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Episode #8 - Understanding Instrumental Storytelling.
In this episode I talk about how stories can be told through pieces of music without the use of lyrics or vocal melodies. This is a concept that is rarely talked about and most commonly utilized by instrumental bands with the creative goal to tell a story or take listeners on a journey (especially within the genre of post-rock). Below is a link to the one other mention of storytelling without lyrics by composer, Xueran Chen (The only public mention that I have seen about the concept). Also listed below are all of the albums I mention in this episode that have utilized instrumental Storytelling to the best I've heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DenwAoABr8I&list=FLHMWV1LHORqna639nGYA-BQ&index=3&t=0s
Albums Mentioned (Highly recommend listens to all of these if you're interested!):
- Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever
- Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence
- Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
- Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
- Long Distance Calling - Satellite Bay
- Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling
- Long Distance Calling - Boundless
- Russian Circles - Station
- Russian Circles - Geneva
- Russian Circles - Guidance
- Duster - Stratosphere
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Tiny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
- Hunter Gatherer - Scavenger
- If These Trees Could Talk - If These Trees Could Talk
- If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky
- If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
- If These Trees Could Talk - The Bones Of A Dying World
- I Hear Sirens - Beyond The Sea, Beneath The Sky
- Jakob - Solace
- Irepress - Samus Octology
- Kerretta - Saansilo
- Trigg & Gusset - Legacy Of The Witty
- This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain
- This Will Destroy You - S/T
- This Will Destroy You - Another Language
- Toundra - (I)
- Toundra - (II)
- Toundra - (III)
- Toundra - (IV)
- Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
- The Pineapple Thief - Variations On A Dream
- The Pineapple Thief - 10 Stories Down
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By DaneIn this episode I talk about how stories can be told through pieces of music without the use of lyrics or vocal melodies. This is a concept that is rarely talked about and most commonly utilized by instrumental bands with the creative goal to tell a story or take listeners on a journey (especially within the genre of post-rock). Below is a link to the one other mention of storytelling without lyrics by composer, Xueran Chen (The only public mention that I have seen about the concept). Also listed below are all of the albums I mention in this episode that have utilized instrumental Storytelling to the best I've heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DenwAoABr8I&list=FLHMWV1LHORqna639nGYA-BQ&index=3&t=0s
Albums Mentioned (Highly recommend listens to all of these if you're interested!):
- Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever
- Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence
- Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
- Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
- Long Distance Calling - Satellite Bay
- Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling
- Long Distance Calling - Boundless
- Russian Circles - Station
- Russian Circles - Geneva
- Russian Circles - Guidance
- Duster - Stratosphere
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Tiny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
- Hunter Gatherer - Scavenger
- If These Trees Could Talk - If These Trees Could Talk
- If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky
- If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
- If These Trees Could Talk - The Bones Of A Dying World
- I Hear Sirens - Beyond The Sea, Beneath The Sky
- Jakob - Solace
- Irepress - Samus Octology
- Kerretta - Saansilo
- Trigg & Gusset - Legacy Of The Witty
- This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain
- This Will Destroy You - S/T
- This Will Destroy You - Another Language
- Toundra - (I)
- Toundra - (II)
- Toundra - (III)
- Toundra - (IV)
- Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
- The Pineapple Thief - Variations On A Dream
- The Pineapple Thief - 10 Stories Down