- "Two Fingers are Brazilian beat-adventurer Amon Tobin and Joe "Doubleclick" Chapman. The pair met when Tobin lived in Brighton and bonded over an interest in music that ran way beyond the boundaries of "electronica". In Montreal they applied production techniques associated with UK styles like drum & bass to the template of hip hop. It was an experiment with explosive results. MOBO-winner Sway (now signed to Akon's Konvict label in the US) heard what was brewing he was so taken with it, he flew straight out to Montreal and recorded seven tracks with them, showing a harsher, more serious side to his personality whilst offering wry social commentary on everything from the way young Black men are treated ("What You Know") to crazy girls who do too many pills ("That Girl"). The remaining rhythms were voiced by sometime Missy protege Ms Jade and dancehall legend Ce'Cile. A couple of instrumental rhythms were added and this, the first stage of a continuing project, was complete."
I dl'd Avett Bros this morning. Bellowhead showed up at eMu, so I'll get that tonight. I made a big dent in holiday shopping for my son and nice. And my pants fit BETTER than yesterday. What an awesome day!
After repeated listens I find I really like this album, even if it does sound like they're channeling ZZ Top from the first six albums - what the hey, those are my favorites.
I really like parts of this one. I prefer Ambient 4. Eno loses my attention when he goes all pretty and plinky, like on "always returning". The textures are much more interesting to my ear.
After listening to A. C. Newman's latest, which was pretty good, I got to thinking about this, which I haven't listened to in a long time. It holds up very well indeed.
Soundcloud streaming the brand new Serein release:
ETA: Brambles - Petrichor (Exclusive, Free Download) - "Petrichor is an exclusive track by Brambles included on his Forecast mix-tape for Serein. It is presented here in isolation and in its entirety for you to stream and download."
Xela - Dunwich Dreams - "These two tracks originally appeared on a 7" on Fred Thomas's Life Like label in 2011, but sadly due to a manufacturing problem the single ended up being limited to a mere ten copies. Since nobody ended up hearing here's the tracks for your enjoyment. They were written a couple of years ago and have plenty of references to the movie soundtrack work of Fabio Frizzi."
- Type @ Soundcloud
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
Streaming at Guvera:
L'enfant assasin des mouches by Jean-Claude Vannier
From the AllMusic review:
Inspired by the work he did with Gainsbourg on Melody Nelson in 1972, he and his ensembles Insolitudes, set out to create his own concept work, blending everything he'd been working on and extending his range with total studio and aesthetic freedom. This suite, comprised of 11 parts (with truly weird and creepy track introductions by Gainsbourg), is a wonder, a truly strange bit of '70s musicalia. This set is the terrain where soundtrack music, classical music, gauche pop, hard rock, French caf
. . . . . "The piece is comprised of 100 tracks of material (one for each of Cages birthdays), which all start from different points in pitch and spatial location and all meander to a common destination, somewhat akin to the way in which numerous streams descend a mountainside, gradually merging, and ultimately joining a single large river, and then, the sea. These tracks combine to create extremely complex sonic interactions, which I can only partially predict or control. At times it sounds as if a gigantic organ is producing whirling arpeggios, at other points, the sound becomes impossibly dense. . . . ."
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How to Dress Well - Total Loss
$2.99 at Google Music at the moment. Chill indie R&B that will make some year end lists.
Craig
Bahamas - Barchords
Guvera. Folky indie pop.
Craig
I dl'd Avett Bros this morning. Bellowhead showed up at eMu, so I'll get that tonight. I made a big dent in holiday shopping for my son and nice. And my pants fit BETTER than yesterday. What an awesome day!
Loving this inordinately.
I really like parts of this one. I prefer Ambient 4. Eno loses my attention when he goes all pretty and plinky, like on "always returning". The textures are much more interesting to my ear.
Nice, BN.
Thanatoloop & Templo Sagital - La Guerra ha Terminado
ETA: Brambles - Petrichor (Exclusive, Free Download)
- "Petrichor is an exclusive track by Brambles included on his Forecast mix-tape for Serein. It is presented here in isolation and in its entirety for you to stream and download."
- Gorgeous !
NYOP Bandcamp
Pretty decent live Zeppelin, better than some of the live recordings from the 70s. $5 on 7Digital, worth it.
Xela - Dunwich Dreams
- "These two tracks originally appeared on a 7" on Fred Thomas's Life Like label in 2011, but sadly due to a manufacturing problem the single ended up being limited to a mere ten copies. Since nobody ended up hearing here's the tracks for your enjoyment. They were written a couple of years ago and have plenty of references to the movie soundtrack work of Fabio Frizzi."
- Type @ Soundcloud
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
Streaming on Guvera. But looking up thread, I may have to jump ship and get me some of what BigD is listening to.
L'enfant assasin des mouches by Jean-Claude Vannier
From the AllMusic review:
- With Wovenhand, Sufjan Stevens etc. . . .
- These are actually quite good comps.
Very far from Christmas music. And utterly sublime.
This is very good. Reminiscent of The Books in places. Even more so of Tarwater in others, perhaps with a dash of Lemon Jelly.