So is this just going to be a spotify listening club?
― emil.y, Friday, 23 August 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
lol i thought the grandma was the drummer for a second there and my heart leaptstill cool though!
― no fomo (La Lechera), Friday, 23 August 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
so someone is going to need to translate these spoken introductions for us. unfortunately I only speak Kobaïan.
― wk, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
I'm listening
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
http://www.furious.com/perfect/magma.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 August 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
Kobaia iss de hundin!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 August 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
So is this just going to be a spotify listening club?― emil.y,
― emil.y,
If you dont use spotify you can look for the albums in other *ahem* places if you dont own it.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 24 August 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
if you want
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:29 (ten years ago) link
stoked for this, sign me up for a week
― balls, Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
note: mine will probably be some obvious thing everyone who might look at this thread has seen so caveat lector
― balls, Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
ok so:
8/30 -- AG9/06 -- DaM9/13 -- frogbs9/20 -- balls
― Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:40 (ten years ago) link
can i get in on this? i have one not totally obscure but still overlooked album in particular that i'd like to share. 9/27?
― Z S, Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:41 (ten years ago) link
9/27 -- ZS
― Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:41 (ten years ago) link
looks like we got a good lineup!
i better make sure the one i'm thinking of wasn't featured last time around! that would be embarrasking
― Z S, Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
dont think it matters. it was what 3 or 4 years ago?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:54 (ten years ago) link
true, and in any case it wasn't mentioned. looking forward to it!
― Z S, Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:57 (ten years ago) link
the funk/soul/black acid rock/jazz-funk club will be relaunched monday btw if anyone wants to volunteer for it
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 25 August 2013 02:00 (ten years ago) link
I've been excited about and researching Rock In Opposition bands a lot lately, especially stuff like Art Zoyd, Univers Zero and Present; tonight I stumbled upon mention of a documentary called Romantic Warriors II: About Rock In Opposition. I'm amazed I've heard nothing about this before, I had been thinking weeks ago that a film about this would be a great thing and it actually exists! The reviews sound promising and I'm looking forward to getting it.
Then I see the first film is about current mostly American bands with some Mexican, Italian and Japanese thrown in, and I've only heard of 3 of the bands (Cheer Accident, Deluge Grander, Phideaux). From the trailers I'm more sceptical of some of these bands. But I'd like to see it too.
The third film is a concert of current Rock In Opposition bands. Has anyone here been to the RIO concerts?
The site has plenty of trailers and options for buying.http://www.progdocs.com/Progdocs.com/Home.html
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 26 August 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
anyway - to talk about this Magma comp - many of these tracks seem to be not taken from the studio versions, so that's definitely a plus!
― frogbs, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
Klaus Kombalad! I could have used about 4 times the length on that one.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 29 August 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
Sign me up!
― dronestreet, Thursday, 29 August 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
done!
08/30 -- AG09/06 -- DaM09/13 -- frogbs09/20 -- balls09/27 -- ZS10/04 -- dronestreet
― PRISON WARDEN CONSCIOUSNESS (4th Dimension) (Viceroy), Thursday, 29 August 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
I wonder what Mr. Goalie will put up for us to listen to tomorrow.Note: you can post it Friday *your time* so if it's Friday where you live put 'er up.
― PRISON WARDEN CONSCIOUSNESS (4th Dimension) (Viceroy), Thursday, 29 August 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/XNsR9Rs.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/141Ss6mGivtZpTMt4eN4Q8spotify:album:141Ss6mGivtZpTMt4eN4Q8
Review by Rolf Semprebon [-]Cottonwoodhill is one of the trippiest records ever made, capturing the intensity of the peak LSD experience far more successfully than any Timothy Leary recording, and even today, when many such documents from that era can sound silly and dated, Brainticket's fascinating debut still holds hallucinogenic potency. The record has only two proper songs, "Black Sand" and "Places of Light," with a side and a half of the album taken up by the three-part "Brainticket." "Black Sand" opens the disc with a driving funk beat and powerful organ and guitar interplay, adding in vocals distorted beyond coherency. "Places of Light" begins in a slightly lighter vein as a flute leads the proceedings, a looser jazzier piece that throws in some of Dawn Muir's odd spoken word vocals. Before one realizes what has happened, the piece has faded out and there is suddenly a crashing sound, car horns, and engines starting up. "Brainticket" is a bizarre roller coaster ride through weird sound effects and electronics, an endless organ riff, and Muir's acid-rush ramblings from hushed whisper to urgent screams, as any coherency she had earlier becomes lost to mind-expanding visions. Rather than the laid-back mellow groove of some psychedelic music from this era, Cottonwoodhill has a hyper energy in the frenetic organ riff and Muir's voice, like an acid trip out of control, while at times the various sound effects take over completely.
Cottonwoodhill is one of the trippiest records ever made, capturing the intensity of the peak LSD experience far more successfully than any Timothy Leary recording, and even today, when many such documents from that era can sound silly and dated, Brainticket's fascinating debut still holds hallucinogenic potency. The record has only two proper songs, "Black Sand" and "Places of Light," with a side and a half of the album taken up by the three-part "Brainticket." "Black Sand" opens the disc with a driving funk beat and powerful organ and guitar interplay, adding in vocals distorted beyond coherency. "Places of Light" begins in a slightly lighter vein as a flute leads the proceedings, a looser jazzier piece that throws in some of Dawn Muir's odd spoken word vocals. Before one realizes what has happened, the piece has faded out and there is suddenly a crashing sound, car horns, and engines starting up. "Brainticket" is a bizarre roller coaster ride through weird sound effects and electronics, an endless organ riff, and Muir's acid-rush ramblings from hushed whisper to urgent screams, as any coherency she had earlier becomes lost to mind-expanding visions. Rather than the laid-back mellow groove of some psychedelic music from this era, Cottonwoodhill has a hyper energy in the frenetic organ riff and Muir's voice, like an acid trip out of control, while at times the various sound effects take over completely.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 29 August 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
Oh man I love this album! Excellent choice.
― PRISON WARDEN CONSCIOUSNESS (4th Dimension) (Viceroy), Thursday, 29 August 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
yup, this is a good one and it's been a while.
can you put me down for a week, viceroy?
― original bgm, Friday, 30 August 2013 02:05 (ten years ago) link
you got it!
09/06 -- DaM09/13 -- frogbs09/20 -- balls09/30 -- ZS10/06 -- dronestreet10/13 -- Alan N
forget some of those earlier dates I was looking at my calendar wrong.
― PRISON WARDEN CONSCIOUSNESS (4th Dimension) (Viceroy), Friday, 30 August 2013 02:44 (ten years ago) link
thanks!
― original bgm, Friday, 30 August 2013 04:28 (ten years ago) link
How do I get in on this?
I have a recommendation or two which some might like.
Also, how far can we stretch the definition of prog/kraut/space/psych rock? Because I have some which throw in some folk in there, as well.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, 30 August 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link
just request a week, it'll be late next month so you have plenty of time to decide on an album. Then on Friday, post the name of it, with a picture possibly a little blurb about it if you can find it. If you don't use spotify that's ok, we can post the spotify link. If the full album is up on youtube you can post the link to that.
As far as stretching the definition... I am very flexible, straight up "folk" probably doesn't fit but if it's 'out there' with sound effects/long complicated passages/prominent synthesizer passages then I think it fits just fine.
Do you want a go?
― PRISON WARDEN CONSCIOUSNESS (4th Dimension) (Viceroy), Friday, 30 August 2013 06:53 (ten years ago) link
Anyway though, to talk about the album this week -- man I love how the vocalist shouts stuff out in this kind of scared/tense way, and says contradictory stuff, like "Stop! No! YES!! Of course not, of course you can..." etc, like she's responding to stuff during a really heavy acid trip or something. It's kinda creepy but totally awesome.
― PRISON WARDEN CONSCIOUSNESS (4th Dimension) (Viceroy), Friday, 30 August 2013 06:56 (ten years ago) link
Dawn Muir. She rules.
― PRISON WARDEN CONSCIOUSNESS (4th Dimension) (Viceroy), Friday, 30 August 2013 06:57 (ten years ago) link
Coming soon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtwJSAEh7Uc
― Nate Carson, Friday, 30 August 2013 08:00 (ten years ago) link
Sorry to crash in. Just sharing. Please carry on as you were :)
― Nate Carson, Friday, 30 August 2013 08:01 (ten years ago) link
nice choice AG, need to listen to that more. I would like a week please!
― Neil S, Friday, 30 August 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
This is one of the few real psychedelic freak out albums that actually wound up being as insane as the description makes it sound. I wonder how much of Muir's ranting and raving was scripted, it's just so totally ridiculous and almost terrifying, like you'd think after the recording she went straight to the hospital (or the loony bin!)
Can't say I could listen to this often (that groove does kick some ass though), but it's definitely a singularity
― frogbs, Friday, 30 August 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
I listen to it a lot actually.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 31 August 2013 04:38 (ten years ago) link
Uh, sacrilege I know, but the vocals are what put me off this otherwise very fine recording!
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Saturday, 31 August 2013 09:20 (ten years ago) link
i like the nurse with wound cover with jim foetus on vocals.
― fit and working again, Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
Braintickets please!
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
Cottonwoodhill = so f'in rad!
― the hubert harumphreys of social media (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 31 August 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for reminding me about Brainticket
― Mark G, Saturday, 31 August 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
Oh, Muir's ranting/raving is totally scripted to me
― Mark G, Saturday, 31 August 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, it's all a bit Home Counties am dram, though tbf, the Radio 4 continuity announcer accent doesn't help.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Sunday, 1 September 2013 09:47 (ten years ago) link
The material that most of the players on taht lp cut as Toad is pretty great too. I'm not sure if I've heard any of the other Brainticket stuff, have heard it was more spacerocky though I think. So neither party actually makes music exactly similar to that elsewhere. Quite a good combination on there though.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 1 September 2013 10:27 (ten years ago) link
Well Brainticket is really just Joel Vandroogenbroeck (sp?) and whoever else he's playing with at the time
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Sunday, 1 September 2013 10:29 (ten years ago) link
OK, I'm tuning in. Could I have a week?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 1 September 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
So I was really into the first couple of songs on the Brainticket album but this is starting to feel a little interminable when they're just repeating this one riff. Admittedly, I'm listening on laptop speakers while unpacking so I'll reserve final judgment until I can listen on better headphones or speakers.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 1 September 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
09/06 -- DaM09/13 -- frogbs09/20 -- balls09/27 -- ZS10/04 -- dronestreet10/11 -- Alan N10/18 -- Sund4r
hope I finally got the dates right this time.
― PRISON WARDEN CONSCIOUSNESS (4th Dimension) (Viceroy), Sunday, 1 September 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
Just checked out the track listing for Union Live. Only ONE track from the studio album! Screw that then. I wonder if a remix/remaster is possible because the band really did hate the way it sounded.
Any solo or Yes related stuff anyone wants to recommend? I'm quite fond of some Jon & Vangelis. Friends Of Mr Cairo has some really good stuff, the title track has some quite distracting movie star impressions and I can imagine some people finding it too cheesy but I think it is kind of unique. I still need 2 more albums of that pair.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 3 April 2014 03:21 (ten years ago) link
Kind of tempted to buy the 12 Yes albums I don't have and a few solo albums in one go. But if I do that I'll be tempted to do that with several other bands I've neglected.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
you ever hear the Refugee album? its way more an offshoot of The Nice than Yes, but it's definitely one of my favorite one-offs
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
refugee is pretty good. so is mainhorse. patrick moraz is cosmic. peter banks' post-yes band, flash, isn't bad, either. never could get into tony kaye's badger, though
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/14936-henry-cow-unrest-review
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for the article.
I saw this Chris Cutler interview a while ago...http://www.mitkadem.co.il/RIO_interview.html "Personally, I have to say that I never had much time for King Crimson. I disliked their first album and, apart from a track here and there, didn't find much I cared for on later albums either. To make things harder, they were contemporaries of Henry Cow and we were often pointlessly compared with them (especially Fred Frith who got foolishly compared/confused with Robert Fripp). But we never saw the connection really; they were working in a much narrower musical field than we were. And when they began to make big statements about their originality for improvising (around Jaimie Muir/Larks Tongues time) we found that frankly rather pathetic. But that was their way - after all Fripp claimed to have invented 'frippertronics', which is either a mark of ignorance on his part or outrageous arrogance, since every guitarist 'invented' that obvious procedure"
I never knew what Frippertronics meant.
I have to say again how fantastic the first three tracks of Chris Squire's Fish Out Of Water are. Really love them.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 20 April 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
ram, have you listened to much john zorn?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpDNNKQP-Rs
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
I wouldn't say that every guitarist was using tape delay by the mid-70s but, yeah, I also find it a bit ridiculous that Fripp basically used reel-to-reel tape delay and named it after himself. Frippertronics obv = some of my favourite music ever though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
cutler makes some fair points. on the other hand, henry cow never, to the best of my knowledge, opened for black oak arkansas, so i'd take what he has to say on the topic with a grain of salt.
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for the Zorn clip, one of many artists who have been on the shopping list for years but I haven't got around to yet.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 24 April 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hPbJWEaiL.jpg
North Sea Radio Orchestra - s/t
http://open.spotify.com/album/6eu8FXY7tCL7u4O1cVOUxg
standout track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX2rUUcs0G4
This album overwhelms me. It's enormous, sprawling and unutterably ambitious without once going above speaking volume. No fuzz, no sonic gymnastics - but in its pastoral/neoclassical psychpop it locates something I can't get anywhere else. There are no original lyrics - all non-instrumental tracks are adaptations of English poetry. The melodies are spry and astounding, as you'd expect from a band firmly located in the post-Cardiacs fallout. However good the ensemble musicianship (mostly classical, with acoustic guitars and synths) is, the composition is the main draw (along with the voice of singer Sharon Fortnam, whose husband Craig is the principal songwriter). The whole thing is like Kenneth Grahame trying to remember his childhood in a slightly overgrown rose garden as dappled sunlight catches a butterfly's wing. It's airy, sublime and complete. Its arc is leisurely but yearning; one feels one can make a home within its folds - cling to these truths before all is obliterated. It's a London album, in fact - written in and about the capital, as the Fortnams discovered something in the city that more than resembled the most idyllic and untainted wilds of bucolia - a synthesis, indeed, that works more convincingly the longer the album progresses - the longer the dream elaborates.
Anyway, none of you (well, barely any of you) have heard them and they're astonishing, so I post them here in the hope someone latches on.
― English cunt read Guardian (imago), Monday, 26 May 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
anyone want to get this doggie going again?
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:07 (nine years ago) link
listen to that NSRO album, it's one of the best things ever
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Friday, 6 February 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
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― jorts l0chinski (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 10 March 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
(For Michael B)
― jorts l0chinski (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 10 March 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
Lol sorry nm
― jorts l0chinski (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 10 March 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
awww i thought this had been revived to start over again
― Odysseus, Friday, 10 March 2017 19:31 (seven years ago) link
Lmao no...my bad, folks
― jorts l0chinski (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 10 March 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link
Shall we?
― frogbs, Friday, 10 March 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
yes
― Odysseus, Friday, 10 March 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
The youtube algorithm came through with this French band Meule, two drummers + guitarist/modular dude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnvJVKw7xCc
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 February 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
I too latched on to that North Sea Radio Orchestra album.
― bendy, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link