Archive for October, 2008
Rotten Mangoes
Forever one for skimming stones across cosmic ponds with cunning eclecticism, AITBF and Kill Em All darling Stopmakingme (né Dan Avery) here lays down the second installment in his NPIP mix series with a set that picks at ambient tones and muted funk odysseys that claw at the senses. After the wilting candour of last time ’round, 002 is a venture into visceral exoticism that’s even got that old hag Joanna Newsom flouncing about as if caught in some ket whirlwind.
Bruised Bone Blues
Director: Weston Currie
Los Angeles’ Abe Vigoda always did see the dark in the party, their carnival beset, slowly, by gape-jawed and cackling sub-city ghouls. ‘Skeleton’ clatters, it crashes, founded on slugs of bass that rattle sockets ‘til your shot-eyed, blood bleeding all psychedelic and burnt-in behind folded eyelids, behold: my favourite band on this wet earth ribbing it with their paradise punk. “Celebration, celebration.”
[if the video's wonky refresh 'til desired dimension]
EL GUINCHO IS PLAYING ON HALLOWE’EN FOR YOU LONDON
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW EXCITING THAT IS???
THE DRUMS ARE COMING, FULL DETAILS AFTER THE JUMP
Walter
Our first observations of Walter Jones proved to be inconclusive. Obscured, for the most part, by the cloaking that comes when your original’s edited by others (Berlin’s Mogg & Naudascher) for use on a compilation, Walter was blurred into an impressionist take on disco, the edit treating the frequency gaps that betray his lineage ’til they levelled into an electro wash. Now, roots - recorded 9 years ago, ‘Falling’ jacks just fine, check his MySpace to learn what sort of 12” DFA will be putting their name to next year.
Space Cowboy
What does the cosmos take from those who can do no wrong? Love Is Overtaking Me is the latest record to be compiled by Rough Trade and Audika from the 1,000-odd demo tapes Arthur Russell reputedly left behind when he died in 1992.
MP3: Arthur Russell - Habit of You
Ibrahim, Quiet
Rejuvenating relics left to rot rather than rotate their brisk 78rpm, Honest Jon’s have been sifting through crates in EMI’s Hayes archive picking out stellar cuts from another era for some time now. Compiling bleak sweet nothings, Give Me Love amasses Baghdad library recordings from between 1925-1929. Influenced by Arak-quaffing Maquam singers and their Hebrew thrum, the songs pick round the general theme of love and despair through foreign tongues and universal melancholic wails.
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