WHO IS MOIST PAULA? 

“I got the name Moist Paula in 1998 when I formed my trio Moisturizer with Moist Gina Rodriguez and Moist Tomoyo Tanaka. Up until that time I was simply Paula Henderson, playing with a large number of wonderful bands in New York and Australia, including Reverend Vince Anderson & his Love Choir, who I still play with every week after 9 years, James Chance & the Contortions, Gogol Bordello, Tadanoshin (which later became Retada), The Vanity Set, Melomane and many others. The music of Moisturizer, which is all instrumental and comprises bari sax, electric bass and drums gave me all the space in the world to hone my strange style and together Moist Gina and I have written over 80 songs, none of which have been released on record, so if you're a record company executive reading this, please jump on this opportunity to be the first to release our retrospective box set spanning two centuries. Since forming Moisturizer, I've had the opportunity to perform live and in the studio with many artists whom I greatly admire ... Burnt Sugar, TV on the Radio, The Roots, Chin Chin, Martin Luther and Cody Chesnutt, to name a few. Playing with my musical heroes always feels like a dream come true for me because I'm a music fan first and musician second. I hope to continue having these experiences my whole life. The most recent development in my adventures as a musician is the advent of Secretary -- a solo project with saxophones, voice and musical typing. I discovered how to make this music in GarageBand on my Apple iBook and recorded an album sitting at my desk in six weeks. The first live Secretary performance will be in the Summer of 2006.

GO LISTEN TO PAULA
 

ORGAN TV, who's on the first show this Wednesday? 

The first of the new year long series of ORGAN TV shows hits your screens in the UK on  Wednesday evening - 10.30pm, 12th July, Sky, Channel 173. 

1: CARDIACS - Day Is Gone 
2: STASI - Mixed Inglish   
3: THE ASSDROIDS - Daft Crunk  
4: THE DUEL - Camden Town 
5: CHRIS LIEBING & SPEEDY J - Cream 3   
6: LITTLE TROPHY - The Bill 
7: BLEEDING THROUGH - Kill To Believe  
8: VIKING MOSES - Little Emma's smile 
9: THE PRICILLAS - All My Friends Are Zombies  

ORGAN TV will be on Sky Channel 173, 10.30pm every Wednesday. What's it all about? 

Simple, just good music, and the art of good video making... Same musical policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just handy signposts, as long as the music and video making has that X factor - expect a healthy eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post rock, post punk, post man  pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever..... music and creativity for the open minded  

(and if you think your video should be on then shout in our direction)  

Music TV done ORGAN style  

Coming up in the next few weeks: Mastodon, Liars, Colt, MC Lars, Trencher, High On Fire, Tiger Force, 65Daysofstatic, Spit Like This, Gene Serene, Hafdis Huld, Against Me, Soviettes, Amon Tobin, Deerhoof and who knows who or what.... 
 
 

John on the phone......

ORGAN ON YOUR RADIO @ RESONANCE 104.4FM - NOW IT'S WEEKLY! - See, even they've noticed "An oasis of subversion within a desert of corporate ass-rimming; a place to hear tomorrow's music today" NME (shame they don't cover the music themselves though) X

DEMO OF THE WEEK
THE FLESH HAPPENING – We’ve told you about them before, and we’ve got our fingers around a new set of recordings for your throbbing organ to lust after – by far their best yet. The Flesh Happening are one of the most exciting bands out there. They come from Brighton and they do kind of sound like that picture over there. A man called Oliva Spleen sings and screams and yells and then at the end when all the screaming is over he shocks us all and sings very beautifully of ‘filth, depravity and shit’ and fading fast. Four urgent buzzing wired up tracks and one very very mellow come down from it all and more – quite a new dimension that final track - it’s called Mother And Spoon and it’s almost comfortably numb in its very own way. Yes, yes, yes, The Flesh Happening are from Brighton (well where else do you expect them to come from?) and Oliva Spleen is a larger than life and oh so beautifully real character who demands all your attention. Thing is before you even start to explore him and his mind and the sticky pages of his sketchbook and his telling you that everything is alright and you’ll be feeling the pain and the shame and the strain again and again. Where was I? He distracted me again, the band, yes, the band, well before you get swamped by the rush of the lyrics and the energy and the screaming and the guilt you’ll find a rather find buzzsawing (and rather musically clever) band. Now before it kind of felt like Oliva and a backing band who were kind of indulging him to stop him misbehaving too much - not any more, now the Flesh Happening work as one big wired up gloriously beautiful depraved whole, now we’re talking about a serious band. What do they sound like? Well really nothing you could put your finger on that easily. Maybe if the Manic Street Preacher really were to be as urgently good as they threatened to be back at the start? Maybe if Pulp were on constant heat and in a hurry and full of infected thoughts and speeding punk rock riffs that they didn’t want to have any real control of. Maybe if there was to be delicate skinny thing of a screaming indie band capable of blowing the meanest metal outfit away with their deceptive musical power? What if those Buzzcocks (or those Pistols) really were orgasm addicts? And those Come And See Me backing la la la’s really were going to result in soiled twisted bedsheets and all kinds of knots you couldn’t get out of.  Ah look, you know that special demo that only lands once a year, the one that stops everything, the one that’s so good it takes you an ages to try and get down how good it is..... I feel better now, I feel better now, it’s OK... feeling it again, guilty, oh my god....  www.thefleshhappening.com

Last week's demo of the week - VESSELS

Previous demo's of the week - BLACK JACKSON / INNER RAGE / ALLERGO / BROOKE / CARTRIDGE / PERHAPS CONTRAPTION / THE PROCESS VOID

ALBUM OF THE WEEK

MOTORHEAD – Kiss Of Death (SPV) - We are poison and we don’t care, Fast And Loose once more, strap yourself in here we go, we are monsters around here and we love our work, too busy crying to hear the screams (and build your dreams for you). New Motorhead album just landed, stop every single thing, call off the reptiles and forget the burning toast, the Royal Mail just did the business, more tales from the travelling man just dropped on the carpet here in NW10. 

Motorhead are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. What do we want from Motorhead in 2006? Should they be going out on a limb or should they be doing more of what they say they do on the tin? They ain’t gonna change a thing, (and they’ve always been out on a limb if you bothered to actually listen – and yeah, you know I’m a fan) they ain’t gonna change their ways, my ways, anyone’s ways - this is the Devil I want to know. Yeah, I’m a fan, I’m not a worshipper though, Motorhead don’t always get it right, they almost lost me for a while back there. Three tracks in and I’m happy (few hours of playing now and I’m still happy, stand up for the count), I love the devil I know. 

Now look, there isn’t ever going to be anything better than Overkill. It’s set in a place and a time and that line up will always be the classic definite Motorhead line up, Overkill is an all time classic – not just a Motorhead classic, a classic full stop. This current line up is the best one though, Motorhead are sounding better now than they ever did. The three of them have been sounding better than ever live for quite some time now (they may have needed guests for the twenty five  year anniversary, they certainly didn’t for them for the thirtieth birthday party). This rather surprising sixth track in, God Was Never On Your Side, just nailed this album down as the one you’ve been waiting Mickey Dee, Mr Kilminster and the rather underrated Phil Campbell to drop  – are those keyboards? Is that another one of those great Lemmy the balladeer moments? Acoustic blues – one dimensional? Recording the same album time after time? Bullshit. The only ones who say that are the ones in the shinny new shirts who only go to the gigs to hear Ace of Spades (if they dare to actually go to the gigs that is)  Lemmy is still as barbed as ever, the classic underdog son of a vicar done good/bad like he really is the last and really living in some nightmare and what the hell would he be doing without these escape routes anyway? And yeah, there’s probably a contentious view or two, no one over said Lemmy was always right, he’s as human as the rest of us (he never had time for the Fools who make the rules though – black enough to hide the stars). God Was never on Your Side is one of those eyes shut stand up straight and stop everything ballads that Motorhead allegedly don’t do. 

Yes, as ever, there’s the barbed Lemmy songs – the slices at the usual suspects, religion (and his father), the music business, the business of life, war, the false prophets that bring it all, your gods, your devils. Then there’s the songs from road abusing party animal bone-jumping blues band – no two faced pose here, they tell it how it is, they like it how it is. I think they do, well maybe not in the quieter moments – Lemmy keeps a poker face most of the time, he drops that guard now and again, who really knows what he thinks about it all? Pour another drink, turn it up some more, where’s the next one night stand? Hello Christine, nice smile... Then there’s the fine songs that sound like other things, Sword Of Glory could almost be off Another Perfect Day (a very very underrated album). Is there an Orgasmatron on here? Yes, potentially, it’s a sinister rumble called Kingdom of The Worm and there goes the Dr Rock track with all those aces up that black sleeve - all in the name of rock and roll (Going Down) – you can’t mess with Dr Rock. How we are is how we were, they have no shame, are you too busy laughing to see the joke? The travelling man isn’t sounding like he’s planning on getting old and grey quite yet, black enough to hide the stars (even if he does need hair dye now).

It’s how we are and how we were.  Yeap, Motorhead doing exactly what it says on the tin once more, always did say a hell of a lot more on the front of that tin if you bothered to actually look though. Yes it is typical Motorhead and typical Motorhead is sounding as vital as ever to me (and yeah, I probably have been to more Motorhead gigs than most of you). Kiss of Death, let it put those hands on you, give you electric blood. They’ve still got all the aces and they’ve still got them up their sleeve, you can’t mess so don’t you even try. Another damn fine Motorhead album, exactly what it says in the small print on the tin, now about that toast.... (Sean O) 

Release date – August 29, on SPV – www.imotorhead.com

ALSO CHECK OUT 

RUSSIAN CIRCLES – Enter (Flameshovel) – Uplifting instrumental epics, post-rock, six of them including a nine minute opener and three other pieces clocking in around eight minutes each.  Shifting dynamics, textured playing, mellow, progressive and all very pleasant and there is enough dimension and expression to not miss the vocals. The post rock playground is an over crowded one, it’s become a little formulaic and predictable and there’s lot’s of late arrivals making the same moves as those who’ve already been there and done all that, Chicago’s Russian Circles have enough to stand out from the crowd.  www.russiancircles.net

TERROR – The Hard Way (Trustkill) - Just like you’d expect and indeed now demand from Terror. Intense relentless bleeding puss-boiling hardcore metal intensity  - all those chugging riffs that hover around circling the pit waiting to pick of the stragglers. The relentless vocal onslaught and the demands for more more more of everything. A couple of line-up changes haven’t really made that much difference to the Terror sound/stance – Martin Stewart from the excellent Donnybrook is in on second guitar (Frank Novinec has jumped ship to sail with Hatebreed) and Jonathan Buske from Another Victim/The Promise/Rage Men is in on bass – nothing has changed, all is well in the beautiful world of Terror, the business is as usual. The finest in frontline forward looking brutal (proper) Agnostic Front/Cro-Mag style hardcore – www.trustkill.com/artist/terror

THE HUCKSTERS Seventh Sense (Gold Filling) – A re-issue of a long forgotten (by most) minor treasure. Actually I had pretty much forgotten about the Scottish band along with everyone else, seems we reviewed it back in 1989 and pretty much said it was a rather fine alternative jangly pop Big Star/Byrds/REM/Bunnymen thing. And indeed it still is, still sounds fresh, still sounds good and if the twisted way things work for people in bands had twisted a different twist the The Hucksters could have been Teenage Fan Club and loved and respected worldwide whilst the Fan Club could have been lost to obscurity. An album that was only ever pressed in one batch of 1000 before it was pretty much forgotten by all but a keen cult following that eventually turned in to a My Space fanpage and this CD re-issue...And the band are still out there playing so it seems – www.myspace.com/hucksters
 

Last week's album of the week - THE WEEGS / JOHNNY CASH Previous album's of the week - TRIGGERMAN / FRESHKILLS / THE DEATH SET / ABOUT / DODDODO / THE KNIGHTS OF THE NEW CRUSADE / CARTRIDGE / LEAFCUTTER JOHN / LORDS / IMMUNE / THE UNIT AMA / BEATNIK FILMSTARS / CHAMPION KICKBOXER / THESE MONSTERS / SUNS OF THE THUNDER / TELEVISE / SONIC YOUTH / PSAPP / ENABLERS / SUNN O))) / CATNAP / THE DRESDEN DOLLS / PROUDFLESH / all the past has been deleted (for now)

TANGAROA – Day (Anticulture) – Like some multi-tentacled sea monster or a polynesian metal god or some kind of sinister life-crushing plant that’s about to catch you in those plant-arms and crush the breath out of you as you kick and scream and try and break free. Now regulars out there will have heard this being played week after recent week on our radio show, all five tracks are excellent - you’ve got to really impress us to get on once, to get on week after week is extra special – we got a reputation to keep up here.  Bendy boingy extreme jazz metal that will take away that recent felling of disappointment that Dillinger Escape Plan’s latest musical compromises have left you with as you wait for a fresh Meshuggah fix. Extreme jazz maths and extreme pronkish metal that’s never too extreme for its own good. This is high wire creativity, this is intense, this is fresh new and now, this is intelligently different – pushing back the boundaries and the laws that stop most things being Other Rock. Tangaroa are from Leeds and there so much in there that the screams and growls never intrude in anything less than a positive way.  You need this one, you really need this one - www.tangaroa.org.uk or www.anticulture.co.uk

ALSO CHECK OUT

SHARP END FIRST – Songs For The Betrayed (Glasstone) - Brutal screemo meano beano metal with a sense of melody along with the tuneful aggression  - and another one of those press releases where the band tell us they’re frustrated with a stagnant music scene and then pile out with a band that sounds pretty much like a million things you and I have already heard floating around this supposedly stagnant music scene. Why do bands always say that? If we had a quid for ever press release that told us the band formed because they were bored with the stagnant music scene – bulshit, you were excited by it, excited enough to form a band and want a big fat slice of it, excited enough to want you band to sound like all those others - cut the crap. And anyway it’s far from stagnant, so so many exciting bands around right now who don’t want to sound the same and conform to the current blueprint. The music scene is better than ever if you can be bothered to look beyond what the mainstream labels and their media want you to consume. Sharpe End First are extremely good at what they’re doing, clearly better than most, give me this over the majority of 36 Crazyfist types that crawl their way in to our post box every damn day. Sharpe End First are extremely good at sounding like something we’ve heard far too many times already and that’s frustrating because they clearly could do so much more is they had the guts and the desire to be more than just a good copy of their record collection. Very professional modern metal and already as good as a lot of bigger names and if they have the guts there could be something good trying to burst out.  They’re from Bath by the way, I know you like these little factoids with your biscuits and tea and insect bites and bus rides. . www.sharpendfirst.com

TOUCHSTONE – Mad Hatters (Heavy Right Foot) - An outbreak of broken mirrors and I’m expecting a jester or a passing magpie any moment now. You see this is very much an acquired taste, that early 80’s Marquee choral society Market Square Hero thing that you either loved or never really got an so completely avoided... Four tracks and Cheshire cats that have lost their smiles (because the queen of hearts was crying), crows in the dust and the rust and great big slabs of English proggy keyboard driven drama. Like the finest bits of early 80’s Camel flavoured Pendragon or Marillion or Twelfth Night, Tamarisk, Magnum and such. Dirt under those finger nails rather than the squeaky clean and far too clinical new breed of rather boring American neo-progs and their soulless perfection – all those bands like Spock’s Beard and Dream Theater who make all the right moves and always sound so cold and heartless and so so unsatisfying. Touchstone are as technically as good as any of those neo-progs, it’s this is of a very high standard, it’s just that they have that bit of soul and dirt, that realness (hiding behind the orchard tree with important pens to push) and that ring of roses – proper prog. Touchstone are from Bicester, Oxfordshire and you can find out more (should you wish to) from www.touchstonemusic.co.uk. An acquired taste and done rather well. 

Last week's single of the week - SHRAG

Previously -LOSTPROPHETS / STASI / DOLIUM / SERENA-MANEESH / DECORATION / i LIKE TRAINS / THE OXFAM GLAMOUR MODELS / PSAPP / GREENSPACE
 

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