Triangle? Oblong? Dodecahedron?

Balam Acab - Heavy Living Things [via] [more]

'So what are we to make of Kaká’s claim to be “in shape”? It is surely pertinent that the shape itself goes unmentioned. Triangle? Oblong? Dodecahedron? Or perhaps even mere blob? This could be the true source of Dunga’s unease. Dunga may also be wondering what happened to Crouch, of course. Three years ago, Crouch was a big threat – or was at least perceived as such by Kaka, as he was then – and now, pfft!, he is nowhere to be seen, Kaká meanwhile having clambered into, or been ingested by, an undefined “shape”. This would make any of us uneasy, so we ought not tsk tsk at Dunga for a wholly natural reaction. And we should mark well that not only is Dunga uneasy, he is bound to be uneasy. He has no choice in the matter. His uneasiness has been thrust upon him, whatever his feelings in the matter, by this claim of Kaká’s, a claim made, we take it, from within a shape, a shape of which we know little, if anything. You or I would, I’ll warrant, be uneasy.' -from Hooting Yard, a blog by Frank Key



Image is called Atomist: Jump Over by Gabriel Orozco, 1996 Mexico [more]

'Words stolen from the family album'

'Then right in front of my very eyes she turned herself into the confusion of free verse. Rhymes were made to disappear. Meter became nothing more than exploding potholes, surprising terrorist and motorist alike. One line ran over the next onto the over. Just where that line might go was anyone’s guess. The author, even those with the best intentions, had been shot to hell. Destroyed. Done away with by decrepit Frenchmen. Old and delirious Frenchmen who were so frightened by words that they never said all of the letters in any given word. Frenchmen who lived on the Left Bank in tight apartments filled with unsaid letters. Saving up for a rainy day. Blood on the poet. No one was left to stop the line from happening.' *

Sun City Girls - Borungku Si Derita [see]

Marios Group - Borungku Si Derita [see]


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*Doug Rice, A Good CuntBoy Is Hard To Find

Another slight case

...And as she wiped my mouth with a napkin and cleaned up she sang softly to me. I remember it was sort of a tuneless, absent type of melody that one usually sings when they are alone. She was not embarrassed even though she knew that her voice was unpleasant. But of course no matter how beautiful the moment was the thought of her brother…and that horrible mangled hand…

Jean Cocteau - Le Buste (DJ Spooky Remix) [see]

...and that strange lisp that he always had...the strange way he had of breaking an egg. Even though I knew that Heimlich was hundreds of miles away and under heavy sedation, it was still hard to wipe away the memory of that last meal he had eaten. The way which he suddenly stood up and recited the Magna Carta and collapsed in a fit of weeping.

La Societe Des Timides - ...2 [via]

And I couldn’t help but think that Heimlich had staged the entire scene. But why?? He had everything a man could want. His paintings were selling. The new cottage was almost completed. The dairy farm was going well. And yet a sense of gloom and terror hung over the side of the countryside in those days. And Heimlich seemed too filled with good cheer, too expressive for someone as phlegmatic, and surreptitious, and deceitful as he turned out to be...


-words from Joe Frank, Either Or (In the Dark)

The wheedling winks of mannequins

On his latest show Scott Williams (of WFMU) played a track by pHoaming Edison called "My Girlfriend Rules," it was catchy-as-all-hell and I thought I'd play it for my gf (who rules). A search provided me with only this video medley, put together by one T.J.K. Haywood:



According to the YouTube page by WoodenThomas the three songs are from Phoaming Edison's "Feel It See It " album:
1. See It Feel It (Kavousi)
2. My Girlfried Rules (R. Stevie Moore, R. Nichols)
3. Maybe We've benn Loving Too Long (G.Nash, Flying Machine)

"James Kavoussi, the mind behind pHoaming Edison, is in a handful of other bands as well [Fly Ashtray and Uncle Wiggly]. He's clearly a bubbling well of ideas and the guy deserves to be a hell of a lot better known. pHoaming Edison's music runs the gamut between lo-fi rock and hard-edged, unyielding noise, but most of the songs fall into the infinitely more interesting grey area between those poles. Using a mixture of effects-laden guitar riffs, samples and occasionally improbable percussion, Kavoussi seems capable of massaging the most modest concepts -- a pair of alternating chords, for instance -- into vibrant and intriguing music." —Splendid E-zine b/w Silly Bird Records

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More pHoaming Edison finds:

-An untitled 5 song cassette from 1987 posted over at WFMU's Beware of the Blog [download]

-Two songs by pHoaming Edison, linked from Silly Bird Records:
pHoaming Edison - Otto Tutsi Plohund
pHoaming Edison - Laughing at Keys



-The fairly rare compilation from 1993 called Soluble Fish: Some Songs That Chemical Imbalance Magazine Like A Lot with one of their songs (along with tracks by Beat Happening, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Sun City Girls). The compilation was complied by Mike Mcgonical, who you might know from Yeti Magazine. You can download Souble Fish here.



more at their myspace

Drahomira Song Orchestra - This Famous Somewhere

Julian Pacaud from Drahomira Song Orchestra has posted the previously unreleased track, "This Famous Somewhere". It has now been released for the compilation Icy Breath On Burning Flesh - Douche Froide Series Vol. I, a limited release of 500 CDs.
Have a listen to it, in all its wonderfully epic drahomiraness, over at Julian's tumblr, (negative numbers).

[edit] you can now also listen here:

• This Famous Somewhere by Drahomira Song Orchestra

More Drahomira Song Orchestra music on iLike

Heavy Hills

Heavy Hills are a psych rock band from Northern California, my corner of the country, but I had never heard of them until Ongakubaka posted their demo. I'm not sure why Holy Mountain hasn't swept in and signed these guys yet because their sound fits right in with their Nor Cal peers Wooden Shjips (with whom they will be playings in SF at Frisco Freakout on 10/10), Mammatus and the like.

Have a listen to their psyched / fuzzed / drowsed / blurred-out / heavyy / induced / drowned sounds and wait with me in anticipation for their next release.
Superpentamandalagram
Black Hole Rising



download their fine five track demo [link]

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myspace (with a few more tracks) [link]
last.fm [link]

Oil Spills and Micro-Organisms #6

listen or stream @128

visit show page [link]

Artist	Song	Album	Label
Master Musicians of Bukakke	People Of The Drifting Houses	Totem One	Conspiracy Records
Meth Teeth	Unemployment Forever	Everything Went Wrong	Woodsist
Sun City Girls	Original of the Aboriginal	98.6 is Death: Carnival Folklore Resurrection vol. 13	Abduction
Absinthe Minds	The Song Of Returning Light 1	The Song Of Returning Light	Not Not Fun Records
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Life is Bonkers	And Your Parents Don't Care	And Your Parents Don't Care	Wad
The Sea Nymphs	A Thousand Strokes And A Rolling Suck	The Sea Nymphs	The Alphabet Business Concern
Paavoharju	Italialaisella Laivalla	Laulu Laakson Kukista	Fonal
The BSexuals	PCG	Ceci n'est pas un band	Aunt Enna Records
Billy Bragg	Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards	Workers Playtime	Go! Discs
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Absinthe Minds	The Song Of Returning Light 4	The Song Of Returning Light	Not Not Fun Records
Benedict Siegel	Championship Camping		Self Released
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Souleyman, Omar	Arabic Dabke	Highway to Hassake: folk and pop sounds of Syria	Sublime Frequencies
Nettle	Duende (DJ Scud's In Chains Remix)	Build A fort, Set That On fire	Self Released
DJ/Rupture-Andy Moor	Sometime it Can be Difficult To Breathe	Patches	Unsuitable
Squarepusher & AFX	Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid	Warp 100 - We Are Reasonable People	WARP
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Moon Wiring Club	Living Furniture	An Audience of Art Deco Eyes	Ghost Box

all images are from scrapatorium

Oil Spills and Micro-Organisms #4

truth be told / somnambulist / arctic sun / blues & reds / franchised arby's / someone's grandmother / yer alibi / brown paper bag / a moment of silence [respect] / crackerjack / out of print / illinois-indiana border town / the unemployment line / bike spoke / only written words / $3.06 per gallon / cue card / bubblewrap / unceremoniously

stream or download @128

Artist	Song	Album	Label
Non Toxique Lost	Lost For Margaret	Out Of Standard!! - Deutschland 1	ADN
Church Universal & Triumphant, Inc. Feat. Elizabeth Clare Prophet	Preamble - Great Divine Rectors Call	the Sounds of American Doomsday Cults vol 14	Faithways International
Church Universal & Triumphant, Inc. Feat. Elizabeth Clare Prophet	Call For Protection	the Sounds of American Doomsday Cults vol 14	Faithways International
The Quasi Kuhlman's 5	Sampo Suru (First Part)	Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 21	Insane Music
Colin Potter	For All You Know	Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 2	Insane Music
Human Flesh	Indians	Insane Music For Insane People	Insane Music
Phillippe Laurent	Exposition Partie 5	Sensationnel No. 1	Illusion Production
Crayons	Track 1	I Dream Of God	self released?
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Van Kaye & Ignit	Another Waste	Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 3	Insane Music
The Legendary Pink Dots	Time Dance	Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 2	Insane Music
Kan Mikami	Track 3	Bang!	avex io
NAVE	Love in the Mother Where You Shout	NAVE02	Via Injection
Elizabeth Harper	Green	What Is Truth? Volume Two	Panic Records & Tapes
David Tukhmanov	Track 3	Po Volne Moyei Pamyati (On The Wave Of My Memory)	Melodiya
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Blitzoids	Theme From a Summer Place	What Is Truth? Volume Two	Panic Records & Tapes
Benedict Siegel	Day Before the Day Before		self released
Zola Jesus	Devil Take You	The Spoils	Sacred Bones
The Metronomes	Ballad of the Metronome	A Tribute To Flexipop, Vol. 2	Flexi-Pop
The Modern Art	Fiction & Literature	The Modern Art	Prescription
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Mission of Burma	1, 2 ,3, Partyy!	The Sound The Speed The Light	Matador

tumblr

I started a music tumblr where I am posting a new song everyday (or thereabout) -- you can visit it here [link]
thank you friends
-joel

Oil Spills and Micro-Organisms #3

the moon just hung there.
inside. backdropped. trick-lighting. and camera tricks. and smoke & mirrors. weighing weightlessness. adapted from a turn-of-the-century novel. with a brillant cover design. the characters have changed. screenwriter's liberties. over budget. released on vhs. out of the vacuum. space sounds.



download or stream @128

Artist	Song	Album	Label	Notes
Species Being	Pt. 1	Yonilicious		1998, US
Marble Sheep	Big Wave-New Year In Kenya	Big Deal	Captain Trip Records	1992, Japan
Manuel Guzman	Eclipse de estrellas
The Advisory Circle	Fire, Damp & Air	Other Channels	Ghost Box	2008, UK
Species Being	Pt. 3	Yonilicious		1998, US
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Steve Thomsen	Submarine Seance	Conglomerate Ceiling		2001, US
Pierre F. Brault	Les Planetes			1980, Canada
Haruomi Hosono & Tadanori Yokoo	Hepatitis	Cochin Moon	King Records	1978, Japan
Islaja	Ulual Yyy	Sydanten Ahmija	Fonal	2007, Finland
Mr. Andrew	The Bats	Magic Planet	Base Record	1982, Italy
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Teeth Mountain	Spirals	Teeth Mountain	Shdwply Records	2008, US
Ninety Day Men	Too Late Or Too Dead	Panda Park	Southern	2004, US
The Mayfair Set	Dark House	Young One	Captured Tracks	2009, US
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Drahomira Song Orchestra	Came Out Of The Earth	Strange Baltic Laboratoire	Institut Drahomira	1999, France