Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

anyway this was all kicked off by random shuffle bringing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqfbAWqbX0I up - which is a much more like... placid, chill song, kinda sad with a kernel of hope in the middle, since it's a "life is tough but i'm going to make it through this" tune

and realizing Ah Shit, There's The Voice Of That Minor Character I Just Drew

i mean look down at her, and then listen to the female vocalist, and tell me it don't fit but perfect

(but it's not my fav song from that album) (THIS is my fav song from that album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5drqKNVukY

(if "dance music bagpipes" doesn't terrify you, you'll probably like it too) (if you hear the concept and go HMMM, GO ON... A REEL BUT IN THE CLUB, YOU SAY... you'll probably love it)

y'know i just realized in trying to introduce Afro Celt Sound System to a fediverse of furries, i coulda just linked their song Big Cat and been done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl-l03pzFVA

@InspectorCaracal his albums range in this like... slide from "closer to traditional flamenco guitar" to "we're pretty far away from it now into new age", but Gravity is i think kinda the defining album

also well worth watching videos of him performing this shit live so you can go HOW DOES ONE MAN'S FINGERS EVEN DO THAT

@InspectorCaracal it's... anatomic i think where they bring in a guest artist, Jesse Cook, who i also really really like

but it was NOT a crossover i was expecting because Jesse Cook plays flamenco guitar and has branched out further into like. "world music" based on that guitar. i was all PARDON? WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN TECHNOLAND WITH THE AFROCELTS?? but it's some genuinely nice songs.

to give an idea of how it blindsided me, THIS is what i consider best of Jesse Cook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3iTfEF52kw

@InspectorCaracal as far as instrumentals go, i feel like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud-pq5LPlyw might be your groove

i admit i'm a couple of albums behind because the band has been sort of. wibbly? like i think there's been high turnover so to speak, i'm here going "wait a gol dang minute y'all told me that album was gonna be the last what's this song i don't know"

@InspectorCaracal honestly same hat

i have to be in the mood for When You're Falling, it's def they were trying to go for "let's attempt to get something on the charts"

i really really like the vocal groove they got for Seed

Nevermore is a bit cheesy duet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qfElBWYlu4 but like, it's good cheese. this is cheese that is prime for powering writing your fantasy novel yknow? it is That Groove

@InspectorCaracal the same singer pops up often throughout their albums, he's part of the standard band iirc, singing mostly in gaelic but occasionally english

singing in languages i can understand is the definite minority of vocal tracks LMAO, most of the vocals are in various celtic and african languages

they get more vocal-ish as they go on in the discography if that makes sense? so you might be a fan of earlier stuff moreso

@InspectorCaracal then honestly you'll probably like the rest of it much better, that's just the like... entry level hook to get normies interested HA

try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmh1cZQuXk on for size. that song isn't built around a guest artist singer, but instead by a regular band member on vocals. they're honestly majority non-vocal tracks

Persistence of Memory is a lot more chill and slow but i think is also lovely

Seed and Anatomic are tied in my second-place for best ACSS album slot

if you want to like... start with just one of their greatest songs, and are ok with it being a slow burn at first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC_cKVDM_zY

iirc this was featured on the soundtrack to Hotel Rwanda

some of their songs you can tell teeter more towards the african or more towards the celtic, the above teeters more towards african (and rightly so)

@InspectorCaracal nicely timed, right as i hit 'toot' on the post giving my recs B)

to me vol. 3 further in time is like... the quintessential acss

this is about as pop as they get, so it's a good introduction so to speak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNI2Tb24ofI if you like what you hear, the whole album's fantastic

so last night i remembered how good Afro Celt Sound System is

and if ANYTHING about the band name "Afro Celt Sound System" appeals to you, you will probably like them too

good morning it's time to retoot my own toots of the art i did last night

I HAVE NEVER PLAYED A DARK SOULS GAME AND I AM

LOSING MY SHIT AT THIS

(basilisk voice) hey

link, naturally, hates her

is it because she's yiga clan? possible

is it because she currently has a more defined jawline and butch haircut than link does?

much more probable

please keep watch for any semi-feral battle gremlins going to yell whatever the hylian equivalent of 'perkele' at the moon; report any spottings directly to prince sidon who can be there with a punitive hug

also that's all my drawings for tonight y'all are safe now

and finally, the one i don't need to cw is also the one i ended up drawing the most competently, likely because this is a completely original character made up to fill a minor role for a few chapters at most

Sakuraso is the tough-as-nails lady warrior rounding up the sensible bit of the yiga clan by yelling "fucking HELL you guys i think we lost the fucking war TWICE OVER NOW can we PLEASE go surrender instead of doing DUMB STUNTS"

cw more emphatically for gore (scarring, eye trauma scribbled in)

fionnan (yes i got the double n in the wrong place) is the ganon-this-incarnation-pulled-a-parthuurnax good-guy who has had a real shit time being continuously tortured to act as appropriate bait anchoring calamity ganon together for the last thousand-odd years

he could use a cup of tea and one of those trauma blankets, honestly. he'll settle for a hug or just quiet acceptance as he cry-shakes like an abused chihuahua for a bit

did i have an art tag? who knows. #oopsiarted was my tumblr one so good enough here

right this is all in my maybe-will-write-eventually botw fic idea

link and zelda are both impossible to draw

link is sporting some "yeah, calamity ganon tried to melt my face off with malice-acid, and made my hairstyle asymmetrical, but i'm too fucking stubborn to cut my hair" looks

zelda has a Sensible Braid.

cw for gore-ish? badly drawn burns on face idk