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Self Fellatio, You’ll See, It’s All So Goooood
Aretha Franklin in Punk, Sometimes with Nick Cave
Shilpa Ray is an Indian American singer-songwriter. She got Indian classical music education, and learnt to play harmonium and piano. In her childhood it had been forbidden her to listen to pop music. Her first pop experience was Oliver Stone’s film The Doors. Then she has taken to music of Velvet Underground, Cramps, Stooges and Joy Division. After her bands „Beat The Devil” and „Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers” were split, she toured with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as a backup singer and supporting act. Then she recorded a version of Pirate Jenny featuring Nick Cave and Warren Ellis for compilation album „Son of Rogue Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys.” (It was co-produced by Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes’ bandmate in the band „P”, Johnny Depp.) Her latest EP It’s All Self Fellatio was released by Nick Cave’s own label in 2013.
Shilpa Ray in Palisades, Brooklyn
It’s back home that Shilpa Ray closed her 6 weeks US tour. And the gig was as stunning as the character herself. She plays harmonium (a kind of beautiful piano/accordeon instrument) that fits perfectly with her style. Wavy hair and open mouth, her cat voice hiss and miaows through the sound system sitting in front of me and I let my body speak with the alive machine.
Shilpa, I’d like to say that you’re a sort of hero. You possessed your public by spreading your healthy, angry, frustrated feeling of shame. Your natural talent is an inspiration to all the unloved ones. So what else do we need? You transform your own emotions into a real touchable and touching music. The tribality of it all, sustained by heavy beats proves that you can deal with being rough and powerful. The female fans say it surely, you inspire and transpire feminity.
John, the professional pedal steel guitar/keyboard player melts with her. He says, when playing he tries to inverse the melody making his music complementary to other’s, and that’s the magic trick of being a professional artist. This 6 weeks tour has been tough for the band, but finishing it at home just makes it seem all so smooth. Indeed, John lost himself on stage and that’s how he knows it’s been a good night!
Oooo crap, Shilpa has to fly away and there are so many things I will never know about the artist, though, after having heard what I heard I ‘ll always remember her melodic inside.
People! Do yourself a pleasurable favor and listen to It’s all self fellatio, you’ll see, it’s all so goooood.
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers
From New Records
New Yorker punks Parquet Courts is coming back under a little different name with a little different style: Parkay Quarts
„Content Nausea” album with Nancy Sinatra and 12th Floor Elevator covers
on What’s Your Rupture (US) on Nov 11th Digitally and Dec 2nd on CD/LP
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At 12 he found a camera and started taking photographs. 17: bought a synthesizer in order to make music for his images. 23: Laurent Garnier bought a car from Mr. Oizo‘s father, and there was a cassette… Do you remember him? Yes or no, this was his first hit in 1999.
The Church album on Brainfeeder Records (US)
Mr. Oizo (Quentin Dupieux) also is a film director. In his first movie (Rubber) a tire comes to life and kills people, and so on…
The Primal Brutality of Man
Swans of God
The Realization of The Primal Brutality of Man in songs
1. Children of God 2. Trust Me 3. Butcher 4. Money is Flesh 5. Blood and Honey
6. Lunacy 7. Power for Power 8. Song for a Warrior 9. Coward 10. A Hanging
11. Freak 12. The Apostate
From the album: Filth (1983): 7, 11; Cop (1984): 3; Holy Money (1986): 4, 9, 10; Children of God (1987): 1, 2, 5; The Seer (2012): 6, 8, 12
Swans are on Euro tour Oct 15: Budapest
Old Skull
THE SKULL is a new band featuring original members Eric Wagner (vocals) and Jeff Olson (drums) of TROUBLE alongside longtime TROUBLE bassist Ron Holzner, guitarist Lothar Keller (SACRED DAWN) and former PENTAGRAM guitarist Matt Goldsborough. THE SKULL formed in 2011 to bring back the unique sound of pioneer doom metal band TROUBLE. They named themselves after its second album.
The Last Judgment, Sometime Yesterday Mourning, Till the Sun Turns Black
from debut album „For Those Which Are Asleep” on November 4 via Tee Pee Records
By the way, TROUBLE is continuous.
Progressive Mad House
The PYPY in New York
They’re from Canada, and members in Red Mass and Duchess Says.
The track is taken from their debut album (Slovenly Records, US)
From New Records
Hey!Amphetamine Reptile mode Deutsch noise punk by UV Glaze
7″ single on Bachelor Records (Austria). You can find some free tracks here
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Smell swamp psych garage blues rock by The Ukiah Drag
„In The Reapers Quarters” LP and digital on Wharf Cat Records (US)
From New Records
Not many people can front a rock band, sing Górecki’s Third Symphony, lead a marching band processional down the streets of the Sundance film festival and perform in a baroque opera of their own composing — all in a month’s time. But Shara Worden can. She came from a musical family of traveling evangelists, went on to study operatic voice and then classical composition not only in the States, but also in Moscow, where she made her first records. Since 2006 she has been making art pop records under the name of My Brightest Diamond. And there were many collaborations with such artists as Laurie Anderson, David Byrne & Fat Boy Slim, Sufjah Stevens, Prefuse 73, Recoil, Bon Iver, The Blind Boys of Alabama and more.
„This Is My Hand” album on LP,CD, digital on Asthmatic Kitty (US)
She also in a very famous artist Matthew Barney’s brand new cine-opera, the „River of Fundament„, together with Salman Rushdie, Mike Tyson, Debbie Harry and Zeena Parkins, but it’s „such a mess that I sincerely hope I will never have to endure a second viewing” – wrote a critic.
The beauty of it is that she was born in El Dorado
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Classic industrial techno disco tracks taken from the split LP of STATIQBLOOM and ZEX MODEL
STATIQBLOOM is the German born Fade Kainer from New York. He has industrial metal background (Batillus, Inswarm, Theologian), member in tour band of Jarboe (Swans). ZEX MODEL is a project of Paul von Aphid from Russia, Kaliningrad (aka Königsberg, East-Prussia). It’s dedicated to mutant sounds of 80’s WaxTrax and Nettwerk Records. The split will be released later this month on Desire Records (France)
Grey Metal
The audience say:
„Holy crap. It sounds like early Pixies went black metal.”
„It’s like the Dum Dum Girls and Dark Throne.”
The competent, Jorge Elbrecht reply:
„I love black metal as much as I love Sonic Youth and the ’60s pop stuff.”
I say: It comes the Liturgy to my mind.
debut 7″ and digital single of CORAL CROSS – 001 on Mexican Summer
Elbrecht is member of Lansing-Dreiden art collective, and indie guitar pop band Violens. He made collaborative albums with Ariel Pink, Tamaryn and Caroline Polachek (Chairlift).