Death In June - But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter? (1992)
This collection is WONDERFUL given you enjoy the sound. If you don't like the sound, the lack of general variety will absolutely repel you. It's folk noir/dark folk/whateveryouwishtocall it. Folk guitar, restrained (but effective) vocals, additions of keyboards, occasional trumpet (on 3 tracks), complete with dark and intellectually provoking lyrics.
Death in June - Little Black Angel (Live in New York 2002)
Credits:
Backing Vocals - David Tibet (tracks: 7, 9, 12) Engineer, Mixed By - Ken Thomas Keyboards [Additional], Percussion [Additional], Vocals [Additional] - James Mannox (tracks: 5, 6, 9), Simon Norris (tracks: 5, 6, 9) Performer, Songwriter - Douglas P. Photography - Darren Bentley Producer - Douglas P., Ken Thomas Trumpet - Campbell Finley (tracks: 3, 6, 11)
Notes:
Written between March, 1989 and April, 1992 in Sydney, Adelaide, Paris, Rome and London. Engineered and mixed at Jacob's Studios, Farnham and Alaska Studios, London.
Track Listing:
1. Death Is The Martyr Of Beauty (3:50) 2. He's Disabled (4:08) 3. The Mourner's Bench (2:31) 4. Because Of Him (3:46) 5. Dædalus Rising (4:52) 6. Little Black Angel (4:18) 7. The Golden Wedding Of Sorrow (3:36) 8. The Giddy Edge Of Light (5:07) 9. Ku Ku Ku (1:52) 10. This Is Not Paradise (5:27) 11. Hollows Of Devotion (3:29) 12. But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter? (3:15)
Go by some juicy meat of her! Shes Extremely unfriendly & won't let you take any photos of her even if u ask politely! It was actually quite a mission to get these two pictures full paparazzi style, I was having heart palpation's waiting for her to come running up the street after us with her Meat hammer! Shes located on Kings Street Newtown. Such a darling
Much of Current 93's early work was similar to late 1970s and early 1980s industrial music: abrasive tape loops, droning synthesizer noises and Tibet's distorted, excoriating vocals. This early work became influential with the goth scene. Later works found Tibet mostly casting off such trappings in favor of a more organic sound, labeled by some as "apocalyptic folk" music, occasionally featuring his sinister nursery rhyme-influenced singing and primarily acoustic folk-styled music.
Influences JESUS CHRIST, The Bible, The Gospel of Thomas, everything in COPTIC, Koiné Greek, the Jesus Prayer, the Desert Fathers, Beauty pouring out, the clouds scudding by, Sir Thomas Browne, Seahorses, Kierkegaard, Jewish mysticism, the Mother Mary and Jesus and Christ and GOD, Cats, Saint Louis Wain, Roman Catholicism, JUDAS PRIEST, John Coltrane, ROB HALFORD, Russian Orthodox Christianity, Birger Pearson,The New Creation, Walter Ewing Crum, Baby Huey, Sylvester, David Hall, BONNIE TYLER, The Monophysites, Shooting BLACK SHIPS out of the SKY with children's voices, Blessed John Bradburne, Cyndi Lauper, CS Lewis, Thomas Ligotti, The Temptations, John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Queen (the group), Queen (The Queen), JRR Tolkein, "RIPPER" OWENS, John Phillips, Mike & Jan & Tamlin Magee, Roy Buchanan, organic lemons, His Holiness Chi.med Rig.'dzin Lama Rinpoche, AE Housman, Edward Alexander, Geoff Cox-Dorée, Jackson Browne, Sri Subramaniam (Murugan) and his brother Vinayagar, Alice Cooper, Milton, Ten Years After, Isaac Haye, Marvin Gaye, Dante, Joni Mitchell, David Lindsay, Mani, Rickie Lee Jones, Gene Clark, David Crosby, Silmaril, Albert Ayler, David Surkamp, Pavlov's Dog, Carly Simon, Judee Sill, Face of Grace, To Mega Therion, The New Creation, Edmund Monsiel, Silberbart, St. Paul, Clea Duvall and Reese Witherspoon, Jethro Tull, Mithtras, PinkFaceDeathFace, Henry Boxer, The Eagles, Michel Houellebecq, Count Stenbock, RH Benson, The Eagles, Joanna Newsom, Killer Flower Coil, Ben Chasny, Budgie, King Crimson, Sunn O))), Patripassianism, Cream and Eric Clapton, Public Foot the Roman, Mountain, Attila Csihar, Zoolander, Curved Air, Evelyn Waugh, Celtic Frost, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Steven Stapleton, Shirley Collins, Mark Logan, Timothy d'Arch Smith, Shenoute and Shenouda, Ornette Coleman, Six Organs of Admittance, Grrr and Warrr, Michael Cashmore, Joni Mitchell, Astanga Yoga, Rush, Professor Stephen Emmel, Professor Barbara Emmel, Professor Bentley Layton, Professor Lance Eccles, Professor Heike Behlmer, Professor James Goehring, Professor Sebastian Richter, Dr. Anne Boud'hors, Neil Young, Nikolai Obouhov, Alexander Scriabin, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Hymenæus Beta, Bill Fay, COLTRANE ALICE AND JOHN AMEN, Hamish Hendry and Anna Wise, Santana, Hush Arbors, Marc Almond, the Coptic language, Alexei Stanchincky, Jobriath, Aleister Crowley, Larsen, (r), Marc Bolan & Tyrannosaurus Rex and T. Rex, Pink Fairies, Dennis Wheatley, William Breeze, Keith Richmond, Tamil, Malaysia, Graham Bond RIP, The ETERNAL Jhonn Balance, Plainchant, Soeur Marie Keyrouz, Hammer horror films, tortoises and turtles, Biblical Prophecy, Ivan Panin, Freddy Mercury & Queen, Pictures Of Billy, Nurse With Wound, Baby Dee, the Bee Gees, Jackson Browne, the signs in the stars, the Rapture, Aquaman, Dr Strange, Andrew WK, the Silver Surfer, the Pop Group and Mark Stewart, all organic foods, apocalypses, Martin Stone, Tibetan rNying.ma texts, slugs, trees and forests, my father and mother, moths, Batu Ferringhi, Ronnie Spector, organic pretzels, Hawkwind, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, ELP (Emerson, Lake and Palmer), The Nice, Wishbone Ash, Blue Öyster Cult, Montserrat Figueras, deep-sea fish, moonstones and opals and jade and lapis lazuli, Diamanda Galás, Simeon Solomon, Yes, Don Bradshaw-Leather, Om (Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, as was), Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, nasi lemak, Judas Priest, hypnagoguic imagery, Patripassianism, Colour Me Rubber, Ramases and Ram & Sel and Ram & Seleka and Ram & Selket, Pascal's "Pensées", Dostoyevsky, pasta with garlic and olives, the Small Faces, Fatima, the Crack of the World, Vulvaic Song, Matrix and Matrices, Noddy and Gnoddy, fairy tales, playground chants, Russian Chant, Komitas, GladHead, Comus, Sally Vickers, Rudolf Steiner, Mary Baker Eddy, The Seven Trumpets, FaceHa!Lake, Lynn Jackson, The Trees Community, Pearls Before Swine. Trees, howling, Muldrun Leafen, SevenFace, Alan Judd's "The Devil's Own Work", Liber OZ, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Narnia Books, Aeolian Harps, Anne Briggs, Black Sabbath, Peachface, the Emperor's New Clothes, MR James, the Latin Mass, Malachi Martin's books, the Groundhogs, Leafhound, constellations in all dimensions, organic (green and jasmine and breakfast) tea, Death Vessel, Schwester Benedicta Wallace OSB, Genesis, Julian of Norwich, Marc Almond, Egypt, England, Blue Cheer, the SEA, Moon Jellyfish, ferns and lichens and moss, Marcel Pérès & Organum, The Wizard of Oz, Electric Wizard, Sebastian Horsley, Simon Finn, Curse The Purse Nurse, William Basinski, Stephen O'Malley, Tom Rapp, King Crimson, Eno, Klaus Nomi, Jobriath, Sir Thomas Urquhart, Humble Pie, Amanda M. Ros, all the CATS in the WORLD and in HEAVEN, Sandy Posey, organic shortbread biscuits, Al Stewart, Cardinal Newman, Looney Tunes cartoons, Cripple Sound, Grendel, Polar Sodom, early Gospel/guitar evangelists, Crass, Nick Blinko and Rudimentary Peni, Cran, Sister Benedicta, Cheers For Fears, Young Frug, Peter Frampton, Starlight Vocal Band, Blind Willie Johnson, AC and Blind Mamie Forehand, Am I LambLand?, Shibboleths, My Beloved Wife Dri, The Wandering Jew, Washington Phillips, Sacred Harp singing, Led Zeppelin, massed guitar charge, Arthur Doyle, Charlie Patton, William Lawes, John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany", Gilgamesh's teleological thought-strokes, Nabokov, St. Eustace, St. Rita, Angels and Archangels, The Cloud of Unknowing, High Tide, walnuts, DogTired DogTide, FaceTheFloodBud, FurThurLayThur, the women of Naqqada, "The Exorcist" film, Tapestry, Tod Wodicka, Claire Wigfall, Michel Faber, Sebastian Horsley, Rockey Palmer and all and AL.
What’s been described as "a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe" is in fact the unique audio work of Justice Yeldham, a maverick musician with an unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass. By pressing his face and lips against the glass whist employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries, he turns disguarded household windows into crude musical instruments. Resulting in a wide variety of cacophonous noises that are strangely controlled and oddly musical.
Herbert Khaury, better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice (his normal singing voice was baritone). He was generally thought of as a novelty act, though his records display a wide knowledge of American songs. He had no official middle name, though some web sites report that it was "Butros," his father's first name, but adopted Buckingham for no explained reason. Accordingly, his headstone reads "Khaury / Herbert B / Tiny Tim / 1932 1996".
God Bless!
Tiny Tim - "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" 1968
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Blonde Redhead is an American rock trio comprised of Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace. The band takes its name from the song with the same title by DNA, a no wave band from New York. The band performs in multiple languages including English, Japanese, Italian, and French.
Dead China Doll have always existed under the radar. In fact, even to get my hands on this album I had to get a phone number from a friend and then rendezvous with the bass guitarist at his work. The band seem most comfortable dwelling in the shadows, with their commercially unacceptable song titles, the often drawn-out soundscapes and non-linear arrangements making them the kind of group that you are unlikely to hear overplayed on your local radio station anytime soon.
The music, separated into five tracks that span in duration from six-and-a-half minutes to a whopping eleven minute epic, is probably too intense for anything more than a single serving per day. The track breaks are completely irrelevant as well, given that it's impossible to imagine this record not being listened to from start-to-finish as a single body of work.
The unconventional path this record takes is powered primarily by it's complete lack of familiar structure. The disjointed 45 minute journey continually sparks off into numerous different directions at once, without any care as to how it plans to make it to it's destination, or even return to where it all began. It's this central ideal of throwing caution to the wind, creating songs that revel in their broken song arrangements and musical wandering, that makes this such an enjoyable slab of music.
The epic nature of the record is not only achieved through the stretched length of each of the songs, but also the injection of orchestral elements alongside the thrashing of guitars and pounding rhythm patterns. It adds an emotional side to the music, which if not utilised would leave the songs sounding a little too much like theatrical prog-rock jam sessions.
This battle between the gentle use of cello and the smashing of punk riffs is also part of the album's most effective weapon - contrast. The quiet moments are required just as much as the thunderous climaxes. The ear-bleeding screeches of guitar snuggle up next to piano loops and pounding drum lines in a confusing, yet completely natural way. At times the landscape is stark and baron, while in the very next instance it's an over-crowded palette of ideas, all fighting to be heard and recognised. It rarely stays on one theme too long, but in the same regard pulls a lot of it's strength from the control of the sounds and the way in which each piece of music builds to various points of either climatic joy or bone rattling terror.
It's doubtful the band realise it, but this album is part of a much larger picture - an emerging, gutter dwelling sub-genre of Australian music where Dead China Doll find themselves as the Sydney representatives. Much like Witch Hats, Spider Vomit and Snowman, Dead China Doll paint a dark picture with scattered moments of brightness creating a fantastic antithesis of ideas and sounds. This isn't the smoothest journey, but it's definitely rewarding and worthy of your time. I can't imagine any other Sydney group releasing such an engrossing and unbelievably powerful record this year.
01 Hip Kit (4:56) Guitar - Sam Smith/Vocals - Ginger 02 Smog (3:03) Guitar - Sam Smith 03 Mandolino City (2:12) Guitar - J.B. Mondino 04 Le Petit Train (5:46) 05 Perfect Eyes (3:30) 06 ongue Dance (4:45) Bass - Gilbert Monin/Drums - Jesse Johnson/Trumpet - Guy Barker 07 Singing In The Shower (4:22) 08 Petite Fille Princesse (3:33) 09 Harpie & Harpo (2:56) 10 Ailleurs (3:47) 11 Live In Las Vegas (4:18) Guitar - Jesse Johnson
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (formerly punctuated Godspeed You Black Emperor!; also referred to as GYBE) is an avant-garde Canadian post-rock band based in Montreal, Quebec. Formed in 1994, the ensemble has been influential in its genre, with widespread critical acclaim. Working on a near orchestral scale, the nine-piece group had been known to use wide dynamic ranges; unusual use of instrumentation and sounds; elongated songs, composed classically, with multiple movements therein; and use of art and visuals in both their album packaging and live performances.
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