More Bubblegum: Bang-Shang-a-Lang (Bang Bang)

After Bazooka Joe, I thought you might like some more bubblegum. 

 

Here the Archies are: Archie Andrews - guitar; Veronica Lodge - organ; Rggie Mantle - bass; Betty Cooper - tambourine; & Jughead Jones - percussion. (The real lead singer was Ron Dante, joined in the studio most often by Toni Wine, Jeff Barry, & Bobby Bloom. Session musicians played the music: guitarist Dave Appell; bassist Joey Macho; keyboard player Ron Frangipane; & drummer Gary Chester.) 

 

The Archies - The Archies, Calendar KES-101, 1968.
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Side 1 -
Archie's Theme (Everything's Archie)
Boys & Girls    
Time for Love    
You Make Me Wanna Dance    
La Dee Doo Down Down    
Truck Driver    

Side 2 -
Catchin' up on Fun    
I'm in Love    
Seventeen ain't Young    
Ride, Ride, Ride    
Hide & Seek    
Bang-Shang-a-Lang

Written by Jeff Barry - tracks 1,2,4,5,6,8,9,10---Ritchie Adams & Mark Barkan - tracks 3,7,11. Produced by Jeff Barry & Don Kirshner.

Pop that bubble chum,
NØ

Pay No More Than $3.00

Up next, four of the toughest, meanest machines in the indoor tractor pull jerk-off. 

 

Ten years ago, I sez this Bazooka Joe ain't bubblegum.

I'm still chewing on that one. How about you sink your teeth into these. 

 

Bazooka Joe - Pastor of Muppets, Headcleaner Records EYE-001, 1988.

Side 1 -
We are Everywhere
Not My War
Parental Yoke
For a Change
Patriarchy

Side 2 -
Your Not What You Seem
Perfect World
Evolution
Accept no Lies

Enjoy,
Tuffy

More Warp(ed) Music

I've recently received several requests for more music from B12, a band I featured almost ten years ago when I shared their initial B12 release, Electro-Soma. 

 

B12 are a British electro-duo made up of Mike Golding & Steve Rutter. 

The two began releasing music in the early 90s under a variety of names, including Cmetric, Musicology & Redcell, all on their own B12 label.

First up, Musicology & the B12 imprint's first release...

Musicology - Musicology, B12 B1201, 1991.
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Metropolis
Obsessed
Fear of Expression
Telefone 529

 

 

 

 

Next up is a pair from Redcell...

 

Redcell - Retreat from Unpleasant Realities, B12 B1207, 1992.

Side 1 -
Captive Planet
Why the Reason

Side 2 -
At the Edge
Soundtrack of a Strange ER

 

 

 

 

Redcell - Interim Outerim, B12 B1208, 1993.

Side A -
Interim

Side B -
Outerim
Fear

 

 

 

 

Shortly after this, the full-length B12 album Electro-Soma that I mentioned above was released as part of Warp's continuing Artificial Intelligence series. In 1996 their second full length Time Tourist was released on Warp. Although Time Tourist is creditted to B12, it contains material from all the previous Golding/Rutter iterations.

 

 

 

 

B12 - Time Tourist, Warp Records WARP CD37, 1996.

Game 01 / Levels 01-02 / Zones 01-05 -
VOID/Comm - Cmetric
Infinite Lites (Primitives Mix) – Redcell
Cymetry – Cmetric
Gimp – Redcell
DB5 – Cmetric

Game 01 / Levels 03-04 / Zones 06-10 -
Phettt – Redcell
Epilion – Musicology
Scriptures – Redcell
The Silicon Garden (Flymocut) – Redcell
Radiophonic Workshop - Redcell

 

 

 

 

Even as B12 went relatively quiet for more than ten years, in 1998 they did released 3EP EP on Warp. This is a tribute to jazz musicians Dave Brubek, Joe Morello, & Ron Carter. After 3EP's release, B12 retracted from public space without explanation & were not heard of or seen again for many years.

 

 

 

 

B12 - 3EP EP, Warp Records WAP102CD, 1998.

Dave Brubeck
Joe Morello (live)
Ron Carter

 

 

 

 

In 2008, B12 broke their silence...

 

B12 - Last Days of Silence 2xCD, B12 B1219, 2008.

CD1 -
Hall of Mirrors (Digitonal's String in Space remix)
Magnetic Fields
32 Lineup
One
Don't Be Afraid
Static Glitch
In Control
Beyond Reason
Slope
Omni Therapy
Ashamed of Me
More than One (Redcell remix)
Isolation on Demuba 

bonus live recordings CD2 -
Attempt Too
Pursuit
Zoo Zoo
Particle 3
Twisted Muva

Don't forget your vitamin B12,
NØ

For All You Dog Faced Stretchheads Out There

 

Here are three 7"ers from another of the Glasgow noise bands. This time we have Badgewearer. The band consisted of: Jim Carstairs - vocals; Neil Bateman - guitar & sax;  Tony Kennedy - bass & bugle; & Ross Main - drums. They played complex jazz-punk with quirky guitars & grooving bass lines. 

 

Badgewearer - This Bag is Not a Toy 7", Gruff Wit Records GRUFF 002, 1990.
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Side 1 -
Buspass Conspiracy
(Two Minutes in the Very Dubious Company of) Walter Clark
Book / Rhino

Side 2 -
You Don't Look at the Fireplace When You're Poking the Mantlepiece
Yesterday's Scone
Lecher, Fetish, or Lecher 

Badgewearer - This is Not a Door 7", Guided Missile - Guide 2, 1994.

Side How is it No? -
Baroque Enrol
More Land Home

Side Prove it Isnae -
Jelly Dracko's Function
Jonny Wisemuller Thinks Tarzan's Quincy
Short Fast Control 

Badgewearer - Criterion Adjournment’s Secret Cowboy Agenda 7", 

Guided Missile GUIDE 16, 1997.

Side 1 -
Wee Scary Cowboy Bread
The Tall Lonely Cowboy in a Ten Gallon Fez

Side 2 -
Dog Shit Steam Rising Icon Tacked to a Cowboy

 

Be warned...the first Badgewearer 7" is on Gruff Wit records. Gruff Wit is run by Jer Reid. Jer Reid is in another Glasgow noise band, Dawson...

Be warned.
NØ

What Happened to the Spiders?

 

Here's one from Florence, Italy dark wave/electronic band Neon, formed in 1979 by Marcello Michelotti (the only permanent member). Together with Pankow, Diaframma, & Litfiba, they created a vital music scene in early to mid 80s Italy. 

 

Neon is: Marcello Michelotti - synthesizer & vocals 78-86; Piero Balleggi - synthesizer & keyboards 78-86; Nardo Lunardi - guitar 80-82; Ranieri Cerelli - guitars & devices 82-86; Leo Martera - drums 80-82,86; & Roberto Federighi - drums 82-85. 

 

Tracks1, 3, 5, 6, 11, & 12 from Rituals LP; 4 & 9 from Tapes of Darkness 12"; 2, 7, &13 from Obsessions 12"; 8 from Dark Age 12"; & 10 from Red Light 12". Track 9 listed on CD as "Spiders" but actually it is "Drivin’ (Tapes of Darkness version)". The tracks were switched during mastering. 

 

Neon - Memories: The Best of 1980-1986, Intuition Records INT280004, 2008.
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Isolation   
Information of Death   
Runnin'   
Boxes (featuring Adriano Primadei - guitar)
Last Chance   
My Blues is You   
Drivin'  
Dark Age   
Drivin' (Tapes of Darkness version)   
Red Light (featuring Fabrizio Federighi - guitar)
The Same Ritual   
Harry   
Lobotomy

Enjoy,
NØ

Back to 23 Skidoo

When last we left the band, Sam Mills & Tom Heslop had been dismissed & 23 Skidoo was now the trio of Fritz Catlin, Johnny & Alex Turnbull. 

 

The departure of Sam & Tom was not reported in the press. Shortly afterwards the band was added to the line-up for the WOMAD festival, held at Shepton Mallet in July. There the new Skidoo performed a ritual to 'banish' their previous incarnation. They decided not to use traditional instruments, but instead to improvise a performance with instruments made of scrap metal using multiple tape loops (at this time, 1982, literally looped sections of tape). The ritual of banishing, invocation, & healing mirrored the changes that had occurred within the group. At 11am on a sunny July 17th morning 23 Skidoo, with heads shaven & faces camouflaged, took to the stage. They were joined by David Tibet of Psychic TV on thigh bone trumpet. The bleary-eyed festival crowd, expecting a trendy funk band, were greeted by a wall of noise. Some fled, but those that remained witnessed Skidoo at their most confrontational. While expectations were shattered, Skidoo's radical mid-morning gesture was missed by the music weeklies & passed unreported at the time.

Late September/early October 23 Skidoo took part in a short package tour of Belgium, arranged by Les Disques du Crépuscule billed as Move Back-Bite Harder. Here's the 27 minute loop-based recording from Tielt on October 8th. 

 

23 Skidoo - Move Back - Bite Harder live, 1982.
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Using new material combined with recordings from the WOMAD festival & an October 22/23 recording session from Dartington College, the new Skidoo released The Culling is Coming on February 4, 1983. Carrying on the William S. Burroughs connection, each side is 23 minute long.

 

23 Skidoo - The Culling is Coming, Operation Twilight OPT23, 1983.

Side 1: A Summer Rite-11Am 17.7.82 -
Banishing
Invocation
Flashing
Stifling
Healing (for the Strong)

Side 2: Dartington Gamelan -
G-2 Contemplation
S-Matrix
G-3 Insemination
Shrine
Mahakala

 

 

The Culling met with some hard resistance from critics & fans alike & 23 Skidoo started having a bit of a hard time getting live gigs. No record labels were knocking at their door. Midway through 1983, the band had a chance meeting with Peter ‘Sketch’ Martin of the Britfunk duo Linx. Sketch was trying to move away from commercial music at the same time 23 Skidoo were trying to cozy up to a more commercial sound. The result was the single Language.

 

 

 

 

23 Skidoo/Sketch - Language, Illuminated Records ILL 3812, 1984.

Side A -
Language
Side B -
Language

 

 

 

 

The move towards more commercial music since their meeting with Sketch also resulted in the release of Coup, a tight dance version of a track the band had been playing for some time known as "Coup in the Palace". This outstanding funk single featured a classic bassline from Sketch & horns courtesy of Aswad. Coup had definite commercial potential, but the absence of a 7" version meant no radio airplay, hence, no chart hit.

 

 

 

 

23 Skidoo/Sketch - Coup, Illuminated Records ILL 2812, 1984.

Side A -
Coup
Side B -
Version (in the Palace)

 

 

 

 

However, once more the brush with commercial success & the Britfunk paranoia halted this arc of 23 Skidoo's trajectory. In August 1984 the band released Urban Gamelan. This album essentially erased any lines of acceptance from fans & critics again. For the album tracks, both singles were omitted, to be replaced with alternate takes. "Coup" resurfaced in radically different form as "Fuck You GI" & "Language" in sparse percussive form now entitled "Language Dub".

 

 

23 Skidoo - Urban Gamelan, Illuminated Records JAM 40, 1984.

Face One -
Fuck You GI (23 F.P.M.)
Fire
Misr Wakening
Jalan Jalan

Face Two -
Urban Gamelan, Part One
Sirens
Helicopters
Kongo-Do
Language Dub
Drunken Reprisal
Coup de Grace

 

 

 

 

It will be another sixteen years before the next phase of 23 Skidoo kicks in. As I sez last month: "From this point onward, 23 Skidoo morphed into another enity. That, however, is a story for another day (next month...hint...hint)".

Stay tuned dear listener,
NØ

Feel this Cool Vibration

Here's a sweet post-humous LP from the late, legendary Jamaican guitarist, producer, & studio engineer Fazal Prendergast who died in a car crash April 2005 at age 46. Fazal was an original member of Augustus Pablo's Rockers All Stars/International band as well as former member of Earl "China" Smith's High Times Players, & Mutabaruka's Sounds of Resistance band.

Fazal has been featured on over 100 releases backing reggae's greatest artists such as: Augustus Pablo; Mutabaruka; High Times Players; Tippa Irie; Frankie Paul & Cocoa Tea; Hugh Mundell; Delroy Williams; Joe Higgs; Tetrack; Junior Walker; Johnny Osborne; Norris Reid; Scientist; King Tubby; & Prince Jammy. 

 

Of African & Indian decent, Fazal experienced a rich diverse cultural upbringing which influenced his musical style that has a raw Jamaican flavour but innervates the spirit with Indian tones & pumps the heart with African beats. His musical style reflects two ancient cultures living together, merging together, & yet expressed in a unique way.

Fazal began his music career at age 13 when he received his first guitar from his step father, Horace. At first he played native Jamaican folk, Rock Steady, & Ska music, then progressed to Roots Reggae & Dub. Later in his life, he included Jazz & his own eclectic style which he termed Razz. Through all his musical growth, Fazal never left his roots behind, pure Dub & Roots Reggae filter through all his styles.

The High Music Showcase was taken from restored master tapes recorded at Channel One & mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.

The version of  "Cool Vibration" here is different from the original 7" release. I have added that single as bonus tracks here. 

 

Fazal Prendergast & the High Times Players - High Music Showcase, Hornin' Sounds HS-29, 2021.
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Side 1 -
Kingston Mall
Agent 27
Water Falls
Cool Vibration

Side 2 -
High Music
Fazal Sounds
Natural Living
Herb Eyes

bonus 7" tracks -
Cool Vibration
Dub Vibration

Enjoy,
NØ

Ren & Stumpy

In April when I posted the first of two Wevie Stonder posts, a commentor mentioned Stump. 

 

Stump was nothing more than an oddity in the United States during its short life. If you were lucky you might have glimpsed the music video for "Buffalo", a song that did the rounds on MTV's late night show 120 Minutes. Although based in London England, Stump was a kind of Anglo-Irish experimental rock band led by the late Mick Lynch.

Lynch was also in a short-lived early 80s group, with future Microdisney founders Sean O'Hagan & Cathal Coughlan, called Constant Reminders.

The funky element was consistently expressed with hyper guitarwork from Chris Salmon & equally energetic bass from Kev Hopper. Interestingly the bass was sometimes played like a lead instrument. Hopper is still actively pursuing interestingly challenging music. 

 

Stump - The Complete Anthology 3xCD,  Castle Music CMETD1571, 2007.
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Quirk Out & Mud on a Colon CD1 -

Tupperware Stripper    
Our Fathers    
Kitchen Table    
Buffalo    
Everything in its Place    
Bit Part Actor    
Orgasm Way    
Ice the Levant    
Grab Hands    
50-0-55    
Big End

A Fierce Pancake CD2 -

Living it Down    
In the Green    
Roll the Bodies Over    
Bone    
Eager Bereaver    
Chaos    
Alcohol    
Charlton Heston    
Heartache    
Doctor (A Visit to the...)    
A Fierce Pancake    
Boggy Home

Post Pancake CD3 -

The Queen & the Pope    
Seven Sisters    
The Rats    
Warm in the Knowledge    
The Song's Remains    
Safe Sex    
The Lipstick Maker    
Maggie    
Love is too Small a Word    
Ice the Levant (88 version)    
Thelma    
Angst Forecast    
Heathers in Shelter

Enjoy,
NØ

What’s your Secret, Chief? The Killing of Kings.

I get requests regularly but some for one reason or another (lapse in my brain cells) get the TIME DELAY TREATMENT. I've received several recent request that I'm working on. Unexpectedly I stumbled across & looked back on a cobweb-covered file crypticly labeled "TO DO!!!!!!!!!!".

I had posted Secret Chiefs 3 Zulfikar II & III as well as The Theatrum of Suprasensory Universes Vol. 1.  A NSS visitor requested more Secret Chiefs 3. 

 

I started compiling some SC3 tuneage & stumbled down the rabbit hole of  WEIRD CRAZEEEENESS. So the request has been lying dormant on the very spot where I fumbled the assignment all those years ago where it's been gathering dust & being overlooked but at the same time constantly growing in content . I will now try to rectify that grievious oversight. Without further hoopla... 

 

The easiest thing would be to say that Secret Chiefs is the brain-child of Trey Spruance. SC3 is basically Mr. Bungle without Mike Patton. But that would be so far from the real story. I will say that this whole magilla is definitely sweet musick to my earholes.

On over 30 tours, the Secret Chiefs 3 has never toured twice with the same line-up!

SC3 was conceptually & musically developed by Spruance for 16 years. The touring band
as well as the recording ensembles have a rotating cast of top musicians (Ches Smith, Shahzad Ismaily, William Winant, Toby Driver, April Centrone, Matt Lebofsky among many many others). Since 2007 violinist / multi-instrumentalist Timb Harris has been the most permanent anchor, partnering with Spruance as a true "band member" in an ever-shifting & organic colony of voices.

It wasn't until 2004s Book of Horizons that SC3 revealed that the "band" is in fact a composite of seven satellite bands. The seven bands are The Electromagnetic Azoth, UR, Ishraqiyun, Traditionalists, Holy Vehm, FORMS, & NT Fan (the only ones not on that release). Since the release of Book of Horizons the satellite bands have seen several releases of their own.

Really, the Secret Chiefs 3 is a blanket name for various incarnations of the band that make use of more specific aesthetics from Middle Eastern-flavored experimental music, death metal, soundscaping, whatever else emanates from the minds of Spruance & his numerous collaborators.

This could go on for a mighty long time but I don't have it in me right now. After all these years, I just want to feature some of the great weirdness. Here's a qoute from Mark Prindle that I've always taken guidance from...
     "Secret Chiefs 3 began life as Mr. Bungle without the singer, whose name I can't remember I think it was Mick P or something. Trey "Mr. Guitar" Spruance, Trevor "Johnny Bassman" Dunn and Danny "Lil' Danny Drums-So-Plenty" Heifetz began the band in earnest good times fun, but it quickly evolved into a multi-musicianed disease determined to piece together some of the wickedest-ass Middle Eastern music around, then Americanize it with guitar lines of surf/spy, spaghetti western and heavy metal persuasions, and top the capper off with the most inappropriate (and noisy!) production decisions that the Straight Man's world has ever known. They also fill their CD booklets with all this weirdo Arabic CRAP and Sufi SHIT and mysticism DIARRHEA, and I don't understand hide nor hair of it so you'll have to go to Foreigner School or some ASS like that to figure out what the HECK they're trying to prove. But Mister, if you're "all about" Eastern tunings, Secret Chiefs 3 are your man!

     Now I'll warn you right now that I Don't Know JackTM about the musics of the world so for all I know there are a bazillion "genuine" outfits out there on that other part of the planet that play this stuff a hundred times better. However, until those dusty old genuine groups start recruiting members of today's hottest alternative acts like Mr. Bungle and Natalie Imbruglia, they'd might as well just call it a day because there ain't nobody listenin'. Thanks for trying, musicians of Turkey, Morocco and India, but if you don't have Paul Simon or Peter Gabriel in your band, you'd might as well just shut your ass. We hear the phone ringing, but we're not pickin' up!"

Mark Prindle from Mark's Record Reviews. He does a fantastic work explaining (?) each release from this band, so check it out...

Take this ride to the last song, you'll know what the SECRET is..."White as They Come" yeehaw!

Secret Chiefs 3 - First Grand Constitution & Bylaws, Amarillo Records ACM-003, 1996.

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Ana'l Haqq   
Adept Chamber of the Magian Tavern - Altar to the Master Chief
Inn of 3 Doors   
Breeze of Dawn, Death's Angel   
Assassin's Blade   
Bare-Faced Bazi   
Crossroads Through Crosshairs
Borderland   
Borderland   
Killing of Kings   
Celestial Ship of the Corsairs   
Pointed &bWeighty Arguments   
Zulkifar   
The Qa'im Deliberates   
Drunk at the Gates   
Resurrection Day Soundtrack : Hot Pursuit in Eagles' Nest
From Night the Morning Draught of Wine
Crosswinds   
Borderland   
White as They Come

 

 

 

 

Look out to the horizon(s), you Boxleitners... 

 

Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons, Web of Mimicry WoM 014, 2004.

The End Times - FORMS   
The 4 (The Great Ishraqi Sun) - Ishraqiyun   
The Indestructible Drop - Traditionalists   
Exterminating Angel - Holy Vehm   
The Owl in Daylight - FORMS
The Exile - Traditionalists   
On the Wings of the Haoma - The Electromagnetic Azoth   
Book T: Exodus (composed by Ernest Gold) - UR
Hypostasis of the Archons - Holy Vehm   
The Electrotheonic Grail Dove - Traditionalists   
The 3 (Afghan Song composer unknown) - Ishraqiyun   
DJ Revisionist - The Electromagnetic Azoth   
Anthropomorphosis: Boxleitner - UR   
Welcome to the Theatron Animatronique - FORMS

 

 

 

   

Four-pack of 7"ers from 2007...

The Electromagnetic Azoth / UR – The Left Hand Of Nothingness / Personnae: Halloween 7", 

Web of Mimicry WoM 029, 2007

Side A -
The Left Hand of Nothingness - The Electromagnetic Azoth
Side B -
Personnae: Halloween - UR

 

 

 

 

Ishraqiyun / The Electromagnetic Azoth – Balance of the 19 / UBIK 7",
Web of Mimicry WOM 030, 2007.

Non-UBIK Side -
Balance of the 19 - Ishraqiyun
UBIK Side -
UBIK - The Electromagnetic Azoth

 

 

 

 

UR - Kulturvultur / Drive 7", Web of Mimicry WoM 031, 2007.

Side A -
Kulturvultur
Side b -
Drive

 

 

 

 

UR - Circumnambulation / Labyrinth of Light 7",  Web of Mimicry WoM 032, 2007.

Side Alif -
Circumambulation
Side  Bet -
Labytinth of Light.

 

 

 

Here Traditionalists helm the soundtrack to The Severed Right Hands of the Last Men.

 

Secret Chiefs 3 & Traditionalists – Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini,
Web of Mimicry WoM028, 2009.

Faith's Broken Mirror   
Sophia's Theme   
What's Wrong with Cytherea?
Mourning in Ekstasis   
He Hates Us   
Psychism 1: Cytherea's Possession   
Love Spell   
Agenda 21   
Subcutaneous Solution   
Abyss of Psychic Enchantments   
Subdermal Sequence (Nano-Correction)   
RFID Slaverider   
Dionysian Dithyramb (Eros-Seed of the Egregore)   
Zombievision   
Perfectly Reasonable   
Psychism 2: Fear is the Great Teacher   
Abolish Believers by Abolishing Belief   
Funeral for what Might Have Been (Sophia's Theme)   
Codex Alimentarius   
Putting Forth the Hand to Take   
Psychism 3: Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind   
Hypnotopia (Obey Your Passion)   
Nano-Correction / Human Migrations / Faith Realizes
Chapel by the Sea (A Heart that is Broken & Humbled...)   
The Strength to Sever   
Baby Hedone (Harvest of the Egregore)   
Zombievision 2012   
The Great Die Off (He Mocks Us All)
Cytherea's Awakening / Martyrdom at Romiou Point / Return to the Foam
To Love God is Sweeter than Life (Sophia's Theme)

Chew into this (un)timely bite,
NØ

Fictitious Fiction

 

The Sabres of Paradise are a Dub-influenced leftfield electronic trio comprising the late Andrew Weatherall, Gary Burns, & Jagz Kooner, established in 1992. Although the group released their own original material starting in 1993, they are best known for the numerous remixes of other artists under the Sabres name.

The Actual Fictional Dancehall

Bubble & Slide
     "...it was pissing down, running through the gutters, banging out metallic bongo patterns in McGuire’s head, rhythms from the basement he’d just left. Squinting from left to right, the days course plotted."

Bubble & Slide II
     "...McGuire steps were solid over Battersea Bridge. London bridges at dawn, fuckin' magic, who needs fuckin' India or somewhere...no toilet paper and loads of poncey beatnik types."

Duke of Earlsfield
     "...The taxi stopped at the junction of Earlsfield Road and Garret Lane. McGuire mumbled 'Fascist Wanker' under his breath, refused to give a tip, and walked up to his front door. Once inside, the cherry on the cake had to be Jazzbo or Stitt."

Flight Path Estate
     "...Mcguire's rooms were immaculate. No way was he going to be 'Re-settled' by the Council on some fuckin' new estate underneath some fuckin' new airport"

Planet D
     "...The only way to avoid the Flight Path Estate scenario was to get a bit cosmic. 'Not too fuckin' cosmic, mind'. He'd once told me 'This planet's Martian enough without contemplating the whole universe'."

Wilmot
     "...It was the trumpet line that did it. Nevermind chasing after ethereal angels or earthly skirts. Chase that tone, scour the shacks, pester the sound boys."

Tow Truck
     "Noel's cutting room was a short walk from Borough tube station. It was the engine stoking the boilers of many a South London sound system. Outside stood his Chevy Stepside."

Theme & Theme 4
     "...McGuire pressed his ear to the wall and imagined the scenes within the Lant Street laboratory."

Return to Planet D
     "...No joy in Borough. On went the lightbulb above McGuire's head. 'You can dance to sweet music, sweat it out under a hot trumpet, or even play a nice game of billiards.' As Mr. Samuels was fond of saying about his beloved Soho."

Ballad of Nicky McGuire
     "...the trouble with Soho apart from the 'High-ups with an office on the spot and the low downs translating affairs on street corners.' (Another one of Mr. Samuel's), was that it reminded him of her. The café on the corner of Peter Street, Berwick Street Market, Sir Lee's coffe bar on Bateman Street. Fuck, even the strip joint on Dean Street."

Jacob Street 7am
     "...Stumbling from a Charing Cross Road drinker, two hours kip and off to work. Dawn over Rotherhithe...could be worse."

Chapel Street Market 9am
     "...As the hammer hit his thumb, the name of an importer stamped itself on the front of McGuire's brain with equally painful clarity. He had some money stashed to get through the summer with aplomb, dash, bag load's of tunes, and anyway Ray the Bugle, Mac, & The Major all those boys understood totally."

Haunted Dancehall
     "...Then he heard it. Pushing past early morning commuters and the market stall workers, he found himself standing outside a boarded up café. Wrenching the planks from what was once the front door, McGuire stepped inside..."
          The Haunted Dancehall by James Woodbourne. 

 

The Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall, Warp Records WARPCD26, 1994.
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Bubble & Slide    
Bubble & Slide II    
Duke of Earlsfield    
Flight Path Estate    
Planet D
Wilmot
Tow Truck    
Theme
Theme 4    
Return to Planet D    
Ballad of Nicky McGuire    
Jacob Street 7am    
Chapel Street Market 9am    
Haunted Dancehall

Enjoy,
NØ

The Diabolyn Made Me Do It

This month I feel like an SOB. 

You might get it later. 

 

Satanique Samba Trio is a Brazilian instrumental-experimental crew formed in 2002.  The name is a definite misnomer as the band is neither Satanic nor a trio.  Their music combines Brazilian traditional rhythms with punk & free jazz all overshadowed by a caustic faux-satanism that colors their themes. It has been variously described as Grimoire folk or Faustian world jazz. If those aren't two of your favorite genres, well, sorreeeee!

But I'm not...I'm just being DEVILISH. 

Dig in, guys & ghouls.

 

Satanique Samba Trio - Misantropicalia, Amplitude 003, 2004.
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Teletransputa
Canção Para Atrair Má Sorte (ato 1)
Deus Odeia Samba Rock
Canção Para Atrair Má Sorte (ato 2)
Gafieira Bad Vibe
Canção Para Atrair Má Sorte (ato 3)
Seis Temas Temas Tropicais Para Mestre Lúcifer I
Seis Temas Temas Tropicais Para Mestre Lúcifer II
Seis Temas Temas Tropicais Para Mestre Lúcifer III
Seis Temas Temas Tropicais Para Mestre Lúcifer IV
Seis Temas Temas Tropicais Para Mestre Lúcifer V
Seis Temas Temas Tropicais Para Mestre Lúcifer VI
Canção Para Atrair Má Sorte (ato 4)
Dança Das Quiumbas

 

 

 

 

Satanique Samba Trio - Sangrou, Amplitude 007, 2007.

Os Sininhos Dizem Morte
Kit De Amputação Asasulista
Estilo Ricky Ramirez
Auto-Retrato Em Tripas De Cachorro (Face 1)
Chuve De Sangue Em Exu (Pe)
Salsa Em Carna Viva
Comendo Faca
Todos Os Santos Na Grelha
A Alma Boca Afora
Morre, Brasília!
Cancerbol
Auto-Retrato Em Tripas De Cachorro (Face 2)
Salve Satã E Ponto Final
Diabolyn
Canção Para Atrair Má Sorte (Ato Vi)
Peça Para Pó, Pele E Osso Em Dez Por Oito

 

 

 

 

May Day Special!

Taking advantage of the short-lived exposure provided by Instagram Stories, Satanique Samba Trio (here a quintet) presented the world with 15-second lo-fi tunes every day throughout the month of February 2019.  Taken together, it's like a 7 minute mini-mixtape trip into the tropi-concrete world of SS3. 

 

 

Satanique Samba Trio - Instant Karma, Instagram, 2019.

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Enjoy,
NØ