skullflower rfi

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0424,eddy1,54363,22.html

Matt Bower and Robert Creeley, separated at birth?

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/BOWER.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/CREELEY.gif

So anyway, Crucial Blast reissued IIIrd Gatekeeper, and while I already had it, it's nice to hear/have rip open my head again. (Also the liner notes are invaluable for providing a detailed early history of the band, and imply that more reissues are due.)

Amazing album.

I'm rather fond of Obsidian Shaking Codex, myself. It hardly ever seems to get any mention, for some reason.

it's XAMAN for me, total mind destruction. i hope they can rescue somebody's CD for reissuing purposes at some point.

i thought i commented earlier ITT about IIIrd gatekeeper being kind of an odd choice as a reissue as it's already relatively easy to find. and i also thought i expressed some vague hope stefan jaworzyn would stop being a cock and let them reissue the early stuff.

Well, it's a good gateway drug of an album, I'd say. More focused, more conventionally RAWK, and given Crucial Blast's general approach, it suits them. So why not?

hey, more skullflower is always better than less. i just hope it sells and they're able to do more. go, crucial blast, go.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Edward III for that Skullflower singles comp he posted a while back. Thanks!!!

Did I miss that? Is it still around?

yeah was that on leonardo or something?

It was on Leonardo, I can send you an email in a week or so if it is gone.

(xpost to Ned)

it's XAMAN for me, total mind destruction.

seconded

One of the ugliest band names ever. Just felt like getting that out of my system.

http://www.newtrose.com/images/Gratefuldead/420703.jpg

xpost - no way. brilliant name. suits them to a T.

Yeah, I've always thought it was a very extremely awesome name.

you are welcome sleeve, glad you dug it...

for those who missed it's like scraping resin canyon

thanks!!!!!!!

Agreed!

Thx for posting links to those interviews. I've liked Skullflower for years but never researched them at all. Im particularly fond of Xaman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmHdmvJ_aX8

YEAH

Kewl. But I admit I was hoping for a 1991-era clip or something similar!

kewl?

1991 talk on my part, clearly.

awww, whadda drag. would anyone mind re-upping that singles comp? I'd love to hear it.

Theres a new one out. I forget the name of it but I saw it floating around the WNYU studio... Will post when I figure it out.

Its called "Desire For A Holy War," out on Utech. The song "Frozen Spectres" is pretty cool.

I was at the Skullflower gig - Bower started the performance 'singing' from inside a big sack-like blanket, for reasons that I'm afraid escaped me

there's also ANOTHER new skullflower. "pure imperial reform."

pure imperial wax solvent reform

Von Skullflower

medical acceptance IIIrd gatekeeper

I should just find a permanent place for this but here ya goes
ancient bloodless eye

divshare yo

Hex Enduction Bower

yes! thanx!!

Anyone heard anything about further Skullflower reissues on Crucial Blast? I picked up their excellent IIIrd Gatekeeper reissue a while back, but there's been no word since...

I dunno about reissues, but there's a new LP on Noiseville with some serious black metal moves. I like it. Pschyed out, heavy black metal.

didn't they just play no fun fest?

Yeah, but i did not go. And actually I haven't heard any reports, either. It was the only draw for me this year, but it sold out before I even knew tickets were on sale.

not to rub it in, but that's a pretty solid lineup

SUNDAY 17 at 6:30pm

Skullflower
Prurient / Kevin Drumm
Black Pus
Emeralds
Cold Cave
Peter Rehberg/Marcus Schmickler
Jazzfinger
Conrad Schnitzler
Con-Cert

I saw black pus a couple weeks ago... thru the judicious use of triggers it's like seeing lightning bolt w/o dealing w/ lightning bolt crowds

oh, black pus i would have seen.

tbh i think cold cave sucks, emeralds are boring stoners, prurient/dom is a macho creep and conrad schnitzler is old and often very boring.

i saw one of the earliest ch1ppendale solo shows when i was in high school--billed as Lord Sun Sun.

so solid like constipation is what you're saying

something like that.

i haven't been to no fun fest since the first year (well i went for half a day the second year, all the way down in red hook.) it's such a weird macho/fratboy atmosphere.

The KIno series of remasters?
I think I gave up on them after that . I think I have Argon somewhere and could never get into it.
Had the IIIrd Gatekeeper in its original cd form which I got in Dublin in the mid 90s and like muchly. Also really like Ramlegh's Homeless for some of the same reasons.
mauy prefer Loop for better groove.
BUt have got into the KIno volumes I bought recently. Mainly IV though.

despite it's questionable title, Homeless features one of my favorite songs from either group...Fagenders.

fwiw a fag end is a cigarette butt in the UK

hah. I feel better about it now.

not like Ramleh never toyed around with some questionable stuff of course.

Ramleh's Circular Time 2cd from a few years back is well worth checking out... massive grooves, kinda noisy but earth-moving.

I actually just got all of the Kino CDs (I had Form Destroyer and Xaman on vinyl already but bonus traxx)! Was kind of wondering if he had gotten out of his uninteresting, headache-inducing black metal inspired phase 'cause I liked og Skullflower. I liked the weird, Krauty stuff he did in the later Sunroof! era and the first revival of Skullflower. I loved the weird, acoustic drone stuff he did for a while. But that shrieky shit makes me check out fast.

https://skullflower.bandcamp.com/

I was hoping someone else had already spent weeks trawling through the Bandcamp but anyway

http://skullflower.bandcamp.com/album/the-wisdom-of-venom

Pretty listenable excepting some moments of high pitched feedback, but the last song is really cool... twisty organ loop into some epic guitar fuzz arching into the blastosphere. Kinda Sunroof! or Total vibes.

oh cool, sunroof! still one of my all time favorites even though i haven't kept up

though imo his peak is youngsbower

Yeah Youngsbower was amazing. Sigh. Why no Youngsbower 2?

That period where like Boredoms VCN and Super AE vibes and also Krautronic burbling melodies were influencing Bower was primo

I was hoping someone else had already spent weeks trawling through the Bandcamp but anyway
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, August 20, 2017 4:46 AM

haha it is a lot to go thru. no tinkling synths yet but the more recent stuff under the "yllustrous forger of dreams" moniker is reaching back to the calm era. will prob buy the newest one - https://skullflower.bandcamp.com/album/the-108
https://skullflower.bandcamp.com/track/burning-swamp-of-pitch

this one is also nice owing to the psaltery playing - https://skullflower.bandcamp.com/track/melek-taus

also:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3931828151_10.jpg

Thanks! "Dove Grey Lagoons" on the 108 is great!