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The first thing that grabs you is that slightly bent, unsettled guitar sound. That comes from the band’s microtonal instruments, which allow notes between the standard notes used in most Western rock. The result is not exactly out of tune—it is more like the music is leaning sideways. It feels exotic, dreamy and faintly disorienting.

It sounds ancient and futuristic at the same time—like a desert caravan somehow discovered electric guitars, fuzz pedals and krautrock.

The jazz-like element is the comfort with notes that sound “wrong” until the ear adjusts. Monk did this harmonically and rhythmically: sharp dissonances, unexpected intervals, phrases that seemed to stumble sideways. King Gizzard gets a similar destabilizing effect through microtonality, using pitches between the standard Western notes. Both artists should be household names, but aren't.
 
zymurgy said:
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Avinu Malkeinu (meaning "Our Father, Our King") is a famous Jewish prayer recited during the High Holidays like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, as well as on fast days.

This Hebrew prayer has its roots in a Talmudic story (tractate Ta’anit, 25b). At a time of drought, after another Rabbi has made a fruitless attempt to pray for rain, the great sage Rabbi Akiva (second half of 1st century, and first half of 2nd century) initiates a prayer in the “Avenu Malkenu” – “Our Father, Our King” – format. His prayer is successful.

The “Avenu Malkenu” that Phish performs is a later version of this efficacious prayer. It can be translated as, “Our Father, Our King, be gracious with us and answer us, even though we have no [worthy] deeds; treat us with charity and kindness, and save us.” Within the context of the Jewish liturgy, this prayer is interesting because it defines a relationship with God .
 
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