Talk about Double Leopards music

i haven't really kept up with the cdrs - but "halve maen" is top, "a pebble" and "axe helve" are both good, and the polyamory cdr is excellent.

i think "the axe helve" went for over $150 recently. i can't fathom why eclipse would reissue the relatively easy to find "halve maen" as a double instead of "axe" and "pebble". lame.

and marcia became a member of the hototogisu starting around "befriending demons," i think?

all the new Hototogisu stuff has been great. Bassett and Bower were made to work together. kinda like Campbell Kneale and Neil Campbell.

I don't think greh had any dl 3"s tonight, dammit.

I've only heard Halve Maen so far, and it's a real delightful headtrip. Very much like sliding down an mossy tube into the underworld, head tickled by tree roots, catapillars talking, etc. This would make a great soundtrack to Herbert Read's "The Green Child."

did they break up? anyone? i read something about one of the side projects that implied that double leopards are no longer a going concern...

yeah they broke up

dang!

then again i'd rather listen to hototogisu than double leopards, really, but i did like to throw their cds on every now and again.

religious knives >>>>> hototogisu

No. But I'll concede that I'm enjoying RK's latest singles round-up(Resin) way, WAY more than I did their last one.

religious knives >>>>> hototogisu

SKEPTICAL

you don't know what you bitches r missin.
i am also of the opinion that hototogisu is maybe the most boring stuff matt bower has ever done, though.

skullflower abyssic lowland hiss is the boringest
the hototogisus with the >20 min tracks tend to be boring 2 (BROOMING MEPHITIC BLAST etc)

i like what RK ive heard and im psyched to see them at nff

i am also of the opinion that hototogisu is maybe the most boring stuff matt bower has ever done, though.

cosigned, except for the early acoustic hippie stuff which i'm totally into.

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hototogisu is cool but once you've heard two of the latest slew of albums you kind of heard them all...i still love prayer rug excorcism though

i was sceptical about religious knives new direction but the latest album, Resin, which is pretty much a comp of earlier tapes convinced me. great record, superb garage-y versions of earlier drone tunes. wish i could go to no fun grr

except for the early acoustic hippie stuff which i'm totally into.

Which albums were these? I'd be interested.

this is one of them

white wind of autumn and cuckoo cloudland are the other two in the same vein

i can post white wind over at the place if anyone needs it. hell, i could probably just post it here because it's out of print and who is rural electrification program going to sue?

could you?

working on it

http://www.zshare.net/download/1068939708b88797/

thankee

I loved Double Leopards.

man, floating japanese oof! gardens was something i was going to buy when it came out initially and i saw it on the fusetron list, but i was like "thirty dollars??!?! get real." now that shit sells for like 90 bux, right?

floating OOP!

i'll download these when i get home later.

thanks guys. i always need more music on my computer that i will never listen to.

i know what you mean but you should listen to these

yeah, i will.
i mean it.

I'm looking forward to hearing acoustic hippie Hototogisu! I have a couple of their cd's and they are far from acoustic hippie. Sometimes I like them, it's just that there's never really a good time to put them on

I think I mention this every time the subject of Hototogisu comes up on this board, but I was at one of the gigs excerpted on PRAYER RUG EXORCISM and it really was one of the most intense, ritualistic performances I've ever seen - def. helped that was I wasn't prepared for the whole volume/sensory overload trip, having only seen a more mellow Bower w/ Vibracathedral previously. Last month's Skullflower gig, at the same venue, just didn't come close in terms of impact/effect, which makes me think there's something magical and potent about the Bower/Bassett combo.

I dig the earlier, solo hippy Hototogisu recs too, esp. JAPANESE OOF! but in terms of sweet sonic tinkling mantra fug I actually prefer most of the Sunroof discs from roundabout the same time, esp. BLISS. I do think it's a shame that there's not much to distinguish between recent Skullflower/Sunroof!/Hototogisu discs but I think at this point I'm following Bower through all the twists and turns of his work - I'm sure he'll find a path out of the noize cul de sac soon enough...

I loved REMAINS, the Religious Knives compilation on No Fun (kinda like bargain basement electronic Xenakis, in parts) but have not been that thrilled by their most recent song-y stuff - I think they've fucked w/ a winning formula by expanding to a quartet.

Double Leopards are sublime, of course - here's a nice clip of their penultimate perf, at Thurston Moore's Nightmare Before Christmas ATP in 2006, which again I was lucky enuff to attend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IROd8lE7y4k

all this talk about post-DL projects, and nothing about Sinking Infinities, early Leopard Jon Chapman's fantastic duo with James Currin? Eternal Music on a starvation budget and, unlike most game efforts at same, fairly stunning. if i'm not mistaken, Jon is also behind the very worthy Co, Inc. which may even have been the alias he used in the Leopards. i have to check that.

i know Jon is credited on The Axe Helve and the SOE split 12". at what point exactly did he leave the Leopards and head for New Zealand? Soulless Dust is credited to "MMMC" - Marcia, Mike, Maya and ? is the 'C' Chapman?

answering my own question, the 'C' has to be Chris Gray (of Endless Boogie). i thought he joined the Leopards much later, but Jon must have already been gone by the time of Soulless Dust. which means he wasn't in on the recording of Pebbles, either. ok.

Endless Boogie fkn rule.

Welcoming the dark with Halve Maen.
It's been a few years since I've listened to it.
Perfect record for the moment.

double leopards were pretty unstoppable as a live band for a time there, circa 2003-04.

^^^

funny, just watched an eagles game with chris yesterday.