Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak Thread 2013

Yeah, you guys are right. This Shooting Guns is enjoyable boozy sludge.

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this already but there's a great series of free events in Peckham this month and next - http://www.lcmf.co.uk

Tickets were just released today.

A couple of highlights...

27 July - Glenn Branca Premiere

Glenn Branca: Twisting in Space (2013) (UK premiere)

Performers
Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca Ensemble

Legendary pioneer of No Wave and the electric guitar symphony, Glenn Branca, returns to Britain with the Glenn Branca Ensemble for the first time in nearly a decade with a major, hour-long new work, Twisting in Space, which here receive its UK premiere.

28 July - Drone Day

Part One: 2pm

Jem Finer: Slowplayer (2005/2012)
Eliane Radigue: Chry-ptus (1971)
Brian Eno (arr. Evan Ziporyn): Music for Airports (1978)
La Monte Young: Composition 1960 No 7 (1960)

Part Two: 8pm

Tony Conrad/Jennifer Walshe: Ma la Pert (2013)
Charlemagne Palestine: In the Strumming Style (2013) (after Strumming Music, 1974) (world premiere)

Performers
Tony Conrad violin, electronics
Jem Finer electronics
Sam Mackay electronics (Radigue)
Charlemagne Palestine piano
Jennifer Walshe voice, electronics

Drone Day charts the evolution of drone music from its minimalist beginnings to its sound art and dance music present over eight hours of music.

The day will include a special visit from Charlemagne Palestine who will perform a new version of his seminal work for solo piano, Strumming Music. Cult long-form works by La Monte Young, Eliane Radigue and Jem Finer will also fill the concrete space. And there will be a rare acoustic rendition of Brian Eno’s Music for Airports.

The night will end with a collaboration between the godfather of drone music, Tony Conrad, and celebrated Irish experimentalist Jennifer Walshe.

Holy moly, thanks for posting that. The Lachenmann/Morricone night looks like a winner too.

No problem. I picked up tickets for that one too.

Fahey/Jack Rose/Ry Cooder soundtrack fans need to get on this album pronto: http://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/mercury

Yes!! I still think I like the first one better, but been loving this one too. I posted about it (briefly - not worth searching) in the Takoma thread. Really wanna see her live.

There's a good interview/live set from WFMU/The Free Music Archive linked in that post-Takoma thread as well. Really interesting.

Incommensurable Magnitudes, a 24-hour drone album by Andrew Liles: http://andrewliles.bandcamp.com/album/incommensurable-magnitudes-2

I like the look of that!

Really enjoying Simon Price of the Heads's solo project Kandodo -- new album on Thrill Jockey, k2o, out in a week and a half. Will have a short interview with him running in the Quietus soon.

Apologies if this isn't the right thread for it, but has anybody heard the "Cave Slave" record Thomas Bullock from Rub 'n' Tug put out earlier this year?

Given the lineup, this applies here:

http://desertedvillage.bandcamp.com/album/for-tom-carter

Don't think there's a separate thread for the Heads on here. Strange, there should be! Anyway, Simon Price from said band has got the kandodo solo thing going too, and there's a new album, and I chatted with him about it

http://thequietus.com/articles/13086-kandodo-k2o-interview

nice. looking forward to hearing "july 28th". lots of great stuff on that site lately, like this

http://thequietus.com/articles/13067-interview-nick-saloman-the-bevis-frond

is the dave pearce drumming in bevis frond now the dave pearce of flying saucer attack?

Different Dave Pearce.

Posted this on the post-Takoma thread, but probably more appropriate here: The Three Lobed day party at Hopscotch is streaming right now on WXDU: http://wxdu.org/

The line-up:

12:00 – 12:30 - Jenks Miller Band (only show of fest)
12:50-1:20 – Tom Carter (only solo show of fest)
1:40 – 2:10 - Magik Markers (improv set)
2:30 – 3:10 – Glenn Jones (only show of fest)
3:30 – 4:10 – Desert Heat ( Steve Gunn / Cian Nugent / John Truscinski /Jason Meagher – North American debut – only show of fest)
4:30 – 5:15 – Thurston Moore / John Moloney Caught on Tape Duo (only show of fest)
- live between-set music from Mike Gangloff and Nathaniel Bowles (both of Pelt, Black Twig Pickers and solo fame)

Tom carter just freaking killed it, for lack of a better term, and Gangloff and Bowles are droning it up before the Magik Markers do a full improv set (up next). Great sound quality on the stream too.

Saw Residual Echoes in Charlottesville recently, and man it really cooked. Hadn't been 100% sold on recorded stuff I've heard, songs didn't fully connect with me, but this set was full on great, the songs were cool and the instrumental parts/jams were pretty focussed and definitely rocking. Some real highs. Here's the same line-up in Europe, where they are on tour right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uM_eSr152U&feature=youtu.be

thank god for the rolling psych/drone and rolling noise threads.

this was only one of two shirtless drummers i saw today!
this is recommended viewing for anyone who is interested in germany in the 70s etc

oops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSGWFX84NkQ

Hah hah. La Lechera, that Residual Echoes clip has some psych rock flute in it, which I think you are fond of, right?

Went to see Carlton Melton last night, not 100% into them cos I don't always feel the *songs* they play, sometimes the compositions are a bit boring, but the *way* that they play them is often pretty staggering, they sound HUGE. The drummer really smashes his kit, I don't think I've seen a drummer play quite so hard before.

Main reason I went was to catch White Manna who put out an excellent debut last year and are just about to release the follow-up. Great band, songs are kind of reminiscent of the Elevators but played with incendiary Stooges-style guitar riffing and Hawkwind-ish space effects instead of the jug. Really good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOv74VaFReI

I do like flute!!

White Manna was rad but for some weird reason the Aqua Nebula Oscillator album from last year stole a lot of its thunder, for me. Both are great albums tho.

Guess I better check them out then!

Saw Mainliner last night who were volcanic in their intensity. Heavy jams and white hot noise freakouts where the music was sent hurtling backwards through space. Awesome singer/bass player, think they're from Bo Ningen who I haven't really got round to listening to yet for some reason. BTW I still wish someone would make me a Pete Frame-style 3' x 4' Japanese psych family tree.

i really need to spend more time here

Extremely happy to share news of the rerelease of Abunai's Universal Mind Decoder, which I wrote the liner notes for:

http://www.krautedmind.com/product_info.php?products_id=911

http://abunai.bandcamp.com/album/universal-mind-decoder-deluxe-edition

this is very groovy, ned, thanks! never head of these guys.

Great folks, lucky to have caught them at various Terrastocks over time.

Fantastic band. Saw Brendan a few weeks ago & he never mentioned this was happening. Without wishing to appear rude, slightly surprised there was a demand for it, but hopefully some more people will catch on to it this time round.

Posted this on another thread, but definitely relevant here as well. NYC Taper just posted the Tom Carter set from Hopscotch, and while I tuned in live I was totally blown away, one of my favorite things I've heard this year. Looking forward to checking it again:

http://www.nyctaper.com/2013/10/tom-carter-september-6-2013-three-lobed-wxdu-day-show-kings-raleigh-nc-flacmp3streaming/

^totally gorgeous

listening to the new Food Pyramid album, Ecstasy and Refreshment. not bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amHhnSntlWo

While waiting for that FULL Tom Carter set to download (just listened to one song streaming so far) I checked out this upcoming Spectre Folk song, and damn if it isn't pretty great. Lots of guitar, and a pretty surprising line-up to me at least (I knew he had some of these folks lined up, but not all of them) of Nolan, Peter Meehan, Aaron Mullan, Mark Ibold, and Steve Shelley:

https://soundcloud.com/#new-images/spectre-folk-the-mothership

Been loving this new track from Albuquerque band YOU.

https://youband.bandcamp.com/album/green-suite

They're touring throughout October and November for anyone whose interested.

Posted this on another thread, but definitely relevant here as well. NYC Taper just posted the Tom Carter set from Hopscotch, and while I tuned in live I was totally blown away, one of my favorite things I've heard this year.

oooooh, thank you for sharing this. lovely. perfect for the fall weather.

Yeah, that Tom Carter set is so good. Apparently he plays some stuff that will be on a forthcoming Three Lobed record, which has me pretty excited for the record.

not exactly smashing the drone canon but p. cool:

Total Life - Radiator (side A): http://youtu.be/VrRNsr6RP0k

food pyramid used to be from mpls but think they/he isn't anymore

Comets Ov Cupid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zZnEMnLfbc

I heard of the band on Fbook thru Ed Ackerson (Polara, BNLX, 27 Various) who said that they were still Mpls.

speaking of which, new Brute Heart on their bandcamp is p decent-ish psych/soundtrack music, I dont know the whole deal but I think it was scored to the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

I was just reading thru rolling time travel and it looks like Lamp had been posting about F Pyramid like 8 months ago...

this band doesn't sound nearly as freaky as i expected them to based on what i read about them, but i like their sound even if it's all a little smooth for me
the youtube's instrumental intro part is a little more stretched out so i think maybe i like the music more than the vocals, but i bet lots of people would like the vocals better than i do
anyway, wasn't sure where to put this so i put it here
http://middayveil.bandcamp.com/album/the-current
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkHV2Cl3yzk

i've played that one Food Pyramid song on my radio show like 6 times but never heard any of the rest of the record. is it all like that-ish? all as good? i love that track.

speaking of which, new Brute Heart on their bandcamp is p decent-ish psych/soundtrack music, I dont know the whole deal but I think it was scored to the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

yeah it is! they did it live in a park where they showed the movie and they played along but i couldnt go :(

That wouldve been cool

xp :alpine, um it's p hazy & shoegazey, rhough not quite the solid chunk of drone that Dexedream is, my there are some electronic influences as well. Probably my next favorite track is The High Life, which has an Afrobeat vibe to it

This is really making my day so far. Not really psych, but the players are all vets of some great stuff over the years. Members of Pelt, Michael Morley, and Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides jamming on a gamelan. It's recorded pretty well, so you get some great heavy bass tones amidst all of the usual gamelan loveliness:

http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/pelt-part-wild-gate-side-b

Bumping this so folks don't sleep on it. This is just a beautiful recording, so many tones on tones ....

Really nice afternoon vibes.