Robot Emperor
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Edited Oct 27, 2010, 11:29
Re: Dragontears
Oct 27, 2010, 11:26
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It must be a taste thing because I'm with Shindig, especially about Baby Woodrose. If anything I would be more scathing, I just hear a garage/beat pastiche with all originality and fire squeezed out. How boring would it be if we all agreed? Subjective/Objective strikes again.
Edit: "Hear" not "here". My opinions are thus void through stupidity.
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Dog 3000
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Re: Dragontears
Oct 27, 2010, 19:48
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I kind of agree about Baby Woodrose -- but the Dragontears project is more ambitious (and I think more enjoyable.)
Was thinking about this question of when it becomes a "good thing" to ape sounds of the past, and when it becomes a "bad thing."
I approve of The Black Angels and Black Mountain because they are "vibey" -- it's not just that they sound like the 1960's, it's that they sound like THEY MEAN IT MAAAN, and they have something to say beyond "aren't we groovy?"
(The Black Angels show I saw included a psychedelic light show superimposing industrial meat grinders with war footage and that sort of thing, while they sing about a "new Vietnam war." On one level that's all stuff that could have been done 40 years ago, but also it's very relevant to what's going on right now. History does go in circles sometimes!)
But I got no time for the style-fetish "paisley underground" type of thing. That music is "all style, NO VIBE" (only Dukes of Stratosphear managed to pull that off with any charm.)
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Squid Tempest
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Re: Dragontears
Oct 27, 2010, 22:23
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I've just been catching up with your show from the week before last (I know it's a bit late, but I've had so much to listen to!), and enjoyed the Black Angels track. Will have to investigate further. Another cracking show btw!
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Dog 3000
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Re: Dragontears
Nov 01, 2010, 01:06
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FYI update (official press release from the label):
Dragontears – Turn On Tune In Fuck Off!!
Dragontears is ready to release their 3rd album following 2000 Micrograms From Home from 2007 and Tambourine Freak Machine from 2008. The album is called Turn On Tune In Fuck Off!! and will be released November 1st on Bad Afro Records on LP/CD and Download.
Dragontears is featuring members of Baby Woodrose and On Trial and this will be the final album in the Dragontears triologi. From now on the freakier and more experimenting parts of main man Lorenzo Woodrose´songwriting, which Dragontears very much represents, will be incorborated into the music on future Baby Woodrose albums.
Turn On Tune In Fuck Off!! contains 6 songs of a very diverse nature of which 4 are in English and two are in Danish language. There is “No Salvation” which can be described as groovy doomsday funk (!?) while “My Friend” is purely accustic. “Time Of No Time” is colourful psycedelic rock with fantastic dual vocals that ends in a drone while “William” is drone all the way through and clocks in at almost 14 minutes.
The theme of the album is doomsday and it is the closest Lorenzo Woodrose has ever been to writing a concept album. He has been inspired by various conspiracy theories and the gloomy lyrics and underlying message can be boiled down to one line from “Time Of No Time”: “The raven is coming, end of transmission”.
Turn On Tune In Fuck Off!! will be released as LP/CD and Download November 1st. First print of 500 copies of the LP will include a free 7” featuring the two exclusive tracks “Astral Flash” and “Space Fuck”.
Listen to ”No Salvation” here: http://www.myspace.com/badafrorecords
Dragontears: http://www.myspace.com/dragontears2000
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