Today I've been feeling shred music of the late renaissance and early baroque. So there was this guy Rognoni who came up with this style of music called "viola bastarda", which was a more shred-oriented variation on the viola da gamba music of the day. Interesting thing about this piece is that he actually wrote it with three different difficulty levels. It feels kind of like a late 16th century equivalent of "Rock Band"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkqCu1P9Qew
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 31 August 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
here's a band playing a soul jazz arrangement of a "streets of rage" tune in a new york city bar. great atmosphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxJc4lc6TT4
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
was digging around in the "freak folk" rym charts and this popped up. it's an '80s proggy avant garde brazilian record but it's not really vanguarda paulista. it's mostly just strange. a smidge tribal, but tribal in a way that doesn't stop them from doing songs in tribute to stravinsky. maybe reminds me a little of el polen? i don't know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No6gtee2tOo
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 2 September 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
i am not a musician but lately i find myself drawn to videos with titles like "Cadential Diminished Chords are So Dope!", not because i understand it but because i don't. so from there i found my way over to this super-hipster new york big band jazz using irrational time signatures. their album just came out, it's produced by darcy james argue. i'm a total sucker for this kind of shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esppn8m6f0Y
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Saturday, 8 September 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
oh, and krock is right, that synth solo is fucking amazing
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Saturday, 8 September 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
today i realized that the 5:4 website has recordings of pretty much all the prom premieres from the last nine years out there so i've been delving into it bigtime
which explains why i am listening to a mixtape of enoch light deep cuts
http://5against4.com/2018/08/01/mixtape-48-enoch-light/
i've been meaning to get more into enoch light for some time now, just what i needed.
but that just-premiered daphne oram piece is fucking great too, don't get me wrong
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:05 (five years ago) link
oh, cool, i somehow got youtube to recommend me this random pow-wow record after i spent a couple minutes looking up kyrgyz folk music. intense shit. more of this please and fewer videos attempting to explain to me the TRUE PURPOSE of the pyramids (i mean, we all know it's ufo grain storage, don't we?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUuyLEzYWs
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
this album makes me wish i understood portuguese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFq3xqHAfNQ
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
here's a cash-in anonymous cover record of alice cooper circa "billion dollar babies", released on 8-track only, in case you wanted to hear these classic cuts at the wrong speed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdBHFYy06sk
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Monday, 17 September 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
oh hey here's a spanish-language knockoff cover of "i'm not in love"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-17C_RvPc8
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Monday, 17 September 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link
:/
fwiw I never really liked that song anyway. Also "Herve" is a name I always find a little funny.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 17 September 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link
i'm in full agreement with you re: i'm not in love, man alive
i like some stuff by godley and creme, though. not their triple record bloat-fest. well, bits of their triple-record bloat fest. i'm more taken with their music for that benson & hedges ad. (have i posted that here?) it's more _concise_.
"lol" is a funnier name than "herve".
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Monday, 17 September 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
I decided I needed to listen to more Rumba Flamenca. Didn't like most of it. Thin, underproduced. Loved Los Chicos, though. Crazy ultra-'70s late-Franco shit. Up-front, punchy, thoroughly gauche - this is my jam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1q0uU0sKs
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Thursday, 20 September 2018 00:36 (five years ago) link
I like that the song's all about she's going to leave him and the background dancers are all "yes, and we shall leave BY BIKE"
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 20 September 2018 09:15 (five years ago) link
yeah it's super-stylin'. the preview screenshot really says it all.
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Thursday, 20 September 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
here are 80 minutes or so of my favorite songs with the word "puppet" or "marionette" in the title, in celebration of my finding out that there was a super-expanded reissue of dendo marionette's ep last year
abba - i'm a marionetteraccomandata ricevuta ritorno - un palco di marionettehoracee arnold - puppett of the seasonscharlie looker - puppetalport astazio and the kwana-moto band - odoli (puppets)amy x neuberg and men - naked puppetsmetallica - master of puppetssleepytime gorilla museum - puppet showdendo marionette - dendo marionettebernard estardy - marionettes clubakina nakamori - marionetteeternal void - pirates puppetbob drake - funeral march of the marionetteharmonic 33 - marionette
you should check out the metallica track if you haven't heard it, it's one of their better songs, kind of long though
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Saturday, 22 September 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Z2VG-XCoE
here's a song by Herbert Joos from his 1974 album THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FLUEGELHORN. great title, great cover, great music!
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Sunday, 23 September 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
was doing one of my periodic searches for tommy marolda's 1974 private press prog record "me out for the first time" and found this great power pop song in tribute to him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-0WE_pcUSw
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Sunday, 23 September 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
have spent many long hours just trying to hear that '74 TM record :/
― budo jeru, Sunday, 23 September 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
me too, i know it's circulating, and i know one day it'll show up and then six months later i'll randomly learn that it's been posted to youtube. in the process of looking i did at least find some unissued stuff by an even earlier group he was involved with called cut glass, so it's definitely been worth the effort.
in the meantime here's a stream of a 2018 concert by the radiophonic workshop. great seeing folks like peter howell getting their day in the sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ-37tTNQI0
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Monday, 24 September 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
i don't think i listen to that much jazz but it's always jazz i seem to wind up posting here! anyway i was saddened to hear of hamiet bluiett's passing this week. i have a wonderful duo gig by bluiett and the also deceased don pullen, one of my favorites since my uncle gave me a tape of his a few decades back. this is the only song from that gig i could find on youtube - it's mostly pullen playing but bluiett shows up towards the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WmGCRVgQOc
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 October 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
sorry i haven't been updating this thread much lately, last couple of weeks i got too worn down to listen to music and started reading books instead. i've started listening to music again but mostly just old phish bootlegs, which, you know what, i think i'll spare you.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 8 October 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
BUT! i will post this record by a side project featuring roly wynne of the ozric tentacles. i would not blame you at all for refusing to listen to this on principle - i would not ordinarily subject myself to a record called "feelin rooti" by a band calling themselves "the cheapsuit oroonies". i mean that is basically worse than phish, linguistically speaking, isn't it?
the thing is, somewhere around the time i got a copy of what was purported to be a demo of roly wynne's last band "escalator" i became convinced that roly was in fact both deeply underappreciated and extremely talented, and since that time i will listen to just about anything with roly wynne on it. this, this i consider to be a pretty nice ethnological forgery series. i recommend it to anybody who would like to hear inauthentic european folk music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2v7pD0O9h8
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
here's a playlist that showed up in my recs, it might have 500 million views for all i know but it looks good. i mean it's got happy the man on it, so fine by me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sivp99wzzNk&list=PL5gN34OzHyU6vhL4V-kjTI2tkQDKG3m_s
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 19 October 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
well that didn't work at all. maybe it'll work later? youtube's been super flaky lately. anyway here's a composer from la paz, sounds good, i'd like to hear more of his stuff because he sounds interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4YNHT8q-aI
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 19 October 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
i'm still mostly focusing on things other than music, but i had a rare slow day and i picked up one of the occasional recommendations i get from wikipedia. i was reading about tritones and from there got to pages about other chords, such as the "petroushka chord", which this late '70s romanian prog instrumental apparently uses extensively. sounds good to me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ctRmalcns
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
here's a nice oud jam by a dude who used to play the oud in embryo, i am going to check out his 1980 album "your head is a sleeping car"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcgtae1wmg
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 29 October 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
oh my fucking god this is an amazing soul record, gospel choir, fuzz bass, the whole deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv4lqU08BWU
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 November 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
ok, mostly i stay away from posting modern stuff here, because seriously you can probably hear about the new sleepwalkers record elsewhere, but damn i'm loving this indonesian psych folk record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kws_sgGKluw
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 November 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
oh hell yeah
an archival cd of the complete recordings by girl group The Paper Dolls has just come out
this interests me because one of their members, tiger sue, released a solo single in '70 or '71, totally flopped, but it turns out to be the first recording of lindsay cooper
she would shortly thereafter go on to join pagan folk band comus, and after they broke up henry cow
there's not a lot of direct continuity between girl groups and overt feminism, but this is one i'd say
anyway, i've been trying to find a copy of "burn burn burn" for years and it was worth the wait. a great song about burning down the school with cooper's bassoon driving the song, who needs alice cooper?
bolo.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 November 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
Enjoyed hearing Stubblefield and Gardner on the new Mingus live set and wanted to check out what else they'd done. Frankly this veers a little too close to fuzak for my tastes - Reggie Lucas (who I didn't know died this year, RIP) in particular sounds not a damn thing like he did with Miles - but I enjoyed this track anyway. I think I should check out more Cecil McBee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0JLVb33d5g
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 16 November 2018 05:22 (five years ago) link
Well OK. I guess there is a song about Cecil McBee. It's pretty good!
https://pams.bandcamp.com/album/phasers
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 16 November 2018 05:28 (five years ago) link
sick and bored, here's a video of some afro-brazilian group i never heard of before today performing and explaining songs from their latest album on what looks like brazilian pbs or something. i can't speak portuguese so the explanations don't do much for me but the songs are nice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Minztv3As
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 November 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
oh haha this is great i knew gal costa's version of this song but i'd never heard of "coco" or jackson do pandeiro before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjyYJ6BniS0
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 November 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
I randomly ran across a record by the idol Ichigo Masui called "Electronic Medical Record". Apparently she's the lead singer of a group called Strawberry Painkiller. It's great stuff! I have no idea about any of the lyrics but track titles include "p*d*filia" and "Riding the Carriage of Death (From Hell)". The music is that extremely hyper-spastic/postmodern brand of J-pop I enjoy but don't get to hear a lot of because I'm not connected to that scene.
Anyway it's on Spotify, but I'm not so I can't give you a link to it. Probably your best chance of hearing it though!
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 18 November 2018 03:02 (five years ago) link
here's some shredding pipa by min xiao-fen, i'm not sure how i ran into this one but they've collaborated with derek bailey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgwyp10ncBM
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 18 November 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
I put together an hour mix of songs with the word "lost" in the title, and for lack of anywhere else to put it I guess I'll just post it here. Feel like it turned out OK.
Mose Allison - Lost MindThe Lost Generation - This Is The Lost GenerationThe Darlettes - LostArthur Russell - A Little LostChris Bell - I Got Kinda LostHaru Nemuri - LostplanetBlack Jungle Squad - Lost and FoundNoir Desir - LostSeahawks - Didn't Know I Was LostOrchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Lost and FoundJeff Bridges - Lost in SpaceKahimi Karie - Lost in a Paris NightclubHank Williams - Lost HighwayDavid Axelrod - The Lost LamentSnowman - Memory LostHurtful Witch - Lost AngelWall of Voodoo - Lost Weekend
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 22 November 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
I've been delving into the catalogue of AB Fable, which is a mid-2000s label run by a British guy named Anthony Barnett, who as far as I can tell is the world's foremost Stuff Smith expert. (That's Stuff Smith the jazz violinist, not Stuff Smith the generic '60s British blues band, which apparently is also a thing that existed.) Anyway, he has some other "jazz violin" recordings, among which is this jazz performance by Jascha Heifetz. Like most classical musicians, he's not very good at playing jazz, but it's fun anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6JBhpA2NaM
Following this trail also brought me to the lone release on the Qabala-Teq label by a free jazz duo calling themselves "Louis Farakhan!" (sic), supposedly released in 1992. I'd kind of like to hear it, but it's LP-only and I don't have a record player.
https://www.discogs.com/Louis-Farakhan-Hotep/release/1678067
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 24 November 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
Working my way through Ted Gioia's 2018 album list and got as far as Theotis Taylor, which led me to this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GROh3vN7U
Apparently there was an original 1979 release of the record and this is a track that was left off the reissue. Anyway, it's quite fine. Plenty of other good stuff on Matt Marble's channel - he's a damn fine esotericist (I felt momentarily guilty about describing him as such only to see that he actually describes himself that way).
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 December 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
ok i know i haven't been keeping up with this, it's just like a blog ha ha ha, been busy with year-end, maybe one day i'll dump some stuff that i couldn't fit in my 30 arbitrary noms in here, until then here's a jam featuring the underrated rhythm section of peter cetera and clyde stubblefield, enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez9-tbXxpR0
― errang (rushomancy), Friday, 21 December 2018 01:16 (five years ago) link
apparently Renaldo and the Loaf have started playing live gigs, go figure! here's a video from their upcoming live record, "long time coming", and if it doesn't have a crosby stills and nash cover on it i will riot (i will not riot)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLa4HLwS9Z0
― errang (rushomancy), Saturday, 22 December 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
maybe i am dumb but i didn't know johann johannsson was in the apparat organ quartet, this is a good old video from the olden days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTIAvopghRg
― errang (rushomancy), Sunday, 23 December 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
here's an italo song about krishna consciousness by paolo tofani from area
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CXbgtAmkls
― errang (rushomancy), Sunday, 23 December 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
i can't tell northumbrian folk music from sussex folk music any more than i can tell a liverpool accent from a leeds accent but this is nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHsZW1pfKR4
― errang (rushomancy), Monday, 24 December 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
this video was linked on said the gramophone's 2018 best of list, #18 to be precise, goddamn it's good, don't know how you would hear about it if you're not canadian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgQv_4NGsKE&t=4516s
― errang (rushomancy), Monday, 24 December 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
ah it looks like youtube links here don't play well with the &t argument? let's try this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgQv_4NGsKE
― errang (rushomancy), Monday, 24 December 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
Heh, that's a local adult movie theatre.
― pomenitul, Monday, 24 December 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
'Premier juin' is a great song.
― pomenitul, Monday, 24 December 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
I assume few Canadians have heard of her outside of Quebec, incidentally. Francophone music doesn't register among anglophones – the two solitudes and all that…
― pomenitul, Monday, 24 December 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
maybe if she starts singing in english she'll get an audience the way marie davidson did
are the quebecois mad at her (= marie davidson)?
yeah i'd definitely nom "premier juin" for eoy if i hadn't used up all my picks
― errang (rushomancy), Monday, 24 December 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
a really interesting list with lots of stuff i'm looking forward to exploring later. supremes, simply saucer, jack ruby, and sviatoslav richter all jumping out at me -- but i'd probably have to pick "pink flag" if i'm being honest
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:18 (nine months ago) link
well, it's not a poll, and you didn't ask me to pick. just saying
picking is allowed! i just didn't make it a poll because the results probably wouldn't say much! personally i'm very fond of the hammer screwdriver.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:57 (nine months ago) link
heh -- cheers :)
― budo jeru, Thursday, 24 August 2023 02:30 (nine months ago) link
fuck it here's an actual list, random-ish, i tried to stay away from
Leak Bros - WaterworldOcto Octa - Resonant BodyMilton Brown & His Musical Brownies - Complete RecordingsLuiz Eca & Sagrada Familia - Onda Nova do BrasilBob Drake - L'Isola dei LupiSlauter Xstroyes - Free the BeastTed Lucas - The Om RecordEssential Logic - Beat Rhythm NewsZelda - s/tBauer - On the MoveSuper Freego - Pourquoi Es-Tu Si Mechant?Nonlocal Forecast - Bubble Universe!The Great Tyrant - The Trouble With Being BornGastr del Sol - CamofleurThe Chrysanthemums - Little Flecks of Foam Around BarkingAlaska y Dinarama - Deseo CarnalMatia Bazar - AristocraticaPeter Thomas - Sound Music Album 5 (Golden Ring)Melt-Banana - FetchJosef Hassid - The Complete RecordingsGorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd TimeRaging Slab - Black Belt in BoogieHammer Screwdriver - s/tJoe Raposo - Joe Raposo (Fan-Made) Tribute EpisodeMaschina - Purple Finger SyndromeMidday Veil - This WildernessBrotherhood of Breath - BBC Session (unreleased w/Mongezi Feza - "You Ain't Gonna Know Me"/"Wood Fire")Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static CoutureMasashi Kageyama - Gimmick!Presage - s/tJohann Joseph Fux - KaiserrequiemLyra Pramuk - FountainBen Monder - Day After DayBPM15Q - All SongsChrista Lee - Welcome to the Fantasy ZoneAbigail Washburn - City of RefugeThe Toms - SimplicityStuff Smith & Robert Crum - The Complete Rosenkrantz Apartment Transcription DuetsPadraig O'Keeffe - The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle MasterAlexandre Reverend - Chansons d'une grande banane alitee The Lewis Sisters - Way Out FarClothilde - s/tRamsey Lewis - Mother Nature's SonHildegard Knef - KnefBill Fay - Time of the Last PersecutionNight Sun - Mournin'Relatively Clean Rivers - s/tWinterhawk - There and Back AgainBoris Midney - The Empire Strikes BackOpus III - Mind Fruit
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 24 August 2023 06:01 (nine months ago) link
Difficult to not pick Gastr del Sol, but I wanna single out that Clothilde comp for anyone who bought one late 60s French beat pop album and thought that was enough.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 August 2023 06:38 (nine months ago) link
ok i'm gonna do some brief write-ups on these
leak bros - i don't know why i love this hip-hop concept album about pcp so much. i just do.
octo octa - big record for me during my transition year, big fuckin' influence on me. this is my Trans Record.
milton brown & his musical brownies - too-short career, along with bob wills one of the titans of western swing. you don't actually need to hear them all, i just don't know of a comp. bob dunn's steel guitar, fuck yes.
luiz eca - idk i think i just connected with this during the blog era, 2008 or so, and fell in love with it, kind of an mpb supergroup. haven't listened to it in a while. i also recommend the "a tribo" comp but there's no official album of theirs and the sagrada familia record is better.
bob drake - i mean anything of his, i got into his stuff through ths prog-rock connections but bob drake is something else, lovecraftian old-timey furry jon anderson, i can't help but love it
slauter xstroyes - idk mostly metal like this doesn't have a bruce dickinson-style vocalist i don't think? it just clicks with me.
ted lucas - just a sad, homey folk record. the instrumental side is good but the vocal side is better. i don't even get stoned but i love listening to "it's so nice to get stoned".
essential logic - the kind of post-punk that clicks with me
zelda - actually i think that's just an ep? probably just go with 1983's full-length "carnaval". honestly i like their early, punkier live stuff better than their later stuff, but carnaval is a good meeting point.
bauer - somebody posted a bootleg rehearsal of theirs to dime in the early days and it's the kind of chamber pop that clicks with me.
super freego - a holy grail of mine for years, imagine my surprise when i found the album and it turned out to be just as good as i'd built it up to be. kind of a cross between early b-52s and magma.
nonlocal forecast - fire-toolz side project, progged out weather channel vaporwave shit. i haven't heard anything i didn't like by fire-toolz.
the great tyrant - post-_yeti_ after one of their members died. later another member died and they became pinkish black? or something? anyway i dig yeti's "man with the lamp" slightly more but the deathcore influences added to yeti's zeuhl and the cioran namecheck in the title elevate this.
that's kind of all i feel like doing now, i have, like, work to do, if i get to it i'll write up more... figure it's worth it since a lot of people probably haven't heard many of these...
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 24 August 2023 20:17 (nine months ago) link
Love your taste, it’s somewhat removed from my own personal taste - safe from a handful of picks which I love - and a whole bunch of albums I have never heard but sound interesting. Hearing nonlocal forecast right now and digging it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 28 August 2023 17:39 (nine months ago) link
Ted Lucas record would likely make my top 50, and Ramsey Lewis my top 100. Have lots of time for Relatively Clean Rivers and the Toms. Most of this is unknown to me, though.
― budo jeru, Monday, 28 August 2023 18:27 (nine months ago) link
Lots of excellent stuff, I’m intrigued by all the rest I don’t know - so much to discover
― Siegbran, Monday, 28 August 2023 22:20 (nine months ago) link
k since we got faint stirrings of interest i'll do some more :)
gastr del sol - for me this record has a terroir to it... louisville, kentucky, late 1990s, a time and a place i remember fondly. great record, too.
the chrysanthemums - most batshit insane concept album ever... no idea what it's supposed to be about but the yes-style mid-section of "god and the dave clark five" hooked me. honestly just the track titles alone would be enough to sell me on this record. they have some connection to r. stevie moore. don't know how tho.
alaska y dinarama - i just learned that alaska was a host of the anarchist spanish children's show "la bola de cristal", which ran from 1984 to 1988 before being cancelled, apparently for excessive anticapitalism. kind of sad that i don't understand either anything that's going on in the tv show (fansubs plz!) or the lyrics of this record. the title track is apparently about necrophilia. anyway, it's a really good synthpop record.
matia bazar - this is an even better synthpop album but i don't know if it has any songs about necrophilia on it. not sure tho coz i don't speak italian either.
peter thomas - i'll be honest side a of this music is the killer, side B is more weird synth squiggles than anything else... they're cool synth squiggles but side a has the actual melodies. god just the _sound_ on this thing, fuzz synth funk for the ages. it's fucking heaven. i've had "astral snow" as my ringtone for probably a decade now. i doubt i'll ever change it at this point.
melt-banana - god dammit it's been ten years and they still haven't released a follow-up to this, are they retired now or something? on this they went from noise to noise-pop. i love noise-pop that puts the noise first, so long as the pop is good too, which it is here!
josef hassid - one of the tragic geniuses of the violin, god _damn_ i have never heard a violin tone like this guy had. well, he left some recordings behind at least.
gorky's zygotic mynci - got a copy of this import from the used bin at ear x-tacy in the '90s... all these years and it still holds up for me. unhinged welsh canterbury-influenced psych, it sold me when they massacred the singing elf chorus. they get mad props for doing a song about kevin ayers _and_ getting john cale to perform on stage with them... i'm assuming he didn't know about the song about kevin ayers...
raging slab - one of those records i feel like i might be one of the two or three fans in the world of... like, if you find someone on the internet talking about how great raging slab's _black belt in boogie_ is, there's pretty good odds it's me... '90s equivalent of black oak arkansas decides to get into the magic band and records this record for rick rubin... who doesn't release it because he thinks it sucks... they record another weird record, _sing monkey sing_, which does get released and which i also like, but it's _black belt in boogie_ i keep coming back to...
hammer screwdriver - i have no idea what the story of this is... seems to be like a guy made these cool home-recordings and then died without recording anything proper, and some friends of his came along and added some overdubs to kind of flesh it out... still a weird lo-fi thing mind you. this was from indianapolis during the decade or so i lived there... i didn't know the guy, didn't get out much, it doesn't have the terroir that camofleur does for me. just a great sound.
joe raposo - there's never been a official release of the songs he wrote for sesame street... so many great songs, soundtrack of my childhood, and all my faves are here... the deep cuts, not the well-known stuff like "sing", which is also great mind you, but this, this absolutely hits the sweet spot for me as far as his sesame street work goes. even stuff i didn't know about, like "rush hour song", a great piece from his second stint with the show in the '80s.
maschina - saw these folks open for magma at martyr's in '99... when they first got on stage i thought they were cringe, by the time they'd finished their 15 minute ode to finger-fucking they were my new gods... i got their lead singer queen maschina to sign the cd i got, i think they thought i was hitting on them... in retrospect i probably should have been... i think the band broke up a month later. i hope queen maschina is doing ok. they (it was 1999, they were queer and femme in a time and place where being queer and femme was _not_ the prevailing standard, i'm not going to even guess at their pronouns now, if they're around...) had a fantastic voice.
midday veil - sometimes things just grow on you, is all i can say... i think they broke up after this on, i don't get the sense that they were ever a huge band or anything, i just kept finding myself listening to the record... kind of synth-rock, i don't know why the synth stuff keeps coming back to me... probably a queer thing, everybody knows synthesizers are the transest instrument... i could rhapsodize about its limitless ability for self-creation but really i don't know why it is, it's just a thing.
brotherhood of breath - this was the first brotherhood of breath i ever heard, from a post to alt.binaries.mp3.bootlegs back in the day... i don't know anything about this recording or when it was recorded. someone uploaded it to youtube as being from "1980"... i doubt this very much, as my copy has a bbc announcer listing the band lineup, which includes mongezi feza... this is the only recording i've heard of feza playing his iconic composition.
that's all for now... more later maybe...
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 00:36 (nine months ago) link
Enjoying your descriptions a lot! Loads of stuff I hadn't heard of
― vexingvexillologist, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 12:26 (nine months ago) link
nice to see Midday Veil mentioned....I think I first heard of them on here. I picked up their 3 records very cheaply, I guess they never really caught on outside of Sheboygan, and it's too bad because they're a genuinely psychedelic band who I think channel the spirit of bands like Hawkwind and Gong without really imitating them. there's a band called The Utopia Strong (featuring ex-Cardiac Kavus Torabi and snooker player Steve Davis) which does the same thing, but Midday Veil is unique in that they actually have a really great singer, which even the bands back in the day didn't have. shame they busted up but hey, they gave it a go
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 12:46 (nine months ago) link
Alaska y Dinarama are super iconic in Spain and latinamerica.
First time hearing about the title track being about necrophilia? I don’t quite interpret the lyrics as such or I’m not finding anything concrete in there. They do have a song about necrophilia in their last album called “mi novio es un zombie” (my bf is a zombie) which is one of their most popular songs.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 13:03 (nine months ago) link
i could be confused on that one, i don't speak the language at all!
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 14:11 (nine months ago) link
little break
i'm just gonna make a list until i get bored of the records i have tagged as "metal"
if any of these are fash lmk and i'll delete them from my library, i'm bad at keeping track of this shit
also note my tags are _extremely imprecise_ and some stuff is just shit that was tagged that way randomly and i never changed
black metal:
abu lahab - as chastened angels descend into the thoracic tombsails - the unravelinganubi - kai pilnaties akis uthmerks mirtisarkha sva - gloria satanaebatushka - litourgiyableeding black - personal helldamaar - triumph through spears of sacrilegedarkspace - iiidaudadagr - nordanland (i'm sorry that band name looks like someone just smashed the homerow keys)deathspell omega - paracletusdisguster - split tapedodheimsgard - a umbra omegadressed in streams - swaraj: or, "self rule"the end of six thousand years - isolationevil - iron and thunder (these are probably fash but it sounds so shitty i can't help it)feminazgul - no dawn for menfleurety - min tid skal kommefrozen moon - legend of east dan i and iifunereal presence - achatiusfuria - ksiezyc milczy lutyhail spirit noir - oi magoijordablod - the cabinet of numinous songjute gyte - discontinuitieskrallice - s/t, go be forgottenkvist - for kunsten maa vi evig vikelugubrum - de ware hondlurker of chalice - s/tmastery - valismora prokaza - by chancemyrkur - mausoleum (pretty sure she's fash? i should probs delete)nahvalr - s/tnargaroth - geliebte des regensnecromantia - scarlet evil witching blacknegative plane - et in saecula saeculorumnutrition - hyperdimensional awakeningoranssi pazuzu - muukalainen puhuuorganium - the ragepunaterrori - the fascists are dead (probably not fash, might be tankies tho)sabbat - the dwellingself harm - adapt to self-inflicted chemical tortureskaphe - skaphe squaredstigma diabolicum - luna de nocturnusstilla - synviljorstrid s/tsvartidau?i - revelations of the red swordtengger cavalry - ancient call (lol)thorns - stigma diabolicumtrepasser - (cyrillic title)vargrav - neverstormved buens ende - written in watersvermilia - katkytwhite ward - love exchange failurewmlrd - pentagonzuriaake - afterimage of autumn
you know what that's enough typing for now, maybe "death metal" next time
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 20:35 (nine months ago) link
so apparently hobbit oi! is a thing, here's "shire skinhead" by fellowship of the force
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ0MMUL8yac
honestly i don't think much of it, but also i'm not super into oi
i preferred "transsexual hooligan" tbh
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 20 October 2023 14:39 (seven months ago) link