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\"image\"<\/a>For close to the last ten years, my music of choice has been shoegazing music, or as it is more simply referred to as shoegaze. When I mention shoegaze, it is usually met with blank, inquisitive stares.<\/p>\n

Shoegaze was first used to describe music bands in the late 1980s. The main identifying element of shoegaze music is the heavy usage of guitar effects. The term shoegaze is derived from musicians, on stage, looking down at their guitar foot pedals, appearing to be gazing at their shoes. The shoegaze movement is said to have reached its peak in the early 1990s and ended in the mid 1990s, with a reemergence of the genre of music in the early 2010s, identified as nu gaze.<\/p>\n

The guitar effects produce sounds of distortion and droning, with reverb, delay and echo, often producing noisy guitars sounds. The other element of shoegaze that is often identified with shoegaze is vocals that carry a melody beneath the wash of layered guitars, forming and undulating wall of sound, with a melding of vocals and instruments. A related genre of music is dream pop and is often cited as an inspiration for shoegaze. Dream pop uses ethereal or dreamy vocals that can also be an element of shoegaze music.<\/p>\n

Progressive Rock and Ambient<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a>In hindsight, there is little wonder that I had been attracted to shoegaze music, as I was drawn to rock music and ambient music that incorporated these same elements in their music.\u00a0Progressive rock bands from the 1960s and 1970s experimented heavily with instruments to get different sounds. Jimi Hendrix is a quintessential pioneer in electric guitar effects and popularized them to be a mainstream rock sound.\u00a0Peter Townsend, of The Who, is also well known for droning sounds, reverb and other noises from synthesizers and electric guitars. A hallmark album for the band and widely regarded as one of greatest albums of the 1970s is Who’s Next<\/em>.\u00a0Around the same time, in the early 1970s, Pink Floyd released\u00a0Meddle<\/em>, which included the track One of These Days<\/em>. This is a masterpiece work with an echoing bass guitar and a vibrating, screeching slide guitar.<\/p>\n

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