Guest oZZma Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 (edited) I want to make a gift to my bandmate that Is currently hospitalized: books! I want to buy him books about music genres/bands. The genres he his more into are grindcore, tech death, jazzcore... Stuff like that But he is curious and loves everything that Is weird, extreme or experimental He may find interesting both bios* (but they must be really FUN to read, not "normal" bios) and history of genres (he has a book about death and grindcore that he almost knows by memory I think this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosing_Death:_The_Improbable_History_of_Death_Metal_%26_Grindcore ) Please give me some good titles! *As for bios: to give an idea, my initial intention was to buy Klaus Kinski's "All I need Is love", but I haven't found it anywhere in Italian He would have liked that a lot... Edited April 30, 2019 by oZZma Quote
davegriffiths91 Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 This Is Your Brain on Musicb by Daniel Levitin One of the most interesting books about music I've read Quote
Guest oZZma Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 3 minutes ago, davegriffiths91 said: This Is Your Brain on Musicb by Daniel Levitin One of the most interesting books about music I've read Geez! This Is a GREAT suggestion, I remember I came across this title not long ago and being intrigued, but I forgot about that!! THANKS! Quote
Guest oZZma Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 He is also a science enthusiast, he will love this book for sure! Quote
Leonard Smalls Posted May 2, 2019 Posted May 2, 2019 The biography of Derek Bailey is a very entertaining read as well as being a history and discography of free improv jazz... Quote
Guest subaudio Posted May 3, 2019 Posted May 3, 2019 One out of left field, Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks. Quote
stewblack Posted May 4, 2019 Posted May 4, 2019 Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World https://g.co/kgs/ztsks5 Quote
Panamonte Posted May 4, 2019 Posted May 4, 2019 All Gates Open: The Story of Can by Rob Young & Irmin Schmidt. More than a music biog - a really interesting and thought-provoking read. Quote
Guest oZZma Posted May 4, 2019 Posted May 4, 2019 Thanks everyone! In the end I chose what was available in the book shop, a book about post-punk by Simon Reynolds, and "Lords of Chaos" Quote
Guest oZZma Posted May 4, 2019 Posted May 4, 2019 41 minutes ago, Panamonte said: All Gates Open: The Story of Can by Rob Young & Irmin Schmidt. More than a music biog - a really interesting and thought-provoking read. I may order this for myself I'm a huge Can fan. Quote
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