Back On The Regs
Ducktails’ Matthew Mondanile seems like he’s got friends alive in every state in America. This blogged press from the LA Weekly places him in Massachusetts, while some of the most recent photographs from his Flickr account find him horsing around beneath Californian palms. When he sent his latest email across to me he’d just got back to New York from Philadelphia. The tracks posted at his MySpace page (location: Ridgewood, New Jersey) pan out in a way that makes it hard not to conceive of Mondanile as a surf dude on the drift, gently overwhelming with squinting, red-eyed guitar like slithers of emergent sun; sand shaken from beach bass bins by bluntsucking, bottle-draining tumbles of keys and noise. More specifically: rad, rad times that fall between ears hearing The Durutti Column and earlier Ecstatic Sunshine. We’ve a couple of downloads for you – ‘Point Pleasant Beach’ and ‘Pizza Time’ fall hazily into each other just like they did on the A-side of a 7” put out by Breaking World Records (buy) and another, longer jam called ‘Surf’s Up’ which you should watch with the video lurking after the jump.
MP3: Ducktails - ‘Point Pleasant Beach’/'Pizza Time’
MP3: Ducktails - ‘Surf’s Up’
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Thys N Mash
Coming up for air from beneath the suffocated AM transmissions of Ariel Pink, Haunted Graffiti guitarist Cole Train’s solo works with The Samps gleam with infinite sonic clarity. After the mighty ‘TrainCUMMINGS a Litl More’ was cast with such ruvid ease, ‘Mashed Skins’ and ‘Magnetic Thys’ hurtle us on to the secret level at odyssey’s end, replenished to full health and triple gunning for boss blood; flooding out to explore every avenue your ears are unwilling to offer up with the erraticism of the later, greater Jay Dee and the low-slung gambol of Flying Lotus. Such comparisons offer nothing in the way of clues - why depend on words plucked from wet air when you can just press play and let the weekend’s collisions begin.
MP3: The Samps - Mashed Skins
MP3: The Samps - Magnetic Thys
Archivist #1: Eddie Palmieri
Eddie Palmieri’s been busting out his sweltering Latin jazz jams for over half a century. In that time he’s been showered with a ton of awards, but with roots music like his it’s probably more telling to go back to the source than to wallow in the glorious extrapolations. Born in New York’s Spanish Harlem in 1936, Palmieri’s percussive pianism was his route out of the Puerto Rican Barrio, the keen rhythms of his various bands and orchestras underpinning a lightness of touch like the fine momentum of limbering through a new city at dusk, dying sunlight inching into odd corners and colonnades on some earth-bound missionary flex.
MP3: Eddie Palmieri - My Spiritual Indian
MP3: Eddie Palmieri - Que Suene La Orquesta
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Concrète Catacomb
Rusty relics pulled from the depths, Dirty Beaches’ bruised beats chime like some deadened lullabies calling out from inside a canyon. Close to the desolate forest fluster of Arch M, Taiwan/Hawaii/Toronto/Montreal native Alex Zhang Hungtai’s coarse concrète samples are biting blocks, like some ‘gull sticking its beak in on Yellow Swans’ rotting carcass. Released via Fixture (Omon Ra, Postcards) Hungtai’s otherworldly follow-up to Old Blood, Horror, suitably picks away at the senses like a baby porpoise pining at you from an oil slick stricken shore.
MP3: Dirty Beaches - In Dreams
The Weather, Man
We’ve been away awhile, I know, but waking up this morning to the cascades of water sleighing gleefully down the tarmac hill outside my bedroom window presents a hook too sharp not to hang this prime slab of punk meat upon. Seattle’s Talbot Tagora are three – Mark Greshowak and Chris Ando man guitars, Ani Ricci reins in with drums – and ‘The Weather Man’ is sodden gutter-grunge, vocals heckling guitars that give about as much of a fuck as Ben Willis’s waders.
MP3: Talbot Tagora - The Weather Man
MP3: Panda Bear - I’m Not (phaseone remix)
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Give Dublab yr $$$
The unparalleled excellents at Dublab need your help to keep broadcasting. The online guardians of future roots music are six days into a live on-air fundraiser that’ll try to capture your donations ’til the 19th of November. Listen to their Positive Projection Proton Drive here, give here as they try to ring the bell for $18,000, a figure that’ll keep them going for four months. The idea may seem slightly absurd when 99.999 per cent of what you listen to is free, but if anyone deserves to profit from what the internet’s done for the distribution of ideas and recorded sound it’s Dublab - they just played Valerio Cosi and Sun Ra back to back, for example, and then switched to Phyllis Dillon’s version of ‘Love the One You’re With’. They’re offering all sorts of treasure for those flush enough to give over $50, too. If you’re not, think of it in karmic terms if it helps offset the pain of an absent $5.
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