This is a hard one. I listen to quite a lot rather odd music, but I don't think it's very weird, but I am sure people especially listening to a lot of mainstream music would find it weird. Anyhow, I am going to make a suggestion and say Orphaned Land, which is progressive metal with heavy Middle East folk music influences. Their Mabool album is ingenious. <3
That sounds interesting. I'll check it out.
I would think the same about a lot of the bands I sometimes listen to that are only 'weird" to mainstream listeners. I could tell you that I like Brian Eno ( and I do ) but to me that isn't "weird". I've continued to raise the bar on "weird" for years and so I'll have to think hard for mine.
2. Pat Boone's heavy metal album
That sounds like a hoot. The sort of thing I would call "truly weird". I have an album of a guy trying to explain how to deal with public mocking of his group's mission, to the faithful. And how to recruit new members etc. His society's mission is to make sure that all animals have their privates covered with diaper-like things, as it otherwise contributes to "indecency". I love getting old educational sound recordings or movies that are so out of date as to sound extremely corny now, if they didn't always strike people that way.
I guess implicitly, music from other cultures would be considered abnormal. I like Hungarian folk, Klezmer
I likes me some Klez....
Frank Zappa beats anybody for weirdness hands down. Check out Thing-Fish or Civilization Phase III or any of his 70+ albums.
Other "weird" music I like
GONG
Sun Ra
Mysterious Voices of Bulgaria (weird to a Western ear)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (same as above)
Edgar Varese
Lustmord
Diamanda Galas
The Shaggs
Just to name a few. I love love love love music
Some good bands here, and most
are genuinely weird, but not "obscure" weird.
Chip music's appeal (to me) is its innovativeness, nostalgic and distinctive sound, and its sonic limitations. Why would sonic limitations appeal to me? Well, when your only given three or four sound channels, and 3 or 4 basic sound waves to work with, and you wish to create music that excites and interests you and other people, then it's necessary for you to really push your creativity boundaries, or even break them. Innovation is demanded of the musician.
I like the idea you just described. "Constraints-based" art. Sometimes it produces great stuff, and sometimes....
Siberian throat singing; Qawwali; Freak folk/New Weird America.
I've been checking out the throat singing a little. Any recommendations ? I don't know "freak folk" that well, but I have a few artists that fit this description. I may be confusing it partly with "psychobilly" though.
I've got a Stockhausen album that has a lot of vocalists improvising that's pretty cool. Randy Hostetler has inspired me to do a spoken word piece myself. I have an anthology of "drone" works from around the world. There are a few people who can "play balloons" that I'd like to get, and an album that was recorded using the properties ( on purpose ) of a piano that had been abandoned after suffering a lot of water damage.
I posted some odd music on my "Pontookers" thread.