Butch

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 09/14/2013. Enjoy, NØ.

My favorite production by the great character actress Carla Bozulich is Butch, where she reprises her pseudo country-punk heroine Geraldine Fibbers. This outing, however, finds her paired with new leading man Nels Cline, known for his roles in The Crew of the Flying Saucer & The Black Gang, both co-starring Mike "Minuteman" Watt. Recently Nels has been appearing in the popular series, Wilco. Geraldine has truly hit her stride in Butch. From the very opening scene, "California Tuffy", we are hooked. Then "Toybox" kicks it up & it's a sweet ride to the finish. Enjoy this classic.

The Geraldine Fibbers - Butch, Virgin Records America Inc., 1997.
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Tracklist -

California Tuffy
Toybox
I Killed the Cuckoo
Trashman in Furs
Swim Back to Me
Seven or in 10
Claudine
Folks Like Me
Pet Angel
Butch
Arrow to My Drunken Eye
You Doo Right
The Dwarf Song
Heliotrope
(ripped at 320Kbps)

Enjoy,
NØ

Invisible Chains

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 10/19/2013. Enjoy, NØ.

Shortly after her first role in Gary Kail's Zurich 1916, Carla Bozulich, at that time working under the stage name Carla Noelle, was cast in a supporting role in Hollywood producer/guitarist Joseph "Eightball" Halzman's Invisible Chains for New Alliance. Catch this rare & hard to find performance here...

Invisible Chains - Invisible Chains, New Alliance Records NAR 021, 1986.

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This Side -

Sal Mineo Youth Growing Up
Cream of the Prop
Old Speak / New Teeth
Rasta House of Pasta
Monogomy Monogomy (sic)

Other Side -

Ten Thousand Songs for Horny Dancers
Sal Mineo Rub-a-dub
Rubber Mr. lonely
An End to Neglected Toenails
Dreamdate
(ripped from immaculate vinyl at 320Kbps)

Enjoy,
NØ

UPDATE: Anonymous commented that this was on drop.io & needed re-uploaded. Here it is re-ripped on my new turntable with new needle....should be excellent. Enjoy

Updated again.

Updated again again.

Ethyl Meatplow

 UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 08/12/2013. Enjoy, NØ

I always loved Fred & Ethyl Meatplow, those wacky neighbors on the I Luv Loopy show. I always had the hots for Ethyl.

Ethyl was played by the great character actress Carla Bozulich. She is also know for her portrayals of Geraldine Fibbers, the pseudo-country wench; Scarnella the evil witch; & most recently the angelic Evangelista.

My favorite episode of the I Luv Loopy show featured Ethyl as a pseudo-industrial alternative dance-rock singer in a band with Biff Barefoot & Wee Wee...an episode entitled Happy Days Sweetheart. John 'Wee Wee' Napier on guitar, Carla 'Ethyl' Bozulich singing, & Harold 'Biff' Barefoot Sanders III on drums, with the help of Eeda Kitto & Sayuri Kawada on violins, Martin Tillmen on viola, Tree on cello, David Brown on alto saxophone, Albert Wing on tenor saxophone, & additional vocal support from Barry Adamson & Daniel Keenan. Here it is...

Ethyl Meatplow - Happy Days Sweetheart, Dali Records 61354-2, 1993.
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Tracklist -

Opening Precautionary Instructions
Suck
Devil's Johnson
Car
Queenie
Close To You
Tommy
Mustard Requiem
Abazab
Ripened Peach
Feed
Rise
For My Sleepy Lover
Sad Bear
Untitled

Enjoy,
NØ

Computer Malfunction

Well, I have returned from the Land of the Dead...dead computer, that is. My old piece of shit had been on its last leg for a long while. Finally it was coughing up lung & inhaling its final breath. I had been putting off the evitable but it finally became inevitable. Yet every cloud, as they say, has a silver lining. I had a replacement that I bought used out of the Pennysaver for twenty-five clams.

It was a Pentium 4, 2.8GHz with 480MB RAM & 100GB hard drive.

My old beater was a P-3 with 1.33GHz, 256 Ram, but it had two 80GB hard drives Local C: & Local D: cuz the last time it broke, my motherboard fried & so I installed a new board & 80 drive, but left the other 80 in there.

I also have a 200GB Maxtor external hard drive that was getting kinda crowded with...well, stuff...you know.

Now I'm up & running on the new system, I wiped everything from the old one & re-installed bare-bones XP. Now all the 'stuff' is being stored on my old comp., now re-named Library.

My external has 151 GB free space once more. This new one is smokin' & its got 75.7 GB free. I've got a few more bugs to exterminate, but I should be good to go, so I'm hoping to be posting by tomorrow again.

Just thought I'd post this up to say 'Wassup!'

NØ

Yumyum

 

Saw Ozric Tentacles Wednesday night. What an incredibly excellent & entertaining show. Here's a taste from their latest, The Yumyum Tree, which you can buy many places around the Interweb. Here's one of my all-time favorites, from 1990: 

 

 

Ozric Tentacles - Erpland 2xLP, Dovetail Records Dove LP1, 1990. 

 

 

Enjoy, NØ

Spam Blog

I have just been informed that this here Nothin' Sez has been flagged by Blogger as a Spam Blog.
I don't know what the hell that means, but I find it awfully insulting, being a life-long vegetarian.
Just serve me up some long pork instead.

Broke out of the Haze

UPDATE: This post has been re-uploaded 08/09/2013.  Enjoy, NØ
 
Woke up this morning with a hankering for some Haze. Flipped on Games, Dames, & Guitar Thangs from 1977. I was groovin' ta da FUNK!!! before I even realized I was over my affliction. My Pink Dots mania had subsided to a manageable level. Eddie Hazel, maestro of "Maggot Brain", a sad-life artiste of rock excess, but a six-string GAWD nonetheless. Original lead guitarist for George Clinton's Funkadelic. Left the band in 1974 amid a flurry of drug use. After splitting, The Haze played for The Temptations, contributing to "Standin' On (Shakey Ground)". Did some time in prison on a drug-related charge. Reunited with Clinton & P-Funk Mob to create this, his only album.

(There are three posthumous releases:1994s Rest in P album that was released by P-Vine Records in Japan, comprised of previously unreleased tracks recorded by Eddie Hazel around 1975 & 1976, which features musical support from various members of the P-Funk stable [Despite being heavily sought after by collectors, Rest In P has never been released outside of Japan.]; four tracks on the Jams from the Heart EP, included as bonus tracks on Rhino Records' 2004 limited-edition reissue of Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs; & 2006s At Home (with Family) which is an uneven collection of home studio recordings & living-room jams.)

Released in 1977, Games, Dames & Guitar Thangs is a full-tilt, jam-filled showcase for Hazel's far-out virtuosity. He cuts loose on fiery extended versions of The Mamas & The Papas' "California Dreamin'" as well as The Beatles' "I Want You (She's So Heavy)." Elsewhere he taps the Parliament/Funkadelic tradition with "Frantic Moment," "So Goes The Story," & "Physical Love", all co-written by Clinton & Bootsy Collins. The P-Funk Brides Of Funkenstein handle the majority of vocal duties.

Hazel's hard living eventually caught up with him. The Haze died in 1992 of liver & kidney failure.

Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames, & Guitar Thangs, Warner Bros. Records BSK 3058,1977.
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Side A:
California Dreamin'
Frantic Moment
So Goes the Story

Side B:
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Physical Love
What About It?
California Dreamin' (Reprise)

Eddie Hazel - Rest in P, P-Vine Records PCD-2884,1994.

Until it Rains
Beyond Word and Measure
Relic 'Delic (Purple Hazel)
Straighten Up
Juicy Fingers
We Three
Why Cry
We Are One
No, It's Not!
Until it Rains (reprise)

Eddie Hazel - Jams from the Heart EP, J.D.C. Records INC.
JDC 3452-2,1994.

Smedley Smorganoff
Lampoc Boogie
Unkut Funk
From the Bottom of My Heart

Eddie Hazel - At Home (with Family), CD Baby (Brenda Hazel), 2006.

Home
Eddie's Jam
You Had It All
I See You
Turn Me Loose
Handy-Man
Paradise
Who Said Love is Fair
California Dreaming
Outro-Eddie With Family

Enjoy, I sure have...
NØ

I Put a Ka-Spel on You

Happy Muthasday, you Muthas.

Prayer for Aradia has gone through many changes since its initial inception. This one has been released several times, originally in 1985 as a 30 minute cassette on the French label Bain Total (K24). The original tracklist is as follows: A1 Premonition 8 (1:53) A2 Flesh Parade (5:08) A3 Purity (2:42) A4 Purified (0:26) A5 Forgotten (2:25) A6 Davritt (0:46) B1 Outsider (2:54) B2 Invocation (0:35) B3 Love In A Plain Brown Envelope (3:32) B4 Love On A Stained Glass Window (1:08) B5 Close Your Eyes, You Can Be A Space Captain (4:01) B6 Premonition 9 (3:05) These tracks were recorded in 1981/82 at Chez Dots in London using primitive equipment. This was before LPD had relocated to Amsterdam.

The Legendary Pink Dots - Prayer for Aradia, Terminal Kaleidoscope TEKA 666 NL,1996.

When it was re-released on cd in 1996 by Dutch label Terminal Kaleidoscope (TEKA 666), the tracklist was as follows: 1. Prayer for Aradia Part One: Premonition 8 Flesh Parade Purity Purified Forgotten Davritt 2. Prayer for Aradia Part Two: Outsider Invocation Love In A Plain Brown Envelope No. 1 Love On A Stained Glass Window Space Captain No. 1 Premonition 9 3. Premonition 5 4. A Spanish Bridge 5. Stoned Obit 1980 6. Peace Crime 2 7. Professional 8. Brill 9. Sensory Deprivation 10. Temper Temper 11. Amphitheatre Shuffle 12. Before The End 13. Fin The original cassette release was now the first two tracks, titled "Prayer for Aradia Part One" & "Part Two", with no track seperation. Track 3, "Premonition 5" is from the 1983 Rising from the Red Sand cassette compilation on Third Mind (TMT04). Track 4 & 5 are previously unreleased. Tracks 6 thru 13 are from Chemical Playschool Volumes 1 & 2, originally released in 1981 as a limited edition on two cassettes from the U.K. label Mirrordot (02/03).

Big Blue, a Polish label re-released the TEKA cd in 2003 (L 0142) with the same tracklist but with different cover art.

Musicians on the original release are: Edward Ka-Spel - vocals & keyboards; The Silverman - keyboards; Stret Majest (Barry Gray) - guitar; & Patrick Q. Paganini - violin, viola, & piano. Various additional musicians appear on the subsequent releases. Second Birth. Sing While You May. Lazhmelih Enjoy, NØ

Bucket O' Love

Sure, I'm a trash picker...
digging thru the detritus of modern living is my secondary education...
before recycling was PC or dumpster diving was de rigueur sport,
I sifted thru manorwomankind's waste like an archaeologist in search of the missing link...
only I was searching for instant gratification...
a satchel of cash, a briefcase of drugs, a diamond ring,
a rat's asshole I could sell as a diamond ring...
anything...
but what I found the other night was beyond even my most twisted desire.

I was driving down Cap. City Freeway the other night, coming from the lamest Beltane celebration I'd ever had the displeasure of attending.
Not only wouldn't the Wicci (Wiccas??? Wicc ass??? whatever) present let us make a human sacrifice (we said we'd go find our own virgin 'cuz we knew they were all fucked...but NOOOOO!!!), but they wouldn't even let us make a pentangle on the coffee table with neither salt, cornmeal, nor chicken entrails. We had brought along the Satanic throws so we just spread them out nonetheless & onward.

After we'd smoked the wormwood / lizard-tail concoction
& consumed all the blood, the 'Cum-Bye-Yah' drove me out in search of ablution.
I was driving down Cap. City Freeway in the darkest wee hours when something caught my eye. It was a 5 gal. bucket setting upright beside the roadway.
It drew me like a magnet to its Holy Grail.

I pulled over & walked back to check it out.
Before I got all the way next to the bucket, I could hear her voice.
She kept repeating, "You won't be sorry. Just help me. You won't be sorry."
I didn't know where the voice was coming from at first,
but as I got closer & closer to my intended prize,
I realized the voice was coming from inside the bucket.
Little did I know that the ultimate prize of my life-long trash picking days lay before me.

Not cash nor drugs nor diamonds nor assholes, but my own true Bucket o' Love.

I don't know how she got in that bucket
& I don't really know how she came to be setting by that roadside,
but I do know that she's fine where she is in that bucket
& all that she needs is loving.

She's got all her openings, so the imagination is the limit as to what we can do.
She never seems to tire & she never gets enough.
I know she'll never leave me, even if I treat her rough.
She's the woman of every man's dream.
She ready day or night
& she always treats me right.
She likes lots of fluids,
they seem to keep her running smooth
& she's got the silkiest mouth I've ever felt,
she's got the tightest groove.
She might give me lots of lip,
but she carries a heavy load.
She never bitches 'bout her life
'cuz she could be setting by the road.

I don't want you to get the wrong idea...
I always treat her nice.
I keep her warm...
I keep her dry...
I give her pleasure once or twice
a day...
I love her in my own small way...
I take her with me when I stay away
from the maddening crowd at dawn.
I never ridicule...
I never force her to go to school...
I always wipe her drool
on my pant-leg when I'm thru,
fool.

I know you'll all condemn me
but I know you'd take my place
for just one day of unconditional commitment from my beautiful bucket o' love.
All you members of the jury...
& you, your honor, you must believe me...
she's no slave to sex or pawn of lust...
she's the only woman that ever loved me...
I'm the only one she trusts.
Just because her lot in life is loving a loser like me
doesn't make the fact that she lives her life in a bucket
any less than free.
She could be dead or in a specimen jar up on a scientist's shelf,
instead she's loving me in every way & gratifying herself.
Her family couldn't pleasure her because of incestuous guilt,
but every time I slam my rod buried to the hilt
in that bucket o' circumstance,
in that bucket o' quivering need,
I know I've made my bucket o' love smile...
I know I've done the selfless deed.

So if you're ever driving home late after a pissy Satanic night,
remember, the bucket you see by the side of the road
just might
serve you right.
I know that the shrinks have examined my skull
& couldn't find a clue
But I know you'll surely understand
if this ever happens to you.

NØ

Strazhani Klhm I Could Not Find The Doorway

Edward Ka-Spel - Dream Logik Part One, Beta-lactum Ring Records mt203, 2007. outside cover

inside cover

Laughing Gas Edward Ka-Spel: synthesizers old & new, electric organ, percussion, found sounds, voice All artwork on Dream Logik Part One & Part Two by Jesse Peper

Enjoy, NØ

A Thing of Beauty for Ear & Eye

Nezhadaylet Twistyzharr Sing While You May Edward Ka-Spel - Dream Logik Part Two, Beta-lactum Ring Records mt213, 2008.

Outside 5-fold

Inside 5-fold

cd sleeve Under the Junction Edward Ka-Spel: vocals, analogue & digital synthesizers, piano, organ, autoharp, broken things, technological wonders. Ghosts: the bits in between

Enjoy, NØ

Ib, this one's for you

from Passport to Eternity, 1963:

"Track 12"

"Maxted stirred sluggishly. The lake of mercury in his stomach was as cold & bottomless as an oceanic trench, & his arms & legs had become enormous, like the bloated appendages of a drowned giant. He could just see Sheringham bobbing about in front of him, & hear the slow beating of the sea in the distance. Nearer now, it pounded with a dull insistent rhythm, the great waves ballooning & bursting like bubbles in a lava sea.

'I'll tell you, Maxted, it took me a year to get that recording,' Sheringham was saying. He straddled Maxted, gesturing with the siphon. 'A year. do you know how ugly a year can be?' For a moment he paused, then tore himself from the memory. 'Last Saturday, just after midnight, you & Susan were lying back in this same chair. you know, Maxted, there are audio-probes everywhere here. Slim as pencils, with a six-inch focus. i had four in that headrest alone.' He added, as a footnote: 'The wind is your own breathing, fairly heavy at the time, if I remember; your interlocked pulses produced the thunder effect.'

Maxted drifted in a wash of sound.

Some while later Sheringham's face filled his eyes, beard wagging, mouth working wildly.

'Maxted! You've only two more guesses, so for God's sake concentrate,' he shouted irritably, his voice almost lost among the thunder rolling from the sea. 'Come on, man, what is it? Maxted!' he bellowed. He leapt for the nearest loudspeaker & drove up the volume. the sound bounced out of the patio, reverberating into the night.

Maxted had almost gone now, his fading identity a small featureless island nearly eroded by the waves beating across it.

Sheringham knelt down & shouted into his ear.

'Maxted, can you hear the sea? Do you know where you're drowning?'

A succession of gigantic flaccid waves, each more lumbering & enveloping than the last, rode down upon them.

'In a kiss!' Sheringham screamed. 'A kiss.'

The island slipped & slid away into the molten shelf of the sea."

J.G.Ballard

J.G.Ballard R.I.P.

Author J.G. Ballard died Sunday, April 19, 2009 6:53:31 PM, aged 78.

from The Crystal World,1966:

"He awoke into brilliant sunshine in a street of temples, where rainbows spangled the gilded air with the blaze of colours. Shielding his eyes, he lay back & looked up at the roof-tops, their gold tiles inlaid with row upon row of coloured gems, like pavilions in the temple quarter of Bangkok.

A hand pulled at his shoulder. Trying to sit up, Sanders found that the semi-circle of clear pavement was vanished, & his body lay sprawled in a bed of sprouting needles. The growth had been most rapid in the entrance to the depository, & his right arm was encased in a mass of crystalline spurs, three or four inches long, that reached almost to his shoulders. Inside this frozen gauntlet, almost too heavy to lift, his fingers were outlined in a maze of rainbows.

Sanders dragged himself to his knees, tearing away some of the crystals. He found the bearded man in the white suit crouching behind him, his shot-gun in his hands.

'Ventress!' With a cry, Sanders raised his jewelled arm. In the sunlight the faint nodes of the gem-stones he had stuffed into his cuff shone in the tissues of his arm like inlaid stars. 'Ventress, for God's sake!'

His shout distracted Ventress from his scrutiny of the light-filled street. His small face with its bright eyes was transfigured by the strange colours that mottled his skin & drew out the pale blues & violets of his beard. His suit radiated a thousand bands of colour.

He knelt down beside Sanders, trying to replace the strip of crystals torn from his arm."

One of my all-time favorite authors. I will grieve his passing.

The Return of the Legendary Pink Dots

 UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 08/24/2013. Enjoy, NØ.

The obscure concepts that form the basis for individual Pink Dots releases can be overwhelming at times on first listen. They often take repeated playings to fathom the great depths that is LPD. The Whispering Wall is an excellent entry point for anyone attempting to take on this behemoth of a band. The opening track on Dots' albums is usually a good indicator as to the thematic framework & musickal vein of that particular offering. The Whispering Wall begins with the strident, guitar driven "Soft Toy", a wonderful portent of things to come, the first of many surprises. Another highlight of the album, "For Sale," is one of the most polished Dots tunes ever, a great means of introduction for the uninitiated. If I haven't convinced you to check out this band, well, try starting here.

Legendary Pink Dots - The Whispering Wall, Roir RUS8286, 2004.
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 Traclkist -

Soft Toy
A Distant Summer
Dominic
In Sickness & In Health
For Sale
King of a Small World
The Region Beyond
06
Peek-a-Boo
The Divide
Sunken Pleasures - Rising Pleasure - No Walls, No Strings

Enjoy,
NØ

Goin' Digital

Zer0_II over at Digital Meltd0wn has gone insane. He's permitted me to guest post on his blog. Watch out.

...but seriously, I'm honored to be given the nod to post some musick on his great site. If you want to get some stuff from yours truly that doesn't exactly fit in over here for one reason or another (Pink Dots) then go check out the Meltd0wn. Check out all the other great musick there if you haven't already.

& leave a comment (unlike your usual habit here at NSS).

Enjoy,
NØ

Dark Star

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 08/22/2013. Enjoy, NØ.

I snuck into the house again just now. It's raining cats & dogs. I needed to dry off. No one is around right now so I'm gonna slap this one up quick.


Dark Star is a project from the German musician Wolfgang Reffert. It is post-industrial rock with a psychedelic twist that is slightly reminiscent of The Tear Garden. Travelogue I was originally recorded in 1992 to 1994. In its original format it contain 9 tracks instead of 11 as on Travelogue II. The final two tracks have been replaced by 4 new tracks. Travelogue II retains its early 90s vibe. It begins with "Eject!", a collision of dirty electronics & noisy guitars over a beat-box along with Edward Ka-Spel drones; he's unique & abstract, as usual. Travelogue II navigates genres: the gloomy "Opal" finds its inspiration in krautrock a la Chrome; heavy industrial rears its head on the distorted "Frantic Upstream", while "Don't Look 'til it's Gone" is a colossal industrial & psychedelic blend from Hell with Edward Ka-Spel drawling twisted lyrics in the grotesque darkness; "Come To" is perfect dark-pop. The bonus tracks "Solaris I" & "Solaris II" are minimal collages of tapes & samples with mellotron instrumentation. Travelogue II should strongly appeal to The Tear Garden or Edward Ka-Spel fans. A great piece of fuzzy, dirty experimentation of industrial psychedelia with a cool cover artwork by none other than French artist Métal Hurlant Moebius from the graphic novel The Airtight Garage Of Jerry Cornelius .

Dark Star is Wolfgang Reffert - electronics & guitar with guests: Edward Ka-Spel - vocals, keyboards, & lyrics; The Silverman - sampler; Ryan Moore - bass; Gøtz Adler - guitar, bass, keyboard & drum program; Reece Kyó! - electronics & rhuthm reconstruction; Fredbo - Sampler; G-Frex - guitar & bass; Yorgos DK - vocals & lyrics; Rodrigo Gonzalez - sampler; Kurt Maninouk - tapes; Wolfgang Bauer - editing & drum program; & Volkmar Miedlke - mellotron.

Dark Star - Travelogue II, Soleilmoon sol86, 2000.
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Tracklist:

Eject!
Opal
Frantic Upstream
The Slice of Life
Don't Look 'til its Gone
Go Beyond, but...
Come To
Masterpiece
Solaris I
Belvedere
Solaris II

Stay dry if you can - stay wet if you can - CanCan if you can,
NØ

UPDATE: I am adding Headtrip as requested.

Dark Star - Headtrip, Failsafe Productions FSCD 01, 1992
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Tracklist:

Ixtlan
Sparker
The Phoenix Asteroids
Cactus Dance
33/4
Curse
P2C2E
The Shadow Warriors
Desaster Area
Headtrip

Enjoy & thanks for the heads-up Anon & Zanate,
NØ

More News from KILL YOUR GODZ

Have you been to KILL YOUR GODZ. lately? Well, YOUR GODZ might as well be DEAD! Head over there today to hear a special gift from Black Ark Psychedelick Soul & Jazz Revue - Volume One/The Archive Series.


Black Ark Psychedelick Soul & Jazz Revue is a post dada/fluxus art movement committed to reinterpreting the codes & messages left from as far back as the late 50s - early 60s beat/pop/surreal/psychedelic scenes & all those left in it’s wake.

Then head back again tomorrow 10 April 2009 to hear Stpocold to get their release What Happened Outside.


Originating out of the Russian Federation, Stpocold is the experimental project of Swill Klitch and Ips Klitch. They are hoping to have their second full length cd out in 2009.

A Heathen Harvest review of their first cd What Happened Outside described them as;

"…experimental: noise with a human touch, an attempt to combine music & anti-music, sometimes followed by adding rhythmic structures (& turning in – rhythmically - minimal but multilayered, violent, abrasive rhythmic industrial music), consisting not only from the “drum sound” of different kinds like pulsating synthetic beats, scratches & noises, but also looped samples, all this flavored with female voice (which on the second track sounded as if it was going to sing as women in Indian movies do) & male declamations."

While you're there, don't be a leech. Leave a comment.

Enjoy,
NØ

Creepy Crawl Part 1

This post has been re-uploaded 11/04/2017.

I snuck back in to the house when no one was home. They had been using my stereo & playing records. There were albums galore. With Radio KLPD still ruling the airwaves, they had apparently indulged in an orgy of vinyl. I requisitioned a bottle of maple syrup for the lemonade I'm living on, from the lemons I pick off the tree in the field where I'm staying. I slunk back to my tent. I'm a Taurus & I'm stubborn as hell, so I'm not giving in this easy. This is what I found on the turntable. (Ferry's no Ka-Spel, but "A Song for Europe"...)

Roxy Music - Greatest Hits, ATCO Records SD 38-103, 1972.

Jeté de ma propre maison,
NØ

The New Revolution

Just a note to let all the visitors here know that great things are going on over at Because God Told Me To Do It.

TheeBradMiller has started
THE NEW REVOLUTION!

He has begun a new blog called Kill Your Godz where bands can become members & post their own music for all to enjoy directly from the artists themselves.

Here's what TBM sez,

"KILL YOUR GODZ will be a new home for artists who need to be heard. Preferably unsigned artists. Contact me & let me act as the CLEARING HOUSE OF THE GODZ! (theebradmiler@yahoo.com)

It is time for a revolution. Are you on board. Sure, the Industrial Godfathers are entertaining... but wouldn't you want to be a GOD? Don't you think YOU should be a GOD?

April 1st through the 4th will show all the talent that it is out there. On the four Because God Told Me To Do It FREE DOWNLOAD releases you will hear the beginning of a REVOLUTION.

April first through 4th will see the releases begin to flow. I don't know the exact number of tracks, but it's around 50 something....

If you are interested in doing this again, then here is your opportunity. But there is a catch... & of course this catch could crash & burn the whole idea, but I am willing to give it a go. This time it won't be a free for all. This time it will be SLEEPCHAMBER cover tunes. It has to be a cover of a SLEEPCHAMBER song... any SLEEPCHAMBER song. For now I will make the deadline June 1st, with the release to follow a week after.

Have fun."

Well the first part, called Formulation, is available for FREE DOWNLOAD today & it is a great thing to hear (cover pictured above). Many of the artists are unsigned & perhaps unknown to most. They all deserve a listen. Also included is the awesome Phallus Dei, whose drummer / multi-instrumentalist RICHARD VAN KRUYSDIJK works with Niels van Hoorn (see previous post) in STRANGE ATTRACTOR so there is even a Pink Dots connection to satisfy my own mania.

As TBM sez, 'Have fun' & as Nathan Nothin' sez,

Enjoy,
NØ

A Couple More Pink Dots

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 12/07/2013. Enjoy, NØ.

Two disparate works by two members of LPD. Given the difference of these two works, it is possible to see some of the sources of the unfathomable depth that is Pink Dots musick.

Niels Van Hoorn aka: Niels Van Hoornblower, joined the Dots in 1988. He plays saxophones, flute, bass flute, clarinets, gadgets that need to be blown. He likes to wear loud, eccentric suits & uses light beam with his sax for a walk in the crowd.

Someone from LPD once remarked that when Niels made a solo recording, it would be the most abstract or 'avant-garde' thing to come out of the band. That's quite a challenge. So he created De Klaverland Klompen Voetbal Club (which I will post at a future date). DKKVC was recorded on location in Klaverland 2000. It is dedicated to the Independent State of Klaverland & its national sport, Klompen Voetball, in which the players wear 'klompen' or wooden shoes, using two small balls, one for the players & one for their dogs. There are no goals & no rules. DKKVC is to say the least extreme.

More accessible & showing more of his love of jazz, blues, & soul is 2002s Colours.

Niels van Hoorn - Colours, Solielmoon sol 128, 2002.
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Tracklist -

Landscape
Indian Dakota
Space Horns
Desert Walk
Traffic Jam
Grand Canyon
Heritage part 1 & 2
Mist
Mellow
Strange Dream
Klaverland Sunset Jam (for a small taste of Klaverland)

All song by Niels van Hoorn except "Indian Dakota" & "Mellow" by NvH & Ryan Moore.

Niels plays: soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, & dubbel saxophones; bass clarinet; flute; Steiner wind synth; Arp2600 & Cat synths; & Boomerang loops.
Ryan Moore plays: drums; congas; Kurzwell K-200; & Moogerfoogers. He does: production; tape editing; & engineering.
Mastered by Raymond Steeg.

Ryan Moore played drums on studio & live performances for the Legendary Pink Dots throughout most of the 1990s. He departed to work on his own musical project, the Twilight Circus Dub Sound System, a reggae/dub band. He wrote & produced albums for Grammy Award winning singer Michael Rose of Black Uhuru. He has worked with other notable reggae figures such as Sly Dunbar, half of one of the most influential partnerships in reggae music, Sly & Robbie.

Martijn De Kleer joined the Dots in 1991. He plays guitars, fuzz bass, banjo, violon, exotic percussion, gadgets, string driven things-plucked, bowed, & processed. Pure, psychedelic, & rustic. He still loves Hank Williams. He recorded Flow at home with two microphones & a tape deck. If Van Hoorn was the abstract side, then this is the mellow side of the Dots coin. Mighty lucre it is.

Martijn de Kleer - Flow: Songs & Pieces, Solielmoon sol 110, 2001.
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Tracklist -

Beginning
Once a Road
Moon in Water
Birds
High Street
Sin
Invitation
Sunflower
Not Blind?
Daydream
Reflection
End

Martijn: vocals; acoustic guitar; fiddle; banjo; & hand drum. Mastered & additional sounds from Raymond Steeg.


Raymond Steeg joined the Dots in 1992. He does the mixing & is the engineering master. Works the sound, vibrations, gadgets, & more gadgets. Demands a perfect sound because anything less pisses him off.

Enjoy,
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