Ideal for Any Funeral as an Antidote to the Bogus Angst of the Big Chill

 

Several years back, I bumped into a roadie in a bar in Glasgow. He was taking a break from rigging a tent for T in the Park. I despise T in the Park. The only thing remotely appealing about this event is that it's sponsored by Tennents, a Glaswegian brewery. I told the roadie this and he concurred good-naturedly. He was a decent bloke. I asked him who was headlining in this tent and he grimaced and looked away. Travis, he replied. Bad luck, I said. We both laughed and ordered another drink. A pint of lager for him; a Jack Daniels for me. He took out some rolling tobacco and I offered him a cigarette. On his left arm he wore a tattoo of his young daughter. We swapped stories regarding tattoo parlours and the perils therein. Above the newly inscribed tattoo I could make out something much older, indelibly reposing in the folds of his shirt. I squinted and gasped. "The Ruts D.C." was the partially obscured legend, an open invitation to a brotherhood of tainted blood and a sibling regret.

Ib Sibling

It's Sunday Morning. The Weekend is Dead.

Remembering the grey twilight of the early 70s up and down the sewage stoked shores of these hallowed isles.

An era of miners' strikes and constant power cuts as a consequence. Unemptied refuse bins piling on the streets and troops deployed to clean up the decaying heaps.

Nobody seemed to mind too much. The miners were heroic then, the martyrs of Great Britain's declining heavy industry and just in their demands for better pay.

The winter was long and filled with blackouts; kettles were boiled and baths filled with military precision lest the lights blinked off and caught you in the dark. Children padded home from school through the sleet and snow and watched what they could on the tragic lantern before the cathode rays invariably died.

Late at night their parents secretly cursed those same strikers they countenanced by day. Heavy metal canisters of Calor Gas appeared in every house like early Christmas presents.

 Ib Sibling

 

When the Sheriff Comes to Town, You Gotta Be Quick... or Draw.

 

The newsagents at the top of the street where I sometimes spent weekends with my cousins and aunt and uncle was called "Broadway". Any hint of reflected glamour it may once have clung to had long since vacated. Even the boxes of continental chocolates on the long shelves were by then covered in a fine film of dust.

Aside: a farthing for your thoughts, dear boy.

Rosa rides a mountain bike. She takes it everywhere rather than use the subway or file onto a bus. I like to watch her ass as she pedals off.

Ib Sibling

Independence Daze

Sometimes there is a fourth monkey depicted with the three others; the last one, Shizaru, symbolizes the principle of "do no evil". He may be covering his abdomen or crotch, or just crossing his arms.

Ib Sibling

A Hospital Radio Dj's Hokey-doky Script

 

Repeatedly, I have asked the GHA - the authority which houses me and thousands of others here in Glasgow - for paint in order to rid my landing of grafitti and the smears of unwanted guests who frequent the building late into the night to either inject drugs or get drunk while averting police intervention.

The entrance to the building is "protected" by CCTV and the concierge service is overstretched and underpaid.

I get up in the morning to take my son to school and we step gingerly over suspicious puddles to call the lift. We finally get down to the foyer and find fresh daubings on the walls under the 24 hour big brother scrutiny of strategically placed cameras. No one knows who these uninvited visitors could be. Their names are scrawled and etched into the brickwork. No dogs are allegedly allowed in the building, but the lifts are often swimming in urine.

They clean it up and the dogs keep on coming. Large, vicious looking mastifs with studded collars. Kept on a leash by chain-smoking midgets - mental or otherwise - who require a dog to pack a punch. Smoking is not permitted in these buildings either. It can not be healthy for a Rottweiler to live in a multi-storey block ; I suppose they enjoy having to do their toilet in an elevator as little as I relish stepping in it. Perhaps they will be rescued some day and retired to live on a farm.

I will invest in a baseball bat in the meantime, I tell myself.

I have repeatedly asked for paint but the housing authority refuses. First, they told me not to worry because they have a contract to take take care of it themselves. Then they told me it was really a Health & Safety issue. I might slip or something and perhaps break my neck. Anyway, they added, these blocks will be coming down soon. How soon ? I asked. We don't know, they replied ; there's nowhere else to put all those people right now.

I laughed. It might take another five years. Two, at the earliest.

What's five years to a ten-year-old boy ?

Ib Sibling

An Obligation, an Irascible Itch

Where we diverged geographically, we lived on the same page. 

 

My sister sent me a text message today warning "TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE'S DAY". What can it mean ? She mistrusts my epic humour, certainly, and is forever trying to catch me on the wrong foot. It's like a game of darts where the points have all worn blunt.

I nod my head and grin.

The good news - depending on your vantage point, dear reader - is this. I am drowning but not yet prone beneath the surf. Some kind Presbyterian souls passing by, grabbed hold of my wrists, and gently pulled me ashore. I say Presbyterian, but more accurately I should suggest Catholic, for that's undoubtably where my taste resides; catholic in my sensibilty, and catholic in the agate, celtic rock I shall perish on. Or perhaps not. It all depends, I suppose, on which way the wind blows.

Thank you all equally and hallowed be thy name.

Ib Sibling

Here's Another Clue for You All...The Walrus was Paul

Remember the Easter Egg Hunt! 

 

Those people closest to Ernestó Agnursson did not need to subscribe to the cloud. When he made his music the whole favela stopped to listen.
     Infants stopped pawing at their mother's breast. Bakers stopped baking their bread.
     He stuttered. He whistled. He rumbled and growled.
     There was more weight in his small intestine than in a pedal drum. His teeth chattered. His anus rattled, occasionally rang like a cowbell on a Yamaha Boom.
     Ernestó Agnursson was a one man orchestra.
     Where the Ministry conspired with the Big Fruit to trick the pygmies into paying a monthly stipend for their fix, Ernestó Agnursson was an affront. A slap in the face. A threat to the bottom line.
     King Asbo first met Ernestó Agnursson in a barbershop in Easterhouse.
     When Ernestó dropped by to trade recital for shave and trim.
     Where the old colonialists reign in small print, and the royal pen skips with the minute hand over death row, the introduction came quite by accident.
     The king sat in the big chair. Working at a cigar while the barber's scissors danced. By the time he promised to make Ernestó a prince he was bald as a poor man's bicycle tyre.
      The king knew everything there was to know about the science of sound.
      He could strip it back to its essence just by listening to it.
      In his youth he ran electrical repairs from his mother's house. Shotguns barked. Ice cream vans exploded. Asbo did not hear them. He was up to his elbows in the physics of transfiguration.
      He built a radio transmitter from the ground up. The Ministry tore it down. He built another. He disseminated Hometown Hi-Fi and flew the black flag.
      The king listened to Ernestó Agnursson and knew all that was needed was a little echo. Reverb. A half twist on the high-pass filter.
      Like an old school instrument of wrath, Ernestó worked straight out the box.
                                              

Ib Sibling

Back to the Drawing Board

This is not what I had planned for the next two months. 

But this is what I do, 

so... 

 

 

While I was working through some damaged sounds in my P folder of Musick that Needs Work, I shared Pye Corner Audio. This touched off a brief dialogue that began with this comment.

MarkyD sez:
     "Thanks NØ. I desperately want to like Pye but couldn't really enjoy Hollow Earth or Let's Emerge. I suppose I want my hauntology to be more James Kirby. I will listen to these with more humility." 

 

 

 

Leyland James Kirby is a cult-favorite English musician otherwise known as The Caretaker. The Caretaker references Jack Torrance, Jack Nicholson's slowly unraveling hotel groundskeeper in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The Caretaker debuted with 1999s Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom, glitchy waltzes that echo through your most haunted empty ballroom.

 

 

The Caretaker - Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom, 

V/Vm Test Records OFFAL02, 1999.
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Engagements -
The Haunted Ballroom   
By the Seaside   
One Thousand Memories
Haunting Me   
A Summer Romance   
Den of Iniquity   
Dream Waltz   
A Handful of Stars   
Request Dance   
In the Dark   
Reckless Night   

Interval -   
Thronged with Ghosts   
From Out of Nowhere   
Friends Past Reunited   
You & the Night   
Moonlight Seranade   
Disillusioned   
The Revolving Bandstand   
Garden of Weeds   
"Excuse Me" for Ladies   
In Days of Old   
September 1939   
Thanks   
The Haunted Ballroom   
Untitled

 

 

 

The Caretaker is most known for his breakthrough 2011 release An Empty Bliss Beyond This World. Arranged from edits of Jazz Age ballroom tunes found on forgotten 78s in dollar bins worldwide. Kirby re-worked the dusty samples to crackle, loop, & fade indiscriminately, repeating themselves or abruptly changing course. The record is as dreamy as it is unsettling, trapping the listener into the locked groove of someone else's distant memories.

 

 

The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, History Always Favours The Winners, 2011.

All You are Going to Want to Do is Get Back There   
Moments of Sufficient Lucidity   
The Great Hidden Sea of the Unconscious   
Libet's Delay   
I Feel as if I Might Be Vanishing   
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World   
Bedded Deep in Long Term Memory   
A Relationship with the Sublime   
Mental Caverns Without Sunshine   
Pared Back to the Minimal   
Mental Caverns Without Sunshine   
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World   
Tiny Gradiations of Loss   
Camaraderie at Arms Length   
The Sublime is Disappointingly Elusive

 

 

 

 

 

Over time, the Caretaker has explored the theme of neurodegenerative illness, using his records themselves as metaphors for the progressive failure of the human mind.

Here The Caretaker provides you with a 72 track release offered for free via downloadable MP3s on the official V/Vm website, seventy-two memories in which to lose yourself. It is the aural sound of "Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia", a condition where it's impossible to remember new events. This is a release of audio designed to be forgotten with few reference points appearing from a dense audio fog of an amnesiac condition.

 

 

The Caretaker - Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia, V/Vm Test Records, 2005.

Memory One   
Memory Two   
Memory Three   
Memory Four   
Memory Five   
Memory Six   
Memory Seven   
Memory Eight   
Memory Nine   
Memory Ten   
Memory Eleven   
Memory Twelve   
Memory Thirteen   
Memory Fourteen   
Memory Fifteen   
Memory Sixteen   
Memory Seventeen   
Memory Eighteen   
Memory Nineteen   
Memory Twenty   
Memory Twenty One   
Memory Twenty Two   
Memory Twenty Three   
Memory Twenty Four   
Memory Twenty Five   
Memory Twenty Six   
Memory Twenty Seven   
Memory Twenty Eight   
Memory Twenty Nine   
Memory Thirty   
Memory Thirty One   
Memory Thirty Two   
Memory Thirty Three   
Memory Thirty Four   
Memory Thirty Five   
Memory Thirty Six   
Memory Thirty Seven   
Memory Thirty Eight   
Memory Thirty Nine   
Memory Forty   
Memory Forty One   
Memory Forty Two   
Memory Forty Three   
Memory Forty Four   
Memory Forty Five   
Memory Forty Six   
Memory Forty Seven   
Memory Forty Eight   
Memory Forty Nine   
Memory Fifty   
Memory Fifty One   
Memory Fifty Two   
Memory Fifty Three   
Memory Fifty Four
Memory Fifty Five   
Memory Fifty Six   
Memory Fifty Seven   
Memory Fifty Eight   
Memory Fifty Nine   
Memory Sixty   
Memory Sixty One   
Memory Sixty Two   
Memory Sixty Three   
Memory Sixty Four   
Memory Sixty Five   
Memory Sixty Six   
Memory Sixty Seven   
Memory Sixty Eight   
Memory Sixty Nine   
Memory Seventy   
Memory Seventy One   
Memory Seventy Two

 

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ 

 

This is what I had planned for the upcoming month...

That Didn't Take Long

Well, it didn't take the Google Gestapo long to crack down on this idea. I've been working on it for quite some time, so now I have to reconsider what I'm doing next. 

Project (un)officially on hold. 

Be back soon.

The Naterock Album Dump Part 10: The Final Dump

Gotta squeeze this in before the month comes to a close. It was scheduled for July, but things change & I didn't want it to be left until October. This will be the last installment of the Naterock Album Dumps.

For the next two months, things are not going to be the usual (if such a thing exists) around NSS. I'm stepping away from my monthly mixture of mayhem & mania for two reasons. One, I have a project that I've had rattling around my brain for a while that I want to persue & two, I'm working on the latest iteration of Dubtember. That's taking most of my creative & musical juices to pull together so I need a couple months to be fully prepaired.

I'll be posting regularly, just not the usual mishegoss that passes for a blog around this dump. If you like what you find, kool. Follow along & see what shakes loose. If you don't, then come back in September for what I hope to be the best Dubtember yet. Anyway, the choice, of course, is your.

 

To the Dump...

Continuing on with part two of a continuing series, 1986 - 1987. Remember, a .zip file marked simply Albums List will be included in each dump, so youcan decide from that what you want or simply reference the list below (& with each posting).

Naterock Album Dump Part 10
Part Two -
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1986

"House of Suffering" was the track I referrenced from the I Against I album but the Brains have regained control of their back catalogue & are re-issuing I Against I this July 22 so included here is only the live version of said song. Sorry, but support the Bad Brains.
Whiplash Smile - Billy Idol
Off the Beaten Track - African Head Charge
Dig It 12" - Skinny Puppy
Concrete Blonde - Concrete Blonde
The Unacceptable Face of Freedom - Test Dept.
Sound of Confusion - Spacemen 3
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses
Manic Pop Thrill - That Petrol Emotion

1987
Tired Eyes Slowly Burning - The Tear Garden
Introducing the Hardline According to - Terence Trent D'Arby
The Elbow is Taboo - Renaldo & the Loaf
Rhythm Killers - Sly & Robbie
Happy Nightmare Baby - Opal

Enjoy,
NØ

Previous Fireflies Post Prompted this Excursion

Fireflies are Nina Walsh & Franck Alba. I have featured Nina before involving her relationship as long term creative partner to Andrew Weatherall. The two ran the Sabres of Paradise & Sabrettes record labels. They later released material as Woodleigh Research Facility which I have extensively shared in the past.

The other half of Fireflies is guitarist Franck Alba (photo - 1st right). Franck was a long-time member of the Anglo-French ambient pop experimentalists Piano Magic. 

 

Piano Magic was formed by Glen Johnson in 1996, who used Ivo's collective This Mortal Coil as the template for his group. No less than 30 musicians have passed through their ranks, the solo constant being Glen. Franck has been onboard since the days of The Troubled Sleep of Piano Magic (2003).

Here is Piano Magic's final studio release... 

 

Piano Magic - Closure, Second Language SL036, 2016.
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Closure    
Landline    
Exile    
Let Me Introduce You    
Living For Other People    
You Never Stop Loving (The One That You Loved)    
Attention To Life    
I Left You Twice, Not Once

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Back to the Facility with the Peenywallies

This is the very first release from Nina Walsh / Andrew Weatherall's Facility 4 label. 

It features Nina & Franck Alba.

Fireflies - The Machine Stops, Facility 4 F4001, 2020.
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She's My Witch   
She's My Witch (VDCR remix)
Get Out of Town   
Heidi

bonus track -
On the Mountainside

 

 

 

 

 

While I'm sharing some Nina Walsh, here's one I really like from Nina & Alex Paterson of the Orb...

 

Rootmasters - Push Once 10", Malicious Damage MDV628, 2007.

Side A -
Book of Hours
Janis Joplin’s Mum

Side B -
Elephant Puddle
Book of Hours (Autolump remix)

bonus track -
Prozac Nation

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Riding Off into the Sunset

When I began the 4AD shares in April, I got a comment from Anonymous who sez:
     "Anything by the Rutkowski sisters?"

To which I sez:
     "I've shared several by The Hope Blister & there will definitely be several This Mortal Coil coming up. Anything in particular or is that good?"

To which Anon sez:
     "It's too hard to think. Anything rare, or not so rare. Thank you."

Well... 

 

 

Sunset Gun were sisters Louise & Deirdre Rutkowski with multi-instumentalist Ross Campbell. In 1984, they were snapped up by CBS who released three single & an album.

The Rutkowski sisters went onto bigger things, eventually gaining huge acclaim for their extraordinary vocal work on the last two This Mortal Coil albums on 4AD then The Hope Blister (as I alluded to above).   

Sunset Gun's sound is very much in the pop/soul field. This one's for you, Anonymous... 

 

Sunset Gun - In an Ideal World, CBS 26584, 1985.
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Side A -
Sister
Paint the Town Red
On the Right Side
Company
Stop

Side B -
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
Stay with Me
Tongue Tied & Twisted
Life of the Freeman
Face Up to What is True

Enjoy,
NØ

Ted’s Other Excellent Adventures - Blurt part 3

Milton, Eagles, & Wiggens add another guitarist -Chris Vine & another percussionist- Nic Murcott. They suddenly become the Blurt Big Band.

 

Ted Milton & the Blurt Big Band - Magic Moments, Bahia Music CDB008, 1994.
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Burial Mound
First World Trombone
The A2. Through Thong
Click
The Neutral Territories
First Day Issue
What's Happening to You Milton?
Columbus
A Grace

 

 

 

 

In 2000, Ted teamed up with Loopspool (Andreas Gerth) to release Sublime.

 

Ted Milton / Loopspool - Sublime, Charhizma charhizma008, 2000.

Suck on the Night    
In Your World    
You've Seen the Light    
L'Alpiniste    
C'est Ta Faute    
The Room    
Fragments    
Don't Let Love Pass You By    
I've Stolen All of Your Being

 

 

 

 

In 2006 Ted released Odes, a compilation of tracks of Ted performing with various artists. Signed & numbered limited edition of 100.

 

 

Ted Milton - Odes, self-released, 2006.

Nogales - Ted Milton with Back to Normal Orchestra
Can’t Blame Blim - Ted Milton with Sam Britton
Love is like a Violence - Ted Milton with Steve Beresford
Oh Pity Us - Ted Milton with Paddy Steers & Andreas Gerth
Fragment - Ted Milton with Back to Normal Orchestra
Miles Away - Ted Milton with Paddy Steers & Andreas Gerth
Skys are Bruised - Ted Milton with Herman Martin
St. Valentine’s Day Mascara - Ted Milton with Loopspool
13 Rules for Composition - Ted Milton with Yam Yam
My North Face - Ted Milton with Back To Normal  Orchestra
Ode! Oh! To Be Seen Through Your Eyes - Ted Milton with Herman Martin
Fragment - Ted Milton with Back to Normal Orchestra    
Where You End - Ted Milton with Paddy Steers & Andreas Gerth

 

 

 

 

I've Blurted out all I can for now,
NØ

Some More Poppycock - Blurt part 2

Disappointed with the reception of Blurt, Ted & crew worked tirelessly on a new album while shopping around for a new label that would capture their sound more precisely.This would be the final Blurt release with the original line-up. After this release, Peter Creese (who had been dubbed The Human Loop by fans) would part ways with Blurt. 

 

Blurt - Bullets for You, Divine DIV584, 1984
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This Side -
Bullets For You
Enemy Ears
Nogodada
Deep-Frozen Heart

The Other Side -
Kill Time
Sugar-Coated
Gravespit
The Little Death
The Prayer

 

 

 

 

Next up was another live album, Friday the 12th, recorded at the Limelight in Kortrijk, Belgium on October 12, 1984. About this time Jake Milton also exited the group. Now made up of Ted, Steve Eagles (guitar), & Paul Wigens (drums), Blurt returned to the studio & recorded Poppycock. 

 

 

Blurt - Poppycock, Toeblock TBL002, 1986.

Side 1 -
Poppycock
Smug Hills
Man to Fly
The Flags

Side 2 -
Domain of Dreams
Down in the Argentine
Hurrah, Die Butter ist Alle!
Niagara Falls

 

 

 

 

Many personnel changes, many albums, many side-projects followed. The last five albums from Blurt have been live recordings from various eras. The most recent date is Cut It! Live recorded in 2017 with a 70+ years young Ted Milton. The band's last studio release was 2015s Beneath Discordant Skies with Milton & Eagles joined by David Ayleward on drums.

 

 

Blurt - Beneath Discordant Skies, Salamander NEWTCD3, 2015.

Let Them Be!    
Giant Lizards on High    
I Wan See Ella    
Where's the Blue Gone?    
Fresh Meat for Martyrs    
Stella by Arc Light
O! Look Who's Out on Parole!    
Listen to Me, Shirley!    
Beneath Discordant Skies    
They'll Be Here Soon!

 

 

 

Next time: Ted's other excellent adventures...
NØ

Dog Save My Sole

 

I recently finished up a series called Glasgow Noise. I had a few vaguely associated groups (Joseph K, Jazzateers, Stinking Lizavets, etc.) that weren't from Glasgow so didn't really fit the billing. Still want to share them here so here's the first one...

Blurt was founded in 1979 in Stroud, Gloucestershire by poet, saxophonist, & puppeteer Ted Milton along with Milton's brother Jake, formerly of the psychedelic group Quintessence & Eric Clapton Band on drums, & Peter Creese on guitar. Their music has been compared with James Chance, Captain Beefheart, Wild Man Fischer, the Pop Group, Tom Waits, or numberous other left-field avant-jazz icons, though their stripped-back, noisy, avant-garde sound continues to defy easy categorization.

After the initial line-up, personnel changes were common with Ted being the only permanent member. When original guitarist Creese left after three albums, he was replaced by Herman Martin, who was replaced a year later by Steve Eagles. Eagles has been a constant member from 1987 to present except for a four year span 1990-1994 when Chris Vine took over guitar duties.

Musician, poet, & self-confessed 'performance junkie' Ted Milton was a true Renaissance man: as a poet his work appeared in the Paris Review & Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain; as a puppeteer in the 70s he performed with Mr. Pugh's Puppet Theatre & the Blue Show; as well as supporting Ian Dury on tour in 1978. Ted also contributed a puppetry scene to Terry Gilliam's 1977 comic film Jabberwocky.

Blurt recorded a sparse demo tape at Jake's home in Stroud & sent a copy to Tony Wilson, head of Factory Records. Ted had done a puppetry performance on a Granada TV show So It Goes that Wilson produced,. Always looking for new Factory acts, Wilson used tracks from the tape as one side of the second Factory compilation, A Factory Quartet. The band made their debut on that compilation which they shared with The Durutti Column, Kevin Hewick, & The Royal Family and the Poor. 

 

Various - A Factory Quartet 2x12", Factory FACT 24, 1980.
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Side 1 -
For Mimi    
For Belgian Friends    
Self-portrait - The Durutti Column

Side 2 -
Rubble    
1940    
A Little Feeling
Forget    
Morphia
The Enchanted Kiss    
Haystack - Kevin Hewick

Side 3 -
Puppeteer    
Dyslexia    
Some Come    
Benighted - Blurt    

Side 4 -
Dirge 1    
Vaneigem Mix    
Dirge 2
Death Factory
Dirge 3    
Rackets - The Royal Family and the Poor 

 

 

 

 

About one of Blurt’s early live shows, a reviewer sez:
     "Jake Milton plays a small drumkit or rather half of it. He beats out the steady tribal rhythm on a snare and a closed hi-hat, adding a tom-tom and a crash cymbal for the last bar of each number. Pete Creese plays either rock guitar riffs like Duane Eddy on a tape loop, or a two-chord repeat; there's no bass. And Ted, who's a dead ringer for Tom Waits, goes berserk over the top, mostly with the aid of an alto sax. It's all-purpose chaos; it's brilliant."

On December 13, 1980 Blurt performed at the Free University in Berlin, a show billed as 'Rock Against Junk'. Also on the bill was Gang of Four, PVC, & others. The event was professionally recorded. This was scheduled to be released by Factory's European imprint Factory Benelux as Blurt's debut album, but continued delays & the fact that Blurt was not really "Factory" led Ted & Co. to find other outlets for the project. Thus the live set came out as a conventional eight track album, In Berlin, on Armageddon Records (ARM 6) in a memorable sleeve depicting pink bin bags. The album was released by Ruby Records in the US.

 

 

Blurt - In Berlin, Ruby Records JRR103, 1981.

Side 1 -
Cherry Blossom Polish    
My Mother was a Friend of an Enemy of the People    
Puppeteers of the World Unite!    
Dyslexia Rules

Side 2 -    
Get    
Tube Plane    
Paranoid Blues    
Ubu

 

 

 

 

In Berlin being a live recording, Blurt still had not released a true studio creation. Their self-titled debut studio album was recorded at Windrush Studios in Gloucestershire & released May 1982 on Red Flame Records (formerly Armageddon).

 

 

Blurt - Blurt, Red Flame RF6, 1982.

Picture Side -
Dog Save My Sole
Trees
Physical Fitness

Logo Side -
Empty Vessels
Play the Game
The Ruminant Plinth
Arthur

Next time: Bullets for You & beyond...
NØ

The Naterock Album Dump Part 9

 

Continuing on with part nine of a continuing series, 1984 - 1985. Remember, a .zip file marked simply Albums List will be included in each dump, so youcan decide from that what you want or simply reference the list below (& with each posting). 

Naterock Album Dump Part 9
Part One -

1984
Zen Arcade - Hüsker Dü
Family Man - Black Flag
History Mystery Prophesy - Lee “Scratch” Perry
Double Nickels on the Dime - The Minutemen

1985
Worlds Apart - Subhumans
Sell Out Young - Nils
Rum Sodomy & the Lash - The Pogues
Lysergic Emanations - The Fuzztones
Bad Moon Rising - Sonic Youth
Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox
Album - Public Image Limited

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - P: Pye Corner Audio

 

Pye Corner Audio is a moody, retro-futuristic project of British hauntology musician Martin Jenkins. 

 

Pye Corner Audio explores majestic, cinematic electronica that evokes sci-fi soundtracks, dystopian futures, & the sound of haunted dance floors. 

 

Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Volume 1: Avant Shards, self-released pca001, 2010.
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Transmission One: Lonesome Vale    
We Have Visitors    
Folk Festival    
Electronic Rhythm Number Three    
A Dark Door    
Theme Number Four    
Electronic Rhythm Number Eight    
Building Twelve, Room One    
Theme Number Nine    
Transmission Three: Briar Lane    
Gathering

 

 

 

 

Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Volume 2: Do You Synthesize?, self-released pca002, 2011.

Mirror Sequence    
Electronic Rhythm Number Seven    
Transmission Four: Crooked Hill    
Electronic Rhythm Number Four    
Through the Kings Wood    
Recrypt    
Theme Number Six    
Toward Light    
Sine Times Nine    
Ecneuqes Rorrim

 

 

 

 

Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Volume 3: All Pathways Open, self-released pca003, 2012.

Pathway Six    
Electronic Rhythm Number Five    
Transmission Seven:Pathways Open    
Inside the Wave    
Memory Wiped    
Building Obscured by Mist    
Electronic Rhythm Number One    
Foreshadowed    
Hexden Channel    
Transmission Two:Pathways Closed
Electronic Rhythm Number Eighteen (Retransferred by the Advsory Circle)
Theme Number Eight

 

 

 

 

Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Volume 4: Dystopian Vectors, self-released pca004, 2014.

Transmission Five:The Old Place    
Dystopian Vector Part One    
Transmission Thirteen:Line of Sight    
Electronic Rhythm Number Nine    
Theme Number Seven    
Electronic Rhythm Number Two    
Electronic Rhythm Number Twelve    
Transmission Nine:Black Light    
Void Bound    
Dystopian Vector Part Two    
Evil Surrounds    
Cont No Stop

 

 

 

 

This P's for U,
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Musick that Needed W- P: Purple Image

 

In the midst of the musical revolution of 1968, a 24-year old named Warren Adams from the 105th Superior area of Cleveland, OH put together an eight-piece band by the name of Purple Image. While most African-American bands in the Cleveland area played R&B & soul, Purple Image played mind-bending psychedelic funk rock similar to the post-Hendrix black rock of their Detroit counterparts Death & Black Merda. 

 

Purple Image recorded "Marching to a Different Drummer", which they released on Map City records. With the help of a popular Cleveland DJ the song became a number one hit. On the strength of that single, the band recorded their only album, the self-titled Purple Image. The album is an energetic blend of acid rock, fusion, frantic Coltrane-ish sax...a blistering amalgam of rock, soul, & funk. 

 

Purple Image - Purple Image, Map City MAP3015, 1970.
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Side One -
Living in the Ghetto
Why
Lady
We Got to Pull Together

Side Two -
What You Do to Me
Marching to a Different Drummer

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Musick that Needed Work - P: Prince Jammy

You all know Jammy, pretender to the throne, still Prince in 1982. 

 

Making up weird sci-fi names for these Dub riddims. 

 

Prince Jammy - Destroys the Invaders, Greensleeves Records GREL29, 1982.
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Side 1 -
Conspiracy on Neptune
Martian Encounter
Saturn Bombardment
Attack on Ganymede

Side 2 -
War in the Asteroid Belt
The Great Red Spot
Life on Uranus
Final Destruction

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