wieder einmal ein sammelsurium aus entdeckungen und mitteilenswerten notwendigkeiten. all diesen musikalischen ergüssen ist anheim, dass ich sie für empfehlenswert halte, aber jeweils kaum die zeit habe, näher darauf einzugehen. deshalb: die wichtigsten webseiten sind immer mit verlinkt, damit Ihr im bedarfsfall nähere infos entern könnt. über seine webseite bin ich einst gestolpert und war angetan von den biografischen und musikalischen einsichten dieses herausragenden banjopickers, wer mehr wissen und hören will, schaut bei ihm vorbei: billy faier - norwegian wood (live, beatles cover) [...]
Mr abb is right, this has been tougher than usual. I'm pleased we worked it out and even more pleased we've hit on a top four after extended negotiations more convoluted than the US healthcare wrangles and Copenhagen put together. Finally we can walk out to the armoured car in our blue UN flak jackets, shake hands, and pronounce the Big Four. A roadmap to tinnitus, essentially. But before that, my other top records, following angrybonbon's tremendous ten... 1 - Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men I promised a [...]
Raised as I was on vinyl, I often think that when a band starts with a track most would save for the finale it says quite a lot about their intentions. South London's early music/wyrd folk/psych outfit Circulus begin their third album with 'Transmuting Power' as if they're slapping doubters in the face with a mailed gauntlet, in an admittedly courtly and fey way. The first three and a half minutes are fairly straightforward, even if front-bard Michael Tyack seems in gloomier mood than usual. Still, as the mushroom clouds bloom over the cities, the flutes start piping away, and [...]
Monsterism Island is full of Snorses, Wizards, Snyrds, Fowl Owls, Bat Skulls, Wild Robots, Fragmax and Grolfrax. As we tour this island of exotic chimera and creatures beyond our current knowledge we are given a soundtrack of wondrous and bizarre variety and extent. The fantastic psychedelic guidebook to this soundtrack evocatively describes the island and the travels the narrator and listener take far better than I can. All I can do here is to attempt to represent the sounds that have coloured my multiple journeys. We arrive early in the morning on this far-off place with a breezy [...]
Como platicaba ayer, el nuevo disco de los Super Furry Animals cuenta con trabajo en portada por parte de Pete Fowler quien desde hace tiempo viene colaborando con ellos. Es también de la ciudad de Cardiff y es un artista gráfico dedicado a la creación de monstruos que encuentran sus orígenes sobre todo en el folklore local. Ha llevado su arte a otros terrenos más allá de la ilustración y ha hecho esculturas, animaciones, pinturas, juguetes , etc. La complejidad de la obra de Fowler va más allá de lo que vemos en [...]
As I'm sure most of you are aware, the world lost a great geek on March 4th, 2008. Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons failed his save against death magic and passed into a higher plane (he's probably flexing his newly found psionics as we speak!) I saw that Dodge over at MOKB relayed a tale of his youth, and I'm sure across the internet D&D nerds are coming out of the woodwork, so I'd like to toss my hat into the ring and share my own story of Dungeons and Dragons and childhood. [...]
Well, just moments ago as I was logging to start this post, I realized that this is officially the 200th post here at ThaBombShelter. I started ThaBombShelter on Memorial Day this year, and here we are seven months later and 200 posts in the bag. What follows are the Best Songs of 2006 according to us here at ThaBombShelter. Often I would find myself listening to albums that weren't quite up to snuff to warrant a full review, but there was often that one track that was amazing. You may notice that a lot of the [...]
I have actually managed to buy and listen to a lot of new music this year, although there seems to be a surfeit of it around at present. As usual, every magazine end-of-year list has been deeply unimaginative and chart-based, so here's mine, albeit similarly unimaginative and chart-based (but at least subjectively quirky and personal, hmm - there's something oddly homo-erotic in list-making
The other week I was in Rough Trade buying some music when I stumbled across a small pile of CDs which looked like they might be free. Sure enough they were, and never one to resist an interesting-looking freebie I happily snapped it up. It intrigued me because it was a folk CD - Folking it Up - compiled by DJs du jour Queens of Noize , denizens of the London indie clubs, and now with their own weekly show on BBC 6Music . I hadn't really thought of them as [...]
Circulus are one of those bands that I think I'd enjoy listening to while reading Books Of Magic or Sandman or Lucifer or some other Vertigo comic. They have this medieval folk-renaissance faire-hippy-trippy-60's love-in-70's moog type thing going on. And it works. Really freaking well. I like this CD a lot. I can't stop listening to it in fact. Its catchy but in more of a Sufjan type of way where it creeps up on you, than in a CYHSY sort of way. This band sounds exactly [...]
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