I believe you mean Le Vent du Nord – a great Quebecois band that was down in your neighborhood earlier this year.
Apart from ITM…
Punk, metal, EARLY hip hop, blues, some techno and trance, bhangra, some qawali.
MP3s on my PC at work include:
Hendrix, Ramones, Tom Waits, Soft Machine, Whale, Edgar Winter, BB King, Howlin’ Wolf, Freddie King, Happy Mondays, Metallica, Bullet Lavolta, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Prodigy, Kurtis Mantronic, Chemical Brothers, Clash, Black Flag, The Only Ones, Fields of the Nephilim, Slayer, Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, REM, Stackridge, Pixies, Pere Ubu, The Entropy Circus… and a ton of other stuff
Yep, the North Wind. Noir would be black, so they would be the Black Wind- which while not the same meaning for a band from Canada, would still make a great band name, no??
Tom
CD’s in heavy rotation in my car:
Boards of Canada: Music Has a Right to Children
Boards of Canada: In a Quiet Place in the Country (EP)
The Books: Thought for Food
The Books: The Lemon of Pink
Keith Jarrett: Bach, Goldberg Variations, harpsichord
Keith Jarrett Trio: The Out-of-Towner’s
Cocteau Twins: Victorialand
Cocteau Twins: Heaven & Hell
Rapoon: Tin of Drum
Tom Waits new CD whatever it’s called
El McMeen: Soul of Christmas Guitar
Brian Wilson: Smile
Beach Boys: Smile Bootleg
George Jones: Greatest Hits
Leonard Cohen: Dear Heather
Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
King Crimson: Larks Tongues in Aspic
Brian Eno: Lightness- Music For The Marble Palace
Tori Amos
Kate Bush
Everything else is irrelevant.
Good choices, mamakash. 
(See, I told you I just love music, period. Everything that everyone posts I’m nodding my head to, going “yeah, I like that too!”. Fickle Libra that I am. 
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I love Bach and generally baroque music, also pre-baroque. I do not like the music of the classical period, but some of the romantic period and also some XX century.
I like contratenors, small vocal ensembles, small string ensembles, Jordi Savall’s Hesperion XXI, and anything freaky.
Sometimes I like to hear Bruckner or Mahler symphonies with plenty of horns, trumpets and trombones. Also brass ensembles (German Brass, Pro Brass, Canadian Brass only when my idol Ronald Romm was still playing with them).
I like going to concerts where you do not know what to expect. Strange unexpected sounds that challenge the mind. And I like it polyphonic and complicated with fugues and/or scary illegal harmonies.
The good thing about folk music: I do not have to run after mysteriously vanished sheet music, nor care about mutes or other accessoires, I just grab my flute and go. And there’s no dress code either. That’s cool, too.
Okay, yes, I do harbor a soft spot for plainsong.
If I were to choose a few picks in various styles of music, I might say.
Art Music: Aaron Copland, J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi.
Bluegrass: The Dillards, Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys
Old Time: The Carter Family, DeFord Bailey
Country & Western: George Jones
Western Swing: Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, Asleep at the Wheel
Southern Gospel: The Kevin Spencer Family, Chuck Wagon Gang, Albert E. Brumley, various local groups
Jubilee Gospel: The Fairfield Four
Choral: Boston Avenue Methodist Church Chancel Choir
Folk Revival: Kingston Trio, Northlake Stringband
Jazz: Toots Thielemanns, Boots Randolph
Big Band: Glenn Miller Orchestra, Benny Goodman
Yeah, I like Benny Goodman also. Oh, and although I’m not a real big bluegrass fan, I am a Ricky Skaggs fan. Are you familiar with “The Three Pickers”?
All the Best, Tom
I don’t actively listen to other types of music these days but I do love many types of music. About the only kinds I don’t are
Rap
And there is a particular kind of modern of orchestral music that to me lacks in melody and harmony. I think there is one with like a 5 minute pause in it. I can’t stand that kind of music. Plus those songs(?) can drone on for an eternity. Just not my taste.
I do love modern minimilist art & architecture, though.
Best,
Paul
My second love next to Irish music is flamenco. Not that namby pamby Ottmar Liebert/Struntz and Farah stuff. I mean the stuff with the singers who sing with their whole bodies like they are dying. Unfortunately I don’t have any mp3s to share but it’s not hard to find on the web.
Mike
besides ITM, i mostly listen to Old Time, Bluegrass, New Acoustic, Django, Afro-Cuban, Hawaiian, Delta Blues… and Bach, of course.
still occasionally give my old prog, fusion, bop and post-bop sides a spin.
i can appreciate pretty much any kind of music, but i really dislike stuff that’s too commercial or over-produced, which means i usually don’t listen to the radio, watch awards shows or buy anything on a major label.
Thank goodness someone else said it first!
Chant does it for me, too. It’s one of the few things I can sing. It puts you plop dab into the realm of the Almighty, sure enough.
I like most everything, with the exception of rap and anything else that sounds like family arguments set to rhythm.
Here in Chez Dubhlinn,Bob Dylan reigns supreme.
His lyrical brilliance is unsurpassed in modern music and he can wring more emotion from one mangled syllable than most singer/songwriters can draw out of a whole album.
Putting him to one side for a moment the regulars on my CD player would be Joni Mitchell,Tom Waits,Neil Young,Leonard Cohen and a fair bit of James Taylor.
Blues players like Buddy Guy,Freddie King,B.B.King and John Mayall get a lot of playing also.
Guitarists like Doc Watson,Mississippi John Hurt,John McLaughlin, Django Rheinhart,Martin Simpson and Bert Jansch/John Renbourne get a lot of playing as well.
Bonnie Riatt,Ricky Scaggs,Emmy Lou Harris,
Dolly Parton(a great songwriter!),Little Feat,Steely Dan,Stones and the Allman Brothers all figure very strongly in the CD collection as well.
Among the Irish mob would be Mary Black,Dolores Keane,Altan,Bothies,Chieftains,Christy Moore, Planxty,Moving Hearts,Paul Brady(the folky stuff), Dubliners,Tommy Peoples,Matt Molloy,Sean McGuire,La Bergin,Paddy Keenan and many of the "older " school of ITM.
While I’m at it I would have to mention Paco De Lucia,Stephan Grappelli,Charlie Parker,Miles Davis,Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan,The Blind boys of Alabama,Taj Mahal,Loudon Wainwright,Joan Baez,Puccini,Bach’s Cello stuff and a lot of Hendrix.
There.That covers the bones of my 300+ Cd collection.I am sure that over the next twenty minutes or so many more names will spring to mind but I am just in from work and the little Dublin brain is tired and in need of coffee and cigs.
Slan,
D.
I don’t know about Walden, but I’m sure with you on this. In fact, today I was off work sick and guess what I listened to? Gregorian Chants!
I love almost all music. ITM, and Scots music are particular favorites as are Classical Baroque ,all forms of Blues, true Old Time music, and Plainsong Chants. My personal recording collection runs the gamut from Aaron Copeland to Metallica, Hendrix and Janis to the Dorsey’s, Pavrotti and Christian Praise music.
The only music I do not personally own is country(those George Jones beer drinking tunes belong to my husband) and jazz. I can appreciate those who excel in both those forms but they just do not appeal to me.
Oh my. One of my daughters is a real Korn fan. She almost got “moshed” in the pit at the second of their concerts she went to while she was in college. But, I guess she comes by it honestly, since the last concert I went to because I wanted to was Metallica.
Hmmm…other musical tastes…
Rhythm and blues
Motown/soul
60s classic rock - Stones, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Moody Blues, Chambers Brothers, Dylan, etc.
Some jazz - generally hot; not too cool or too out the window
Philo
I can listen to just about anything. Music in general is just lovely.
Besides Irish Trad., I’m very fond of Irish flavoured rock. Flogging Molly, Siobhan, you name it. <3
Funky industrial music like Rasputina, Dead Can Dance, Enigma, Radiohead(industrial? Eh?) Every now and then when I’m moody I’ll listen to angsty music like APC, TOOl and Jack Off Jill, but I don’t usually listen to those on a regular basis.
BOY CHOIRS. Libera is my favorite, a wonderful British boys choir. I like Renaissance and Medieval aged music as well…
And yes. Huzzah. Music.
captain beefheart, harry partch, wynonie harris, schola cantorum baseliensis, hatfield and the north, egg, national health, henry cow, gentle giant, nrbq, frank zappa, area, dieguito el cigala,
thelonious monk, charles mingus, eric dolphy, anthony braxton, charles wuroinen, soft machine, magma, herbie hancock, maceo parker. did i miss ashlee simpson?
Just about everything besides kiddie pop and modern country.
Especially fond of big band, swing, jazz, bluegrass, folk, and of course ITM.