Bandcamp streaming: The long Dead Sevens - The White Waltz & Other Stories
Paul J. Rogers - acoustic/electric guitars, percussion, melodica, sound sculpture, backing vocals
Nick Cliff - vocals
Jennifer Hames - piano, violin, organ
Ian Turner - bass guitar, banjo, steel slide/resonator guitar, 12 string
Nick Hames - drum kit, percussion
Sarah Miller - guest backing vocals
- "Somewhere betwixt the brooding, 10 gallon groan of 16 Horsepower; the baroque drawl of Blue Ruin; the whiskey smell of Bad Livers and The Bad Seeds beef scented brand of western gothic hangs a wanted poster offering reward, dead or alive, for the atmospheric, detailed twang of Long Dead Sevens. Oh death and grief and sorrow and murder shine like a tin star polished with the bullets of Nick Cliffs baritone croon. Yet deep in the black heart that lies beneath banjo, fiddle, slide guitar, piano and derringer; somewhere near the unmarked grave of the coward Robert Ford; in a place that smells of salt peter and rancid tonic, the high lonesome is joined by the growling din of collapsing new buildings. A theatrical steam-industrial moan echoes through the mesa heralding an age not quite ancient and not quite modern. Colts and Mausers unite to shoot em up in this dark, enveloping, weirding wild west operetta.
- Yippee Ki-Yay!" Beta-lactam Ring Records - 2008 - Emusic
- "A masterpiece. For the 13th edition of the famed Bliss Out series London's Piano Magic deliver two hauntingly dark & moody ambient epics with a nautical theme. "Halloween Boat" and "A Trick Of The Sea" conjure images of gray, misty shores, rusty old ships and a life at sea, far away from the trivial concerns of the world. Be forewarned that this is no Princess Cruise. Nay, Piano Magic take the listener on a winter trip in the northern latitudes, on an old and weathered freighter, to some of the more lonely and otherworldly outposts inhabited by man. Settle into your bunk and let the waves rock you to dream of these far ports, and the life you've left behind. You'll awake with new perspective on, and appreciation for your lot. PIANO MAGIC have other full length releases on Rocket Girl and 4AD. This is their debut domestic release and their absolute best overall."
- Darla Records - 1998
- "Since "Solar Bridge," their first release beyond handcrafted cassettes and burned CD-Rs, Emeralds have tightened their sound, accelerated their rhythms, and raised their fidelity. Simply put, this isn't the same band that was introduced on Aaron Dilloway's record label. Emeralds are now a glossy and sleek electronic pop outfit that have far outstripped their modest beginnings as purveyors of the dreamy, arppegiator-driven synth scene they helped revive half a decade ago. With dominating rhythms and flourescent hues, "Just to Feel Anything" is even a bold step past their Editions Mego debut, "Does It Look Like I'm Here?" Perhaps the most surprising development is the replacement of Mark McGuire's Frippertronics-indebted guitar phasing that was a trademark of past Emeralds albums with playing that feels like it belongs in digitized arena rock band. Never a band to stagnate, Emeralds now form a stylized and sythesized brand of instrumental pop music that would be an appropriate score for a scene of blazing gunfire from an '80s action movie."
Ryan Potts, Experimedia.
Freshly Guvera'ed:
Eddy was Perkins to Johnny Halliday's Presley? I don't know if anyone but me would like this kind of French 50s style rock 'n' roll, but Eddy sounds genuine to me. He was less concerned with playing the rock star than bringing rock to France, initiating many exchanges between American and French musicians.
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All the Guvera finds are reminding me to listen to things like this from the last Guvera push.
- Soooo cool !
Kreng @ Emusers
ETA: I love the part where he is mashing up Colin Stetson and Philip Glass' Metamorphosis No. 1 (the harp version)
(See here.)
Very nice, BT.
Lovely and purchased in anticipation of his Kickstarter campaign finishing.
The long Dead Sevens - The White Waltz & Other Stories
Paul J. Rogers - acoustic/electric guitars, percussion, melodica, sound sculpture, backing vocals
Nick Cliff - vocals
Jennifer Hames - piano, violin, organ
Ian Turner - bass guitar, banjo, steel slide/resonator guitar, 12 string
Nick Hames - drum kit, percussion
Sarah Miller - guest backing vocals
- "Somewhere betwixt the brooding, 10 gallon groan of 16 Horsepower; the baroque drawl of Blue Ruin; the whiskey smell of Bad Livers and The Bad Seeds beef scented brand of western gothic hangs a wanted poster offering reward, dead or alive, for the atmospheric, detailed twang of Long Dead Sevens. Oh death and grief and sorrow and murder shine like a tin star polished with the bullets of Nick Cliffs baritone croon. Yet deep in the black heart that lies beneath banjo, fiddle, slide guitar, piano and derringer; somewhere near the unmarked grave of the coward Robert Ford; in a place that smells of salt peter and rancid tonic, the high lonesome is joined by the growling din of collapsing new buildings. A theatrical steam-industrial moan echoes through the mesa heralding an age not quite ancient and not quite modern. Colts and Mausers unite to shoot em up in this dark, enveloping, weirding wild west operetta.
- Yippee Ki-Yay!"
Beta-lactam Ring Records - 2008 - Emusic
Piano Magic - A Trick Of The Sea: Bliss Out v.13
- "A masterpiece. For the 13th edition of the famed Bliss Out series London's Piano Magic deliver two hauntingly dark & moody ambient epics with a nautical theme. "Halloween Boat" and "A Trick Of The Sea" conjure images of gray, misty shores, rusty old ships and a life at sea, far away from the trivial concerns of the world. Be forewarned that this is no Princess Cruise. Nay, Piano Magic take the listener on a winter trip in the northern latitudes, on an old and weathered freighter, to some of the more lonely and otherworldly outposts inhabited by man. Settle into your bunk and let the waves rock you to dream of these far ports, and the life you've left behind. You'll awake with new perspective on, and appreciation for your lot. PIANO MAGIC have other full length releases on Rocket Girl and 4AD. This is their debut domestic release and their absolute best overall."
- Darla Records - 1998
Guvera.
Craig
Sonny Sharrock electric guitar
Pharoah Sanders tenor & soprano saxophones
Elvin Jones drums
Charnett Moffett double bass
Bill Laswell & Sonny Sharrock producers
I'm laying low today, but I expect to listen to Louis Sclavis, the aforementioned Oscar Peterson (thanks again, GP), Gainsbourg, and John Lee Hooker.
Daft Punk - Human After All - Guvera
Craig
Emeralds - Just to Feel Anything
- "Since "Solar Bridge," their first release beyond handcrafted cassettes and burned CD-Rs, Emeralds have tightened their sound, accelerated their rhythms, and raised their fidelity. Simply put, this isn't the same band that was introduced on Aaron Dilloway's record label. Emeralds are now a glossy and sleek electronic pop outfit that have far outstripped their modest beginnings as purveyors of the dreamy, arppegiator-driven synth scene they helped revive half a decade ago. With dominating rhythms and flourescent hues, "Just to Feel Anything" is even a bold step past their Editions Mego debut, "Does It Look Like I'm Here?" Perhaps the most surprising development is the replacement of Mark McGuire's Frippertronics-indebted guitar phasing that was a trademark of past Emeralds albums with playing that feels like it belongs in digitized arena rock band. Never a band to stagnate, Emeralds now form a stylized and sythesized brand of instrumental pop music that would be an appropriate score for a scene of blazing gunfire from an '80s action movie."
Ryan Potts, Experimedia.
thanks to Guvera.
Finally arrived this side of the pond. Love their sound.
Eddy was Perkins to Johnny Halliday's Presley? I don't know if anyone but me would like this kind of French 50s style rock 'n' roll, but Eddy sounds genuine to me. He was less concerned with playing the rock star than bringing rock to France, initiating many exchanges between American and French musicians.