strangest mandolin music youve ever heard?

[kevbuch]

Maybe the instrument was used in a genre of music that you wouldn't expect or perhaps the artist uses his/her mandolin in an unconventional way?:popcorn:

[G7MOF]

Ok, Where is it?

[kevbuch]

I'm asking you guys :( I haven't exactly heard much of anything.. I just listen to the radio. I thought it would be a fun topic.

[JH Murray]

Nash The Slash.

http://youtu.be/S6VKC1QXq1o

[Carl Robin]

Strange and beautiful: Snehasish Mozumdar, East Indian mandolin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwjXPa2SZ2Y

[Rodney Riley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoXfz-_fBJo

[allenhopkins]

Grisman and Statman's Mandolin Abstractions. Got through the LP once.

[Carl Robin]

What's "strange" to me may just seem exceptional to someone else. Anyway here's something else exotic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENle4gYjlDQ

[Joel Glassman]

This one is seems to be unique:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w22SrgFRnJw

[Mickey King]

Every time I play it is the strangest mandolin music I've ever heard!!

[lenf12]

"Urban Mandolin" by Chris Biesterfeldt, not quite strange but a very outside bebop mandolin trio. Check it out!!

Len B.
Clearwater, FL

[Tommcgtx]

Chris Cornell and Ben Shephard of Soundgarden play mandolin and mandola on "Ty Cobb" from the album "Down on the Upside". I guess that qualifies as "used in a genre of music that you wouldn't expect". Here's a quote from Chris Cornell via Wikipedia on the matter:

"Well, Ben actually had the idea that he wanted to hear mandolin on that song, and so we called some people and they brought like, these older mandolins down for us to try, 'cause they thought they were really great, and then we picked them up and just played 'em, and that was about it, the first time we ever played them."

So, there's that.

[Paul Kotapish]

I don't know if it qualifies as "strange," but Patrick Vaillant's approach to the mandolin and its repertoire is always refreshing and surprising to me. He's also commissioned some of the most unusual mandolins, too.

Here he is solo:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ljmv_pVRkI

Here he is with the wonderful Melonious Quartet. Be sure to heck out the pick grab at the beginning, and watch how they incorporate the nearby furniture into the music, too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSpQLnVhZqw

[grimer]

Some of that strange stuff is very refreshing. I love bluegrass but that same solo over and over gets boring no matter how good it's played.

[Dave Greenspoon]

grisman and statman's mandolin abstractions. got through the lp once.

huge +1.

[roysboy]

I don't know if it qualifies as "strange," but Patrick Vaillant's approach to the mandolin and its repertoire is always refreshing and surprising to me. He's also commissioned some of the most unusual mandolins, too.

Here he is solo:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ljmv_pVRkI

Here he is with the wonderful Melonious Quartet. Be sure to heck out the pick grab at the beginning, and watch how they incorporate the nearby furniture into the music, too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSpQLnVhZqw

WOW and WOW . " Refreshing " is an understatement . This is absolutely joyous music to my ear ...wondrous but accessible ....melodic and interesting from start to finish ....beautifully executed .

[Dagger Gordon]

I don't know if it qualifies as "strange," but Patrick Vaillant's approach to the mandolin and its repertoire is always refreshing and surprising to me. He's also commissioned some of the most unusual mandolins, too.

Here he is solo:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ljmv_pVRkI

Here he is with the wonderful Melonious Quartet. Be sure to heck out the pick grab at the beginning, and watch how they incorporate the nearby furniture into the music, too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSpQLnVhZqw

I completely love the Melonious Quartet, and indeed I went to their Mandopolis Festival near Nice in France last July.

Strange? No. Unusual - certainly.

Patrick Vaillant's other work can be - I'd prefer not to use the word 'strange' - unexpected, but anyone who goes out with a line-up of electric mandolin, tuba and live electronics from the sound man is clearly ploughing his own furrow. To hear it in a village hall in France is quite an experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD_QvEniUMY

[Franc Homier Lieu]

Just came across this and thought it might fit the bill: Modern Mandolin Quartet performing David Jaffe's Grass Valley Fire, 1988.

http://davidjaffesite.squarespace.com/music/grass-valley-fire-1988.html

[Paul Kotapish]

Vaillant made some really nice recordings a decade or two back with the Italian button-accordion virtuoso, Ricardo Tesi that are wonderful, but a bit hard to find. Here's a track that should confirm the notion that mandolin and accordion are a wonderful pairing. Again, strangely lovely.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itaKv8ffJCk

[John Flynn]

Here's something you don't see every day:

Gph-X-FM2P4

[F-2 Dave]

can't remember the name of the song, not sure I know how to post a video anyway, but I remember a song by Nick Cave and Grinderman featuring some work with a mandocaster that was a little bit out there.

[barney 59]

Try clicking on all of these at once-------

[JH Murray]

Nick Cave has Warren Ellis in his band. Ellis is a violinist who also plays electric mandolin, mandola, and tenor guitar. He even has a signature model electric tenor guitar.

http://youtu.be/oraMv_V6V1s

Ellis and Cave have also collaborated on the soundtrack to several films as well as some more atmospheric pieces.

http://youtu.be/AB-tBa5j0yQ

[ralph johansson]

Grisman and Statman's Mandolin Abstractions. Got through the LP once.

Once? You mean the whole album? Quite a feat.

[Polecat]

A little free jazz...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzvRotIic00

[sgrexa]

This seems perfect for this thread- "Confusion in the Service of Discovery" by Michael Hooper. Forward to 4:50 to see what a Gilchrist A5 sounds like with a bow.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G13qcS_IPKk&feature=youtu.be

[fentonjames]

don't know how "weird" it is, but i often play jimi hendrix's 'little wing' on my mandolin.

one day i was just playing chords and the "take anything you want from me" part came up. am aflatm gm thought hmm... that sounds like little wing, did it again and the whole thing just fell out of it and came together nicely. here i am after i somewhat figured it out a year ago. i should probabally shoot a new video of it, as i developed more, with more chords thrown in.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMeHACDux-0

[Joel Glassman]

Not mandolin, but check out this version of Little Wing [on lap steel]
Really fine...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvKbbDBeBNo

[bratsche]

Forward to 4:50 to see what a Gilchrist A5 sounds like with a bow.

It sounds like the noise from outside whenever my next-door neighbor is making something in the driveway with his power tools...

bratsche