Sin Agog
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 1 August 2010 CE
Aug 02, 2010, 22:07
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Hunter T Wolfe wrote:
The Silver Apples- S/T
Oh yeah, I completely forgot about getting a meet-up together for that gig. Very weird one it was, too- at a church. I never feel like a show really takes off unless I'm up and dancing, having some kinda phsyical reaction to the music, but I wasn't brave enough to join the four or five people who rose out of the pews and danced in the aisles. Guess I haven't completely gotten over my Catholic upbringing after all. I also missed the human drum sound that gave Silver Apples' music a heart. It was kinda like seeing Can with Jaki Liebezeit replaced with a drum machine. It was worth going to for the novelty value though, I guess.
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Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 1 August 2010 CE
Aug 02, 2010, 22:12
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Sin Agog wrote: Hunter T Wolfe wrote:
The Silver Apples- S/T
Oh yeah, I completely forgot about getting a meet-up together for that gig. Very weird one it was, too- at a church. I never feel like a show really takes off unless I'm up and dancing, having some kinda phsyical reaction to the music, but I wasn't brave enough to join the four or five people who rose out of the pews and danced in the aisles. Guess I haven't completely gotten over my Catholic upbringing after all. I also missed the human drum sound that gave Silver Apples' music a heart. It was kinda like seeing Can with Jaki Liebezeit replaced with a drum machine. It was worth going to for the novelty value though, I guess.
I enjoyed it. Wasn't dancing in the aisle, but danced in my pew! I interviewed Simeon earlier, and he said the beats were all actual samples of Danny Taylor's original performances- that he hadn't the heart to replace him when he died.
Also I guess it makes touring in a hatchback easier.
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paradox
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 1 August 2010 CE
Aug 03, 2010, 08:27
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What's the Boris/Ian Astbury EP like Hunter?
Didn't realise it was out yet.
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Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 1 August 2010 CE
Aug 03, 2010, 14:15
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paradox wrote: What's the Boris/Ian Astbury EP like Hunter?
Didn't realise it was out yet.
It's meant to be out this week, though I got a promo download for review purposes. It's okay. I don't think it's either party's best work. Boris generally seem to have reined in their more extreme / experimental tendencies and it could easily have passed for a new Cult record. But their version of Rain, with Wasa on breathy whispered vocals is really good, and the last track works as a huge, apocalyptic ballad, but the first two songs are fairly standard chugging rockers, perfectly listenable, but nothing you haven't heard a million times before.
Hoping for some good joint live shows though, and I think it would still be worthwhile to take the collaboration further. These feel like tentative first steps.
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Popel Vooje
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 1 August 2010 CE
Aug 03, 2010, 14:31
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Hunter T Wolfe wrote: Sin Agog wrote: Hunter T Wolfe wrote:
The Silver Apples- S/T
Oh yeah, I completely forgot about getting a meet-up together for that gig. Very weird one it was, too- at a church. I never feel like a show really takes off unless I'm up and dancing, having some kinda phsyical reaction to the music, but I wasn't brave enough to join the four or five people who rose out of the pews and danced in the aisles. Guess I haven't completely gotten over my Catholic upbringing after all. I also missed the human drum sound that gave Silver Apples' music a heart. It was kinda like seeing Can with Jaki Liebezeit replaced with a drum machine. It was worth going to for the novelty value though, I guess.
I enjoyed it. Wasn't dancing in the aisle, but danced in my pew! I interviewed Simeon earlier, and he said the beats were all actual samples of Danny Taylor's original performances- that he hadn't the heart to replace him when he died.
Also I guess it makes touring in a hatchback easier.
I really enjoyed them at both ATP and Field Day. I definitely prefer the solo shows he's been doing over the last few years to the three-piece line-up he was touring with in the late 90s (when my band supported them). Both the guys he had in the band then were considerably younger than him, and they seemed to be trying to bring the music up to date by using modern sequencers and samples instead of the analogue oscillators Simeon used back in the 60s (and seems to be using again now).
Inevitably, as with most attempts to update the original template of a band's sound, using 90s gear just made the music sound more dated from a 21st Century point of view than their original albums (see Kraftwerk's "The Mix" for another example).
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ToneStone
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 1 August 2010 CE
Aug 03, 2010, 14:33
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Barn Owl - the conjurer
Tony Da Gatorra vs Gruff Rhys - The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness
Pendle Coven - Self Assesment
SasQwax - Studio tapes
Eloy - Floating
Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes - Paix
May Blitz - 2nd of May / 1st LP
Ffa Coffi Pawb - Clymhalio / Dalec Peilon / Hei Vidal!
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