Last night I went to a World Music show featuring David Daniell, Mountains and Tim Hecker. I’ve seen Hecker before, when he was touring to promote his album Mirages, and this time he played (“played” – laptop plus a stack of other electronics) a shorter set of a variety of stuff, including pieces from my [...]
8 more days!
I know, I know – none of you care. But I blog for I!
Cool! The Z now has an audio archive – shows stick around for two weeks.
Can’t download them yet, only stream ‘em… hopefully they’ll turn themselves into a full-on podcast service soon. It’s unfortunate that so many things of value are ephemeral when they don’t have to be.
Dammit – I’m trying to buy the FLAC release of Kangding Ray’s Automne Fold but boomkat’s down (what a logo, huh?). Wait – it’s back. The internet has trained me to expect instant gratification – I was getting really annoyed for a minute there.
Three things I like! The Fun Years, container shipping, and general weirdness.
More here.
Ordered!
You can listen to what might be the whole thing here.
(Hymn to the idea of night sounds like something Steven Millhauser would write… )
Rocking! Droning! New TFYs : baby it’s cold inside.
…that Dinosaur Jr. might be one of the absolute best rock bands, ever. I just don’t seem to be able to get tired of their music. And I play the shit out of stuff I like.
That’s it. Nothing earthshaking, sorry.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?)
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 [...]
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 [...]