Showing posts with label Musique Concrete. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Musique Concrete. Show all posts

Saturday, May 13, 2017

Whitehouse - Birdseed


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Monday, February 1, 2016

Monday, January 21, 2013

William S Burroughs - Nothing Here Now But The Recordings






This is an extremely rare LP compiled by Genesis P-Orridge from a hoard of tapes friend and collaborator William S Burroughs gave him. It seems pretty obscure even among blogging spheres and I had to download a compilation of Burroughs spoken word pieces and extract individual tracks to finally hear this album. It's a really unpalatable listen, doesn't get many plays from me even though I worship the man's written output. Still there's some cool moments here and there and I thought I'd put this one up for any one who loves Burroughs or is an Industrial Records completionist.

A1 "Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard"
A2 "The Saints Go Marching Through All The Popular Tunes"
A3 "Summer Will"
A4 "Outside The Pier Prowed Like Electric Turtles"
A5 "The Total Taste Is Here" - News Cut-Up
A6 Choral Section, Backwards
A7 "We See The Future Through The Binoculars Of The People"
A8 "Just Checking Your Summer Recordings"
B1 Creepy Letter - Cut-Up At The Beat Hotel In Paris
B2 Inching - "Is This Machine Recording?"
B3 "Handkerchief Masks" - News Cut-Up
B4 "Word Falling - Photo Falling"
B5 Throat Microphone Experiment
B6 "It's About Time To Identify Oven Area"
B7 Last Words Of Hassan Sabbah


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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Neutral Milk Hotel - Invent Yourself A Shortcake (1991)

Neutral Milk Hotel - Invent Yourself A Shortcake (1991, self-released cassette)
Before releasing the indie classic On Avery Island, there were a handful of self-released cassettes accredited to Neutral Milk Hotel. Most of the material was thrown together by singer/guitarist Jeff Mangum and exclusively distributed to other members of the experimental Elephant Six collective. One of the earliest is a piece from 1991 called Invent Yourself a Shortcake.

At this point, the Neutral Milk sound is radically different from what the band would come to be known for. There's a lot of sound collage / musique concrete to be found here with song titles like "Random Noise," "More Noise" and "Spooky Sounds." There are a few songs with no musical elements at all such as "Prank Call" and "Digestion Machine," and there are even a few pieces like "Charlotte" that are pure noise rock. However, there's still a bit of folky indie rock to be found, with pop songs like "My Dreamgirl Don't Exist," and "Synthetic Flying Machine" which eventually made it's way onto In The Aeroplane over the Sea.

While obviously not on par with their later, more official releases, this is a recommended listen for anyone into early 90's indie.