Music in the Darkroom - What's playing?

[Laurent]

Most of the time this is something like The Pretenders, Anna Calvi, Me Sparrow
If not one of them, them traditional music, mostly played on the Melodeon/accordion: Aurélien Claranbaux, les Zeoles...

 

[Roger Cole]

Sometimes I stream WWOZ from New Orleans. My ex and I used to travel to New Orleans several times a year. I miss doing that (but not the company...) and need to get back down there. Music can vary but the whole "New Orleans vibe" comes through, somehow, and I find that very compatible with my darkroom work, somehow.

 

[Black Dog]

A few of my favourites...
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn-Pink Floyd
Are You Experienced?-Jimi Hendrix Experience
Pink Moon-Nick Drake (in fact anything by ND)
Ziggy Stardust-David Bowie (again one of my all time favourite artists)
Anything by Mazzy Star
Lots of soul and funk (especially for developing film)
Emma Jean-Lee Fields
Anything by David Sylvian
Dead Can Dance
Ocean Rain/Heaven Up Here-Echo & The Bunnymen
Lots of folk (especially when I'm printing landscapes)

 

[M Carter]

A few of my favourites...
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn-Pink Floyd
Are You Experienced?-Jimi Hendrix Experience
Pink Moon-Nick Drake (in fact anything by ND)
Ziggy Stardust-David Bowie (again one of my all time favourite artists)
Anything by Mazzy Star
Lots of soul and funk (especially for developing film)
Emma Jean-Lee Fields
Anything by David Sylvian
Dead Can Dance
Ocean Rain/Heaven Up Here-Echo & The Bunnymen
Lots of folk (especially when I'm printing landscapes)

Man, I love some of that obscure stuff. David Sylvian, Dead can Dance. Sounds like you might need to try some Morphine - drums, sax, and the bass is played with a slide. Every lady I know gets all wiggly when the Morphine comes on.

 

[GRHazelton]

How about Handel's Water Music? What could be more appropriate? Or maybe Vaughan-Williams' Sea Symphony? Or Virgil Thompson's score to the Pere Lorentz film The River? Or Debussy's La Mer? Oh dear, time for my meds....

 

[Black Dog]

Man, I love some of that obscure stuff. David Sylvian, Dead can Dance. Sounds like you might need to try some Morphine - drums, sax, and the bass is played with a slide. Every lady I know gets all wiggly when the Morphine comes on.

Hmmm... thanks for the FYI ( I can think of a lovely lady who's name begins with B...). Getting back to Japan...

 

[M Carter]

Missed seeing Dead Can Dance on the Towards the Within tour. Still kick myself over that.

 

[Black Dog]

Missed seeing Dead Can Dance on the Towards the Within tour. Still kick myself over that.

My first DCD album was Into The Labyrinth on cassette ,no less- played that one to death (sorry!)

 

[sepiareverb]

Lately a lot of Loscil, and a couple of playlists on the iPod of 70's stuff.

 

[removed account4]

Man, I love some of that obscure stuff. David Sylvian, Dead can Dance. Sounds like you might need to try some Morphine - drums, sax, and the bass is played with a slide. Every lady I know gets all wiggly when the Morphine comes on.

local college radio station loved playing that stuff and i'd always have
an ancient boom box with bad reception eeking out music out of the static
listening as i printed ... and at 1130 i'd get my fill of news ( democracyNOW!) for
1/2 hour and then bck to the tunes. unfortunately my local college station
was "bigfooted" by some alleged "do-gooders"
and has been demoted to broadcasting through the internet ... i suppose i could
listen to them on my phone ... the static was nice though ..

===
echo and the bunnymen !? YES
and ill see you and raise you
judy's tiny head ..

 

[M Carter]

My first DCD album was Into The Labyrinth on cassette ,no less- played that one to death (sorry!)

Ya know what else is really really cool darkroom or creative-time music? Cocteau Twins, pre "Blue Bell Knoll". The Blue Bell/Leaving Las Vegas era was when they got sort of gorgeous and lush and beautiful - before that, there's a spookiness to them that's pretty damn cool. (though I love it all).

 

[M Carter]

And this... this is pretty damn cool:

 

[Black Dog]

Marissa Nadler-July (in a similar vein to some of the stuff we've been discussing).

 

[sepiareverb]

Physical Graffiti yesterday.

 

[Black Dog]

The sound of the rain (out on my bike round the Solway Firth yesterday).

 

[splash_fr]

Bauhaus, Alien Sex Fiend, Einstürzende Neubauten, Don't (the guys from Portland), Kraftwerk, Iggy etc. from vinyl running in the living room next door,
or my metronome app....

 

[chris77]

if you are into jazz and like a slow pace groove.. try this. its very good darkroom music imo.
some tunes rather easy listening, others just fine. quality all the way.

Midnight Blue:

 

[Black Dog]

July Flame-Laura Veirs

 

[VinceInMT]

When in the darkroom I usually put on a reel-to-reel tape that is good for about three hours. This is mostly stuff I copied back in the 70s. I just listened to The Tubes and Frank Zappa. I also listen to the spoken word like a collection of broadcasts by Joe Frank.

 

[Black Dog]

One of my favourite albums to listen to when I'm printing landscapes is Eye Of The Hunter by Brendan Perry (of Dead can Dance)-think Scott Walker sings WB Yeats.

 

[guangong]

Almost all of my Coltrane is on lp records, same with Brubeck, MJQ, and many others...bought the new when they were first issued. I don’t find lp s to be convenient in darkroom. Re-record operas to Sony minidisc, which gives me 3-4 hours of uninterrupted music. Mostly copy various recordings of Wagner’s Ring from my collection. Always hear something new that I never noticed before while inverting the developing tank.

 

[DREW WILEY]

I remember a cute cartoon of a vending machine in a dept store, with a sign, Stop the Muzak, 5 min for 50 cents. That's why I like the darkroom. Calm and quiet. No phone, no Muzak.

 

[CMoore]

Willie Nelson - Stardust




Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily
(gorgeous guitar work by Jennifer Turner)

 

[William Crow]

Some time ago I went back to the local university and spet a lot of time in the school darkroom. Another student would bring in a tape, maybe a CD, that was of Gregorian chants, or some such. Big and echoey. When its was pretty dark in the darkroom and big, echoey music was playing I felt like the darkroom was a s big as a cathedral. I'm not a Gregorian Chant fan, per se, but it worked for being in the darkroom.

 

[Rick A]

While my musical tastes are "eclectic" at best, (Karen would tell you listen to some weird shit) anything and everything from classical, some country, and a good bit of rock, I do not play anything in my darkroom. I prefer quietude. No food or drink either. The sign on the door reads LMTFA