Maroon in June

 

You know him. You love him. Here’s Maroon in June. 

 

Muslimgauze - Maroon repress, Staalplaat STCD084, 2002.
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Intro    
Thimble Cups of Urdu I    
Maroon of Gaza    
Harem of Dogs I    
Harem of Dogs II    
Thimble Cups of Urdu II    
Blood of Salah Jadallah I    
Stars of Golan Heights    
Blood of Salah Jadallah II

Enjoy,
NØ

The Moon in June

As the moon in June wanes, I wax poetic. 

The moon in June shines firstly on D. Boon. 

 

 

Minuteman D. was an important figure in the history of punk rock & independent music. Boon's solos were very unique, using odd rhythms or scales that were influenced by jazz or classical guitar. He was one of the most technically accomplished American punk guitarists of all time.

4:40 am - Centennial, Arizona - 12/22/1985

D. Boon's life was tragically cut short on a lonely stretch of Interstate 10 in the Arizona desert at the age of 27. He was traveling with his fiance, Linda Kite at the wheel, & his sister Jeannine in the passenger seat. He was asleep in the back of the 1979 Dodge van when a broken left rear axle caused the van to go off the road & roll over. Dennes was thrown from the van & suffered a broken neck. 

 

D. Boon - D. Boon & Friends, Box-O-Plenty BOPCD001, 2003.
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Jams with Crane & Richard Derrick 11/84-6/85 -    
Everyone was There    
Fifth Gear    
Deadline    
The Waiting Stage    
Indecision    
Theme from Empty Box    
The Long Road Home    
Take You There    
Freedom Forever    
Jam # 6    
Binky's Round-Up    
Too Much Fun
All Over the Place    
The Viking Song    
Just Around the Corner    
As Long As (Parts 1 & 2)    

Hammerdown @ The Music Machine 4/5/84 -    
Hammerdown I    
This Land is Your Land    
Hammerdown II    

D. Boon @ The Lhasa Club 6/27/84 -     
Our New Industrial Direction    
That's All There Is    
My Part    
Don't Look Now    
Plight    
Corona    

Minutemen with Guest Drummer UCLA 1/30/85 -    
But First...    
I Felt Like a Gringo    
God Bows to Math    
Themselves    
Self-Referenced    
#1 Hit Song    
History Lesson - Part II    

D. Boon @ Home 5/85 -    
Many as One    

bonus track -
D. Boon - In His Own Words

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

When You Think it’s All Over

I thought I was done with this month. As I sez on the MAYDAY MAYDAY share:
       "I'm just going to throw together what I'm listening to at the moment & see what forms of it all. That's what I say right now. We'll see what is transpiring come Memorial Day."

Well, today is Memorial Day (I know the USA celebrated it last Monday but that's just Memorial Day [observed] because of that governmental Monday Holiday Bill bull...true Memorial Day is May 30th...that's when we here at Casa de Nada 12.0 celebrate it 'cuz it's my daughter Lao's birthday).

She ses to me today:
       "Dad, you know it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world."

That prompted me to post this one, my favorite Mad Professor compilation of all time. Recorded in Dubarama, so play it loud. 

 

Mad Professor - It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Professor, Ariwa ARICD105, 1994.
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Ultimate Experience    
Beyond the Realms of Dub    
The Heart of the Jungle    
Rebel    
Rat Race    
The Doppler Effect    
Aztec Warrior    
Ariwa-The Dub Sampler    
Invasion Dub    
People of Yoruba    
Kunte Kinte    
Fast Forward into Dub    
Medusa's Head    
Pirates of the Airwaves

  

See you all in June,
NØ

For a Film

 

Jumping back into film soundtracks for a final time this month after the Dark Origins shares earlier. (Thanks Hawksmort & all for your terrific contributions). 

 

A Soundtrack for a Film reveals itself to be none other than a new soundtrack for Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film classic Metropolis. Factory Floor was commissioned by the London Science Museum to write & perform the score. The band performed the 150 minute score at the Science Museum’s IMAX theater on April 28, 2017 marking the 90th anniversary of the film's release. The band played & recorded this in the studio for your listening pleasure. You can play it along with the 153 minute long movie for a real treat...just figure when the beginning theme Metropolis should start (use your better judgement)...it should sync up well enough to make a rewarding viewing. 

 

Factory Floor - A Soundtrack for a Film 2xCD, H/O/D/ Records H/O/D003CD, 2018.
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CD 1 -
Metropolis    
Beneath    
Run    
Father    
Identity Switch
Circuit Senses    
Babel    
Cave    
Wonder    
Suspicious

CD 2 -
Transform    
Heart of Data    
Find    
Up Rise    
Flood    
Become    
End 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Who Observes the New World?

 

Something from Deadbeat is a weekly thing with me. Recently I picked up this one, another one from Deadbeat Scott Monteith with vocals here by Athésia. A dive deep down into Deadbeat's rich, tactile, organic, & fluid music, a slow, trippy path through rhythm & reverb.

Grab the chillum & chill... 

 

Deadbeat - New World Observer, ~scape ~scape27cd, 2005

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Slow Rot from Rhetoric    
Port-Au-Prince    
N'Importe Quoi    
Abu Ghraib    
Texas Tea    
O Little Town of Bethlehem    
Time is Passing Slowly    
Rock of Ages    
Ruination
Habitat for Heavy Hearts

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Ø Seven

 

Yeah Ghost is the final release from Zero 7, coming three years after their previous. Many fans of the band shied away from it as their sound has evolved away from their usual more Trip-hoppy style into a more poppy style. For me it is one of my favorite Zero 7 albums. The various vocal stylings seem more of a preferred challenge than a detriment.  To me it sounds fresh, new, experimental while also somehow more Ambient (especially the instrumentals)... 

 

Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost, Atlantic 520260-2, 2009.
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Count Me Out    
Mr McGee    
Swing    
Everything Up (Zizou)    
Pop Art Blue    
Medicine Man    
Ghost sYMbOL    
Sleeper    
Solastalgia    
The Road    
All of Us

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

I’m Lost in All This Free Ass O.C. 8 Shun

This has been a winding twisted trail. It began back in September 2022 with Flykkiller - Experiments in Violent Light here.

Then in May 2025 I did May: I Come Again where I was revisiting artists I had shared in the past. I returned with a Flykkiller related post here that featured Pati Yang. Pati & her husband Steven Hilton were Flykkiller. At that time I mentioned that the twosome had often worked on OSTs with David Holmes (Buffalo Soldiers, Ocean's Eleven & Twelve). 

 

That led to The Free Association, a group started by David Holmes & Steven Hilton.with Pati Yang & songwtiter / vocalist Sean Reveron. This version contains a bonus track, the Free Association version of “Sugarman” by  Sixto Rodriguez. 

 

The trail ends here (for now)... 

 

David Holmes presents - The Free Association, 13 Amp AMP012CDX, 2002.
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Don't Rhyme No Mo
(I Wish I Had a) Wooden Heart
Le Baggage
Free Ass O-C-8
Somedays
Everybody Knows
Pushin' a Broom
La Dolce Vita
Paper Underwear
Whistlin' Down the Wind
bonus track - 
Sugarman

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Dubbled Up on Bud

Of course, on a daily basis I get my dose of Dub. 

Here are a couple that didn't make February’s Dub & Dub Adjacent shares due to time/space constraints.  

Pop one of these if you want a great high.

First off some psyDub... 

 

Various - Bubbled Up on Dub Vol. 1: Natural Progression,
Gliss Records GLISSCD004, 1998.
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Wildflower - The Herb
In the Valley - Arkology
Dusk Till Dawn - Steffe
Sticks & Stones - Doof
World Today - Arkology
Blow Up Dub - Blow Up Dub Band
Zero Gravity - Steffe
Many Lands - The Herb
Celebration - Steffe

 

 

 

 

 

Secondly some psytrance, Downtempo, & psyDub all mixed by Sundog... 

 

 

Various - Surrender to the Vibe, Phantasm Records PTM132, 1995.

Khamoun - Mammal
Water Drums - Union Jack
Tube (Ambient mix) - Nebula II
Dawn Goddess - Quartermass
Slow River - Delphi
La Danseuse Obsedante - Astronimix
Shimmer - Auto Union
Spiral Galaxy M33 - Tau Factor
Weather Watcher (Sundog remix) - Cyclone 7
Pharoahs Wear Boots - Mindfield
Return from Infobahn - Sungog vs Mindfield
What's Going On in the World? - Interlect 3000
Afterlife - Vibe Tribe
Breakfast at Cosmo's (Vivid Pink mix) - Sundog

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Danger, Electric Fire

 

The other night I was getting my monthly dose of Hell & brimstone Good Ole Religun from St. Paul (Janeway) & his Birmingham Broken Bones. One of the songs, "The Last Dance" put me in mind of Electric Six. I used to binge on their music back in the early Aughts but haven't listened to them in years. I guess none of their later releases grabbed me like their first two & I just drifted away. I dug out Danger! High Voltage & Fire & indulged in some rock nostalgia. 

 

Electric Six are essential American hard rock. They are definitely the Hell & brimstone to St. Paul's salvation, but Dick Valentine (Tyler Spencer)'s vocals grab me like Paul Janeway's & the Electric Six create music on par with the Broken Bones (a sadly much under-rated outfit). For any of you who haven't visited the E6 in a while, here's two to you. 

 

Electric Six - Danger, High Voltage, XL Recordings XLS157CDUS, 2002.
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Danger! High Voltage (Soulchild radio mix)
I Lost Control (of My Rock & Roll)
Remote Control (Me)
Danger! High Voltage (Thin White Duke mix by Jacques le Cont)

 

 

 

 

 

Electric Six - Fire, XL Recordings XLCD169, 2003.

Dance Commander    
Electric Demons in Love    
Naked Pictures (of Your Mother)    
Danger! High Voltage
She's White    
I Invented the Night    
Improper Dancing    
Gay Bar
Nuclear War (on the Dance Floor)    
Getting into the Jam    
Vengeance & Fashion    
I'm the Bomb    
Synthesizer

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Dark Origins

Before leaving these Dark(jazz) Obsessions, I feel the need to share the music of three of the great Film Noir/Crime Noir soundtracks that are often cited as the progenitors of Darkjazz. 

 

The Man with the Golden Arm was the work of Elmer Bernstein for the Otto Preminger film starring Frank Sinatra. It is one of the finest jazz soundtracks to come out of the 50s. Bernstein's blustery horns & deep percussion are only the facade for the gorgeous orchestration that hides in the hazy, smoky underlayers almost unnoticed beneath the surface. With much of the Hollywood soundtrack elements intact, it only hints at the Darkjazz to come. 

 

Elmer Bernstein & Orchestra - Music from the Soundtrack of  "The Man with the Golden Arm",
Decca DL8257, 1956.
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Side 1 -
Clark Street
     The Top    
     Homecoming
     Antek's    
Zosh
Frankie Machine
The Fix
Molly

Side 2 -
Breakup    
     Flight    
     Louie's    
     Buriesque    
Sunday Morning
Desperation
Audition
The Cure    
     Withdraw    
     Cold    
     Morning    
Finale

 

 

 

 

 

Next up is Bernard Herrmann’s final movie score before his death. Herrmann had worked in the past with Alfred Hitchcock & Orson Welles. He had provided scores for TV (Twilight Zone & Have Gun Will Travel). Later he worked with François Truffaut on Fahrenheit 451 & Brian De Palma on Obsession. De Palma hooked Herrmann up with Martin Scorsese for Taxi Driver. Immediately after finishing the recording of the Taxi Driver score on December 23, 1975, Herrmann viewed the rough cut of what was to be his next film assignment, Larry Cohen's God Told Me To. He dined with Cohen & then  returned to his hotel where he died from an apparent heart attack in his sleep the next day. 

Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver OST, Arista AL4079, 1976.

Side 1 -        
Theme from Taxi Driver
I Work the Whole City    
Betsy in a White Dress    
The Days do Not End    
Reprise: Theme from Taxi Driver

Side 2 -
Diary of a Taxi Driver
Theme from Taxi Driver    
The .44 Magnum is a Monster    
Sport & Iris    
God's Lonely Man (end title) 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, the duo of Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch are often credited as being a direct precursor of Darkjazz with their music for Lynch’s Twin Peaks. I have chosen the OST for Fire Walk with Me, which appeared the year following the original TV series as a prequel. 

Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Warner Brothers Records, 1992.

Theme from Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me
The Pine Float
Sycamore Trees
Don't Do Anything (I Wouldn't Do)
A Real Indication
Questions in a World of Blue
The Pink Room
The Black Dog Runs at Night
Best Friends
Moving Through Time
Montage from Twin Peaks - Girl Talk / Birds in Hell / Laura Palmer's Theme / Falling
The Voice of Love

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

& the Dark Persists

Continuing on with Darkjazz music, here are several more divergent offerings to showcase some variety in the genre.

 

Gamardah Fungus is a Dark Ambient drone outfit from Dnipro, Ukraine. They play slowed drone Ambient featuring Darkjazz stylings with electroacoustic instrumentation incorporating field recordings. This is one of their finest moments... 

 

Gamardah Fingus - Nuclear Winter, Nocharizma nchr010, 2012.
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Big Finger Labirynth    
Nuclear Winter    
Last Train to Save Us    
World Dying    
Another Earth

 

 

 

 

 

Somewhere off Jazz Street is the film noir Darkjazz music project of musician Buz Hendricks featuring late night sound improvisations, sound effects, & saxophone. Hendricks plays all the music using electronically generated sounds played on keyboard. 

 

Somewhere off Jazz Street - Stories of Midnight Streets, self-released, 2007.

It's Time    
Can't Escape the Past    
When it Slips Away    
Scene of the Crime    
Along the Way    
Forgotten    
Calm Before the Storm    
One Crazy Night    
Last Resort    
Night Voices    
If I Had a Reason

 

 

 

 

 

Although trumpeter & composer Jon Hassell is primarily know as the creator of Fourth World music (& his work on it with Brian Eno), he has collaborated with many & dabbled in numerous genres. He has released several Darkjazz offerings, this being my favorite, The strangely beautiful title is taken from a poem by the great 13th century Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Rumi. The rest of it is: "Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street/I took it as a sign to start singing/Falling up into the bowl of sky."  Listen to Hassell's trumpet sing...

 

 

 

Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street, 

ECM Records ECM2077, 2009.

Aurora
Time & Place
Abu Gil
Last Night the Moon Came
Clairvoyance
Courtrais
Scintilla
Northline
Blue Period
Light on Water

 

 

 

 

 

I've been sharing a bit of Tuxedomoon lately. They as well tried their hand at Darkjazz. 

Tuxedomoon & Cult with No Name - Blue Velvet Revisited, Crammed Discs MTM42, 2016.

The Slow Club    
Lumberton    
Do it for Van Gogh    
So Fucking Suave    
Now it's Dark    
Dorothy - Tuxedomoon & Cult with No Name
Lincoln Street - John Foxx
A Candy Colored Clown    
Frank    
Alligator Briefcase    
Jeffrey Nothing    
Until the Robins Come    
Don - Tuxedomoon & Cult with No Name

 

 

 

 

 

Schwarzeneggerization is the Darkjazz / noir-lounge project of Ukrainian Anton Korablev serving as a distinctive tribute to that unforgettable pair of cinematic hauntologists, Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch. There are synthesizer swipes, big-ass rimshots, Noir reversals of indie guitar twang, decayed xylophones, vibrato stacattos, drumesque freakouts, & overamped pulsatronics. Each track on this debut limited-edition cassette Big Ed's Dead Squirrel Wig & Magnificent Mustache feels like a track for an unreleased unfilmed Film Noir by David Lynch or a horror movie by John Carpenter.

Here Schwarzeneggerization is: Igor Kharabebasku - guitar; Anton Perezimnik - keyboards & strings; & Anton Korablev - double bass, drums, & noises.

 

 

Schwarzeneggerization - Big Ed’s Dead Squirrel Wig & Magnificent Mustache cassette, 

Православная Боль 001, 2012.

Side A -
Dead Dog Farm
Uncle's Day at a Whorehouse
6 Ounces of Unicorn Meat
Side B -
Body Bag
Ronette's Bridge
Deer at Log Cabin

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Going Back to the Mountains

Last month when I was doing Musick that Needed Work: T I shared The Thing with Five Eyes. That was an experimental Darkjazz project of Jason Köhnen, formerly of the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble & The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation.

 

In the mid-Aughts I listened to a lot of Darkjazz but with the passage of time, other sounds came along & soon we forget. Sharing TTwFE got me to listening to the Darkjazz mountains again & realizing how much I still really enjoyed the musick. 

Darkjazz is a slow, somber contemporary style combining jazz instrumentation to create a doom-laden, cinematic atmosphere. It emerged in the 1990s, then gained most prominence in the 2000s, primarily in Europe with acts such as Bohren & der Club of Gore or The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. 

An early proponent of the genre is Angelo Badalamenti's work on the Twin Peaks soundtracks starting in 1990.  Darkjazz uses Ambient & lounge elements alongside its surreal jazz sound. Heavily inspired by the dark, brooding themes & moody, shadowy visuals of Film Noir movies, the soundscapes of Darkjazz seek to conjure up images of smoky, dimly-lit jazz clubs or eerie, rain-soaked city streets. 

Drawing on the Crime Jazz scores of 1950s - 70s Noir (such as The Man with the Golden Arm or Taxi Driver), Darkjazz is performed at a considerably slow tempo, showcasing an exaggerated form of the gloomy, dread-inducing moods & sounds heightened by the use of mournful trumpets / saxophones, brushed drums, electric piano / mellotron, vibraphones, double bass, all with a noticeable lack of upbeat big band stylings.

Decided I'd share some with you all & see how you like it (or like it again or still like it, whichever). I'll start with this compilation of Darkjazz, called simply...

Various - Dark Jazz Compilation, Dark Jazz Records DJR002, 2017.
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Sunshine III - Côte Déserte    
Il Reverchon Cascatelle - Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones
Murdered (by Love) - Detour Doom Project     
Detective's Tears - Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte
Sleepdriving into Oblivion - Manet    
Loose Change - Michael Arthur Holloway    
The Rose Sail - Nobody Jazz Ensemble
Combava Blissophony - Noroeste & Shri    
Crowhurst Yew - Somnambulist Quintet    
Dark Night of the Soul - The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (original by Danger Mouse, David Lynch, & Sparklehorse)
Meduxae - The Thing with Five Eyes    
Krakau - Trigg & Gusset

 

 

 

Now on to some Dark Moumtain music... 

 

Mutations (EP) is just that, adaptations of earlier tracks off the debut album The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble which I previously shared here & demos that later became the tracks on the second album Here Be Dragons , mutated.

Track "Caos Calmo" is a reworked "The Nothing Changes"; track "München" is a reworked "Lobby"; track "Serpents" is a reworked "Pearls For Swine"; track "Twisted Horizons" contains some elements from "Parallel Corners" all from their self-titled debut; track "Shadows" later reworked in "Embers" on Here Be Dragons contains the melody from "Senki Dala" by Venetian Snares that appeared on the Rossz Csillag Alatt Született album (or "Senki Dala & Öngyilkos Vasárnap (Bong-Ra Remix)" from 4 Adaptations of Rossz Csillag Alatt Született by Venetian Snares vs Bong-Ra); track "Symmetry of 6's" contains some elements of "Solomon's Curse" & track "Horns of King David" contains some elements of "Guernican Perspectives" from the debut; while track "Avian Lung" was later reworked to "Seneca" on Here Be Dragons. 

The Kilamanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Mutations EP, Ad Noiseam adn105cd, 2009.

Caos Calmo    
München    
Serpent    
Twisted Horizons    
Shadows    
Symmetry of 6's    
Horns of King David    
Avian Lung

 

 

 

 

 

I Forsee the Dark Ahead, If I Stay is the first TKDE live album. A compilation of 9 live tracks recorded during the period of 2006 to 2011, from shows in The Netherlands, Slovenia, Hungary, Spain and Poland.  

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - I Forsee the Dark Ahead, If I Stay live, self-released, 2011.

Celladoor (The Netherlands, 2011)    
Lobby (Hungary, 2007)    
Mists of Krakatoa (Poland, 2011)    
Adaptation of the Koto Song (Hungary, 2011)
Symmetry Of 6's (The Netherlands, 2009)    
The Nothing Changes / Senki Dala / Embers (Hungary, 2007)
Black Wings (Spain, 2006)    
Goya (The Netherlands, 2009)    
The MacGuffin (Slovenia, 2007)

 

 

 

 

 

This is not the first live music TKDE has been involved in however. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is the live improv alter ego of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. Their offerings are live recorded releases with several members of TKDE + guest musicians. All The Mount Fuji shares are live concert recordings.

 

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is: Charlotte Cegarra – vocals; Eelco Bosman – guitar Jason Köhnen – bass; Hilary Jeffery – trombone, oscillator; & Gideon Kiers – drums.

This next one was recorded live in Amsterdam on February 24, 2007. As there are no true breaks between tracks, I have combined all nine into one continuous uninterrupted track for your listening pleasure...

 

 

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Doomjazz Future Corpses!, Ad Noiseam adn81, 2007.

One    
Two    
Three    
Four    
Five    
Six    
Seven    
Eight    
Nine

 

 

 

 

 

This last one was recorded live at Telco HQ, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 15,  2009. while viewing Jess Franco's 1969 film Succubus, a low-budget erotically charged sadomasochistic murder horror flick. (note - A lifelong jazz enthusiast & pianist, Franco studied music at the Madrid Royal Conservatory as well as the Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu, before embarking on a film career.) 

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Succubus, Ad Noiseam ADN112, 2009.

The Sexy Midnight Torture Show    
Erotic Love Queen    
Strange Dreams    
Castles by the Sea    
The Admiral’s Game    
The Morning After    
Perverted Pleasure Party    
A Bad Trip    
A Place for Fantasies    
Murder Amongst Mannequins    
Fleeing the Scene    
Deadly Rehearsal    
Faustine

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

A New Reflection

 

When I was fixing up Musick that Needed Work: T last month I came across two Tuxedomoon releases that I had not realized were missing from my other Tuxedomoon albums. Half-Mute was one of those. It was the first Tuxedomoon that I ever bought, one of my all-time favorites, & one that I played often until I nearly wore it out. At some point I acquired the digital version but it needed work. It ended up forgotten in the Needed Work folder. What a joy it was to relisten to it after I fixed all the flaws. I was amazed at how well I remembered all the great tunes. I have listened to it regularly since then.

While I was working on Half-Mute (removing clicks, fixing ID3 tags, touching up cover artwork, etc.) I discoved this gem with contributions from Foetus, Aksak Maboul, Simon Turner Fisher, & many others. It contained a bonus 7“ & download code for an additional track...

Various - Give Me New Noise: Half-Mute Reflected, Crammed Discs cram268LP, 2016.
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Side A -
Nazca - Simon Turner Fisher
59 to 1 - Zero Gravity Thinkers
Fifth Column (instrumental version) - The Man from Managra featuring Blaine L. Reininger
Tritone (Musica Diablo) - Norscq
Loneliness - Cult with No Name

Side B -
James Whale - DopplAr
What Use? - Foetus
Volo Vivace - Palo Alto featuring Steven Brown
7 Years - Georgio "the Dove" Valentino & Grey Lotus
KM / Seeding the Clouds - 2kilos & More & Julius Gabriel

bonus 7" -
Tritone (Musica Diablo) - Aksak Maboul
Crash - Non Finito Orchestra

bonus downloadable track -
Dark Companion - el TiGeR CoMiCs GRoUP

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Kind of a Tricky Fix

 

The Baby Namboos was a loosely-defined Trip-hop group founded by Trick's cousin Mark Porter, with vocalists Aurora Borealis (Zoe Bedeaux), Leo Coleing, Claude Williams (of The Wild Bunch), with bassist Julian Brooke & drummer Mad-Dog.

They only released three shorts & one full-length. Although they sound much like Tricky's earliest two, even with the Martina sounding doppleganger of Zoe Cedeaux & the guest help from Tricky himself, I can never get enough of the initial Tricky (or Massive Attack) sound so I listen to this often, right in the Tricky mix but a great slab of music unto itself. Plus the two bonus remixes make it more than worth the listen.

The Baby Namboos - Ancoats2Zambia, Palm Pictures PALMCD2031-2, 1999.
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Intro    
Hard Times
Get Your Head Down    
Ancoats2Zambia    
Provoked    
Persist to Reminisce    
Holy    
Late Night Antics    
Trials & Tribulations    
Play with Me

    
bonus tracks -   
Ancoats2Zambia (Geoff Barrow remix)
Ancoats2Zambia (Dillinja remix)

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

A Further Nod to ZF

 

During the March Madness League Play-offs I received a great deal of helpful insight from many Frienz of NSS who gagged along with the go. One of the most insightful is dear Frienz FlaccusMUC. 

In one comment he sez:
        "If you've got any of the ones that I haven't got (The End of Nothing, the Beginning of Everything, Russian Heterodoxical Songs, A Long Walk, The Tables Are Turning, Further Collusion, A Third Collusion, Ω ℧), I'd be very happy, if you find the time ..."  

I picked the Play-off choices from what I have, mostly 80s / 90s releases. I do have a few newer Zoviet France though, four of which were on F-MUC's list which I'm sharing now. Try these out, my friend...

:zoviet*france: - The Tables are Turning, Soleilmoon Recordings SOL182CD, 2013.
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The Grit in the Clouds    
Amber Rose Hand    
Flam    
Moss Balls on Moss    
Green Air    
Prophecy Loved a Child    
Sweeping Arbor Low    
The Fire of Revolution    
Sandbox    
The Fire of Revolution 2    
A Moment of Film    
Poured out Slowly

 

 

 

 

 

:zoviet-france: - The End of Nothing, the Beginning of Something, 

Vinyl-on-demand VOD165-1, 2020.

Side 0 -
Das Singende, Klingende Bäumchen    
The Monkey is Back    
Radar Screen    
Side 1 -
A Song Before the End of Nothing    
One More Time    
A Song After the Beginning of Everything    
Hurleburlebutz

 

 

 

 

 

:zoviet*france: - Russian Heterodoxical Songs, Vinyl-on-demand VOD165-6, 2020.

Side ☼ -    
Неортодоксальность (Hétérodoxie)    
Ересь (Hérésie)    
Отступничество (Apostasie)
Неподчинение (Indocilité)    
Разногласие (Dissension)    
Инакомыслие (Non-Conformité)    
Side ▲ -        
Вариация (Variation)
Изменение (Changement)    
Противоречие (Contradiction)    
Отказ (Renouncement)    
Инспирация (Inspiration)    
Автономия (Autonomie)    
Возражение (Riposte)
Деконструкция (Déconstruction)

 

 

 

 

 

:zoviet*france: - Further Collusion 2xLP, Vinyl-on-demand VOD 165-16/17, 2020.

Side 1 -        
With Us Today
Sucking the Instrument
Spike
Side 2 -
I Felt the Breath of My Assassin
Soft & Close by Me
False Witness
Side 3 -
Synaestetica
Mir
Daisy Gun
I'saram
Side 4 -
Eleven Drops

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ