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Never mind the editorial bit at the top or what we said the last time, you’ve read all this already, just jump down to the music. Exact same thing again today, another five (or so) slices of musical things that can do all the talking themselves and however you slice it and of course it was the price of apples and here comes the introduction to the latest Five Music Things feature thing. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there another way? A better way? A cure for pulling flying dogs out of the clouds? Is there a rhyme? Is there a reason? Was there ever a reason? What do reasons make? Five more? Snake oil? Everything must go and same as last time (and the time before that) five, and no, we never do and the proof of the pudding is in that proof reading. When we started this thing, oh never mind, it doesn’t matter why we started this damn thing and like we asked last time, does anyone bother reading the editorial? Does anyone ever actually look down the rabbit hole or is it all just method acting? We do really try to listen to everything that comes in, we do it so you don’t have to, we are very (very) very very picky about what we actually post on these fractured pages or about what gets played on the radio or indeed what we hang in a gallery. Cut to the chase, never mind the editorial, there’s loads of music further down the page, well five or so pieces of music that have come our way in the last few days and cut cut slash and cut it, who needs an editorial or words or worms in general? What’s Wordsworth? Just facts and links and sounds then. Here you go, play the music, grab your five, eat your greens, go eat some art, go eat some fresh music and don’t forget whatever it was we said last time…
Here we go again, in no particular order….
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1: Aunty Rayzor – more Aunty Rayzor, we can’t get too much of her art right now, pretty much everything on Hakuna Kulala appears to be worth your time. Like we said last time we encountered Aunty Rayzor, “Now this is something rather tasty, rhythm that goes to different places, movement, movement. viral wreckage indeed”.
Aunty Rayzor – Meanwhile Hakuna Kulala, a label based in Kampala, Uganda continue to come up with musical treats. The label deals in “Club explorations from the East African and Congolese Electronic Underground and beyond”, we have featured several of their releases in recent times , this time, a new Bisola Olungbenga a.k.a Aunty Rayzor video and a another track from the album Viral Wreckage that’s due out in September
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2: Saddam Webcam – More musical otherness from Lyon via that one eyed horse and an advance taste in the shape of a couple of tracks let loose on Bandcamp ahead of an album that’s due out at the start of September. Find more on Bandcamp
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“The Saddam Webcam epic inaugurates the golden age of instrumental domotics, when two enlightened zouaves decide to race for the shallot, using an instrumentarium inversely proportional to their musical intentions. We’re talking about a jabbering bass caught on the tail of a swaggering drum kit that gets beaten up more often than not. It was a time of virile clashes on eruptive tracks left unattended, of cunning winks between two corridors of shots strung together at three thousand miles an hour, of saturated sound spaces and live vertigo under the control of stunned expert committees.
The miracle of the encounter takes place shortly afterwards, in the bend of an urban forest, with the rainbow nightingale’s sorcerous song. A gentle concussion with the appearance of a providential jolt, the indocile little Saddam had just found his voice, which would guide him on the boulevard of maturity. Now with three of them at the helm, without giving in to the frenzy of their beginnings, but with the addition of lyrical fantasy, the discourse is enriched, softened and balanced by the intense work of the text, when the words impart their flow to the score and perch in counterpoint to the orchestra. On stage, the band can rely on an inexhaustible gauge of energy, distributed as widely as possible.
A demo was first recorded to confirm the alliance, before the crew finally launched their first opus, “Excès de beurre et Ruine morale”, proving that there’s still room for more.
A trinity of finely-tuned triggers with the build of a gently moody cyclops, whose autopsy will reveal traces of pure lyrical emphasis beneath the steaming crumbs of flonflons pulverized by a ferocious groove. At Saddam’s, it takes three to smash the tables of sobriety”.
3: Frankie and the Witch Fingers – a band we’ve covered rather a lot recenty, a band who played one of the stand out gigs of the year here in London back in mid Summer, the “Los Angeles psych-punk quartet Frankie and the Witch Fingers have returned with their seventh studio album Data Doom, due September 1st via The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records” – More details, links and such via this piece from a few weeks back – ORGAN THING: L.A’s Frankie And The Witch Fingers hit Hackney and Mid Summer with some seriously proper locked-on psyched-up garage rock and roll…
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4: Roselit Bone are from portland, they’ve just shared a new single, Ofrenda, from the album of the same name. The album is out any moment now, tomorrow if you’re reading this on the day it was posted, tomorrow being August 25th, 2023 on Get Loud Recordings.
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“Portland-based band Roselit Bone are excited to share Ofrenda, the final pre-release single and title track from their album out August 25th on Get Loud Recordings. The song follows singles Your Gun and Crying In The USA
Charlotte McCaslin says: Ofrenda is a song about accepting the acceptance of death. I began writing it after a long, dark winter in which a handful of suicides and overdoses in my extended circle had impacted most of my friends. Some people very close to me had been talking about also ending their own lives at the time and I was constantly under pressure to help them stay alive. I would go on to lose several family members and friends over the next few years, and grief would knock me down for weeks or months at a time. But I noticed that, for some brief little moments, the pressure of grieving would give way and I would suddenly feel “okay.” I would then be flooded with pangs of guilt for surviving, for not suffering alongside the dead. Ofrenda, the song and album, are an attempt to come to terms with my place as a living thing in a dying world.
if you’re reading this over there then Roselit Bone’s extensive U.S. tour which kicks off on August 24 in Seattle at Madame Lou’s. The upcoming tour will include shows in Los Angeles, San Diego, Austin, Nashville, Brooklyn, Chicago, Portland and more. All shows listed here.
“After over a decade of touring, Roselit Bone have perfected an infectious and intense live show that has transfixed crowds in a nightly conversion ritual. Previously described by Oregon Public Broadcasting as “a unique type of gothic country rock that borrows heavily from Mexican ranchera music, rockabilly and the same lonely and wide-open spaces that inspired the classic Spaghetti Western scores of composer Ennio Morricone,” the Portland 8-piece – led by frontwoman Charlotte McCaslin – have deepened, shapeshifted, and outdone themselves on their latest full-length record, Ofrenda“. so reads the press release, we’ll tell you more when we’ve heard the whole thing…
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5: Be Your Own Pet are a band we covered rather a lot when they first emerged, they sneaked out an EP last month, they have an album, Mommy, out this week, they’re playing All Points East here in East London tomorrow, which, even though the headliners at that big festival are rather unexciting (Strokes, yeah yeah, Yeahs), makes it worth going to. More on the otherside of the festival and a proper listen to the album and yes, she’s stil angry…
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And while we’re here, soemthing from five years ago that’s new to us, seems like we have some catching up to do with Roselit Bone….
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and from nine years ago
THE ORGAN 
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