Assuming you are all boycotting Valentine's Day which, let's face it, you really should, we finally enter a week in Edinburgh where there are plenty of options for Superior Fun, after a longer than usual hangover from the Christmas period this year. Limbo is back on Friday too, which is good news. It's not really my kind of lineup I must confess, but Limbo gigs are always good ones, so check it out here . It's also quite a Toady week as well, which is nice. We have our first house gig of the year [...]
The Family Elan should be massive. Seriously, they should. Or at least massive on a scale that we devotees of obscure music understand, i.e. they might have once got a TV performance on a late night arts show. They're a 3-piece band from Bradford who play a sort of quasi-medieval pan-Anatolian psych-folk music. None of your wishy-washy drippy stuff either, this is a sound as dry as chalk. Really gutsy and astringent music, proper instrument scraping. With some of the music that gets featured here at Doklands, I could easily understand why people might [...]
Right, after an unspeakable beast of a week last week, handling the diciest of dicey session, lost bands, exploding PAs and jetlag, this shall be the week of brutal efficiency. Vorsprung Durch Technik and all that sort of thing. It is also the week we finalise the Lach masters, the King Post Kitsch vinyl master for the Don't You Touch My Fucking Honeytone single (May 16th) and get the print press promotional work moving for his album, The Party's Over. Things, in short, are in full swing. Lower Dens, The Scottish Enlightenment and Edinburgh School for [...]
Lizard Kisses Brooklyn Marc Merza & Cory Siegler W e started dating this past spring, and we started Lizard Kisses pretty soon after. It was conceived sort of by accident. At first it consisted of the two of us just fooling around with some toy instruments we got in Chinatown and jamming out in our bedrooms. Then we finally decided to start recording it. We wrote the bulk of our debut EP on [...]
There's a good deal of music that can be safely tagged as psych folk coming out these days. Unlike the burgeoning scene full of psychedelic jams mixed with all kinds of folkloric inspiration that go nowhere, The Family Elan a project by Chris Hladowski who's played with A Hawk and A Hacksaw -and is a member of Asthray Navigation, Nalle and Scatter among others- is a ripe fusion of folk that derives inspiration from an area that usually goes under the radar compared to Indian and Middle Eastern folk fusion. A multi-instrumentalist Hladowski plays bouzouki, baglamas, [...]
] the family elan wide eyed fox 2007 (française version) C'était hier. Il était sept heures du matin. Pour la première fois, j'ai écouté, reçu la veille, " Stare of dawn ", premier album de The Family Elan . J'ai fait "Ouh la !... stop." J'avais les oreilles dans le même état que mes yeux, ouverts de [...]
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