| Organ
show with Sean O on RESONANCE 104.4FM, Sunday August 3rd 2008, 9.00pm –
On your FM dial all over London and worldwide via www.resonancefm.com.
Who
got played this week? How do you find our more? Here come the details...
1/intro: TRANSISTOR SIX –
Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta)
2: MOGWAI – Batcat (Wall
Of Sound)
3: DOSH - Don’t Wait
For The Needle To Drop (Anticon)
4: SAY BOK GWAI – Trick
Duck (Edgetone)
5: SCUL HAZZARDS – Last
Few Bucks (self release)
6: HEAVY HEAVY LOW LOW –
Giant Mantis Vs Turtle Nip (New Weathermen)
7: ARCS OF RED – Tombs
(demo)
8: Z’s – The Hard EP (Three.One.G)
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9: FIGHT LIKE APES -
Accidental Wrong Hole (Fifa)
10: Z’s – The Hard EP part
2 (Three.One.G)
11: SHEARWATER – On
The Death Of The Water (Matador)
12: Z’s – The Hard EP part
3 (Three.One.G)
13: ZOMBIE ZOMBIE –
I’m Afraid Of What’s There (Versatile)
14: ONE DAY AS A LION
– If You Fear Dying (Anti)
15: SAY BOK GWAI – Chow
Fun Chow Not Be Fun (Edgetone)
16: TORCHE – Pirana
(Hydrahead)
17: VILE IMBECILES –
Blind Truth (Tea Vee Eye)
18: SQUAREPUSHER – Cronecker
King (Warp)
19: Unknown New Orleans
busker – Stairway To Heaven (download)
20: BE YOUR OWN PET – Stairway
To Heaven (Beggars Banquet)
21: DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS –
Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife (New West) -
22: SAY BOK GWAI – Not All
Chinese Are Good At Math (Edgetone) -
23: HERZOGA – Satanic Verses
(download)
24: VESSELS - Altered
Beast (Cuckundoo)
THE
DETAILS, THE LINKS....
1/intro:
TRANSISTOR
SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta) - our adopted
theme tune so you know where you are. Transistor Six is Frances Castle,
there’s lots of her fine art and creativity to explore from Francis so
please please do. You can now get the whole tune downloaded for yourselves
and find links to her artwork, albums and lots more over at www.myspace.com/transistorsix
2:
MOGWAI
– Batcat (Wall Of Sound) – Hit the ground running this week with a surprisingly
strong meaty instrumental prog-out from Scotland’s Mogwai in the shape
of their new single (out on September 1st) from the forthcoming album The
Hawk Is Howling. This week’s single of the week on the Organ website and
Mogwai on top form (can’t say I’ve been a big supporter of everything they’ve
done, love this track though) - www.mogwai.co.uk
3:
DOSH
- Don’t Wait For The Needle To Drop (Anticon) Open track from the forthcoming
Wolves And Wishes album – Martin Dosh’s forth official album and a whole
fresh can of clean cut free flowing tunes, a refreshing wonderment of an
album. “re-imagined drums, Rhodes and everything but the kitchen sink”.
Delicate tinkling glistening constructions that glide and then skip
and then float. No, it isn’t as simple as just calling it post rock, or
electonica or anything else that easy or obvious – Wolves And Wishes just
feels different. This week’s Organ album of the week over at organart.com,
find out more from www.anticon.com,
available on the UK via www.cargorecords.co.uk
4:
SAY
BOK GWAI – Trick Duck (Edgetone) - They have an album our called Chink
In The Armor, CantoCore is what they said, “the only CantoCore band in
existence” is what they actually said, who are we to argue? They’re from
San Francisco (of course), they sing in both Cantonese and English, they
mix up fast American hardcore, slices of old school thrash metal, some
straight down the line US punk, and now again a healthy experimental math-punk
edge. They sound like they should be on Alternative Tentacles and touring
with Jello’s latest band (no disrespect to Edgetone of course). They say
they’re coming at it with a Chinese American perspective unique to San
Francisco – they certainly sound like they could be from nowhere else but
the Bay Area, this is classic front line top quality San Francisco punk
rock. Thirty one short sharp right on the ball tracks played with colour
and imagination. Lyrics that bait, lyrics that bite, slices of humour,
slices of frozen pizza, slices of clever comment, anger, situation switching
and don’t get all hung up just because you’re a whitey, its only a colour!
They seem to be a drum and guitar two piece, their older stuff appears
to come from a more of an avant area, seems we have a lot of exploring
to do, isn't music great, is that a music stand on stage? Don't you just
love You Tube - www.myspace.com/sbg
or www.edgetonerecords.com
or www.monkeykingrecords.com
and those You Tube things can be found via www.youtube.com/monkeykingrecords
5:
SCUL
HAZZARDS – Last Few Bucks (self release) - - Last time we were featuring
Scul Hazzards they were an Australian based outfit and their singles were
coming out on a local label from over there, now they have a debut
D.I.Y album ready to go and they’ve recently relocated to London – catch
them and their fine skin-peeling churning rusty-edged Big Black flavoured
abrasive post-hardcore down at London Bridge at The Miller on August
6th alongside Palehorse, Epideme and Pocus Whiteface. The album is called
Let The Sink and you can find out more via www.myspace.com/sculhazzards
6:
HEAVY
HEAVY LOW LOW – Giant Mantis Vs Turtle Nip (New Weathermen) – A track
from the new album Turtle Nipple And The Toxic Shock - Bad case of
daydreams, I don’t mind, they’re not mine... heavy heavy low low, nothing
like the smell of toxic shock on a hot summer morning over on the edge
of someone else’s space. Nothing natural here but I do understand your
logic. A tasty storm of twitching jerking screaming metal intensity and
hey, this is rather good. Tales of on the road drunken chaos and pizza
and an intense all over the dial explosion of awkwardly good hardcore metal
splatter and punky Bungle tantrums from San Jose - www.myspace.com/heavyheavylowlow
7:
ARCS
OF RED – Tombs (demo) - They’re from Dorking in Surrey and they
plain and simple rock. That vocalist, the neat little two track demo Paul
Colto, reminds me of someone, really bugging me. They’ve got this swaggering
indie attitude, they just lock on, run up through the gears and rawk! Shaun
Ryder mainlining Red Bull rather than bad drugs? Bugging me! Tow
galloping tracks, bit of a 90’s Manchester vibe, but of a Charlatans meets
Interpol feel maybe? Whatever it is, they rock big time and if they’ve
got a few more songs like these two then.... They’re playing the Redfest
this coming weekend, that’s in Redhill, Surrey, find out more via www.myspace.com/arcsofred
8:
Z’s – The Hard EP (Three.One.G) – It doesn’t get more hardboiled and
challengingly avant than Z’s, they play “loud and or/soft angular repetitive
music with saxophone, guitar and drums”, they exist somewhere between the
worlds of DIY punk and “academic experimental music”. This is their idea
of a single, 15 minutes of noise that dares you to stick with it to the
end. We only have an hour on the air and so much to fit in and share with
you so we gave you the first five or so minutes then faded in and out of
it a couple of times to see how the Americans were getting on with their
beautiful noise – this is indeed how to make a single - one whole holy
cacophony of flowing jarring instrumental noise – gloriously awkward!
Love it! www.threeoneg.com
9:
FIGHT
LIKE APES - Accidental Wrong Hole (Fifa) – This week’s excuse
for playing the Dublin band is the fact that they’re supporting Black Cherry
at the Hoxton Bar And Grill this coming 7th August. They are jut about
the finest band about right now with their tales of careless lovers and
this is from their “David Carradine Is A Bounty Hunter who’s Robotic Arm
Hates Your Crotch” EP. They have different new singles out in both Ireland
and the UK around about now and they jsut recorded their debut album and
you really should try and catch them, they are rather special with their
uniquely Dublin flavoured contradictions that are so so many things. The
essential thing is their songs, nothing else would matter if they didn’t
have such powerfully strong songs laced with such strident personality.
Fight Like Apes are as essential as goodness me. Let me see; silver glitter
hot pants, fish, chips and cans of fizzy pop, low budget kung fu b-movies
- www.myspace.com/fightlikeapesmusic
10:
Z’s
– The Hard EP (Three.One.G) – back for a little more, see track 8 and the
art of resonating radio unfriendly resonance...
11:
SHEARWATER
– On The Death Of The Water (Matador) – Opening track from the recent
album Rook and you know how it works, word slowly seeps around but
there’s too many bands and you can’t possibly hear them all and the language
of birds so often floats on by - lost on the wind and in the tree tops
and yes, this album has been out for getting on for two months now and
we’re late. You stash the name somewhere there in the file you keep in
your head marked bands I must make a point of checking out when I get a
moment - put this album at the front of file and mark it urgent.
Rook is one of those wonderful things that once in a while sneaks up and
you suddenly fine yourself consumed by the all encompassing simple majesty
and the need for telling and sharing and you must hear this, you really
must. Rook is the kind of album you want to call people about, Rook is
a beautiful spiritual album, a powerfully quiet album, a wonderfully considered
album and everything you may of heard about Shearwater will be confirmed
as right with the first minute of the album opener and those wistful notes
across the water. A real gem, a quite piece of wistful crafted beauty
alone in solitude and worded so right and rolling eyes and “themes within
meditate on man’s intersection with the natural world: the hunter, and
the prey; the extinction of species; the world after human beings are gone...”.
Metaphor for human relationships; “a dark fairy tale encased in a cycle
of songs”. That soaring almost falsetto voice and the fading arc
light and the gentle wind and the quiet prophecy and the sings from ancient
times and the things the moon is tell you. Lush and gorgeous and worth
every bit of praise you already heard
from
elsewhere. A beautiful album you need to make time to check out (fine artwork
as well) - www.matadorrecords.com/shearwater.
12:
Z’s – The Hard EP (Three.One.G) – back for one more minute of their
excellent new single, see track 8...
13:
ZOMBIE
ZOMBIE – I’m Afraid Of What’s There (Versatile) – A revisit to
their album released earlier this year, A Land For Renegades is all dark
keyboard drones and forward moving krautrock cinematic tunes. Organic electronica
and a more than healthy hint of Goblin, that and 70’s b-movie soundtracks.
All very John Carpenter and sinister prog-kraut and don’t go out on those
streets after dark instrumental Edgar Froese goodness. A fine collection
of vintage synths, live real drums and a warm resonating sound. Zombie
zombie indeed. And palyed again on the show this week because they’re playing
The Macbeth in Hoxton on August 7th (same night as Fight Like Apes are
up the road and Rude Mechanicals are over at the Klinker at Cross Kings
in Kings Cross – where to go, what to do!?) - www.versatilerecords.com
14:
ONE
DAY AS A LION – If You Fear Dying (Anti) - Hey now, there’s nothing
better than raging against that machine and those first Rage records still
sound good fresh where so many others have lost that shine. This is from
the debut EP from One Day As A Lion, and this is a heart pumping slice
of adrenaline junkie earfood from the off – that voice, that attitude,
that questioning political/social bite and that call to arms, good to see
that some evolve and still manage to stick to their guns. One Day As A
Lion are the barbed voice of Rage Zack De La Rocha on vocals and filthy
sounding keyboards alongside Jon Theodore (formerly of Mars Volta) on drums
and they sound like they might roar for more than one day here. They say
this is a stripped down attempt to capture in the sound that sentiment
that read on a wall (back in 1970) that “it’s better to live one day as
a lion than a thousand days as a lamb”. The big guitar riffs of Rage ATM
aren’t here but those keyboards have bite and those vocal lines could be
no one else. No one else says it quite like Zack De La Rocha, this is a
defiantly good exploration of the possibilities that exist in the space
between the kick and snare – www.onedayasalion.org
or www.myspace.com/onedayasalion
15:
SAY
BOK GWAI – Chow Fun Chow Not Be Fun (Edgetone) – See track four, most
of their songs are about a minute long, there’s 31 of them on the album,
they do have a couple that are a little longer and this indeed clocked
in at just over four!
16:
TORCHE
–
Pirana (Hydrahead) – Torche are on their way over for a UK tour with Pelican
and Other Rock Show band of the moment Kayo Dot. This is a track from the
recent Meanderthral album – One of them there slightly alternative,
slightly stoner, rather out there bands who touch on good things that taste
of the finest Melvins and plumpest Jesus Lizards. There we were letting
it ferment and stew and cook and brew and we were somewhere around Amnesian
on the edge of desert when the music began to take hold. I remember saying
something like “I feel a little lightheaded; maybe you should type...”
And suddenly there was a beautiful roar all around us and the sky was full
of what looked like huge riffs, all swooping and screeching and diving
around the room, which at the time was going about a hundred miles an hour
with the top down to Pirana. And a voice was screaming: “Holy Jesus! What
are these goddamn songs?” Then it was quiet again. My attorney had taken
his shirt off and was hitting the repeat button “what the hell are you
yelling about? Play it again” he muttered, staring up at the light bulb....
www.hydrahead.com / www.myspace.com/torche
17:
VILE
IMBECILES – Blind Truth (Tea Vee Eye) – A track from the awkwardly
good Brighton band’s new album, a recent Organ album of the week Queenie
Was A Blonde and some deconstructed reconstructed put back together so
everything works in a slightly different way new wave blues and jarring
fluid awkward pointed-shoe punk.- - www.myspace.com/vileimbeciles
18:
SQUAREPUSHER
– Cronecker King (Warp) – A short track from the 2006 album and that uncompromisingly
unique take on beats and bites/ Played in celebration of the fact that
Squarepusher just got added to the MIKE PATTON - MELVINS party that is
ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas weekender - scheduled for December 5-7
at Minehead's Butlins holiday camp. I see Jim Thirwell and those Butthole
Surfers just got added as well – full details over on the Organ newspages
or head to www.atpfestival.com.
Latest Squarepusher news is probably over at www.warprecords.com
19:
Unknown
New Orleans busker – Stairway To Heaven (download) - Some found sound
field art street sound and a busker playing a bit of Led Zep on a
delicate glass organ
20:
BE
YOUR OWN PET – Stairway To Heaven (Beggars Banquet) – And a song that
has nothing to do with the Led Zeppelin song of the same name. This is
from the 2006 debut album, looks like the Texan band are only ever going
to make two albums, they announced via their My Space blog this week that
they’re intend to split after their show at London Dingwalls on August
26th. Read their brief statement over at www.myspace.com/beyourownpetmusic
21:
DRIVE-BY
TRUCKERS – Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife (New West) – They bring
their rather excellent focused-on-now Southern country rock and Americana
with a social concious to the UK this week, including Monday August 4th
at the Camden Electric Ballroom. We loved the latest album when it came
out in February. Here’s what others have been saying: “The best new-school
Southern rock you can buy.” (Rolling Stone), “The most poetic and insightful
Southern rockers in existence today…” Pitchfork, “Southern Gothic as social
realism” (Village Voice), “A hard-rocking testament to the intelligence,
sensitivity, and soul of a people often discredited for lacking all three.”
Slant. Find out more via www.drivebytruckers.com
22:
SAY
BOK GWAI – Not All Chinese Are Good At Math (Edgetone) – One more minute,
our contribution to the media overkill that is the Chinese Olympics, one
more track from their Chink In Armor album – see track four.
23:
HERZOGA
– Satanic Verses (download) - The Stoke on Trent outfit have a new track
available as a free download, the track is called Satanic Verses and it
will have adventures in your head. Herzoga at their most poppy and maybe
at their most accessible and easy yet. Following on from their split single
with To The Bones and their fully fledged Nice Car, their self proclaimed
new wave angular Wrong Pop is sounding a little more refined this time.
You can download it for free via www.myspace.com/herzogaband
or you can e.mail them and bug them to send you a higher quality version.
They’re heading out on a full UK tour this week with Who Owns Death TV.
Tour starts on Wednesday 6th August at the Retro Bar in Manchester and
includes a date at the Silver Rocket @ The Buffalo Bar, London, on the
15th
24:
VESSELS
-
Altered Beast (Cuckundoo) – Final track tonight and another track from
the forthcoming debut album from the refined Leeds band. Clever progressive
post rock delicacy and intricate warmth. The album is out on August 18th
and no doubt we’ll be back with more before the release date – they’re
made the album the demos and singles suggested they would - www.vesselsband.com
or
www.myspace.com/vesselsband
– thank
you for listening, hope you heard something that makes you want to get
involved.... same time same place next week with Marina’s Other Rock show
and the exploration of rock music that adventures beyond the conventions
of 4/4.. |
