10/07/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Le Grand Wazoo
02. Ichtriol
03. Rhodamine
04. Sixplusone
05. Expellant
06. Lyrics Are Never More Important Than The Music
07. Route 27
08. Hymen
INFO
"Oh, good," you're saying to yourself. "Weird instrumental rock from the Czech Republic." Even better (sigh), it's music that its makers call "compost rock," which turns out to be a pretty apt term: imagine a large pile of musical influences that includes everything from electronica to psychedelia to hardcore to prog, and that slowly collapses in on itself, producing a warm, fragrant, unified whole. Frankly, it's probably a good thing that this music is instrumental, since it's hard to imagine what kinds of words or sung melodies could go along felicitously with the strange, faintly dubwise "Le Grand Wazoo" or with "Sixplusone," which features synthesized marimba and ends up sounding like a cross between Dinosaur Jr. and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. "Ichtriol" doesn't go much of anywhere and doesn't offer much fun along the way, but "Rhodamine" cooks nicely and "Hymen" features both a fun 5/4 time signature and spooky, Pere Ubu-flavored synthesizer noises -- and if there's one thing today's world could use more of, it's spooky, Pere Ubu-flavored synthesizer noises (though whether it needs more songs titled "Hymen" is open to debate). Not bad at all.
Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
LISTEN: Le Grand Wazoo
Etiquetas: C, dub, Indie, instrumental, math rock, Post-rock
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Tracklist
01. Aquest joc [3:20]
02. Al carrer [3:03]
03. Tortuga [3:43]
04. Èxode [5:25]
05. Caixa d'eco [2:42]
06. Una setmana sencera [3:58]
07. Després dels primers [3:01]
08. Sagitari A [2:14]
09. De tietes i filles [4:45]
10. Dos eriçons [11:10]
Info
Talking about Nisei in 2007 has nothing to do with the universe of their debut, "More Light" (Bcore) in 2004. For a main reason: Nisei have become "the first band ever". The first band ever in doing something as simple and as deep and authentic like playing an unusual musical genre half way from Washington DC and Chicago in their mother tongue: Catalan. A lot of Spanish bands and Catalan as well play this kind of music in English, but Nisei are the first to do it in Catalan. They also open their book of styles, approaching to a certain tradition of European rock that mixes musical genres from the other side of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean with a native sensibility. In “Continents”, Nisei add improvised guitar duels, old keyboards, trumpet riffs or tribal choirs, always looking for the naturalness of the ’70 more than the precision of the ’90. Now also with Marc, they use guitars as another rhythmical instrument, leaving Cristian the possibility to play trumpet, keyboards or a second drum kit.
They added a lot of dub to all this, and recorded the album at Maik Maier Studios with Jens Neumaier and Maik Alemany to make sure all the delay effects were done with an analog tape machine and not digital plug-ins. And finally, they sent the final mix to Bob Weston to give the desired rawness and warmness to the mastering. With all these ingredients, they could only do such an artistically compromised album like this, extraordinary from its conception, which should be considered a turning point, a reference or, at least, an impressing demonstration of personality, talent and braveness.
Bcore
Listen: Al Carrer
Etiquetas: dub, nisei, post-hardcore, Punk, Rock
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(1) comments12/28/2007
Tracklist
1. Victorious Dub [3:34]
2. Reality Dub [2:47]
3. Peach Dub [3:50]
4. Shocking Dub [4:47]
5. Iron Bar Dub [3:44]
6. Bitch Dub [4:37]
7. Cultural Dub [3:28]
8. Brain Smashing Dub [3:31]
Info
Linton Kwesi Johnson (aka LKJ) (born 24 August 1952, Chapelton, Jamaica) is a British based dub poet. He became only the second living poet to be published in the Penguin Classics series. [1] His poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Creole over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with renowned British reggae producer/artist Dennis Bovell.
Johnson attended Goldsmiths College in New Cross, London, which currently holds his personal papers in its archives; in 2004 he became an Honorary Visiting Professor of Middlesex University in London. In 2005 he was awarded a silver Musgrave medal from the Institute of Jamaica for distinguished eminence in the field of poetry.
While still at school he joined the British Black Panther Movement, helped to organize a poetry workshop within the movement and developed his work with Rasta Love, a group of poets and drummers.
Wikipedia
Listen: Peach Dub
Etiquetas: dub, Linton Kwesi Johnson, lkj
