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Nov. 14th, 2011
London Tripping
Nov. 14th, 2011 11:13 pmA day in London and a chance to ride the 38 bus from Victoria through to Charing Cross Road. Popped into Foyles bookshop, and then strolled down to Berwick Street to peruse the Record and Video Exchange shop and Reckless Records. Bought the following CD's dead cheap -
Dinosaur Pile Up “Growing Pains” (Friends Versus Records CD) £1
Seasick Steve “I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left” (Warner Music CD) £3
Risil “Non Meters Volume One” (Important Records CD) £1
Afterwards I had a look at what Fopp had to offer. Bought a CD for £2 and two paperback books,respectively £2 and £3 each.
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns (Parlophone CD)
William Burroughs “The Soft Machine” (Fourth Estate).
Philip K Dick “Flow My Tears The Policeman Said” (Gollancz)
On the journey I read “The Disappearing Spoon” book on the history of the elements and the Periodic table.
Bat For Lashes is a solo project of Natasha Khan,born 25th October 1979, a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, based in Brighton (UK).
Born to a Pakistani father, part of the eminent family of squash-playing Khans, and an English mother, her early childhood was spent travelling the world following her father who trained the Pakistani squash team, summers in Pakistan, and the rest of the time in Hertfordshire. She had a strict religious upbringing until her parents separated when she was 11 years old.
Khan graduated in film and music, whilst at university her experimental work was influenced by artists such as Steve Reich and Susan Hiller, and she produced multi-media work centred on sound installations, animations and performance. She went on to work as a nursery school teacher, and it was during this period that she began writing the material for her first album.
"Two Suns", her second album, is an etheral gothic dreamworld of sonic beauty. Just like the Brightonian lady herself.
Natasha Khan
Dinosaur Pile Up “Growing Pains” (Friends Versus Records CD) £1
Seasick Steve “I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left” (Warner Music CD) £3
Risil “Non Meters Volume One” (Important Records CD) £1
Afterwards I had a look at what Fopp had to offer. Bought a CD for £2 and two paperback books,respectively £2 and £3 each.
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns (Parlophone CD)
William Burroughs “The Soft Machine” (Fourth Estate).
Philip K Dick “Flow My Tears The Policeman Said” (Gollancz)
On the journey I read “The Disappearing Spoon” book on the history of the elements and the Periodic table.
Bat For Lashes is a solo project of Natasha Khan,born 25th October 1979, a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, based in Brighton (UK).
Born to a Pakistani father, part of the eminent family of squash-playing Khans, and an English mother, her early childhood was spent travelling the world following her father who trained the Pakistani squash team, summers in Pakistan, and the rest of the time in Hertfordshire. She had a strict religious upbringing until her parents separated when she was 11 years old.
Khan graduated in film and music, whilst at university her experimental work was influenced by artists such as Steve Reich and Susan Hiller, and she produced multi-media work centred on sound installations, animations and performance. She went on to work as a nursery school teacher, and it was during this period that she began writing the material for her first album.
"Two Suns", her second album, is an etheral gothic dreamworld of sonic beauty. Just like the Brightonian lady herself.
Natasha Khan
No Gristle In Risil
Nov. 14th, 2011 11:27 pm
The participants in Risil include Guillermo Herren (Prefuse 73), Tyondai Braxton (Battles), John McEntire (Tortoise), Zach Hill (Hella), Alejandra Deheza (School Of Seven Bells), Eva Puyuelo Muns (Savath and Savalas), and Laurence Pike (Triosk).This is the first of a threatened trilogy. This is probably still sounding rather overblown isn’t? And yet somehow, despite all this baggage, it isn’t. It is clear from first listen that Herren is very much at the centre of this project, and having grown a little tired of his recent Prefuse 73 output (nothing wrong with it at all, just feel like I’ve heard it before), I find myself rushing to proclaim this as the best thing he has been involved with for years. Rather than on the beats (which are few and far between), this time all the emphasis is on creating wonderful textures and depths, with an experimental abandon, and with sparkling production (McEntire?).
As a result of all this, Non Meters Volume 1 is a remarkable ramble over some quite unexpected terrain. ‘There Has To Be’ has Sunn O))) fuzz-drone and Alva Noto static under Eva’s breathy vocal loops, rising to a symphonic finale. ‘The Air I Breathe’ is a deep cacophonous rumble, while ‘Son Of Yuctan’ luxuriates in backwards vocals, echo, reverb and ghostly overtones. The highlight is ‘Oxygen Path’, which is suffused with sparkling little slices of metallic percussion, like someone covering an Oval record on doll’s house spoons. One of the several hundred talented drummers involved with this project steps up to chop out a few breakbeats, before the track slowly dissolves into a feedback fog.
With talent spurting out of every orifice (sorry), perhaps I shouldn’t be so surprised that the first Risil album is such a success.
Risil - Non Meters Volume One (Important CD)
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