MP3: Taterbug - Golden Star Brother Supper Charles Free rambles even more than usual on his latest Taterbug release, abstracting his porch-based and jack-o'-lanterny psychedelia into some frontier-based nightmare, heavy on the ghost town feelings but with the damaged Americana and weird little brother eclectism of Boys Of The Feather. "Crash your phantom taxi into my unbuilt home". Apparently he's building some sort of shack out in the backyard of Night People/ Wet Hair's Shawn Reed yard-- a perfect space for the early morning ranch wails he's so good at channeling with [...]
MP3: The Savage Young Taterbug - Nightmare Of Party Children I've been trying to watch Heaven's Gate for the last three days and I accidentally left it on downstairs when I found this song by our fav suburban ranch crooner Charles Free aka The Savage Young Taterbug. He's Huckleberry Finn in some failed future and this sprawling new one is real beautiful and typically fragile under those tape warbles, a total dusky lament w/ prairie imagery and displaced dusty American grandeur placed on a neighborhood porch. Bored Fortress is really right [...]
Let us welcome Taraka with much joy. She is back from a haunted church out in the woods where Prince Rama of Ayodhya have been busy recording their new album forthcoming in Paw Tracks with Avey Tare and Deakin...We Own The Otherwordly Team. - - - - - Out here the landscape is a tabula rasa, [...]
Really quite glad my iPod is really old w/ shit battery power cos I was getting soooo sick of my short attention span and never being able to settle on a song to listen to, wheeling through that thing for many a bus/train trip to find the "right song". No fun at all! My walkman is good like that; choose one tape, get lost in it. EASY. Naturally there were plenty of amazing cassettes to get lost in. Also I am really glad that Alt-Vinyl exists in Newcastle. SEE BELOW: [...]
Gotta say I've found it kind of hard to remember/figure out which "songs" are my absolute favs this year because a) THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY GOOD BANDS COMING OUT WITH ONLY JUST A HANDFUL OF EUPHORIC AND INVENTIVE SOUNDS and b) most of them are submerged inside 15 minute long tapes or LPs and thus harder to post on a blog. But whatever, I've had to go with those anyway to "stay true to myself". I think I've lost track of heaps of stuff this year from working craploads and putting on shows in a small English city; I [...]
Sep 14, 2009, 4:20am
Fmly
via precipice it's 4:15am, just got back from ATP. have class in 4hrs. need to eat. need to sleep. need to do other things. we'll have story time asap when i've caught up on all of this...until then, here's our tune of the morning. Taterbug - Chemical Vacation
Taterbug - Pipe Down (?) ( via ) Psyched to nab this new free Taterbug track on such a balmy spring evening - pretty well suited to my weird state of tiredness with free energy drink buzz. Still brittle, but perhaps not as precious as last time , Charles Free strings together AM memories, dubbed radio station flips and intercepted galactic transmissions with Scotch Tape . I love how Percy Sledge cuts into midnight forest sounds into organ funk eventually into two friends on a bad cellphone line. What'd you just say? [...]
Taterbug - Chemical Vacation Taterbug aka Charles Free is a memoryscaper or maybe he collected these sounds from the dusty webs of old dreamcatchers full of lucid sensations and weird formative moments. This track is full of these, transferred onto new and found brittle cassette reels, with more bluesy childhood feelings, haunted vocals, lush keyboard whistles, and slowly melting soul samples -- think a peaced-out Ariel Pink with the celestial moments of James Ferraro. Total dreamer [ Taterbug [...]
Jul 29, 2009, 3:10pm Fmly
Taterbug is Charles Free, "singin son of the earth," as well as a "brotherless child" with only loose connections to the Night People label. He sings and manipulates tapes that he's recorded, and some he's found, "sometimes scotchtape vocal dubs for that boy choir vibe," and if you've got him live, it's "a lot more torched." Taterbugs is an Iowa kid, so it was probably inevitable that he'd eventually run into Shawn Reed and Night People, or as Free puts it, it's "easy to find a creep in the corn." [ via ] " The Savage [...]
Taterbug Okay, so this one is undeniably something of an acquired taste, but after several listens I've definitely acquired it. Sort of like an child's music box having sex with a battered AM radio stuck on a peripheral alt-rock channel inside a My First Fisher Price cassette player that's getting slowly sun melted. Taterbug - Taterbug's Chemical Vacation ( mp3 )
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