Genius of music?

[Orang Utan]

I disagree ... In your opinion who is the greatest abstract or ambient musician?

Eno, Reilly, Gottsching - there’s loads!

 

[Karl Masks]

Vangelis

 

[Karl Masks]

Eno, Reilly, Gottsching - there’s loads!

Gottsching, RIP.

 

[danski]

Vangelis

Matt Berry?!

 

[hipipol]

Vangelis

Is Matt his long lost Bro? See v strtong Family resemblence

 

[hipipol]

Keeper of the Kings Music, Henry Purcell, or his predecessor Thomas Tallis perhaps???

 

[Karl Masks]

Is Matt his long lost Bro? See v strtong Family resemblence

Yes,

Matt Gelis

 

[Humberto]

Rebel MC aka Michael West aka Congo Natty

 

[Humberto]

Underground as flip tho isn't he.

 

[Humberto]

 

[Humberto]

Best London rapping I've heard.

 

[stavros]

Best London rapping I've heard.

Just as good:

 

[Steel Icarus]

Genius comes with the inbuilt idea that it's somehow bestowed upon a person. I'd argue there's no such thing

 

[krtek a houby]

In no particular order

Alice Coltrane
Miles Davis
Rory Gallagher
Bob Marley
Kate Bush
Joni Mitchell
Paddy Moloney
Janelle Monae
Tom Waits
Nina Simone
Django Reinhardt
Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
Bjork
Prince
Richard D James
PJ Harvey
Brian Wilson
Paul McCartney

 

[Humberto]

Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday

 

[Derek S-H]

Cathy Dennis

If you're going to namecheck her, then it's probably also worth mentioning Miranda Cooper (of Xenomania fame)?

I've also always got time for Imogen Heap, who is so technologically adept it boggles the mind.

 

[Derek S-H]

Jim Steinman - absolutely nobody else wrote lyrics nor created musical narratives like he did.

Paul Buchanan - because The Blue Nile's music reduces grown men to tears and he's the Scottish Sinatra.

Can I also mention Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy) because he's been going for over 30 years and has a varied, literate body of work to match anybody's?

 

[Derek S-H]

May be a leftfield choice: Gillian Gilbert.

Because without her, New Order produced a couple of very average albums which were rather dull and plodding. And when she returned, they got their groove back!

 

[krtek a houby]

Robert Johnson
Pete Seeger
Lee Scratch Perry
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
James Brown
Sun Ra
Ravi Shankar

 

[Boo Radley75]

Hans Zimmer
Mike Oldfield

 

[krtek a houby]

Hans Zimmer
Mike Oldfield

Much as I like both, I'm not entirely convinced by Zimmer. He's "borrowed" stuff in the past from Magma and Holst.

 

[albionism]

Rick Smith (Underworld)

 

[krtek a houby]

Rick Smith (Underworld)

Dubnobasswithmyheadman on the stereo at this very moment

 

[stavros]

I don't think Kevin Shields has been mentioned on this thread yet.

 

[Humberto]