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Playlists -- out of this world numbers!
« on: March 05, 2023, 09:46:21 am »
What is/would be on your 'out of this world' playlist?

This might be stuff like Rocket Man, or maybe something like Concerning Hobbits or Lothlorien from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.  Whatever makes you feel out of this world.

I'm going to suggest that we each try and limit ourselves to our top 5 or 6 tracks, per post, for readability (so we don't end up with really long lists in each post).  But there's nothing stopping you from posting more than once.

Mine are (no particular order):-
~ The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV show theme music
~ Eve of War by Jeff Wayne from War of the Worlds
~ May it Be, by Enya (with honourable mention to Edge of Night (Pippin's Song, also from The Lord of the Rings soundtrack));
~ theme from Harry's Game, by Clannad, for some reason
~ something from the Star Wars soundtrack, but I can't settle on one -- most probably the main theme from episode IV, though

I feel like I'm forgetting something, but those are the ones I can think of right now.

Although, further honourable mention for Out of This World TV show theme music... because, of course!
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Re: Playlists -- out of this world numbers!
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2023, 10:54:30 am »
[...]This might be stuff like Rocket Man, or maybe something like Concerning Hobbits or Lothlorien from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.  Whatever makes you feel out of this world. [...]

Of all people, you'd expect me (a musician) to have a list... but I don't. In fact I'm having a hard time defining for myself what "out of this world" means.

But there is one piece that always gets me--transports me, almost out of body, into a realm of emotion. Joy, grief, wrath, resignation. It's a trio sonata by the Danish-German composer Diderich Buxtehude for two violins, viola da gamba, and basso continuo: . I think that's the closest I come to "out of this world" because when I listen to this sonata, I cannot think or do anything but feel; it induces a state of altered consciousness in me that I'm finding difficult to explain in words.

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Re: Playlists -- out of this world numbers!
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2023, 02:47:10 pm »
What is/would be on your 'out of this world' playlist?

Music is particularly transportive to elsewheres/elsetimes for me, so just a random few that are have a particularly out-of-world/beyond-time feeling for me...

The Theme From Harry's Game makes my list as well.
Amnesia - Dead Can Dance
The Misty Mountains - the version by Malinda
Wintery Waves - Qntal


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Re: Playlists -- out of this world numbers!
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2023, 03:27:09 pm »
But there is one piece that always gets me--transports me, almost out of body, into a realm of emotion. Joy, grief, wrath, resignation. It's a trio sonata by the Danish-German composer Diderich Buxtehude for two violins, viola da gamba, and basso continuo

I just clicked your link and listened to it; it's quite lovely!

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I'm having a hard time defining for myself what "out of this world" means.

Same here. But I'm going to go with music that evokes something of the strange. Operating with that understanding, in no particular order (but numbered for easy reference):

1. Main theme from Dark Shadows by Robert Cobert
This supernatural soap opera on ABC became an unexpected smash hit of daytime TV in the late '60s/early '70s; I watched it as a kid, and its theme song got burned into my brain as if I were an optical disc recorder. The source of its spooky power? It's all about the theremin, baby!


2. Music from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) by Bernard Herrmann
One of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time that still holds up today, with music by one of the greatest film score composers of all time. More theremin, baby!


3. Theme to Doctor Who by Ron Grainer
Many variations over the years, but I think they've all got...theremin!


4. Main Title to Alien by Jerry Goldsmith
Another legendary film score composer delivers music that manages to sound both strange and familiar, vacillating between major and minor keys and discordant chords that resolve into soaring ones, then snap back to menace.... I think JG's Alien work may be one of his most beautiful compositions, and yet it barely got used in the finished film, except in bits and pieces. Pagan side note: When I want music to summon to mind the underworld god of my mythos, a strange and forbidding deity of the unknown, this is my go-to.


5. Main Title to Jaws by John Williams
Probably the most famous film score composer of all gave us a musical trope that has become so well-known that it's easy to forget the power of the strange it carries. With a few simple notes, he captured the relentless menace lurking in our own world's otherworld, the sea.


That was fun to ponder! I'm sure there's more I can come up with--probably more film soundtracks, because that's the way I roll--but that's all for now.
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Re: Playlists -- out of this world numbers!
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2023, 09:33:11 pm »
What is/would be on your 'out of this world' playlist?

For me, I think I'm going to interpret this as "put in a different headspace" because that's generally what "out of this world" is for me in terms of music, and is more specific than "imagine something" or "feel a strong emotion" as that's like... Too many things. I have an active imagination so nearly any song can get my mind's eye going.

I don't have a musical background so I don't have the vocabulary to describe why any of these songs put me in any kind of space.

There are a lot on this Spotify playlist titled Filthy Godless Pagan.

Specifically, I'd nominated these tracks (not all from that playlist):





(became kind of an anthem for me for the second half of last year)
(doesn't get me quite into the same disembodied headspace as the others, but it's my favorite song and I have to stop what I'm doing whenever it comes on and just listen)

Love listening to other people's picks so far!

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Re: Playlists -- out of this world numbers!
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2023, 11:51:33 pm »
~ The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV show theme music

I assume that's still "Journey of the Sorceror", originally by the Eagles.

Let me add a couple:

Boston's "The Launch" is a total gimme
"The Furthest Star", VNV Nation
Dream Theater, "Space Dye Vest"
Rush, "Dreamline"
Hm, maybe "Across the Universe", the Beatles.
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Re: Playlists -- out of this world numbers!
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2023, 05:54:56 pm »
"The Furthest Star", VNV Nation

"Foreword" and "Nova" are good candidates, as well. (The latter, played live, is damned near a religious experience.)

Other good 'uns:

Pink Floyd, "The Great Gig in the Sky."

Covenant, "Brave New World."

Joy Division, "Atmosphere."

The Cure, "Fear of Ghosts."

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Re: Playlists -- out of this world numbers!
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2023, 06:56:29 pm »
-probably more film soundtracks, because that's the way I roll-


Just about anything Trek would do. My picks would be either First Contact or the revamped classic theme they're using on Strange New Worlds.

Oh, and Christopher Franke did a lot of great orchestra-plus-synth stuff for Babylon 5. You used to be able to get CDs of individual episode scores. "In The Beginning" and "Sleeping in Light" were imo the best.

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Re: Playlists -- out of this world numbers!
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2023, 07:44:26 pm »
What is/would be on your 'out of this world' playlist?

I'm actually currently building a "writing: other worlds" playlist with music that specifically makes me feel like I'm on another planet or in another realm & thus helps me get into that headspace for the SFF I write.

So far it's the entire album of Sacred Places by Ron Allen (1988) & one song by Enya (La Sonadora), but that's only because I haven't been working on it for long.

Anyway, the Sacred Places album definitely makes my list, as does The Nine Worlds by Achillea.

Sacred Places (it's a link to a playlist so I have no idea if it'll embed or not): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kjx3Hk7cme45xuocg4PxIjU3V93EzxHRc

The Nine Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mmKZ-wodoDEWa2UIZAqshNX2MbZo2oInM

I'd also add...

Shimmer, Alkemists
Center of the Sun, Conjure One
Escapes, Scripture
Gillies, Wolfstone
The Anointing, Laus Trinitati, and O Vivens Fons, Hildegarde von Bingen (as performed by Emily Van Evera, Germaine Fritz, and Richard Souther)
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Re: Playlists -- out of this world numbers!
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2023, 12:03:10 am »
What is/would be on your 'out of this world' playlist?

I know this is about playlists, but I just had a sort of out-of-body experience in engaging with a particular rendition of Telemann's concerto for traverso and recorder, TWV 52:e1. So I'll anchor my reply here.

Specifically responding to of the piece by the Bremer Barockochester. UPG ensues, so take all this with a salt lick.

This concerto always has evoked a sorcerer for me. Solemn invocation, hard work, wonder, then things kind of going to heck and dealing with the consequences. (Which is not to say all sorcery goes this way!)

But two things stood out to me in this listen.

One, the flute comes off as more mature, whilst the recorder comes off as more youthful. This immediately suggests a teacher-student relationship. Yet in this concerto, the two soloists are treated as equals--as I feel a teacher-student relationship should generally be.

Two, I get the strong sense that this is a dialogue between Hekate and me--Hekate in her aspect of being the witches' matron. Because as a recorder player I have a physical response to the recorder part, whilst the flute part is...on a different plane? Almost a higher self, an ideal to strive toward. (This is not how I view traversi and recorders as instruments in general; they are different instruments that serve different but allied purposes, which is amply demonstrated in this concerto.)

Anyway I was literally headbanging to this rendition, so if you have any inkling towards early music or think my experience might resonate, go have a listen.

Thanks to Eastling for reconnecting me to this thread, which my search-fu wasn't bringing up.

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