Playlist for Just Music 02/07/10

Dust Belt - Untitled
Alexander Hawkins,John Edwards, Steve Noble - Outside In
Skeleton Warrior- Falcon Spit
Trumans Water- Well High Dusk
DNA- Size
Motor Boys Motor- Drive Friendly
Mustapha Tettey Addy- Ewe Atsimivu
Gorgoroth- Revelation of Doom
Mincemeat or Tenspeed- Infinite Girlfriend
Croiners- Track 9
Chris Cutler and Fred Frith- Limoges 1
Phonophani- Beyond the Place,Dragons!
Jeff Newman- High Voltage Lady
Harpoon Vault- Blaster
Alain Goraguer- Au Dela De La Peur/Un Homme Traque
Vibracathedral Orchestra- Smoke Song
L'Aventure Imaginaire- Pierrot and Columbine
Rich Evac- A Scanner Darkly
The Smoke- Have Some More Tea
Holger Hiller- Ein Ganz Normaeler Kuss
Pygmy Shrews- Scavenger
Eric Peters- Space Movement/Ecstatic Space
Virginia Astley-From Garden Where We Feel Secure

Listen to the show here.

Northern Cross - Shitty Madrigal (Rare Youth/Louder Than Life,2006)

Northern Cross is the dual guitar noise project by Geoff Mullen and Kris Lapke. I first became aware of Mullen's guitar excursions through his additions to the excellent Invisible Pyramid box set put out a few years ago by Providence based Last Visible Dog records. In addition to introducing me to the beautiful writing of Loren Eisley, that expansive 6 CD document has yielded countless hours of aural bliss with Mullen's contributions being my personal favorites. On that set, Mullen transcended mere Takoma worship with his use of subtle white noise that only enhanced his beautiful acoustic guitar playing. Having followed Mullen's career since then it is evident the man is a restless creative spirit and one of a handful of guitarists who can still keep things interesting.

In Kris Lapke, Mullen has found a perfectly suited foil for guitar based extrapolation. On my first sojourn to Dom Fernow's Hospital Records, I asked him to suggest some warm noise and I walked out with a cassette of Lapke's Furisubi project; a low-end murky howl that has remained a perennial favorite. It turns out Lapke is a frequent collaborator with one of his most recent outings playing guitar with the incredible black metal band Ash Pool.

With Northern Cross Mullen and Lapke create dense clouds of sound with an underlying intricacy lacking in most guitar-based noise music. Having released a handful of tapes on various labels, Northern Cross dropped the down right monolithic Shitty Madrigal a few years back. A collaborative release between Mullen's Rare Youth and Lapke's Louder Than Life imprints, Shitty Madrigal is a three cassette monster bearing no less than 3 hours of jams recorded live to 4-track on three different occasions back in 2006. The liner notes state Lapke is on rhythm and Mullen on lead and while the proceedings will not conjure images of Dickey Betts and Duane Allman, deep listening does indeed reveal a methodical approach to the sound. While this is most definitely noise music, the communication between the two participants is quite intuitive with Lapke laying down a thick bed of sludge while Mullen interjects with furious bursts coupled with some very interesting harmonic counterpoint. Discussing particular sides or moments with such a vast sea of music is nearly impossible with each cassette revealing it's dissonant nuances after a few listens. As with all great noise, there is a great amount of space on Shitty Madrigal for the listener to inhabit. Highly recommended.

Northern Cross - Shitty Madrigal (Rare Youth/Louder Than Life,2006)

Testify.

Playlist for Just Music 1/24/10

cleaners from venus- song for syd barrett
the prefects- things in general
index- eight miles high
henry flynt- acoustic hillbilly jive
dorothy carter- summer rhapsody
che chen and robbie lee- begin, and continue
joe mcphee- eroc tinu
golden retriever- static rain
arsebreed- stabbed in the arse
arsebreed- bloody posttraumatic ejaculation
altars- wood and rope
NASA-untitled
can- auf der einbahnstrasse part one (excerpt)
charlie- spacer woman
cabaret voltare- silent command
tomek- reminder
pragVEC- you're the gun
schizo!- le voyageur / torcol
zoogz rift and the amazing shitheads- my daddy works for the secret machine
red krayola- green of my pants

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Just Music Presents This Is Pop?

Just Music is proud to present This is Pop? at Matchless.

Join us on Monday night for night of aural bliss featuring :

11PM- The Hidden Ratio

10PM- Ivory Coasts

9PM- Sondra Sun-Odeon

FREE!!

Matchless
557 Manhattan Ave
Brooklyn,NY 11222


As always, Jeff and Casey from East Village Radio's "Just Music" will be DJing before,between and after the bands.

When was the last time you heard Gentle Giant and Chris & Cosey at yr local bar?

Bring yr appetite as well, as Matchless serves up righteous grub all night.

Dorothy Carter - Waillee Waillee (Celeste,1978)

I am not a piece of misanthropic record collecting scum. As much as I enjoy envisioning an alternative reality where my floorboards creek beneath the weight of 10,000 pieces of a moving man's worst nightmare, the truth is I am a man of modest means and limited square footage. Having said that, I treasure and worship my LP army and try to draft new members into the ranks as often as possible. Like many other music fanatics with questionable priorities who live in large cities, I belong to one of the most detested and deplorable sub-cultures known to modern man: Record store employees. Cursed with an insatiable hunger for jams of all varieties and a convoluted inferiority complex that develops during a most-likely sexless high school experience, these self appointed bastions of cultural import constitute the majority of my social network for better or worse. Relationships with fellow pushers follow a very familiar arc; beginning with the age-old dance of oneupmanship and eventually plateauing with a spirit of reluctant camaraderie and, for those not too far gone, friendship. If it wasn't for the adversarial nature between the members of this geek tribe, this blog and countless others wouldn't exist and I might have a girlfriend. Let this be a warning to fledgling collectors of the obsolete, original pressings of SBB records won't get you laid.

So, in keeping with the unwritten code of mutually assured destruction between record fiends, I am able to share with you a sweet slice of private press psych folk weirdness from 1978. On loan from the amazingly curated collection of Tropicalia In Furs Dorothy Carter's Waillee Waillee LP on Celeste Records is a startlingly beautiful and weird collection of traditional folk songs and blissed out drones . Carter draws heavily from American and Celtic traditions and utilizes an interesting array of stringed instruments including hammered dulcimer, cello, tamboura, piano, and flute to craft ethereal hymns to nature. The LP's lysergic qualities stem from the confluence of the hypnotic arrangements and Carter's perfectly hazy vocals rather than cheap studio trickery. The record is perfectly sequenced, balancing the haunting narrative pieces and the wood smoked Terry Riley by way of Appalachia instrumentals.

Note: A cursory search resulted in one result of Waillee Waillee being posted in the comments section of another blog with subsequent comments citing the source as one untracked mp3. This is a fresh rip of my own at 320kbps and individually tracked.

Dorothy Carter - Waillee Waillee (Celeste,1978)

1.The Squirrel Is A Funny Thing...
2.Dulcimer Medley- Robin M'aime
3.Along The River
4.Summer Rhapsody
5.Waillee,Waillee
6.Celtic Medley
7.Autumn Song
8.Tree Of Life

Enjoy.

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Sorry, for the lack of new music around here, I've been busy with other stuff blah blah blah. I promise a phenomenal return to form this week. In the meantime, I created a Facebook group for Just Music and would be honored if you all joined up. I'm very proud of the work Casey and I do at East Village Radio and implore you all to tune in.

Thanks,

Jeff



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