Never mind nothing, on with the music and what we said last time or last week or last year, you’ve read all this already, never mind the damn editorial, never mind the biscuits or the dogfish, just jump down past this editorial, who needs an editorial? Jump past and let the actual music do the actual walking and the actual talking. Exact same thing again, another five (or so) slices of musical things that have passed our way recently and however you like to slice it and of course it was the price of apples and here comes the intro, Don’t be flippant she said, how could it ever be flippant?
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 rabbits 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, same as last time, in no particular order, starting isomewhere out there on a a slave ship…
1: Moor Mother aka Camae Ayewa announced her new album ‘The Great Bailout’ last month; a body of work that explores the atrocities of British slavery, including how it was paid for and then obscured.
Coming out on the 8th of March, ‘The Great Bailout’ is Ayewa’s ninth studio album and third with ANTI- Records, with production contributions on various tracks from Lonnie Holley, Vijay Ayer, Angel Bat Dawid, Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty, Aaron Dilloway and Mary Lattimore. Called “the poet laureate of the apocalypse” by Pitchfork, Ayewa’s music contains multitudes of instruments, voices and cacophony that take on themes of Afrofuturism and collective memory with the forebearers of jazz, hip hop and beat poetry in mind.
The album’s second track “All the Money”, which shifts the album’s tone into a more sinister register of voice and instrument. St Paul’s Cathedral, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Big Ben, The Tower of London, The British Museum, The Palace of Westminster – she lists the iconic bastions of Great Britain that we take pride in and asks the question we forget – “where’d they get all the money?”
2: Fleshhörn – Don’t be telling us we don’t reach the places other organs don’t, Fleshhörn, from Lugana Beach, California, have a rather low slung new album called Flesh Witch, they’re a raw two piece fuzzed up back street garage band
:3 USA Nails = Squirels in what? Where? The new album is out in March, we’ve mentioned this seveal times already, Another taste from the London noise makers has just emerged, here it is…
Previous tastes of the new album
4: Susanna – Norwegian artist Susanna, the woman behind Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, and “a creator of bold, original and enrapturing music since 2004”, is sharing the first rather graceful rather beautiful single from her upcoming new EP The Harmony of Evening. The EP is a follow-up to her highly acclaimed collaboration with The Norwegian Radio Orchestra called Baudelaire & Orchestra. The EP is due out on March 6th and the first track The Enemy is streaming online now.
Susanna – Norwegian artist Susanna, the woman behind Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, and “a creator of bold, original and enrapturing music since 2004”, is sharing the first rather graceful rather beautiful single from her upcoming new EP The Harmony of Evening. The EP is a follow-up to her highly acclaimed collaboration with The Norwegian Radio Orchestra called Baudelaire & Orchestra. The EP is due out on March 6th and the first track The Enemy is streaming online now.
5: Bodega are back with a new album, more refined this time and maybe a little less instant but that is no bad thing, here’s a second taste of things to come, you can find all the details along with the first taste of the New York band’s new album via this link – ORGAN: Five music things – NYC’s Bodega return with a new single, NiCKY has more, Slift, Mega Cat are from Seattle, the beauty of Alvidrez and…
And while we’re here, this re-edited version is rather, well, nice really, just rather nice. HEIMA Full Extended Re-edit version without interviews, voice-overs, vintage clips etc
This is a re-cut, extended and very different version of the wonderful Sigur Ros tour movie Heima. A unique selection and combination of all available audio-visual material connected to this film. The result is full, uninterupted performaces, beautiful landscapes and not much more. Straight to the core. No interviews, voice-overs or other distracting stuff. I’ve also rearranged the track order and cut out more than a few segments completely. All to my taste. This edit is very much “me”, for better or worse. The aim has been to get to the point and focus on the music. More timeless if you will. Make it a film out of the tour, rather than about it. Less a teaser-trailer for something and more a chance to, in some small way, experince it as it was. This way I hope my version can serve as a companion piece to the original. Most things left out are both good and interesting but without a place in this particular version. Without the interviews you don´t get the feeling of meeting the band and getting to know them. Instead there is a much more impersonal but closer fly-on-the-wall perspective, witch I for one, think is more rewarding in the long run. Less info – more magic… I´ve touched pretty much every part of the film in one way or another so a lot has changed. Not only concerning the interviews, voice overs etc. But also things that I (in my humble opinion) find… problematic… More than a few jump- and axial cuts removed. I won´t get into details about that but feel free to ask questions and I will try to remember what I’ve done… If you know this film by heart you will of couse notice the crazy amount of tweaks. My set goal has been to make a newcomer think everything is totaly natural and normal. This new cut is made completely from scratch and is an improvement over the 2018 version on all accounts. If you liked the previous one I dare to say you will absolutely adore this one. (You will be hard pressed to find a more complete experince of Popplagið from this tour I think…)
THE ORGAN 