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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: December 17, 2016, 07:23:50 PM »

Ozkar, what can you tell me about that Treatment 7"?  There is a song by a UK band called Treatment, "Restless," on a comp that came with a Uk psych zine published in the mid-'80s.  It's a very tuneful, driving psychedelic pop song with excellent bass playing, reminiscent of Hawkwind ca. Warrior on the Edge of Time.  I've searched for information about this band but turned up nothing.  Same guys?

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Music Shit / Re: Great bands thats are a red flag when another band lists as a major influence

« on: December 12, 2016, 04:00:45 PM »

Any No Wave band not featured on A&M's No Wave... To Go.

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Music Shit / Re: We all need our stable of obscurities right?

« on: December 12, 2016, 03:58:35 PM »

the album is so-so (but kinda cool-would be better if it wasn't so jammy, some parts are pleasantly fucked tho) but I really liked the name and cover, "Debbie Grills Pulls Her Socks Up" by Wicked Kitchen Staff. Sometimes corny rock post-punk dub etc from 1982. Kinda like a lot of stuff already in that vein but I had never seen it before/heard anyone talk about it. Got it for like $5 in Portland a few weeks ago and it seems readily available so idk how obscure it is but whatever https://www.discogs.com/Wicked-Kitchen-Staff-Debbie-Grills-Pulls-Her-Socks-Up/release/969716

Wicked Kitchen Staff was a minor Larch for me.  I had the record for a hot minute and DJ'd it a couple of times.  I can't remember how or where I found it, but it was probably at Gimme Gimme in the EV, which was a seam of Larches.  I'd forgotten all about this Larch until reading the above post!  It looks like a Truman's Water record.  Truman's Water is somebody's future Larch, perhaps.

There was a spell when I was actively seeking Larches and turning them up on the reg: surprising, forgotten college-rock albs with one hot track and a lot of =meh=.  The Kinbotes and Tiny Desk Unit also come to mind.  I think I've since sold all of the above Larches.  Larches often have a limited shelf life, take up valuable shelf space; one cannot justify a shelf full of Larches under present urban real estate conditions.

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Music Shit / Re: Help with good underground prog recommendations

« on: December 02, 2016, 06:19:06 PM »

Great post.  "Is this really how it ends?" cracked me up.  This has happened to me too (not with The Larch though).

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Music Shit / Re: Help with good underground prog recommendations

« on: November 25, 2016, 12:45:02 PM »

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Van de Graaf Generator.  I didn't mention them earlier 'cos I've never liked them, but so many people do.  I like them in theory but their records just sound terrible to me.  (On the other hand, Tears for Fears ca. '84 -- the TFF of "Working Hour," "Broken," and "Listen," and especially the live band w/ full-time soprano sax, grand piano, chorus, and poor-man's-Fripp leads -- is wonderful and strikes me as a mid-80s correction of VDGG.) 

Another British prog/art mystery to me is Be-Bop Deluxe / Red Noise.  Bill Nelson seems like a cool dude.  He was part of the Holyground gang.  But his records that I've heard sound so, so shitty. 

If anyone digs Nelson or VDGG, please point to some highlights -- I'm open to digging 'em. 

On the jazz-rock end of the spectrum I have a strange attachment to the Argentine band Rayuela.  Melodically it sounds like an extension of the psych-rock / pop that Buenos Aires excelled at in the late '60s and early '70s.  The later Spinetta projects too.  Pescado Rabioso, et al.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: BRACE BELDEN no longer a teenager...

« on: November 22, 2016, 02:10:16 PM »

Too much unreality in the past couple weeks.  Can someone clarify?  I'm feeling old.  Can't tell where Gunstonworld ends and [Brace Belden: YPG volunteer in Syria] begins.

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Music Shit / Re: Help with good underground prog recommendations

« on: November 19, 2016, 05:55:20 PM »

King Crimson's Red
Robert Wyatt
Merrell Funkhauser / Mu

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Music Shit / Re: Help with good underground prog recommendations

« on: November 19, 2016, 04:32:28 PM »

I would add:

Jan Dukes de Grey
Henry Cow and related
Slapp Happy
Etron fou leloublan
ZNR

Among the Magma recs I am esp. partial to Uduwudu

The Italians made some extraordinary prog -- Franco Battiato, Lucio Battisti (a pop singer and somgwriter, not a prog guy, but a couple of his mid-70s recs hit prog notes), area., etc.

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Music Shit / Re: Electronic/"Dance" music thread

« on: October 28, 2016, 07:17:00 AM »

Our man wnkrs in the EDM news:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22568-dreamt-takes/

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Cities / Re: NYC October 22-28

« on: October 27, 2016, 07:37:56 AM »

No one can unseat my dude Max

Word.

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Music Shit / Re: Stones books?

« on: October 08, 2016, 07:54:43 PM »

Booth's True Adventures is a very good book.  I enjoyed Tony Sanchez's Up and Down but it's a very trashy, druggy, unreliable book by an insider with an agenda -- all the more reason to recommend it.

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Music Shit / Re: Bowie Book?

« on: October 08, 2016, 07:51:57 PM »

Starman is the best of the straight bios but it's not a great book.

The best book about Bowie is Chris O'Leary's Rebel Rebel.  It covers every Bowie song in chronological order through 1975, and contains loads of biographical material, criticism, and insights.  A second volume is due next year, covering the rest of Bowie's career.  You can find a lot of the material on O'Leary's blog, Pushing Ahead of the Dame:
  https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com
Outstanding music writing.  It's an obvious fan's labor of love but he is never slavish or too-reverent.  All music writers should aspire to this balance.

Hugo Wilcken's 331/3 volume on Low is a great overview of '75 - '77 and contains a wealth of biographical material for such a small book.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: School me on Nova Scotia?

« on: October 05, 2016, 10:21:16 AM »

Halifax:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVDOZ9IIFIo

My cousin Dale lives there.  Tell him I said hello.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Tonight: Rosali / Quietus / Jaiko & Benoit, Union Pool Bklyn 8pm

« on: September 21, 2016, 07:49:51 AM »

Dear Friends,

Tonight at Union Pool, Philadelphia's Rosali  headlines a bill with Ever / Never recording artists Quietus and NYC electric folk / ambient / drone duo Jaiko & Benoit.



https://rosali.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-love
https://goodandangry.bandcamp.com/album/quietus-volume-one
https://kumoko.bandcamp.com/track/one-thousand-times-a-charm

8:00: doors
8:30: Quietus
9:30: Jaiko & Benoit
10:30: Rosali

$10  Adults only

Hope to see you there.
XO,
WB

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Music Shit / Re: Punk music with percussion

« on: September 04, 2016, 07:10:38 PM »

Crazy Rhythms is full of hand percussion -- shakers, cowbells, wood blocks, etc. and toms in place of a standard kit.

Remain in Light is intensely polyrhythmic -- stereophonic congas, bongos.  ESG is a kid RIL.

Fire Engines: gratuitous cowbells.  Palais Schaumburg: primitive polyrhythms in spots.

The Scene Is Now.  "The Flowers of Romance." 

NOTA is strictly punk.  Groove is more of a postpunk concern, I guess.  Ah!  MC Monkey and Ape with Attitude!