Because of reasons, I was up at 4:45 this morning. The jazz station switches over to "Indie Overnight" in those late night / early morning hours. So I was listening to that, and they played "Queenswave" by Pepe Deluxé. Which was a very pleasant surprise.
Hey TNS, have you listened to Dave Douglas's High Risk quartet? I'm listening to their album Dark Territory and it reminds me of Jon Hassel's Fourth World Music in a lot of ways.
Hey TNS, have you listened to Dave Douglas's High Risk quartet? I'm listening to their album Dark Territory and it reminds me of Jon Hassel's Fourth World Music in a lot of ways.
No I haven't. Thanks for the rec. I'll check them out tomorrow.
@MetaFour: I've listened to both the album Dark Territory and their previous album Hugh Risk and both are excellent. Thanks for the heads up. I'm definitely gonna have to check his other stuff, since he has apparently done a lot of work as a sideman with John Zorn and Masada.
My introduction to Dave Douglas was his album Charms of the Night Sky, which I tried just because it was such an interesting quartet (trumpet, accordion, violin, and bass). I was also pleasantly surprised to hear he was a sideman on Richard Galliano's album Nino Rota.
I'm listening to Every Now & Then by Jagwar Ma and mmmmmm. I love everything about this band's sound. The press calls it "psych/dance," and I guess that's a decent way to summarize it, but really it strikes me as a combination of the sort of slick electro you'd hear at Ultra Music Festival and the weirdo pop that Animal Collective has pioneered.
The production chops here are top-notch, the whole record is just so smooth. I like it a lot.
I just listened to this (at least from 10 minutes on), and I definitely enjoyed it - the fact that I could see myself returning to this despite it not being my thing overall aesthetically being a testament to that - but it wasn't especially, well, easy to hold onto? It felt overwhelming, just not in the way I usually like, which I'm still trying to decipher. No issue with the subject matter mind you, in fact I loved "A Christmas Fucking Miracle," and I dig their passion and how much it all flowed, and I'm also quietly open to stuff that is as [description] as can be but I think... maybe how the whole texture feels, that puts me off?
Canterbury Glass: Sacred Scenes and Characters. Psychedelic rock and proto-prog fused with Church liturgies, with organ, flute, and choral-inspired vocal harmonies. This was recorded in 1968, but it fell through the cracks and didn't get released until 2010.
So Utarm's Minus the Divine is maybe the most bizarre black metal-adjacent thing I've ever listened to. I mean, I'm not even sure if it strictly qualifies as black metal: I've seen the project compared to Ramleh, and that's accurate, but I'm less reminded of their noisy psychedelic rock output than their transitional noise/power electronics-with-guitars work circa Hole in the Heart. "Knives, Veins and the God of Nothingness" was legitimately physically nauseating, if fascinating, all layers of out-of-tune piano, screaming, soft high-pitched noise, and unidentifiable yet unnerving sounds very closely micced. Very intense, intriguing album.
I feel like this sort of hyper sugary Japanese super super pop-trance is some kind of weird musical evolutionary isolate.
It's also kinda sad cuz I don't think this really gets made anymore? Not much of it anyway.
I don't think it's dead, it's just very fringe and kind of always has been.
It may just be that it's not making its way west anymore. It was an internet fixation for a time.
One of the dudes from HatAL was/is very into J-core, I recall. It's definitely still a thing, just not quite the big meme in the West that it was. (Note also that a lot of those producers aren't even Japanese, just heavily influenced by that aesthetic.)
^ Beaten to the punch, I see. True Americanische ninjutsu.
If you're interested in The Injury Reserve (paging @Tre who I think liked "All This Money" when I showed it to him) you can get their new record FLOSS here for free, that's their official website so I have no reason to assume the download isn't legit.
That single is all I've heard off this album but it's a really good single sooooooooooooooooooooooo.
So Charlene's singing in "I've Never Been to Me" is basically like soft velvet to my ears, shockingly (not common for me to say that about popular stuff mostly), so if anyone knows anything similar that'd be much appreciated.
Not that I don't also like basically everything else in it?
Did not work together - that would've been cool! I did my tracks on my own, but listening to this I don't recognize much of the stuff here that is credited to me as mine - I think the credits are incorrect and that it's mostly Coil... I'll have to give it a closer listen... Was this OST ever released? If so I've never seen it. Dennis Cooper, who wrote Frisk, brought me in on this project, if my memory serves---
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finally some good news
^ Beaten to the punch, I see. True Americanische ninjutsu.
I mean, I could, if you like.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
forever the fate of the four minute song I guess?
which is simultaneously surprising and... I guess not unexpected
i shall have to chew on it myself