Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day If I was hearing Broken Heart Collector (DISCORPORATE RECORDS DISREC18) in February or March instead of in the bleak midwinter, I’m fairly sure it would instil certain bittersweet emotions of love and longing. As song lyrics, track titles and images make clear, Broken Heart Collector see love as an...
Some fine cassettes pulled out the boxes of late. Dead Girl’s Party is a Scott Foust (Idea Fire Company) side project where he teams up with Matt Krefting, who I think has occasionally played in live IFCO lineups. The Things I’ve Lost (ENTR’ACTE 106) combines droning synths, electronics, radio waves and guitar with vocal...
Small Cruel Party at the Zoo An unsettling item of ambiguous electronic music is Soft Zoo (FIRST FOLD RECORDS FOLDCD011), a record credited to A Small Party Of Pressure, a cabal of mummers which includes the massed talents of Justin Wiggan, Mark Vernon, Anders Gjerde, Hild Sofie Tafjord and Lois Laplace. Some of these...
If you want to sharpen your wits with some good old-fashioned astringent modernism, the double CD On Tour (MUTABLE MUSIC 17544-2) by Ostravská Banda ought to be poured into your daily tub like a pouch of bath salts. This ensemble went on a tour of Europe in 2010 and took with them a strong...
We happen to have three new copies of the luxury colour edition of TSP20 available for £18, including post and packing. You save over £7.00! This offer is only available to UK customers, and when they’re gone, they’re gone. If interested, please email me to enquire about availability. So, to summarise: £18 incl p&p...
Heartbreak Hotel Revisited The guitarist Loren Connors is here with the Haunted House band on which he’s joined by singer Suzanne Langille (a long-term collaborator of his), plus additional guitarist Andrew Burnes and percussionist Neel Murgai. Blue Ghost Blues (NORTHERN SPY NSCD 012) happens to be their second album as a band after one...
Univrs. (RASTER NOTON R-N 133) by Alva Noto is a record which I would like to think celebrates the joys of typesetting – Univers is everyone’s favourite font – but in fact it’s a follow-on from a previous release Unitxt, and has something do with the properties of a universal language. Given Carsten Nicolai’s...
A cassette it be…short in length…Pee in My Face With Surgery, an American absurd noise combo comprising Fritz and Jaime from Peeesseye. In the Nest c/w Children’s Crusade (SICK HEAD 34) it be called, released on a small Glasgow label. Feedback noise shalt ye hear, guitars being unplugged and replugged, said devices raising considerable...
Dan Melchior is an English singer-songwriter based in New York, and his Catbirds and Cardinals (NORTHERN SPY NSCD011) was recorded in North Carolina and is credited to Dan Melchior und Das Menace. It’s a fine piece of idiosyncratic songcraft and raucous music, based around heavy reverbed guitar, simple beat-combo percussion (played quite loudly), and...
The Sound Projector Christmas Radio Show Friday 16th December 2011 Steeleye Span: ‘Hard Times of Old England’ ‘Gaudete’ ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well’ Richard & Linda Thompson: ‘We Sing Hallelujah’ ‘I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight’ From I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, UK ISLAND REMASTERS IMCD 304 CD (2004)...
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