Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak Thread 2013

yeah there is def some mid period Floyd influence there, but theres a lot more going on as well; "Comrade Voyager" sounds like a strange combination of Oneida, Hawkwind, and early 80s ABBA, at least until a minute from the end, when it switches gears and becomes a groovy Rick Wakeman Moog jam...

Yeah, definitely some interesting gear shifting going on with some of the songs, they tend to keep the tracks moving without it getting too proggy.

Very intrigued, will have to check it out after lunch.

Awww man, track posted on Orcutt's site from the upcoming Orcutt/Corsano album. As soon as you hear Corsano come in you know it's just gonna take off, and boy does it (for me at least). Definitely excited for this record. By the way, it's Orcutt electric, at least on this song and I imagine the whole record, but who knows?

http://palilalia.com/post/47540194290/pal-011-chris-corsano-bill-orcutt-lp-the-raw

Just getting to Sungod and this has my name all over it.

when it switches gears and becomes a groovy Rick Wakeman Moog jam

this is why i love bands like this! just when you think you know what you're getting, whoa there are some super loud repetitive chuggy guitars or whatever and then you forget how quiet things were just a few minutes ago. and it actually goes somewhere, doesn't just skillfully but aimlessly noodle. i like the first and second songs together for that reason. hell, i kinda forgot i liked this band, but as it turns out, i do and i did not know they had a new one.
i also like the cover.

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/139/755/13975581/600x600.jpg

Wow LL thats great to hear!!,

This is definitely hitting the spot today. Opening guitar solo is really great imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBTq8SH1SGE&feature=youtu.be

Crap, thought some info would post. Above clip is Residual Echoes, which in this instance was the touring Colin L Orchestra band "as" Residual Echoes and vice versa.

Also really enjoying this Loren Connors & Thurston Moore set. Nice write-up in Dusted Magazine, and I agree with them that Thurston turns out to be a good foil for Loren's playing. Have checked out a few collabs of his and didn't find them that compelling (prefer Loren solo for the most part), but yeah, this is sounding great to me today:

http://vimeo.com/45832258

I love the mmmr album from years back, will check this out!

I've never heard that mmmr record, looks interesting for sure. I like the duo format for improv, I think it can get into some really interesting territory, and I think Thurston and Loren here do a great job of taking advantage of the freedom whilst complementing each other at the same time.

yeahhh, that connors/moore thing is tasty.

Lots of reasons the Hopscotch Festival looks great this year, but I just learned that Merzbow is the "improviser in residence", which essentially means that he could show up at any gig and be onstage. Last year it was Chris Corsano. Great idea for a festival, really wish I could go.

dunno if this belongs here, but former ga'an vocalist is doing neat things with her voice here
http://fielded.bandcamp.com/album/white-death-7

or as my local paper put it without a hint of hyperbole

One listen to "White Death," the title track of her new seven-inch on Sophomore Lounge Records, ought to be enough for anyone with a working prefrontal cortex and the capacity to feel.

it's not particularly freaky imo but i don't know where else to put minimalist vocal music.

I'm excited about the upcoming album from Oakland-based raga/drone duo Date Palms:

http://thrilljockey.com/thrill/Date-Palms/The-Dusted-Sessions
https://soundcloud.com/thrilljockey/date-palms-yuba-reprise

their last one, Honey Devash, was mighty tasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDnlztE9Yog

^ new master musicians of bukkake, can i get a 'fuck yes'?

RAWWWWWWK

http://dubditchpicnic.bandcamp.com/album/spectral-laundromat

I think we've been talking about Shooting Guns in the stoner rock thread too so might be worth a crosspost.

Both threads happily bleed over a lot, I think!

i will totally give you a fuck yeah for new mmb. "circular ruins" is fucking amazing. also, purson's debut, the circle and the blue door, holy shit! like mellow candle jamming with steeleye span, in the most righteous possible way

Don't even know if this belongs here or in Rolling Noise, but Rabih Beaini did this pretty weird, lo-fi droney "folk"/"psych"/"jazz" album:

https://soundcloud.com/rabih/sets/rabih-beaini-albidaya-preview

Normally he does techno as Morphosis or R.aH, so this was kind of out of nowhere.

"night riding the skyline" on the new date palms is perfect

super psyched for Ensemble Pearl -- Atsuo, William Herzog, Michio Kurihara and Stephen O'Malley, out in March.

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Ensemble Pearl is excellent. I have not become as obsessed with a psych/drone type album since Psychic Paramount II.

Really? I'll have to listen again. I was super excited for this because I like all of those guys, but I just found myself wanting to listen to Miles every time I played it (ditto that latest Fontanelle album). It left zero impression on me the two times I listened, but I'm planning a third attempt.

I would recommend full volume or headphones to take in it's awesome intricacies. I am not familiar with the artists involved apart from eyvind kang who is on Wray, so I guess it is something a bit different and new for me.

Friend of a friend here from Seattle and this track's mighty fine

http://bridgetownrecords.bandcamp.com/track/gyres

man I am loving that dubditchpicnic Shooting Guns album. Thanks a ton, Ned!

Just watched Oneida playing with Rhys Chatham at ATP - fucking astounding. And chatting to them afterwards I was made up to hear that they've recorded together and this will be coming out next year.

And I'd implore anyone to spend more time with (Ensemble Pearl). It took ages to click with me but now it's a top three of the year style deal. Your man from Ghost is such a pleasure to listen to on guitar. That his solo drone track is just done on guitar and tape delay is amazing I reckon.

Shooting Guns from Saskatoon? Interesting. I missed seeing them during the Junos. I was a little on the fence about some of their earlier material but it certainly had potential. I'll give this a try.

The Ensemble Pearl album is four dark dirges and two very delicate pieces. I can't explain what is special about it, but it is.

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

Yeah, I have listened to it about 7 or 8 times in the last two days, all in the afternoon pretty much.

WFMU just sent out a link to this pre-Comets On Fire psych blowout group Tonal Shrine. Haven't even seen who besides Chasny was in it, but some nice heavy out guitar stylings (as expected):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B8Qd6GAEyKs

checking out the pelt part wild gate thing!
that tonal shrine thing is cool -- the comets on fire dude's label is doing some very nice stuff relevant to this thread - http://www.silvercurrentrecords.com

Yeah, I am going to go down that Silver Current rabbit hole at some point, but not quite yet.

I love that Pelt Part Wild Gate recording, hope I can get a copy of it at some point. It's gonna sell out for sure.

yeah i haven't dug too much into the silver current stuff, but i really like the idea of it -- more bands should do stuff like that, limited runs of radio sessions, live "bootlegs" etc.

Yeah man, live is where it is at for so many bands/musicians (for many of the ones I love at least). When their best live sets get documented it is really exciting.

Three Lobed just posted this as a way to announce that physical copies were almost sold out, and I am listening for the first time. A couple tracks in and I am resoundingly digging it: Tom Carter & Bardo Pond jamming circa 2003:

http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/4-23-03

They recorded it at the Bardo space, not live, so it is a clear studio recording.

Heavily into this. I gotta get more Tom Carter-related records.

yeah, I love that one. have gone back to it many times over the years.

The Austin Psych Fest is excited to announce its initial lineup for its 2014 installment, which spans five decades and six continents. The seventh annual festival will be held May 2 - 4, 2014, returning to Carson Creek Ranch, a scenic 58-acre ranch on the banks of the Colorado River, located just minutes from downtown Austin, TX.

The initial line up for the festival is below.

PRIMAL SCREAM (UK)
LOOP (UK)
THE BLACK ANGELS (US)
THE ZOMBIES (UK)
OF MONTREAL (US)
THE HORRORS (UK)
BLACK LIPS (US)
AVEY TARE'S SLASHER FLICKS (US)
LIARS (US)
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA (US)
MONO (JP)
TOBACCO (US)
DEAD MEADOW (US)
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER (US)
MOON DUO (US)
TOY (UK)
WOODS (US)
LA FEMME (FR)
JACCO GARDNER (DK)
EARTHLESS (US)
ZOMBIE ZOMBIE (FR)
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE (JP)
KADAVAR (DE)
SHANNON & THE CLAMS (US)
THE GOLDEN DAWN (US)
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN (CA)
BARN OWL (US)
TERAKAFT (ML)
WHITE HILLS (US)
DESTRUCTION UNIT (US)
QUILT (US)
JOEL GION & THE PRIMARY COLORS (US)
GAP DREAM (US)
KING GIZZARD & THE WIZARD LIZARD (AU)
BOOGARINS (BR)
LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE (MX)
AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR (FR)
THE OSCILLATION (UK)
STEVE GUNN (US)
CIRCUIT DES YEUX (US)
THE YOUNG (US)
FANTASMES (PR)
KIKAGAKU MOYO (JAP)

(I don't't feel qualified to start a Rolling 2014 edition.)

Yeah, you. (We still have a few weeks of madness here...)

coworker totally geeked over golden dawn, recounted history of austin psych. i now have some of there stuff to check.

it's a little fussy sounding but i like the jacco gardner lp i have.

thiers

Is there a rolling ambient/drone/electronic thread or does that get lumped in with this thread every year?

there's also the time travel thread, which exists outside of genre boundaries (and time)

To be fair there will be a 2014 edition and that show will probably be mentioned in it.

this was such an insane set. so loud. i didn't know video footage existed until now. a storm of bunny majik. i'm in the back on the floor drinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHysF7IA4KI