@ Jürgen
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Certainly an interesting point of view, but if our taste in music is dictated by genetics, how would you explain the fact that i like a lot of blues music, which (while having a great deal of influence from European folk music) is basically black music?
Well that
could be explained by the fact that since there will always be some common ground for the circumstances for the survival of the african ancestors and the circumstances for the survival of the scandinavian ancestors (farming and hunting skills, physical strength, child raising etc), there will also be some amount of common ground in our genetics and therefore common ground in our culture (for example some music). The fact that you like blues might just be caused by your forefathers having some existential common ground with the african forefathers.
I don't believe that human beings are 100% controlled be genetics (which would be a silly perception of humans, taking to mind all the examples of people being influenced by their upbringing etc.), but that it does indeed have alot to say. Scientist claim to have found the gene that determins your sense of humor, your language skills and much more for example. (And when they can with your taste in humor, why not taste in music?)
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Is it really sensible to look at everything from a scientific angle?
No, not at all. My oppinion: Science does not provide objective absolute truth, just a subjective perception of what the truth might be, just subjective conclusions based on empiri (what we have observed so far). Just induction.
If we were not to look in the sciences we could for example look in the metaphysics of Schopenhauer where music (and art in general) is a manifestation of the grander schemes of the primal omnipresent (actually, all-being) force,
the Will (as he calls this force).
Hehe, but I don't know if you (or anybody else) would want to take the metaphysical-philosophical approach.
@ Misha
I know. I have heard that the two records should be pretty different and that you should therefore not buy one because of hearing the other. But anyway the track of "Nattens Madrigal" along with the whole of the "Kveldssanger" album convinced me of Garms supreme sense of melody, emotion and mood, and on that basis I grew steadily more confident that "Bergtatt" weren't likely to be a record I would dislike.
I still don't know between "Filosofem" and "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" since I usually don't buy a record I haven't heard a single note off. It should be clear by now that I am not exactly the big gambler, hehe.
I have tried listening to those Thy Catafalque songs, and while I
did find some good parts here and there, I am quite certain (judging by these tracks) that I wouldn't like a whole record of theirs or find it worth while.
I have to admit that I have never given Jazz a serious try but what I have heard didn't appeal to me. But could you recommend some? (Something that isn't sport-music (my term for music that isn't art but a fine show of the extremities that the human body is capable of)).
I have ordered Drudkh - "Autumn Aurora" and Ulver - "Bergtatt" (and fairly cheap too, thanks to the help provided by my fellow danes). I will probably report back on these records when I have heard them, so we will have some more common ground for finding out what BM I should go after.
I also heard this one song on blackmetalradio.com called "Taken Away by the Torn Black Shroud" by Nehema (episode 96, track 24) which blew me away... Do anybody know this band? And if they do could they recommend some of their albums in particular?
Also the track "Slave Morality" by Zarathustra (episode 94, track 18) really struck a chord with me (though not with ethereality and beauty, but more like Dark Funeral with epic darkness in the form of melodies).
I have also had some good experiences with a band called Kvist and another called Dawn... does anybody own a record of these two bands?
sikke noet pis at de distroer jeg angav ikke havde lortet.. har ik nogen erfaring med musicmadness.dk...
