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Title: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Menorah Jams, Pham on July 21, 2009, 08:26:55 PM
One of my co-workers has a bassy hum that drives me nuts.  I need to have some of my own music to drown it out.  I'd rather not advertise Touhou and invite people to come up and ask me "Hey, what's that you're listening to?" because that usually leads to "So while I'm here, something weird is going on with my *insert technology product here*" and I don't need any more of that at work.

So does anyone have recommendations for albums I should get?  I'm not interested in jumping through 9001 steps to convert TTA, but I do have a torrent going of something like 100ish albums. 

I already have Touhou Komori Uta and Zoku Touhou Komori Uta, but I want more with real instruments and not just synth or computer arrangements.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Drake on July 21, 2009, 09:00:14 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dps4uwac-0s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dps4uwac-0s)
Crazy good album right here.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Helepolis on July 21, 2009, 09:03:01 PM
For Jazz you should listen to C-Clay's arrangements, their jazz arrangement of Cirno theme, Marisa theme and Youmu's stage are awesome. Very peaceful and pretty supreme vocal.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtJi-aPNpWo
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Momiji on July 25, 2009, 12:33:31 AM
dialogue~Paradigm Lost~ (http://kimino-museum.com/paradigm.html) by kimino-museum, it's all instrumental rock/jazz.  I just got it at Otakon, pretty dang good ('though fairly short).  It's part of a 2disk set with ~Reincarnation~, which is a vocal disk with some of the same songs.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: N-Forza on July 25, 2009, 12:54:37 AM
Swing Holic a thousand times. They have 4 albums out and while only about half are instrumental, they're still awesome.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Letty Whiterock on July 25, 2009, 05:31:12 AM
Swing Holic a thousand times. They have 4 albums out and while only about half are instrumental, they're still awesome.
Seconding this. It goes into Weather Channel territory, and that's awesome.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Menorah Jams, Pham on July 27, 2009, 01:21:29 PM
I'm upping the ante: if anyone knows a workable jazzy Touhou song with actual instruments, and I like it, IT WILL BE PLAYED DURING THE RECEPTION WHEN TRIANGLES AND I GET MARRIED.

I am serious. 
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Iryan on July 27, 2009, 02:01:31 PM
How about this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Olx-oU1M8&feature=related)?

Alternatively, try the Touhou Jazz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhxH5E3bwr4) albums by AZURE&SANDS.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Menorah Jams, Pham on July 27, 2009, 03:17:43 PM
The one Touhou Jazz album I got sometime last year sounded like synth... I need actual instruments.  D:

Youtube is blocked on PCs - can you tell me what to search for on the first one so I can view it on my Pre later?
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Aya Reiko on July 27, 2009, 05:00:40 PM
If you want rock, there's also demetori.

Necrofantasia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAiEEOxM6Yo&fmt=18)
Suwa Foughten Field (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAL69RyZYT8&fmt=18)
Ancient Temple (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKD3lA-bOZM&fmt=18)
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Drake on July 27, 2009, 05:39:27 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGrNM7rOGUI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGrNM7rOGUI)

Well, the beginning, at least.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: triangles on July 27, 2009, 06:07:00 PM
Iryan - that one off Youtube is perfect! 

We're trying to slip in some video game music that isn't instantly recognizable for the reception - which is why anything too "synth-y" is right out.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Flay_wind on July 27, 2009, 06:57:12 PM
I think Alice theme from SWR qualifies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sNsQdixLoA
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Drake on July 27, 2009, 08:53:29 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyoqHzZDy0U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDNBYPEGiJc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6MJICThaGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3tZyVsyEAs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9gmV6YjWIw (Perfect considering the occasion, haha)

Are you fine with calmer arranges as well, or more swingish, upbeat ones like what I posted?
(Or maybe stuff with less instruments.)

Also I love love love this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzixdSzkts4), but I'm not sure it's what you want as it seems kind of synth-ish.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: N-Forza on July 28, 2009, 12:33:00 AM
Like I said, Swing Holic. Pretty sure those are performed with real instruments.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Tengukami on July 28, 2009, 01:18:20 PM
The entirety of IOSYS's "bloom" is instrumental jazz using real instruments, fwiw.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: N-Forza on July 28, 2009, 02:40:16 PM
You sure about that? The wiki says there's a lot of synth in it.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Tengukami on July 28, 2009, 03:25:09 PM
Giving another listen, the copy I own has a lot of piano, upright bass, live drums, flute, clarinet and some synth; so little as to be forgettable.
Title: Re: Any recommendable live instrumental rock or jazz Touhou music?
Post by: Menorah Jams, Pham on August 10, 2009, 06:19:41 PM
SWING HOLIC
LUNATIC EYES

I gotta track down more of their music, I think they only had one album in the 116-album torrent from C76. 

But I am SO pushing to play this song at the wedding; it's not only an awesome Touhou cover but a jazzy hip song in its own right.