"The Lay Llamas is a tribe that in the year 2092 AD starts a trip from an
unknown region of Nigeria on a self-built spacecraft (track A1) to
reach a planet that they continued to observe every night from the earth
and inexplicably attracted them. Once there, explore the planet (track
A2) until they meet a totem called the Big Snake (track 3) who will
point the way for the purification and elevation to a higher state of
consciousness (track B4)"
Cheers to Rocket Recordings for bringing this to me.
Treading the fine line between epically psychedelic and bonged-out-their-nut-pretentiousness, this concept EP is a very cool piece of work out on Finland's Jozik records. On C30 cassette. There's bits of Caribou and Manitoba in there, touches of Can, a little Boards of Canada and the smudgy thumbprint of Hawkwind smeared across the whole thing. Somehow managing to maintain a solid narrative over messy, semi-improvised instrumentation, Nicola Guinta's Lay Llamas elevate brain-rotting fuzz and lurching dynamics to new heights of awesome.
I guess I'll have to buy a cassette player and mail-order from Finland.
Showing posts with label KrautRock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KrautRock. Show all posts
8 December 2012
10 October 2012
Ulrich Schnauss - A Long Way To Fall
I've always been a sucker for Ulrich Schnauss' genre-smash of kraut, shoegaze, trip-hop and everything but the kitchen sink. Maybe it's just a temporal thing, y'know? Maybe everyone's got that one album that just made it for them that one time and they can never let it go. Like how I still love to play Anaesthetic on pub jukeboxes, despite it not even being slightly similar to anything I listen to now, sober, reeling or otherwise. It was just there, then, when I needed it to be. Sixteen with a false ID and a few pounds of spare change...
A Strangely Isolated Place, Schnauss' mega breakthrough, was a massive critical success and deservedly so - just short of an hour of hazy wondrousness that you could lose yourself in over and over again. Even after various lesser works like the rather over-produced Goodbye, his name always reminds me of grey-tinted living rooms at 6am, 275ml Carlsberg bottles in various state of half-fullness, and the fuzzy awareness that the world was coming to life in the flat above, whilst you were living the dream and the party was still going.
New album, free preview. This seemed more interesting than anything critical I could say.
8 February 2011
New Radio - New Sounds
Ahead of Global SoundCloud Meet-up day, with Little Rock and Microrave Records chairing the Glasgow event, Little Rock bring you a compilation of SoundCloud-released tracks.
Wednesday 9 February is International SoundCloud meet-up day, with SoundCloud users from across the world taking part in live events; curating Glasgow’s meet-up, which features discussions, talks from Scottish music industry figures, and a music swap-meet, are Team Little Rock and Microrave Records. The event runs from 8pm – 12 at Stereo (Renfield Lane), and is completely free. All tracks in this compilation are available as free downloads.
soundcloud.com/groups/soundcloud-meetup-glasgow-2011/tracks
Tracklist
- Solipsism - All your Dreams Won’t Come True – Self-Released
- Majetic - Warschauer – Self-released
- Sun Dogs – Captain Klaus – Self-released
- Chunk – Do The Glasgow Dub – Self-Released
- Scientific Support Dept – Shortwave – Self-released
- Pyramid Head – A Hundred Cults Prepare to Die – Self-released
- Audion – Billy Says Go (Voltergeist Remix) – via soundcloud
- Crystal Castles – Air War (Emotiquon Remix) – Via soundcloud
- Cottam – The Long Dark Road (unmastered) – Self-released
- BeardyMan – Mubmai Cells (Live) – Self-released
- S-Type - Terry Nutkins – Phuturelabs
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