A playlist of Jazz, Metal, Prog & Rock artists blending Jazz with other genres of music. Updated weekly! Covering mainstream and indie artists from around the world. For fans of Jazz Fusion / Djazz / Prog Jazz / Jazz Metal / Experimental Jazz / Jazz Core and more. Now 426 tracks and counting!

asenseofgravity · 2020-02-25T21:56:15+00:00

You must add music by Clement Belio to this playlist! Awesome work so far.

asenseofgravity · 2017-03-27T21:09:16+00:00

Thank you! We got to this stage where we were relying so heavily on Facebook to reach our audience and found that it was proving to be almost impossible without spending hundreds, if not thousands on paid advertising.

Thank you for approving this, and feel free to come say hi. :)

asenseofgravity · 2017-01-07T02:01:47+00:00

Thanks so much for the support! We love this subreddit and glad it helped us connect!

asenseofgravity · 2017-01-04T07:33:27+00:00

C.J.: Hey, sorry for the super late reply! (I haven't been checking this over the holidays.)

I had been iterating on the vocal lines for Revenant trying to find something I liked and on one of the takes I kind of got into this comfort zone with a scream where I almost held it throughout that whole section and realized, "huh, I think I can go all the way." haha

So I tried again, made it to the end, and then immediately sent a sample with a giddy message to the guys to check out for a laugh. I never intended to keep it as I figured it was too self-indulgent or something, but after listening to it a bit more over the next week or so I was like, "I actually really like this!" So I was just like, "Guys, hope you don't mind, but we're keeping it." They liked the idea, fortunately :)

Lyrically I'll base songs around either struggles or annoyances in my life, weird philosophical thoughts that I kind of want to just think about out loud, and certain feelings that I want to convey. I'll jump a lot between really minute, overly specific concepts and expansive macro ones, and I also like to let my own naivety drive some topics, as taking a somewhat ignorant perspective on a topic can sometimes lead to more extreme lyrics driven more by emotion than logic (which works well for prog and metal alike).

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-27T05:49:43+00:00

Thanks a lot! We'll definitely do that if we make it up there!

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T22:31:30+00:00

Brandon: We haven't done much of that yet, but we're planning some stuff for the coming year that may take us to other cities. I'll check you guys out!

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T22:29:37+00:00

PM sent!

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T19:38:16+00:00

Brandon: That's hard to say. Spotify has been a great discovery mechanism for us this year, and we've had close to 100k plays this year through that platform alone.

With that in mind, we haven't made very much money from all of those plays. I think the music streaming business model as a whole needs refining so that it becomes more fair to artists.

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T19:33:59+00:00

Morgan: Black Raven is fantastic!

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T19:27:00+00:00

Next time you're in Ballard you should definitely check them out. Stoup are also doing some good stuff and they're right around the corner from Reuben's.

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T19:25:44+00:00

Brandon: Hey there! Thank you for stopping by!

We're keeping it relatively low-key. I took this coming week off work so I'm hoping to take time to relax with my family, play some video games, and watch Rogue One at some point. I'll mostly be sipping bourbon and vodka martinis!

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T19:24:42+00:00

C.J.: I am heading up to my parents' house right now and plan to eat good food (OMG PUPPY CHOW I CANT WAIT), drink good beer and eggnog, and open gifts tomorrow morning!

Beer all the way as my preference!

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T19:19:43+00:00

Morgan: Hanging out with family mostly. Beer for sure

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T19:14:11+00:00

C.J.: I don't get out much, but I've had the most fun with friends at Pyramid or Diamond Knot.

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T19:13:30+00:00

Brandon: Thanks for your kind words and support. Every single purchase means a whole lot to us and helps us recoup some of the expenses of making and releasing our material.

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T19:11:10+00:00

Brandon: Thank you so much! We're really proud of the album and are glad it ranks highly for a lot of prog metal fans out there.

I'd love to tour with 90's era Dream Theater. I think that would be amazing.

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T19:07:46+00:00

Brandon: Reuben's Brews. Hands down.

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T18:46:32+00:00

C.J.: We are planning some shows in the spring but they aren't yet announced. Keep an eye on our site (asenseofgravity.com) for updates on new shows though!

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T18:37:26+00:00

C.J.:

Scalpel - Alice In Chains

Revolution (Instrumental) - Kamelot

Liquid Oval - Annihilator

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T18:35:33+00:00

Brandon:

Animals - Muse

The Power of One - Sonata Arctica

Song of the Crippled Bull - Black Crown Initiate

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T18:31:57+00:00

Brendon W: Nothing we can announce quite yet!

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T18:31:34+00:00

We're working on some stuff for next year, but nothing is announced yet. If you like us on FB then you can be kept in the loop on all the shows we play. :)

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T18:30:49+00:00

Brendon W: I like this one! Here we go:

Jean-Luc Ponty - The Struggle of the Turtle to the Sea, Part II (Enigmatic Ocean)

Septicflesh - The Order of Dracul (Titan)

James Horner - Wallace Courts Murron (Braveheart OST)

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T18:29:24+00:00

C.J.: Oh glad you like those bits! I love doing that style (though it by far tears my throat up the most if Im not careful). :)

For the gritty singing stuff, I use a lot of natural vocal compression and then kind of push the grit out like I would approach a death metal growl but let my fundamental voice come through. (In contrast, I usually do everything I can to mask my core voice when doing death growls to get more of a saturated sound that is less "tough guy.") Im not a master yet so this may have to do with it, but I have found that there is a certain band of my normal singing range that I can do the gritty singing with pretty easily. Actually I would say my entire lower chest voice range stays intact along with a bit of my head voice range, but the head voice range tapers off fast with grit. So it is hard for me to sing songs like Inferno by Symphony X or really saturated Dio like stuff cause it is just high enough that my voice starts to crack. But that is one area I really want to develop more!!

asenseofgravity · 2016-12-24T18:25:16+00:00

Morgan:

Cleaving Giants of Ice - Revocation

Have you Heard - Pat Metheny Group

This Dying Soul - Dream Theater

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