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Nurse With Wound - "The Bottom Feeder"/Jiri Barta

ZXCV Theater, vol. 2

Backyard wrestling, British style.

Best line - "Beat the meat out of his eye!"

ernie kovacs

The Walker Brothers - Nite Flights

I've had my fill of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - I'm coming home for holiday. And I couldn't think of anything more appropriate than to post Nite Flights.



Nite Flights is pitch perfect in every conceivable way, down to the title - watching whole cities pass you by - cities with no names, with people you'll never talk to...lights gone.

This is Scott Walker's nightmarish renderings of disco and post-punk. Maybe with Joy Division you can see the bottom dropping out from under you, but when you follow this album and Scott Walker's other three uber-death-rattle-schizo-sinatra albums, Climate of the Hunter the Tilt and the Drift, what you get is such a cohesively fragile piece of reality whose mood can hardly be described in words - you really have no clue where he is going to lead you.

There's no hold
The moving has come through
The danger passing you
Turns its face into the heat and runs the tunnels
It's so cold
The dark dug up by dogs
The stiches torn and broke
The raw meat fist you choke
Has hit the bloodlite

Actually the first four tracks are the only ones worth mentioning - the 6 after were composed by the other two members, the whole a very disjointed reunion album. Considering, the last tracks might have made for a decent album on its own, but Mr. Scott's compositions cast a very large shadow on everything around him..

ZXCV Theater, vol. 1

1. Insert "zxcv" into youtube (asdf works too, but qwerty is too played out).
2. Sift through detritus.
3. ???
4. Profit.

This guy really sucks. As do the captions. I do however, like his really awkward hand-off of the phone at the end.

Volcano the Bear - Amidst The Noise And Twigs

Wow...gotta say I'm pretty happy about stumbling across this one...



From Avanto Festival 2007, Helsinki: "Volcano The Bear...combines improvisation and playful experimentation with a conception of music that borders on the anthropological. Their extensive knowledge of the traditions of both experimental and folk music, combined with their other influences, makes the band a difficult one to categorise. Although VTB has been mentioned in connection with bands such as Vibracthedral Orchestra, Jackie-O Motherfucker and No-Neck Blues Band, VTB differs from the aforementioned as it consciously avoids the trance-inducing pulse in its music. Rather than trying to reach a trance through repetition they set up a ritual space where a large number of instruments associate freely. Absurd humour and eclectic ways of producing sounds are characteristic of VTB's live performances, which are largely built on improvisation. Familiar themes can be introduced as milestones on a journey towards a result, which remains unknown. The band records everything they play, and uses these recordings as raw material for their albums. For Volcano The Bear, post-processing is part of composing; their records are reminiscent of how This Heat and Faust used collage methods in rock music...The surprise element of their performances is further emphasised by the fact that their records - combinations of disciplined studio work and recorded improvisation - often sound nothing like the music played by the band on stage.


As mentioned above, if you do like Faust, This Heat, or Nurse With Wound (Who produced one of their albums) I highly highly recommend you check them out - sorry I don't have time to post just one of my favorite tracks, but if you like this there's a whole lot more to hear...


Admidst the Noise and Twigs

(Also, these guys put out a lot of limited edition releases with special packaging and other goodies which'll make that import price a little more worth it - pick it up while the bands still movin!)