Anthroprophh - S/T (The record is all mastered now and is currently being
manufactured, The Heads guitarist has delivered a record that has barely left
our playlist)
Lumerians - Transmissions from Telos Vol.4 (This is an
amazing record...the A side is psyched out kraut funk, that has a real Can,
Miles Davis, Sun Araw, Sunburned HOM sort of vibe. While side two sounds like
what would happen if Teeth of the Sea and Gnod locked themselves in the studio
after a night on bad party drugs... essential listening!! Check out the great 'Hands in the Dark' records)lumerians The Lay Llamas
- Vatican Zombie (African Spacecraft, Can like World Music Vibes) the-lay-llamas Dead
Sea Apes / Black Tempest - TBC (Great vinyl only collaboration by these
masters of space stretching soundscapes...on the wonderful Cardinal Fuzz
Records) dead-sea-apes-vs-black-tempest
The Heads - TBC (Second release on Cardinal Fuzz in our
playlist this month, and it finds The Heads thrashing out some great pure heavy
fuzz!)
Oneida - List of the Burning Mountains (A different sounding
(and looking) record by one of our favourite ever bands, two 19 min tracks of
droned out cosmic soundscapes underpinned by some great 'free'
rhythms)oneida
Puffy Areolas - 1982 Disonorable Discharge (Fuzzy Hawkwind
influenced punk skronk, bit like Vincent Black Shadow)puffy-areolas
Rent Boys - Shoot
Your Shot (Amazing two track single from yet another great band from
Leeds...saw them live once totally blew me away, total anarchic, spaced out,
fuzz rock)rent-boys
Ty Segal - The Hill (Nice bit of 60's grunge
pop) ty-segal
Skin Men - Construction (Nice droned out beats and bowed
percussion by this new collaboration from members of Gnod and Drunk in
Hell) skin-men Lash Frenzy & KK Null - Live at Supersonic (Not a record per say, but the
experience was etched like a phosphorescent wall, Intense: smoke, strobes,
repetition, noise with half naked women wondering around)lash-frenzy Celtic Frost -
Into the Pandemonium (Strings, industrial beats, soul and opera collides with
incredible Thrash riffs and Tom G Warrior's death grunts... shouldn't of ever
worked, but it did spectacularly!)celtic-frost Miles Davis - In a Silent
Way (Needed 'Shhh/Peaceful' to get me through hours of very heavy traffic on
my way to London for Lexington show, 4 hour journey….with the same track of
course)miles-davis Beau - Silence Returns (If you don't freakout to the Fuzz
guitar on this then give up!beau
Sounds From The Other City: Orbit - A Show In Seven Parts “The Pope is excited,Bez is excited,The Queen is super excited,Damon is excited,even Barack is getting excited” -------------- Sunday November 4th, Chapel St, Salford. 4pm-late Sounds From the Other City and The Volkov Commanders join forces to launch you into orbit! Join them for an experimental live gig that rotates between venues and non-venues, taking you on a continuous journey across changing aural and visual landscapes. Featuring performances from: PlanningtoRock Ed Schrader's Music Beat Yola Fatoush N. Racker Queer'd Science GNOD
Taking place on an orbital route through Islington Mill, St Phillips Church and the Old Pint Pot along Salford's Chapel Street.
Give yourself over and be guided through time and space in a whirlwind of one-off performances, wild costumes, dancing, mysterious choirs, ancient rituals, hypnotising sounds, glittering trophies, automated drones....and more!
All tickets must be exchanged for a wristband prior to 4pm. Entry in to this event has to be monitored, if you arrive late you will have to wait for an appropriate break enter the performance. Wristband exchange located at Islington Mill, James St, Salford facebook seetickets ---
Here is excerpt of another live review that is going to feature in the next issue of Optical Sounds. This time it is of the 'Unpeeled' alldayer in Manchester on the weekend that saw Anthroprophh play with Big Naturals as well as Mugstar:
Unpeeled: Anthroprophh w/ Big Naturals Gulliver’s, Manchester 27th October 2012 Although the Unpeeled event was an alldayer that took place across two venues on Manchester’s Oldham St., we just arrived in time as Anthroprophh and Big Naturals are setting up. As much as Id admired his spirit and approach, I was never much of a John Peel devotee, and a good deal of the bands that are on over this day-long jamboree don’t really fill me much in the way of excitement. I would have liked to have seen The Groundhogs, but to be honest I was only really interested in seeing Anthropropph & Big Naturals and Mugstar. The Paris Angels reforming didn’t hold much interest, if I’m being totally honest. Sandwiched between Anthroprophh and Mugstar were The Telescopes, of whom I’m only vaguely familiar. I saw Big Naturals at Supernormal festival (the year that Rocket Recordings curated it) and I’m not surprised to see Gareth Turner lugging a massive array of Green cabinets, Marshall heads and a sizeable board of FX pedals. Big Naturals are a two piece who manage to sound like ten men, no doubt due in part to this level of amplification firepower. Anyone who has heard the Big Naturals recent self titled album will know that they have absolutely no problem stirring up a mighty noise. I’d imagine most people are aware of Paul Allen through his pedigree with The Heads, but with his Anthropropph role, he cuts a more oblique and noisier figure, channeling all his Kraut and Prog fantasies into something more open ended. If the stuff he has posted on Soundcloud is any indication, then his soon to be released album on Rocket is going to be a droney, krauty treat. The set starts as Paul fires up his wheezy old synth that sends out an insistent cosmic pulse. Jesse Webb answers this with a beat that grows and grows with startling intensity as Gareth Joins in on a floor tom. More and more people are moving closer towards the stage now, willed on by this barbaric beat. Gareth Turner joins turns around and creates analogue oscillations before introducing his monstrous distorted bass thrum to underpin it all. How much of this is specially prepared or improvised for the gig is hard to judge without hearing the album beforehand, but there is a lot of eye contact assisted changes that suggest an open ended arrangement. It is all enormously exciting and at times the warp and weft of the music seems like it is about to tear a hole in the space/time continuum. A couple of songs in, Paul Allen unplugs his guitar midway, and plugs a microphone into his messy array of rag-tag vintage pedals and starts testifying like some deranged preacher, warbling out some weird psychedelic glossololia sermon. Guitar plugged back in, he spins out some equally weird angular guitar lines that would, I imagine, make Michael Karoli smile down on him proudly. After a criminally short half an hour, the crowd is left to unpeel themselves from the ceilings and walls as the chaps start to breakdown their mountains of amps. It really could have gone on all night... Brett Savage - Dont forget Anthroprophh's debut album is out on Rocket on January 28th. More details about this very special release will be announced soon ---
Here is a lovely review that will feature in the next issue of the amazing Optical Sounds magazine: Gnod, Goat and Teeth of the Sea The Lexington, London – 19th October 2012 It’s fair to say that this gig really was the hottest ticket in town. Apparently, Lauren Laverne (taking time off from being an unconvincing radio presenter) is rumoured to be floating about. We have come en masse (well, four of us) from the North, taking advantage of cheap travel and lodgings that the big smoke tempts its willing prey with. Rocket Recordings are clearly showing off the jewels in their crowns here tonight. The room is already thronging by time Gnod head for the stage. I really can’t speak highly enough of Gnod. Running the risk of seeming slightly sycophantic, I am constantly amazed at what seems to be an inexhaustible supply of imagination in the minds of the Gnod squad. I honestly get the feeling that in years to come, bands will pretend they were always lifelong Gnod fans, making hapless, joyless recreations of their highlights, much in the same way people do nowadays with Throbbing Gristle. The last couple of times I’ve seen Gnod, they have unveiled a new strain of electronica into their already mutated form. It was absolutely as captivating as their full on band approach. Spacey and wild as always, reminding me of prime-time Meat Beat Manifesto. Imagine a DJ on the scout-ship Dark Star, whilst the cryogenically suspended Commander issues dreamlike incantations over the dubby stew. At a gig supporting Expo ’70 at Night & Day in Manchester, they riffed marvelously on a Visions Of Load sample from 30 minutes. This time, Gnod return to their ‘guitar band’ guise with new drummer Alex in tow. The band is garlanded by Jonny Rocket’s stunning visual accompaniment which adds a hallucinogenic backdrop to the whole evening’s proceedings. Neil Francis adds more of his enigmatic delay soaked stream of consciousness over the top of some star scraping psych rock. He really could be singing anything under these swathes of delay: his shopping list, how he is being followed by the same weirdoes at all his gigs… even London… anything. He is also sporting a new ecclesiastical styled haircut along with his trademark un-ironed frilly shirt. I’ve never heard this first track, but it’s absolutely swept me away with its powerful tow. Paddy later assures me it’s an ‘old one’, but it sounds incredible. Again, I’m humbled by the sheer propulsion issuing forth from this mere five piece. The band end on an incredible driving take on ‘Tony’s First Communion’ – which drives home a point that I’ve been thinking since they got onstage. They are the best band on the planet. It’s fair to say that the majority of the audience has come down to see Goat. The mystique is really starting to swirl around this masked troupe of psych rockers (of which the bubble is nearly burst when the masked drummer soundchecks in a pair of Adidas tracky bottoms). These Swedish voodoo cults cum spaceheads have really caught the attention of the public recently. Maybe their high headed rituals have caught the favour of their Orisha and they now have us in their thrall. Or just maybe, their brand of danceable psych rock is just what the witchdoctor has ordered. Either way, the anticipation is palpable, especially as this their first gig… ever. Goat absolutely nails it first time. The dance floor is starting to break away from its standard head nodding that is found at these types of affairs, as the groove starts to possess the dancing shoes of the audience. For all their empty rhetoric and deciding which band they want to be this week, Primal Scream would gladly give their souls to have this concentrated germ of rock n’ roll flowing through their veins, something which comes naturally to Goat. Different takes of Goat’s geometric folk art is projected over the band as they whizz through ‘Goatman’, ‘Let It Bleed’. It is over too soon, and the audience are visibly spent. Unfortunately, this level of expectation and energy has a direct effect on Teeth of the Sea, as the crowd has visibly thinned. Lauren Laverne has clearly buzzed off to be out of her depth somewhere else whilst Rocket’s Chris is spinning some thundering psych and prog at ferocious volume. Teeth of the Sea have clearly turned some heads with ‘Your Mercury’ and the much underrated ‘Orphaned By The Sea’, it is interesting to see where they are heading next. There is a heady cosmic disco feel to their new set. Ive got to admit, I’m not immediately struck by it but maybe a few spins of their upcoming record may well bring me around. We’re on familiar ground when a truly colossal take on A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. fizzes out of the amps. I’m immediately brought to mind of towering power stations and feats of gigantic engineering. Marvelous stuff. Brett Savage ---
Here is 22 minutes of great footage of Goat live, taken at last nights show at Truckstop Alaska in Gothenburg supporting Acid Mothers Temple. Enjoy!!! ---
Pitchfork have written a nice 8.1 / 10 review of Goat's World Music: "As the series of interviews they've given in recent months suggests, the Swedish band Goat is hilarious: In September, before their performance at Britain's Supersonic, the Quietus published its second talk with the ever-vague group. When writer Joe Clay asked who might headline the festival of that unnamed member's dreams, they answered, "If Holger Czukay and Geezer Butler had a son, it would be him. Just him playing bass for a couple of days." The Goathead described the band's live performances as "the harvesting of souls," and its lifestyle as "invocations, prayers, and total rejoice!" Beneath that jester veneer, though, there's a much more serious idealism at work here. As key member Christian Johansson told The Quietus in an earlier interview, Goat stems from a loose and long-running collective of townspeople in Korpilombolo, a village with a population of a few hundred in the northwest hook of Sweden. Though people in the town have been playing under that name in various incarnations for several decades, the nine-song, steady-burning World Music is the unit's first proper release. That alleged tradition, it seems, is mostly an excuse for being a true band or collective rather than a collection of personalities, vying for the attention of micro-celebrity at a time when that's easy enough to find. To wit, they wear masks on stage and discuss the details of membership-- who has been in the band, who will be in the band, who is currently in the band-- in incredibly ambiguous terms. "In northern Sweden-- it is hard to explain in English-- it is about not drawing attention to yourself. The important thing is what you do, not who does it," explained Johansson. "This is why we never have tried to make ourselves heard before now." The songs matter more than the sources…."
The great Echoes and Dust has this to say about our latest Collsions LP:
The latest instalment of the ‘Collisions’ series from the mighty Rocket Recordings doesn’t compromise on challenging its listeners and their preconceptions. The ‘Collision’ series has seen some great match ups who compliment each other in a Yin/Yang synergy, previously matching some of the great modern day psychonauts The Heads, White Hills, Mugstar and Oneida. The latest experimenters to grace the series are Gnod & $hit & $hine. Taking things into a post apocalyptic industrial revolution of the future. Gnod kick off side one with ‘Shitting through the eye of a needle in a haystack’; those used to the recent output of Gnod will be shocked to hear some form of industrial/noise/drone dubstep. Integrating drum machines, loops and a more idm electronica vibe ‘Shitting through …’ creates a nightmare vision, imagine watching Max Headroom on DMT in an abattoir for mechanical cows and you get close to how this thing makes me feel. Inspiring and spiritual in a way a spleen jarring way, this track more than anything recently has affected my own thoughts and output of music. $hit & $hine’s ‘Ladies Circles’ makes up the 2nd half of the record. Ex Pat Brits now living in Texas, and like Gnod an ever morphing group that seem to constantly challenge your expectations of what they offer. This stop start repetitive groove counterpoint to Gnod seems to hark back to an 80’s vibe with its shimmering chorus guitars, adjunct rhythms, vocoder vocals and distorted synths but sent into a spin cycle reminiscent of The Chameleons and The Butthole Surfers. ‘Ladies Circle’ is a driving track that mutates on the dark fringes of your mind taking you from early electronica and dubby horizons and feels like the world is collapsing in on you similar to how the dentist’s gas mask messes with your mind as the anaesthetic starts to take a grip. ‘Collisions 3’ is an apt title for something so shattering of my beliefs, it certainly messes with your mind in a giddy sickening way that will want you wanting more. It’s a fine addition to the series and something that should sort out anyone who doesn’t want to play it safe and expand their minds in a way they weren’t expecting. By Chris Hughes. See the review in full here ---
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