can i have some bassoon in heavy metal examples please? that sounds amazing and i’ll like to hear it but i’m admittedly too lazy to look for it myself
YES
I’m sorry it took me so long to get to this lmao, I saw it and then promptly forgot about it
(Really hope these links work and take you to the right song- so sorry if they don’t, let me know and I’ll fix it)
ANYTHING by ORBI, my personal favorites are Orion (a Metallica cover), Cthulhu (a F. M. Maier cover, listen to his stuff, it’s SO GOOD), Fight Fire With Fire (also Metallica), Octavarium (a Dream Theater cover- listen to them, they’re prog rock, SO good), and Uprising (Muse, not technically metal but. It’s good)
Rock E Bassoon has some amazing covers, they have amazing covers of Black Dog/Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin, and Enter Sandman by Metallica. Black Dog isn’t quite metal but it’s rock, so. They also have a bunch of more poppy covers, Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars, Toxic by Britney Spears, that sorta stuff.
Henry Cow, again not metal, an avant-prog band from the 70’s. All of their stuff is pretty fun, but their albums from 74-78 have their bassoonist (Lindsay Cooper). My favorite album is probably Unrest (1974), favorite songs from Unrest are Half Asleep: Half Awake and Linguaphonie. In Praise of Learning (1975) is also really good, Beginning: the Long March is my favorite song from there, but Living in the Heart of the Beast is arguably one of their best songs, in terms of experimentation and solidifying Rock in Opposition (RIO) (a festival that later became the name for this genre of music)
Bram van Sambeek, he’s a bassoonist that does a lot of this kind of stuff, he has the usual classical repertoire that most bassoonists do, but he was the bassoonist in ORBI, and he played in Rope Dance, which I’ll go into a LOT of detail about, but he’s a fantastic performer and I feel like he deserves some recognition here
Rope Dance! I fucking love Rope Dance. It’s not metal, but I feel like it wouldn’t be out of place on a metal album. It’s technically avant-jazz, and I guess you could say that but it’s definitely more along the lines of Henry Cow, or RIO. There are a lot of instruments on this album, Joris Roelofs plays clarinet (he also wrote most of the music, if you’re at all interested in clarinet music, he’s probably my top suggestion), Bram van Sambeek is on bassoon (I really like this guy), Bram de Looze on piano (ridiculously talented, though I can’t say I know much about him), Martijn Vink on percussion (an incredible musician. If you like just listening to drums, please please find some of his stuff, it’s incredible), and Clemens van der Feen on double bass, again not someone I know much about but is incredibly talented.
Ok it’s music time lmao! My favorites from Rope Dance are definitely The Master Can’t Dance, Are Your Feet Light Enough, The Three Metamorphoses, If You Gaze Long Into an Abyss, and The Abyss Will Gaze Back Into You
I could talk about Rope dance for so long, the music and the ideas and everything about it, it’s genuinely unlike anything I’ve ever heard of
That’s all I can think of right now, I’ll add more if I think of/find more!
And this is absolutely not metal but please have this bassoon cover of Party Rock Anthem, the little reed crows make my day every time
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