Acquiring the Taste by Gentle Giant: techniques borrowed directly from the Renaissance and Baroque proved us all that there's so much more to do in rock music
Shark's Ultimate Music Research Corner
Unveiling the beauty of challenging music
- Feb 4
- 5 min
Tago Mago by Can: a Stockhausen-esque, which fuses an avant-garde rock symphony with shamanic avant-funk trance
- Feb 3
- 6 min
Rain Dogs by Tom Waits: breathtaking dark cabaret and beat poetry, wrapped with seductive jarring rhythms and singular instrumentation
- Feb 2
- 3 min
Bar Kokhba by John Zorn: a journey to an elegant and sophisticated avant-garde territory
- Feb 2
- 7 min
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: fast and bulbous; a massively misunderstood masterpiece
- Feb 2
- 8 min
Hot Rats by Frank Zappa: flawless, impeccable and exquisite; the birth of jazz-rock fusion
- Jun 5
- 6 min
Enigmatic Ocean by Jean-Luc Ponty: flawless playing and utterly fluid transitions and interplay
- May 27
- 5 min
Starring Rosi by Ash Ra Tempel: the definitive trip into cerebral space land
- May 23
- 7 min
Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley: this music is so cool and so smooth, that it is infectious working its way into the mind, body and soul of the listener
- Apr 11
- 16 min
The Complete Music of Anton Webern —Recorded Under the Direction of Robert Craft: hugely influential recordings of jewel-like works
- Apr 7
- 6 min
Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte by Popol Vuh: an ability to create music that's simultaneously delicate and powerful, detailed and expansive, earthbound in its origins and cosmic in its reach
- Apr 2
- 5 min
Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock: considered to be one of (if not THE) vanguard recordings that gave birth to funk/rock jazz fusion
- Feb 1
- 3 min
Welcome to Shark’s Ultimate Music Research Corner!
- Feb 5
- 38 min
The Bible of the Discography of an Alchemist Master, John Zorn
- Feb 4
- 2 min
A Treasure-Map of the Discography of a Unique Genius, Frank Zappa