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Fire! with Jim O’Rourke – Unreleased - August 2011 August 7th, 2011
Having wet-nursed the experimental ambitions of upwardly mobile rock bands, such as Wilco and Sonic Youth, Chicago’s irrepressible musical explorer Jim O’Rourke split to Japan in 2006 to rediscover the personal voice he’d subsumed somewhat into star names’ signature sounds. The Swedish free jazz saxophonist Mats Gustafson’s Fire! trio came to Tokyo and invited him…
How I Escaped My Certain Fate - August 2011 The Independent - August 7th, 2011
Stewart Lee gave up stand-up comedy in 2001 after deciding that his material was “arch, cynical, tired, fake, conceited, formulaic and flat”. He threw his energies into co-writing and directing Jerry Springer: the Opera, which earned him an Olivier Award, opprobrium and no money. In 2004, he began his comeback as an “alternative” comedian, and…
Longstone – Sakura - July 2011 July 31st, 2011
Cheltenham’s durable electronics duo, Longstone, enlist various local experimental luminaries in a suite of fizzy noise, with all profits to Japanese Tsunami relief charities. Clattering blips arrive, from Dusseldorf via Detroit, and bleed into becalmed woodwinds. Cautious melodic progressions emerge from shuddering systems of un-danceable beats. Ice sheets of high end drones slide into the…
Crumbling Ghost – Crumbling Ghost - July 2011 July 31st, 2011
Crumbling Ghost’s rough hewn debut is a glorious mess of Seventies British prog structures, needling Krautrock jams, gut-churning doom metal riffs, and spritely modal English folk tunes. Perhaps there’s too many sketchy instrumentals, and second guitarist John Mosley’s occasional vocals are somewhat tentative, but The Collector, sounding like the German space-heads Amon Düül 2 playing…