Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Supersilent 1 2 3 6

If 1, 2 and 3 are as good as 6, then that's some strenuously bubbling music to get yer enzymes into. Fumbulating lozenges of soundstuff wobbling in and out of sleek vessels of scrunchy musicblobs. Norwegians know more about deep music than other Europeans.

sonomu: Supersilent 1-3
sonomu: Supersilent 6

Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Berne to be wild

Tim Berne must love to be described as "...clattering, assymetric funk, pointillistic improv and full on progjazz thrash..."
That's what the BBC thinks:

Monday, November 10, 2003

Light shining

The Albion Band popped this in 1984, on Albino Records (ALBINO 001). The best of Ashley Hutchings' many albums? Seek!
Cathy Lesurf - Vocals
Simon Nicol - Guitars, vocals
Dave Whetstone - Melodeon, guitar, concertina, vocals
Jean-Pierre Rasle - Bagpipes, crumhorn, recorder, rauschpfeife, vocals
Ashley Hucthings - Bass
John Maxwell - Drums
Dave Mattacks - Drums

Albion Band Light Shining

Monday, October 20, 2003

Fantasyy factoryy

Tribe of oddness. Simple discography:
Ode to Life (1996, Ohrwaschl)
Tales to Tell (1997, Ohrwaschl)
If I Like It I Do It (1998, Lava 002)
Interstellar Baby (1999, Psych Out)
Dreams Never Sleep (2000, Ohrwaschl)
Out of the Wizard's Hat (2002, Psych Out)
She Walks on Clouds (2002, Pink Lemon)
The Official Website Of FANTASYY FACTORYY

Bevis frond miasma

I wish I had one of the original issues of Miasma (on Woronzow Records of course). I have the reissue on Past & Present Records. Newgate Wind and Confusion Days are sensationally good songs.

But if you have the original releases, you get these messages scribbled on the labels:
Side 1: "The electric denture cream of Dermot Walsh. Lost on Shrove Tuesday aboard the last but one train to San Fernando."
Side 2: "Not to be taken in suppository form without permission of the friends of The Bevis Frond who are named on the label on side A.".
Miasma

Thursday, October 16, 2003

Fulgerica's mahal gyspsies

Mad gypsy music incorporating about 500 ideas in each bar.
Release!

Friday, October 10, 2003

Fort lauderdale party monsters

Ingredients: ELP, Kinks, Ramones, Caravan.
:::::::Memphis Industries::::::

National health service

Not as meandering as: Hatfield & the North
Not as freaky as: Gong
Which album? The first one

National Health

Wednesday, October 01, 2003

Doves pounding

Makes me cry a little bit. Lovely.

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Infectious stars

Morjac: Stars: Infectious: Damn

PLAY IT

Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Loud sheath

LFO: insane, frightening, play loud.
Collectively engage with LFO

Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Monday, September 22, 2003

Low tech percolator

Lotek HiFi: Percolator. Hip-hugging ragga disco!
Percolate!

Thursday, September 18, 2003

Kozmigroov

David Axlerod, Herbie Hancock, and Place Bo. Bundled.
Freeform's kozmigroov index

Tuesday, September 09, 2003

Messiaen memories

Olivier Messiaen could play Mahler symphonies by memory on the organ. Here is a Messiaen shopping list to memorise:
Turangalîla (orchestra)
L'Ascension (orchestra)
Couleurs de la cité céleste (orchestra)
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (orchestra)
Sept haïkaï (orchestra)
Des canyons aux étoiles (piano, horn and orchestra)
Oiseaux exotiques (piano, wind and percussion)
Réveil des Oiseaux (piano and orchestra)
Thème et variations for violin and piano
Le merle noir for flute and piano
Quatuor pour la fin du temps (clarinet, violin, cello and piano)
Catalogue d'oiseaux (piano)
Études de rythme (piano)
Préludes pour Piano (piano)
Vingt regards sur l'Enfant Jésus (piano)
Visions de l'Amen (two pianos)
Chants de terre et de ciel (songs)
Harawi and Poèmes pour Mi (songs)
Cinq rechants (a cappella choir)
La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ and Trois petits Liturgies de la Présence Divine (for chorus and orchestra)
St. François d'Assise (opera)

The Olivier Messiaen website

Thursday, September 04, 2003

Flying wonders wobbly jack

Homelife: eccentric and brilliant and genuine
A Ninjatune release

Treva whateva

Welcome to the Dance Class!
Ingredients: splendour, wit, musicality, great cover
Method: throws all sorts of sounds at each other then plonk on top of various rhythmic styles.
A Ninjatune release

Wednesday, September 03, 2003

Sexual funk film

Martin Wallace directs the Tindersticks' Sexual Funk. George Orwell hovers above it all.
the Art of Making Love

Tuesday, September 02, 2003

Cock and bull

Jean-Pierre Rasle, John Maxwell, Dave Whetstone, Paul Martin, Vanda Sainsbury, Pete Lockwood. Their work:
All Butoned Up (1981, Topic)
Eyes Closed and Rocking (1985, Topic)
Concrete Routes, Sacred Crows (1989, Rogue)
Below the Belt (1993, Cock & Bull)
Pumped Up & Loaded (1996, Mrs Casey)
Encore du Vingt (1999, Mrs Casey)

The Cock and Bull Band

Thursday, August 14, 2003

Cambridge 2005

Pretend you were there. Listen to Steve Earle, The Waifs, Eliza Carthy.
The BBC at Cambridge

Thrusting talk show

Chris Liebing's thrusting Talk Show. Beguiling.
Talk Show at Juno

Groove tools

Mark Antonio knows what he's doing: thumping
Tool me

Monday, August 11, 2003

But wait for moogs

Bill Mallonee's Perfumed Letter is of its ilk, but wait until the moogs, mellotrons and Beefheart basslines start battling with Tom Petty...
Taste the Perfumed Letter

Songs from woods

In the mid-70s Gay & Terry Woods knew where they stood. Like a decent loaf of bread.
Lake Songs From Red Waters

Dorris goes again

Dorris Henderson, Joan Armatrading, Nina Simone. Lovely-crunchy-juicy.
Dorris at the Music Index

Tuesday, August 05, 2003

Clearlake swoons

Almost The Same is a Very Good Pop Song.
Domino: Catalogue

Monday, August 04, 2003

Van otterloo

Orchestrated Thijs van Leer's solo albums in the 1970s. He knows where to put a flute in the mix. And he's not afraid of engaging a soprano to wail wordlessly above some lush cellos.
Look at his face and listen to his sounds

Monday, July 28, 2003

Monster truck driver

Dig the Gnarzigkeit! Raumschmiere's essence of Berlin with "gility and snotty-nosed impertinence that gets under your fingernails like city grime."
Novamute informationals

Popular mechanics

Piano Magic: music to fall asleep to (in a good way).
Reviewed

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Drop the marshmallows

Dick Beals: voice of cartoons and adverts. Alka Seltzer, Marshmallows, Snickers, More. Silly but gifted.
Read all about it