What Are You Listening To Now? 6.0

Jinjer - I Speak Astronomy
https://youtu.be/KJoPIgg17U4

My lady love and I were just discussing extreme female vocals and I remembered hearing "Pisces" by Jinjer a few years ago. Didn't like it back then and a repeat listen today didn't change that. So I picked another song by them at random and tried it. They have some shred skills, all right, but in between all the instrumental olympics and extreme tonal shifts the voice provides, I fail to find a song to listen to. Also, as impressive as the singer's versatility is, I wish she'd stop with the growls. Her voice is powerful enough to work with the shred already, so tossing in the growls because she can do them is overkill.

I'll stick to Oceans of Slumber for my dose of American prog with a female singer. Who also will appear on the next Ayreon album, just as an FYI.
 
Reminds me of British Airways

That's right, they used it in their ad campaign; my husband adores 3 particular operatic arias: The Flower Duet, 'The Queen of The Night' aria from The Magic Flute, and 'Vissi d'Arte' from Tosca, and we both have a soft spot for 'Time To Say Goodbye' by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli; he listens to Classic FM on the DAB radio in his car, and if any of those pieces play, he'll literally pull over and sit and listen.
 
Jinjer - I Speak Astronomy
https://youtu.be/KJoPIgg17U4

My lady love and I were just discussing extreme female vocals and I remembered hearing "Pisces" by Jinjer a few years ago. Didn't like it back then and a repeat listen today didn't change that. So I picked another song by them at random and tried it. They have some shred skills, all right, but in between all the instrumental olympics and extreme tonal shifts the voice provides, I fail to find a song to listen to. Also, as impressive as the singer's versatility is, I wish she'd stop with the growls. Her voice is powerful enough to work with the shred already, so tossing in the growls because she can do them is overkill.

I'll stick to Oceans of Slumber for my dose of American prog with a female singer. Who also will appear on the next Ayreon album, just as an FYI.

Sounds like one I should research.
 
Madeleine Peyroux - Half The Perfect World album

Actually, it's what Will is playing in OR 2 while he's doing his thing, I'm just in the observatory watching him and wishing I could do that; he'll be in there another good few hours, so I think I'll cue up a couple more playlists, I'm thinking Eagles, Jewel, and a swirl of Billie Holiday, he always works well when Lady Day's talking to him.
 
Between the Buried and Me : The Great Misdirect

Spinning this again. It's quickly climbing the list of my best-ever list. Brilliant. Intense, technical, angry in parts and gentle in others - very powerful. Though - it does require you to be able to handle "cookie-monster" black metal style vocals.
 
Sadako e le mille gru di carta

LogoS

New Prog from Italy. LogoS has been around since the late 1990s
 
Spinning this again. It's quickly climbing the list of my best-ever list. Brilliant. Intense, technical, angry in parts and gentle in others - very powerful. Though - it does require you to be able to handle "cookie-monster" black metal style vocals.

Sigh....

So many albums/songs I will listen to at great attention, Loving it until.....GROWL. I just can't.
 
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