The Index Reuploaded

For the sake of a Pale Saint I've reuploaded The Index' record. Enjoy.

Peter Brötzmann Octet - Machine Gun

So it's been a while since the last post. I've been busy doing other non-important things.

Peter Brötzmann is a legend on the sax. Early nicknamed as Iron Lung: You do the math. Machine Gun is often consideren one of his central works. A brutal and raw freakout that you absolutely must hear if you like free jazz with a capitalized 'free'. Playing with

• Peter Brötzmann (tenor and baritone saxophones)
• Evan Parker (saxophone)
• Willem Breuker (reeds)
• Peter Kowald (bass)
• Buschi Niebergall (bass)
• Sven-Ake Johansson (drums)
• Han Bennink (drums)
• Fred Van Hove (piano)

You sure will enjoy.


Well. Talk talk. Just listen to the record.

Here.

Urban Sax - Urban Sax 1

Urban Sax was founded by Gilbert Artman, French saxophonist, in 1973. The first act was played at the Menton Musical festival and by this time, the group consisted of eight saxophonists. Since then the concept evolved and today it's not unusual for the performance group to have more than 50 musicians on stage at time. It's always with Saxophones as the main instrument, though Artman has let percussion and vocals into the ensemble occasionally.


Since he often integrates local musicians and dancers, the performances can have more than 200 participants. The performances are often of an almost occultic character - the musicians wearing space suits and gas masks, while playing their drones on saxophone.

Pictures, videos and audio can be found at their homepage.

Urban Sax 1 is their third album released on celluloid in 1986 along with Urban Sax 2. The album is minimalistic and droning unlike anything else really. The effect of all those sax'es playing together is undeniable, and.. Pretty amazing. This album is highly recommended, and you can

get it here

Anima Sound/Anima

From the Nurse With Wound list.

Anima Sound - Stürmischer Himmel and Anima - Via (track 1-4 missing)

Get them here

Venetian Snares - Songs About My Cats

Aaron Funk is the man behind Canadian breakcore act Venetian Snares. Calling it breakcore is a limited description though. His tunes and tracks often consists of programmed pianos taking atonality into new grounds, some times it's just the sound of apocalypse, and then again, some times it's almost danceable in some uncomfortable way. The real Beauty of Songs About My Cats struck me one morning after a party, there where a lot of cleaning and a lot of headache involved, when I reckoned it would be fun to piss the other writer of this blog off (he was asleep). So I put the album on, knowing that the chance of my head not exploding was mere. Funny thing happened when the album turned out to be really good music for hangovers. I wouldn't say that i danced, but strange things occurred with my limbs that morning.

Anyway, you should enjoy it too.

Released: 2001
Label: Planet Mu

(That was a new feature. Makes it look cool)

This was written while listening to Iron & Wine - The Creek And The Cradle

Orphanage - 50 Minutes Freestyle

It's not easy to find any info about this hip-hop supergroup consisting (on/off) of Slug, Eyedea, Aesop Rock, Illogic, Sage Francis and Blueprint. You would think that a group like this would get a lot of attention, however they don't. Primarily because they haven't made any official releases, so most of what I was able to find was sporadic freestyles, some co-ops with Atmosphere and some internal work on each others albums. However I did find a show in full album-length with Blueprint and Illogic freestyling and performing some of their respective songs. Throughout the show appearances from the other rappers occur, but as said, it is Blueprint and Illogic primarily. The show suffers from bad sound and some surprisingly bad mic-skills from the rappers. It is a supergroup though, and they are some rather decent freestylers, so it's worth to check out, and it's worth keeping in mind for future releases. If you wan't to listen to some of their studio-work, they appear on Blueprints The Weightroom and Atmospheres Sean Like Ugly Girls 4.

Enjoy here.

This was written under influence of Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Headdress

R.I.P Oink

The shutdown of Oink is one of the most important events in modern music history, and won't go unseen neither to this blog. There's so much to say about it, so many feelings about both the major labels, the shutdown of oink and the music business in general. I won't though. It has all been said way better and with much more power than we ever could.

If you haven't been there yet, read it now.

R.I.P.