| Organ
show with Sean O on RESONANCE 104.4FM, Sunday March 15th 2009, 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 and
links...
1/intro: TRANSISTOR SIX –
Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta)
2: : CHEER ACCIDENT – Blue
Cheadle (Cuneiform)
3: CAPILLARY ACTION
- Gambit (Pangaea)
4: THE CONTORTIONISTS –
Culting (demo)
5: CAPILLARY ACTION
- Placebo Or Panacea (Pangaea)
6: GERTRUDE – Window Watching
(Urban Misfits)
7: UPSILON ACRUX – Landscape
With Gun And Chandelier (Cuneiform)
8: NAAVY – Sticker (Angular)
9: Y DIWYGIAD feat LEWIS
TEWWS – All Mouth (Dockran)
10: JOE GIDEON AND THE SHARK
– Civilisation (Bronzerat)
11: CONFLICT – The Ungovernable
Force (Mortahate) 12: NFL3
12: NLF3 - Fuses, Apes &
Doppler (Prohibited)
13: VLADIMIR BOZAR ‘n ZE
SHERAF ORKESTRA – Panzoni Pasta (Imago)
14: a.P.A.t.T – Avajier
(Pickled Egg)
15: LAMO – Edicotatop (Broken
Branch)
16: ART BRUT – The Passenger
(Cooking Vinyl)
17: THE LONG LOST – Cat
Fancy (Ninja Tune)
18: SPEECH DEBELLE – The
Key (Big Dada
19/Outro: MONO – Ashes In
The Snow (Conspiracy)
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: CHEER ACCIDENT
– Blue Cheadle (Cuneiform) – The long standing sometimes awkward cult legends
that are America’s Cheer Accident have yet another new album out. Fear
Draws Misfortune landed in our lives this week, they’re sounding better
than ever, they’re the full on really progressive cutting edge challenging
prog rock deal, serious other rock, serious outsider music, pure Organ
fuel – www.myspace.com/cheeraccident
or www.cuneiformrecords.com
3: CAPILLARY ACTION
- Gambit (Pangaea) - Those thrilling maximalists from New York are on their
way to Europe, they hit the UK on March 18th for a show at the Old Blue
Last, then at the Cross Kings on 19th in London, they take themselves all
over the UK and end up back in London on April 4th before heading
to mainland Europe, dates are still being pull together, so best check
out their My Space, you’ll find some seriously progressively bendy other
rock adventure there, one of the finest bands out there right now, serious
brain food, and serious getting out there and just doing it themselves...
"Thrilling maximalism that has me rubbing my hands with glee straight away.
A whole album's worth of perversely complex, er, pop... that has chunks
of different genres popping up unexpectedly like the good bits in a stew
made of gourmet leftovers." - Organ Magazine Album of the Week back sometime
last year, the review is over at Organ#263,
head over to www.myspace.com/capillaryaction
and enjoy
4: THE CONTORTIONISTS
– Culting (demo) - They’re from East London and this CD called Degenerate
Music And The Evil Of Banality burst in here demanding instant attention.
Four live tracks that fall up your stairs and dig pointy elbows in to your
ribs. More things to say, more wrong pop churning and new wave pointed
things and and and.... The Fall, Art Brut, all awkwardly catchy and full
of different angles, something a little more to say and play if you know
what I mean. Suckerpunch grammatical errors, hail gross saints of the protest
scene they said. Pointed male/female vocals (they all sound like Mark E
Smith), four fine tracks that demand we go out and find out more straight
away, things that demand we have more things to say (and things). Excellent,
we love it when unexpected things like this turn up, collaborations, wires,
conversations, degenerates indeed, there’s always another antidote to the
evils of banality, this is the function of art is it not? Excellent, love
it to bits – www.myspace.com/thecontortionists
or www.contortionist-manifesto.com
5: CAPILLARY ACTION
- Placebo Or Panacea (Pangaea) – And because they made on of the very best
albums of last year, put it out themselves then get out around the underground
and did some communicating and some networking and doing in the way bands
once did before My Space melted their brains, they got in touch with people
and booked themselves a whole DIY world tour, because of all that, they
for a second track played tonight. See track three for full details...
This is how you do things, the real worldwide underground!
6: GERTRUDE – Window
Watching (Urban Misfits) – London’s Gertude have a new album ready to launch
at the end of March. The proactive, pro D.I.Y girls might just have made
their best album yet/ Colourful, different, feminist creativity and another
slice of real London underground creative diversity, this is the kind of
thing that fuels this ongoing Organ thing. Alternative colour with strings
and new wave punk rock chamber bite... www.gertruderock.com
7: UPSILON ACRUX –
Landscape With Gun And Chandelier (Cuneiform) – First fruits of the much
anticipated new album from one of the finest forward looking prog/other
rock bands in the World right now – see, real prog is about just that,
challenging exciting musical progression. The album is called Radian
Futura, due for release in May, the Los Angeles band are threatening to
get over at last and you can find this track (and download it) on www.cuneiformrecords.com
or go explore www.myspace.com/upsilonacrux
8: NAAVY – Sticker
(Angular) - A track from the Sheffield angular new wave pop band’s rather
fine new album Idyll Intangible. Reviewed this week via the Organ pages
and out on March 23rd. They’re a band who observe a little more than most,
songs that paint different pictures. “Real life makes perfect sense, they’ll
take you to a special place, they’ll send your flowers back, they’ll give
your cheeks some vital colour. Fractured bouncy angular vintage synth driven
new wave pop, recommended... www.myspace.com/navvypop
or www.myspace.com/angularrecords
9: Y DIWYGIAD feat LEWIS
TEWWS – All Mouth (Dockran) – another slice of Welsh hip-hop and another
track from the new album. An album of multilingual rap and electronica
from Y Diwyglad (The Reformation). The album is called Hymn 808 –
Mr Formula and 9 Tonne with a whole load of different voices and collaborators
and the hip hop/rap rule book ripped up the Welsh way, one of the best
slices of hip-hop and rhyming bite we’ve heard in ages ... www.dockrad.com
or www.myspace.com/ydiwygiad
10: JOE GIDEON AND THE
SHARK – Civilisation (Bronzerat) – The London based brother/sister
duo have a new album out this week, the album is called Harum Scarum –
an album full of wordy adventures and they’ve recently been seen touring
with both Seasick Steve and Nick Cave – that combination tells you quite
a bit. Nine slices of low sling edgy blues and a whole lot more... Blues
drenched in delicate feedback and tales of flat pancake worlds, painters,
arsonists and seeds of doubt that get hold of things and grow in to trees.
The world isn’t flat, whatever you may have been told the world is not
flat. A writer, a singer (a fishmonger, a dogmatic film maker), learning
the ways, meeting queens late night over at Clapham, wasting a morning
selling another man’s shoes.... www.myspace.com/joegideonandtheshark
11: CONFLICT – The
Ungovernable Force (Mortahate) – A slice of prime raw thrashing confrontational
anarcho punk goodness, this kind of thing shouldn’t be on the radio should
it? Don’t ask us officer. Conflict may just be putting together another
of their Gathering of The thousands festival things on Friday April 10th
at the Coronet over in Elephant And Castle, shed load of good bands, a
whole variety of sounds flying there under a big black flag and some proper
punk rock activism.... And don’t it do our hearts good to be playing this
on an FM radio station in London and telling you about it, small personal
victory and a touch of payback for Brixton that time, you can’t kill the
spirit – www.thegatheringofthethousands.com
/ www.myspace.com/officialconflict
12: NLF3 - Fuses,
Apes & Doppler (Prohibited) – A track from the French band’s new album
Ride On A Brand New Time, Organ album of the week this week, here’s what
we said – “Well now there’s lots of hints and flavours in here, nothing
anywhere obvious though. Vibrant instrumental rock that tastes of things
somewhere near Pierre Henry, Fela Kuti, 70’s Genesis, Steve Reich, Battles,
Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, Mike Oldfield, Fantomas, Yes, Sonic Youth,
Brian Eno, Radiohead, Don Cabellero, that tastes of all kinds of exotic
post/prog/other rock without ever really being obvious about any of it.
NLF3 sound like no one, their rhythms are their own , they sculpt their
tunes their own way – very much tunes, always tunes – the indication is
that there’s improvisation going on here, they never lose the tunes though.
.Some of it is in to Can territory, they clearly have a need to discover
new things, that kinship shared with Battles and Animal Collection (both
of whom they’ve toured with). A diligently crafted heart, a thoughtful
musical soul, this gets better and better with every play, with every new
bit discovered – a feeling of a journey of discovery for both us a listeners
and them as creators. The French trio have quite a history now, both as
NLF3 and in previous bands, they’re musical travelers, they’ve put on gigs
for Don Cab, they’ve been supported by Polar Bear, they’re very much of
this time, of this rich musical generation and this new album is just a
very fine rewarding caressing set of musical treats from start to finish
– www.myspace.com/nlf3
13: VLADIMIR BOZAR ‘n
ZE SHERAF ORKESTRA – Panzoni Pasta (Imago) – Now this is good,
debut album from a new French band who have evolved out of the excellently
named Children Of Invention – a Zappa tribute band so it seems. Vladimir
Bozar is “just an imaginary entity of absurdity” so it would seem - all
of this makes perfect sense as soon as you let their very colourful musical
stew enter your life. More Mr Bungle than Zappa now, very much more actually,
this gang of creative French people are clearly very influenced by all
things Bungle, all things Secret Chiefs 3... all kinds of things gone wrong
in the fairground and classical stabs and impressively right up there alongside
all those names we just dropped. Real children of invention and a highly
recommended roller coaster ride of an album that will have you hanging
on and grinning like a bungled maniac from start to finish. Bon merde indeed!
- - www.myspace.com/vladimirbozar
14: a.P.A.t.T – Avajier
(Pickled Egg) – A track from the Liverpool band’s most recent album Black
And White Mass. They really are experimentally unique and there really
is no way to explain them on paper, go click and see. Played tonight as
we lick our lips about the forthcoming Yes Way festival, I see they have
a gig at the Liverpool Tate coming up in Late March, as well as Pickled
Egg night here in London at the Betsey Trotwood on March 28th. Explore
them via www.myspace.com/apatt
or www.pickled-egg.co.uk
15: LAMO – Edicotatop
(Broken Branch) – Single of the week on the Organ website this week, here’s
what we said if you weren’t paying attention – “A churning kind of falling
down the stairs carrying a kitchen sink kind of duo. Brutal guitars, raw
ripping filthy barbed riffs and dismantled drums and a churning churning
cacophony of noise rock delight and getta job.... A sound engineer’s nightmare,
a mountain of feedback fuelled by aggressive intent, a twin headed monster
created by siblings Ais and Colm Clafferty. They’re from the Midlands of
England, they deal in extreme noise terror, they are clearly not to be
messed with and they sound like nothing you or I could easily pin down.
Limited to just 200 CDs so move on it now, put all your eggs in their basket...”
– They’re from Stoke (I think), they’re in London on March 30th at
the Bull&Gate - www.myspace.com/scummerthanwhat
or www.brokenbranch.co.uk
16: ART BRUT – The
Passenger (Cooking Vinyl) – They have a new album out on April 20th. This
is a first taste from us, no not Iggy and his isolation, this is a celebration
of public transport and riding on buses and trains and people and views
out of windows and, Art Brut’s new album is sounding like a good one, lots
more from us I expect. You know, if you draw on the tube or the bus people
suddenly start talking and art goes none brut and... – www.myspace.com/artbrut
17: THE LONG LOST
– Cat Fancy (Ninja Tune) – A track from their new self-titled album, here’s
what we said about that new album recently via the pages of Organ. “This
is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous, especially ‘Cat Fancy’. The whole thing
is gorgeous. Whispered silk and stroked strings, thistle-soft tunes, brushed
toy pianos, an omnichord, clarinets, alto-flute, paws on piano strings.
The Long Lost are a duo from Los Angeles (although they van number anything
up to five live). A treasure chest of delicate trinkets and lucky charms,
gorgeous gorgeous whisper china-delicate beauty. Alfred and Laura Darlington
and their fragile acoustic project, a collection of porcelain love songs,
careful tunes, crafted vocals, perfect in every way. Playing with delicate
polyrhythms and turntable delicateness that you almost don’t notice. Genuine,
sweet, just perfect cliché-free love songs, perfection – www.myspace.com/findthelonglost
The Long Lost and Speech
Debelle both share a stage with Organ show regulars To Arms Etc over at
Barden's Boudoir on Thursday 19th March...
18: SPEECH DEBELLE
– The Key (Big Dada) - Her debut single was a single of the week around
here at Organ, played lots on our radio show, she’s been turning a lot
of heads since that debut, word spreading, healthy responses from the alternative
media, she’s starting to make sense of it. She seems to be flowing now,
confident, a growing belief, a feeling of “hey, yeah, people get it, I
can do this...”. She’s from London, this time she’s peppered her streetwise
hip hop with a touch of refined jazz. Her last single “Searching” was inward
looking, fragile, this has a confident swagger, a healthy optimism. The
Key is a clever song, different hip hop, she rather unique. Rooted in the
real world, lyrics that mean something, all done with such style, youthful
and wise beyond her years, Speech Debelle is emerging as a rather important
artist, alive with honest emotion, the same inspiration that came from
early days M.I.A, this is good, we love to see her smiling like this. The
second single has lived up to everything the first promised, go find out,
her hip hop is different, her hip hop is good... www.myspace.com/speechdebellemusic
19: MONO – Ashes In
The Snow (Conspiracy) – A track from the forthcoming fifth album ‘Hymn
To The Immortal Wind’, released on Match 24th, majestically epic post rock,
more dark to light rather than quiet to loud this time around – www.mono-jpn.com
/ www.conspiracyrecords.com
Next week Marina will be
in the chair with her OTHER ROCK SHOW and the continued exploration
of rock that goes beyond the convention on mere 4/4 time
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