When you want to dislike someone cos they look like a twat..

equalsql

But you can't cos they're such an amazing musician..

Jesus Molina..

He is just incredible.. I hate myself

equalsql

Lordy.. this shit's insane..

Right up there with Snarky Puppy..

snowblind

A bit of peroxide and that haircut could stray dangerously into Flock of Seagulls territory.

Litterick

I call this kind of music Nordcore. I find it insufferable.

Sporky

I had a brief listen.

This sort of thing is why we're perilously close to running out of notes. 

GoFish

Sporky said:

I had a brief listen.

This sort of thing is why we're perilously close to running out of notes. 

I told George RR Martin the same thing about the alphabet but he didn't listen, the great wazzock.

mrkb

Litterick said:

I call this kind of music Nordcore. I find it insufferable.

I kind of agree - you cant hum the melody, cant feel emotions/engagement with the lyrics, cant tap your feel to the rhythm, not bland enough for background music. Its a bit like reciting a dictionary from memory while on a roller-coaster - very impressive, but not very engaging.

CaseOfAce

There's really no excuse for the introduction of that keytar 30 seconds in...

Col_Decker

My caveman brain didn't understand what my ears were saying to it. But yeah I liked that

robinbowes

It reminded me of this Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin track from 1992, which I find has far more humanity:



[I thoroughly recommend checking out Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin's other work - I love it]

distressed

I guess this is what you get when 1 in 100 "look at that toddler ripping Billy Cobham parts on drums" circus attractions from FB and Instagram reels becomes an adult.

axisus

I liked the music. I think it's a bit unfair to say he looks like a tw*t though. Sure, he could make better haircut and jacket choices, but we don't need to be rude about the poor guy.

prowla

To me it'd sound better without the keyboards.

BillDL

While I can admire the technical skills involved with his and the others' playing, and the impeccable timing involved with the orchestration, to me it's just a blithering babble of directionless notes, like Richard Clayderman's playing might be if he experimented with hallucinogenic drugs and an overdose of caffeine.  This is an odd one for me because I find it worse to listen to without watching the video, yet I find it hard to watch because I find his really smug expression terribly annoying - somewhat like I imagine a love child of Dolph Lundren and Rob Beckett may look.  I know he can't help how he looks nor his posture and demeanour, but I agree with the 2nd half of the thread title because I can't get over the smugness 

thecolourbox

Seems quite harsh to say he looks like a twat to be honest - the guy looks confident and happy in his skin which is unusual for somebody late teens isn't it? It's hard to look objectively "cool" sat at a digital piano (I say this as a pianist), he's making happy sounding music so the smiling face isn't out of place, colourful colour schemes for jazzy music seems about right? It's not the 1970s anymore where everybody wore brown chords and a thick tie

I quite enjoyed it but I like jazz piano so could be biased (as mentioned, I'm a pianist, and often have to play jazz). It's music for music's sake, it's show off music, but it's very nicely done throughout and with the various sounds weaving in and out it seems less repetitive to me than other stuff I've seen like that. There's plenty of guitar based show off music along the same lines, would that get the same connotations? Seems us piano players always get described as being like Clayderman, Liberace or Elton, as if there aren't a million other pianists just as there are guitarists with their own styles. Would be like me as a pianist saying that all guitar show off music just sounded like Hank Marvin after 3 jagerbombs.

Enjoyed the irish chap's music as well, indeed it is a similar thing. I suppose the "more human" aspect could just be age - a quick google search suggests this Colombian guy is 29 (sorry maths error in previous  pre-edit post!), the irish chap apparently would have been mid 40s in that video (i say "apparently" because I'd have put him as mid 50s at least without googling him! People looked older in the past than they do now). With age comes experience, emotional intelligence, mastery of the instrument as well. Guitarists seem to emerge younger and burn bright but short, most classical instruments you find the best known soloists are older because they've learnt more by then.

I suppose bands like this and Snarky Puppy would have been the backing bands to singers in decades gone by, but most solo singers now seem to use a lot of backing track with notional bits of live instruments to fit in with that backing track rather than using a full band to sing along to. Horses for course I suppose, music seemed more able to be played with bands made up of jazz and funk style musicians back then (with the soul influences etc) however less so now, leaving the musicians that would be in that kind of band to do their own thing. Saw the Amy Winehouse Band before xmas and they were great, but basically seemed to be a bunch of jazz musicians with a more motown-y drummer having a ball. If these guys could collaborate with a suitable singer (who could keep up with them!) I imagine they'd be a great show

Kilgore

All the right notes but not necessarily in the right order.

Hootsmon

equalsql said:

Lordy.. this shit's insane..

Right up there with Snarky Puppy..

Postman Pat...Postman Pat...

ICBM

prowla said:

To me it'd sound better without the keyboards.

To me it'd sound better without the sound on.

BillDL said:

While I can admire the technical skills involved with his and the others' playing, and the impeccable timing involved with the orchestration, to me it's just a blithering babble of directionless notes, like Richard Clayderman's playing might be if he experimented with hallucinogenic drugs and an overdose of caffeine.  This is an odd one for me because I find it worse to listen to without watching the video, yet I find it hard to watch because I find his really smug expression terribly annoying - somewhat like I imagine a love child of Dolph Lundren and Rob Beckett may look.  I know he can't help how he looks nor his posture and demeanour, but I agree with the 2nd half of the thread title because I can't get over the smugness 

Or the video.

Philly_Q

Never mind the main guy, what the fuck is his guitarist wearing?

Kittyfrisk

Philly_Q said:

Never mind the main guy, what the fuck is his guitarist wearing?

Tattoos, shorts & a cheap nasty 1980's raincoat.

PeteBo

Calling yourself Jesus is likely to attract censure I'd think

ps is he wearing a bomber jacket inside out or something?