What are you listening to right now? Redux

ooh, cymande is the shit. I had one of their songs as my answering machine message in college.


Heavy rotation this week:

Never Again, Kittie - off their new album Funeral for Yesterday. I love this group. A sick metal band comprised of hot chicks, and the lead singer just has the sweetest cutie voice that screams "fuck the living shit out of me". (www.myspace.com/officialkittie)

Lift Me Up, Zion I and Grouch: www.mantisartworks.com/audi0/...0Up.mp3

Everybody Here Wants You, Jeff Buckley - from his 'demo' 2nd album Sketches For My Sweetheart the Drunk

Catstep-My Kitten-Catnap Vatst, Kid 606 - off down with the scene. Damn, this track is fucking insane.

thou shalt always kill, dan le sac VS scroobius pip -- ( youtube.com/watch )

Raquy and the Cavemen, like *right* now. "Caravan" off of "Jordan". Great one. Love them.


Still have my bloodless grip on oldtimey morbidity / perversions like SWANS and Sleep Chamber. I get in a mood, and it's all I can accept.

Lotta 80s stuff. I'm old. Siouxsie, Dali's Car, Tones on Tail, Cell, Specimen, early Alien Sex Fiend, Christian Death (Rozz), Crucifux, Joy Division, Virgin Prunes, Chrome, Diamanda G., Einsturzende Neubauten, and so on.

Lotta older-still stuff: Brian Eno (playing a lot of his tunes on the keys, too), 'Floyd, Henry Cow*, Marty Robbins (the cowboy gangsta rapper of his day), maybe some Sabbath. Esquivel. Syd Barrett. Nick Drake. Silver Apples. the Monks.

Even older: Billie Holiday, Leadbelly, Dorothea Trowbridge, Sister Clara Hudmon, Charles Barnett, Thibodeaux Boys, Bessie Jones and Group, and the fucking *incomparable* Dave Ray, for instance.

Further back and faster: Erik Satie. The score from "Sweeney Todd". Stravinsky. Mussorgsky. Peer Gynt - in fact anything at all by Grieg.

Stuff you couldn't (or very probably) don't know about but maybe ought to:
~ Diana Obscura
~ Clan of the Bleeding Eye
~ the Chains
~ 1ManBanjo (if it's your thing - 1/2 my friends lovelove it, the other 1/2 hatehate it (sorry 1MB - gotta be true, you know I love you))
~ Pucca Pangenitor
~ Nommo Oggo
~ Amorphous Ossiferous
~ the Helvetica Hotline - www.helveticahotline.com
~ Divided Like a Saint's
~ Mercury Ghost
~ Corpus Callosum (SE; I understand there's a younger outfit using the name in the west - I have it on good authority the original CC is cool w/it and won't get weird about it (makes sense I guess))
~ ahem Loki Freign

From the cold parts of USA / stuff you probably haven't heard of:

~ King Kong Ding Dong
~ Algebra of Need
~ Drums Like Machine Guns
~ Syzslak
~ Bad News Bats
~ Thinking Machines


From elsewhere altogether (five stars only):

~ Musafir
~ Mercan Dede
~ Ali Hassan Kuban
~ Fifi
~ Den Fule (my rig makes a mess of umlauts on tribe.net for some reason; put an umlaut over the "u")
~ Hossam Shaker (GENIUS GENIUS GENIUS) (his orch's version of Lama Bada Yata Sama is THE version, for me)
~ Mogador
~ The Pura Paku Alaman
~ ZEKI fucking MUREN - hah! Love him or hate him. *I* love him. I *love* him. I love *him*. I don't care what your take on him is; if you're over and he comes on - I'm ignoring you and dancing around like a retarded fag for minimum of 5 minutes. Deal.
~ Kim Sohee (brilliant pansori, like a folkloric korean "diva")
~ Olov Johanssen (audio demerol of the stringsy-variety)
~ her grace, Oum Kalthoum (invented what a "diva" is today, ruled Egypt by singing)
~ Ugur - this shit just rocks. It's my contention that, no matter what music you prefer, you will love this ensemble. For one thing, if their neighbors found out they were recording the stuff they're doing, they'd stand a better than even chance of getting stoned to death and not at all in the good way. Music that people risk their lives to make is not a genre we have in full effect, over here, ey
~ Natacha Atlas (let me be clear, 1/3 of what she does sends me straight out and belongs in the 5star cat, the rest I'd quickly flush and pretend it didn't happen, try "Adam" and see what you think)
~ Vadya Lahari - (good luck, and let me know if you find it)

Stuff happening right now you may well have heard of that I am listening to:
~ Strapping Young Lad
~ Children of Bodom
~ Cocorosie
~ Anja Lechner And Vassilis Tsabropoulos
~ look: screw you, OK? She's hailing from my birthplace, she's cute as three buttons in a row, she looks like my cousins, and she's a lyricist that plays a harp. So lovely and talented, young Ms Joanna Newsome is HEY HEY HEY QUIT THROWING THINGS AT ME
~ what's that other thing? I totally can't remember. Accordion, three vocalists, trippy, snide and ssarcastic but philosophical and not annoying at all.... huh. Lost it. Fortunately this post is plenty long enough, right? Plus I have several bruised ribs, all the sudden. I still feel Ms Newsome is OW OW OW OW STOP IT




*(not many people realize this but HC was *actually* a satanist band - like, for real; the hippies that listen to them would probably defecate all over their berks if they realized what the lyrics are saying - "It ain't abstractions, Moonshadow, they ain't foolin' or bein' poetic: they're talking about THE DEVILLE and how pretty and sad he is...")