by Fred
Excellent new stuff from Treetrunk Records, at turns haunting, spacey, noisy, playful, and testy. Download it for free here. Laud or blame co-conspirators Kortane Cortex and Ayato, as is your wont. Straight to the 2010 watchlist.
Bailarin en la noche by Thanato Twist With Oleg’s Sound System
The year in music in three words:
by Fred
“Apse.” “Carlos Suarez.”
The former? An effortless post-rock band we have covered several times already. I can’t keep their 2006 release Spirit out of heavy rotation. For those new to the site, find their home page here, their Facebook page here, and their Myspace page here.
The latter? One-man tsunami, ethnomusicologist, [...]
Snow falling on bamboo.
by Fred
Like Patrick (don’t call him Pat!) just got done saying, we’re up to our chins in snow. To wit, the snapshot above, wherein our everything-and-the-kitchen-sink bamboo is shown all hunched over like an old guy on a park bench. Not necessarily cool with my botanist side, although my photographer side has been [...]
The tao of $0.00
by Fred
Clinical Archives has been heating up lately. Try first this twelve-minute EP by Enko, titled Okne. (Track titles are “Ekon,” “Enok,” “Neko,” and “Keno.” Me? I see no connection whatsoever.) This is warm digital, well-paced and well-textured. No beeps. No static. No ring around the collar. [...]
Moments
by Fred
1:00 AM Saturday morning. The wife is out for the night with friends. Our little girl is asleep in bed. I have fallen asleep watching TV with our little guy.
The dog wakes me. This one doesn’t have as many different voices as our previous dog, but her Home Invasion! bark is [...]
“The male elephant goes on travel to the Baltic Sea”
by Fred
Hey, we don’t make the news, we just report it. And that is word-for-word how Babel unpacks “de mannetjesolifant gaat op reis naar de oostzee.”
Which, by the way, in turn, is the freaky, multi-headed second track to the yaouhl! mashups, by gillicuddy. The album opens with “i know, i know,” [...]
Endlessnic by Jaime Munarriz
Another noisy, happy morning here at The Muse. If we have our facts straight, today’s perpetrator is Professor Jaime Munarriz, from the Fine Arts college at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Download here. Instrumental, industrial, experimental, non-abrasive, and you won’t get dishpan hands.
If you’re hankering for more, also try his Suite Zero here.
“The Dead Flag Blues” by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Stream it at their last.fm page, among other tracks.
From F#A#oo. These guys are it, the alpha and omega of modern music. See also the extensive live bootleg GYBE section at Clinical Archives.
Constellation’s GYBE home page states unambiguously that the band “announced an indefinite hiatus in 2003.” In the meantime, [...]
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
In July we discovered a psychedelic outfit with the unlikely name Magical Unicellular Music:
One shouldn’t mix V.O.M. with most of the psychedelic culture, that is frequently filled with memory loss – V.O.M. suggests remembering. Remembering as much as one can, bit by bit. This is true, primitive music.
Several bands simultaneously function in the context of [...]
Sun Kil Moon. Sun Kil vampires, too.
Earlier today I interrogated Patrick about these seven words in his “Culture Clash” post: “to the dismay of indie music lovers.” Context:
Yesterday the track list to Twilight: New Moon was released to the enjoyment of millions of tweens that oh so want to be a vampire in love and to the dismay of indie [...]
