T.R.A.M. - Seven Ways Till Sunday

     Just a quickie song tonight before bed, but I don't know whether it's a good lullaby or not.

     On the one hand, T.R.A.M.'s "Seven Ways Till Sunday" is instrumental and jazzy, which one might think would make it a good fit for putting on in the background before drifting off to dreamland. On the other, it's got some aggressively funky drum work and some wild sax playing that could, under the right (or wrong?) conditions be the stuff of nightmares.  

     Lingua Franca is a little bipolar that way, and opening track "Seven Ways Till Sunday" is the perfect example. Go ahead and put this one on before climbing into bed, but don't blame me if you dream Dali dreams...

Song of the Day: The Reign of Kindo - Thrill of the Fall

     This evening we've got another Facebook feed find, thanks to someone over in the Periphery camp, who've pointed me towards some cool stuff in the past. Tonight's band The Reign of Kindo is no exception.

     Your song tonight is "Thrill of the Fall", the opening track from Kindo's sophomore full length, 2010's This is What Happens. Jazzy, funky, vaguely latin, "Thrill of the Fall" boogies its way into your head from the opening piano riff. Metal it sure ain't, but if you as a metalhead can appreciate a band like, say, Trioscapes, or T.R.A.M, or the like, then it's a short hop to the smooth melodies of The Reign of Kindo. They're not all as high energy as "Thrill of the Fall", but they've got a few real corkers in their catalogue.

     Yes, I just used the phrase "real corkers". Just listen to some of The Reign of Kindo already.

Song of the Day: T.R.A.M. - Endeavour

     A quick instrumental jazz metal post for you this evening, and a riddle: what do The Mars Volta, Animals as Leaders, and Suicidal Tendencies have in common? Give up?

Song of the Day: Mestis - Menta

     Today's song comes from an act that's kind of a friend-of-a-friend sort of thing. You see, there's this instrumental prog-tech-jazz metal type band you probably know called Animals as Leaders, and in this band there are two guitarists: Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes. These two slingers of many-stringer guitars are so full of ideas that they're in another band together, the jazz-influenced T.R.A.M. Even more than that, Reyes is so super chock full of material that he's got his own solo side-project called Mestis. It's from this project's first EP that I've drawn today's song.