eyeluvthe9ds
01-21-2009, 08:42 PM
Hopefully there's more interest in this than there was last time I made this thread on totse. Don't come in here and whine about these genres not being music. Use code tags for all links.
To start this off, what are everyone's favorite release from '08?
Burning Star Core - Challenger
http://www.mediafire.com/?kyqo4xryndc
Challenger begins with a melancholy, slightly ambiguous sequence of tones, which eventually find themselves intruded upon by some abrupt field recorded sounds. As a second track, 'Beauty Hunter' makes a more fiery, more familiar clamour, distorting and morphing what you'd presume to be Yeh's violin. It's in the album's quieter moments that things get really interesting: I genuinely have no idea what's going on to make the odd, ambient clacking that is 'No Memories, No Plans', and the strange organs and mechanisms behind 'Un Coeur En Hiver' make for a strangely emotive, magical mixture of sonic upsets. Perhaps best of all, 'Mezzo Forte' is probably one of the weirder things you'll get to hear this week. It starts off with some truly bizarre vocal layering and manipulation, before simple, quite stately piano chords set out an intro to something that never quite happens, and waves of kinetic, frenzied noise gets piled on... it's all very odd, but utterly magnificent stuff.
Eric Copeland - Alien in a garbage dump
http://www.mediafire.com/?j5mnmdgjnn2
Taking off where his last record, "Hermaphrodite" left off, these seven jams are steeped in modern media overload; dense, often fragmented blasts of ideas and sounds, representative of a half hour of prime-time TV (or something like that). This is overloaded, over-processed, overdosed music rooted in public sounds, but is somehow a giant leap from any fashion dominating the public mind. Limited edition vinyl-only pressing. Look for an Eric Copeland and Black Dice full-length in 2009.
Pocahaunted - Peyote Road
http://www.mediafire.com/?ewmmomldejz
Evolving comes easier to some than others. A lot of the 21st century's chief underground ringbearers are happy mining the same psych-ditch for the same warped ore, tape after tape and day after day. But Eagle Rock, CA's Pocahaunted are too restless (and easily annoyed?) to sit still like that, and so spent all of '07 throwing ever weirder new figures and moods into their amplifier family, and "Peyote Road" shows the motion of their transformation agenda. The A side ritual, "Divine Flesh," stirs hand drums and chimes into a bellydancing blur of voice smoke and rhythm before breaking down into its base elements and slowly reforming. The flip side ("Heroic Doses") documents Pocahaunted's set opening for Thurston Moore on Halloween night in the wasted and highly un-mystical California desert town of Visalia. Bobb Bruno and Britt Brown backed up the ladies' blown-out but melancholy wailing wall with electronic drums and drones, and the recording treads a dim, no-fi path into a bleak and holy void
Wet Hair - The Beach CS
http://www.mediafire.com/?yxzgmyiky2y
Tape from most recent west coast tour, features different versions of songs that will be released on a forthcoming lp and cd, plus some songs that will not.
and the best for last...
Burning Star Core/Prurient - Ghosts of Niagara
http://www.mediafire.com/?imsinyzrkc9
a series of minimal and careful sniper like compositions surrounding deaths and suicides over the grandfather of natural oblivion....niagra falls. anyone who has seen the falls has experienced the lure and attraction and deathly power that this hole in the earth conjures. a brewing cauldron of violence, the falls show us natures power and triggers man's inherent and ubiquitous self destruction.
Your turn. :)
To start this off, what are everyone's favorite release from '08?
Burning Star Core - Challenger
http://www.mediafire.com/?kyqo4xryndc
Challenger begins with a melancholy, slightly ambiguous sequence of tones, which eventually find themselves intruded upon by some abrupt field recorded sounds. As a second track, 'Beauty Hunter' makes a more fiery, more familiar clamour, distorting and morphing what you'd presume to be Yeh's violin. It's in the album's quieter moments that things get really interesting: I genuinely have no idea what's going on to make the odd, ambient clacking that is 'No Memories, No Plans', and the strange organs and mechanisms behind 'Un Coeur En Hiver' make for a strangely emotive, magical mixture of sonic upsets. Perhaps best of all, 'Mezzo Forte' is probably one of the weirder things you'll get to hear this week. It starts off with some truly bizarre vocal layering and manipulation, before simple, quite stately piano chords set out an intro to something that never quite happens, and waves of kinetic, frenzied noise gets piled on... it's all very odd, but utterly magnificent stuff.
Eric Copeland - Alien in a garbage dump
http://www.mediafire.com/?j5mnmdgjnn2
Taking off where his last record, "Hermaphrodite" left off, these seven jams are steeped in modern media overload; dense, often fragmented blasts of ideas and sounds, representative of a half hour of prime-time TV (or something like that). This is overloaded, over-processed, overdosed music rooted in public sounds, but is somehow a giant leap from any fashion dominating the public mind. Limited edition vinyl-only pressing. Look for an Eric Copeland and Black Dice full-length in 2009.
Pocahaunted - Peyote Road
http://www.mediafire.com/?ewmmomldejz
Evolving comes easier to some than others. A lot of the 21st century's chief underground ringbearers are happy mining the same psych-ditch for the same warped ore, tape after tape and day after day. But Eagle Rock, CA's Pocahaunted are too restless (and easily annoyed?) to sit still like that, and so spent all of '07 throwing ever weirder new figures and moods into their amplifier family, and "Peyote Road" shows the motion of their transformation agenda. The A side ritual, "Divine Flesh," stirs hand drums and chimes into a bellydancing blur of voice smoke and rhythm before breaking down into its base elements and slowly reforming. The flip side ("Heroic Doses") documents Pocahaunted's set opening for Thurston Moore on Halloween night in the wasted and highly un-mystical California desert town of Visalia. Bobb Bruno and Britt Brown backed up the ladies' blown-out but melancholy wailing wall with electronic drums and drones, and the recording treads a dim, no-fi path into a bleak and holy void
Wet Hair - The Beach CS
http://www.mediafire.com/?yxzgmyiky2y
Tape from most recent west coast tour, features different versions of songs that will be released on a forthcoming lp and cd, plus some songs that will not.
and the best for last...
Burning Star Core/Prurient - Ghosts of Niagara
http://www.mediafire.com/?imsinyzrkc9
a series of minimal and careful sniper like compositions surrounding deaths and suicides over the grandfather of natural oblivion....niagra falls. anyone who has seen the falls has experienced the lure and attraction and deathly power that this hole in the earth conjures. a brewing cauldron of violence, the falls show us natures power and triggers man's inherent and ubiquitous self destruction.
Your turn. :)