Superb!!

Try some of this out on your system. Check out Christoph's little lead at about 2:30....if you didn't realize the rest was just the melody :)
This is Guitar!

 
Both of these groups have their own merits. Obviously diametrically opposed styles of music. Both of which I can enjoy in small bits, but neither for long extended time periods (one too slow, the other to chops-fast-metal). I did check out several other vids by each, and I recommend you do that too, because both groups are very good in their own way.

If I was in the car with my wife, or looking for some nice wine and cheese background music I would play The Little Unsaid. If I was in my car or on my commute to work and wanted something to keep me awake I would play Mörglbl.
 
Good stuff Bob, it was mainly in response to the fact that I don't just listen to Classic Rock. My range is very wide, but strumming and yodeling just bore me. I will look at some other of the OPs vids just to keep an open mind.

Case in point - Morglbl will tax an HE system a wee bit more than TLU will on any given day.
 
It's an interesting phenomenon on audio forums, posters discussing obscure music almost because it's obscure. Interesting because I, and probably many others as well, have a huge music collection (15,000+ hrs) with little music that I would qualify as obscure; way too much music that is excellent by any standard for me to reasonably listen to almost no matter how long I live (assuming that truly excellent music should be listened to more than once or twice).

Now back to the OP, whatever that was...
 
rbbert said:
It's an interesting phenomenon on audio forums, posters discussing obscure music almost because it's obscure...
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Its not the obscurity that attracts me, it's the quality. Popular music is typically popular because a lot of 15 year olds like it. 15 year olds are influenced by many factors beyond musical quality, I'm not. If I limited myself to amazons top 100 best sellers I'd be buying very little music.
 
There's a lot of excellent newish music which is neither popular nor obscure. I don't see The Little Unsaid having any staying power, but I could be wrong; the music's not my cup of tea.
 
rbbert said:
It's an interesting phenomenon on audio forums, posters discussing obscure music almost because it's obscure. Interesting because I, and probably many others as well, have a huge music collection (15,000+ hrs) with little music that I would qualify as obscure; way too much music that is excellent by any standard for me to reasonably listen to almost no matter how long I live (assuming that truly excellent music should be listened to more than once or twice).

Now back to the OP, whatever that was...
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My tastes actually have a wide range but there are still a few genres I can do without or take in limited quantities. Along with Morglbl, I also have Yani and John Tesh, Indian Flute music, rock, prog, fusion, jazz, blues, new age, smooth jazz, and yes some singer songwriter, but mor the likes of Michael Hedges.

What I look for in music is more the virtuosity of playing, whatever instrument. Anyone can keep a simple beat on drums, but not like a Gavin Harrison, or Carl Palmer, or Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa. Anyone can strum chords on an acoustic guitar and croon, but play something, again like Michael Hedges. Even with vocals, show some emotion and that your heart is in every word, like Greg Lake, Annie Haslam, Candice Night, even some older Phil Collins before going commercial.

In general, I don't like simple music or songs as much as I like full out playing that takes more than just keeping the beat. I would like to expand my Classical a bit and do like some dreamy Violin and Piano, but I have no idea what to look for or how to sample til I find it.

As for Obscure, 20 years ago when I first joined a message board, I spent a year and a half arguing about cables with all the DBT White Paper guys until I fount the site's Music Forum. It was there I was introduced to Prog. Flower Kings, Marillion, Porcupine Tree as well as so many other types and styles of music I would have never heard. We all traded CD Compilations in Themes, Years, Holidays, and just about anything. My collection expanded by several hundred comps, and then several hundred more purchases of what I liked.

I still trade suggestions with a few guys as well as browsing the Progressive Ears site for hints. I am not mainstream, and don't listen to most mainstream music but I never limit myself to one genre or style. I do like shredding guitar and when it is mixed with a little spirituality as with Phil Keaggy and Glass Harp, it's more interesting. And yes, I also have several Christian Rock comps and disks for Sunday Mornings, but most more spiritual than religious.

I would never tell someone they should or should not like something, all the choices is what makes life so grand, as well as complicated.
 
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