New Teeth Of The Sea track: Space Capsule

First mix of Teeth of the Sea's 'Space Capsule' from the forthcoming Rocket 12" 'Hypnoticon Viva' EP has debuted on the 20 Jazz Funk Greats blog. This isn't the final cut but will give taster of what's to come, ........Hawkmen, to your posts!

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/

Rocket Probes October 2009 Playlist

Hills – Death 1
(Swedish psych/kraut rock, don’t know anything about this band and what they do is nothing new, but they do it VERY WELL indeed, especially the last track, some great Fuzz laden motorik!!!)

Part Chimp – Thriller
(Good to have them back with another album of great frenzied noise rock)

Spectrum – War Sucks
(Same ‘ol stuff from Sonic, but that is fine with us...a great return!!!!)

Broadcast and the Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
(Thanks to Martina from Warp for this...an imaginary soundtrack from a film I would love to see..... )

Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights
(Great new album, and nice to see they have dusted off the wah....perfect for a Sunday morning hangover!!!!)

Choukoku no Niwa– More Echoes, Touching Air landscape
(From their split with Boris, amazing 24minute Can’esque track of tight rhythms and free rock)

Harmonia - Live 74
(Motorik synthesizers and percussive pulse and throb grooves from the crusts of Kraftwerk, Neu! and Cluster)

Ray Russell - Rites & Rituals
(1971- forerunner of today’s avant-guitar/improv/noise scene - electric free jazz embraced rock)

Jonas Reinhardt
(70s krautrock-inspired spaced out propelling cosmic adventures in sound)

King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
(Exotic percussive tension building, improvisational hypnotic and harsh throughout)

Rocket Big Muff shirts in Rough Trade

The last remaining Rocket Big Muff shirts are available to buy at Rough Trade East and West or via their website:
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=319707

Unholy Trinity - Sonic Sanctuary Poster

Sonic Sanctuary have also created a poster for the Bristol leg of the up & coming Unholy Trinity Tour (see below for details).

http://www.myspace.com/sonicsanctuary
http://www.myspace.com/thoughtforms

Thanks

Unholy Trinity GNOD Poster

The wonderful Gnod guys have also created a poster for the Manchester leg of the up & coming Unholy Trinity Tour (see below for details).

http://www.myspace.com/gnodgnod

Thanks

ON THE DECKS #7 WOVENHAND

WOVENHAND

A few months ago I received an email from the US booking agent for the band WOVENHAND. He asked me if White Hills was interested in being the support act for the band’s upcoming fall US tour. At the time I had heard very little of Wovenhand’s music…just the songs they had up on their myspace page. The only other things I knew was that two members came from the band 16 Horsepower and that my friends in the band Silver Summit had done a number of west coast dates with them 6 months earlier….of which they had nothing but good things to say about them. So after a quick discussion with Ego Sensation we decided to jump at the opportunity…and I am so glad we did!

After watching WOVENHAND night after night, I was so taken by them that for this month’s On The Decks…I choose to focus on a band verses an album in particular.

WOVENHAND’s sound is dark and intense…it’s a mixture of folk, swamp sludge, goth, and all out heavy rock. It is music that is inspiring and chilling…heady and lofty…dark and bright. They create cinematic sound scapes and tell tales of death and damnation… salvation and sin. The first Wovenhand album sounds like an extension of 16 Horsepower…with each new album the band moves further away from the acoustic sound that drove 16 Horsepower into a darker and heavier electric sound.

David Eugene Edwards (guitarist & vocalist) is an enigmatic character on stage. Performing on a drum stool, he is mesmerizing, commanding the audiences attention from beginning to end. Playing in open tunings his sound is enveloping…as if the sound that emanates from his guitar is a blanket encompassing you. Pascal Humbert (bass) lays down a heavy sound that grounds everything to the earth. His licks are tasteful and spot on…allowing the guitar and vocals to float in the heavens above. Ordy Garrison (drums) keeps it all together. I have never heard so much sound come out of a drummer using brushes of bundled sticks before. The man is a powerhouse.

Since returning home from the tour, I have had Mosaic and Ten Stones in constant rotation. Both albums are hypnotic, entrancing and moody. These two also spotlight the heavier side of the band’s sound. I cannot recommend these two releases enough.

WOVENHAND can be found on the web at http://www.myspace.com/wovenhand


DISCOGRAPHY

Blush Music - 2003
Woven Hand - 2003
Consider The Birds - 2004
Mosaic - 2006
Ten Stones - 2008

Thanks

Dave W (White Hills)

Unholy Trinity tour

Introducing the Unholy Trinity tour:

Three bands
Three nights
Three cities

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TEETH OF THE SEA
GNOD
THOUGHT FORMS
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Friday 20 November
London
Jamboree
(Thames House, 566 Cable Street, Limehouse, E1W 3HB)

Saturday 21 November
Bristol
The Louisiana
(Bathurst Parade, Wapping Road, BS1 4RH)

Sunday 22 November
Manchester
Islington Mill
(James Street, Salford, M3 5HW)

Rocket Probes September 2009 Playlist

White Hills – Dead
(Great to hear new material, their first for our friends at Thrill Jockey, includes great remix of Oceans of Sound)

Expo 70 – White Ohms
(Really nice spacey drone)

Eternal Tapestry – The Invisible Landscapes
(New album, this time on fave label Not Not Fun. Another great slice of jammed out psych, first track especially has some amazing fuzz wah over kraut’ish rhythms)

Oneida – Live at the Croft 19.08.09
(Our friend Gaz recorded the show for us, sounds great, by all accounts their best show of the UK tour)

Loop – World in your Eyes /Gilded Eternity
(Even though Loop have never really left the Rocket record player, it’s nice to hear all these tracks and new versions together, especially the 3 discs of WIYE, which includes their fantastic cover of Cinnamon Girl)

AR and Machines – Echo
(Finally managed to track this album from 1972 down, we love their first album, but this follow up is even better, a spectacular mix of spaced out kraut rock)

Pink Fairies – Finland Freakout
(Awesome live recording of the Fairies as a power trio in ‘71)

Kraftwerk – K4 Bremen Radio 1971
(The briefly active NEU!/Kraftwerk hybrid jamming out some Kraut improvisations. Occasional flourishes of flute and electronics are scattered amidst five long chunks of Kosmiche rock)

Dark Yoga – Breath of Life
(Sunburned Hand of the Man inspired sprawling psychedelic krautrock, free fuzz jams)

Brain Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets
(Members of Roxy Music, King Crimson, Hawkwind, Matching Mole, and The Pink Fairies entering a journey through the edges of pop and rock)

Sunburned Hand of the Man – Fire Escape
(Mechanical rhythms darting over and under washes of feedback and distortion)

Teeth of the Sea support French psychers Turzi

Teeth of the Sea - OFFSET Festival live Reviews

Photos are courtesy of Tom Medwell
http://www.tommedwell.com
http://www.sluttyfringe.com

Enjoying the last of the afternoon sun, we head to the ECC Stage to catch the excellently-named Teeth Of The Sea. All melodic-but-very-loud instrumentals, TOTS propel their eardrum-shaving noise with a hypnotic floor tom, entrancing the whole tent with tunes from their debut record Orphaned by The Ocean. (Musoguide)

http://musosguide.com/offset-festival-saturday-hainault-country-park/7326

Saturday, and Teeth of the Sea kick things off with size 14's. Volatile guitars and trumpets conjure murky ambience which circles and stalks until striking - all rabid eyes, stabbing drums; the elegance of Mogwai infuriated by BNP-strength amphetamines. We watch entranced, fretting for the guitarist's diet. (Spoonfed)

http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/sween-852/offset-festival-2009-1443/

Shifting over a stage, Teeth Of The Sea celebrate finishing a recent mini-tour of the UK with Oneida by delivering a face-melting set of deep psych. Gut-rumbling bass, dual-drumming, mariachi trumpets, moustache wax and a guitarist who looks like he's been beamed in from an Iron Maiden fan convention (MOJO later spots him sporting a pair of Maiden branded trainers) - if you like a bit of third eye action with your early evening falafel you could do a lot worse. (MOJO)
http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/09/freak_fests_4_offset_festival.html

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