ok I'll tell you what I dig about this: I used to go to this club that would always be projecting weird performance art videos against one of the walls while the music played. it was exactly shit like this and I loved it
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 October 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link
been listening to Hosono's Philharmony a lot lately and I'm starting to think she's gotten a few ideas from this record
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 December 2020 05:16 (three years ago) link
okay - this tune in particular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKca6co0PCM
could have been translated pretty much wholesale onto any of her albums
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:28 (three years ago) link
what’s so lovely about this album is how relentlessly 20th century it seems without just being retro. It’s like some synthesis of so much that was good before digital ... or something. it seems personal but also outward looking, none of the hedonic depression synth-weed haze clogging up the proceedings
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
Hadn't noticed this thread but dig Room for the Moon. These observations during the 2020 poll rollout (“Telefon” at #24, w00t!) were intriguing:
Kate NV just sounds like pretty accurate soviet bloc 80s pop to me, all the way through to the kind of thin production.― emil.y, Friday, January 29, 2021Agreed, this sounds like very obvious pastiche of Russian schlager of bygone era. Never liked that sound too much in the original form, so this isn't impressing me either, but I guess it's nice to have pastiches of other than American genres on the list for change. :)― Tuomas, Friday, January 29, 2021
Agreed, this sounds like very obvious pastiche of Russian schlager of bygone era. Never liked that sound too much in the original form, so this isn't impressing me either, but I guess it's nice to have pastiches of other than American genres on the list for change. :)― Tuomas, Friday, January 29, 2021
Any soviet era pop recommendations? :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
this probably wasn't what emil.y or tuomas were referencing at all but zvuki mu ftw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1phklC8tOA
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
(i definitely think kate nv shares some of their absurdist tendencies btw)
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
lmao really love all the shots of the audience bored out of their minds
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
Haha I know! amazing scenes
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
if you didn't see the "Telefon" video posted on the countdown, I encourage you to give it a watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAFNH-V4R3s
not sure what's going on with the wardrobe here, it looks like they all just put on random stuff from old comedy sketches. I can't take my eyes off the bald clarinet wizard robe dude
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag!
My brain is absolutely dead right now but remind me to come back to this sometime and I will give you some.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
Not Soviet pop, but Ann Steel is clearly an aesthetic touchstone here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23r5qqqVOu8
― J. Sam, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
wow Telex covered this song! I had no idea
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link
Love KATE NV, highlights like "Kata" from her first album sound a lot like 80's Japanese pop to me (can't quite put my finger on who she reminds me of... maybe Haruomi Hosono?), more than Russian pop but they're both obvious references on her music and they mix pretty well aesthetically tbh.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 January 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
I definitely see Ann Steel in it, yes! I really don't know why I slept on Kate NV, not sure if there was some completely arbitrary thing that put me off at some point, because right now I'm totally getting into it.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B05axTlKTKA
Роза Рымбаева гр. Арай
― saer, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
Love KATE NV, highlights like "Kata" from her first album sound a lot like 80's Japanese pop to me (can't quite put my finger on who she reminds me of... maybe Haruomi Hosono?)
Miharu Koshi. whose three best albums were produced/co-written by Hosono.
I posted this tune upthread, it's Hosono ft. Koshi on vocals, definitely feels like something she was very influenced by
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
yeah she's clearly drawing on hosono a lot
― ufo, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
She did some red bull academy study placement thing in tokyo iirc, so I wouldn't be surprised if she's got a pretty good knowledge of Japanese stuff. Someone upthread mentioned mariah, I think that's a really apt comparison. Definitely hear some yasuaki shimizu in there
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link
ok maybe I'm getting off base but she also reminds me a lot of Mecano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLujb3iwu9g
perhaps because they have the same haircuts. but its more than that
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
Man, that bass player has no concept of personal space. Step back, floofy boots!
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
he does, however, also have the same barber
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
lol that's Nacho Cano he's the main composer of all Mecano songs.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 January 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
yeah he just wanted to make sure she was singing it right
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
Okay, my brain is still dead but I figured I would go for some super-obvious Ex-Yu/Soviet pop for you. None of this sounds exactly like Kate NV, but it's among the stuff that 'Telefon' reminded me of, like, a sort of 'in the blood' thing.
Sizike!Sladjana!Alliance!Denis x2!
There were a couple of other things that I can't remember the name of and have disappeared from my youtube lists, blargh.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 January 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
Eeep, that sizike song is amazing! Thank you!
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it kills. The other songs are good too, but I think that's the best of that little list.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 January 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
Among other things, I like how embarrassed the guy doing the rap looks
― mage uluk (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link
lol "please get the camera off me" all over his face
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 January 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link
The “Sizike” song is so cool! Only 12,000 listens on spotify!? How!? This sounds like a classic.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 January 2021 06:51 (three years ago) link
Actually emily,all songs sound great
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 January 2021 06:52 (three years ago) link
I passed the Alliance one onto someone off-thread I thought might be appreciative. They were. :)
The one saer posted may as well BE recent Kate NV, for multiple bars at a time. Thanks everyone!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 30 January 2021 07:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaDoFH4zG3E
More Арай here, albeit without Роза Рымбаева. Vibes
― saer, Saturday, 30 January 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
Ah! this is the third time I listen to the Sizike song. At this rate it will soon become one of my favorite songs of the 80’s, where has this been all my life?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 January 2021 15:20 (three years ago) link
Love how this thread has basically turned into "post all the coolest music". I do miss Роза Рымбаева from that second one, though. (I'm guessing it's Rosa something?)
― emil.y, Saturday, 30 January 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
Thank you for all this!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 30 January 2021 16:04 (three years ago) link
Well if this is the unofficial thread for cool 80’s music that is not similar to KATE NV but you think KATE NV fans might also like:
Mecano - hawaii bombayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XzoOK2GZF8
Pete Brand’s Method - what you arehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY320Jk82i4
Rare Silk - stormhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNNqWGb_vCc
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 January 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
These might be closer to balearic but I think the genre is also referenced in some of her songs.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 January 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
nicely shot live video in a guitar shop/balloon store. only four songs and the clarinet dude is **not** wearing his wizard robe but still, worth a watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckArue3m29E
― frogbs, Sunday, 14 February 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
Excellent - thanks frogs! :)
anyone know what the official name of that boingy instrument she plays at the start of the second song - and also at the end of 'telefon' - is?
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
i believe that's a form of Flexatone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexatone
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
Aha - thanks Mr malone! Will always associate that sound with maggot brain. Bah-doinggg!
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
Man, Room for the Moon is amazing. Way outside my usual wheelhouse but I put it on for a stoned, snowy dog walk a few nights ago based on the EOY rollout, and have been all Kate NV, all the time, ever since (interspersed with the Chick Corea fest going on in my house).
She does not fuck around filling every little space in the music with creative and unexpected sounds. Having dug back into this thread and schooled myself a little in Russian synth pop and her other influences, I now see that her mix of electronic and synthy stuff with flutes and clarinets and saxes and such is not quite as idiosyncratic as I initially heard it, but so what. Love how quickly and aggressively she builds her soundscapes while still keeping them warm and engaging. Love those thick, meaty bass lines that propel the music forward magnificently but are just unusual and complex enough to keep me alert to their role in the mix. And love the sequencing on the album, drifting farther out into experimentation than most pop albums I'm familiar with and then pulling back to dance/pop at just the right times. I think my fav tracks are Ça Commence Par and Plans, and I have a special affection for Du Na, which is seriously evocative of mid-90s Tortoise to me, one of my all-time favorite sounds (there are moments where it really sounds like it could be lifted right from Djed).
What a gem. Thanks ilm for putting it on my radar!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
:)
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
otm
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link
Are there any good compilations that cover the Russian scenes that influenced her?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link
finally got around to watching some Glintshake on YouTube and wow, hard to believe it's the same person. almost like a Jun Togawa thing going on there.
― frogbs, Sunday, 21 February 2021 02:35 (three years ago) link
whoa -- this live video is excellent + a good reminder to revisit this record that hit me at a weird time last year.
would be rad to see this lineup the US when that is a thing again. thanks for sharing!
― dronestreet, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
Damn that video is indeed excellent, wish I spoke Russian.
The bass playing is the closest thing I've heard to Mick Karn in a very long time.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
Decisive Pink euro touro announced:https://www.instagram.com/p/CuXGShMNCT6/
Bizarrely they're playing here in the tiniest pub (capacity 100!), just a mile away at the bottom of the hill from where i live. Am completely losing my mind about this, holy heck
― NickB, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:51 (nine months ago) link
i mean, this is what the stage looks like in there:
https://brightonsource.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/5-The-Rosehill-Tavern-Brighton-SOURCE-Ashley-Laurence-Time-for-Heroes-Photography.jpg
― NickB, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:55 (nine months ago) link
Only two UK dates and one at the Rose Hill? Bloody hell!
― emil.y, Friday, 7 July 2023 13:11 (nine months ago) link
wow, that's crazy. I was really close to seeing her in Chicago but that's kind of a drive and I couldn't make it work. but the show seemed to just be at some bar/coffee shop, would've been super cool
― frogbs, Friday, 7 July 2023 14:24 (nine months ago) link
Ticket booked for the Brighton show. Pumped!
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Saturday, 8 July 2023 06:12 (nine months ago) link
Decisive Pink London show cancelled!
― mmmm, Monday, 6 November 2023 20:00 (five months ago) link
any idea why?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 6 November 2023 20:16 (five months ago) link
None at all. I just received a Dice notification. I was looking forward to it :(
― mmmm, Monday, 6 November 2023 20:49 (five months ago) link
Weird! Can't find any further info online. Still tickets available for brighton though, so don't think that's affected.
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 6 November 2023 20:56 (five months ago) link
(come hang out with us if you fancy it!)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 6 November 2023 20:58 (five months ago) link
something i did find during my investigations though...
Wassily KandinskyDecisive Pink1932 pic.twitter.com/Q5sYnFjUFV— Silviavers (@Silvia39217738) November 3, 2023
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:04 (five months ago) link
Would love a trip to Brighton but can’t make it work unfortunately… have fun and report back please!
― mmmm, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:11 (five months ago) link
Sad to say it looks like the Rose Hill show is also cancelled. I saw visa issues mentioned.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 16:48 (five months ago) link
huh. i went as surrealism for halloween and as part of that i wore a tank top with a kandinsky print on the front.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:18 (five months ago) link
i used to have a cd called "live at the knitting, factory, vol. iii" and this piece called "kandinsky" was on it. i like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8N2CBMA6KA
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:19 (five months ago) link
so shit, who the fuck even benefits from not granting a visa for this?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:52 (five months ago) link
I meant to listen to this and maybe go to the gig but forgot until tonight, then I was like oh shit the gig was tonight wasn't it? but turns out it wasn't anyway. oh well. I am going to too many gigs this month already anyway. my ears still hurt from Slowdive last week
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 9 November 2023 22:03 (five months ago) link
from her social media just in case any fans here missed it: "Playing at Lincoln center, nyc, march 14th, free entrance"
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 10 March 2024 23:24 (one month ago) link
ok this in a surround sound environment is super cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhasBUClmC0
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 March 2024 04:07 (three weeks ago) link