Tribal/Communal freak-out Bands

and i second most of the above. Also check out some of the weirder Gong stuff, Amon Duul I, Mev's "Leave the City" (definitely check that one), Son Rise, Boredoms's SuperAe, some later era Sky Saxon records, and Book of AM. Also, Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice, a new band I play in with some ex-Golden Calves freeks, would probably fall into this category. LP soon on DeStijl, but for now, lemme know if u want a tape.

what about Godspeed! you black emperor ? they are a communal band and they look like freaks...

also crass were a communal band, but i don't think they are tribal or fraks...

G.

reynols are one of my favorites

but i prefer the real thing - world folk music. people banging on stuff old-school.

the first few Catherine Ribeiro/Alpes albums go a lot further out than Gong, esp. Paix and the feedback-choked final third of Le Rat Débile et l'Homme des Champs.

Anaksimandros. more Finnish weirdness with ties to KY. that Life is a Skullbow LP is a monster. also Natisuta Hetekata, allegedly a one-off by Japanese weirdos summering in Finland. Could be, though I have my serious doubts.

They Came from the Stars...? nah. they're too straightlaced to freak out, at least on record. good CD (just a vinyl round-up) - sounds a lot like vintage Mercury Rev - but it doesn't fit the thread. maybe they're a less restrained unit live.

Love the suggestions!

maru sankaku shikaku?

Why not just subscribe to Ptolomaic Terrascope and have done with it?

BTW I did a halfdecent CDR comp of a lot of this stuff (also has sand, jandek, godz, daniellsons) and I'd happily trade copies for similar stuff, especially if anyone has any Yahowa going?

Cheers

I have sub'ed to Terrascope in the past, and I still get every one here in a local rekkid emporium. Terrascope fans should also read Broken Face and Dream 'zines.

The Invisible Pyramid collection has a lot of this stuff on it, from the nifty Last Visible Dog label. Kemialliset Ystavat stuff is a bit tricky to find, I'm discovering...

Black Forest/Black Sea-true folk-clatter loveliness.
some of the avant-classical things that incorporate didgeridoo and/or hurdy-gurdy might also fit here.
Green Laughter
Tomes

i'm unaware of a word to umbrella these dudes, but there is definately a noted crop of bands post-liars doing that juxtaposition of drawls/yelps amongst multiple 'primal' drums or whatever.

0th- http://www.myspace.com/0th
Aa- http://www.myspace.com/alittlea
Foot Village- http://www.myspace.com/footvillage

Add Necking to that list: http://www.myspace.com/necking
And Teeth Mountain: http://www.myspace.com/teethmountain

wasn't super impressed with Teeth Mountain when I saw them a few months back. they're one of a handful of bands in Baltimore these days that has 3-5 drummers, none of which sounds like an experienced drummer, which kind of kills the possibility of some real cool polyrhythmic shit happening and really defeats the point of checking for these kinds of bands.

yeah, i can't think of many (any) multi-drummer rock bands doing really interesting work. latin and afro-whatever and new orleans bands, sure.

I love Aa (plus they are my bros), but they are less and less about "drumming" every year.

If you want super cool multi-drummer rock bands for drumming qua drumming, yer gonna have to check out So Percussion or something, who are a little underwhelming on record, but dope live

they are so underwhelming (zing) on record (but i would still totally check them out live)

i was listening to that Soul Jazz 'Voodoo Drums- Dummers of the Societe Absolument Guinin' record earlier and thought about how awesome that would sound with some kind of piercing noise shard + yelp thing punctuating it.
Ditto with that rolling North African cluttered percussion sound you find on Mahmoud Guinia's music.
I agree somewhat with the sentiments above, i guess with the music being too far entrenched in a rock aesthetic where being loud is favoured over being rhythmically interesting

y0ungblood brass band has a great 3-drummer lineup now and have moved away from the new orleans/hip-hop thing into more of a rock energy (they are playing in nyc...last night)

the percussion was pretty awesome on the one Youngblood album I have from like 8 years ago, haven't heard anything by them since then, should catch up on that.

i mean this is really one of those situations where the marching band nerds totally kick the asses of the stoners hanging out under the bleachers.

What do you make of the multi-drummer Boredoms stuff Jordan?

Manitoba's 'Up In Flames' knocked my fuck outside when i first heard it. Plenty of rilly good poly-drum action on that one. The track 'Twins' i since learned features a marching band.

i've only heard vision creation newsun but i like it (not necessarily for the drumming, though).

there's a cool track on the not-out-yet Cougar record where the drummer (main dude in y0ungblood) overdubbed a marching battery section part-by-part.

Check out Boredoms "Sea Drum."

my bros

Dreamhouse was doing this shit before it was cool.
back in 2002. Yeah baby.

gotta give a shoutout for 1967...

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20070415/220102895378.jpg

good old exuma belongs on this thread, by gum:

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/exuma-the-obeah-man.thumbnail.jpg

http://www.comebackrecords.com/Exuma_II.jpg

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/exuma.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v286/jenbungo/exuma-full-shot-sharp.jpg

Listening to Tan As Fuck and NNCK this afternoon.

While I don't miss much about the era, the 2001-2008 period for this kind of stuff was really great.

there was a lot of this kind of stuff in that era tbh -- like, the Boredrum events the 7/7/7 in NY and 8/8/8 in LA were kinda peak "this kind of stuff"

also trying to remember some of my friends' intense anecdotes about Crash Worship shows in the 90s ... (I never saw them, the reputation was they would start hella late ... like 2am, 3am ... and at the time I was like ... uh, no because I had a shitty corporate job)

Surprised no-one has mentioned Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, and the first Red Crayola album, not to mention "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet".

Hapshash - check out the album sleeves above.

Oh! I don't see images, just text.