Monday Music's the one weekly post wherein Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only rule. Waskerley Way - Sista An electro shanty with one motherlicker of a build-up, Sista opens with some Underworld -esque revolving swishy noises before breaking into some 6/8 - a bit Leftfield (in both senses), and from there, it just intensifies to some brilliant electro noise. This geordie producer gets extra points for pioneering the feline-influenced genres 'meowgaze' and 'catwave'. Cracking. [...]
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Hmmm, reading the email I was sent by Shift-Static, there is a definite emphasis on their Edinburgh associations which seems entirely absent from any of their other PR material. So if they were trying to prey upon my nepotistic instincts then they, erm, probably had a point actually. It's hard to resist the idea that somewhere round the corner from you there exists a collection of talented fuckers making amazing music entirely out of the view of the world's music chatterati, so despite the fact that this lot are clearly far more from Newcastle than they are from [...]
London / Brighton Live (Oct. 24 - Oct. 31) Zun Zun Egui - Fandango Fresh ( MP3 ) (Tuesday - Shacklewell Arms) Waskerley Way - Storm Song ( MP3 ) (Saturday - Mother Live) Fire Island Pines - Bratislava ( MP3 ) (Saturday - The Brunswick, Hove) Tinariwen - Assouf ( MP3 ) (Wednesday - KOKO) —————————— —————————— —————————— —————————- Monday [...]
<p>&amp;amp;lt;p&a mp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp ;amp;lt;a href=" http://waskerleyway.bandcamp.c om/album/la-magie-rouge"&a mp;amp;amp;amp;gt;La Magie Rouge by Waskerley Way&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a& amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&am p;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;am p;gt;</p> The one-man-band is a species on the edge of extinction. I could not tell you the last time I saw one, perhaps back in my childhood, maybe the pan pipers pushed them off the street; one man with his kick drum on a string, a harmonica and half-sized acoustic is no match for a group of Peruvian pan people. Or perhaps the creature has evolved like Michael Bridgewater aka Waskerley Way , who, with himself alones creates electronic psychedelic shoegaze soundscapes, the like you can [...]
Flashes of burnt yellow sunsets. Blues creep and leak into the scattering clouds. I stare into the silent still pool watching the reflected scene unfold. I close my eyes like it's the end of... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
When I wrote about Michael Bridgewater - aka Waskerley Way - back in June , the focus was on his ability to turn a swirling mess of noise into a transfixing piece of music. On his La Magie Rouge cassette, out now on Ultra Friends Records , Bridgewater sharpens his talent for bringing disjointed sounds together. Worldbeat pop gem "Storm Song" borrows bits from the far-flung folk missives of places as far apart and foreign to each other as Senegal and Belgium. Polyrhythmic drum beats and bursting horn riffs are glued together by an interweaving haze [...]
If you're following these Music Fan's Mic podcasts, you're going to have to get used to the act of celebrating milestones. The past ten shows have been challenging and we haven't done brilliantly at keeping it to a weekly basis, but we've most certainly grown a better music taste through this process, which is a huge positive. The atmosphere of celebration is slightly underwhelmed by my sore throat - I try to tell jokes and the impact is lost through the rough croak that comes with each utterance. Within some advice on how to get through [...]
It's been a week since our first update and six days since a collection from the following day - and don't forget that in between then and now, we've had one of our regular new music podcasts , as well as sharing with you one of our most exciting discoveries in months, Gladius The Fertile . But let's press on, with some tracks from here and there (well, just the vast amount of talent on soundcloud), assembled over the week. ———————- [...]
Clearly his most ambitious work to date, Newcastle's Michael Bridgewater aka Waskerley Way 's new EP La Magie Rouge is a lesson in world music afflatus gone fuzz pop, and this is not to be understood as a disparaging judgment. Bridgewater took "damaged and doctored sounds" from places as far-off as Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia and, well, Belgium, subsequently working them into carefully arranged dream pop songs situated somewhere between original glo-fi and shoegaze. With the dazzling tune "True Damage" the method turns out most successful - that is, if you are able to overcome those unsettling yet [...]
The Miniature Tigers' Fortress Demos is the result of their decision to release the home demos of their outstanding album Fortress on its one year anniversary. They released a few songs from the album each week for three weeks leading up to the culmination on July 27th. MT - Gold Skull (demo).mp3 Miniature Tigers - Gold Skull (Demo version) Download Miniature Tigers - Gold Skull.mp3 Miniature Tigers - Gold Skull (album version) Download [...]
With the untimely demise of Ignition Festival meaning that Newcastle's wait for a national recognised music festival continues, you'd be forgiven for thinking that there is simply not the market for live gigs in the North East. However, having lived in Newcastle for the best part of nineteen years, I can confirm that this is certainly not the case, and September's Month Of Fridays is destined to reiterate my beliefs. Founded by a group of like minded, music loving companions, including radio presenters, musicians and event promoters, Month of Fridays is a realistic yet innovative event, set to [...]
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My friend Brian of Wonder Beard Tapes (see: Permafucked mix below) is putting out a new Waskerley Way cassette, whom he dubs an inventor of 'cat-wave' music. The release is called Waterfall and it's streaming on his bandcamp now, but wouldn't you like a physical copy to squeeze yourself? Below are the details: Waterfall comes in a limited run of 100 white, pro-dubbed cassettes w/ pro-imprints on the shells. You can pick one up for $5 + s/h. You can Pre-Order you copy of [...]
The friendly folks over at Wonder Beard Tapes (yes, we do know that it's only one person) have finally officially announced the highly anticipated cassette by Newcastle resident and original cat-waver Michael Philip Bridgewater aka Waskerley Way . Listen to the ghostly, off-kilter Salome Cat below and enjoy the absolutely appropriate video, stream the whole tape over here and then go here for order details. Waskerley Way - Salome Cat
Back in February, after Mikey of Waskerley Way sent me the closing track, "Sense of Humour Remains Largely Intact", off his new LP Waterfall, I predicted the album would be among my year... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
Last November I finally got hip to the shadows that Waskerley Way was casting. Well yesterday I received an ultra-polite tweet asking if the awesomeness himself could send me a track. HELLS YES.... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
1 Evenings - Babe [ bandcamp ] 2 TV Girl - On Land [ bandcamp ] 3 Tashaki Miyaki - somethin is better than nothin [ bandcamp ] 4 Fear of Men - Phantom Limb [ bandcamp ] 5 Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say [...]
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