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Morning chaps! (well its 9am here in Brisbane regardless!)

I though I'd extend a plea for assistance to Dakka. I'm asking a number of people to have a listen to my band, Immigrant. Were a jam band who are currently in album production for later this year. Everyone I know struggles to categorise what we play!

I'm looking for some feedback on our music from Dakkaites, tell me what you think. What overall genre would you categorise us as? A refreshing change?

Give us a whirl on the following addresses:

www.immigrantmusic.org

www.soundcloud.com/immigrantmusic

www.reverbnation.com/immigrant


Many thanks!

RD/Lee

Don't pigeonhole yourselves! Just be a band playing music that you love.

What blackskullandy said.

But if you want my opinion, well... I'm not exactly great at classifying music myself, but this stuff kinda sounds like some sort of... Smooth Jazz/Funk hybrid? I dunno, I don't really listen to Jazz or Funk.

Howdy. To my ears, it sounds like jazz fusion - in fact, some of it bears more than a passing resemblance to Miles Davis' fusion experiments in the early 70s, particularly In a Silent Way, which I would recommend to any serious music fan.

Sounds good to me, bro. Your sax player is tight.




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Oh, and there's nothing wrong with classifying one's music, either. It's a perfectly valid form of signposting for potential fans, particularly in the internet age.

Cheers for the comments so far.

We try as hard as we can not to 'genrefy' ourselves so to speak, but its tricky as 99% of people will ask you 'what sort of music do you guys play?'

Albatross, thanks heaps for the comments, even though I'm now living in Brissy, I actually hail from Leigh back home, and was a huge fan of artists like Mr Scruff and Fingathing (they're still part of my musical diet now). Manchester truly has some amazing talent!

Cheers for the compliments on the sax, Tom is an incredible player, he's one of those annoying musos who can play note perfect and ad lib something incredible, regardless of how drunk he is... as a percussionist I HATE that, 7 pints and I'm actually missing my cymbals!

Albatross wrote:
Oh, and there's nothing wrong with classifying one's music, either. It's a perfectly valid form of signposting for potential fans, particularly in the internet age.

It can also be a good way of stifling creativity and forcing yourself into generic conventions. Once you identify yourself as 'X' it can be very difficult to move away from 'X'


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Albatross wrote:
Oh, and there's nothing wrong with classifying one's music, either. It's a perfectly valid form of signposting for potential fans, particularly in the internet age.

It can also be a good way of stifling creativity and forcing yourself into generic conventions. Once you identify yourself as 'X' it can be very difficult to move away from 'X'

Blackskullandy wrote:

Albatross wrote:
Oh, and there's nothing wrong with classifying one's music, either. It's a perfectly valid form of signposting for potential fans, particularly in the internet age.

It can also be a good way of stifling creativity and forcing yourself into generic conventions. Once you identify yourself as 'X' it can be very difficult to move away from 'X'

Ah, so you have an extensive background in music promotion and marketing I take it?

Is it blues jazz, or jazz blues? Hard to tell.

Ahtman wrote:

Blackskullandy wrote:

Albatross wrote:
Oh, and there's nothing wrong with classifying one's music, either. It's a perfectly valid form of signposting for potential fans, particularly in the internet age.

It can also be a good way of stifling creativity and forcing yourself into generic conventions. Once you identify yourself as 'X' it can be very difficult to move away from 'X'

Ah, so you have an extensive background in music promotion and marketing I take it?

See your sig.

Blackskullandy wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

Blackskullandy wrote:

Albatross wrote:
Oh, and there's nothing wrong with classifying one's music, either. It's a perfectly valid form of signposting for potential fans, particularly in the internet age.

It can also be a good way of stifling creativity and forcing yourself into generic conventions. Once you identify yourself as 'X' it can be very difficult to move away from 'X'

Ah, so you have an extensive background in music promotion and marketing I take it?

See your sig.

You aren't an expert but you have a strong opinion and/or you are a fictional tv character?

Ahtman wrote:

Blackskullandy wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

Blackskullandy wrote:

Albatross wrote:
Oh, and there's nothing wrong with classifying one's music, either. It's a perfectly valid form of signposting for potential fans, particularly in the internet age.

It can also be a good way of stifling creativity and forcing yourself into generic conventions. Once you identify yourself as 'X' it can be very difficult to move away from 'X'

Ah, so you have an extensive background in music promotion and marketing I take it?

See your sig.

You aren't an expert but you have a strong opinion and/or you are a fictional tv character?

Both, as it happens!
I've spent fifteen years in bands doing the DIY thing, gigging all over the country, so i have extensive experience of promoting (live) music...
Marketing - not so much...

I'm not going to get into a pissing contest about this, but I will say the following: Generic conformity isn't an inherent bad, nor is it avoidable. It's a consequence of discourse, something fundamental to popular music.


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RhythmDoctor wrote:
Albatross, thanks heaps for the comments, even though I'm now living in Brissy, I actually hail from Leigh back home, and was a huge fan of artists like Mr Scruff and Fingathing (they're still part of my musical diet now). Manchester truly has some amazing talent!

Hopefully I'll be added to that list someday...

/wistful

Incidentally, I played a gig in Leigh about a month ago. It was... Interesting.

Blackskullandy wrote:Both, as it happens!
I've spent fifteen years in bands doing the DIY thing, gigging all over the country, so i have extensive experience of promoting (live) music...
Marketing - not so much...

So when I asked what your experience was why did you decide not to answer then?

I'm on the same wavelength as Albatross so no need to beat that horse to death. It may be a necessary evil, but it is still necessary.

For me, it's more that it's just inevitable. We are humans, categorising, conceptualising humans. Blackskullcandy, is all your food just called 'food', because you refuse to pigeonhole it?



"You may be long, brown and vaguely cylindrical, but never let anyone tell you you're a hotdog - go out there and be a birthday cake!"





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Christ, that sounded like something from The Secret or some other self-help bs.

Well I'm glad I've erm... generated debate on a 40k forum...

Incidentally Albatross, who's your band? And yep, a gig in Leigh is certainly 'interesting'. I used to play a few of the jam nights around the local areas, Atherton and Wigan. Man, I am SO grateful to be able to play in Australia.

People actually appreciate live music here, and will happily follow you as a band, so no more of that 'invite all your facebook friends to your gig' crap!

Thanks again for the comments, Playing a gig this weekend as a favour to another local muso as her backing band, we've already got her by the short and curlies to do some session work for the album playing flute for a few tracks. We've also got a cellist and violinist looking at coming on board for a couple too. Going to be a somewhat... Cinematic album!