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SHOW on Resonance 104.4FM, 9.00PM Sunday 10th MAY 2009
Intro: PHANTOMSMASHER - Bishop
Hopping (Ipecac)
1: MARNIE STERN Prime
(Kill Rock Stars)
2: EXTRA LIFE
- Blackmail Blues (LoAF)
3: CHEER ACCIDENT
- Humanizing the Distance (Cuneiform)
4: DEVO - Jocko Homo
(Virgin)
5: CARDIACS - Visiting
Hours (Live) (Alphabet)
6: CALLE DEBAUCHE
- Panspermia (Egg Helmet)
7: MARNIE STERN -
Roads? Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads (Kill Rock Stars)
8: KOENJIHYAKKEI -
Maschtervoz (Skingraft)
9: HEY! TONAL - Smarmy
Faulkner (African Tape)
10: GORGE TRIO - Intimate
Addition (Skingraft)
11: CASTROVALVA -
We Don't Go To Ravenholm (Brew Records)
12: WILD DOGS IN WINTER
- Em-In-Or (demo)
13: ZAG AND THE COLOURED
BEADS Ekim Bey (self release)
MARNIE STERN is from New
York; rumours are that she was a pretty good singer/songwriter until she
fell in with a bad crowd eg Hella - good news for the likes of us, as these
two fine tracks show... – www.myspace.com/marniestern1
... several US musicians
mentioned EXTRA LIFE in hushed tones over the last year; their glorious,
jaw-droppingly beautiful and original album 'Secular Works' was released
in the States last year, and just been released in the UK last month. Extra
Life is led by composer/vocalist/guitarist Charlie Looker, a founder member
of Zs; they are in the UK next week, find out more from www.l-o-a-f.com
Chicago underground legends,
pranksters and all round undefinables CHEER ACCIDENT, from their recently
released acclaimed album 'Fear Draws Misfortune' www.cheer-accident.com
- go to www.cuneiformrecords.com
to download lots of full mp3s of forthcoming and recent releases , touring
Europe soon (but no UK dates confirmed!)
...DEVO's packed out gig
at the Kentish Town Forum last week was a performance of their greatest
early works, including this track, to general mass hysteria; many were
seen wearing CARDIACS tshirts, so... Originally released on their
tape album 'The Obvious Identity' (under their original name of Cardiac
Arrest) around 1980, this is the live recording from 'Garage Concerts
2003 Vol2; 'the finest band to walk the face of the planet' as someone
once said, sadly brought low by illness last year in the midst of tour
plans and creativity. www.cardiacs.com
...the delightful CALLE DEBAUCHE
have sent us their self-titled new album, all the way from Tuscon, Arizona.
An instrumental 5-piece with Zappa, Eastern European (and possibly Cardiacs?!)
influences, formed 2006; album is available from them at www.calledebauche.com
CASTROVALVA are from Leeds,
they're a bass/drums/noise manipulation duo with a distinctively heavy
sound, this was from their debut self-titled mini album (out 4th May as
d/load and limited edition CD) - they're gigging now www.myspace.com/castrovalvamusic
From Japan, and singing
in their own invented language similar to Magma's Kobaian dialect,
KOENJIHYAKKEI is the full-on
avant-progressive band headed by Ruin's Tatsuya Yoshida. This is from their
new, remastered re-issue of their 2001 album 'Nivraym" just released
on Skin Graft Records with extra added sax, clarinet, keyboards and vocals!
www.skingraftrecords.com
Oakland California's GORGE
TRIO recently released album 'Open Mouth, O Wisp' is also on Chicago's
Skin Graft label, spectacular tiny avant epics with the detail and originality
you'd expect a Deerhoof, Flying Luttenbachers and Sicbay (ie 3/4 of Colossamite)
pedigree. www.skingraftrecords.com
HEY! TONAL are a bit of a
math/avant rock supergroup, including people from Rumah Sakit, Species
Being, Sweep The Leg Johnny, Sleeping People and Storm & Stress, composed
over long distances by layered re-working of the musicians: www.myspace.com/heytonal
or www.africantape.com ...
a hidden gem, on Kent band
WILD DOGS IN WINTER's hand crafted first EP, contact via www.myspace.com/wilddogsinwinter
...finally UK band ZAG AND
THE COLOURED BEADS play a gig soon, I do believe; this was from their 1988
tape album 'Sawtooth Gripmaster' - available on CD from www.zatcb.co.uk
- Marina Organ
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