God I love those primitive drum machines so much. I have a Realistic Concertmate Electronic Accompanist, which is a cheap scaled down version of that type of rhythm box sold at Radio Shack in the 80s. Run it through a delay pedal and hit the Rock and Foxtrot buttons, you've got hours of knob-twiddling fun!
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
I love the fact that one of their frequent collaborators is a guy named Tim Story, always makes me think of On Cinema
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 June 2022 03:09 (one year ago) link
husband of semi-famous Windham Hill artist Liz Story!
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 23 June 2022 03:56 (one year ago) link
Curiosum is such a baffling record. I've listened to it 4 times in the last 24 hours and can't figure out if it's a load of wank or a portal to some primitive form of consciousness. "Oh Odessa" has been in my head constantly. "Tristian in der Bar" makes me laugh. "Seltsame Gegend" makes me wanna play QWOP. "Ufer" makes me crank the volume up and then I'm so calm I forget to turn it back down again. This is what they did after Grosses Wasser?? What other albums sound like this?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
I'm obsessed with Oh Odessa, it's got this childlike primitive quality that I can't get enough of.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
(xp) Maybe some Moebius albums? Though the childlike quality is more Roedelius' thing.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
Haha yeah, it's a deeply weird and addictive record. "Portal to some primitive form of consciousness" is OTM. A couple tracks have a kind of "demented clown" vibe, which I'm not that into (e.g. "Oh Odessa", "Seltsame Gegend"). The queasy major-key waltz duo of "Tristan In Der Bar" -> "Charlic" is probably my favorite part of the record.
I haven't heard anything else that sounds exactly like Curiosum, but parts of Moebius and Beerbohm's Double Cut sound like a slightly less primitive version of its more menacing moments, like "Proantipro" with a hardware update.
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
I heard "Oh Odessa" on a Cluster compilation, sounds to me like a theme song from a public television educational kids' show from the era.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
yeah, also get a little bit of a hardcore devo vibe from "oh odessa"
love this record
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
great 420 record too, close your eyes and put on "Tristan In Der Bar" and you will see a man tumbling around in a laundromat dryer
― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
lol YES
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
Tristan in Der Dryer
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
listening to Sowiesoso yet again now and something that comes to mind is that a lot of this sounds like you're hearing the most incredible, cool, and joyous music ever but it's somewhere in the distance. so your mind fills in the blanks. like you know how some people say books are more intense than movies because your mind fills in images that will match the emotion? that it kind of what happens here. I think this is what James Ferraro was trying to do with all those lo-fi "Summer Headrush" albums.
― frogbs, Thursday, 24 November 2022 04:27 (one year ago) link
yeah for sure it’s this sorta pointillist quality that it shares with the vibiest lofi stuff eg older James Ferraro and that amazing KWJAZ album. Walking through benevolent fog on a starlit night..
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Thursday, 24 November 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
frogs u should listen to moebius's tonspuren if you haven't already, def has that childlike vibe
― clouds, Thursday, 8 December 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
oh yeah that one's on my wantlist. I recall hearing it once a while back and really liking it.
― frogbs, Friday, 9 December 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link