And proof, if any were needed,....
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 28, 2012
February 26, 2012
No Roses - Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band [1971]
Pinnacle of UK folk rock achievement. No contest. Essential.
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 25, 2012
Six Musicians Getting Unknown - Father Murphy [2005]
Italian bizarro psychedelic/art-rock trio's 1st. Rooted n twisted psych melange channeling Os Mutantes, Barrett and compatriot pop psychonauts Jennifer Gentle.
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 24, 2012
The Wishing Chair - 10,000 Maniacs [1985]
That rarest of beasts: well-turned out folk rock noise from the 80s. Heady UK influence in J. Marr guitar jangle and trad. song choice. 'Triffic.
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 22, 2012
Blood Between Her Lakes - Burial Hex [2008]
Not unlike a troop of ardent wiccans let loose in a disused scaffolding warehouse....
or as of whom M'Lud Yatesbury would have it in this month's patented enthusiastic Address Druidion...
"work of high ritual first conjures up its own sonic pantheon, nurtures then enslaves them, then conducts them as they writhe. Stupendous. Brothers‘n’sisters, they’ll be including this fucker in the future future mysteries when the earth has returned to Goddess worship. Imagine that Wendy ‘Walter’ Carlos had composed some lost electronic soundtrack to THE WHICKER MAN [sic]. Massed vocals, analogue pulses, mucho percussion and mucho grumbling, so all of it mainly acoustically driven stuff. Indeed, should you shoehorn a baby grand into some Mediterranean rockcut tomb and perform this material therein, it’s a synch the natural echoes of those places would replicate these recordings...pulls off a low budget Carl Orff for the Igjugurjuk Generation, or I ain’t no Inuit Shaman! Mercy me"
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or as of whom M'Lud Yatesbury would have it in this month's patented enthusiastic Address Druidion...
"work of high ritual first conjures up its own sonic pantheon, nurtures then enslaves them, then conducts them as they writhe. Stupendous. Brothers‘n’sisters, they’ll be including this fucker in the future future mysteries when the earth has returned to Goddess worship. Imagine that Wendy ‘Walter’ Carlos had composed some lost electronic soundtrack to THE WHICKER MAN [sic]. Massed vocals, analogue pulses, mucho percussion and mucho grumbling, so all of it mainly acoustically driven stuff. Indeed, should you shoehorn a baby grand into some Mediterranean rockcut tomb and perform this material therein, it’s a synch the natural echoes of those places would replicate these recordings...pulls off a low budget Carl Orff for the Igjugurjuk Generation, or I ain’t no Inuit Shaman! Mercy me"
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 19, 2012
Sticky Fingers Sessions - The Rolling Stones [1971?]
Less weary than all-bum proper but mighty ramshackle roister doister all ye same. La decadanse and Chateau Villa Nellcôte beckoned. Oh yes.
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 18, 2012
The Singing Nun - Soeur Sourire [2008]
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February 17, 2012
Mizutani - Les Rallizes De Nudes [1970]
Takashi Mizutani dials down wind tunnel squall and ups Velvets 3rd album laid back vibe. Sweet.
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 16, 2012
Patience (After Sebald) - The Caretaker [2012]
Leyland Kirby's custodial nom de plume references Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining, inspiration also for his early musical stock in trade: sampled, manipulated 78s a-crackle with sweet-desolate-stranded 1920s/1930s dance tunes. Archival meditations on appropriation, memory, and the accretion and disappearance of cultural objects, Kirby's tracks dangle, turn slowly like rods on a disintegrating mobile.
Soundtrack to a film about writer W.G. Sebald, in place of spectral jazz-age ballroom, Patience draws from Franz Schubert, crafting melody saturated and motif uncanny. Kirby's thaumaturgy mixes emotional states - memory, decay, loss, childhood and life ahead filled with possibility - like no other.
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 15, 2012
Balaklava - Pearls Before Swine [1968]
Tom Rapp's translucent exercise in constructive melancholy.
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 14, 2012
Liquid Acrobat As Regards The Air - The Incredible String Band [1971]
These are the true troubadours of the last two centuries. They explore divinity and magick from a lyrical chivalric dimension. Combine this with the interdimensionality and you have works beyond compare. SUBLIME!
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
New York City, April 2004
And I shall dance for you,
The sweetest dance that I can do.
Likky
Final true entry in the canon. Worlds they rise and fall. Last thrilling, if poignant, outing for ham-fisted Heron sitar. Talking of painted chariots, Darling Belle and the end.
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 13, 2012
Planxty - Planxty [1973]
Gay devils take warning. Planxty tempered steel pays right smart. Instantly now, and see what might betide...slainte.
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 11, 2012
Tetsuo: The Iron Man - Chu Ishikawa [1988]
"Inside the flesh of an ordinary salaryman terrible things have begun to take place".
Enervating industrial hammering and skittery hyperkinetic rhythms. A nerve shredding delight.
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 10, 2012
Merrinology / メリノロジー EP - Lion Merry / ライオンメリー [1983]
Now, where were we? Incommensurably wonky popfolktronic cross-dressing fiddlage from Japan...that would be about right.
Oddi wrth y brawd
February 09, 2012
World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope [1984]
Righteous posturing. Retrenchment. Burned, bummed elegant middle-finger salute to chiselling mf knobshiners everywhere.
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