New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

Not to get too nitpicky here about such a non-issue considering this thread, but how is of Montreal's thing worse than The Antlers... who actually linked to their cover of a Broadcast song? I mean, thats untimely self-promotion.

Anyway, back on topic, I happened to be meeting a friend near a record store today and had a few minutes to kill inside. Walked out with copies of The Noise Made By People and Work and Non-Work.

Another elegy http://www.bangthebore.org/archives/630

"If it was once written of Nico that her voice was so deadpan it could flatten a coffee jingle, Keenan was the polar opposite – her voice could make the speaking clock sound like your childhood best friend." Great article, Karen!

Another memoir by Bob Stanley: http://caughtbytheriver.net/2011/01/trish-keenan-remembered-by-bob-stanley

Lovely article, Karen. (Your B&W image of Trish is by my friend Ga1l 0'H4r4, if you want to credit that).

I haven't read my blogs recently, this has passed me by. This is so sad.

Only own the two last albums, I guess. And I really want all the others. Tender Buttons is such an appropriate name, I've never heard computer music sound so close to a hug and a roaring fire before. Listening to it seems like going to one of those empty but warm and inviting pubs with an old friend. I didn't even know Trish's name, I've never seen them live, I rarely read about them or anything but this feels like losing an old school buddy. The type you may have not spent a lot of time with an yet still ended up sharing a ton of secrets and in jokes with.

Tender Buttons and Haha sound really should be in everyone's collection, especially after how mental people went for The xx last year. And when I get a bit of money and sort my life out and can afford records again, I bet I will pick up their others and feel exactly the same way about them.

The Noise Made By People is their best!

hey y'all the tracklist for the Mind-Bending Motorway mix is here:

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=4565

Thanks for that!

ahhhhhh muchas gracias! was hoping that would turn up

Still two unlisted tracks but at least most of them now have an ID.

Victor Jara! awesome

Andy Votel's tribute, really good:
http://fingersports.blogspot.com/2011/01/bye-trish.html

this sunday's Freak Zone (radio 6, sunday) is apparently a tribute - featured album is Noise Made By People and he'll be playing related tracks.

Those Bob Stanley and Andy Votel pieces are really pretty great.

Incidentally, the Motorway Mix also formed the basis for the pre-show soundtrack for those final dates. I distinctly remember the Harumi and Tangerine Peel tracks, at the very least, playing at high volume while they were merrily plugging in cables and erecting the projection screen, etc, on December 9th.

jess harvell's piece on pfork today is nice

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7917-appreciation-broadcasts-trish-keenan

nitsuh's for vulture also

^^

http://dublab.com/archive/broadcast-live-at-the-el-rey-11-01-00/

Only finding out just now... Am absolutely gutted... RIP Trish.

Sound and Safe with Trent on WFMU devoted his last show on January 19 to Trish Keenan/Broadcast. The 128 kbps mp3 is ususally available for two or three weeks:

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38905

Freak Zone tribute show (available for another week for englishers)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xp3n6

also Freakier Zone with words by Prof Justin Spear
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xj7x3

I was listening to Broadcast last night lying in bed. It stuck me that there is something very ghostly about more recent Broadcast, and now Trish Keenan is a ghostly electronic presence.

i was wondering if people were generally aware of the mother is a milky way tour lp from 2009? cos it certainly passed me by.it'a a lovely bucolic, valerie ahwow-ish twin of the witch cults record. less sound collage and spookiness but with the same faust-y all runing together quality, quite folky and at times jazz-y instrumentation . a tour release seems such an un-broacast thing but this was a real unlooked for joy to listen to.

I got that on tour...they did that with a few releases. I have the 3" Microtonics CD. Mother is the Milky Way reminded me of His Name is Alive, stuff like King of Sweet.

Tracklist update from another forum:

03. Truck, "Earth Song"
14. Carl Erdmann, "Devil Worship"

That Koji Ueno song, apart from the vocals, could be lifted straight from a Broadcast album. Been playing this mindbending mix a lot, it's a gorgeous bubble to float around in.

wha? which mix

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=4565

sweet thx

Been playing this mindbending mix a lot, it's a gorgeous bubble to float around in.

Was relistening to it the other day. And a very good description that is.

[[[[man I am still bummed about this

nice formatting. drunk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4U7GZSerUw

Nearly a year ago, seems longer

This is sooo good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNhsiKad18
(should've waited for 4 days maybe but I've been playing their stuff again this week so hey)

don't know if it was posted elsewhere, but a recent interview with James Cargill quoted him as saying he's working on another album with vocals Trish recorded before her death.

I read about that somewhere, probably not the interview itself but a headline. Needless to say, looking forward to hear it.

sad anniversary. i think it's two records actually, a film score also.

Will be wandering around a lot listening to 'Mother Is the Milky Way' this weekend.

Relevant here I think: Berberian Sound Studio

I miss Broadcast. BTW she's playing an early 90s Roland MIDI controller, the same as I have. It has 49 keys, a pitch bender you can push up on to use as a mod wheel, and one slider, that's it. This IMO is the best MIDI controller out there.

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/137368-broadcast---berberian-sound

you can pre-order/preview it at Warp

http://warp.net/records/broadcast/berberian-sound-studio-soundtrack/

This is great news, as is the info about the album being made using some of Trish's stockpiled vocals. Those kinds of records can be awkward, and it doesn't change how sad it is that Trish died so suddenly, but as her partner is the one putting the record together it seems like it could be a really cool and touching record. Really looking forward to hearing both in due time.

Berberian Sound Studio streaming here

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/30/168144618/first-listen-broadcast-berberian-sound-studio?ps=mh_fl

pretty amazing

The soundtrack is nice enough but I just don't think I'll play it that much. Holding out hope that their final album will be more the kind of Broadcast I love. I might be stating the obvious here but I really want to hear Trish's vocals when I listen to them.

I thought this was their final work?