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15 posts tagged xs
The Brothers Four - Greenfields
Listening to this song, you wonder if the Brothers Four are in on just how goddamn creeepy it sounds. Amazingly haunting vocals and strange, menacing lyrics (something about the way they sing, “until you learn” is rather intense).
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Eyvind Kang - The Yelm Sessions
Doesn’t seem like often Eyvind Kang pulls out the synths, but man, they absolutely kill on this song. Not one prone to hyperbole, I can assure you that this is the best thing ever.
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Alvarius B - Funny Thing Is
Alvarius B (Alan Bishop of the immortal Sun City Girls for the uninitiated) covers Ennio Morricone… I don’t really need to write anything further to impel you to give a listen, except to say that it’s even more beautiful than one would expect. AB turns down the snide, amps up the “lonely organ” (as Byron Coley aptly calls it) and sends shivers up me timbers. Unfortunately limited to 300 pressing upon release. No, I don’t have one either.
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“The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.”
JOHN CAGE
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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Secret Chiefs 3: UR - Labyrinth Of Light
This is what it’s all about. From the amazing cover art to the faux-live audience noise, this is a singular gem in the ever-magnificent and impossible to over-state conceptual artistry that is the career of SC3. Released a few years ago as part of a series of 7”s dedicated to SC3’s “satellite” or alter-ego bands (the sleeve of which was fabulously “aged” as this was, of course, recorded live during one of UR’s legendary European tours in the 70s), this track is backed with the equally awesome Circumambulation. Also available on Satellite Supersonic Vol. 1, a collection of (most of) the music released by the satellite bands. Super epic organ-driven progtacular surf rock with some mystical funk & analog synth for you - get it!
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“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”
FRANCISCO DE GOYA
Sinoia Caves - Through The Valley
Beautiful analog synthscapes from Jeremy Schmidt (Black Mountain). Sort of like being in outer space and at the bottom of the ocean simultaneously. ‘Cause I totally know what that feels like.
Sinoa Caves at Jagjaguwar
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“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”
H. G. WELLS, ‘THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE,’ 1901
