Swänns))) / Potemkjin Village - 6th Rehearsal (17th August, 2010)

Me and Chris had our 6th rehearsal of the band on Friday - we're now called Potemkjin Village, so this will be the last you hear of Swänns))).  I made a Last.fm, but I'm still using the same Swanns bandcamp for now:

http://www.last.fm/music/Potemkjin+Village

http://swanns.bandcamp.com

This rehearsal we spent the first half hour playing around with bass riffs against the guitar lines, then matching them up to the parts I'd thrown together on the drum machine; all of which was totally undermined by breaking a bass string while tuning up, with no spares - total amatuer. Sounded o.k. in the room despite that, but the tone in the recording is quite thin sounding because of it. The beat patterns need a bit of work but we've got a good idea of the structure now. Need a good intro to set the scene and add some more colour; work out some killer riffs for the ending and get the noising off more structured but overall things are starting to come together now: so that's 'needs a lot of work' then!  We're both agreed that this is the first time our stuff isn't embarassing, at least.

Making progress.


Here's the track for y'all.  If you're this way inclined, the album download on Bandcamp comes with our Potemkjin Village remix of Del Shannon's Runaway.

LAST FM THREAD OF EXCITEMENT

this weeks dual DiS/blog last.fm stats post

Mist And Sea Spray

01. Indian Jewelry -55

02. Twin Sister - 35

02. Sleeping Peonies - 35

04. Winterfylleth - 31

05. Best Coast - 29

06. Washed Out - 24

07. Women - 22

08. Sing and Sign - 21

08. Luggaldimerankia - 21

10. Black Mountain - 20

10. Samamidon – 20

1 – Why did no one tell me how awesome this band are; I thought they were going to be a bunch of jangly hippies, expecting High Places I get Blank Dogs dosed out on witch house.

2a – the genre I call simply ‘Vintage’

2b –Excellent vocals, no-wave influences, French romanticism: Norfolk UKBM all the way.

4 – Transformative new album of English Heritage Metal

5 – Still digging it, even in the rain

7 – So subtle, each song a proper euphoric progressive little wonderbolt

8 – violent, feral subterranean black metal horror – the UK’s answer to WOLD.

10a – new album is o.k. Got a couple of rockers and a lot of filler on first couple of goes. I was totally wowed by In The Future, and this isn’t that.  I maintain Old Fangs has an organ sound that got a lot of Nine Inch Nails to it, deliberately or not.

10b – still haven’t got his new album, but I don’t want to risk breaking the magic of All Is Well in case it’s nowhere near as good.

Track of the week:

 

The Sword - Tres Brujas

The Sword confirm tracklisting, giveaway track from new album http://dlvr.it/2hvy1

That's some fucking awesome Roger Dean artwork right there (he did the Psygnosis logo back in the 80's - games developers of my all time favourite Amiga classics Shadow Of The Beast and Lemmings!). We're in the dystopian future right now aren't we?

Tracklisting:
1. Acheron / Unearthing The Orb
2. Tres Brujas
3. Arrows In The Dark
4. The Chronomancer I : Hubris
5. Lawless Lands
6. Astraea’s Dream
7. The Warp Riders
8. Night City
9. The Chronomancer II : Nemesis
10. (The Night The Sky Cried) Tears of Fire

VIDEO: Golau Glau - Restraint

You like Golau Glau? You like Betty Boop and cartoon innuendo? You probably don't generally like restraint, but you will probably like the Restraint in this video.

Here you go:

Golau Glau - Restraint

Theme From 'last.fm thread'

This weeks twin DiS/Blog Last.fm stats post

Awakens He, Bereft Of Kinsman

A lot of ties this week, a lot of previous weeks that I’m still well into, so I’ll keep it brief. I’ve got all into black metal again: there are loads of new bands outside the top ten. I hadn’t scrobbled all week, so this was quite a surprise. Thought there’d be more grimnity up here.

01. Clair Cassis - 48
02. Sing and Sign - 38
03. Wild Nothing - 30
04. Eluvium - 24
04. Emeralds - 24
04. Best Coast - 24
07. Women - 21
07. Twin Sister - 21
07. Sleeping Peonies - 21
10. Winterfylleth - 20


01 – Josh & Angela of Velvet Cacoon’s new band. Released 2 albums/eps this year then disbanded. The guy is certified genius of the genre – he calls this project ‘luxurious black metal’.
07 – Norfolk black metal! Sound like Alcest/Circle of Ouroborous – post-punk/Manchester grey/shoegaze influenced shrieking.
10 – The Mercian Sphere is brilliant – trance riffs, solar burst beats and the weight ancient heritage.


Track of the week
(just one example of many)

VIDEO: Of Montreal - Coquet Coquette

"Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation"

DOWNLOAD: oOoOO & N Marco De La Vega - 120 Minute Mixtape

Marco de la Vega (sideA) oOoOO (sideB) made this mix for a new club in SF called 120 minutes

Jump: www.bit.ly/b3Tbea

REPOST FROM ALL I EVER WANTED (WAS EVERYTHING)

sorry it’s been a second… and then some. i’ve been working on a lot of projects. one of which was this mixtape. i actually finished it weeks ago, but again, the overwhelming crazy that is my life as of late has kept it on the back burner. but here it is, in all its random glory… the particularly amazing part is that side b was mixed by none other than oOoOO… yep that’s right, one of the high priests of witch house has helped to bring you a fabulous romp through crazytown filled with everything from creeptastic meena kumari remixes to britany spears…

Side A: Click to download

Ol’ Dirty Bastard-Goin’ Down
Nite Jewel-Want You Back (Phaseone Remix)
Autre Ne Veut-Bossy
Captain Beyond-Thousand Days of Yesterdays
Bruce Haack-Means Old Devil
Memory Tapes-Green Knight
O’Children-Dead Disco Dancer (Golden Filter Remix)
Health-Lost Time (Pictureplane Remix)
tape collage noise-BIG ANT (RIP)
John Maus-Do Your Best
Nocera-Summertime, Summertime (WhITCH Summers Over Edit)
oOoOO-NoSummer4U
Scott Walker-Plastic Palace Syzzurp (Haloperidol Edit)
Grace Sings Sludge-My Heart Was Really Breaking
Dead Prez-Wolves
Angelhood-Tauros (Demo)
Black Lips-Veni Vedi Vici (Diplo Remix)
Light Asylum-Shallow Tears
Devin The Dude-See What I Can Pull
Die Antwoord-I Don’t Need You
William S. Burroughs-Love Your Enemy


Side B: Click to Download

method man - tical
meena kumari - alb paa (oOoOO DreamMix)
marina & the diamonds  - oh no! (active child remix)
crystal castles - celestica
briny spears - get naked (i got a plan)
kylie minogue - all the lovers (xxxchange remix)
memoryhouse - to the lighthouse (millionyoung remix)
robyn - dancing on my own
sky ferreira - one
the xx - basic space (pariah remix)
+++++
modern witch - not the only one
hype williams -  mvp ‘94
pocahaunted - follow i
sleep ∞ over - outer limits

VIDEo: Detour 1 - Mike Celona

A performance experiment consisting of nearly 3 hours of home video footage arranged in an edit timeline and manually scrubbed at high speed in an attempt to generate random sensory impressions similar to memory fragments within the viewer's mind from which a personal subliminal narrative can be derived, similar to that of a recovering amnesia patient.

Are you going to see Kong tonight?

Brighton. Prince Albert.  Be there.

The Great Park - If You Can Hold It You Can Throw It

Brighton based folk label Woodland Recordings has just put out their 31st release, and it comes from one of my favourite local artists; The Great Park - the solo work of Stephen Burch. The album is called If You Can Hold It You Can Throw It and is now available to buy from their website here:

http://www.woodlandrecordings.com/work.html

Recorded in Berlin between April and August and featuring fellow Brightonian folk musicians Birdengine and Fee Reega - this has 9 songs dragged out with acoustic guitars, electric guitars, foot stamping, melodica, chains, old shoes and a trumpet street band.

The label are giving away a free teaser mp3 of Song For A Coalman, a song written especially for a Dutch museum. Download it here:

The Great Park - Song For A Coalman

The albums have been pressed in an initial limited edition of 100 numbered copies with printed lyric sheets and thought up things to stamp on each CD. This label specialises in gorgous homespun packaging which is always worth owning, but if you miss out on the physical copies

you can download the uncompressed audio in pretty any much any digital format you want for just £5 from The Great Park's Bandcamp here:

http://thegreatpark.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-can-hold-it-you-can-throw-it