Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak Thread 2012

Yer welcome!

Tonight's Chromatic Aberrations show on Radio Valencia will focus on selections from the album and there will be a podcast version later:

http://radiovalencia.fm/chromaticaberrations/2012/06/06/chromatic-aberrations68-12am-for-lee-jackson-in-space/

That comp looks amazing, well done indeed Ned!

Found this on one of my scandinavian music blergs: Starlight Serenaders "Orange Wind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rP7oIX-QCU

Hey ho, new Peaking Lights streaming here:

http://soundcloud.com/weirdworldrecordco/sets/peaking-lights-lucifer

good show at the flywheel:

MAN FOREVER
Enveloping drum wash - like Tony Conrad's Flicker turned into sound, played on one sixteen foot drum - by Kid Millions (Oneida) and Richard Hoffman (Sightings) and maybe others, I dunno.
BENJAMIN MILLER
Feeding Tube Records record release show! Deconstructed multiphonic guitar, tapes, voice, etc.
GARY HIGGINS
Yes, THAT Gary Higgins, of the classic 1973 psych-folk LP Red Hash.
THE SEDIMENT CLUB
Can we talk about their parents? They were in the Bush Tetras and the Voidoids.

$8

i might go to this local color show coming up at the 'wheel too : Steve Baczowski, Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, Bill Nace quartet

I've been somewhat familiar with St Louis based electronic musician Raglani for years, but I'm listening to his 2010 record Of Sirens Born and it's sounding very fresh
This morning's review on Dusted of his new one is what stoked my interest

Scott, I covered this pretty heavily above, but will definitely say that the Man Forever show I saw was excellent. Not for everybody, but I found it really compelling on multiple levels. If Richard Hoffman is playing as well that is a big bonus, he's great.

Really though, with Gary Higgins on the bill as well seems like a complete winner of a night.

Can someone tell me more about the essential Sylvester/Silvester Anfang (II)? I bought the new one on a whim and now almost immediately i want more.

Not trying to make a big 4th of July brouhaha or tie-in, but this is pretty astounding (and I only know about from someone posting it yesterday, so there ya go). I really dig when someone can translate themselves so succesfully into a known commodity and kick your ass with it, and this just delivers on that idea on so many levels for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=USlBuN_g5T8

Ah shit, not sure why that didn't embed properly, but it is Bill Orcutt doing "The Star Spangled Banner".

Fuck it, here's some more Orcutt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyiDepQQ56o&feature=related

think i hate bill orcutt. anyone hear the new corsano?

that Orcutt SSB was way great; thx grandavis

Sure thing LLB. New Corsano I have heard sounded great, but just a track or two. Those two songs made me want to hear the whole thing without a doubt though.

I can see Orcutt not being one's thing, but glad that is not the case for me.

there's some corsano vids on the ecstatic peace site, they're coming from the young cricketer end of things which is great by me

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

really thought i wld dig orcutt & there were a few initial things that caught my ear but the more i've listened to the more limited it sounds. i wish i cld just write it off but there is still an overall neatness to the phrasing, his technique is obv pleasingly & he has v appealing moments but i am mostly bored by the one-note sleepy-drunk lofi sloppyness of it.

Yeah, Corsano covers a lot of terrain successfully, that clip is great. Orcutt is definitely playing from a limited palette, and I can only take it in smallish doses (that 20 minute clip above seems about right as far as what I could get through live, depending on him mixing it up a bit), I can get being bored by it. I don't get sleepy-drunk (or lo-fi actually) from it at all though. He seems heavily invested in it, and attacks the guitar with a lot of gusto. Not necessarily vituosic (a la much of Corsano's stuff) but certainly accomplished. I get what you are saying though, would certainly come across that way if you aren't feeling it.

Any opinions on the White Manna album to be had here?

moreover

Can someone tell me more about the essential Sylvester/Silvester Anfang (II)? I bought the new one on a whim and now almost immediately i want more.

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Sunday, July 1, 2012 9:15 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark

i did find this, and it is highly recommended by me if you like a driving kind of dark rockabilly vibe with your clangy psychedelic guitar noises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui3x2VRG92c

re: orcutt
mb stronger rhythm wld give him more space to move around in. as it is he falls into these phrases, speeding up v fast then slowing down, it's like he's staggering, swaying, he totally sounds like a blind-drunk virtuoso - esp mumbling to himself - v immediate but not v mindful. also the first record at least, is mad lofi.

Yeah, that record is lo-fi, I guess I just don't associate that term with folks doing solo guitar improvisations (not that it matters, lo fidelity is lo fidelity). Don't really wanna parse his playing too much, as I have never heard him talk about it or anything. Seems like he is doing what he wants, which is mindful to me, but sure, he falls into phrases and lurches around then pauses. Just seems intentionally limited, not like he is lacking stronger rhythm phrasing etc. But, 5 more records of that kinda thing may not really pan out, I can see that. Really that "Star Spangled Banner" above shows a pretty good combo of his signature style with some adherence to midnfulness (to me at least). Good direction for him.

La Lechera, that Sylvester Anfang II song is cool, would have sounded great at a barbecue yesterday. Good music to melt in the heat to. Don't know anything about them, but may have to investigate. Thanks.

he played a couple weeks back with a drummer at a warehouse show i was at, however, it being a warehouse show, it started about 2 hours later than advertised, and i had to work the next day, so i left before he played. but based on this discussion, i wish i had stayed, so i could report on how that worked out vis a vis his style.

Apparently SAII have two albums out this year? The one I bought is much much slower/hynotic in its grooviness, recommended if you like your raga with an element of space noise.

Sylvester Anfang II are definitely someone I want to check out. Emil.y was raving about them on another thread the other day...

Yes, they are emil.y approved, I know that to be true!

is the new ty segall psych/freak or was that the white fence vibe

how's the new blooz contrrol

I'm hoping the new Blues Control is better than the samples I've heard. Too much cheesy keyboard way out front.

not all the tracks have that but it's the most prominent change in their sound

it'll prolly bug quite a few ppl but I get the impression they're fairly cool with that

hmmm... I didn't care for the promo track at all and I'm a pretty big fan. bummer.

i thought the laraaji thing was tight

:(

Hey who wants to do a quick blues Control s/d or rundown itt? I want to get into them and I think I'm gonna try Puff but I don't quite know what to expect. Any recommendations?

new Alexander Tucker, Third Mouth, on Thrill Jockey, blowing me away right now. Keep flipping it over and over. Fourth listen today. Gamechanger, methinks!

need to check that guy out, where to start? into the new luke younger / helm thing, good for creeping yourself out at 2am

oh i love him!

dorwytch is really good and there's lots of his stuff on spotify
esp recommended if you like wyatty singing

old fog is good too

creepy and enjoyable listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOv74VaFReI

White Manna album is excellent, kinda reminds me the Original Sins or someone

Crackle Box, start with the new one, but all of his albums are excellent. This new one has some heavy Depeche Mode vibes...in a good way. Really, really great album.

thought of this thread http://www.facebook.com/notes/bill-orcutt/chris-corsano-bill-orcutt-east-coast-us-tour-dates/397182903664099

Wasn't sure whether to drop this in the rolling noise thread or this one, but this thread seems to get more traffic. You can find the discography of blackened noise/drone horrors Locrian for "pay what you want" download at bandcamp now: http://locrian.bandcamp.com/album/the-crystal-world

Hey who wants to do a quick blues Control s/d or rundown itt? I want to get into them and I think I'm gonna try Puff but I don't quite know what to expect. Any recommendations?

^^ 'puff' it's amazing - prob my favourite and definitely a good starting point. then you might go for 'local flavor' and from then on dig deeper with the self-titled and 'a full tank', maybe. the split with heavy winged is also good, iirc. collaboration with laraaji from last year was algo interesting, even if it veers a little bit closer to the new-agey vibes of the latter.

btw, any one heard 'valley tangents'?

Rather.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/valley-tangents-mw0002364694

Thanks! :D

saw the dreebs the other night, they're like 10 shimmering seconds of an SY noise break on loop. wasn't sure whether they should go here or rolling punk or rolling noise. the records and youtubes don't do justice to their live show which is a soakbath of ecstatic sound. their videos are kind of lol williamsburg, but if you get a chance to see 'em live you should.

new Alexander Tucker, Third Mouth, on Thrill Jockey, blowing me away right now. Keep flipping it over and over. Fourth listen today. Gamechanger, methinks!

Nice! There hasn't been a lot of fanfare for such a good album, or at least I haven't noticed any until this thread.

i love it! i listened to it most recently as i was driving through an extremely lush green rural area and it was heavenly.

yeah it's gorgeous

just ordered the new sylvester anfang. which one of theirs is meant to be the err... groovier one?

you mean of the most recent releases? which one did you get?
are there song titles or jam 1, jam 2, etc?

i have the former, WANT the latter!

this one http://www.discogs.com/Sylvester-Anfang-II-Perzische-Tapijten/master/424839

that's the one i got. it's great -- very groovy, but slow groovy