To Repel Ghosts:
These songs are the record of our speculative forays into the dreamspace which has grown up in the cracks between the social myth of the Heroic partisans and the ugly reality of the war; in mapping that territory, it was not our intention to pursue any specific political agenda or champion any particular [...]
Category Archives: music
Partisan songs
April 20, 2008 – 5:18 pm
I could never figure it out, either
March 20, 2008 – 11:20 pm
Completely out of the blue, the QM writes:
I’d long known that The Verve lost all their Bittersweet Symphony royalties due to allegedly ripping off the Rolling Stones’s Last Time. But I could never figure it out, since I don’t think there’s anything in LT that sounds like BS.
Then I finally found out that the [...]
“The thinking person’s heartthrob”
January 22, 2008 – 6:15 pm
Slipping mad props for one of your favorite artists into an only semi-related product review! Well done, anonymous Boston Globe Business writer, well done!
Janek Schaefer performances
December 27, 2007 – 6:50 pm
English sound artist / composer Janek Schaefer offers downloadable MP3s of two of his performances for sale: the recent The Sporting Guide to The Speed of Sound and the slightly older Recital in the old library. I’m not much for writing music reviews, but this guy got to attend the performance of TSGTTSOS and had [...]
Balinese Gamelan
December 17, 2007 – 12:41 am
Cool:
A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesia typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be included. The term refers more to the set of instruments than the players of those instruments. A gamelan as a set [...]
Nouvelle Vague
October 5, 2007 – 12:32 am
So, I was in the comic store picking up what turned out to be just one comic from my sub folder, when I noticed that Tony was playing a CD of some sultry-voiced French singers covering a PiL song. While we chatted a bit, more covers played: XTC’s Making Plans for Nigel, the DKs Too [...]
“Much to My Surprise, and Probably Everybody Else’s, I Am Now in the Music Business.”
August 26, 2007 – 1:08 am
Available for pre-order at amazon. I think my photo choice was a bit better.
(I wonder if it’ll sell under this title in Singapore?)
Straight outta (east) London
August 4, 2007 – 3:49 pm
DJ Cockney:
I also have a music video coming out which the record company has called “Cained”. This is a compilation of Chill music from my vast collection. I have to confess that I am a secret disc jockey and have been making tapes and CDs for myself and my friends for over 40 years.
My record [...]
Jah Wobble
July 14, 2007 – 2:56 pm
Trawling Wikipedia, I find:
Early post-PiL years
Soon after leaving PiL, Wobble started his solo career [...] However, his critical stance towards the commercialization of the music industry, compounded by heavy drinking led to his abandoning music for a short period in the mid eighties. By 1986 he was clean and sober. He then worked a variety [...]
Not extinct after all
April 23, 2007 – 3:32 pm
Cool!
Beyond is the eighth studio album by the alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. It is their first LP in a decade, and the first album by the original “classic” lineup since 1988’s Bug. It is currently set for release on May 1, 2007.
On February 7, 2007, the entire album was leaked onto the internet via [...]
My Fun
December 22, 2006 – 9:35 pm
If, like me, you’ve got a jones for the drones, check out My Fun’s Idyll EP - you can download all four songs, for free.
Susanna says:
My Fun is the slightly eccentric nom de guerre of Justin Hardison, a musician, who uses field recordings, lush electronics and samples to make quite lovely, if also quite bittersweet [...]
Her Hitler hairdo is making me feel ill
December 22, 2006 – 5:13 pm
Radiodread, via the The Mind That Brought You Nothing Else - who’s managed five posts in ‘06, and thus won’t be issuing any refunds (see blogroll on right).
Get three coffins ready
November 9, 2006 – 11:07 pm
I think I’ll have to get Spaghetti Western Rainbow:
A salvo to Ennio Morricone, Spaghetti Western Rainbow stands testament to the Italian composer’s enduring influence. Morricone collaborator Sergio Leone established the spaghetti western genre in 1964 with A Fistful of Dollars. The director used Morricone again to score the remaining two films in his three-part account [...]
If you meet the Buddha on the road, remix him
November 9, 2006 – 10:50 pm
This sounds very cool:
The FM3 Buddha Machine is a low-fi loop playing device containing nine pre-recorded loops which cannot be changed by the user. Due to manufacturing imperfections, individual machines play the loops with a slightly different sound, pitch and duration. The built-in playback circuit, with its low sampling rate and bit resolution, produces a [...]
Caught my ear
November 4, 2006 – 4:23 pm
Heard on RF: Kanding Ray.
You can hear four tunes on their myspace page. Perhaps co-blogger JMD can pick up the CD for me on his next excursion to the Fatherland?
Too weird for their own good, and perhaps for the good of others
October 16, 2006 – 3:20 pm
Oil & Gold is one of my 10 favorite albums.
(reminder via)
Non-attendance at a non-event
August 20, 2006 – 2:21 pm
I was still a bit under the weather last night so I didn’t go out to see the Non-event Alog (if you’ve got flash you can listen to some of their music, and check out the great video I lifted the above screencaps from) and Red Horse show. Also, Susanna supplies a podcast featuring some [...]
When I win the lottery (part of an occasional series)
July 12, 2006 – 9:14 am
I’ll buy all 21 of Buda Musique’s excellent Ethiopiques series in one fell swoop.
Last Friday DJ John Staub (Tufts econ prof, I think) played an hour of selections from the series on Test Pattern, and it was all quite excellent. He’s posted some annotations here:
What Buda Musique is dubbing “The Golden Era of Modern [...]