Category Archives: Music
Return of the Stellas
A slow day on the blog, but it does at least give me space to blurb THE RETURN OF THE STELLAS! Yup, London’s leading ambientkrautdoomraga purveyors (with me on bass) will be playing up North London way a week today. More details here, plus images and sounds of our past triumphs. Come drone with usContinue reading “Return of the Stellas”
Prog folk metal mayhem
Well, a new day’s here and with it the new Chrome Hoof album, Pre-Emptive False Rapture. I’ve just started it playing it, and it’s delivering on everything that the reviews have promised. That is, it sounds like a metal band with a disco obsession playing Pentangle covers in a circle of Hell themed around 70sContinue reading “Prog folk metal mayhem”
X Factories
I used to quite enjoy the X-Factor (UK’s Pop Idol equivalent) audition round; the combination of the deluded, the talentless, the clearly taking-the-piss and the odd gem was just wonderful. I think the first time I saw it was about when I was running a cabaret night down in Brixton – as a rule, I’dContinue reading “X Factories”
Metal ritual overdrive
Rushing around a little unexpectedly today, so instead of a full post I’m linking to a groovy short interview with ambient metal mavens SunnO))). Maximum drone heaviosity is of course always magnificent – but what really intrigued me was the way they talk about their on-stage dress / rituals. They seem to use them toContinue reading “Metal ritual overdrive”
Processing the world
Well, last weekend was very rock’n’roll – Djinn’s fractured Arab rave beats blending with Indokrautprog mayhem from Grok on Saturday, and word / sound crossover on Sunday as M. John Harrison and Erik Davis read with Grok. Here’s the Sunday line up, waiting to groove: Grok came out of Stoke Newington’s leading boy band, theContinue reading “Processing the world”
Space is Deep
A.R. Yngve’s comment below set me thinking about the deepness of space, and a writer who’s dealt with its profoundly dislocating emptiness more successfully than most – A. E. Van Vogt. Van Vogt’s ‘Voyage of the Space Beagle’ (or ‘Space Bagel’, as it’s known round these parts) couldn’t really exist without that awareness. Its protagonist,Continue reading “Space is Deep”
Sono ergo sum
sono sonare sonui sonitum [to sound , resound, make a noise; to sing of, to celebrate]; of words, [to mean]. ‘it means what it is’
Avant garde internet radio
Just a quick reminder that Jean Herve Peron’s Avantgarde Festival 2007 begins today. If you’re near Hamburg, head on over – and if you’re not, you can listen to it live over the next couple of days by following this link (once you’re there, click the little play button at top right of the pageContinue reading “Avant garde internet radio”
Smashing the piano
Well, it’s quite the weekend of music coming up. On Saturday night, Stoke Newington’s legendary Drones Club hosts the awesome testosterone rush that is synth duo Raagnagrok, plus mash up Arabist mayhem from Djinn. More details here, it’s going to be a blast. On Sunday, as part of Resonance FM’s Month of Sundays sessions, RaagnagrokContinue reading “Smashing the piano”