we want a wild and ephemeral music.
we propose a fundamental regeneration:
concert strikes,
sound gatherings with collective investigation.
abolish copyrights: sound structures belong to everyone.*
the walls have ears. your ears have walls*
music you should be listening to, its out there, your just have to listen, silence is freedom from aural oppression, lets sound emancipation. here are some canadian bands i think are painfully over looked....
to begin with jordaan mason & the horse museum put out an album i finally got a hold of the other day. probably the most authentic music i've heard in ages, nasal jeff magnum-esk howlings, dizzying lyrics, the horns of jericho, a wonderful album...my ears have been pollinated this summer...
- jordaan mason & the horse museum - avalanches
- jordaan mason & the horse museum - race horse: get married!
- jordaan mason & the horse museum - the wrong parts (vivian sisters singing)
- jordaan mason & the horse museum - organs for oceans
- jordaan mason & the horse museum - 1990 was a long year and we are all out of hot water now
not only in the fields*
richard laviolette conjures up the spirits of early hayden, early man, early beast... a friend sent me this album a couple years ago and it became a staple on the radio show... there is something visceral about listening to laviolette, his voice hits you like your rival spitting in your face...
- richard laviolette - your dead!
- richard laviolette - silhouettes
- richard laviolette - oncoming trains
- richard laviolette - finding comfort in eulogies
no replastering, the structure is rotten*
i've posted about olenka & the autumn lovers before (sorry iheartmusic while you were busy getting blow jobs from blackhat brigade i beat you to the bunch [this comment has less to do with 'beating you to the punch' but you questionable choice for your vote of the polaris prize]). i met olenka in kingston, i think myself and the people i brought along were the only ones there to see her and her mates. her music resonates with an honesty and a vanity, like she knows the songs will resurect past memories, steal your heart, and leave you looking out windows with pensive sighs... the hours i have spent listening to flash in the pan on repeate speaks to this point...
- olenka & the autumn lovers - flash in the pan
- olenka & the autumn lovers - 45
- olenka & the autumn lovers - watching neighbours
- olenka & the autumn lovers - iron pump
coming soon to this location: charming ruins*
timbre timbre is one of those albums that has taken months to grow on me... even after a live show i wasnt really that 'sold', i mean i enjoyed the music, would make my way to his stage if he was in woods, but not sure murmurs of brilliance... i'm still unsure when i listen, but i know something is happening, something subtle to my psyche, and i like it...
- timbre timbre - magic arrow
- timbre timbre - demon host
- timbre timbre - i get low
when people notice they are bored, they stop being bored*
download link for the above tracks: http://www.yousendit.com/download/cmcxeVdoSU9YSHhMWEE9PQ
moving beyond canada, there are some other bands i was thinking of that people should really spend the time listening too... maybe they won't be lovers, but waking up beside these sounds won't be awkward...
you can no long sleep quietly once you've
suddenly opened your eyes.*
adrian orange & her band i can only suspect would put on an astounding show... i've posted songs by (him) before, but i love horns, i love howling, i love fela kuti, i love this fire...
- adrian orange & her band - fire dream
- adrian orange & her band - window (mirror) shadow
- adrian orange & her band - give to love what's love's
consciousness begins with disobedience.*
i am oak is another artist i've posted about before, go through the archives and find out what i said; it's still true... classical guitars, faint dutch accents, this the music that stretches the night into the morning...
- i am oak - furrow
- i am oak - firm hands
- i am oak - islands more islands
mimicking birds are amazing, they have begun to capture the sound of chain saws, camera shutters, film rewinding, logging trucks, along with the local birds, to lure mates... the band is also excellant...
- mimicking birds - rivers, veins, roots
- mimicking birds - plastic seeds
- mimicking birds -burning stars
meursault's pissing on bonfires/kissing in tongues (the song not the album) found me, defined me, was the soundtrack to my failed love, my historocity... it was only later that i started to really listen to the rest of the album which has noisy static highs, and resonating acoustic lows... wonderful band, camus would be proud...
- meursault - pissing on bonfires/kissing in tongues
- meursault - a small stretch of land
- meursault - the dirt & roots
under the paving stones, the beach.*
i went through a big grouper stage, which my friend math dance recently made me remember... tiny vipers is very different, but the same foggy haze seems to cover both artists vocal chords... actually at points tiny vipers voice reminds me of melanie from the 60's (of candles in the rain, woodstock fame)... these comparisons are good things, so is tiny vipers...
- tiny vipers - on this side
- tiny vipers - forest fires
- tiny vipers - dreamer
- tiny vipers - time tanks
download link for non-canadian stuff: https://www.yousendit.com/download/cmcxeVd0NEhQb0pMWEE9PQ
*images of painted aluminum plates: i forget.... rapatronic pictures of atom bombs: i forget.... bubbles drying which remind me of rapatronic photography: http://www.hybridfloaters.com/index.php?/halecounty/bubble-drawings/ - one out of three
*all quotes from the SI'ers may 68' documents collection, graffiti.
I will forever regret not buying Richard Laviolette's album when he played in my hometown. The song, "Finding Comfort in Eulogies" is AMAZING . . . but I cannot find the track anywhere. Sob. I shouldda bought it.
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