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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…
From New Records
TIT is a cooperation between synth punk Digital Leather‘s Shawn and Bobby Hussy from garage rock duo Hussy.
12″ EP on FDH and Volar Records (US)
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Teenanger doesn’t calm dawn
E.P.L.P. by Telephone Explosion Records (Can).
By the way, they’re a punk band in Toronto.
Paths without Directions
Ty Segall – „Manipulator”
or „The Ballad of Sue Thumb” or „The Faker Wants Your Place”
album review
Paths without directions
Eclipse of the haunting icons
Construction without an aim
Rule the thoughtfully arranged game
Revolution without blood
Carrying the cross of the patience as a lug
Ease, experimentation and fury
Standing tall in the gown of liberty
A crawler without a grin
Before the verities had been scratched into the skin
Tried to keep calm
But the wires were shrieking under his fingers burning in napalm
Characters without faces
Ravel out the endless piles
In a race against the clock
Vagabond caravan swirling in burgundy rose petals
Skinny lover without a coyote fur
Creased beer bottles on a velvet seat cover
The princess kept the view
A calm nirvana in the desert of the last Sioux
Prosector without a lancet
Lying on Sunday afternoon’s blanket
Catch the aspects how your face reflects
In the wreath a dozen of singing cats
Paths by now have been woven by The Golden State’s son
Denoting ideas of this aeon
And the configuration slowly became
The seventh rose of the tamed
released by Drag City (US)
Ty Segall Euro Tour Oct-Nov with JC Satán
Saul Conrad in Europe Again!
The American musician, Saul Conrad plays „hard to categorize”, perhaps „experimental chamber pop” or „other” music on piano and guitar with surprising key changes, nonsensical rhythmic shifts, overlapping melodies, and folk elements.
His third album (read about!) – which is more popular than previous two (listen to!) – was influenced by Kirkegaard and William Blake, Townes van Zandt and Blaze Foley, Harry Nilsson and Syd Barret, and more. Sycamore, from his 1st album
10/19 London, UK – The Windmill, Elliot Smith tribute night
10/20 Ford, Argyll, UK – Ford House 10/22 Avellino, Italy – Godot Art Bistro
10/23 Budapest, Hungary – Hátsó Kapu 10/24 Budapest, Hungary – Müszi
10/25 Vienna, Austria – Mo.e 10/26 Lyon, France – Kraspek Myzik
10/29 Hamburg, DE – Hasenschauke 10/30 Berlin, DE – Madame Claude
10/31 Leipzig, DE – HanDstand und Moral
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
From New Records
The new songs of Purling Hiss come to Dinosaur Jr to my mind, but this Philadelphian trio is better. I can’t endure J. Masics’ mewing.
„Weirdon” album on Drag City (US)
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Thank God, less experiment and more music by Dan Melchior and Walker Russel (Pheromoans). „Kraut-influenced space rock.” Maybe, I don’t know.
7″ by Kill Shaman Records (US)
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.
From New Records
High quality raw lo-fi garage punk shit from Memphis, Tennessee by Manatees, debut album, recommended for everybody
„sit n spin” LP on Pelican Pow Wow Wow Records (US)
The pic has been clipped out from Verbicide Mag. It was shot by Josh Miller
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“Clppng: make party music for the club you wish you hadn’t gone to, the car you don’t remember getting in, and the streets you don’t feel safe on.”
After the end of Death Grips, maybe the Clipping from LA is the number one noise hop band. They’ve recorded 2 songs together with special unknown guest stars, e.g. Signor Benedick The Moor. This digital single is free
From New Records
After Kraftwerk’s Autobahn here is the „Interstate” by The Pen Test
LP on Moniker Records (US)
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Heavy trip-hop-like music by Canadian band, Dralms
debut 7″ on Fulltime Hobby (UK) and Fat Possum Records (US) and digital single
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)