Ah, I think I have some Machinefabriek...I can remember the cover image but not the title...but not with me. And a mix by Peter van Cooten....also not with me.
ETA, I think the one I have is Blank Grey Canvas Sky, with Peter Broderick.
Oh, wait a minute, Easily Embarrassed are Dutch, I have several of theirs. Blamstrain is Finnish but lives in the Netherlands, I have one of his.
One day I will finish tagging my music by country.
- "Cassiber were an avant-garde rock group founded in 1982 in Germany by English drummer Chris Cutler from Henry Cow, German composer and music-theatre director Heiner Goebbels, German saxophonist Alfred Harth and German guitarist Christoph Anders. They recorded five albums, toured extensively across Europe, Asia and North America, and disbanded in 1992.
Cassibers music was a blend of speed-punk, free jazz and sampling which incorporated found sounds and news broadcasts. They were best known for the frantic intensity of their live performances. A Time Out critic wrote, Cassiber play as if they only have a minute left to live. They were also noted for their style of playing, which was to improvise completed pieces
Review by Caleb Deupree: - "This album, the last studio album from this group, is their most complex. For their first two albums (Man or Monkey and Beauty and the Beast), they entered the studio with prepared texts and improvised the music. On their third album, Perfect Worlds, they preconceived the pieces ahead of time and did the final arrangements in the studio. Here, not just the pieces, but the album's "plot" and some of the texts were written by Chris Cutler in the summer of 1988, six months prior to recording and two years before the final mix was complete. The length of gestation and the attention to detail show in the finished product. There is a great deal more overdubbing and sampling than in any previous album, especially in the voices. Christoph Anders' voice is perhaps an acquired taste, as he passionately declaims texts by Cutler, American novelist Thomas Pynchon, and German playwright Rainald Goetz, but his delivery is unique, and ultimately gripping. Cutler also recites some of his own texts, and the voices are layered in many places to the point of unintelligibility. Goetz's texts in German are another difference from their previous work, where all texts have been in English. The tracks here are divided into three long pieces, two related suites sandwiching a third with texts taken from Thomas Pynchon's great novel Gravity's Rainbow. Themes and texts recur in the first and third parts, providing a unity that makes this the group's most powerful album."
- Allmusic
Popped up on seemingly every Best of 2013 list, so I should at least give it a listen. It's pretty darn enjoyable so far. Not something I'd listen to enough to buy (even at $1.99), but I can see why people like it so much.
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Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania
Craig
Just landed in Rotterdam & drove to Gouda. Realizing that I don't really have much (any?) Dutch music.
*80s one-hit wonder, if you can call it a hit, and the only Dutch pop band that came, or comes, to mind.
ETA, I think the one I have is Blank Grey Canvas Sky, with Peter Broderick.
Oh, wait a minute, Easily Embarrassed are Dutch, I have several of theirs. Blamstrain is Finnish but lives in the Netherlands, I have one of his.
One day I will finish tagging my music by country.
RIP Pete Seeger
Dum Dum Girls - Too True
I basically love everything they've ever released, and this is no exception thus far.
Craig
Hospitality - Trouble
Craig
- "Cassiber were an avant-garde rock group founded in 1982 in Germany by English drummer Chris Cutler from Henry Cow, German composer and music-theatre director Heiner Goebbels, German saxophonist Alfred Harth and German guitarist Christoph Anders. They recorded five albums, toured extensively across Europe, Asia and North America, and disbanded in 1992.
Cassibers music was a blend of speed-punk, free jazz and sampling which incorporated found sounds and news broadcasts. They were best known for the frantic intensity of their live performances. A Time Out critic wrote, Cassiber play as if they only have a minute left to live. They were also noted for their style of playing, which was to improvise completed pieces
Review by Caleb Deupree:
- "This album, the last studio album from this group, is their most complex. For their first two albums (Man or Monkey and Beauty and the Beast), they entered the studio with prepared texts and improvised the music. On their third album, Perfect Worlds, they preconceived the pieces ahead of time and did the final arrangements in the studio. Here, not just the pieces, but the album's "plot" and some of the texts were written by Chris Cutler in the summer of 1988, six months prior to recording and two years before the final mix was complete. The length of gestation and the attention to detail show in the finished product. There is a great deal more overdubbing and sampling than in any previous album, especially in the voices. Christoph Anders' voice is perhaps an acquired taste, as he passionately declaims texts by Cutler, American novelist Thomas Pynchon, and German playwright Rainald Goetz, but his delivery is unique, and ultimately gripping. Cutler also recites some of his own texts, and the voices are layered in many places to the point of unintelligibility. Goetz's texts in German are another difference from their previous work, where all texts have been in English. The tracks here are divided into three long pieces, two related suites sandwiching a third with texts taken from Thomas Pynchon's great novel Gravity's Rainbow. Themes and texts recur in the first and third parts, providing a unity that makes this the group's most powerful album."
- Allmusic
One of a few things on sale at Amazon for $1.99 right now; I got Lorde too; also saw Drake and Mumford & Sons' Babel.
Drowners - s/t
Never heard of these guys, but the album is on the 7digital $5 list this week, so I decided to stream it. Pretty enjoyable indie rock.
Craig
Popped up on seemingly every Best of 2013 list, so I should at least give it a listen. It's pretty darn enjoyable so far. Not something I'd listen to enough to buy (even at $1.99), but I can see why people like it so much.
Craig
Time to start listening to this year's releases...
Nice find at the library today