Senyawa
Haunted Plasma
Oneida
Psychic Graveyard
Shark In A Bathtub
d’Eon
Mabe Fratti
HYPER GAL
Lanark Artefax
Mica Levi
Scarcity
2K88
KMRU
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Senyawa Vajranala
‘Senyawa produce experimental practices by exploring Indonesian tribal, primitive sounds combined with industrial music in the most powerful way. By weaving folkloric moods with various shades of modern genre hybrids, Senyawa has been navigating unexplored musical terrain for more than a decade. Their sound is comprised of Rully Shabara’s deft extended vocal explorations punctuating the frenetic sounds of instrument builder, Wukir Suryadi’s modern-primitive instrumentation.’ — Supersonic
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Haunted Plasma Reverse Engineer
‘Opening track ‘Reverse Engineer’ redefines the word ‘epic’, as it builds from simple synths and chiming, gentle guitar to the kind of heartrending Gothic, magnificence that Type O Negative did so well, but with an underlying, cosmic Black Metal heaviness that transcends mere music over a lilting, heartfelt vocal that tugs right at the fucking heartstrings and has annoyingly reminded Dark Juan that he actually has feelings, much to his disgust. It is over nine minutes of pure, unadulterated genius that makes you love it to death while it is carving out your liver and lights as it tells a story of a downloaded personality waking up in the wrong future, one that was absolutely not planned for.’ — Dark Juan
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Oneida Reason to Hide
‘Oneida is more than just a musical project but a project born of multi-faceted creatives wearing multiple hats. Planting themselves deep within the foundations of the psych-rock world, Oneida’s ability to forge tracks originally written as melodic punk-inspired garage-rock tunes into experimental avant-garde projects is a skill they seem to have down to a T. Over the years their music has continued to serve equally as a stoner’s paradise and as a stimulant for an impromptu acid or shroom trip.’ — Laviea Thomas
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Psychic Graveyard Bellow’s Funeral Home
‘Simply checking the pedigrees (ex-Arab On Radar, Chinese Stars, Some Girls, Doomsday Student and Hot Nerdz) will only get you so far with Psychic Graveyard. With a manic output of four albums — Loud As Laughter, A Bluebird Vacation, Veins Feel Strange and now the brilliant Wilting — in nearly as many years, Psychic Graveyard make consistently thrilling and unsettled sonic artifacts for a world emptied out and flattened by a joyless, sociopathic mediascape.’ — Darryl Sterdan
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Shark In A Bathtub Suspicious Package
‘Drawing from threads pulling on the hem of classic hip hop sample culture, filtered through Arthurian / Avonian landscapes. A series of ongoing experiments in communication between us and them. Regal rhyme reinventions brush up against drum machine funk, rattling towards the upper limit deemed acceptable for a head nodding convention. The earth has been tilled, the seeds are sewn, but it needs tending to produce results. This record goes out to everyone who felt they should be doing more, when what they are doing is more than most. Patchwork, but not threadbare, moving forwards as necessity as there’s nothing behind to return to.’ — Avon Terror Corps.
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d’Eon Installation of the Cisterns
‘Though Montreal producer Chris d’Eon always leaned toward a telegenic brand of miniaturized chamber music, at first it seemed like that predilection was an accent, not the focus itself. On 2011’s Darkbloom, a split LP with then-fellow underground Canadian producer Grimes, his sacramental trilling was blended with an instrument largely absent from his new music: drums. The use of percussion, largely owing to various forms of Chicago dance music, from house to footwork, was the least interesting part of the music, but the most prominent. Dropping the propulsion to focus on warped melodies has created a new lane, one in between the avant-garde and the heavenly, the classical and the canned.’ — Matthew Schnipper
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Mabe Fratti Cada Músculo
‘Mabe Fratti says her music is like looking at yourself in a “really good mirror” and staring at “all the pores in your skin.” Her charmingly idiosyncratic songs seem to caress every small hollow, every laugh line, every curiously located freckle. The Guatemalan-born, Mexico City-based artist thrives on that kind of in-your-face freedom: She twists horns, drums, and cello into angular shapes, shifting between the structures and textures of experimental music, post-rock, jazz, and classical. It’s this propensity to let the irregular feel like second nature that makes Fratti so magnetic. Sentir que no sabes is a summons to make your own rawness a home.’ — Isabelia Herrera
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HYPER GAL「ニューリビング
‘Springing from Osaka, Japan’s cultural center and historical heart, comes HYPER GAL, a two-piece band consisting of visual artist Koharu Ishida on vocals and noise artist Kurumi Kadoya on drums. The minimalist duo make maximum impact – stripping music down beyond the bare essentials, to create shimmering, no wave pop from blast beat drums, glittery keyboard loops and ethereal bubblegum vocals – laced with velvet and firecrackers.’ — Skin Graft
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Lanark Artefax Metallur
‘Calum MacRae, known by his recording alias Lanark Artefax, is a Scottish electronic musician whose work blurs the boundary between experimental sound design and hybrid musical forms. Metallur is a 5-track EP of euphoric, amorphous night music inhabiting the phase-space between material and cyber dimensions. Emerging from a generative paradox of laser precision and fluid dynamism, the tracks fuse percussive, metallic force with warping tempos and a field of ethereal resonance and debris.’ — ICA/London
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Mica Levi Slob Air
‘Mica Levi has released a new song, “Slob Air”—their debut for Hyperdub. It is, perhaps unsurprisingly, unlike anything before from the mercurial composer: a 12-minute dream-pop epic.’ — Jazz Monroe
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Scarcity The Promise of Rain
‘The Promise Of Rain is hewn from composer Brendon Randall-Myers’ experiences conducting the Glenn Branca Ensemble have been refracted through the dark prism of black metal, but here the careful, considered orchestration of Scarcity’s earlier recordings gives way to coruscating chaos energy. From the off, there’s a sense that you, the listener, are under attack. Needling, pointilist riffs explode like showers of blinding sparks, microtonal aberrations jar the senses and basslines shift with the gristly clunk of dislocated joints being roughly put back into place.’ — Alex Deller
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2K88 GODMODE
‘Producer Przemysław Jankowiak has been busy in the Polish underground for a good long while under many guises. Most recently this year in Strata (with Hades and Kosi), previously in rap duo Syny, and as Etamski among other projects. Shame is not a rap record nor is it an update or replay of old genre moves but an attempt to channel something of their mood or essence into newer shapes. 2K88 process and pressures his samples, slicing them thin and pushing them through reverb, sifting for the sticky residue of youth and paranoia.’ — Jared Dix
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KMRU Natur
‘When KMRU relocated to Berlin from Nairobi, he was immediately fascinated by the German capital’s relative silence. Back home, he was surrounded by sound: the omnipresent churr of birds and insects, the chatter of passers-by, and the electrical smog belched out by criss-crossing power lines and roaring transformers. In Berlin, this noise was muzzled; pedestrians wandered the streets with headphones in, barely communicating, while electrical cables were hidden away underground, and wildlife retreated from the imposing, concrete jungle. KMRU compares this observation with his visual experiences. Acclimatizing to life in Western Europe, he realized that night, a dusky blue-black lit up by streetlights and shops, offered little contrast with day. Nighttime in Kenya felt more tangible, somehow. After 6PM, when the sun sets, even the dim glow of a screen can dazzle the eyes, which must quickly adapt to the conditions. And as anyone who’s closed their eyes while listening to music will know, the ears also adjust when visibility is impaired, enhancing even the tiniest sounds. So KMRU used this phenomenon to inform ‘Natur’, a billowing long-form narrative that blurs the audible spectrum with an imperceptible sonic universe, contrasting cacophonous electromagnetic soundscapes with more familiar and grounding natural sounds.’ — KSchlimmel
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p.s. Hey. Last night the writer Chris Zeischegg and I had a vidchat about my stuff and sex and life and other things, and it’s already watchable if you’re interested. Here. ** jay, Indeed. On both the good writer comment and on the the top/bottom tag’s restrictiveness. So, yeah, how was the museum or at least its stuff? ** Nika Mavrody, Hi. F-GT! ** Misanthrope, Absence makes the heart …, they say, so there’s your mindset or I guess heartset (?) suggestion. Anyway, perfect time for you to go nuts! Coke and whores! ** _Black_Acrylic, Saucy Cinema is an entirely new genre to me. Great! I can already feel the invasion of a blog post. Thanks, Ben. ** Uday, Anais Nin was the surprising one of that trio. Is she having another moment or something? So today’s your b’day? Happy happy, sir! Five days is a lot. How are you filling them or decimating them or whatever? My bedroom has a window where I and others can smoke. My guest went in my bedroom to smoke, and he didn’t mention the made bed, but he might have been being polite. ** David Ehrenstein, Kiki and I would not have gotten along, haha. ** Diesel Clementine, Wow, I’m happy that post caused such an emittance from you. Your tone is very versatile. Thank you. Worth doing, probably, yes. ** Lucas, Ah, I see, about the guide. That’s interesting. It’s just kind of barely cooling down today, so maybe I can take a chance and pre-plan some kind of non-homey weekend, but I haven’t yet. But it starts tomorrow, so I’d better hurry. In Paris, lots of stores and things close for a couple of weeks in early August for holidays, so maybe I’ll roam around stocking up on supplies. Like cigarettes. That’s the worst part. Did you watch the Rivette yet? ** Måns BT, Hi! Portugal’s nice. I really like it. Lisbon’s okay, but Porto is the best city there, I think maybe. Or the prettiest and strangest since most of it is built on this very steep slope. 41, god, so sorry. But you have AC at least, unlike blaze Paris. So true about Sade’s descriptions. And all the illogical stuff. A boy will get his genitals cut off and thrown in a fireplace then the next day men are commenting rapturously about beautiful they look between his legs. Etc. I love Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Do you like the Bela Tarr movies using his work? Do you have a favorite book of his? It’s kind of predictable to pick ‘Melancholy of Resistance’, I guess, but I do think that might be my favorite. I also really like ‘Herscht 07769’, Do you know that one? I’m sure you do. Gary Shipley is quite experimental, so it’s hard to say what the book is about. It’s kind of more of an experience or something? It’s pretty wild and violent. I’ve never heard of Istán, and I’ll look into it. Thanks! It cooled slightly down here today, so I’m going to make today an actual, functioning, outdoors day. I hope you found highly suitable things in the course of yours. ** Harper, Hi. I’ve heard people say ‘put your head down’. The ‘put’ is the strangest and most interesting part of that phrase for me, I don’t know why. I guess the power play aspect? Sorry about your maladies. My right ear has been clogged for three weeks, but I hate going to the doctor, so I’m just, like, ‘Fix yourself, ear, wtf?!’ Hm, okay, about the low testosterone. Logically, that’s good … under the circumstances? It probably doesn’t work like that, but all the luck that it ends up being considered so. The Olympics are doable and kind of interesting to live around, actually. It’s just the heatwave that’s horrifying, but I think it’s dying out maybe. Yes, the boxer thing. The big addiction to feeling outrage is so exhausting and kind of dangerous. Outrage seems like the emotional equivalent of smoking crack or something. ** Steve, Welcome home. Your relief is a form of sanity, I think. Huh, I wouldn’t have guessed that’s where Apple comes from. Strange. I just heard that the JPEGMAFIA dropped. I’ll get it. ** Jeff J, Hey! Great talking with you too. Thanks about the film. We really do need a huge break and a ton of luck at the moment. No, haven’t watched the Barrett doc yet. Too hot. Maybe later today. ** Justin D, I like rain. I’m from LA, a city so not built for rain that streets flood with the mildest downfall. I like Bonello, but I do think he’s really uneven, so I’m always kind of wary when he puts out a film. Friends have said much the same as what you said about ‘The Beast’, so I haven’t rushed in its direction. That club sequence sounds quite pretty. I’ll watch it, I will. Thank for the qualified tip. How’s the weekend looking from afar, or not so afar? ** Bill, Hmmm, indeed. ‘Flunker’ made it to SF. Whoa. I guess it’s officially born now. I would say a mask is totally sufficient, just watch out for the anti-mask brigade. I’m early-ish on the Josh Simmons experience. I’m mostly liking his visuals, his style so far. I don’t tend to have a problem with over-the-top violence, but I am not without limits, so I’ll let you know. The heatwave sucks! But it’s minutely less hideous so far today. But god knows. ** Nicholas., There’s something very addictive about house hunters international. I literally have to try to stay clear, though I don’t. Hm, maybe my favorite veggie is broccoli. I do like peas though. See what you think. The only vegetables I can’t stand are asparagus, cooked carrots, and beets. xoxo back. ** Okay. I made you one of my gigs that lines up some music (plus video) that I’ve been getting pleasure and sometimes interesting ideas from. Give it a shot. See you tomorrow.
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Oh, I loved all of that new Mabe Fratti record when I heard it for the first time, particularly the opening track, it sounded like a total revelation to me. Like a sort of slightly more analogue version of arca.
About De Sade’s regrowing genitals- weirdly, that’s one of the things in his work I really stick to, it kind of disrupts the reality of the whole thing. I’m sure it wasn’t deliberately done, but I always slightly read it as the dominant sadists slightly losing track of who and what they’ve cut up or fucked. I know there are a few artists who are inspired basically entirely around the bodies in de Sade – there’s a really bizarre fetish manga called Mai Chan’s Daily Life that revolves around the idea of people being able to regrow severed genitals / limbs, so it’s clearly something that has an audience.
Yeah, the museum was fascinating! It’s full of really early medical relics – like severed limbs or penises from the 18th century. I actually got pretty emotional seeing the scar tissue / tattoos on some of the limbs, like being able to get access to who the person was/what the limb meant to them before they lost it. Honestly, it was such a fascinating experience, really amazing.
Then we ended up talking for like three hours about a British sitcom we both like (Peep Show, I don’t know if you’ve heard of it), mostly just trying to figure out the sexual issues of the main character. I made a joke to him like months ago that I thought the hypersexual character had bad early sexual experiences, but we ended up having a really genuine conversation about how likely it is that the character we were talking about had been interfered with earlier in the show. Yknow, there are lots of shots in the show of him just staring at the ceiling during sex acts, or basically being unable to say no sexually to anyone he dates. It sounds sort of silly, but I think we both kind of understood our friendship/unhealth attraction a little more by the end.
Hi Jay, one of my favorite elements of “120 Days…” is how earlier on the libertines agree to all of these elaborate rules about which orifices are being saved for which libertine to enjoy at a later date, and then at some point toward the end (I don’t have the energy to find the exact page) it’s revealed that the libertines were disregarding all of the rules all along.
Thanks for the wishes! Anais Nin might be having another moment. I don’t like her writing enough to follow it like that, to be honest. Thanks for the wishes! I’m filling the five days by cavorting with different groups of people on different days. And getting my annual haircut. Not sure what to make of today’s post, which I like. It’s always nice to have something you can’t “get” immediately because you can (almost always) only get things by categorising them into structures you already have. Thanks.
The Hyper Gal song is great. Such a hypnotic melody!
I haven’t heard all of these yet, but I also liked Oneida, Gabe Fratti and d’Eon. It’s always interesting to see where our tastes match – or don’t – on these days. I’ve been listening to the new albums by Uniform, Masaysoshi Fujita, Kokoko!, Porter Robinson, DJ Anderson do Paraiso, Raphael Roginski, and Hakushi Hasegawa. And to fresh up my queer credentials, Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe.” Since Martin Phillipps’ death, I’ve also gotten into the Chills’ SUNBURNT, the final album from his first run with the band (although it’s basically a solo album featuring members of XTC and Fairport Convention.)
How do people serve as caretakers for their dying parents without going insane?
That story about the Big Apple was a surprise – whatever the origin of the name was, I would never guess that it was about horse racing.
The current weather in France sounds pretty rough. This weekend in New York is supposed to be very hot and rainy. I hope to get out to see the new M. Night Shyamalan film, but otherwise, I’ll be staying indoors and working.
Interesting to see what Mica Levi is up to these days. Nice video for the new one too! Her 2014 album as Micachu – Feeling Romantic Feeling Tropical Feeling Ill sounds as good as ever imo.
I might be up for doing a blog post about “Saucy GB Sex Comedies” of the 60s and 70s! Neither sexy nor funny but they did tap into something of the country’s psyche at the time. Grubby and depressing, all of it.
So Leeds have sold our Dutch striker Crysencio Summerville to West Ham, and teen starlet Archie Gray has gone to Spurs. Got to hurt! £70 million with addons for both = could be good business, though? Perhaps the 49ers and Red Bull know what they are doing.
Hey Dennis!
A couple days late response, sorry. Most of the business has been dating someone knew. Still in whatever honeymoon-y moment with them. They also write so theoretically we’ll both get back to work eventually. (Weirdly I’ve never dated someone who doesn’t also write poetry. I wonder if that speaks to the kind of people I want to sleep with or the kind of people that want to sleep with me.) I think I will try to do some writing tonight though.. fingers crossed.
Not todays post but I love that Muñoz book. His work generally I go back to a lot, I’ve not read much queer theory but of what I have read he’s been the most resonant. Per this gig, Mica Levi is the only one I’ve heard, so excited to do some listening tonight. My rotation lately has been mostly weird 80s pop, McCarthy, The Hepburns, The Pale Fountains, The Rain Parade. Definitely need some more experimental stuff to shake me out of the past, thank you.
Best, Huckleberry
Sade’s “growing genitals” ? How rude.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=marat%2fsade+film&mid=72FFEB495FD085376A7A72FFEB495FD085376A7A&FORM=VIRE
Dentopolis : Oh man, been so crazy slammed here but for sure want to share the just-posted, roving, raving interchange U & I had in Write or Die mag. https://www.chillsubs.com/writeordie/interviews/jack-skelley-and-dennis-cooper
People telling me they luv it! Chris Zeischegg’s video chat w you hit today too! Rad. Chris & I slated to grab coffee or something soon. Myth Lab L.A. multi media launch is Sat Aug 10. I’ll hit you/hype you up prior. Enjoy the Olympics neighborhood transformation or whatever it is and vibing you improved film project luck. xoxo Jackism
While I love the Sinatra, here’s my favorite version.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Nico%20New%20York%20New%20Yorkico&mid=EEB90C6F1AD2C6CD43CFEEB90C6F1AD2C6CD43CF&ajaxhist=0
A Maudit Masterpiece
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ooh, I don’t think I know any of the artists on here, that’s always cool. I haven’t listened to anything completely new to me in a while though I have gotten back into malaria! recently; they’re one of the only german bands I really like. that’s kind of annoying albeit understandable re: shops closing in august, I hope your cigarette stocking journey went well. no, I haven’t seen the rivette yet. I watched the 2022 nan goldin doc last night so I was going to watch the rivette today but I randomly got a migraine earlier in the day so I’ll probably just throw on something light and more easily digestible so I don’t feel bad about wasting my holidays not watching any movies haha. they end soon for me, actually on my birthday, which is kind of scary to think about but at least I still have two full weeks left.
Dennis, Hahahahahaha. I just read that to Alex and David and they laughed. I think I actually heard a gasp! You’ve still got it. Wait until I give them Flunker.
I hope you have a great weekend. I’m a chill a bit.
Dennis, it always amazes me how you know all about these (what are obscure to me) bands/acts/groups. It’s weird… when I was in my twenties I seemed very aware of a lot of (what was then new for its time) experimental/weird type music, but these days I feel very disconnected. I mean in terms of the pop music world I’m still aware of what’s going on pretty well, what from listening to the radio or reading the newspapers or seeing the covers of the music magazines we get in at work, but for left-field stuff, I feel very clueless these days. Maybe I’ve gotten lazy in my dotage.
Recently I’ve been planning on updating my “Top 100 Albums” list, as it’s been a couple of years since I last did so. This has entailed relistening to various albums to see how I feel about them today… King Crimson, X’s LOS ANGELES, SCott Walker’s TILT/THE DRIFT/BISH BOSH trilogy, and so on. Right now I’m relistening to Crass’ studio albums. I’ve also been on a major Garbage kick as of late, which I suppose is pretty mid… also been watching various Throbbing Gristle live concert videos. I’m kind of getting back into TG again in a big way honestly. I guess I’ve always had a soft spot for many of those harsher electronic groups from the late 70s and early 80s.
Hello!
I looked it up, and Porto looks so nice! I should really go there sometime. Yeah, the AC is the only reason I’m surviving, can’t imagine what I would do without it, really sorry about the weather situation in Paris haha.
I’m actually starting to enjoy ‘120 Days’ now that I’ve read a bit further. I’m currently nearing the end of the poop filled narration of Madame Duclos, reading about people bathing in shit is surprisingly the most enjoyable thing in the book yet. You’re right on it being very inconsistent though!
So happy someone else loves Laszlo Krasznahorkai! He’s marvelous. And yes I know ‘Herscht 07769’ but haven’t found the time to read it yet! Melancholy of resistance is great, I love just about everything I’ve read from him (wasn’t as fond of ‘Seiobo there below’, but I really liked that one too) but I think my favorite is ‘War and War’. I’ve watched ‘Sátántango’, twice actually (once in one sitting, and ‘Werckmeister Harmonies’. I love ‘Sátántango’, borderline hated ‘Werckmeister’. Or hate is a strong word, I didn’t like it. I don’t know, I just saw so many problems with it since I’d read the book before and I felt the movie skipped so many of the most interesting parts of the book, character developments and story elements important to the story. I don’t need an adaption to be a direct copy of its source material (like ‘sátántango’ is), but I thought the changes made the movie feel flat and that it lacked atmosphere. I may need to rewatch it with a different mindset though. I’d love to hear what you think about the Bela Tarr adaptions!
Today I visited a town called Ronda. Maybe you’ve know it. It’s a lot more to touristy than Istán but it’s really beautiful and usually not too crowded. They have a cool museum there that has a very weird combination of themes. They have everything from old guns, vintage movie posters, ancient coins and sculptures, real torture devices, witchcraft and a masturbation machine that’s a couple hundred years old and is still fully functional. You sit on it and spin a wheel that’s in front of you, and then a steel dildo goes up and down at the area where you’re sitting at. As I said, very weird array of objects. I don’t remember what the place is called but I’ll look it up!
Hope your actual, functioning, outdoors day was wonderful! See you tomorrow!
I’m delighted to say that, aside from the brief mention of Type O Negative, I have zero reference point for anything going on above today. Yay for learning.
Listened to the interview with Christopher earlier while at work, lotsa interesting stuff in there. I had no idea that pornography was conceptually prudish by law, I just thought it largely didn’t bother to do anything too complicated because that’s mostly not what people want when they’re trying to get off.
100% on the slave dudes proving the MFA program’s being overrated. I did a singular fall semester in an MFA program in 2010 and promptly booked it outta there. I know they have done well by plenty of people but that environment wasn’t for me.
Should have taken to selling my body instead and really honed my craft.
Have as lovely a weekend as possible!
Hey. I’m feeling a bit better, my body is just a bit worn out and confused I think. I hate going to the doctors as well, I’ve already been and they’ve said it’s nothing so I’m coming to peace with the fact that my ailments are of my own making.
Yeah, there is a bit of power play in the ‘put your head down’ phrase. It was never very helpful, and I was never very sure as to what it implied. I’m pretty sure it just means you should ignore the things that are bothering you. Easier said than done.
That Hyper Gal song is really cool. I’ve been on an exploration in the musical wilderness lately. I always am, but I mean, more than normal. I’ve been listening to all these albums I’ve been meaning to for a while. I guess I’ve been putting my biases aside and seeing if I like stuff I normally would have ignored. For example, I don’t really like prog but have found that I really like the first King Crimson album. I’ve been listening to it over and over again. I’ve been listening with headphones most days because my fan is on. However, I found out that having a fan blaring can aid certain bands, most shoegaze for example. Also, I listened to Boris’ ‘Feedbacker’ today with the fan blaring and it was kind of incredible. The fan was like an instrument.
I’ve been reading Queneau’s ‘Zazie dans le Metro’. I watched the Malle movie years ago and loved it and have read other Queneau works, but wow. I haven’t read something so funny and naturally inventive in a while. Something tells me that it was a nightmare to translate due to all of the colloquialisms and wordplay.
I watched the conversation between you and Chris Zeischegg. RT has five days left of work on it if you get the funding? That’s awesome, well done to you and Zac and I’m crossing my fingers for you for the rest of the process! From everything you’ve said about it I’m very excited!
Hey, Dennis! Thanks for the gig. I will definitely be checking these out. I’m only familiar with Oneida, so this is pretty much all new to me. Oh, yeah, thanks for linking that zoom interview you did, too — I enjoyed the chat. ‘Pecker’ was just added to The Criterion Channel, so I think I’ll revisit that this evening. Have the loveliest of weekends.
Hi Dennis,
Thank you for sharing all of these musicians! Some really wild stuff here. It’s Bandcamp Friday and you’ve got me making unwise purchases.
Thank you also for sharing that interview video – it was really interesting hearing your thoughts about filmmaking and how extreme topics can work well on the page but end up “silly” on the big screen. Gosh, I can’t wait to see the new film…though I still haven’t seen Like Cattle Towards Glow. I will remedy this.
I accidentally started an audiobook “paranormal romance” about a nerdy closeted paleontologist guy who falls for a bad-boy punk…who can shapeshift into a dinosaur. I didn’t catch that last part in the book’s synopsis before I started, but as a queer dinosaur nerd I feel extremely pandered to.
I hope your weekend is amazing! <3
Hi Dennis, what’ s up? What excellent quality + quantity of comments the blog has been attracting lately. I liked Hyper Gal a lot, listened the whole album. The rare album that seems like it would work equally well for dancers at a live show and meditators sitting still at home wearing headphones. I’d like to go to one of their shows, imagine the crowd twitching in repetitive patterns. Hence “accessible” to an audience that doesn’t normally go for the most out-there stuff, which I mean as a compliment because it’s not at all watered-down.
In the shadow of the the nightmarish geopolitical situation I had a very good week. Finally saw my new love interest again. Good dynamic so far, easygoing and not obsessive. Feels very different from my past involvements, like I used my dry spell productively to get more comfortable in my skin.
Wish you could have been with me for two dance performances. Each had a group of 5 dancers and one central gimmick. In the first the dancers held monochrome regularly-shaped blocks (square, circle, pole) that they moved along with and sometimes used to block their faces. In the second the dancers danced with child-sized string puppets that looked to be made with grey cardboard and clear tape, different kinds of mirroring between the dancers and the puppets.
I’ll send you a brief outline of an idea I have for a dance/mime performance. I need to find a choreographer to work with. Have never done anything like this before but this idea has stuck around in my mind for a while and I think it’s worth pursuing. How did you get started with dance performances?