savath and savalas?

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Apparently the media frenzy for the next Scott Herren album has begun, as evidenced by the magazine selection at the local Border's store. The hype seems to be "OMG! SCOTT HERREN! FEMALE VOCALIST! SHE SINGS IN CATALAN!" Really, press packet preview material at its worst.

Having never really listened to the first savath and savalas album, should I be expecting much? It sounds like it could be decent, but when is this coming out anyway?

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

on warp, released on 26th of january.

http://www.warprecords.com/media/img/bright_postcard_for%20site.jpg

― jason m (jason m), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought I remembered him saying that he's given up the S+S name, or maybe I'm thinking of Delarosa & Asora.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I think decent is about right. S+S never was as catchy as P73.

― Leee Marvin (Leee), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

savath and savalas is all about the downtempo lushness - check out the "sipping snake blood wine" remix on the caural "blurred july" EP!

― jason m (jason m), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

the first savath and svalas record is gorgeous. this is totally a different type of thing than p73. I'm looking forward to a new one if it's in the s&s style.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 29 December 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Check out the Urb magazine story on them...

― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...

Saw this in the store the other day. Has anyone heard it yet? Any good?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 29 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

the 30-second samples i've heard sound AMAZING. but then again i've been listening to lots of psych-soul and nick drake and linda perhacs and david axelrod lately so maybe i'm just sort of primed for it.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a lovely record. I recommend it.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Seemed a lot duller than his five-song Savath and Savalas EP from a few years ago, near as I could tell....

― chuck, Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Just heard it for the first time and it's really enchanting, easily the best album I've heard this year. Some of it reminded me of Stereolab but a stoned/organic Stereolab with its krautrock center removed and replaced by a strange Spanish eroticism. I dunno I'm blown away by it but maybe this has to do with me being half-Spanish and somehow having waited for music like this for all my life.

(oh I see vahid likes it too, no surprise there then ;)

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

This received an in-depth npr review/interview about a month back (forgot which show though).. It is very 60's/70's Brazilian loungy psych- and much better than I would have imagined from Scotts P73 and other older stuff. MUCH more organic than previous stuff and very musical - Scott is even a decent guitar player. nice :)

― pete from the street, Friday, 5 March 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a (good) review of it in Record Collector, a month back...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

This received an in-depth npr review/interview about a month back (forgot which show though)..

The World on PRI maybe? I recall thinking it odd that they were treating a Herren record as though it were another flavor of "world" music.

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i do really like it, it's just that somehow about 2/3 of the way in it seems to lose some steam.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been meaning to check this out for a while, but the only thing really holding me back is the feeling that it's gonna be a postrock w/vocals album. is that so?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

absolutely not, it's like a weird artifact from 1970's brazil. I adore this album, it's much more interesting than the first one (which I liked) and way better than Prefuse. It's hard to believe the same person was behind all these records.

I have two tickets for the SF show with Juana Molina on April 29th that I have get rid of if anyone here is interested (I really, really want to go, but I got pixies tickets for that day, and, uh, you know, the PIXIES).

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

absolutely not, it's like a weird artifact from 1970's brazil

yes, except for a central section that sounds a bit too much like acoustic esquivel / stereolab for my taste. the beginning and end are folkier, which i liked a bit better.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

" but then again i've been listening to lots of psych-soul and nick drake and linda perhacs and david axelrod lately "

vahid you kick ass! What axelrod you been listening to?

By the way this album I think is ok, but there are far more interesting things done in this kinda style. Os Mutantes for one, tons of original Brazilian samba stuff.
I want to like it, it just seems a little limp.

― hector (hector), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

anthony, i'll buy the tix off you

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

off topic (i'm sure there's a thread around that can be resurected), but my fave Axelrod album is Earth Rot

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

what axelrod you been listening to

actually i've mostly been listening to his productions for other artists ... particularly electric prunes, cannonball adderly, lou rawls and letta mbulu - and this gem!

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The Axelrod Chronicles has a couple of killer tunes you gotta check out Mucho Chupar which is his and Goodbye, So Long which he produced for Funk Inc.

Killer stuff.

― hector (hector), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

you know, i've never really gotten into his outside productions besides the Prunes stuff. i have a bunch of Adderly albums and i just dunno.

i'd never heard abou that Myriam Makeba! what's it sound like? and who's Letta Mbulu?

you know what i was totally shocked about? how great his new album was.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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