More posts will be forthcoming, but in the meantime, here's the first of a number of MixCasts that will appear on Goodnight London via those folk at Mixcloud.com...enjoy.
SONG TIMES
00:00 - Alejandro Jodorowsky - Trance Mutation
03:30 - Hangedup - Go Let's Go
08:05 - Out Hud - This Bum's Paid
13:00 - Fursaxa - Alone In The Dark Wood
17:20 - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Pussy Head Man from Outer Space
24:50 - Black Ox Orkestar - Toyte Goyes in Shineln
28:24 - Piano Magic - Theory of Ghosts
32:00 - Wooden Shjips - Clouds Over Earthquake
36:40 - Clear Horizon - Distortion Song
40:20 - Tim Hecker - Blood Rainbow
43:40 - Keith Fullerton Whitman - 2nd Early Monolith
46:08 - Sunburned Hand of the Man - Too High To Fly No More
1:00:00 - End
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
RIP Tim Hart
In honour of the Steeleye Span guitarist who passed away recently, here's the band in their prime - a favourite of mine as a kid. Reminds me of those long car journeys on holiday...
Watching that video, it's funny to think that for a long time folk-rock was considered by the indie cognoscenti as deeply uncool, with it's obsession with beards, flutes, Morris dancing, ridiculous clothes, et al. Yet somehow in the last decade, the presence of Devandra Barnhart, Espers, Tunng and tons of others have brought focus to the genre again and made it passably trendy - something that's obliquely addressed in this article by Simon Reynolds on the return of the beard in guitar music. Many of these artists (even if some haven't explicitly said it) have seen their music as essentially a reaction to the blandness of MTV pop music, which is somewhat ironic given that folk rock was essentially the pop - as in popular - music of it's time; the music of the people rather than the ruling classes or the monarchy. As such, it had the potential to be a truly revolutionary medium in feudal Britain and elsewhere, which is easily forgotten when viewing with cosy, rose-tinted ironic amusement videos such as above or other 70s footage of bearded folkies (and let's not even mention The Levellers...oh damn, I have).
Watching that video, it's funny to think that for a long time folk-rock was considered by the indie cognoscenti as deeply uncool, with it's obsession with beards, flutes, Morris dancing, ridiculous clothes, et al. Yet somehow in the last decade, the presence of Devandra Barnhart, Espers, Tunng and tons of others have brought focus to the genre again and made it passably trendy - something that's obliquely addressed in this article by Simon Reynolds on the return of the beard in guitar music. Many of these artists (even if some haven't explicitly said it) have seen their music as essentially a reaction to the blandness of MTV pop music, which is somewhat ironic given that folk rock was essentially the pop - as in popular - music of it's time; the music of the people rather than the ruling classes or the monarchy. As such, it had the potential to be a truly revolutionary medium in feudal Britain and elsewhere, which is easily forgotten when viewing with cosy, rose-tinted ironic amusement videos such as above or other 70s footage of bearded folkies (and let's not even mention The Levellers...oh damn, I have).
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Christmas may be over and dusted, but the winter chill and darkness still bites in Europe...so I invite you to enjoy a seasonal cover from The European, one of the performers at the Pennyblackmusic (in conjunction with Goodnight London) bands' night at the Brixton Windmill last November. Eat your heart out, Aled Jones.
WALKING IN THE AIR by THE EUROPEAN
WALKING IN THE AIR by THE EUROPEAN
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