Music without devices today...
...morning, a small, wooden, Norwegian church in Ulsteinvik, where a teen gospel choir in their final song suddenly hit a haunting, swelling resonance that for a few beautiful minutes had me believing that recorded music is a mistake and that if this sound were to continue for eternity it would be glory all the way...
...late afternoon, hiking along the cliffs in the descending twilight, panoramic views, no human traces in sight, Pjusk playing in my head, the perfect soundtrack...
...next: Fiskesuppe.
Dave Kerman drums, guitar, keyboards
Sanjay Kumar keyboards
Bob Drake vocals, bass guitar, guitar, violin, recording engineer
with:
Thomas Dimuzio electronics
Susanne Lewis vocals
James Grigsby guitar, vibes, bass
Michelle Bos utensils, penny fountain, skydiving ocarinas, metal tables, creaks, blue rocks
- "5Uus is one of the more perplexing bands limning the rock-in-opposition/prog rock ethos and also one of the most inventive. The group's music displays vigorous bouts of energy amid a refined and literate sense of wordplay. Lyrics are free of the political baggage clinging to Dagmar Krause's similarly penned poetics and reflective of a playful sense of both the bizarre and the Byzantine--via Lewis G. Carroll's looking-glass. Thankfully, 5UUs swathes its ornate words in an equally hyper-intense and near-psychedelic aura of shrill guitars, keyboards that test the limits of 88-key endurance, and tumbling avalanches of percussive variants.
The presence of guest Thomas DiMuzio, who contributes his own crazed collection of electronic paraphernalia to the soup, only exacerbates an already frenzied atmosphere. Nursery rhymes somehow find themselves led lemming-like through a forest perilous of King Crimsonesque nuclear bursts, while sweet harmonies hint at a parallel-universe Yes and Henry Cow/Art Bears chamber-rock pyrotechnics. HUNGER'S TEETH is an unsettling yet cathartic trip for the metabolically challenged." Allmusic - ReR Megacorp 1994
BN - I'll fill you in fully! Amazingly it's his first ever performance in Minnesota. It's also the first time I can remember being more excited for an opener than the headliner (Black Angels are technically headlining).
Also just found out that when I see HAIM in May, Tennis will be the opener. Fun concert day for me!
David Tibet
Michael Cashmore
Ben Chasny
John Contreras
Steven Stapleton
Marc Almond
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Baby Dee
Ida Mercer
Antony
Clodagh Simonds
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Chris Carter
Andria Degens
Shirley Collins
Iris Bishop
Amy Phillips
William Breeze
William Basinski
Colin Potter
Seth Lakeman became a commercial success thanks to his boy-band image and relentlessly dramatic songs, but he now reclaims his folk credentials with new material based partly on interviews that he conducted with everyone from a former rail worker to the witness of a disastrous rehearsal for the D-day landings. His multi-instrumental work is impressive, but his voice still often sounds too urgent. High-energy songs such as The Wanderer, about travellers, or The Courier, about ancient tracks on Dartmoor, are balanced by less frantic pieces about a dockyard worker or young women labourers in the Cornish mines. The best song of all, Portrait of My Wife, is a traditional lament. A special edition of the album includes Lakeman's interviews intercut with his music. It's the technique famously used by Ewan MacColl with his Radio Ballads, and it brings new meaning to the songs.
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...morning, a small, wooden, Norwegian church in Ulsteinvik, where a teen gospel choir in their final song suddenly hit a haunting, swelling resonance that for a few beautiful minutes had me believing that recorded music is a mistake and that if this sound were to continue for eternity it would be glory all the way...
...late afternoon, hiking along the cliffs in the descending twilight, panoramic views, no human traces in sight, Pjusk playing in my head, the perfect soundtrack...
...next: Fiskesuppe.
NP:
Thanks Scissorman, streaming at the moment but will download. (see Bandcamp thread)
Free sampler from Amazon UK
Another new free Amazon UK sampler
Dave Kerman drums, guitar, keyboards
Sanjay Kumar keyboards
Bob Drake vocals, bass guitar, guitar, violin, recording engineer
with:
Thomas Dimuzio electronics
Susanne Lewis vocals
James Grigsby guitar, vibes, bass
Michelle Bos utensils, penny fountain, skydiving ocarinas, metal tables, creaks, blue rocks
- "5Uus is one of the more perplexing bands limning the rock-in-opposition/prog rock ethos and also one of the most inventive. The group's music displays vigorous bouts of energy amid a refined and literate sense of wordplay. Lyrics are free of the political baggage clinging to Dagmar Krause's similarly penned poetics and reflective of a playful sense of both the bizarre and the Byzantine--via Lewis G. Carroll's looking-glass. Thankfully, 5UUs swathes its ornate words in an equally hyper-intense and near-psychedelic aura of shrill guitars, keyboards that test the limits of 88-key endurance, and tumbling avalanches of percussive variants.
The presence of guest Thomas DiMuzio, who contributes his own crazed collection of electronic paraphernalia to the soup, only exacerbates an already frenzied atmosphere. Nursery rhymes somehow find themselves led lemming-like through a forest perilous of King Crimsonesque nuclear bursts, while sweet harmonies hint at a parallel-universe Yes and Henry Cow/Art Bears chamber-rock pyrotechnics. HUNGER'S TEETH is an unsettling yet cathartic trip for the metabolically challenged."
Allmusic - ReR Megacorp 1994
Prob mentioned before, but Brandon has another NYOP album too:
Norway sounds wonderful GP; I may not be able to be in Norway, but I can listen to Pjusk.
Pjusk:
Some may have wondered what Pjusk means, (Pronounciation here)
It's a word being used for a fellow like this:
ETA: I almost forgot how excellent this is, thanks !
Golden Animals - Hear Eye Go
Opening for Roky Erickson and Black Angels tonight. Pretty enjoyable.
Craig
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@ Craig, I'd love to go to that Roky Erickson show, tell us all about it, and:
Stand for the fire demon !
Also just found out that when I see HAIM in May, Tennis will be the opener. Fun concert day for me!
Craig
Craig
David Tibet
Michael Cashmore
Ben Chasny
John Contreras
Steven Stapleton
Marc Almond
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Baby Dee
Ida Mercer
Antony
Clodagh Simonds
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Chris Carter
Andria Degens
Shirley Collins
Iris Bishop
Amy Phillips
William Breeze
William Basinski
Colin Potter
Rec'd by Headphonaught. Downtempo with Spoken Word. Pretty Cool. NYOP
Source: Guardian review
Released by: Orange Mountain Music
Release date: Sep 3, 2013
Stephan Mathieu - The Falling Rocket