10 Intelligent questions for Oneida

I didn't nominate any of the songs for the Tracks poll because it was so. fucking. hard. to pick just a few. Just an astounding album all around.

I would have voted for either/both The River and The Life You Preferred.

Love me some Rated O. Love the opening track the best.

saw these guys back in may and they started off with "sheets of easter." hilarious watching a crowd get really into it at first and then realize around 2 minutes in, "oh shit, are they seriously going to keep playing this?"

also according to bandmember showtime the last LP in the trilogy is finished and going to be called "Absolute II"

lol @ this thread. at least one member of oneida used to post regularly on here at that time, i'm surprised yanc3 didn't realize that.

handle name?

hurlothrombo or hurlothrumbo

^^^

stopped posting on ILM/ILE for a long time but he was on ILBaseball for a few years after.

saw these guys back in may and they started off with "sheets of easter." hilarious watching a crowd get really into it at first and then realize around 2 minutes in, "oh shit, are they seriously going to keep playing this?"

we put on a secret show for them in london five years or so back, and the setlist was 'sheets of easter'/'new day rising'. it was unbelievably awesome.

For my money the best "rock" band in New York right now. Have seen them a bunch of times over the last year and they have always brought it in different ways. Ironic this was bumped today as their "Presents the Ocropolis" show was just announced for the Godspeed ATP, further tempting me to sell everything I own and head over to that. I was quite disappointed that more people didn't place Rated O high on their Best-of lists last year. Best LP released that's even in the orbit of "rock" music.

^Yes, to all of that, although I think Rated O is the kind of album that takes a long time to really sink in, because there's just so much of it and it takes so many different turns.

An oral history of Each One Teach One:

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4141041-an-oral-history-of-oneida%E2%80%99s-each-one-teach-one?new-york-week

SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETS

http://drownedinsound.com/resized_images/325x325/63384.gif

^ seriously one of my favorite album-insert art/design pieces ever

Yeah I love that! Had to wait for the cd to come out before I was sure if I had all the right track names in the right order, even.
Holy shit I love the O.

it is like a couchside headge maze for stoners

sp. lol

i think you just coined an awesome new stoner phrase: HEADGE MAZE.

think about it, man

Love it.

"numbide one each eak? wtf, man?"

who will be the first HeadgeMazeGaze band?

(this live set is pretty smoking btw: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Oneida/Live_at_Primavera_Sound_2009_on_WFMU_1784)

dl/ty

Thanks for that link, looking forward to listening to it. First track is a two-song jam clocking in at 43:58? Niiiice.

That drowned in sound article is so good. Pissed that I am stuck at work! I just wanna JAM.

all files have finished downloading!!!!!!!

^ exclamation points for emphasis

oh holy shit

haha. also this, which i haven't heard yet: www.nyctaper.com/?p=2721

^I grabbed that one as soon as it was put up, I think.
Really nice to hear them doing a set of mostly covers.
Cave played at that event.

kalimba-like guitar bit at about 17/18 min on the opener is so damn nice

fuck, not to mention the organ drone after [/livebloggin]

Will be dling both sets tonight! Love this band so much. Any news on the third in the "Thank Your Parents" trilogy yet? Not that I'm even close to bored with Rated O, but always ready for more.

I'm sure I read somewhere that part three isn't coming out until summer 2011, although a quick search for that hasn't turned up any concrete info so I might be misremembering. Kid says it has no drums and will be one disc:

What's the third part going to be like?

KM: It's going to be no drums. It's done, it's finished. I don't know when it's coming out. We have to submit it to the label first but it is done.

Are there any morsels of information you can tell us about it?

KM: It's conceptually coherent and it is one disc long. It's kind of all the same piece.

http://thequietus.com/articles/04574-white-hills-oneida-interview-kid-millions

Thanks. I admit to being skeptical about the "no drums" thing, but I'm sure these guys can pull off something amazing anyway.

That article was great. This band is almost "too good." A ridiculous, overused phrase. But seriously? Seriously.

hey, even more live oneida, again courtesy nyctaper: http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=4227

Oneida? More like OneIdea, amirite?

lol j/k

I gotta load up my ipod with all these live O jams.

sample from Thank Your Parents part 3:
http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/horizonedit.mp3

it's called Absolute II and its out 6th june, whoop!

can't listen to it at work but: yessssssssssssssssss!

no drums on this one.
just got sent it by the fine fine label so gonna give it a listen in a bit

no drums!?

I felt like crying when I heard this. I probably had too high an expectation of it.

I just heard about this yesterday...it's already on rym on the Jagjaguwar page

no drums!?

― tylerw, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:33 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

These guys have pretty much done everything. I think that they've earned the license to do whatever they want.

Oh, agreed, and I'm still looking forward to this more than pretty much everything, but Kid Millions is such a brilliant drummer that its still a little disappointing. Kind of like hearing King Crimson in their prime would have a record without Fripp playing guitar or something.

fromt he Jagjaguwar site:

SONG LIST:
Pre Human
Horizons
Gray Area
Absolute II

Absolute II CD / LP (JAG190, released: 06/07/11)
Absolute II is the final piece in Oneida's Thank Your Parents triptych of releases, begun in 2008 with Preteen Weaponry and followed by 2009's acclaimed triple disc Rated O. With this release, the Brooklyn group concludes a challenging and profound long-term project. The Thank Your Parents triptych, totaling around 200 minutes, is intended to be listened to as a whole or in its component parts. Absolute II stands on its own, in addition to serving as a chapter in an immense whole.

The music on Absolute II is startling, rigorous and demanding. Oneida is a band that has been strongly identified with the frenetic, fluid drumming of Kid Millions and the relentless pulse of classic Krautrock, but this release contains neither audible drums nor identifiable "rock" music. The recordings move freely across accepted boundaries of rhythm, harmony, and tonality – not in the form of dramatic, willful experiment, but as a musical distillation of several themes that have emerged in the wake of Rated O's dynamism: paralysis, entropy, stasis, possibility, and finality among them.

While Oneida is known for unpredictability and sui generis musical forms, this release is particularly resistant to categorization, and it remains difficult to identify precise influences on the music contained here. This is particularly unhelpful, we realize; suggestions and recommendations for updating this info release would be welcome, as the band themselves don't really know or are being recalcitrant.

good interview up here: http://www.thetrapset.net/