My interest in Steampunk came originally from role playing games and movies. Movies like the League of Extraordinary Gentleman and games like Castle Falkenstein, and Maelstrom both of which were genre breaking in their content and innovative in their game play.
As I dip back into the genre/subculture I can see it has grown considerably (or perhaps my perception has been altered) encompassing cosplay, building and retrofitting(everything from computers to buildings) and even music.
Below for your viewing and listening pleasure are the band Abney Park who describe themselves thus:
Abney Park comes from an era that never was, but one that we wish had been. An era where airships waged war in the skies, and corsets and cummerbunds were proper adventuring attire. They’ve picked up their bad musical habits, scoundrelous musicians, and anachronistically hybridized instruments from dozens of locations and eras that they have visited in their travels and thrown them into one riotous dervish of a performance. Expect clockwork guitars, belly dancers, flintlock bassists, middleastern percussion, violent violin, and Tesla powered keyboards blazing in a post- apocalyptic, swashbuckling, Steampunk musical mayhem.
Now as I watch and listen to the music I feel pangs of nostalgia for Firefly – something in the attitude of their music. I also am reminded very faintly of Goth bands like Evanescence.
But without further ado Herr Drosselmeyer’s Doll Live, I like this one, very carnival-esque.
Followed Sleep Isabella which has, I think a distinctive middle eastern theme. You can also checkout the Tesla Keyboard.
Finally we have Airship Pirate, which is a little more rock
Note that these guys appeared at DragonCon in 2008 and 2009, though the might have faded into the background.
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Sean, have you heard of Space 1889. It's a roleplaying game set in the Victorian period, in which the Brits and Germans have colonized an inhabited Venus and Mars, using spaceships that travel through the ether. It's classic steampunk, very entertaining, and easy to learn, if you can find a copy. One of the best, simplest game designs I've seen (6D game, so no need for special dice),
John
I do indeed have a copy – bought long after my game playing days were over.
I wouldn't have immediately genred (is that a word?) Abney Park as 'steampunk', more sort of new-wave industrial, but since you (and they) point it out I can see it now.
Thanks for the vids. I've still never seen them live even though I've been to Stokey countless times.
The less said about Evanescence, the better (especially if the 'g' word (no, the other 'g' word!
is being bandied around!)
Yeah once you read some of their lyrics and look at set design in becomes more obvious. Evanescence who?xD