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show with Sean O on RESONANCE 104.4FM, Sunday Sept 14th 2008, 9.00pm –
On your FM dial all over London and worldwide via www.resonancefm.com.
Who
got played this week? How do you find our more? Here come the details and
links...
1/intro:
TRANSISTOR SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta)
2:
CONSTANTINES – Hard Feeling (Arts & Crafts)
3:
RUDE MECHANICALS – Strange Times (Rim)
4:
YOUNG WIDOWS – Mr. No Harm (Temporary Residence)
5:
PERHAPS CONTRAPTION – Your Mum, Your Dad (demo)
6:
B FOR BANG – Helter Skelter (KML)
7:
TORQUE – Pirana (Hyperhead)
8:
SHEARWATER – On The Death Of The Waters (Matador)
9:
ELEPHANT 9 - Skink (Rune Grammofon)
10:
JOY OF SEX - December, Month Of Plenty (demo)
11:
MAX TUNDRA – Nord Lead Three (Domino)
12:
KIMYA DAWSON – Alphabutt (K)
13:
THE ATROPHY EXHIBIT – Weakender (demo)
14:
AMANDA PALMER – Runs In The Family (Roadrunner)
15:
STE McCABE – Hoxton Scum (Cherryade)
16:
FLYING LUTTENBACHERS – Trauma 4 (ugExpode)
17:
THE FRENCH QUARTER – Blue Light (Self Release)
18:
LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS – Poor Old George (download)
19:
SECRET CHIEFS 3 – Exterminating Angel (Mimicry)
20:
THE FRENCH QUARTER – It’s The.... (Self release)
THE
DETAILS, THE LINKS....
1/intro:
TRANSISTOR
SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta) - our adopted
theme tune so you know where you are. Transistor Six is Frances Castle,
there’s lots of her fine art and creativity to explore from Francis so
please please do. You can now get the whole tune downloaded for yourselves
and find links to her artwork, albums and lots more over at www.myspace.com/transistorsix
2:
CONSTANTINES
– Hard Feeling (Arts & Crafts) – A track from the forthcoming Kensington
Heights album, out on Sept 22ns And they’re over here this week as guests
on the Sheerwater tour including a show at London’s Bush Hall on Sept 17th.
The album is a moody blend of edgy feisty North American rock that somehow
manages to take in both the furore of Bruce Springsteen and the alternative
art-edge of Fugazi. Wordy calls and you are not your generation and a common
beginning and they wilt not sing a hateful song. A little more to hang
on to that your average band, words you want to focus on, North American
dreams and from a place where good men get lost in that trench. No kissing
up to the great misgiver. Oh and great packaging/artwork as well - www.constantines.ca
3:
RUDE
MECHANICALS – Strange Times (Rim) – One of the most rewardingly unique
albums of the year and surely this is what Resonance is about (well our
little bit of London’s best radio station anyway). London’s Rude Mechanicals
really are Avantly different with their Glass Eye album and all kinds of
stage bendy pointy jazz and spiky hard boiled experimental noise and toe
sucking and post punk art rock performance and body fluid meditation and
creatively absurd goodness and decadent moistness. Led by the mysterious
Miss Roberts, her band of ‘symbiotic slaves’ really are different. And
now we’ve seen them live, every bit as good and maybe even better than
the album. Go admire them over at - www.myspace.com/flyingcaberet
or www.rudemechanicals.org.uk
or www.rimrecords.co.uk
4:
YOUNG
WIDOWS – Mr. No Harm (Temporary Residence) - Young Widows are from
Louisville Kentucky and their second album Old Wounds cane out on September
9th (well in the US anyway, not sure about the rest of the planet). Front
line creative alternative US new wave post rock challenge and you can find
out more via www.myspace.com/youngwidows
5:
PERHAPS
CONTRAPTION – Your Mum, Your Dad (demo) – London’s rather fine Perhaps
Contraption are hard at work on their debut album, they just played the
Collision festival over in East London, they tend to stick to the more
left field events and venues with their take on English post-punk flavoured
old school progressive rock (and we just encountered some of them on the
way to the Resonance studio again, they build giant sand sculptured on
the South bank of the Thames, this week a dinosaur egg). Stay tuned, watch
the skies, a horse attached to some sort of device – “pop-pronk offle”
they say... www.myspace.com/perhapscontraption
oh, and go check out the video and the visual side of their adventure over
at www.perhapscontraption.co.uk
6:
B
FOR BANG – Helter Skelter (KML) – A revisit to this year’s excellent
B For Bang album and a whole set of Beatles tracks reworked in a most avante
manner then laced together with experimental noise and structure, Beatles
re-wired for Resonance ears you might say – www.kmlrecordings.com
or www.bforbang.com
7:
TORQUE
– Pirana (Hyperhead) - One of them there slightly alternative,
slightly stoner, rather out there bands who touch on good things that taste
of the finest Melvins and plumpest Jesus Lizards and here we were letting
it ferment and stew and cook and brew and we were somewhere around Amnesian
on the edge of desert when the music began to take hold,,, This is from
the excellent Meanderthal album that cane out earlier this year on Hydrahead,
played again this week in anticipation of their UK tour (with Pelican)
that includes a date at the Camden Underworld on Sept 18th - www.hydrahead.com
/ www.myspace.com/torche
8:
SHEARWATER
– On The Death Of The Waters (Matador) – Another visit to Shearwater’s
beautiful album Rook. You know how it works, word slowly seeps around but
there’s too many bands and you can’t possibly hear them all and the language
of birds so often floats on by - lost on the wind and in the tree tops
and yes, this album has been out for getting on for two months now and
we’re late. You stash the name somewhere there in the file you keep in
your head marked bands I must make a point of checking out when I get a
moment - put this album at the front of the file and mark it urgent. Played
one more time this week in anticipation of the band’s UK tour that includes
a show at London’s Bush Hall on Sept 17th and a free in store appearance
at Rough Trade East on Sept 18th - www.matadorrecords.com/shearwater.
9:
ELEPHANT
9 - Skink (Rune Grammofon) - Whoooooooo, prog on that (again!)
A track from the new album DodoVoodoo. That is one filthy dirty overdriven
Hammond, you can smell the overheating Lesley cabinets and the analogue
warmth from here. Seriously self indulgent monster slabs of progressive
jazz rock. Now when I say hard-boiled don’t go running with the idea of
Flying Luttenbachers and violent discordant progressive jazz noise, no,
this is more like throbbing pulsing atmospheric tuneful Emerson Lake And
Palmer without the embarrassing cheese and those awfully naff vocals -
this is all the cool bits of ELP delivered with uncompromising King Crimson
meets Sonic Youth attitude. Drenched in the lead lines of that late 60’s
early 70’s Hammond organ and electric piano and laced with the moves of
a really versatile drummer and nailed down bass player, Elephant 9 are
a really powerful trio. There’s a pure joy here in the playing (and listening),
the whole album is a highly recommended delight. www.myspace.com/elephant9theband
or www.runegrammofon.com
10:
JOY
OF SEX - December, Month Of Plenty (demo) - Is it something in the
air, is scratchy wrong pop time? More things to say? “We agree on several
things” they say, “short songs, rhythm, repetition, noise, form meeting
function...” and yes they have all that nailed down and in place along
with their scrape and bang and their joy of sex. A threesome, two boy one
girl action and a fresh perspective, don’t got expecting any kind of mere
novelty – “equality, newness...” and tunes of plenty buried underneath
the furs, put of the lights tonight is it December already? I guess we
should talk of Art Brut and The Fall and Wire and jagged smiles and thought
we had all worked out... everything is good, nothing ruined, a fine fine
demo and well worth a second play tonight - www.myspace.com/joyofsex
11:
MAX
TUNDRA – Nord Lead Three (Domino) – Max Tundra has a new album on the
way, Paralla Error Beheads You is out on October 13th, it landed here at
the Organ office yesterday, no time to explore it yet, sounds good so far
– www.myspace.com/maxtundra
12:
KIMYA
DAWSON – Alphabutt (K) – Kimya has a new album out on September 22nd,
a collection of children’s songs written by Dawson along with her musical
friends and their Children. A highly respected well known contributor to
the North American alternative punk, alt.folk, riot grrrl scene, this is
a delightfully innocent American album and you can’t help but smile – www.myspace.com/kimyadawson
13:
THE
ATROPHY EXHIBIT – Weakender (demo) – A new six track demo called One
In The Out from the Northampton band just landed. Seriously good hardcore
grindcore metalcore whatevercore. Scathing proper old-school underground
extreme metal done the right way – www.myspace.com/theatrophyexhibit
14:
AMANDA
PALMER – Runs In The Family (Roadrunner) – She of the wonderful Dresden
Dolls has a solo album out on September 15th, the album is as diverse and
rewarding as you’d rightly expect. She sets out on a UK tour at the end
of September – www.whokilledamandapalmer.com
or www.myspace.com/whokilledamandapalmer
15:
STE
McCABE – Hoxton Scum (Cherryade) – The no-messing ranting forthright
energetic angry queercore punk from the North West of England has
a debut album out – the album is called Hate Male. Think a far more feisty
barbed Billy Bragg via early Buzzcocks, laced with a bit of Carter US and
a not going to stand for any clichés attitude – www.myspace.com/stemccabe
or wwwcherryademusic.co.uk
16:
FLYING
LUTTENBACHERS – Trauma 4 (ugExpode) - The ultimate no-wave free-jazz
hard-boiled band and a real challenge to your musical endurance, this is
our idea of radio friendly. A track from one of their many classic albums,
you really should check them out and indeed check out everything leader
Weasel Walter is involved in with his other bands, projects and label,
he’s always worth your time and effort. Find more at www.skingraftrecords.com
or www.myspace.com/weaselwalter
17:
THE
FRENCH QUARTER – Blue Light (Self Release) – A rather radiant self
release from the Scottish band. Delicate warm refined post-rock and just
a simple glowing delight. The limited edition self released mini album
(in rather fine artwork) is called We’re Not French and comes out this
Monday 15th – www.thefrenchquarter.co.uk
18:
LOVELY
LITTLE GIRLS – Poor Old George (download) – They started in August
of 2001 as a one-off performance piece by artist/performer Gregory Jacobsen.
The performance was an attempt to convert his sound and noise based absurdist
performance group Ritualistic School Of Errors into a dissonant minimalist
rock band of synths and drums that would leave a wide open space for his
syllable-stuffed cut-and-paste prose and confrontational contortionist
interpretive dancing. Since then the group has gone through many changes
with Jacobsen providing the aesthetic thread that runs through all stages
of the group's history. Using Jacobsen's grotesque paintings as a basis
for ideas, Lovely Little Girls craft songs of ridiculous simplicity that
morph into nose-fornicating forays of dissonance and odd stumble-down-the-stairs-timing.
Performance and concept has always been a large part of the group - either
by staging horrendous fanfares or writing musical parts that depend on
a theatrical playing. The current incarnation of Lovely Little Girls
features Mike Kendrick (Rope), Monika Bukowksa (Brilliant Pebbles), Doug
Abram (Black Bear Combo), Zack Weil and Alex Perkolup (Flying Luttenbachers,
Cheer-Accident, Bobby Conn). The line-up culls many influences from No-Wave,
Rock-In-Opposition, Zeuhl, 80s Thrash Metal, Childrens' Music, Punk, Kurt
Weill, 20th Century Classical and the art-damaged theatrics of The Residents
- www.myspace.com/lovelylittlegirls
19:
SECRET
CHIEFS 3 – Exterminating Angel (Mimicry) – A track from the band who
described themselves as Iranian surf punk – that goes nowhere near explaining
it of course, they’re way outside the box and led by one Trey Spruance
(one time Mr Bungle). All kinds of Persian bites of prog-rock and otherness
that flies in all kinds of directions. This was from their 2004 album Book
Of Horizons and in anticipation of their first ever UK dates including
a night at Cargo in London on September 16th – www.myspace.com/secretchiefs3
or www.webofmimicry.com
20:
THE
FRENCH QUARTER – It’s The.... (Self release) – See track 17 for more
details, another slice as an outro....
– thank
you for listening, hope you heard something that makes you want to get
involved... it is an absolute pleasure to play these tracks on the radio
for you, even on days when we get soaked to the skin in a rainstorm and
a half on the way in! Same time same place next week with Marina’s Other
Rock show and the exploration of rock music that adventures beyond the
conventions of 4/4..
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