| Organ
show with Sean O on RESONANCE 104.4FM, Sunday March 1st 2009, 9.00pm –
On your FM dial all over London and worldwide via www.resonancefm.com.
Who
got played this week? How do you find our more? Here come the details and
links...
1/intro:
TRANSISTOR SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta)
2:
JULIE DOIRON – The Life Of Times (Jagjaguwar)
3:
FUN MACHINE – Blok People (BNS Sessions)
4:
THE JESUS LIZARD - Thumper (Capitol)
5:
CHEER ACCIDENT – Blue Cheadle (Cuniform)
6:
TWO FINGERS feat. SWAY – Jewels And Gems (Big Dada)
7:
UNLEARN – Still Life With Actress (Noise/Order)
8:
VLADIMIR BOZAR ‘n ZE SHERAF ORKESTRA – Super Mythoman (Imago)
9:
DM STITH – Issac’s Song (Asthmatic Kitty)
10:
RAVEN BEATS CROW – Raven Beats Crow (Demo)
11:
PERHAPS CONTRAPTION – Hard Cutlery (unreleased)
12:
Y DIWYGIAD feat LEWIS TEWWS – All Mouth (Dockran)
13:
INNER TERRESTRIALS – Burning Bridges (Katie B)
14:
Y DIWYGIAD - Paineifiwen (Dockran)
15:
COMMANDER KEEN – Lying In The Dark (Only Pretend)
16:
MI AMI – Freed From Sin (Touch And Go/Quarterstick)
17:
ROBERT JACOBS – Marie Langlois
THE
DETAILS, THE FACTS, THE LINKS....
1/intro:
TRANSISTOR
SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta) - our adopted
theme tune so you know where you are. Transistor Six is Frances Castle,
there’s lots of her fine art and creativity to explore from Francis so
please please do. You can now get the whole tune downloaded for yourselves
and find links to her artwork, albums and lots more over at www.myspace.com/transistorsix
2: JULIE DOIRON –
The Life Of Times (Jagjaguwar) - Opening track from the one time Eric’s
Trip member’s fine new solo album I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
(out on 9th March, Organ magazine album of the week this week), sublime
simple celebrations of life, delicate lo-fi songs that will make you smile
- www.myspace.com/juliedoiron
or www.juliedoiron.com
3: FUN MACHINE – Blok
People (BNS Sessions) – The US band have a new album out called Sonnen
Huhn, the album is a fizzing clash of busy new wave space rock and vintage
synth driven prog for poisoned electrick heads everywhere. All jibber and
twitch and little beasties pawing at your friend and the glorious theatre
of absurdity, eye popping, ear tickling, goosebump making..... www.myspace.com/funmachine
or www.bnssessions.com
4: THE JESUS LIZARD
- Thumper (Capitol) - A slice of prime 1996 Jesus Lizard and why? Do we
need a why? The is Jesus Lizard, we don’t need a why! We got one though,
we played this sliceof goodness from the Good album tonight so we could
tell you The Jesus Lizard are to play an ATP gig at The Forum here in London
on May 11th. Hot on the heels of their ATP Fans Strike Back festival, this
will be their only other UK date and probably the only time you'll ever
get to see the re-united but only for a short time line up of the legendary
Chicago band here in the UK – www.myspace.com/eljesuslizardo
5: CHEER ACCIDENT
– Blue Cheadle (Cuniform) – The long standing sometimes awkward cult legends
that are America’s Cheer Accident have yet another new album out. Fear
Draws Misfortune landed in our lives this week, they’re sounding better
than ever, they’re the full on really progressive cutting edge challenging
prog rock deal, serious other rock, serious outsider music, pure Organ
fuel – www.myspace.com/cheeraccident
6: TWO FINGERS feat. SWAY
– Jewels And Gems (Big Dada) - Hip-Hop with the power of Public Enemy,
Two Fingers are Brazilian beat adventurer Amon Tobin and Joe ‘Doubleclick’
Chapman. The pair bonded when Tobin lived in Brighton. The new album (out
on 30th March) is "the applied production techniques associated with the
UK styles like drum ‘n bass to the templates of hip-hop". A whole load
of rhymers and such adding vocals to tracks, Sway on this particular cut
- www.myspace.com/2wofingers
or www.bigdada.com
7: UNLEARN – Still
Life With Actress (Noise/Order) – Clever, different, filmoid, delicate
considered post rock that goes to different places in different ways. They’re
from Seattle. A track from their excellent new album Places - beautifully
soothing and rather recommended - www.myspace.com/theunlearn
or www.noiseorder.com
8: VLADIMIR BOZAR ‘n ZE
SHERAF ORKESTRA – Super Mythoman (Imago) – Now this is good, debut
album from a new French band who have evolved out of the excellently named
Children Of Invention – a Zappa tribute band so it seems. Vladimir
Bozar is “just an imaginary entity of absurdity” so it would seem - all
of this makes perfect sense as soon as you let their very colourful musical
stew enter your life. More Mr Bungle than Zappa now, very much more actually,
this gang of creative French people are clearly very influenced by all
things Bungle, all things Secret Chiefs 3... all kinds of things gone wrong
in the fairground and classical stabs and impressively right up there alongside
all those names we just dropped. Real children of invention and a highly
recommended roller coaster ride of an album that will have you hanging
on and grinning like a bungled maniac from start to finish. Bon merde indeed!
- www.myspace.com/vladimirbozar
9: DM STITH – Issac’s
Song (Asthmatic Kitty) - David Stith is just a little bit different,
something a little bit special, he has an assuring intriguing voice, angelic,
a touch of Jeff Buckley in there with those dark violins, a hint of Antony
And The Johnsons, maybe Sufjan Stevens... A whispered effervescence, otherworldly,
quietly grandiose piano, breathing strings, dense, never cluttered, euphoric
restrained crescendos, achingly beautiful, crafted, painted, rich otherly
orchestration, quietly delivered with wonderfully creative flourish, narratives
of self-discovery, brave ethereal embracing goodness, dark strings, angelic
voices... A new album called Heavy Ghost that really is something a little
bit special... You’ll find lots of songs to explore on his website
– www.dmstith.com or www.myspace.com/dmstith
or www.asthmatickitty.com
10: RAVEN BEATS CROW
– Raven Beats Crow (Demo) – A taste of something the London four piece
say will be part of a new EP later in the year, May hopefully so they say.
They have a club night on the first Friday of every other month at The
Enterprise in Camden, this month they’re playing it themselves, 6th March
with the rather tasty Perhaps Contraction and Medical School... www.myspace.com/ravenbeatscrow
11: PERHAPS CONTRAPTION
– Hard Cutlery (unreleased) – Another track from the rather fine
London band’s so far unreleased album. Fresh prog/punk adventure and Rings
and Gongs and going off and things and the Genesis of gongs and walking
on egg shells and the stench of sweet bluebells, one of the most exciting
new bands around London at the moment and they’ve just finished their rather
impressive demo album. They’re playing around London lots right now, see
out new gig guide on the Organ website at www.organart.com for full details,
they play this Friday 6th March at The Enterprise in Camden on a bill put
together by Raven Beats Crow - www.myspace.com/perhapscontraption
12: Y DIWYGIAD feat LEWIS
TEWWS – All Mouth (Dockran) – Well it is St David’s Day, a slice of
Welsh hip-hop from a new album from Y Diwygiad in in order. An album of
multilingual rap and electronica from Y Diwyglad (The Reformation). The
album is called Hymn 808 – Mr Formula and 9 Tonne with a whole load
of different voices and collaborators and the hip hop/rap rule book ripped
up the Welsh way... www.dockrad.com
or www.myspace.com/ydiwygiad
13: INNER TERRESTRIALS
– Burning Bridges (Katie B) – a track from the London activist anarcho
punk band’s 1997 IT! album because they up to, well... psssst, keep
this one under yer hat, Inner Terrestrial, Babar Luck band and loads
more tbc, Restarts, Autonomads... OKUPATIONAL HAZARD!!!!!!!!! London’s
best squat venue is being evicted! this will be the last party. It's going
to be outside festie style, best do of the year so far. 7th March
at The Vic, Grove St, Deptford, all dayer, come early... so said someone,
you didn’t read it here officer... www.myspace.com/innerterrestrials
14: Y DIWYGIAD - Paineifiwen
(Dockran) – see track 12....
15: COMMANDER KEEN
– Lying In The Dark (Only Pretend) - Scottish Trio Commander Keen
with a track from what they say is their own D.I.Y effort. Extremely classy
do it yourself, all the recording budget in the world, you suspect, wouldn’t
make that much difference, hard to see what they could improve. Recorded
entirely at home, featuring cellos (provided by Stacey Seivright – The
Moth & The Mirror, Arab Strap, The Reindeer Section), reed organs,
thumb pianos, grand pianos, as well as what they describe as “a healthy
dose of electronics and noise” – well if there is ‘noise’ then the noise
is refined, soothing, delicately crafted, finely tuned and very easy on
the ear. Inviting instrumental pieces, rich strings, dark edges, yet another
set of beautiful pieces of music, vibrant ear-paintings, original creative
thought for people who like the kind of things bands like Boards Of Canada
do – www.myspace.com/commanderkeenmusic
or www.onlypretend.co.uk
16: MI AMI – Freed
From Sin (Touch And Go/Quarterstick) – a track from The frantic new album
Watersports, hyper-percussion, music as a transformative experience so
they say. They claim authenticity as their mission, they’re clearly succeeding.
Comprised of two key members of Dischord’s Black Eyes – Daniel Martin McCorick
on vocals and guitar, Jacob Long on bass - as well as Damon Palermo on
drums. They’re frenetically volatile, those high pitch banshee yells are
more like her from Pre than anything – are you sure Daniel is handling
those vocals? They’re a constant electric freak-out from deepest San Francisco
via D.C and the whole wide world. Wailing yelps, wired new wave, American
paranoia, claustrophobic musical energy. New wave punk rock that’s laced
with thrilliant bites (yes, thrilliant, we can make words up if we want)
– thrilliant bites of frantic free jazz, dub, controlled feedback, African
drum patterns. Harnessed energy, focused, laser driven rhythms.... Siouxsie’s
Creatures, exhilarating distortion, messy energy and somewhere underneath
it all there’s this funk edge that’s full of havoc and bite and repetitive
no wave drive. They succeed in their mission, this is authentic, frantic
new wave and authentically good Cranked, tribal, complex, evolving,
rolling... highly recommended, album of the week last week on the Organ
pages – www.myspace.com/miamiamiami
17: ROBERT JACOBS
– Marie Langlois – A closing bit of Robert Jacobs because those Rain Emperor
performances we already told you about on previous shows were so good.
Avant classical music/performance and really something special, hopefully
they’ll do it all again at some point soon – you’ll find a review with
this week’s edition of Organ over at www.organart.com, you can discover
lots more www.therainemperor.com
Next week Marina will be
in the chair with her OTHER ROCK SHOW and the continued exploration
of rock that goes beyond the convention on mere 4/4 time |
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