Formed in the late 60’s by Rainer Brüninghaus, Houschäng Nejadepour, Detlev Landmann, Herbert J. Kalveram and Bill Brown, EILIFF were a German instrumental band who turned fusion on its head with a pair of studio albums featuring classy Canterbury-style jamming with bass, guitar and keyboards plus some ethnic instruments thrown in (mostly the sitar). Two […]
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Dome #1 – A little retro punk pleasure
posted by lisathatcher
Punk brought us many diverse pleasures, the best of which remain little known and still cushioned in a kind of semi-permanent underground where the authentic gather (one presumes) to laugh at the record collections of the rest of us. In order to gather a little cred with these folk (whoever “they” are – and we all […]
Like Falling out of Trees into Collectors Albums – Patrick Farmer and the field.
posted by lisathatcher
“With no small case of uncertainty or elation, in equal measures all pertaining to all that they pertain, I attached microphones to the bamboo, recorded, stepped backwards, a number of everything’s occurring, in apparent nothings. The opening recording, a peculiarity of sole spontaneity. Though how far spontaneity stretches when recording equipment is ensconced in the […]
Air Supply – Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet go deeper into the realm of the Breadwinner.
posted by lisathatcher
I recently reviewed The Breadwinner by Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet on this blog. That disc and its followup, Air Supply, are not recent releases although they are both available at Erstwhile Records still. However, the contribution to the ongoing musical conversation they make is valuable, and back in 2010, Air Supply was a disc that made it into most “best” […]
Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch: Concerning the Entrance into Eternity – the spirit of a new music.
posted by lisathatcher
“With regard to the general subject of the life of souls, that is, of novitiate spirits, after death, I may state that much experience has shown that when a man comes into the other life he is not aware that he is in that life, but supposes that he is still in this world, and […]
Green just as I could see – Andrea Neumann and Bonnie Jones provoke our symbolist “face”.
posted by lisathatcher
The Appeal to the other made on Bonnie Jones’ web page regarding the task of listening to her work (she describes it almost as a kind of sound poetry which I liked a great deal) is one of collaboration. As is often the case with music of this nature, the listener and what they bring […]
Radio Paradise – Mike Cooper In Beirut: Pynchon, Hawaiian shirts and The (deconstructed) Blues.
posted by lisathatcher
What a gem I was lucky enough to trade my finances for in the purchase of Mike Coopers Radio Paradise. This stunning disc with its deconstructed devotion to Pynchon, its heavily disguised blues covers and it’s demand for an intelligent listener is a diamond in the coal mine of 2012. Mike Cooper has been a blues […]
Sam Pettigrew – Domestic Smear: Bass as Theatre
posted by lisathatcher
The claim made by Sam Pettigrews beautiful disc Domestic Smear is that the bass acts as theatre in order to have us question the very triggers inside us that provide the already always aspect of who we are and how we listen. Here is the central premise and the primary claim of Domestic Smear: “Domestic […]
Conrad Schnitzler – Ricardo Villalobos – Max Loderbauer – Zug reshaped and remodeled
posted by lisathatcher
I have a lovely little treat for you lucky lucky readers today! Anyone who reads this blog knows of my deep abiding love of Conrad Schnitzler and my appreciation for what he did within the world of electronic music. Of course I’m not the only one who feels this way about him. M=Minimal have dedicated a large […]
Friendsound – Joyride: Time to chill.
posted by lisathatcher
A lovely little retro pleasure for you today. Self-produced, 1969’s “Friendsound” makes absolutely no attempt to go down the commercial road and to ours ears may deserve to be noted as one of the first real “jam” albums. I’ve got the album in toto for you here – lets take a listen-peek at side the first… Now don’t that […]
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