Gentle But Joyous

[Twed]

I forgot how much I liked Bibio's first two albums. I turned off after it got more vocal. The first two seemed like things you'd find abandoned near a rusty gate in the countryside. The later stuff felt like... indie pop (although I didn't give it fair shakes).

The only múm track that doesn't bore me is Slow Bicycle.

[Neomod]

Kings of Convenience | Know How
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuJOswNKuwo

Especially joyful when Feist enters on the mid 8/outro

[Small Man Big Horse]

Thanks again for all the suggestions, I'm currently just getting in to the Dan Reeder album but shall check out the rest soon.

[Crabwalk]

I forgot how much I liked Bibio's first two albums. I turned off after it got more vocal. The first two seemed like things you'd find abandoned near a rusty gate in the countryside. The later stuff felt like... indie pop (although I didn't give it fair shakes).

That third album would be Mind Bokeh, which is often viewed as a rare misstep by him. If you enjoyed his first two, there is absolutely loads to enjoy on the subsequent albums Ambivalence Avenue, Silver Wilkinson, A Mineral Love and this year's Ribbons. His 2017 ambient record Phantom Brickworks is pretty good too.

I've linked to a track from each, if you're minded to investigate, and they all broadly fit the remit of the thread too.

[Misspent Boners]

Wasn't it quite a sad time to be a musician, or indeed a Brazilian, in Brazil?  The military junta had taken over, refashioned the laws to suit a more authoritarian rule, and forced several luminaries like Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque to bugger off to Europe.  I sense a lot of melancholic tones in the music of the period, but it only enriched it if anything.

Despite music (the listening and making of) being such a big commodity in my life I'm so oblivious to factors such as this so thanks for the info, really interesting.  It's all fairly new to me, I've loved that Joyce and Agnello record for a couple years but have been looking further in the last couple of months into more Brazilian folk/rock/pop music of that time....I just think its brilliant, so emotive, with really unconventional arrangements and chords and stuff, at times very ahead of it's time. And the definition of gentle but joyous to me for the most part.

Just listening to this Club De Esquina album right now; again for 1972 it's so wonderfully experimental and full of ideas. Organic and full of great musicianship

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQSGKwfvWpEGqdKb2J9lfKG_0Dadqj3Uk

[tom_exorcisto]

Reckon Tinariwen could fit the gentle/joyous description, Tamikrest too, although it IS the blues.

Tinariwen - Timadrit in Sahara
https://youtu.be/ssrQvePOjkA

Tamikrest - Wainan Adobat
https://youtu.be/yYPD-A8Mi4o

[Better Midlands]

Despite music (the listening and making of) being such a big commodity in my life I'm so oblivious to factors such as this so thanks for the info, really interesting.  It's all fairly new to me, I've loved that Joyce and Agnello record for a couple years but have been looking further in the last couple of months into more Brazilian folk/rock/pop music of that time....I just think its brilliant, so emotive, with really unconventional arrangements and chords and stuff, at times very ahead of it's time. And the definition of gentle but joyous to me for the most part.

Just listening to this Club De Esquina album right now; again for 1972 it's so wonderfully experimental and full of ideas. Organic and full of great musicianship

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQSGKwfvWpEGqdKb2J9lfKG_0Dadqj3Uk

I'm with you on the Joyce, it was my first thought when I read the OP (probably placed there subliminally by the thread title) I was introduced to it through Giles Peterson in the early 90's - lovely stuff that we called Latin back then.

Another shout for Bibio too, A' Tout A' L'heure is my favourite

https://youtu.be/XofNbkTkuP8

Bonus Bibio, this YouTube video of him sampling in the garden with a SP1200 & MPC5000 is great

https://youtu.be/LAmnEll8KOY