Sunday, 29 March 2009
David Thomas & the Two Pale Boys - Meadville
David Thomas is the founder of avant-rock legends Pere Ubu.The two pale boys (2pbs) are Andy Diagram (trumpet & electronics) and Keith Moliné (guitar & electronics). Andy, a member of James in the early 90s, has played in a number of influential groups, including Dislocation Dance, The Diagram Brothers and The Honkies. Currently he plays with the 2pbs and his own group, Spaceheads. Keith refuses to play in rock (or jazz) bands. His approach to music derives from "a careful diet of high-art electronica and low-art prog." He has played in Infidel and as Mesmerist.
David Thomas and his wild guitar & trumpet splinter group, two pale boys, generate strange, beautiful new shapes, rolling stories and sonic panoramas out of spontaneous deconstructions. The simple see-sawing of a melodeon gives way to cascading electronica and expressionistic soundscapes-- sometimes pulsating and abrasive, sometimes mysterious and exploratory. Through it all runs the mordant wit of one of the most distinctive and charismatic singers in modern music.
I don't know what Meadville means, the music is all about uncertainty, about dread, a dread that spins the present into the future...You hear time passing, you hear time that's passed, you hear an odd commitment to the art of talking out loud, and a bet that someone might be listening, and might talk back, one of these days...By the time (Thomas) reached his stages in 1996, he had become a creature of wonder, so alive to the possibilities of motion and chance in a word or phrase that any given song he might choose to sing will be less a song than a road, a road out or a road back...
Thomas' argument is that nothing worth understanding explains itself- he can't explain why he's singing or why you're listening, and his bet is that you can't either-- and that this lack of clarity, though fatal in the market, nevertheless keeps the conversation going, so long as his clues are as good as Raymond Chandler's, who never worried if a clue led nowhere...Time dissolves; the subject matter of Meadville is the last twenty-five years as an irrelevance that has prepared the singer for the next year, should there be one.
David Thomas & the Two Pale Boys - Meadville
Thomas' argument is that nothing worth understanding explains itself- he can't explain why he's singing or why you're listening, and his bet is that you can't either-- and that this lack of clarity, though fatal in the market, nevertheless keeps the conversation going, so long as his clues are as good as Raymond Chandler's, who never worried if a clue led nowhere...Time dissolves; the subject matter of Meadville is the last twenty-five years as an irrelevance that has prepared the singer for the next year, should there be one.David Thomas & the Two Pale Boys - Meadville
| Obsession | | ||
| Nobody Knows | | ||
| Red Sky | | ||
| Can't Help Falling in Love | | ||
| Nowheresville | | ||
| Fire | | ||
| Kathleen | | ||
| Surfer Girl / Around the Fire | | ||
| Beach Boys | | ||
| Weird Cornfields | | ||
| Busman's Honeymoon | |
Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds Amazing Music/ Quark Strangeness and Charm
The 1976 release of `Astounding Sounds' saw Hawkwind embark on an eclectic journey of musical discovery, for the first time going beyond the single-minded focus on swirling chugga chugga space rock that was perfected on the previous year's release of `Warrior On the Edge of Time'. This was the start of their `Charisma period', where elements of punk, new wave, funk and even jazz were woven into the Hawkwind sound.
The eccentric rock poet Robert Calvert helped to give the band a whole new direction with his original lyrical style and quirky song-writing contributions. Highlights on this album include `Steppenwolf' and `Reefer Madness', though my personal favourite is the atmospheric Turner-penned number `Kadu Flyer'.
Hot on the heels of the defiantly transitory Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music album, Quark Strangeness and Charm was the first full flowering of Hawkwind's newly-honed drive towards brittle pop, sharp wit, and crystal-clear intent — attributes that, if they'd ever existed in the past, had been entirely overwhelmed by the sheer grandeur of the space rock rocket blast.
Now it was the propulsive riffs and deep space echoes that were held in abeyance, and Quark opened as it meant to go on, with "Spirit of the Age"'s tight keyboards, unobtrusive washes, and the utterly captivating — if totally skewed — story of love across the light years. It is hard to visualise just how shocking the change must have been to loyal fans of the era; how they must have trembled before the electrifying jolt of concise lyricism and accessible melodies.
Robert Calvert wore an aviator's helmet and carried a stuffed falcon on one hand, odd apparel indeed for an ode to Albert Einstein's lack of luck with the ladies. Or maybe not so odd, after all.A handful of songs fed back into the traditional Hawkwind mythos — the post-apocalyptic "Damnation Alley," the near-industrial instrumental "Forge of Vulcan," and the dream-is-over nostalgia of "Days of the Underground." "Hassan I Sabha," is an epic Middle Eastern terrorist rhetoric with haunting Arabic refrain and instrumentation. Hawkwind's most unexpected album to date and, today, one of their most endearingly enduring; charming, strange, and, if not quark, then certainly quirky. 
Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds Amazing Music/ Quark Strangeness and Charm
Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
1. Reefer Madness
2. Steppenwolf
3. City of Lagoons
4. The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon
5. Kerb Crawler
6. Kadu Flyer
7. Chronoglide Skyway
Quark, Strangeness and Charm
8. Spirit of the Age
9. Damnation Alley
10. Fable of a Failed Race
11. Quark, Strangeness and Charm
12. Hassan I Sabah
13. The Forge of Vulcan
14. Days of the Underground
15. Iron Dreamastounding sounds on head heritage
Bob Calvert websiteBob Calvert bio-Working Down A Diamond Mine
Bob Calvert myspace
hawklords - 25 years 12" here
Captain lockheed & the starfighters -ejection 7'' here
Robert Calvert - Test-Tube Conceived lp here
Inner City Unit website
Inner City Unit - solitary ashtray/so T Ry As I D 7'' here
Inner City Unit - pass out lp here
Inner City Unit - The President's Tapes & Kubano Kickasso here
Nik Turner's Fabulous All Stars - live recording hereSaturday, 28 March 2009
Bonny Billy - Little Lost Blues
Little Lost Blues by Bonny Billy is the third compilation of singles and rarities by Will Oldham. The previous two were Lost Blues and Other Songs (1997) and Guarapero/Lost Blues 2 (2000).
little lost blues
"Little Boy Blue"
"His Hands"
"Black Dissimulation"
"Southside of the World"
"I Confess"
"Less of Me"
"Barcelona"
"Let's Start a Family (Blacks)"
"Little Boy Blue 2"
"I Am Drinking Again"
"Crying in the Chapel"
palace music- lost blues and other songs
Sheep On Drugs - Let The Good Times Roll. Maxi ep
"Dead" Lee and "King" Duncan formed Sheep On Drugs in England in 1988. As Lee recalled in Industrial Nation #9, "Me and Duncan met in the gutter in New Cross ... in kind of a drugged haze." Lee and Duncan instantly bonded over Acid House music and because, as Lee recalled, "[Duncan is] someone who's got so much to say but isn't a musician." Lee and Duncan then began imagining the kind of '90s band they wanted to form. Because both liked Acid House, as Lee described in Industrial Nation #9, "a really excellent kind of weird new kind of music ... [with its] blips and bleeps and squeaks and drumbeats," Lee and Duncan decided that Acid House was the way to go.In 1991, Sheep On Drugs began their quest to achieve their ambitions by releasing their first single, "Catch 22"/ "Drug Music." The Rough Guide to Rock described the two songs as "two sides of sardonic observation of the world of work and the rave scene." Next, Sheep On Drugs hit the road. With their live shows drawing in fans, Sheep On Drugs released an EP of remixed singles including "Motorbike"/ "Mary Jane." This EP caught the attention of Island Records who signed the band in 1992. The release of the band's first major-label single, "Fifteen Minutes of Fame," allowed Duncan to rant about a future of dreadful nothingness and torture, caste-system mentalities, letdowns and addiction. Lee and Duncan, not about to waste Sheep On Drugs' fifteen minutes of fame, released their first full-length album, Greatest Hits, in 1993.
Sheep On Drugs - Let The Good Times Roll
| 1 | Let The Good Times Roll... (7" Version) (2:55) | |
| 2 | Let The Good Times Roll... (12" Version) (5:51) | |
| 3 | Got Nothing Good To Say Today (3:01) | |
| 4 | Let The Good Times Roll... (Alternative Version) (4:39) |
MYSPACEV/A - Tamla Motown ; Big Motown Hits & Hard To Find Classics - Volume 2
This fascination collection includes Barrett Strong’s song Money, covered by the Flying Lizards in 1979, The Undisputed Truth’s top ten hit from 1971, Smiling Faces Sometimes, and the rare white Motown band Rare Earth’s two hits I Just Want To Celebrate and Born To Wander. That is reason enough to hear this album, but there’s more! The classic River Deep Mountain High by the Supremes & Four Tops rivals the version by Ike & Tina Turner, while Canadian R. Dean Taylor’s tale of teen angst Indiana Wants Me is another gem and a UK top 5 hit in 1971. Another hit from the same year is Tom Clay’s socially aware Abraham, Martin and John. The tracks by the Velvettes, Brenda Holloway and Tammi Terrell are vintage Motown polished soul while Billy Preston and Syreeta add a tinge of gospel in their sublime love song. This album is recommended to all lovers of soul music and rare pop and rock grooves from the 1970s.
V/A - Tamla Motown ; Big Motown Hits & Hard To Find Classics - Volume 2part one / part two
1. Every Little Bit Hurts - Holloway, Brenda2. When I'm Gone - Holloway, Brenda
3. Needle In A Haystack - Velvelettes
4. He Was Really Saying Something - Velvelettes
5. Lonely Lonely Girl Am I - Velvelettes
6. I Can't Believe You Love Me - Terrell, Tammi
7. Money (That's What I Want) - Strong, Barrett
8. Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) - Isley Brothers
9. I Guess I'll Always Love You - Isley Brothers
10. Here Comes The Judge - Shorty Long
11. Function At The Junction - Shorty Long
12. Smiling Faces Sometimes - Undisputed Truth
13. I Just Want To Celebrate - Rare Earth
14. Born To Wander - Rare Earth
15. River Deep Mountain High - Supremes & Four Tops
16. Indiana Wants Me - Taylor, R. Dean
17. I've Never Been To Me - Charlene
18. With You I'm Born Again - Preston, Billy & Syreeta
19. What The World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham Martin And John - Clay, Tom
MOTOWN MUSEUM ONLINE
tamla motown website Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Visions Of You (maxi ep)
When Wobble left PIL in 1980, the heart of the band was ripped out. The group staggered on through the eighties but what once was a progressive, dangerous and exciting unit seemed to become a hollow vessel. It was only then that Wobble's value was fully recognized, since he had always espoused what the public perceived as being the original objectives of the band
Rather than capitalizing on his burgeoning reputation, Wobble threw himself into a bewildering and myriad range of projects, working with everyone from German experimental rock group Can's Holger Czukay and Jaki Leiezeit His albums Betrayal and Snakecharmer created a new groundbreaking and exceptionally adventurous sound which cut a stunningly stark contrast with the plastic prefabricated pop that saturated the airwaves in the early eighties.
The song 'Visions of You', which The Daily Telegraph claimed "would be a hit if there was any taste in the world" was performed with Sinead O'Connor and catapulted Jah Wobble into the singles charts - its simple but insinuating groove proved irresistible to mainstream audiences. Long time fans were amused to see him performing 'Visions of You' everywhere from Radio One to Children's TV, culminating in an extraordinary appearance on The Word. the Invaders' sound and personnel expanded accordingly, quickly earning a fervent live audience. They proceeded to tour the world, even taking in such unusual venues as an oil tanker off a Japanese island.
jah wobble's invaders of the heart -Visions Of You
jah wobble's invaders of the heart -Visions Of You
The Welsh Mix – 4:21
Ade Phases The Parameters Of Sound – 6:15
The Secret Love Child Of hank and Johnny Mix – 10:23
Pick ‘n’ Mix 1 – 3:30
Pick ‘n’ Mix 2 – 7:15
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