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