Old Composer REACTS to CHON SPLASH | A Decomposers Point of View 

Man, Polyphia and Ichika Nito took over the conversation on this type of music, but CHON has been doing it so good for so many years now.

This band changed my life

"Intimate" is the best way to describe Chon for sure. That's always the word that comes to mind when I hear "Rosewood." Thanks for giving them a listen!

You should check out The Contortionist - Language I: Intuition & Language II: Conspire

I literally had to stop what I was doing to watch this, love your reactions man.

Chon sounds more organic that Polyphia, so I would suspect that it should be easier for them to perform live shows with a minimal loss of fidelity (or even be better)

Saw these guys live twice and they sounded just like the record. Love the reactions and love to see your perspective.

Please go to Covet after this, Yvette Young will blow your mind. My recommendation would be Falkor

Very cool, I've never heard of Chon. Nice sounding jazzy/prog rock sound. Mahalos for the upload.

Hey hey! Chon is quite fun music. I dig their tunes, even some of those with vocals (though I feel their instrumental stuff is far superior).

I think it was on the player's pick podcast that mario and eric (the two guitarists) said they would enter a writing a mode where they get in the room together for hours and hours for as many days as necessary to hammer out their stuff. Bassists for chon tend to change per record and touring cycle although back here they were working with drew nowadays they mainly work with Mario's cousin. In the early days they would've written the drums for nathan (drummer/Mario's younger brother) as they taught him to play so they could have someone on the demo tape. Nowadays I think drums are written mostly by Nathan's teacher but nathan clearly has his own ideas for some of the songs when you compare the live performance to record. So the guess that it's a lot more traditionally constructed was a good one. It would be cool to hear you check out Knot by them. It's a personal favourite, although you probably get enough suggestions already.

If you can check out Bubble Dream (my favorite) perfect pillow, or Sleepy Tea.

I love Chons “bright” and “wistful” approach to the sound and composition.

If you would like to react to some more jazzy/mathy, Chon vibes of a different order, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE could you react to some Toe and Elephant Gym? I'd recommend Toe's tracks, "All I Understand Is That I Don't Understand", "C" and "Goodbye (Album Version)" and Elephant Gym's tracks "Finger" and "Underwater".

Been a fan of theirs for a decade now and it's one of the handful of bands I always come back to. Every one of their songs can uniquely put me in a headspace and I have a lot of emotions and memories tied to them. Changed me as a musician and also as a listener. Your videos have been really entertaining so far. It's refreshing when a reaction channel actually has a reaction.

I'm so glad you listened to my request to listen to chon!

Perfect Pillow is my favorite CHON song

Between Polyphia and Chon you're hitting some of my favorite bands with these videos! As someone who's not a musician I love learning the technical reason why I like these bands so much. Keep it up

Check "Thank you Scientist - son of serpent live studio"

Yeah that friendship kind of feeling is so precent in his stuff... Another good songs by them are: Fall, Fluffy, Waterslide, Bubble Dream, Puddle, Story...

The cool thing about this channel is that it explores and gives visibility to not so usual (but good) music. I hope you get all the views and subs you can get...

What does it for me is that there is almost no distortion on their guitars. It really shows skill when you're not hiding stuff like this behind a heavily distorted guitar. I remember watching Alex Rudinger cover a song by Necrophagist, and the dudes from Chon recorded the guitar tracks for the cover. There is, once again, next to no distortion on the guitars. It blows me away how clean they're playing at all times.

if i remember correctly either the guitarists, or the band as a whole, learned their instruments together that helped create their incredible cohesion. food for thought.

Been waiting for you to react to Chon. Love these guys. Love your videos! 🤙🏽

Great track, if you look at any more from them maybe try some of they're newer stuff like 'continue'

Chon and wasabi nuts. That's the vibe right there

I love CHON SO MUCH

Chon - Perfect Pillow first. But then Strawberry Girls - Spanish Bay. Thanks! Also, arpeggiation... this guy's good!

Chon is always a favorite! Their final riff in Bubble Dream is just insane and really showcases their talent, imo. Loved the video, as usual!

I strongly recommend Rivers Dancing by Gordian Knot. The song as a whole is a beautiful journey and the outro solo work is incredible. Their bassist Sean Malone recently passed and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest prog bassists. You will not be disappointed. Love your reactions brother!

please react to plini - papermoon, also chon is just an amazing band!

I remember seeing an interview they said they wanted to try arranging like a piano where the guitars play like 2 hands on a piano and you can see it they way they play together

More Chon content please! Enjoyed your reactions btw!

You really need to check out "Drip" by Tirgan Hamasyan (the version recorded at Berkely)

So glad you checked these guys out. You rock 🤙🏻

I enjoyed this song so much, never heard of these guys. My ears were so grateful. And very happy for the extra insight to help me out as to what I'm hearing

chon is fuckin crazy good man. what a gift they are.

Aren’t they more or less Fam? Two brothers,cousin,longtime close friend. With their musical closeness everything the do is nearly intuitive. The almost know instinctively how to move things along with each other. It’s as if they’re eating a meal and each is ok with sampling from each other’s plate. They all get done at the same time and each is full. Simply put the groups dynamic is in near perfect synch.

That human-like doll on couch causing "uncanny valley" effect on me. He-he. 🙈

So to me, my like 10 second synopsis of Chon is that they are 10/10 EPIC modern elevator music. Like they're so sooooo good as just not very produced, absolute stellar punchy and to-the-point elevator music. Like SO AMBIENT and absolutely perfect mood-setting, background music. Which is 1000% a compliment, no disrespect. It's SO universal and listenable and that is honestly a compliment. SO happy you did a reaction video to them and you nailed it :)

I fuckin love that snappy snare

Another Instrumentalist group to check out, Intervals. Especially their latest album that was released not too long ago

Agree... Love the mix of this track.

i come to watch geebz just to chill, i mean i really think this is like type of music (math rock, djent, progresive instrumental, jazz metal, ambience rock, wtv im a layman) which i love is going to become a movement and will be mainstream, and will be in history books

Check out Giraffes? Giraffes! Either "I Am Shimmer" or "A Quick One While She's Away" from the More Skin With Milk Mouth EP.

Oh man I love that you're doing all the bands that I love. I appreciate your knowledge.

This is a great deconstruction of opinion and thoughts both as a composer and listener :)

Hey Geebz! I'd love to see you revisit Chon! I think they're a really interesting band, admittedly a little more chill than what you normally cover, but it's cool to listen to you dissect the instrumentation. Also, if I may, in your Dancers to a Discordant System video today you mentioned suggesting new bands for your next 52-week run. I would love it if you could check out Mother Mother. They're a really interesting indie-rock band from Canada and I think you'll enjoy their unique vocal melodies in particular ;) "O My Heart" is a good album to start with. Keep up the great work! Aloha!

I am so happy you found Chon.

Please do more Chon!! Do the song Sleepy Tea!! Sorry I don't know how to connect the link...

I've really been enjoying your videos, man. Thanks for taking the time to do them. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Vulfpeck.

I'd recommend their song Bubble Dream if you want to hear some really crazy creative back and forth techniques between the two guitarists. You'll know exactly what section I'm talking about once you hear it.

The Contortionist- The Source Language I Language II Gotta react to these 3 tracks please! All together cause it blends together!

the reason u say you can see them sitting in a room writing the music together. Is because they literally do. As brothers they actually have probably been writing music together since middle school in a room.

CHON doesn't need post processing because they play the guitar perfectly

Good stuff! You have a way of explaining things so easily and clearly

“Wasabi Peas!” can’t be that intro! Lol really digging this jam and thanks for not chewing into the mic!

You should check them on Audiotree live session, you will love that!!!

Chon let’s go!!!

I suggested this yesterday and see this and animals as leaders now, this is insanneeee, ps you’re a badass dude

Yessss this tingles all my dingleberries :D do newborn sun next time, it'll be a totally different sound. Or watch perfect pillow/waterslide rooftop sessions, or the audiotree session. These dudes are SUPER TIGHT LIVE Edit : I just noticed that Erick has a Toro Y Moi tee on! I love him even more now 😁

3:01 came here solely to see his reaction to this part of the song. Did not disappoint

YES! CHON! Great great band. There are some great bands they have toured with like Animals as Leaders and Circa Survive you should check out!

After Chon, you are like one step away from japanese “electro/pop/rock” bands like Frederic or Polkadot stingray, you know more happy and possitive

Check out chinchilla by this town needs guns, extremely fun song you’ll have a blast!!

Great video as always. Might I recommend 'Causality' by The Contortionist? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DS0iwkM5wxA.html If you'd prefer a softer and newer song by them I also recommend their song 'Language I: Intuition' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jdGtT6Q3kmI.html . I know other people would probably recommend different songs by them but these are two of my personal favorites. Always love hearing your insights into music, keep up the great work! PS: I know you prefer links without music videos but for Causality that is the best upload of the audio on RU-vid sadly.

If you’re looking for more instrumental, check out farewell (minimal lyrics) or ares by Covet and Brain Dance by Animals As Leaders

These guys covered Necrophagist's song Stabwound, which is pretty great. It's kind of funny because their guitars were still too clean sounding for that song, haha. I wouldn't make a video about it, but it's neat to see that these guys take influences from all over (And you can actually hear the shred/metal influence in their playing): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cPTJzeEqkFs.html

From two years in the future: “it’s Puh-lif-ee-uh” 💀 thanks for reminding me Chon is the dopest 🤘🏼

Love seeing enjoy on a video!

I love that you're reacting to all these bands I've been following! If I could recommend anyone else to listen too I'd probably say: Covet, Elephant Gym or Tricot! Please keep doing these though they're great!

You should check outs some Studio performances

If you want some Prog Rock to check out, I recommend Coheed & Cambria. The Dark Sentencer is a newer song from the first LP in their pentalogy concept album. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T3zm1_JSPOQ.html I highly suggest looking up a bit of the story before listening since it's got a good bit of storytelling in the track.

Can I be your nephew?! Hahahaha would be amazing to have you as uncle!

As much love as the guitar work gets, all deserved Ofcourse. The drummer steals the show for me, he really drives and completes everything Chon is not Chon without him

Geebz got that green eye haze

Thanks for the vids. Been really enjoying them. Would love to hear your thoughts on a band Brass Against. Maybe there 46 & 2 cover. I think it will be something you will enjoy. Thanks and keep the great music coming.

I HIGHLY recommend checking out CHON - Bubble Dream

You should check out save us from the archon, they broke up a few years ago but they have some of the most technically and powerful music ive ever heard

please do Covet! Shibuya and Falkor are both awesome. Yvette Young is awesome

I love his precious face smiling at 8:03

You should check out dance gavin dance, inspire the liars is my personal favorite, they blend styles better then most bands. I think you will enjoy them.👍

Crunchy Munchy Good!

Don Caballero. Any song off of American Don. Three piece using looping pedals to record live.

You should check out Waterslide or Pitch Dark by them, really great tracks.

I asked this before but I'm going to keep doing it. Could you look at Aviator by Polyphia? It also features Jason Richardson who you've probably heard of from your comments.

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I Highly Recommend Covet. Literally anything from their discography. CHON and Covet are both Math Rock(specifically Western Math Rock, Japan also has Math Rock but it's less prog more Jazz so it usually gets called Eastern Math Rock)

Great video man, love your reactions. Should 100% check out The Brain Dance by Animals as Leaders. Got similar vibes to Periphery, Plini, Chon, etc etc

Good sir, really enjoying these videos. I would love for you to check out Tigran Hamasyan's track "The Grid".

would love to see a reaction on the omnific, they don’t get the recognition they deserve and would enjoy seeing your view on them.

you should definitely checkout Strawberry Girls and Eternity Forever

AVIATIONS - Outliers (Retrospect) Absolutely incredible composition!

Yeah. Chon is pretty special to me man.

you should react to black midi's album, schlagenheim

loving these videos! Im a new sub and it's nice to hear your take on this genre.

CHON was first, and they always had more soul than other bands like Polyphia

I think you should give Pitch Dark by Chon a shot. I think you'll appreciate some interesting rhythmic ideas and also the better inclusion of bass vs older albums.

Oh man. If you like this you gotta hear the music off their newest album. Particularly I think Pitch Dark.

Sounds like Animals as Leaders after attending a positivity seminar.