Bela Fleck and the Flecktones – www.flecktones.com www.belafleck.com Humbling flawless country/rock/jazz in every meter.
Bitches Brew – www.myspace.com/bitchesbrewmusic - My band from back in the day…. We had about 8 songs with a range of meters that we wrote naturally. Michelle Daniels – vocals, Dan Gustafson – drums, Steve Coyne & James Carter – guitars and Betsey Stephens (moi) – bass.
Black Sabbath – www.black-sabbath.com (Dio) www.blacksabbath.com (Ozzy) My all time favorite band…. some oddities snuck in this straight four band during their less popular years….. Cross Purposes and Dehumanizer.
Boullt, Lindsey – www.lindseyboullt.com An amazing musical shredder and composer from San Francisco with an impressive roster – check him out.
Brubeck - www.pacific.edu/brubeck (official) www.brubeck.info (fan site) Dave Brubeck and his quartet – Paul Desmond (sax), Eugene Wright (bass) and Joe Morello (drums), thank you for reincarnating all at once.. and before me… in time to acquire your newly released For All Time box set. Ahh kindred spirits Thank you for experiments in time.
Candiria – www.myspace.com/candiria Horns and growls and electronica and meters and heavy riffs oh my ... check out these brave beats from Brooklyn...
Chastain - www.leviathanrecords.com Was is possible to hear Leather Leone over some odd beats? Well if it was I was going to find it… and lo and behold, I did. Leather’s cords, David Chastain artistry and 6/4 okay I am happy. This nugget can be found on “7th and the Voice” on the track called “Take Me Home”.
Crismon Glory – www.crimson-glory.com Ahh the metal years creep up again. This Prog/Power Metal quintet formed in ’82 in FL and released a total of 3 albums. Transcendence, the 2nd album is my fav, original and quite amazing. Their use of odd meters is simple and natural that it can get past even the most attuned counters…. Not really…
Deadsy – www.deadsy.com This band is fronted by you know who and who’s son… ohhhh you don’t know… Sher and Greg Alman… Very cool sound, the keys and vocals make this band… they have two songs out of FOUR so far from their debut “Commencement” - Rush cover “Tom Sawyer” and from their second album “Phantasmagore” – Time. I hope they do more.
Dillinger Escape Plan – www.dillingerescapeplan.com home page or www.myspace.com/dillingerescapeplan ahhhh what it would be like to sit in on one of their writing sessions. Safely, I can bet they don't chart their songs out prior to band rehearsal. Their music hints of a writing system that is an invention all of their own…. check these Jersey Boys out you will never be the same.
Dream Theater – www.dreamtheater.com The pinnacle of contemporary prog.
Dobson, Daryll www.solarguitars.com Fusion rock guitar player from Florida, voice sounds like Jimi Hendrix, mostly instrumental.
Drums and Tuba - www.drumsandtuba.com - This is a one of a kind trio (and guitar) from Nawlins, with their own sound and rhythms they reinvent Rn'R.
Dunav - www.dunav.org.il - I'm in love, dances in 13, 11, 9, 7, 5 and even 25! and they even have names for certain dances/meters, how very cool. This site is your connection to the Balkan Folk Music World. It has free music downloads and lots of infor - a must for your odd time music collection.
Estradasphere – www.estradasphere.com These guys are all over the place, sort of like this station. You name the style they play it all in one song. They do Klezmer quite well.
Fallen, The www.myspace.com/thefallenoriginal Believe it or not, these fine fellas go back to my Berklee days… I think they were called Crestfallen at the time. Anywho, they are high caliber musicians using multi-meters quite naturally. They released one album with Metal Blade “Front Towards the Enemy” and are no longer together. Too bad…But don’t let the growls fool ya – they know their II V I turn arounds better than Kenny G blindfolded in the Russian forest winter night.
fred – www.fredteam.com you’ve gotta check this band out! This is true communal music from the early 70s. They are fun, free, amazing musicians playing and composing prog/ rock/jazz/fusion music and do not take their selves too seriously.
Gentle Giant - www.blazemonger.com/GG This band has one of the most diehard followings. Yes, I have heard of people heading to their sixth decade that would drop everything to follow them on tour if they were to reform. Now, what other 70s British prog band can you say that about?
Grateful Dead - www.dead.com I think that I am about 180 degrees away from being a Deadhead. Although many attempts were made in high school, I strongly stuck to my leopard spots, spikes and bandanas. But, now I notice that some of their tunes have some really cool rhythms. Hummmmm, nope, still not going to happen, maybe just 175 degrees now.
Graves, Randy - www.gingerroot.com Anybody who plays and teaches compound signatures on the didjeridu is way cool in my book. Check out Randy's instructional and solo work and you don't have to be a didjeridu player to benefit. In addition, his former band "Didginus" is worth your ears' attention, they have interesting instrumentation and like to compose with odd meters (they even have a song in 22/8).
Hancock, Herbie www.herbiehancock.com Jazz Master, Music Master He just keeps reinventing himself with the times. He is especially cool with the Headhunters.
Huun-Huur-Tu - www.huunhuurtu.com Throat singers from Tuva - true nature musicians.
Katatonia – www.katatonia.com ummmmm Jonas Renske has the sexiest voice… anyways, this band has spent years (since ’91) honing their sound and boy does it show. They are a death metal now rock band from Sweden that has grown to a level of artistry that is rare. Most bands end up breaking up before they reach this level. As a result, their tenacity has produced many sonic gems. They are skilled at syncopations which sometimes screws with my counting but adds to the obsession quite well… After a few listenings I did manage to find meters that were genuinely odd.
King Diamond - www.covenworldwide.org I love these..... these what do I call them? Well, musicians of course, but somehow they have struck me into their spell... magicians.... warlocks.... demonhunters... veil lifters... okay how about just really cool music, do I have to read into everything? (yes) For the most part their music is based in FOUR, but their last album "Give Me Your Soul.... Please" has made Odd Time History, with their first mixed meter song. Is that cool or what????
Lamb – www.lamb.tv Electronica/trip hop/drums & bass experimenting in meters??? … how lucky to bump into this treasure chest. This duo from Manchester England has 6 albums to their credit, and my favorite title…. yes you guessed it “Fear of Fours” ah kindred spirits.
Lamb of God - www.lamb-of-god.com Some people get mad at me for playing them, finding it blasphemous. I think that they are missing the point. Its about counting here (and not your sins). LofG are pure American Metal with some serious chops. They started off with more mixed meters in their songs but through time they have preferred the more straight ahead approach.
Laswell, Bill - www.innerhythmic.com Does this guy ever stop writing? Hope not… He usually stays in 4, but gives us some oddies especially on Baselines.
Levy, Hank - www.hanklevyjazz.com was a composer and professor who was fascinated by odd meters. He taught at Towson State College, CA, wrote for Stan Kenton and Don Ellis and authored the textbook "A Time Revolution", dealing with the exotic meter concept. He writes in big band and jazz ensemble style with lots of cool licks, my favorite is "Chain Reaction" in 13/8.
Magma – www.seventhrecords.com One might think that this act headed by the tyrannical timekeeper would have more diverse meters – (as I was hoping). But we will settle for some 6/4 here and there and maybe some other surprises nestled in their epic tales.
Mahavishnu Orchestra - www.johnmclaughlin.com - What’s an Odd Time Radio Station with out them? They truly enhance the obsession.
Mars Volta, The - www.themarsvolta.com - They are so creatively amazing, I swear everytime I hear them, I want to play with them. But I gotta get on with my Spanish lessons so I can understand them.
Matheos, Jim – www.fateswarning.com www.osiband.com Fates Warning, O.S.I. and two solo albums my original love. Thank you Mr. Matheos for bring my obsession out. When I first heard Fates Warning in ’85 I was absolutely hooked. It was my mission in life to write in odd meters. Yes strange mission, but we all have ‘em…
Meshuggah – www.meshuggah.net These guys are crazy ….. hence the name. You name a meter and they have played it. Not to mention mixed meters, meters over meters, meters under meters, meters besides meters, meters inside of meters… They were just born this way… out of the womb suckling time changes… What star system are these cats from anyways? – I want to go – or do I? me scary....
Moondog - www.moondogscorner.de a.k.a. Louis Hardin 1916-1999 This composer is in a category of his own: couplets, canons, the trimba, dragons teeth and Viking ware and experience not to be missed.
Nimoy, Leonard – www.theofficialleonardnimoyfanclub.com Every alien has got to have their own album. “Mr. Spock’s Music From Outer Space” had somehow landed in my collection… and who knew he has a song in 5/8,,, “Alien”. Also, he has Mission Impossible TV theme… in 5/8 also. Very exciting…
Odd Nerdrum - www.oddnerdrum.com Odd is one of my favorite artists. He is Norwegian figurative painter who has developed his own genre/style and has dubbed it "Kitsch". His art has the ability to take me to parallel universes where I swear I am having or had a parallel life/past parallel lives. His is a modern time Master. I am sure is he were a music composer he would write in ODD time.
Opeth – www.opeth.com Does music get any better than this? Growls from the bowels, tempo changes, classical influenced guitar, a voice that changes your ethereal vibration, double bass, odd meters, hummm…. I don’t think so.
Ozric Tentacles - www.ozrics.com Wicked cool instrumental British new age, prog. Although, most of their songs are in FOUR, sometimes they go to NINE and others and usually stay in one meter and rarely mix them, but when they do it is pretty cool.
Pain of Salvation - www.painofsalvation.com theatery prog grooves with insane meters.
Patton, Mike - www.mikepatton.com Check him out in his many incarnations: Mr Bungle www.bunglefever.com Fantomas www.myspace.com/fantomasband Tomahawk www.myspace.com/tomahawkofficial Peeping Tom www.myspace.com/peepingtomeispatton
Porcupine Tree - www.porcupinetree.com Progressive pop rock from England, fantastic bass, writing and of course odd rhythms here and there and sometimes everywhere.
Prong - www.prongmusic.com is still going, industrial in the truest sense mixed with metal and raw expression, sometimes uses 5/4, 7/4 type of grooves - you just can't go wrong.
Queens of the Stone Age – www.qotsa.com I wish they had more odd metered stuff, I could’ve sworn they had….. but I only found “Hangin’ Tree” from…… in 5/8.
Radiohead - www.radiohead.com SuperBritPopRock has some cool odd time nuggets in their mix.
Say Bok Gwai - www.monkeykingrecords.com/sbg Cantocore at its finest – What? You don’t know what Cantocore is? Hello…. its Chinese American Hardcore sung primarily in Cantonese… This guitar and drums duo from the Bay Area ROCKS. SBG are quite original and are creative with meter use and song length. Songs range from 31 seconds to a little over 4 mins but most stay around 2. Something new for the ear.
Solitude Aeturnus – www.eternalsolitude.com These Texas doom dudes have been around since ’87 and still going strong. Their sound, especially Robert Lowe’s voice takes me close to my real home. They keep it basic with the meters, natural and interesting.
Soundgarden - http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/ the unofficial fan site. Ahhhh why oh why did ya have to break up? but their rhythmic legend lives on…
Spock’s Beard – www.spocksbeard.com Dave Meros is my new favorite bass player – I am gonna copy his sound…okay just a little bit…mixed with Geezer… and maybe some Lemmy… In their epitome of progness there is humor and licks that call for obsessed rewinding and playing…
Stephens, Mike – www.kzyx.org for info https://kzyx.securepacific.net/pages/about_kzyx.html to listen - my beloved older bro to whom I credit for much of the origins of my musically knowledge to. You should see his collection, I don’t think anyone can compare. He hosts the radio show “Sonic Attack” every other Friday at midnight from the Redwoods. Check him out on KZYX & Z from Philo, CA.
Sting - www.sting.com Yes, the one and only. His artistry keeps growing along with his meter use. After all of his "experimentation" he is still a Pop Star.
Stravinsky - no official website - Ahh to be in this genius's mind, just for a moment to get just one glimpse as to what the diddleedang he was thinking during the writing of "Rite of Spring", just one moment that is all. I credit him for a large part of my OT obsession. In college conducting, I had to conduct a part of "Rite". It was amazing. From then on I was obsessed with conducting patterns in odd meters, thank you Igor.
Symphony X www.symphonyx.com Holy Smokes – Mr. Romeo can I please just have 1% of your chops? Do you ever let your guitar rest? Do you ever stop dreaming and breathing phrygian, fives and whys??? Now, would you expect just 4s from these chops? Hell no…
Tool – www.toolband.com Bless these beings for being born. How cool to have these heavy odd meter songs on the radio and mainstream consciousness. Innocent listeners tapping their feet to 5/4 and 11/8 ….if they only knew… Thanks Tool!
Venetian Snares - www.venetiansnares.com I don't think that they know what 4/4 is... cool electronica from Winnepeg songs about their cats, pompoms, shitholes, meatholes, calvade cades...
Voodoo Funk - www.voodoofunk.com "Record digging in West Africa - Sounds and Experiences from the Motherland" Frank is a Vinyl Archeologist, specifically of the 70s era Afro-Funk persuasion. After to listening to many of his streams, I have found a couple of oddies tucked away - so farjust 6/4 type of grooves, but I know there has got to be a true oddie in there somewhere. Check this out, so very cool.
Wry - www.myspace.com/wrymann - deathmetal, electronica, industrial, acoustic singer/writer that sometimes likes to write in different meters. I was in one of his bands for a while, an interesting cat.
Zappa – www.zappa.com THE Emperor of the ODD. What is there to say but..... Didja Get Any Onya?
Zonder, Mark - www.markzonder.com one of my all time favorite drummers, his internal clock is like no other drummer I have witnessed. The way in which he expresses meters is simply amazing. Hear him on Fates Warning, Slavior and various other projects.
Updated 1/31/09
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