I'm not getting on with this as quickly as I'd hoped but here are a couple of new Green Man sets for you… [Sorry about the asterisks - I'm a bit concerned about the search engine issue] Holy F*** I'm not what you'd call a die-hard fan of this lot, although there are times when their second album "LP" really hits the spot. So I wasn't really sure how I was going to find what promised to be a really raucous Saturday night headlining set from Holy F***. [...]
My Green Man revision meanders on in a characteristically undisciplined fashion. I'm up to Bleeding Heart Narrative… Bleeding Heart Narrative Bleeding Heart Narrative are a seven piece from London, it says in the "about" section of their rather charming website . And that's about it, really…. Fortunately the Green Man biography is a little more forthcoming, which tells us amongst other things that BHN were originally the bedroom project of Oliver Barrett, until he beefed it up with a number of other musicians and friends. That he chose to do so with a largely acoustic [...]
i write this by what's left of the clyde shipyards on a typically pissing glasgow afternoon. this record resonating on many levels; aurally, but also with a peculiar sense of time and place, to objects and locations, to history and landscape, to myths and scale, to the elements and (failed) attempts at conquering of. which i s'pose is my way of saying, it's bloody huge. petrels is bleeding heart narrative fella oli barrett, haeligeweille his paean to william walker. a conceptual piece of sorts built around [...]
Before I slip entirely into a mulled wine induced Christmas fog, here are a few gems that really should have been mentioned weeks ago! JAMES, NOEL & MITCH vs F.OLDING MUNNY I've said it before but i'll say it again, if you love music in any way, bookmark Steinski.com . You'll find a bit of politics here and there, the odd exclusive mix from the master himself, but most importantly idiosyncratic musical delights you just dont find anywhere else. Everything from Tom Lehner to Johnny [...]
Acclaimed for their "enviable sense of beauty and dense, inspired musicality" Bleeding Heart Narrative release their brand new single, Perun . On the run up to the release of their forthcoming album (in early 2011), Perun has Bleeding Heart Narrative plunging headlong in to a new-found rhythmic urgency. Buy CDs, MP3s, more: Bleeding Heart Narrative on Amazon.co.uk Their signature brooding atmospherics lean out and grab [...]
Records are like potential sex partners. With so many available ( see previous blog ) it's easy to make snappy fast judgements based on initial impressions. Of course we all know that's wrong don't we? We all know that the best songs, like the best people, often sneak up on you and you're left wondering why did you not see how amazingly life-changing they were in the first place? Right? But here's a confession. Sometimes we can be shallow. We hear [...]
Some music and a few (very few) words. + Psychic Powers - Brighter Excellent track sounding like something that could have been released by Sarah Records . + The Felts - Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode cover) Pretty good cover, though I doubt this is a track anyone could ruin. + Mariage Blanc - [...]
big fans of bhn round these parts. becomes deliciously more talk talk every time i hear them. whether oli likes it or not. (he may or may not, i dunno). Filed under: music stuff , video Tagged: bleeding heart narrative , music , music video , perun
On Friday night, Can legend Damo Suzuki played a gig in my local pub. I'm going to have to repeat that, just to try to convince myself that this actually happened. On Friday night, Can legend Damo Suzuki played a gig in my local pub. His designated sound carriers for the evening were London's Bleeding [...]
Saturday 3rd April @ The Cube Mr Thomas is always a pleasure to behold, asymmetric orchestrations flowing out of his machine, classical laments riddled with tectonic shifts and cracking pebbles... hands grabbing at the notes or exiling them in knuckled plunges... gulls circling, a Ouija board of otherness....Theremic feral-moans... Squeeze me [...]
this would have been bloody wonderful to see. street of crocodiles is probably the best thing on their collected short film bfi box set. and one of my favourite bits of animation. with a nice bit of orchestral hum from bleeding heart narrative too. beautiful rusted ballet it is... and some more musical quaying, this time with gentle friendly ... [...]
frank works at the tooth with his tongue, releasing it slick and worn as a cherry-flavoured cough lozenge. "not many left," he murmers, pttooing it into the frayed, gaping mouths of the many sweatshop-carved nikes littering the chalk path, multi-coloured laces snaking into the shushing grass. the gull surveys with one eye, black-infinite as a daydream, following frank's cliff-face descent, wondering what this clumsy, fumbling thing is. soon the greasy brine laps rhythmically at his feet with the ticklish wet of puppy tongues. he makes himself comfy among the bones, and digs [...]
It seems I always start Tartaruga reviews with a reference to the lovely package. Well, I'd hate to disappoint. I can only assume that said heavy duty cladding and thick thread used to house Tartaruga records is needed in order to help constrain the epic, bulging contents within. This latest one from Bleeding Heart Narrative [...]
bleeding heart narrative colours turn colours 2009 (française version) Et tu m'as dit. Tu m'as dit : " je vis la nuit ." Et tu m'as dit : " Je n'ai jamais vu aucun des matins de ces trente dernières années passées. " Quand j'ai éteint la lumière, tu as entendu le clac de l'interrupteur et tu as dit : " la nuit dans la nuit, est ce la fin de tout ? " Vers 7.30, [...]
there are some things in life you have to work at. gravity's rainbow took me the best part of a decade to tame. something i'm not ashamed to admit. a week of unholy monkish concentration in france just to break the beasts back. but break it i did. still none the wiser to some of it's meanderings (but then neither's thomas pynchon and he wrote the fucker). more semi-recently david foster wallace's infinite jest did the same thing. huge in every sense (though still dwarfed by pynchon's sprawling uber-tome). with more endnotes than you can shake a fistful of bookmarks [...]
wow. this is as fiercely muscular a record i've heard since i dunno the last rollins band album. pumped full of steroids and cranking out these ugly brash aggressive chunks of thunking noise, all jazzed up hard rock at a muscleman convention. ha! did you like my ickle joke? well didja? you goddam fools. this is all lovely [...]
tartaruga records ist ein kleines, in london ansässiges label, das sich vor allem dadurch auszeichnet, dass es auf das motto "weniger ist mehr" setzt und das bei gleichzeitig hohem qualitätsniveau. zudem sieht es seine releases gern spendabel verpackt, will meinen, dass die aufwändig gestalteten cover zwar nicht handgeknüpft oder in bronze gegossen sind, dafür liebevoll gezeichnet und in 200er stückzahlen limitiert. in 2008 begann alles und hat bisher sechs veröffentlichungen (inkls. 1 dvd) nach sich gezogen, wenn man die aktuellen alben bzw. jene, die demnächst kommen, dazu rechnet. ich sag ja, klein (resp. wenig), aber fein. die ersten scheibchen [...]
it's been a strange old week and a bit. involving migraines and hospitals and a bunchof daniel clowes graphic novels and drunks in masks and arguments and tears and coffin carrying (which frankly is rather unsettling) and abstinence (from alcohol and nail-biting (both equally tortuous)) and absinthe and talk of the future and a worsening of [...]
hello ladies. so i'm taking a long weekend off (from life in general) to expunge my liver, recharge my solar plexus and force genuine honest to god clean oxygenation into my wheezing lung sacs. i'm going to drink some, eat some, read some, write some. there's photos and film to be captured. there's a super 8 thang coming soon [...]
from one of my favourite new labels comes this utterly mad yet genius idea? "with the release of the new record by brassica (review ofsorts here) we are pleased to announce the opening of the tartaruga lending library. if you are interested in borrowing items from the library then you must sign up, but we suggest you [...]
Partly Porpoise
cowsarejustfood
music like dirt
Band Weblogs
Breaking More Waves
Hits In The Car
mapsadaisical
Rottenmeats
So the wind won't blow it all away
das klienicum
The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
Summer Camp – Always
Friday Remixes
Afrojack Goes Big For His ‘Jacked’ Summer Tour
Princeton – Grand Rapids (RAC Remix)
