Tag: radio loways

the music that took my attention in march of 2014 – listen, won’t you?

1. glitch – vitalija glovackyte
2. daddy needs a throne – camberwell now
3. big big blood – la luz
4. the puppet motel – laurie anderson
5. work – lv
6. telephone – bembeya jazz national
7. life i live – ini
8. i – perfect pussy
9. the moving finger – dorothy ashby
10. space invaders are smoking grass – i-f
11. outro – caetano veloso
12. the conversion of j.p. – sun ra
13. ces gens la – jacques brel
14. complicity (lyrical mix) – arto lindsay (spit)
15. the ooli moves – black earth ensemble
16. ikkkyokume – nisennenmondai
17. alice – sunn o)))
18. rainbow – boris with merzbow
19. summer day reflection song – donovan
20. wild winter – adele bertei and anubian lights

unhelpful notes

vitalija glovackyte composed this piece, glitch. it’s awesome. it’s heavy. she is a lithuanian composer based in manchester and you can hear more of her music here.

camberwell now is the group that charles hayward put together after this heat finished. i always thought this heat and charles hayward were experimentalist post punk types with prog tendencies. then i found out that he was the drummer in quiet sun. a full on prog band featuring phil manzanera before roxy music. he also was in gong for a bit, apparently. so i guess i had it backwards a bit and hayward was more of an experimentalist prog type with post punk tendencies.

i don’t have much knowledge of laurie anderson. but after hearing this song, i want to learn more. this one is so good.

when i first heard work by lv i had that reaction of just having to stop everything and listen to it a few times. it’s a perfect track. if you’ve been listening to radio loways for a bit, you’ll prolly realize that i am a huge fan of the chord progression in a lot of drum and bass tracks. and this is a perfect example of that. also the minimal arrangement. kind of a deconstructed version of the genre. kind of. and that floating sliding synth melody. nice.

telephone. the drums and guitar are everything!

i by perfect pussy. this is one of my favorite songs of all time right now. i could listen to this one for ever. this is what should be on top 40 radio. this is what should be on “modern rock” radio. that is some hook ass shit for real.

true story. for a long time i thought space invaders are smoking grass was by anti-pop consortium. despite the fact that it doesn’t sound like anti-pop at all. i thought it was some sort of weird one-off electro side project sort of thing. this was all because the mp3 files i had of this were all attributed to anti-pop consortium. then i took a minute to actually look it up and discovered it was by i-f. so apologies to i-f for never giving him proper attribution in my mind when i thought of this song.

i was introduced to caetano veloso by my college spanish professor who was something of a music nerd. he gave me a tape of livros and it gently blew my mind. then i got into his older stuff as i could find it. my favorite will always be araçá azul, but most of his output is solid – except for his soft jazz lite shit. that’s awful. but this is track is off a newer album that features his son on it. can you imagine if you opened up your mouth and caetano’s voice came out of it? how amazing! there are a few people like that for me.

jacques brel is like 60 percent cheeseball, but 100 percent amazing. there are more than a few clunkers in his catalog – have you heard his man of la mancha? it is fucking awful! red ships of spain awful. awful awful. his catalog is so vast though that he has a ton of awesome songs too. but this one is hands down my favorite. the bass and piano two note/chord descending action. minimal subdued perfection. and then the brel swell. and then receding.

i picked up this album hyper civilizado at either crow’s nest or tower records when i was doing undergrad at columbia college. one of the tracks off of it was on a jungle sky compilation and i thought it was good and once i got the full remix album and it went into heavy rotation immediately. i thought this version of complicity was creepy and beautiful. it’s definitely the best of the remixes and they are pretty much all good. i then went out and got arto lindsay’s original album mundo civilizado and was kind of disappointed. it was good, but not what i was hoping for. it kind of grew on me for a bit. but ultimately i feel like some of arto’s later/current stuff is too adult contemporary and npr boring. which is weird. cuz he is an interesting musician and will still put out jarring noise album skree.

my partner and i went to see nicole mitchell’s black earth ensemble perform this piece at the mca a few years ago and ever since then have been waiting for the release of the piece. and we have been waiting for ever. i assumed it would be a studio recording like the first album in this series – the xenogenesis suite. but it turns out that the album is a recording of that performance at the mca! which rules, cuz this show was amazingly good! the xenogenesis suite takes it’s inspiration from the xenogenesis books by octavia butler. which i read because of the suite. so well done nicole mitchell for turning me on to octavia butler!

nisennenmondai is straight up amazing. unbelievable musicians. i prefer this earlier kosmische inspired raw stuff to the newer stuff but only slightly. the newer material is the three of them making their own version of electronic acid-ish trance music with bass drums and guitar (and some pedals). and they kill it, stupendous!

i was supremely late to the sunn o))) party, but i’m glad i got there. once i realized their version of doom was essentially drone massive, i was hooked. i believe this one is dedicated to alice coltrane. that also helps me get into them.

i only knew adele bertei as the keyboard player in the contortions. i had no idea she was a singer as well and had some hits in the 80s with some decidedly more poppy singles. dig her organ solo halfway through this one cuz she is a fabulous keyboard player. i love her note clusters. a lot.

1. seven – thundercat
2. “eras” – juana molina
3. sweet pea – divorce
4. birthday – the sugarcubes
5. dam gill – kosher dill spears
6. the room got heavy – yo la tengo
7. shake this – royce da 5’9
8. continue? – ikonika
9. svornostenka – lucie vítková
10. warriors – m.i.a.
11. copy of a. – nine inch nails
12. we’ll die – thundercat
13. ceremony – radiohead (playing joy division)

please listen right here. please?

honorable mentions that didn’t make it cuz bandcamp and grooveshark weren’t working well with minilogs this month. hopefully that changes for next month:

le revers du soleil – coberord
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návrh na změnu partituryM – lucie vítková and jolana havelková
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a la mode – art blakey and the jazz messengers
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/A+La+Mode/2g86LB?src=5

and there was originally a youtube link to take 20 of revolution 1 by the beatles that has since been blocked cuz of copyright issues. but it was real cool. trust me. this from wikipedia:

Low-quality monitor mixes of the full-length version of Revolution appeared on various bootlegs, such as From Kinfauns to Chaos, throughout the 90s.[16] Then in 2009, a high-quality version labeled “Revolution Take 20” appeared on the bootleg CD Revolution: Take…Your Knickers Off![17][18] The release triggered great media fanfare and activity among fans. This version, RM1 (Remix in Mono #1) of Take 20, runs 10 minutes 46 seconds (at the correct speed) and was created at the end of the 4 June session, with a copy taken away by Lennon.[19] It was an attempt by Lennon to augment the full-length version of “Revolution” in a way that satisfied him before he chose to split the piece between the edited “Revolution 1” and the musique concrete “Revolution 9”.

The bootlegged recording starts with engineer Geoff Emerick announcing the remix as “RM1 of Take…” and then momentarily forgetting the take number, which Lennon jokingly finishes with “Take your knickers off and let’s go,” hence the name of the bootleg CD.[20] The first half of the recording is almost identical to the released track “Revolution 1”. It lacks the electric guitar and horn overdubs of the final version, but features two tape loops in the key of A (same as the song) that are faded in and out at various points.[19] After the final chorus, the song launches into an extended coda a la “Hey Jude”. (The album version only features about 40 seconds of this coda.) Beyond the point where the album version fades out, the basic instrumental backing keeps repeating while the vocals and overdubs become increasingly chaotic: Paul McCartney and George Harrison repeatedly sing “dada, mama” in a childlike register; John Lennon’s histrionic vocals are randomly distorted in speed (a little of this can be heard in the fade of “Revolution 1”); and radio tuning noises à la “I Am the Walrus” appear.[21] Several elements of this coda appear in the officially released “Revolution 9”. Throughout the body of that song, Lennon’s histrionic vocal track periodically appears (albeit minus the speed distortion), as do the tape loops.

After the band track ends, the song moves into avant-garde territory, with Yoko Ono reciting some prose over an unknown, vaguely operatic recording (possibly captured live from the radio). Yoko’s piece begins with the words, “Maybe, it’s not that…” with Yoko trailing off at the end; John (or George) jokingly replies, “It is ‘that’!” As the piece continues, John quietly mumbles “Gonna be alright” a few times. Then follows a brief piano riff, some comments from John and Yoko on how well the track has preceded, and final appearances of the tape loops.[19] Most of this coda was lifted for the end of “Revolution 9”, with a little more piano at the beginning (which monitor mixes reveal was present in earlier mixes of “Revolution”[22]) and minus Lennon’s (or Harrison’s) joking reply.

that picture is of the band divorce. unfortunately they recently broke up, but you should go listen to whatever you can by them!

1. minnesoter – the dandy warhols
2. one way spit – debris
3. cinnamon girl – neil young
4. la marca – juana molina and alejandro franov
5. i see, i say – ebony bones
6. shimmy shimmmy ya – el michels affair
7. martin’s funeral – badfoot brown & the bunions bradford funeral & marching band (bill cosby)
8. holderness – joseph holbrooke trio
9. shapes in space – lungfish
10. new york maze – sunny murray’s untouchable factor
11. seen not heard – unwound
12. title unknown – priests
13. omaggio a giacinto scelsi – gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza
14. all the blowing-themselves-up-motherfuckers – julian cope

listen here!

a few notes

i’ve officially listened to just about all of neil young’s discography, and while i recognize is talent and how much people love him, for my ears he’s got like four really good songs. cinnamon girl is one of them.

i first heard that juana molina/alejandro franov song when my spanish teacher in college gave me a burned cd of it. apparently it was a fancy-pants artist book type special edition limited release type thing with cool packaging. i never saw it. i always wish i had.

the album by el michels affair that shimmy shimmy ya comes off of is totally kicking my ass these days. it’s kind of like those blue note style wu-tang album covers finally got an actual release. awesomely awesome.

on new york maze, that’s monette sudler destroying the guitar. i’ve heard her play in this stylee before and want more. anyone know if there’s more? i know her first solo album is much more chill and “in the tradition.” unfortunately for me.

ps, that’s priests. check them out here.