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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's 21st album, "Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava", has 7 tracks and each one makes use of one of the seven modes of the significant scale! So today we're going to work our way through this track list and examine how King Gizzard utilised each mode's distinct flavour.
The outro music to this video is my track "The Longest March" which you can hear in full on Spotify:.
SOURCES:.
Under The Radar mag, "Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava Charge Out October 7":.
Interview with Stu MacKenzie, Guitar World (2022 ):.
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0:00 Introduction.
0:57 Ionian.
2:13 Dorian.
3:50 Phrygian.
4:43 Lydian.
6:06 Mixolydian.
7:10 Aeolian.
8:10 NordVPN.
9:12 Locrian.
13:11 Patreon.
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PLS DO MORE GIZZ
FINALLY DAVID TALKING ABOUT GIZZARD
David Bennett confirmed gizzhead
He already talked about banana
he mentioned rattlesnake in a video about microtonality
he’s mentioned them in passing a couple times, but it’s cool to get a full video on them
We eating good today bois
Sounds like something King Gizzard would do. How come they haven’t done it in a single song yet?
Gotta leave something for the future! I’d expect them to make a round around the circle of fifth, first song in C, second in G, third in D, etc, incorporating all modes (C Major through C Locrian in Song 1).
Now you got to do a King Gizzard Time signature episode!!!! Love the Gizz!!!
Seconding this, full length KGLW Time Signature video
“Once I missed a beat”, I’d love to see that in a video from David
Even analysis for Crumbling Castle or The Fourth Colour will be so cool
Of course King Gizzard would be the ones to make a full locrian song sound good.
How can it be in Locrian, when they just avoid the 5th scale degree for 99.9% of it? lol
they don’t? they remove it from the chords but keep it in the melodies@@kierenmoore3236
Only in the chords though. A stand point of model music is sticking to a purpously vague progression and allowing the melody to dictate the mode, not the chords. See Miles Davis for example. @@kierenmoore3236
Nice
@@kierenmoore3236If you take the time to listen to it it’s featured in almost all of the melodic lines.
One of my favourite bands featured in a couple days by Middle8 and you. What a treat!
Yeah wasn’t the middle 8 like a day ago or something? Crazy
@@fossiltortoise yes, and he talked about the concept of this album. Maybe this video is inspired by that one, but being so close I don’t think it’s enough time to produce this video.
@@cacojugon middle 8 first video was intro to gizz, and also david bennetts made a video with gizz before. The microtonal banana Stuff.
A friend of mine linked the Middle8 video in Discord yesterday, then the David Bennett video today. Middle8 made me stop sleeping on The Silver Chord and finally give it a listen, and I was blown away by why it took me so long to listen to the album.
@@brandenblomberg3048 yeah there’s always so much to start with it’s overwhelming sometimes
Can you do a video about pentatonic scales? or maybe “the one vid about all the arab-esque sounding scales” where you really go through all of them (phrygian, harmonic minor, phyrigian dominant, double harmonic and what have ya…) and also focus on getting all the names right (like what’s the hungarian scale? the byzantine?) to end the confusion once and for all 🙂
That would be amazing. I love these scales but they’re always so confusing and tricky to harmonize
The most fantastic thing about KG&LW is that, despite their ginormous output and despite their ability to go full-on theoretical with albums like this (Or Microtonal Banana or Polygondwanaland), their songs are still great to listen to, earworms even, and they still convey messages. If you had no idea that this record goes through all the modes, and were just listening it for the songs, the lyrics, the feel, the soundscapes, it’s still a great, rewarding listen – and not, what it easily could have become, a boring contrived lesson in music theory. My fave is Butterfly 3000 which, to me, is like pulling Kraftwerk into the Gizzverse.
I think I’d need to be very high indeed, to be impressed by what I’ve heard here.
@@kierenmoore3236 who shat on your cereal this morning?
@@hp2823 Cereal? I don’t eat that garbage.
Overly-processed food is garbage. Just as a song that avoids the 5th degree for 99.9% of its playtime can’t actually be “in Locrian”. 😏 “Just the facts, M’am.” 😎
I adore “If not now then when”, which is as catchy as it is weird. These guys are geniuses.
I bet David’s happy that he finally has a song that’s a true representation of Locrian. At this point, King Gizzard has so many albums you could use only them to demonstrate concepts from now on.
It’s not a true representation of Locrian … it’s Phrygian, really. That’s cheating.
Imagine Stu is a music professor in the future and he whips out his old discography to give examples of concepts to the class lmao
@@kierenmoore3236did you listen to poly yet?
@@kierenmoore3236 but they use the flat 5th instead of the perfect 5th what
@@mcgardenshedsisreal ya, as a blue note. Did you not watch the video?
yessirrrr, king gizz is seriously one of the coolest bands of all time, for those who dont know, they’ve done like almost every genre, and have released over 20 albums over like ten years, they’re crazy good
Prolific and good are two different things.
@@kierenmoore3236They’re both
@@kierenmoore3236Damn dude you’re a real hater. Touch grass
@@kierenmoore3236 Two different things they always deliver in each release
@@HAZARDOUS88 fr
I’d love to see you tackle their album “Changes”. The concept of the album being that they modulate between 2 different key centres with each chord change.
x2
Absolutely agree.
Yes please!
TOTALLY
Oh he absolutely should!
Musicians like these guys are who I aspire to be, adventurous and generally just doing whatever genre they want not worrying about sticking to one genre strictly
You can be much much better than these guys
@@unknown6390lmao
@@unknown6390 No need to gatekeep people from having something that inspires them in a genuine way. King Gizzard not being the ideal prog band to your own strict expectation isn’t everybody’s business, people who are into the band’s music like them for obvious reasons. This band helps bridge people of different musical preferences to get into various unfamiliar or interrelated genres and styles in some ways or others, and their music is liked because of the artistic honesty and the DIY spirit, as well as the commitment to produce works persistently and continue to hone their own musical skill and artistry in the process.
You should aspire to be much better, they are really not impressive at all
No need to “aspire” lol just do it. Ya know you don’t need anyone’s permission or approval, no one does…do whatever you want. They do, I do, if you want to, you just do it, no need to aspire. It’s not hard, nothing is stopping you
King Gizz always amaze me with how they’re able to create such bops, while constantly flopping back and forth between genres. And this video helps to reinforce my thoughts that they’re just musical geniuses that are overshadowed by other much larger artists.
I love the creativity on display in this album. Iron Lung is one of my favourite KGLW songs ever written
The fact that some people will now listen to gizzard because of this video makes me very happy. Enjoy guys, it’s a hell of a rabbit whole.
You’re all welcome to this community!
Most over rated band of our time
@@ladyiam7084 If you say so it must be true, mustn’t it? Bro grow up, music is subjective. Many people love gizz, if you don’t then that’s fine, but don’t try to ruin it for others, will ya?
@@metaldude2410 I wouldn’t bother. This person has been replying to a lot of comments with basically the same statement over and over.
@@metaldude2410 why does saying something is overrated mean that you’re trying to ruin something?
Also what do mean “welcome to the community”? Are you the gatekeeper of discussions of a band? No? Well then why should anyone care if they are welcome or not if they want to talk about something lol.
I would have liked to see them include the flat 5th in the harmony on Gliese 710, even if it wasn’t on the tonic chord, but listening to the song I think they incorporate it well enough into the melody to capture the feeling of the mode. They may not be trained musicians and some of the stuff they’re doing may be technically “wrong” but I think they have a good understanding of how to use the concepts they’re exploring to make a song that’s both distinctive and fun to listen to.
I’m pretty much music illiterate, haven’t been able to read music in over 25 years. I still don’t quite get what’s being explained but what I do understand is just how much thought really does go into a King Gizz album, especially one that’s really great like Ice, Death, Planets… It just astonishes me how something can sound/feel jammy, but be so well planned out.
Its been done before and better
This is awesome – so cool that the band deliberately decided to do a whole album based on modes! By the way, I would love to see you do a video about borrowed chords/ modal modulation and how they can be used for songwriting purposes to convey a certain emotions when writing. Anyway, keep up the good work David – brilliant channel!
I love how the modes on this album create a feeling of existential dread as you start with the uplifting Mycelium and delve deeper and deeper until the dark, crushing Gliese 710
Hearing Magma and Lava live is absolutely mind blowing