Re: Cod....
> Also, could you provide a little background on the artists on your mix, if
> it's not too much trouble? I'm enjoying it all so far.
Adrain Crowley: Dublin musician... http://www.adriancrowley.com/news.htm
Carissa's Wierd: R.I.P...were the critical darlings of Seattle -- often referred to as "Seattle's best" by many in the press -- little known outside Washington...first two releases are well nigh impossible to find...I have all their albums (+ two boots) on hd. Their album "Songs About Leaving" is a Sadcore masterpiece. N.B. They covered "Seudehead" for Sub-Pop's single of the month. Carissa's female Moiety Jenn Ghetto performs under the moniker "S"; she released an album "Puking and Crying" on Suicide Squeeze last year.
Will Johnson: prolific musician, mastermind behind both Centromatic and South San Gabriel...I shared SSG's new release "The Carleton Chronicles" on here recently.
Flashpapr: one of my all time favorites...Fred Thomas' (Saturday Looks Good to Me, Lovesick) sadcore project. outside a DEVOTED following, they are little known. http://www.flashpapr.com/
Soul Whirling Somewhere: Michael Plaster...another favorite...lush abjection..acoustic and synthetic...signed to projekt. http://www.soulwhirlingsomewhere.com/
Barzin: I know little about this artist other than his decent self-titled release...this song is from the (scrappy) "songs for Hinah" a french label...Currently working on a second album.
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone: "Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the musical alias of 26 year old American film school drop-out Owen Ashworth. Ashworth began making music in 1997 after he realized that song-making was a far more cost-effective means of storytelling than film-making.
Using only battery operated keyboards and electronics as instruments, Ashworth has created a hybrid strain of raw, emotional, and very homemade synth pop that is as influenced as much by film and literature as by its more obvious musical counterparts. CFTPA's claustrophobic two-minute character studies shudder with reverbed beats, blown-out chords, simple-but-infectous melodies, layered beneath the sometimes funny but always heartbreaking lyrics of Ashworth's sighing baritone."
Also see: http://www.morrissey-solo.com/articles/03/09/14/1622230.shtml
"Toby, Take A Bow"
I've never seen you so awful
I found you at the bottom of a Russian novel
Gold medal and a crown
A cardigan and a frown
All maladjusted and clever
The greatest Smiths fan ever
Your picture in the paper and the captions shout,
"There is a boy and he never goes out"
That same song on repeat
You haven't left the house in weeks
Won't even come out for dinner
Toby Grace, world record winner
I guess you thought it would make you feel better somehow
But heaven knows you're miserable now
Heaven knows you're miserable now
Heaven knows you're miserable now
So Toby, take a bow.
ONQ: Lo-Fi/Psechedelic/Sadcore...much of his material can be downloaded from here: http://www.undermybed.org/onq/mp3.html
Jacob Faurholt: Sadly, has taken up with female co-partner of questionable influence...disappointing debut album...his first three cdr releases are BRILLIANT...I have just zipped and uploaded the short (approx. 13 minutes) "Black Buildings" ep, from which this song was taken -- the most harrowing, introverted, sadcore recordings imaginable.
http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=212NVOID35LZV1C8C3DYAS6ZX5
Malcolm Middleton: The "real musician" behind Arab Strap (I am assuming that you have heard the sdacore masterpiece "Philophobia" -- I could upload...) The new release is kind of hit-and-miss, a real departure from his debut "5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine"...Arab Strap "Philophobia": http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000064A1/qid=1118286983/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/002-5913049-1845653
Humorous, yet apt, Amazon Review:
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Take away the belt and shoelaces, October 20, 2000
Reviewer: Brad Lewis (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews
"This is the most dark, depressing, morbid music I've ever heard. God it's beautiful. My only problem is the length, after an hour I feel like throwing myself out of a window. In a good way though. This is not music for dancers, it is for those of us who understand true beauty reveals itself to us while drunk and alone at 3am. Their best album, with no doubt in my mind."
Khonnor: New York Times Review
"Static covers songs like snowdrifts, blurring shapes and hinting at
mysteries, on "Handwriting" (Type), the album Khonnor (a k a Connor
Kirby-Long) made when he was 17. Khonnor, now 18, lives in Vermont and
recorded most of the album in his bedroom with an old computer, a cheap
microphone, a guitar and an obsession with layers of sound. He's an
introvert and not exactly cheerful; as the album begins, he intones,
"Finally convinced myself that I'm not living/Existing is quite a problem."
The songs are slow, laconic meditations. They emerge out of hisses,
buzzes and rustles to reveal stately melodies and the few words Khonnor
wants to sing: often just a single verse, perhaps repeated, confessing
to dislocation and uncertainty in a tone of calm desolation. In "Megan's
Present," he sings: "Something makes me feel like I'm long gone."
Around Khonnor's voice and guitar, sounds don't so much appear as
accrete: echoes, wavery keyboard tones, a sputtering sampled drumbeat,
perhaps a ghostly counterpoint. Eventually his voice drifts out of
earshot, swallowed in the sonic haze like a figure receding in the
distance. Every so often, he shows his influences: the methodical
constructions of the Cure and New Order and the equally methodical
crackles and sputters of Fennesz.
But Khonnor already has his own kind of pensive determination, and
there's always just enough song in his soundscapes to make them sound
personal, not abstract. He sounds utterly alone on "Handwriting," and he
shows how magnificent solipsism can be."
My Favorite: brilliant New York (I think) retro-pop artists. http://www.lostdetective.com/
Thee Silver Mountain Reveries: the side project of 'A Silver Mt. Zion' which is a side project of 'Godspeed you Black Emperor'.
The Handsome Family: don't really know much about this band...
