Wire / Best Coast / A Sunny Day In Glasgow / Sunn O))) / Pinkshinyultrablast / SRKP / НОМ
Поздравляю всех во всеми прошедшими праздниками!
правда после этого продолжительного трэша на холоде хочется на изумрудное море слушать уже что-то спокойное, типа такого:
на картинке неожиданное открытие (от SEA) дуэт из Калифорнии: Best Coast, пляжный lo-fi pop от Bethany Cosentino, игравшей ранее в психоделической группе Pocahaunted
у них пока всего пара демок и епишек
Best Coast
2009 - Demo - 01. Bratty B [1:42]
2009 - Demo - 02. Fun In The Sun [1:45]
2009 - Demo - 03. In My Room [1:44]
2009 - Demo - 04. Make You Mine [1:45]
2009 - Demo - 05. Over The Ocean [2:07]
2009 - Demo - 06. Sleepy One [1:22]
2009 - Demo - 07. So Gone [1:57]
2009 - Demo - 08. Something In The Way [2:10]
2009 - Demo - 09. Sun Was High (So Was I) [2:29]
2009 - Demo - 10. Up All Night [4:04]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 01. Sun Was High (So Was I) [2:32]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 02. In My Room [1:49]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 03. Up All Night [4:04]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 04. Sleepy One [1:21]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 05. Angsty [2:53]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 06. Over The Ocean [2:08]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 07. Bratty B [1:40]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 08. So Gone [1:56]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 09. Make You Mine [1:43]
2009 - Art Fag 7" - 01. Sun Was High (So Was I) [2:28]
2009 - Art Fag 7" - 02. So Gone [1:56]
2009 - Art Fag 7" - 03. That's The Way Boys Are [2:32]
2009 - Best Coast 7" - 01. Sun Was High (So Was I) [2:28]
2009 - Best Coast 7" - 02. So Gone [1:56]
2009 - Best Coast 7" - 03. That's The Way Boys Are [2:32]
2009 - Make You Mine 7" - 01. In My Room [2:22]
2009 - Make You Mine 7" - 02. Over The Ocean [2:06]
2009 - Make You Mine 7" - 03. Make You Mine [1:43]
2009 - Make You Mine 7" - 04. Feeling Of Love [2:38]
2009 - When I'm With You EP - 01. When I'm With You [2:57]
2009 - When I'm With You EP - 02. This Is Real [2:58]
2009 - Where The Boys Are EP - 01. Moody [1:58]
2009 - Where The Boys Are EP - 02. Space Baby [2:19]
2009 - Where The Boys Are EP - 03. Angsty [2:49]
2009 - Where The Boys Are EP - 04. Boy [2:53]
2009 - Where The Boys Are EP - 05. Gloomy [4:03]
в первом видео нарезали фильм Клода Лелюша: Мужчина и женщина / Un Homme Et Une Femme.
во-втором - мой любимый фильм Жака Деми - Девушки из Рошфора / Les Demoiselles de Rochefort с Catherine Deneuve и её сестрой Françoise Dorléac.
на новом альбоме A Sunny Day in Glasgow (они из Филадельфии, если кто забыл), поёт новая вокалистка и клавишница (Annie Fredrickson)
т.к. первая солистка (Lauren) уехала учится в Колорадо, а вторая (Robin) весь год ухаживала за их басистом Brice Hickey, который переломал себе кости после автоаварии
ASDIG в 2006 организовали Ben Daniels и Ever Nalens, несколько лет прожившие в UK, название придумал Nalens и он почти сразу покинул группу, так что петь поначалу пришлось родным сёстрам-близнецам Бена - Robin Daniels и Lauren Daniels.
ниже их подробное интервью для AV club
If Ashes Grammar, the sophomore album from Philadelphia's A Sunny Day In Glasgow, sounds more expansive than its bedroom-recorded debut, that's only halfway accidental. After touring across the U.S. and Europe for Sunny Day's critically lauded Scribble Mural Comic Journal, band leader/songwriter Ben Daniels returned to the States eager to record, only to find his band disintegrating. A bizarre incident involving a toolbox broke bassist Brice Hickey's leg in four places, confining him to bed for months; his girlfriend, who is Daniels' sister, left the band to take care of him. Daniels soldiered on, abandoning the claustrophobic home recording of the first record in favor of a vast dance studio in which he could experiment with unusual acoustics. The resulting Ashes Grammar is an immense record, full of breathy soundscapes and hypnotic pop. Before Sunny Day's show Friday, Nov. 20 at the Rathskeller, The A.V. Club spoke with Daniels and the band's new vocalist, Annie Fredrickson, about accidental noise and avant-garde composers.
- The A.V. Club: Were you surprised when your recording project took off this way?
- Ben Daniels: It's really kind of sweet how things started. I was just recording these things and I went to my dad's for dinner and Robin [Daniels, former vocalist] was there and I was like, "Why don't you sing on these songs I have?" And she was like, "Okay." So we finished a few songs and then I was like, "I'm just going to make this CD and mail it to PRB," which is this radio station around Philly, and to NYU's radio station. Then, all these people started e-mailing me and were like, "This is such a great record." It snowballed. I never thought I would have a career-and we don't have a career! [Laughs.] At least one that pays money.
- Annie Fredrickson: Yeah, this is not a career yet.
- AVC: How did Annie join the group?
- BD: Annie has this friend who's a fan of ours, who actually lived a block away from me in West Philly. We were recording the album this time last year. It was a particularly dark, horrible moment in the band where Josh [Meakim] was going to be the singer and I was getting ready to just quit. It was all going to end. Out of nowhere this guy wrote who I had known from shows to ask what kind of fuzz pedal I used, and so I told him and I was like, "Do you know anybody who sings?" And he wrote back and was like, "I actually know the perfect person for you. This is her name and I'll tell her you're going to write her." That was Annie.
- AVC: Annie, you're a classically trained cellist. What was it like coming from that background to more experimental modern music?
- AF: It certainly gives me a really solid technical background, to the point where I don't even think about it. I automatically know things about theory and music that are just always there and I can draw from them. That's really helpful in a way that I don't even realize all the time.
- AVC: What made you want to make the first song, "Magna For Annie, Josh, And Robin," an homage to Estonian composer Arvo Part?
- BD: When I finished the first album I had all these ideas, and by that point I'd really gotten to know my sisters' voices and how to work with them. I wanted to make a very vocal album; incredibly sparse instrumental arrangements and lots of vocals. I went out and bought all these choral albums. Arvo Part was my favorite of that bunch. Once it became clear that my sisters weren't going to be around, I had to abandon that idea, but he has this song called "Summa For Choir" which is beautiful, and I quickly ripped that off for ten seconds. I wanted to throw it on there since it had been such a big part of my life since the first album came out.
- AVC: Ashes Grammar was recorded in a large dance studio. Do you have plans to continue experimenting with acoustics and unusual recording processes?
- BD: I'd like to do something different next time. I'd actually just like to go to a professional studio with a producer who knows what he's doing and make a really good album. I've never done that. With the first album, I never recorded anything in my life. One of the most exciting things about that record was I learned how to do it. For this new record, I purposefully switched the recording software I used, and it was a whole different thing. Josh has a background in recording and working in studios. I leaned on him heavily for a lot of mic-ing and things like that. It wasn't as challenging as the first one but it was still just as exciting.
- AVC: Was there still a lot of experimenting as you tried to get certain sounds?
- BD: Definitely. It took six months to make the record so, yeah, a lot of that. The thing I thought we did that was the neatest to try was this thing that Alvin Lucier did in the sixties. He recorded himself speaking, and then he played the recording back into the room and recorded that, and then he played that recording back into the room, and eventually, whatever sound you start with is obliterated by the resonant frequencies of the room.
- AVC: This album is full of short songs and fragments-are the songs built up from these sounds you discover through experimentation?
- BD: You know… I guess they did. It's all accident, really. You make some weird noise and then you're like, "Oh that sounds kind of cool. Let me just play around with this for the next five hours." That's what comes out. "West Philly Vocoder" was me spending a day going in every room of this small mansion in West Philly I was house sitting, and doing weird stuff. They start all different ways. I play mandolin a lot, and sometimes there will just be noises on the computer that sound neat. "Canal Fish" and "Blood White" started from a song where I was playing a synth bass on my computer and I heard this weird little noise in the bass tone. I kept putting equalizers on it to kill the bass and bring up the treble where the noise was and then, I got this… it sounds like a little bell flickering. I don't know how that stuff happens. You just have to get lucky.
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Things Only I Can See @ Paris 2008
19/01 в HEL специально для нас состоится концерт Самизнаетеког O))), в клубе Tavastia, правда, кажется в Хельсинки придётся ехать на маршрутке рано утром так что если вы увидите репортаж о людях, пытавшихся пересечь ночью границу в багажнике финского консула, то знайте это мы
На tiketti билеты стоят 24€ (~1100р) и pdf приходит (уже прилетел)) на почту, хотя вот на bandsintown вижу такие же тикеты за 89€ ох уж эти ваши интернеты!
На разогреве к O))) заявлен финский пост-метал-психодел Pharaoh Overlord, надеюсь они тоже интересные. А уже 12 марта 2010 года в этом же заведении сыграют Tindersticks.
Sunn O))) (читается Сан) is an American drone/doom/experimental band based in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA and formed in 1998. The band’s core members consists of Stephen O’Malley (Khanate, Burning Witch, SARIN, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Lotus Eaters, Ginnungagap, Thorr’s Hammer, Fungal Hex, KTL, Æthenor, Gravetemple) and Greg Anderson (Goatsnake, Thorr’s Hammer, Burning Witch, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Brotherhood, Engine Kid, FALSE LIBERTY, Burial Chamber Trio, Ascend) - на прошлогодней Примавере они были одними из лучших, несмотря на то, что почти сожгли аппарат Примы своим Apocalyptic думом.
В конце декабря в ГЭЗ прошло отличное мероприятие - Рецепты вечности, где играли наши андерграундные экспериментальные группы, фрагмент из выступления любопытного проекта Дом вдовы @ ГЭЗ 2009.12.26 мне там очень даже понравилось, но, к сожалению, не удалось заценить все группы
потому что на Пироговской в тоже самое время проходил интересный сэйшн, эксклюзивная true wall-of-sound видео запись Pinkshinyultrablast с репетиции на этой самой Пироговской набережной, куда сейчас надо добираться 2 дня на оленях и три на вертолёте, т.к. снег в этом городе почти не убирают, а вообще это в 10 минутах от Финляндского вокзала:
что о них пишут: Your new favorite band - Pinkshinyultrablast: Their own description of themselves as an amalgamation of shoegaze and punk seems spot on to us. In our minds, their the most interesting “shoegaze” band in the world right now. Couple this with a discussion of art and politics in Russia and you have an interview that kept us on the edge of our seats. Welcome the next wave of brilliant music: Pinkshinyultrablast
но сначала там дебютировали ребята из нового интересного проекта The Cheshire Strangler
Участники PSUB также фигурируют в банде Superficial Random Knowledge Porridge можете заценить их Live at Watrushka Loft 2010
Первым post-НГ концертом был воссоединившийся НОМ в золотом составе - с А.Ливером (Дм. Тихоновым) и Сергеем Кагадеевым, Николай Копейкиным, новой симпатичной вокалисткой по имени Варвара Зверькова (она дочь Александра Зверькова, автора раннего хита «Королева-гадина» и институтского друга Андрея Кагадеева по «Военмеху»), естественно на сцене фигурировали и Турист с Андреем Кагадеевым, а на клавишах солировал Николай Гусев, людей было удивительно много, практически аншлаг, так что встреча прошла в тёплой дружеской обстановке, очень порадовал Сергей Кагадеев, петь он по-прежнему может так что мало не покажется!
на память - видеоплейлист HOM @ Taнцы СПб 03.01.2010
Ливер - Самый лучший портвейн (В школьном саду):
к радости пришедших, был сыгран и один из Вселенских Хитов, про 7.5% людей
Ливер исполнил и Арию мистера Х, которую когда-то пел Цой
Продолжаются открытия в best_of_2009:
благодаря larvaeatmybrain нашелся 30-ти дисковый адский_японский_нойз ещё и в блоге с говорящим названием terrornoiseaudio
Hijokaidan - The Noise [psychedelic/japanoise]
плюс пара альбомов, которые вспомнил Rolling Stones Melody Maker Q NME Pitchfork Афиша, наш воображаемый друг Spacirelei, оценки мои, у него всё по алфавиту
9/10
Mint Julep - Songs About Snow [shoegaze/mellow]
Aerosol - Airborne [idm/experimental]
The Procedure Club - Music for Leisure Time [noise pop/lo-fi/psychedelic]
Honeybreath - Overcoat [ethereal/dreampop]
Moonspeed - Flowers on the Moon [shoegaze/dreampop]
The Low Frequency in Stereo - Futuro
Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective [psychedelic/dreampop]
The Vandelles - Del Black Aloha [shoegaze/noise rock]
8/10
Moon Duo - Killing Time [psychedelic/space]
Glowfriends - To Have and To Hold [dreampop]
Mixtapes & Cellmates - Rox [noise pop/dreampop]
Keith Canisius - Waves [drampop/ambient]
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs [noise pop/rock]
Le corbeau - Evening Child Montreal Of The Mind [psychedelic/noise rock]
Loop Garou - 1st EP [post rock/electronic]
7/10
Ekca Liena - Drones Between Homes [ambient/drone/post rock]
Murmansk - Eleven Eyes To Shade [shoegaze/post-rock]
The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes [psychedelic/shoegaze]
Gospel Gossip - Dreamland [shoegaze/bliss/dreampop]
Washed out - Life of Leisure [electronic/lo-fi/chillwave]
Saturnshine - Before It's Too Late [shoegaze/dreampop]
Honeybreath - Overcoat [ethereal/dreampop]
Oriin - All things are numbers [post rock/ambient]
6/10
Scarlet Youth - Breaking The Patterns [shoegaze/post rock]
Oblisk - Weather Patterns [post-rock/shoegaze]
Japanese Gum - Hey Folks! Nevermind [post rock/ambient]
Stripmall Architecture - We Were Flying Kites [electronic/shoegaze]
Syntaks - Ylajali [idm/ambient]
93MillionMilesFromTheSun - S/T [shoegaze/noise pop]
Ask For Joy - Life in a Coma [shoegaze/dreampop]
A Shoreline Dream - Recollections of Memory [shoeagaze/post-rock]
Amusement Parks on Fire - Young Fight [shoegaze/post rock]
The Bavarian Druglords - 205 [psychedelic/baggy]
вот, например, нью-йоркцы The Vandelles
красивый альбом ethereal группы из Портленда Mint Julep @ Last FM, это семейный дуэт Hollie и Keith Kenniff (Helios / Goldmund).
2004.04 - Helios - Unomia
2005.02 - Goldmund - Corduroy Road
2006.06 - Helios - Eingya
2006.06 - Sono - Hyperballad - 10''
2007.06 - Helios - Ayres EP
2007.11 - Goldmund - Two Point Discrimination
2008.07 - Goldmund - The Malady Of Elegance
2008.10 - Helios - Live At The Triple Door
2008.11 - Helios - Caesura
2008.11 - Mint Julep - Songs About Snow
2009.03 - Helios - Unleft - Unreleased Vol. 1
или норвежцы The Low Frequency in Stereo
на днях зашли в любимый «no name» bar по пути в fidel и что вы думаете там включили? Wire! которые будут в этом году на Примавере
впрочем Wire это не только группа
01. Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
02. Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
03. Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts
04. Alasdair Roberts - Spoils
05. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
06. David Sylvian - Manafon
07. Group Doueh - Treeg Salaam
08. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
09. Ben Frost - By The Throat
10. King Midas Sound - Waiting For You
11. Harappian Night Recordings - The Glorious Gongs of Hainuwele
12. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
13. Shackleton - 3EPs
14. Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love
15. Atom TM - Liedgut
16. Mordant Music - SyMpToMs
17. Masayuki Takayanagi - Archive 1
18. Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay
19. Hecker - Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
20. William Basinski - 92982
21. The xx - xx
22. Flower-Corsano Duo - The Four Aims
23. Gary War - Horribles Parade
24. Courtis/Moore - Brokebox Juke
25. Leyland Kirby - Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was
26. Group Bombino - Guitars From Agadez Vol 2
27. Peter Evans - Nature/Culture
28. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon
29. Dam Funk - Toeachizown
30. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
31. Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino - Shall I Download A Blackhole And
Offer It To You?
32. Moritz von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
33. Musica Elettronica Viva - MEV 40
34. Black Dice - Repo
35. Emeralds - What Happened
36. Position Normal - Position Normal
37. Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star
38. Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer - Ghosts of Gold
39. Billy Bao - May 08
40. Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds
41. Richard Youngs - Under Stellar Stream
42. Subway - Subway II
43. Lionel Marchetti & Oliver Capparos - Equus
44. The Stooges - You Don’t Want My Name You Want My Action: 1971 The Missing Link
45. Eliane Radigue - Triptych
46. Fuck Buttoons- Tarot Sport
47. Glenn Jones - Barbecue Bob In Fishtown
48. Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968
49. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
50. Hildur Guðnadóttir - Without Sinking
это был Top 2009 от небезызвестного британского магазина Wire UK #311, они оказывается тоже в сюжете по поводу итогов года, вот заодно часть их списка со ссылками на альбомы: The Wire Magazine - Best of 2009.
The End.
правда после этого продолжительного трэша на холоде хочется на изумрудное море слушать уже что-то спокойное, типа такого:
Click to viewна картинке неожиданное открытие (от SEA) дуэт из Калифорнии: Best Coast, пляжный lo-fi pop от Bethany Cosentino, игравшей ранее в психоделической группе Pocahaunted
у них пока всего пара демок и епишек
Best Coast
2009 - Demo - 01. Bratty B [1:42]
2009 - Demo - 02. Fun In The Sun [1:45]
2009 - Demo - 03. In My Room [1:44]
2009 - Demo - 04. Make You Mine [1:45]
2009 - Demo - 05. Over The Ocean [2:07]
2009 - Demo - 06. Sleepy One [1:22]
2009 - Demo - 07. So Gone [1:57]
2009 - Demo - 08. Something In The Way [2:10]
2009 - Demo - 09. Sun Was High (So Was I) [2:29]
2009 - Demo - 10. Up All Night [4:04]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 01. Sun Was High (So Was I) [2:32]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 02. In My Room [1:49]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 03. Up All Night [4:04]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 04. Sleepy One [1:21]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 05. Angsty [2:53]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 06. Over The Ocean [2:08]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 07. Bratty B [1:40]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 08. So Gone [1:56]
2009 - California Girls (Demos II CD-R) - 09. Make You Mine [1:43]
2009 - Art Fag 7" - 01. Sun Was High (So Was I) [2:28]
2009 - Art Fag 7" - 02. So Gone [1:56]
2009 - Art Fag 7" - 03. That's The Way Boys Are [2:32]
2009 - Best Coast 7" - 01. Sun Was High (So Was I) [2:28]
2009 - Best Coast 7" - 02. So Gone [1:56]
2009 - Best Coast 7" - 03. That's The Way Boys Are [2:32]
2009 - Make You Mine 7" - 01. In My Room [2:22]
2009 - Make You Mine 7" - 02. Over The Ocean [2:06]
2009 - Make You Mine 7" - 03. Make You Mine [1:43]
2009 - Make You Mine 7" - 04. Feeling Of Love [2:38]
2009 - When I'm With You EP - 01. When I'm With You [2:57]
2009 - When I'm With You EP - 02. This Is Real [2:58]
2009 - Where The Boys Are EP - 01. Moody [1:58]
2009 - Where The Boys Are EP - 02. Space Baby [2:19]
2009 - Where The Boys Are EP - 03. Angsty [2:49]
2009 - Where The Boys Are EP - 04. Boy [2:53]
2009 - Where The Boys Are EP - 05. Gloomy [4:03]
в первом видео нарезали фильм Клода Лелюша: Мужчина и женщина / Un Homme Et Une Femme.
во-втором - мой любимый фильм Жака Деми - Девушки из Рошфора / Les Demoiselles de Rochefort с Catherine Deneuve и её сестрой Françoise Dorléac.
на новом альбоме A Sunny Day in Glasgow (они из Филадельфии, если кто забыл), поёт новая вокалистка и клавишница (Annie Fredrickson)
т.к. первая солистка (Lauren) уехала учится в Колорадо, а вторая (Robin) весь год ухаживала за их басистом Brice Hickey, который переломал себе кости после автоаварии
ASDIG в 2006 организовали Ben Daniels и Ever Nalens, несколько лет прожившие в UK, название придумал Nalens и он почти сразу покинул группу, так что петь поначалу пришлось родным сёстрам-близнецам Бена - Robin Daniels и Lauren Daniels.
ниже их подробное интервью для AV club
If Ashes Grammar, the sophomore album from Philadelphia's A Sunny Day In Glasgow, sounds more expansive than its bedroom-recorded debut, that's only halfway accidental. After touring across the U.S. and Europe for Sunny Day's critically lauded Scribble Mural Comic Journal, band leader/songwriter Ben Daniels returned to the States eager to record, only to find his band disintegrating. A bizarre incident involving a toolbox broke bassist Brice Hickey's leg in four places, confining him to bed for months; his girlfriend, who is Daniels' sister, left the band to take care of him. Daniels soldiered on, abandoning the claustrophobic home recording of the first record in favor of a vast dance studio in which he could experiment with unusual acoustics. The resulting Ashes Grammar is an immense record, full of breathy soundscapes and hypnotic pop. Before Sunny Day's show Friday, Nov. 20 at the Rathskeller, The A.V. Club spoke with Daniels and the band's new vocalist, Annie Fredrickson, about accidental noise and avant-garde composers.
- The A.V. Club: Were you surprised when your recording project took off this way?
- Ben Daniels: It's really kind of sweet how things started. I was just recording these things and I went to my dad's for dinner and Robin [Daniels, former vocalist] was there and I was like, "Why don't you sing on these songs I have?" And she was like, "Okay." So we finished a few songs and then I was like, "I'm just going to make this CD and mail it to PRB," which is this radio station around Philly, and to NYU's radio station. Then, all these people started e-mailing me and were like, "This is such a great record." It snowballed. I never thought I would have a career-and we don't have a career! [Laughs.] At least one that pays money.
- Annie Fredrickson: Yeah, this is not a career yet.
- AVC: How did Annie join the group?
- BD: Annie has this friend who's a fan of ours, who actually lived a block away from me in West Philly. We were recording the album this time last year. It was a particularly dark, horrible moment in the band where Josh [Meakim] was going to be the singer and I was getting ready to just quit. It was all going to end. Out of nowhere this guy wrote who I had known from shows to ask what kind of fuzz pedal I used, and so I told him and I was like, "Do you know anybody who sings?" And he wrote back and was like, "I actually know the perfect person for you. This is her name and I'll tell her you're going to write her." That was Annie.
- AVC: Annie, you're a classically trained cellist. What was it like coming from that background to more experimental modern music?
- AF: It certainly gives me a really solid technical background, to the point where I don't even think about it. I automatically know things about theory and music that are just always there and I can draw from them. That's really helpful in a way that I don't even realize all the time.
- AVC: What made you want to make the first song, "Magna For Annie, Josh, And Robin," an homage to Estonian composer Arvo Part?
- BD: When I finished the first album I had all these ideas, and by that point I'd really gotten to know my sisters' voices and how to work with them. I wanted to make a very vocal album; incredibly sparse instrumental arrangements and lots of vocals. I went out and bought all these choral albums. Arvo Part was my favorite of that bunch. Once it became clear that my sisters weren't going to be around, I had to abandon that idea, but he has this song called "Summa For Choir" which is beautiful, and I quickly ripped that off for ten seconds. I wanted to throw it on there since it had been such a big part of my life since the first album came out.
- AVC: Ashes Grammar was recorded in a large dance studio. Do you have plans to continue experimenting with acoustics and unusual recording processes?
- BD: I'd like to do something different next time. I'd actually just like to go to a professional studio with a producer who knows what he's doing and make a really good album. I've never done that. With the first album, I never recorded anything in my life. One of the most exciting things about that record was I learned how to do it. For this new record, I purposefully switched the recording software I used, and it was a whole different thing. Josh has a background in recording and working in studios. I leaned on him heavily for a lot of mic-ing and things like that. It wasn't as challenging as the first one but it was still just as exciting.
- AVC: Was there still a lot of experimenting as you tried to get certain sounds?
- BD: Definitely. It took six months to make the record so, yeah, a lot of that. The thing I thought we did that was the neatest to try was this thing that Alvin Lucier did in the sixties. He recorded himself speaking, and then he played the recording back into the room and recorded that, and then he played that recording back into the room, and eventually, whatever sound you start with is obliterated by the resonant frequencies of the room.
- AVC: This album is full of short songs and fragments-are the songs built up from these sounds you discover through experimentation?
- BD: You know… I guess they did. It's all accident, really. You make some weird noise and then you're like, "Oh that sounds kind of cool. Let me just play around with this for the next five hours." That's what comes out. "West Philly Vocoder" was me spending a day going in every room of this small mansion in West Philly I was house sitting, and doing weird stuff. They start all different ways. I play mandolin a lot, and sometimes there will just be noises on the computer that sound neat. "Canal Fish" and "Blood White" started from a song where I was playing a synth bass on my computer and I heard this weird little noise in the bass tone. I kept putting equalizers on it to kill the bass and bring up the treble where the noise was and then, I got this… it sounds like a little bell flickering. I don't know how that stuff happens. You just have to get lucky.
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Things Only I Can See @ Paris 2008
19/01 в HEL специально для нас состоится концерт Самизнаетеког O))), в клубе Tavastia, правда, кажется в Хельсинки придётся ехать на маршрутке рано утром так что если вы увидите репортаж о людях, пытавшихся пересечь ночью границу в багажнике финского консула, то знайте это мы
На tiketti билеты стоят 24€ (~1100р) и pdf приходит (уже прилетел)) на почту, хотя вот на bandsintown вижу такие же тикеты за 89€ ох уж эти ваши интернеты!
На разогреве к O))) заявлен финский пост-метал-психодел Pharaoh Overlord, надеюсь они тоже интересные. А уже 12 марта 2010 года в этом же заведении сыграют Tindersticks.
Sunn O))) (читается Сан) is an American drone/doom/experimental band based in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA and formed in 1998. The band’s core members consists of Stephen O’Malley (Khanate, Burning Witch, SARIN, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Lotus Eaters, Ginnungagap, Thorr’s Hammer, Fungal Hex, KTL, Æthenor, Gravetemple) and Greg Anderson (Goatsnake, Thorr’s Hammer, Burning Witch, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Brotherhood, Engine Kid, FALSE LIBERTY, Burial Chamber Trio, Ascend) - на прошлогодней Примавере они были одними из лучших, несмотря на то, что почти сожгли аппарат Примы своим Apocalyptic думом.
В конце декабря в ГЭЗ прошло отличное мероприятие - Рецепты вечности, где играли наши андерграундные экспериментальные группы, фрагмент из выступления любопытного проекта Дом вдовы @ ГЭЗ 2009.12.26 мне там очень даже понравилось, но, к сожалению, не удалось заценить все группы
потому что на Пироговской в тоже самое время проходил интересный сэйшн, эксклюзивная true wall-of-sound видео запись Pinkshinyultrablast с репетиции на этой самой Пироговской набережной, куда сейчас надо добираться 2 дня на оленях и три на вертолёте, т.к. снег в этом городе почти не убирают, а вообще это в 10 минутах от Финляндского вокзала:
что о них пишут: Your new favorite band - Pinkshinyultrablast: Their own description of themselves as an amalgamation of shoegaze and punk seems spot on to us. In our minds, their the most interesting “shoegaze” band in the world right now. Couple this with a discussion of art and politics in Russia and you have an interview that kept us on the edge of our seats. Welcome the next wave of brilliant music: Pinkshinyultrablast
но сначала там дебютировали ребята из нового интересного проекта The Cheshire Strangler
Участники PSUB также фигурируют в банде Superficial Random Knowledge Porridge можете заценить их Live at Watrushka Loft 2010
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Первым post-НГ концертом был воссоединившийся НОМ в золотом составе - с А.Ливером (Дм. Тихоновым) и Сергеем Кагадеевым, Николай Копейкиным, новой симпатичной вокалисткой по имени Варвара Зверькова (она дочь Александра Зверькова, автора раннего хита «Королева-гадина» и институтского друга Андрея Кагадеева по «Военмеху»), естественно на сцене фигурировали и Турист с Андреем Кагадеевым, а на клавишах солировал Николай Гусев, людей было удивительно много, практически аншлаг, так что встреча прошла в тёплой дружеской обстановке, очень порадовал Сергей Кагадеев, петь он по-прежнему может так что мало не покажется!
на память - видеоплейлист HOM @ Taнцы СПб 03.01.2010
Ливер - Самый лучший портвейн (В школьном саду):
к радости пришедших, был сыгран и один из Вселенских Хитов, про 7.5% людей
Ливер исполнил и Арию мистера Х, которую когда-то пел Цой
Продолжаются открытия в best_of_2009:
благодаря larvaeatmybrain нашелся 30-ти дисковый адский_японский_нойз ещё и в блоге с говорящим названием terrornoiseaudio
Hijokaidan - The Noise [psychedelic/japanoise]
плюс пара альбомов, которые вспомнил Rolling Stones Melody Maker Q NME Pitchfork Афиша, наш воображаемый друг Spacirelei, оценки мои, у него всё по алфавиту
9/10
Mint Julep - Songs About Snow [shoegaze/mellow]
Aerosol - Airborne [idm/experimental]
The Procedure Club - Music for Leisure Time [noise pop/lo-fi/psychedelic]
Honeybreath - Overcoat [ethereal/dreampop]
Moonspeed - Flowers on the Moon [shoegaze/dreampop]
The Low Frequency in Stereo - Futuro
Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective [psychedelic/dreampop]
The Vandelles - Del Black Aloha [shoegaze/noise rock]
8/10
Moon Duo - Killing Time [psychedelic/space]
Glowfriends - To Have and To Hold [dreampop]
Mixtapes & Cellmates - Rox [noise pop/dreampop]
Keith Canisius - Waves [drampop/ambient]
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs [noise pop/rock]
Le corbeau - Evening Child Montreal Of The Mind [psychedelic/noise rock]
Loop Garou - 1st EP [post rock/electronic]
7/10
Ekca Liena - Drones Between Homes [ambient/drone/post rock]
Murmansk - Eleven Eyes To Shade [shoegaze/post-rock]
The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes [psychedelic/shoegaze]
Gospel Gossip - Dreamland [shoegaze/bliss/dreampop]
Washed out - Life of Leisure [electronic/lo-fi/chillwave]
Saturnshine - Before It's Too Late [shoegaze/dreampop]
Honeybreath - Overcoat [ethereal/dreampop]
Oriin - All things are numbers [post rock/ambient]
6/10
Scarlet Youth - Breaking The Patterns [shoegaze/post rock]
Oblisk - Weather Patterns [post-rock/shoegaze]
Japanese Gum - Hey Folks! Nevermind [post rock/ambient]
Stripmall Architecture - We Were Flying Kites [electronic/shoegaze]
Syntaks - Ylajali [idm/ambient]
93MillionMilesFromTheSun - S/T [shoegaze/noise pop]
Ask For Joy - Life in a Coma [shoegaze/dreampop]
A Shoreline Dream - Recollections of Memory [shoeagaze/post-rock]
Amusement Parks on Fire - Young Fight [shoegaze/post rock]
The Bavarian Druglords - 205 [psychedelic/baggy]
вот, например, нью-йоркцы The Vandelles
красивый альбом ethereal группы из Портленда Mint Julep @ Last FM, это семейный дуэт Hollie и Keith Kenniff (Helios / Goldmund).
2004.04 - Helios - Unomia
2005.02 - Goldmund - Corduroy Road
2006.06 - Helios - Eingya
2006.06 - Sono - Hyperballad - 10''
2007.06 - Helios - Ayres EP
2007.11 - Goldmund - Two Point Discrimination
2008.07 - Goldmund - The Malady Of Elegance
2008.10 - Helios - Live At The Triple Door
2008.11 - Helios - Caesura
2008.11 - Mint Julep - Songs About Snow
2009.03 - Helios - Unleft - Unreleased Vol. 1
или норвежцы The Low Frequency in Stereo
на днях зашли в любимый «no name» bar по пути в fidel и что вы думаете там включили? Wire! которые будут в этом году на Примавере
впрочем Wire это не только группа
01. Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
02. Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
03. Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts
04. Alasdair Roberts - Spoils
05. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
06. David Sylvian - Manafon
07. Group Doueh - Treeg Salaam
08. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
09. Ben Frost - By The Throat
10. King Midas Sound - Waiting For You
11. Harappian Night Recordings - The Glorious Gongs of Hainuwele
12. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
13. Shackleton - 3EPs
14. Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love
15. Atom TM - Liedgut
16. Mordant Music - SyMpToMs
17. Masayuki Takayanagi - Archive 1
18. Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay
19. Hecker - Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
20. William Basinski - 92982
21. The xx - xx
22. Flower-Corsano Duo - The Four Aims
23. Gary War - Horribles Parade
24. Courtis/Moore - Brokebox Juke
25. Leyland Kirby - Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was
26. Group Bombino - Guitars From Agadez Vol 2
27. Peter Evans - Nature/Culture
28. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon
29. Dam Funk - Toeachizown
30. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
31. Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino - Shall I Download A Blackhole And
Offer It To You?
32. Moritz von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
33. Musica Elettronica Viva - MEV 40
34. Black Dice - Repo
35. Emeralds - What Happened
36. Position Normal - Position Normal
37. Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star
38. Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer - Ghosts of Gold
39. Billy Bao - May 08
40. Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds
41. Richard Youngs - Under Stellar Stream
42. Subway - Subway II
43. Lionel Marchetti & Oliver Capparos - Equus
44. The Stooges - You Don’t Want My Name You Want My Action: 1971 The Missing Link
45. Eliane Radigue - Triptych
46. Fuck Buttoons- Tarot Sport
47. Glenn Jones - Barbecue Bob In Fishtown
48. Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968
49. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
50. Hildur Guðnadóttir - Without Sinking
это был Top 2009 от небезызвестного британского магазина Wire UK #311, они оказывается тоже в сюжете по поводу итогов года, вот заодно часть их списка со ссылками на альбомы: The Wire Magazine - Best of 2009.
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