier. Oooh, I love the bass line 😍. It has this really nice descent feeling to it.

        • chinawatcherwatcherOPM
          3·
          2 years ago

          yeah that might be it i guess! yeah, especially when the synth drop happens, the bass line going down is that much more satisfying against the one synth mostly staying on the same note through that whole louder section. one voice moving a lot, one voice staying constant, gives it a great sense of contrast