SESSION 26: At Home With Rose

The Not-New-Zealand-Music radio show

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Firstly, this pic is a piece I just exhibited at Thermostat Gallery's annual group show, Vent. It's called 'Now Hear The Word Of The Lord'. It sold at the show, which makes me pretty happy and very encouraged to keep on with making art.

There's no New Zealand music this week. It's not that I'm bored with New Zealand noise, drone etc. I just felt like having a bit more variety. So here we are. A slice of other sounds. Variety. The spice of life and all that.

I have nothing to much to say this week, except enjoy the music. Oh, and that the tracks by Nightshift are by my friend Vladimir from Yaroslavl in Russia. And they are GOOD. There's a Foxy review here.

Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music, Laus Trinitati, Hildegard Von Bingen: Voice Of The Blood, RCA. (1:36)
Popol Vuh, Mantra 2, Nosferatu, Spalax Music. (3:51)
paul condon, bloom of ma worryhood, Grain: A Compilation Of 99 Short Tracks, Dot Dot Dot Music. (0:44)
es, Kaikkeuden Kauneus Ja Käsittämättömyys, Kaikkeuden Kauneus Ja Käsittämättömyys, (K-RAA-K)³. (9:25)
Fabio Orsi, 3 Untitled, I'm ep here, private press. (4:58)
Kites, Hallucination Guillotine, Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship, Load Records. (4:44)
Nightshift, du, Nightshift EP, 267 Lattajjaa. (6:13)
Nightshift, glon, Nightshift EP, 267 Lattajjaa. (3:22)
Nightshift, ongum, Nightshift EP, 267 Lattajjaa. (6:46)
Nightshift, bab, Nightshift EP, 267 Lattajjaa. (6:54)
Vincent Gallo, Goodbye Sadness, Hello Death, Recordings of Music for Film, Warp Records. (1:13)
The Dead Texan, Taco Me Manque, The Dead Texan, Kranky. (2:36)
Benoit Pioulard, Moth Wings, Précis, Kranky. (1:17)
Benoit Pioulard, Hirondelle, Précis, Kranky. (2:23)
Fennesz, Laguna, Venice, Touch. (2:56)
Anal Magic & Rev. Dwight Frizzell, Destruction - Slaying Of Hyperion, Drowning Of Helio, Suicide Of Selene And The Wandering Madness Of Basilea, Beyond the Black Crack, Paradigm Disks. (2:24)
Black Moth Super Rainbow, Lake Feet, Falling Through a Field, Graveface Records. (2:20)
Shoeb Ahmad, Mixed Doubles, Mixed Double EP, hellosQuare Recordings. (4:59)
Bardo Pond, Be A Fish, Amanita, Matador. (4:42)
Jackie-O-Motherfucker, Hey Mr. Sky, Flags Of The Sacred Harp, ATP Recordings. (6:47)
Fursaxa, Of Tubal Cain, Alone in the Dark Wood, ATP Recordings. (2:24)
Jessica Bailiff, Beautiful Soul, even in silence, Kranky. (9:30)
Hush Arbors, People Died Today, Hush Arbors, Ecstatic Peace! (3:42)
Ping Pong Parrot, Lightning storms make psychic debris come to life, Scattershot Bill's 7 Day Safari, Umor-rex.com. (3:41)
Animal Collective, Penguin penguin, Danse Manatee, FatCat Records. (2:12)
Jessica Bailiff with The Dithering Effect, Renee, Jessica Bailiff with The Dithering Effect, Resonant. (4:26)
Tenniscoats, One swan swim, Tan-Tan Therapy, Häpna. (6:03)
Blixa Bargeld, Little Yellow, Jukebox Buddha, Staubgold. (1:08)
Boredoms, 777, Rebore Vol. 0, Warner Music. (7:26)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Holly Hobby (version), Etiquette, Tomlab. (2:44)
Chamellows, Rooftops, Rat Hearts, Fonal Records. (1:51)

SESSION 25: At Home With Rose

Honey gets stuck in my ears

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I've just had a week off work so I could get along to as many films as possible at the Film Festival. I haven't tallied up the amount of films I got along to in the past two weeks but I think it's getting up towards 40. It put me in a really great mood. Brain food I guess. I sure as fuck didn't want to go back to work today, so I've cheered myself up with some tunes I really like. There's a wee bit of poppy sweetness going on at the beginning, but the honey is interspersed with a bit of gorse here and there for good measure. Prickles in the honey. But mostly honey I reckon.

I'm going through a massive Alastair Galbraith phase at the moment. Can't get enough. I love his faltering New Zealand voice and his lyrics make me smile.

In other news, I have a piece in the annual group show, Vent, at Thermostat Gallery in Palmerston North. I'm going up there this weekend to see the show and take some pics so I'll stick a pic up on the blog next week. I couldn't make it for the opening, unfortunately.

Back to the film fest - the two best films I saw were Lars von Trier's Antichrist (which I only saw last night and so am still mentally digesting) and Dogtooth. Up there as well were We Live in Public, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Bluebeard, and Enjoy Poverty.

Here's this week's playlist:

Kiwi Pacific, Kiwi South Island, A Treasury of New Zealand Birdsong, Kiwi Pacific Records International Ltd. (1:18)
Seht, [Preamble], The Voice of the Taniwha, Last Visible Dog Records. (1:14)
Alastair Galbraith, Milky Milo Man, Seely Girn, Feel Good All Over. (1:01)
Alastair Galbraith, Fall, Morse and Gaudylight, Emperor Jones. (3:06)
Alastair Galbraith, Ivy Bound, Morse and Gaudylight, Emperor Jones. (3:06)
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, Lots of Heart, River Falling Love, Ajax Records. (5:23)
Alastair Galbraith, From the Empire, Cry, Emperor Jones. (2:12)
The Verlaines, Hanging By Strands, You're Just Too Obscure For Me, Flying Nun Records. (3:38)
Superette, Waves, Topless Women Talk About Their Lives, Flying Nun Records. (3:18)
The Bats, Afternoon in Bed, Thousands of Tiny Luminous Spheres, Flying Nun Records. (3:50)
Thela, Track 04, Untitled, Ecstatic Peace! (5:50)
This Kind of Punishment, Ahead of Their Time, This Kind of Punishment, Flying Nun Records. (4:23)
Trash, Telecom South, Killing Capitalism with Kindness, Turbulence Records. (5:06)
The Skeptics, Rain, Ponds, Flying Nun Records. (3:47)
White Winged Moth, Untitled 4, I Can See Inside Your House, Poon Village. (7:07)
With Throats As Fine As Needles, Track 02, With Throats As Fine As Needles, Digitalis Recordings. (9:16)
Sunken, Tackle, Eye Electric Organ, Brain Electric Nerve, PseudoArcana. (11:09)
1/3 Octave Band, Luminous, Sub Lumina, Humbug. (12:18)
Seht, TBOD, HRRY, Digitalis Recordings. (3:52)
Swung, Dudi, Voice and Key, PseudoArcana. (4:26)
The Stumps, Ex-Fracas, Lost Weekends, Foxglove. (5:24)
The Stumps, Bad Lines, Lost Weekends, Foxglove. (1:34)
5454, Track 10, Travelogue, Artless Intent. (1:27)
Shocking Pinks, Blonde Haired Girl, Shocking Pinks, DFA. (1:48)
5454, Track 02, Travelogue, Artless Intent. (1:27)
Grayson Gilmour, Shuffle, Shuffle, Shuffle..., Phantom Limbs, Self Release. (1:42)
Golden Axe, Track 02, CDR, (2:20)
Kraus, Autocrat, The Facts, Dreamtime Taped Sounds. (1:17)
Glory Fckn Sun, Glare, Spectra, Tipped Bowler Tapes. (1:56)
Garbage and the Flowers, Sweet Pea, Runner: A Compilation of NZ Music, Next Best Way. (3:29)
Kiwi Pacific, Broad Billed Prion, A Treasury of New Zealand Birdsong, Kiwi Pacific Records International Ltd. (1:12)
A Handful of Dust, Masonic Inborn (Parts 2 & 3), Killing Capitalism With Kindness, Turbulence Records. (4:11)
Greg Malcolm, Shipwreck, Hung, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. (4:23)

SESSION 24: At Home With Rose

Rocking the Audio Foundation(s)

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WARNING: 1 MINUTE SILENCE AT BEGINNING OF PODCAST DUE TO TECHNICAL HITCH!

I have very little time to get my show sorted for tomorrow night. I was pondering this on the walk back to my car after seeing three Festival films back to back (the reason for my lack of planning time!) . I happened to be listening to podcast tracks I had subscribed to off the Audio Foundation website and thought what a great idea it would be to do an Audio Foundation show and give them a plug. They play a very important role in the NZ sound art scene.

In a nutshell, the Audio Foundation supports and promotes New Zealand audio projects. I find the Foundation an essential resource for my music show. The AF mailing list is active on an almost daily basis with the sharing of information on all facets of sound art in New Zealand.

The AF mailing list is just one of the Foundation's initiatives. They also organise sound art events as Alt Music (with funding from Creative New Zealand). They run an MP3 library (just in Auckland, as far as I know. They recently released a great compilation, Dirt Beneath the Daydream, which accompanied Wire magazine. The CD featured 21 tracks selected from an open call for submissions of previously unreleased experimental music from New Zealand.

I think we are really lucky in New Zealand to have this amazing resource. It's a collaborative community effort, but massive thanks and credit obviously go to Zoe Drayton who was instrumental in setting up the Foundation back in 2004.

One more thing - BUY MUSIC! Keep our artists fed! Downloading is good for a taster, but support our local artists by paying for their music.

The notes on the playlist come from either the track ID tags or from the AF website. If no notes appear, there were simply none to be gleaned.

Seven Twenty Seven, Will Gresson + Luke Munn. (7:27)
Six Oh Seven, Will Gresson + Luke Munn. (6:07)
Both tracks are sound collaborations between Will Gresson (guitar, loops, field recordings) and Luke Munn (keyboards, loops, vocals). Entirely composed, recorded, mixed, and produced in 12 hours.
Going places with Aung San Suu Kyi (abridged), ian-john. (3:01)
Wreckorded in locations through which the microphone chances to pass and collaged in chronological order. On durations wire the voices barb is set. (abridged version of an abridged version of a version necessarily abridged).

Tape Rain, Pumica (6:11)
Described as "the band that Real Groove was too scared to review!"

Voices in a Room (excerpt), David Khan. (4:18)
From the album Music for Performance, 2003.

Moth, Joyoti Wylie. (4:48)
Joyoti Wylie is a practicing multimedia artist.

Grinders (eloc-knockt) tape worm pull ah13.121, WITCYST. (2:58)
Legendary outsider. http//:www.witcyst.blogspot.com
From the album Stick With It.

FLIP, CHIKY TRWIXT. oilM. 20.121, WITCYST, (1:03)
See above.

Friendly Fire, ian-john. (0:49)
Friendly Fire is a collection of memories of gunshots from various locations and begins to investigate the poetry of that sound so happily lodged in our minds, and so easily brought to mind...or maybe it's just another hail of bullets?

0O0O0O0O0, Sam Hamilton. (5:04)
This is what happens if you loose your self in the dark jungle with the snakes and the bats and the wig tarsh grapplers.

Wormy Justice, Dead Kid Harvester. (6:11)
A song about the Worms series of video games, partially inspired by Black Sabbath's Electric Funeral.

Summer Skin, fiffdimension. (6:20)
Opening track from 2003 album 'Loose Autumn Moans'. Analogue recording, no overdubs. Dave Edwards - acoustic f-hole guitar, harmonica, vocal, composer Sam Prebble - violin, shaker Mike Kingston - cello

Droszkhi's Gate, Droszkhi (Torben Tilly). (5:18)
Solo piece for harmonium and stereo gate, composed for the exhibition & audio CD compilation Gating, curated by Michael Graeves, West Space Inc., Melbourne, 16 May - 8 June 2002

Yeongtongdong bus song, fiffdimension. (2:34)
Samples of Korean musical instruments (gayageum, janggu, kkwaenggari) warped into a techno track and drizzled with Korean voices and bus-stop announcements.

Live @ K-77, Johnny Chang, Paula Matthusen, Keith O'Brien
Following an invitation to perform at K-77 (or Lichtblick Kino) in Berlin, this is an excerpt from an improvised set with Keith O'Brien on electric guitar/electronics) Paula Matthusen (electronics) and myself on violin.

JZZA {mature edit}, Seht. (2:56)

The Corridor (edit), The Beautiful Losers. (5:16)
From The Beautiful Losers double album 2003. Featuring Peter Wright (guitar, e-bow, production), Rustle Covini (drums), David Khan (sampling keyboard, analogue synth, production).

A Square A Cross A Circle (edit), The Beautiful Losers. (5:49)
See above.

radio 45, David Merritt. (1:03)

Agalaya, Joyoti Wylie. (2:04)

untitled tr.1 xcrt, sci hi. (2:01)
A track of solo electronic feedback, played by sci hi and released on the cdr Nature Machine.

corale and cannon, zombie cheeses. (1:36)
rom #1 Skunkies - 16 chunks of dada sound collage art satire by zOmbie Cheeses issued on cdr by edengully.

Radiation, Dead Kid Harvester. (3:45)
A song with a spiritual story for which the meaning is unclear. Partially inspired by gothic rock.

Sleep/Grease, fiffdimension. (2:57)
Solo acoustic guitar + spoken word track from the 2003 album 'Loose Autumn Moans'.

piano i think, piano by R.G Shaw edited by William Shaw. (4:44)

Trains in Trouble, Stanier Black-Five. (5:59)
From Train Tracks, Argot Records

Take it Off, ian-john. (3:00)
Accompanied by voices of palpable anticipation and glee, wrapping paper is eagerly torn away from gifts on Christmas Day.

comes to those who fly, zombie cheeses. (2:36)
for more zombie cheeses write to edengully at gmail dot com

partial electrosmog study, Adam Willetts. (4:42)

slow cradle (excerpt), buildings. (6:08)
edengully at gmail dot com

Gig at Happy

SESSION 23: At Home With Rose

Hammer me with your noise machine

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Spend some time with noise and drone, and music (or anything else, for that matter) will never be the same again. It'll dismantle your hearing and put it back together in a completely different way.

I've compiled a range of noise tracks here. Probably the least noise-like is The Stumps - there's some instrumentation in here and some discernible melody. But they fit.

You'll see plenty of Dsic. He is the master of blippy white-noise noise. I've probably chosen the least harsh of his tracks really. He's an ex-Wellingtonian, moved to the Bristol, UK. I've asked him, and he still definitely considers himself a NZer. Check out his site.

Oh, and I think I may have said this before, but isn't The Polyamourous Love Cult just about the best band name ever?

It's late tonight for me to be uploading the playlist - past midnight - so no more jabbering on from me. Here's the playlist:

Doublas Lilburn, White Noise Study, Complete Electro-Acoustic Works, Atoll. (3:13)
Will Gresson and Luke Munn, Six Forty Seven, Saturday, March Fourteenth, Creative Commons. (6:47)
Kraus, If These Jaws Could Talk, The Facts, Dreamtime Taped Sounds. (4:25)
Crude, On An Industrial Scale, Syringes and Insects, Open Source Audio. (7:02)
CJA, Mess, Pink Metal, Pseudo Arcana. (3:47)
seht & stelzer, Exactly What You Lost 4, EXACTLY WHAT YOU LOST, Intransitive. (2:03)
Dsic, Ikea PDF Catalog Love, audio log, http://dsic.autmusic.com. (4:04)
Omit, section;two. pre-zero [the growing of the grey], Zero; Towards the Growing of the Black, Deepskin Conceptual Mindmusic. (2:24)
Dsic, INIT (Reset Signal), A History of Microprocessing Vol. 2, Audio Log. (3:28)
Peter Wright, Track 11, Peter Wright LP (6:44)
Dsic, Flexitime, Love City, If records. (5:18)
Duncan Bruce, Plane of Matyrs, New Glass Tapu, lf records. (5:03)
Duncan Bruce, Untitled, New Glass Tapu, lf records. (1:34)
Dsic, Bedminster Parade, P45, lf records. (0:55)
Dsic, Colon Cleanes, P45, lf records. (5:00)
Dsic, Imitator Ambience, Ambiences 1, lf records. (7:29)
Dsic, CarPexBomb, audio log, (4:21)
Dsic, Love is the final solution, Love City, LF Records. (3:02)
The Polyamourous Love Cult, The PLC Anthem, The Polyamourous Love Cult, Drunken Fish Records. (3:36)
K-Group, Forced out of the Sky, K-Group, Hermes. (3:14)
The Stumps, that with the greatest mass (will be indicated), split fleet dodge, Palindrone. (8:27)
Ian Watson/Dsic, Phantom Scum 1, Phantom Scum, If Records. (8:30)
Dsic, Ambient Deathbed II, Love City, If records. (6:09)
Dorkwind, Track 06, Shit Happens, CDr, self release. (10:53)

That final track has phenomenal drumming. Thanks Ryan! And how's that band name?!

Noise from the soul

I've just been reading a treatise on why noise has soul by Raz Mesinai: "The soul is the same concept to me as music is. The soul is intangible, but can also be developed and improved upon, just like things that are tangible." Read more…

SESSION 22: At Home With Rose

There's something out there...

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I'm excited because I've just bought my tickets for the Film Festival. I'm taking a week off so will be going lots of daytime screenings. I love going to the movies during the day when everyone else is at work. It seems the most decadent way to spend your time.

The theme tonight is field recordings. I like listening to these with my headphones walking down the street. Quite a surreal experience - like being in two places at once.

Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime is on Tim Coster's label, CLaudia. Definitely worth checking out.

Travelogue 5454 was a CDR I picked up at a gig one night. Released under Artless Intent. Field recordings while travelling in Greece. 5454 is on myspace.

Stanier Black-Five creates amazing pieces from field recordings of trains.

The rest of the show is a lovely 60 minute piece from Seht.

I think field recordings are great to listen to as an "opening your ears" exercise. They're also very soothing. I lived in a flat once where my room was in the middle of the building with no windows (sounds grim but it was a massive room and kinda cool). Anyway, I never used to hear the weather so I used to borrow this lovely album off my flatmate of recordings of the countryside. On one side is a gentle rainy day in the paddocks complete with sheep, and on the other is a full-on storm with thunder and pelting rain and wind. There was nothing better as a soporific. Put me off to sleep with a smile on my face.

I think my fave track is the one of Phil Dadson's - essentially 15 minutes of snoring.

5454, Track 04, Travelogue, CDR (0:38)
5454, Track 07, Travelogue, CDR (1:33)
Paintings of windows, gilgit, Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime, CLaudia (6:58)
Stanier Black-Five, Double Headed, Train Tracks, Argot (5:58)
5454, Track 14, Travelogue, CDR, (3:18)
Richard Francis, Nightfields (for Johnny Osbourne), Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime, CLaudia (8:05)
Phil Dadson, Sleep Trio, Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime, CLaudia (14:59)
Felicity Lord, Midnight Kitchen, Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime, CLaudia (8:04)
Seht, Goodbye America and Have a Nice Day, Pseudo Arcana (60:00)
P. Westbourne, Dawn Chorus, Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime, CLaudia (12:28)

SESSION 21: At Home With Rose

Leading You Down the Garden Path Backwards

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It's so cold. So very cold. In summer I yearn for winter. I can't stand the heat. But what I would do right now for a warm sunny day. I keep needing to shower before bedtime just to warm up. I wish I could find the electric blanket plugs... They are hidden away somewhere after last winter.

I saw a neat movie last week: A Handful of Dust, based on an Evelyn Waugh novel. Depressing, just how I like my movies. Thoroughly recommended. I also watched the latest Hal Hartley, Fay Grim, which I didn't think was so good. Okay, but not great. Parker Posey was super cute though. She had the most fabulous black coat.

I'm extremely excited about Where The Wild Things Are, based on the Maurice Sendak children's book. The film opens here in NZ on December 3. The trailer is best viewed on the Warner Bros website, not on YouTube where it doesn't look nearly as sharp. I read ages ago that Dave Eggers has written the screenplay, so that makes me even keener to see it. Directed by Spike Jonze.

Another thing I saw this week was a very very cool 15-minute short film, I Love You More, directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, more well known for her work in the gallery. I saw it on a DVD magazine put out by McSweeney's - Wholphin - to which I subscribe. It was based on a short story by Patrick Marber, called "Pete Shelley", and it kicked arse. I really loved it. I didn't know it was by Taylor-Wood till afterwards and I was kind've shocked cos I don't really like her art all that much. I'll be interested to see what she does from here in the film world. A feature? I hope so. I want to read that short story now. I have a feeling I'll like that rather a lot.

And so on to the music. This week is another reasonably unthemed bunch. I usually start out with the low-fi easier songs and then on to some drone and noise, but I've flipped that round a wee bit this time.

One band to mention is Full Fucking Moon - Bek Coogan (Cortina) has teamed up with Torben Tilly (The Garbage and the Flowers, Minit, Bad Statistics). A friend dropped the CDR in to us and it's very nice. I really like Coogan's voice in the track I've chosen - kind of chanty and doesn't overshadow the instruments.

Alastair Galbraith, Policemen on Ether, Talisman, Next Best Way (1:49)
Omit, Din-Cycle, Tracer, Helen Scarsdale Agency (2:55)
Seht, cydonia, The Green Morning, Digitalis Recordings (5:36)
Tim Coster, Mornings, Mornings, Pseudo Arcana (2:36)
Lovely Midget, three months in mulheim, Lovely Midget, Corpus Hermeticum (2:21)
Seht, A Dance; Four Movements, Dead bees ((the((quiet)earth))suite), Pseudo Arcana (23:48)
K-Group, intercity, K-Group, Corpus Hermeticum (2:43)
Parmentier, Untitled, Luxsound, Sigma Editions (7:11)
Full Fucking Moon, Track 04, Fantasy/horror, CDR (5:11)
Pumice, the space writer proves anything is possible, White, Stabbies And The Rocket Recordings (4:14)
Alastair Galbraith, Screaming E, Morse / Gaudylight, Emperor Jones (3:11)
Alastair Galbraith, Semaphore, Morse, Stiltbreeze(2:27)
Alastair Galbraith, Mavis Grind, Seely Girn, Feel Good All Over (3:22)
This Kind of Punishment, In View of the Circumstances, This Kind of Punishment, Flying Nun Records (5:02)
This Kind of Punishment, Out of My Hands, In the Same Room/5 By Four, Ajax Records (3:32)
This Kind of Punishment, Trepidation, A Beard Of Bees, Ajax Records (3:56)
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, Rain, River Falling Love, Ajax Records (2:18)
Graeme Jefferies, All The Colours Run Dry, Messages For the Cakekitchen, Flying Nun Records (2:45)
Kathy Bull, Eyes are the Door, Killing Capitalism with Kindness, Turbulence Records (2:43)
Sandra Bell, Lost Train, Killing Capitalism with Kindness, Turbulence Records(2:11)
Leila Adu, Answerphone, Cherry Pie, Hen Records (3:38)
Kraus, Sebastian, The Facts,Dreamtime Taped Sounds cassette (2:32)
Lawrence Arabia, The Thinnest Air, Lawrence Arabia, Honorary Bedouin Records(4:24)
Marie and the Atom, Isol, Tuatara – A Flying Nun Compilation, Flying Nun Records (5:21)
HDU and Peter Gutteridge, Point That Thing Somewhere Else, God Save The Clean, Flying Nun Records (5:07)
Onaweta, Dance Little Children, Killing Capitalism With Kindness, Turbulence Records (2:39)
Suka, Ebony Oriental, Flying Way Too High, Arc Recordings (4:54)
Lamp Of The Universe, Love, Echo In Light, Cranium Music (5:17)

SESSION 20: At Home With Rose

The Hissing of Beautiful Things

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I was going to flag doing a show this week and just spin out an old show - I just had a weekend away and I figured I might still be feeling like a break. But after taking a week off last week from the show, I was feeling revived and invigorated. A weekend of lolling around in a cute little cottage out of town tends to do that.

So here we are with two hours of hissing loveliness. Droney goodness.

Thanks to David Coventry for a couple of unreleased tracks - very nice thank you very much!

Roy Montgomery, Entertaining Mr Jones, And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life is Falling Down Through It, Drunken Fish Records (4:58)
MHFS, Track 04, West Auckland Driving Songs, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon (2:20)
David Coventry, Under the Math, unreleased (4:55)
White Winged Moth, Untitled 1, Silo Blanket, Formacentric Disk (8:23)
Peter Wright, Little Voices, The Terrifying Realisation We Might Be Wrong, Dirty Knobby (1:54)
Roy Montgomery, Ill at Home, And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life is Falling Down Through It, Drunken Fish Records (11:15)
David Coventry, Dip and Tear, unreleased (3:09)
Roy Montgomery, Suzanne Said, 324 E. 13th Street #7, Drunken Fish (4:49)
Antony MIlton, Dream (Lame), Sirens/And Where The Coloured Planes are Rafts, Last Visible Dog (4:27)
Cakekitchen, World of Sand, World of Sand, Homestead Records (4:26)
Greg Malcolm and Tetuzi Akiyama, so we go, six strings, Korm Plastics (9:53)
Antony Milton, Breezeless, Sirens/And Where The Coloured Planes are Rafts, Last Visible Dog (2:52)
5454, Track 05, Travelogue, Cdr (2:47)
Swagger Jack, Internet Cafe, The Feral Blood of Swagger Jack, Last Visible Dog (2:49)
Rory Storm, Kepler Sattelite, ZstarshipZ, Foxglove (12:42)
Peter Jefferies, While I've Been Waiting, The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World, xpressway (2:55)
Witcyst, 60: Witcyst, The Year of the Root, Cdr (10:04)
Birdcatcher, Untitled, The Sky Tied Down, Pseudo Arcana (23:26)
Alistair Galbraith, This Time He Has Come, More Oar: A Tribute To The Skip Spence Album, Birdman Records (5:18)
The Skeptics, Pch Mix, Sensible, Flying Nun Records (4:25)

Holiday for me

There won't be a live show for the next two weeks. Tomorrow night I have an important meeting for Wellington Film Society (I'm on the committee). And next week (hurrah!) I'm off for a holiday to celebrate my birthday. I need a little break, so Dave and I are off to spend two nights in a little cottage in the Wairarapa. Main draw is a big old clawfoot bath and an open fireplace. Gonna be nice. Hopefully, Jeff at Radio23 is gonna be able to replay one of my old shows.

Don't forget, you can download most of my old shows from that list on the right over there...

Evil

Just found a clip on YouTube of Andy and Liz's band Evil Ocean. They're playing on Saturday night at The Adelaide with Dave's band, Can't Play Won't Play, and Detrytus. So looking forward to it.

SESSION 19: At Home With Rose

I Dreamed I Was Prog Rock...

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Sounding kinda proggy and slightly psych this week. And sometimes a little saccharine. Ah well. I'm still feeling a bit crappy from my cold which is nearly gone and I'm not much in the mood for noise this week.

I've included are a couple of tracks from debut album, Circa Scaria, by An Emerald City. The album was recorded in a big cave over two days. How cool is that? I definitely slot this album in the prog section. And hey! - that's not necessarily a bad thing. I was weaned on Emerson Lake and Palmer and Genesis, man! It's in my fricking blood, okay? Apparently the An Emerald City have moved to Berlin. Their debut gets some bad reviews, and it gets some good reviews.

Okay, it's not all prog, but it flows...

Disasteradio, Trash City, Disasteradio Cdr, creative commons. (1:09)
Disasteradio, Track 06, creative commons. (2:37)
i.ryoko, Cut Too Short for Contentment, unreleased, Sonorous Circle. (3:56)
Gydja, A Siren Stood Hymning upon Each Circle, Umbilicus Maris, Mystery Sea. (11:23)
Thela, Untitled, Thela, Ecstatic Peace! (5:27)
An Emerald City, Reindeers Running, Circa Scaria, Banished from the Universe. (7:49)
Lamp of the Universe, Dream Sequence, Echo in Light, Cranium Music. (16:59)
100 SUNS, Perpetual Balance, Sonorous Circle. (39:08)
100 SUNS, Intertwine, Sonorous Circle. (7:01)
An Emerald City, Moon, Circa Scaria, Banished from the Universe. (5:25)
Lamp of the Universe, Resonance, Echo in Light, Cranium Music. (6:27)
The Inkling, Marriage of Figurines, Deluge, Capital Recordings. (8:14)
Shocking Pinks, The Narrator, Shocking Pinks, DFA. (3:00)
The Enright House, Do Re Mi, A Maze and Amazement, A Low Hum. (4:17)

Can't Play, Won't Play Will Play

My BF's band is playing next Saturday (13 June) at the Adelaide along with a coupla other bands. Dave's band is Can't Play Won't Play and they play alongside Evil Ocean (who has been played on my show on more than one occasion) and Detrytus. Should be a fun night! It's also a chance to celebrate my friend's 40th. God, we are all getting old.

Outside, they listen...

Here's my friend Conrad listening to my show last night. Kisses, Conrad!

SESSION 18: At Home With Rose

Pretty/Harsh

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I've been a bit sick with a headcold for the last few days. I only get a cold about once every couple of years, so when it hits me I feel pretty miserable. I spent almost the whole day yesterday in bed watching movies. Was kinda nice. Lemon and honey drinks and cups of tea. Plenty of snoozing off, too.

Being sick has left me with little time to get my show ready, but I seem to be getting quicker anyway. I usually get the tracks picked out on a Sunday evening and then the fine tuning and the playlist get done on Monday night. This time I've finished the whole shebang tonight, being Monday night. I'm not going to dilly-dally around telling you about the artists, cos I really need my kip, being sick and all.

I will say that I am playing a track by Stanier Black-Five (who has the best name I've bloody heard of for a while!) who I saw play at the Adam Art Gallery on Thursday night and she's pretty great. She's based in Christchurch, but originally from the UK. She runs her own label, Argot Records.

And so, with no further ado, here's the playlist for Session 18:

Sophie Moleta, 111 Taranaki St, Runner: A Compilation of New Zealand Music, Next Big Way. (2:45)
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, Torn, River Falling Love, Ajax Records. (8:35)
Roy Montgomery, Fine, Fine, Fine, 324 E. 13th Street #7, Drunken Fish. (5:25)
David Watson, Sinister 4, Fingering an Idea, XI Records. (4:59)
Alastair Galbraith, two wires and a violin, Wire Music, Corpus Hermeticum. (6:52)
Roy Montgomery, Rain Receding, Scenes From the South Island, Drunken Fish. (4:43)
Sophie Moleta, Can You?, Runner: A Compilation of New Zealand Music, Next Big Way. (1:55)
Stanier Black-Five, Double Headed, Train Tracks, Argot Records. (5:58)
Seht, chryse planitia, The Green Morning, Digitalis Recordings. (19:58)
John White, Instrumental, Balloon Adventure, She'll Be Right. (23:09)
Frey, out-20071020-215531-further, unrelased (20:33)
Thela, (Untitled #5), Argentina, Ecstatic Peace! (7:26)
Sandra Bell, Lost Train, Killing Capitalism with Kindness, Turbulence Records. (2:11)
Chris Heazlewood, Throb, Cash Guitar, Flying Nun. (1:12)
The Chills, Night of Chill Blue, Brave Words, Flying Nun. (2:57)
Claypipe, The Math of Random Fractures, Jewelled Antler Library Vol. 8: Wayside, Jewelled Antler. (3:59)
Swagger Jack, Stall, The Feral Blood of Swagger Jack, Last Visible Dog. (2:02)

SESSION 17: At Home with Rose

Bailter Space vs The Skeptics

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One hour of Bailter Space followed by one hour of The Skeptics.

It's not noise. It's not drone. But listen and you'll hear the influence both these bands have had on the New Zealand alternative and experimental music scene.

Two amazing and influential New Zealand bands: one still hanging in there in New York and the other sadly short-lived due to the death of singer David D'Ath in 1990.

Both of these bands were outstanding live. I was lucky enough to see The Skeptics play in Timaru many years ago - I think it was about 1984. I didn't know much about them at the time. The small unsophisticated crowd soon turned into a clutch of quietly enthralled people. My jaw dropped. I've been in love with them since. Their songs are surprising. They weren't like anything else that was around at the time. Yes, you can hear the punk coming through, and some influence from the Dunedin sound, but they also had a dark gothic bent. There's even an occasional smattering of reggae beats. They were The Skeptics. And they were pretty fucking incredible.

Read lots about the wonderful Skeptics here, including an obituary for David D'Ath by Chris Matthews.

After The Skeptics disbanded, band members John Halversen and Brent McLaughlan went on to join Bailter Space.

I've seen Bailter Space probably about five times live - two of those times were in the space of a week. They built huge sonic walls – I remember the time my black dress was banging against my legs with the force of the bass (I think my noise-induced hearing loss was partially caused by being too close to the speakers at Bailter Space concerts). These guys were truly loud. But they had an underlying sonic drone and soaring guitars and distorted feedback that are there in lots of the music I love. Really dreamy and shoe-gazer but also with huge sonic strength. Loud and soft all at the same time. Stuff to swoon to. Well, I do.

I've been known to go to sleep at night listening to Bailter Space's Tanker on many occasions...

You can read about Bailter Space on their MySpace page.

Here's my playlist for the two-hour set.

Bailter Space
I'm Love With These Times, Nelsh E.P., Flying Nun (3:20)
One More Reason, Tanker, Flying Nun (3:14)
Tanker, Tanker, Flying Nun (4:16)
Your Invisible Life, Tanker, Flying Nun (4:14)
Morning, Robot World, Flying Nun (4:04)
Galaxy, Vortura, Flying Nun (4:44)
Shadow, Vortura, Flying Nun (4:04)
x, Vortura, Flying Nun (4:48)
Projects, Vortura, Flying Nun (5:07)
Voltage, Wammo, Matador (4:36)
Glimmer, Wammo, Matador (4:07)
Colours, Wammo, Matador (3:02)
Shades, Capsul, Turnbuckle (3:02)
Argonaut, Capsul, Turnbuckle (6:57)
Space X, Solar.3, Turnbuckle (2:57)
Live For You, Solar.3, Turnbuckle (4:12)

The Skeptics
Sensible Shoes, Sensible, Flying Nun (4:26)
Spring, Sensible, Flying Nun (6:24)
Bub, Sensible, Flying Nun (6:00)
Splenal Langwems, Sensible, Flying Nun (3:16)
Men o' War, Sensible, Flying Nun (4:21)
All Sum Nul, Amalgam, Flying Nun (3:48)
Never Tire of Looking at the Stars, Amalgam, Flying Nun (2:22)
Pack Ice, Amalgam, Flying Nun (4:31)
Boo-chang, Chowder Over Wisconsin, Flying Nun (0:22)
Aud Balmoral, Chowder Over Wisconsin, Flying Nun (2:39)
Ponds, Ponds, ULP (3:52)
Two Pot Resin, If I Will I Can, Flying Nun (6:20)
Feeling Bad, III, Flying Nun (4:59)
Affco, III, Flying Nun (4:05)

Warning: this video may disturb! (and may induce vegetarianism)

SESSION 16: At Home With Rose

Two dollar mixture

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Lolly scramble tonight. Couldn't be arsed with a theme, so just some bits and pieces that I like.

First up is a 40-minute turn-up-your-stereo-and-blast-your-neighbours live recording, "Dread the Future", by Neoteric Sound Research Unit No. 0001. Fun and games. From magical to ferocious.

We move from there into lo-fi land puncutated by some nice field recordings from Greece by 5454. Thanks to David Coventry for sending me some tracks - included this week is a guitar piece by him. I love it when people send me stuff!

I've recently been introduced to David Watson, an ex-pat New Zealander living in New York. Thanks to the Fungus boys for pointing me in his direction. I'm very happy about that! David has worked with the likes of John Zorn and Lee Renaldo. According to Wikipedia, he helped start the alt.music festivals in 2001. He makes experimental bagpipe music! Yay for that, I say. I'm a fan of the bagpipes.

I've included some Douglas Lilburn to finish with. I kind of forget about his amazing music. He was the grand-daddy of electro-acoustic in New Zealand.

Neoteric Sound Research Unit No. 0001, Dread the Future, unreleased live recording. (44.05)
The Stumps, Destruction (Excerpt), Lost Weekends, foxglove (0:44)
The Stumps, Convolvulous, Lost Weekends, foxglove (1:33)
Frey, distant_buried, cronica, demo (3:34)
Frey, therefore, cronica, demo (3:04)
Frey, tweening, cronica, demo (2:01)
A Handful of Dust, Masonic Inborn (Parts 2 & 3), Killing Capitalism with Kindness, Turbulence Records (4:11)
Lame And Sorry, Minus Eleven, Le Jazz Non (A Compilation Of Nineties NZ Noise), Corpus Hermeticum. (4:11)
David Coventry, Give Some Love, unreleased (1:20)
5454, Easter Sunday (on location, documentation of service which took place on Easter Sunday 06 in the main church in Kantza, Athens, Greece), Travelogue cdr (3:34)
Pumice, I Want to Fuck Women, Society of Dogs - Pumice/Armpit split CDR
5454, Temporary Misplacement, Travelogue, cdr
Garbage and the Flowers, Born in the Dark Dear, Runner, Next Best Way. (3:56)
Armpit, Youse, tron ii (5:08)
Alistair Galbraith, fall, Morse, Stiltbreeze (3:06)
Alistair Galbraith, Hospice, Arc: Music of Dunedin, Arc (2:22)
Gate (3), To Kiss The Wall, Le Jazz Non (A Compilation Of Nineties NZ Noise), Corpus Hermeticum (3:52)
Alistair Galbraith, Identical, Cry, Emperor Jones (1:46)
David Watson, Sinister 2, Fingering an Idea, XI Records (4:57)
David Watson, Seventh Stomach, Throats, Ecstatic Peace! (2:22)
David Watson, Trachea, Throats, Ecstatic Peace! (1:43)
David Watson, Cutting, Throats, Ecstatic Peace! (3:05)
Douglas Lilburn, three inscapes - no. 1, Complete Electro-Acoustic Works, Atoll (2:35)
Douglas Lilburn, three inscapes - no. 2, Complete Electro-Acoustic Works, Atoll (4:34)
Douglas Lilburn, three inscapes - no. 3, Complete Electro-Acoustic Works, Atoll (4:58)

Dance dance dance to my ten guitar (picks)

Neoteric Sound Research Unit No. 0001

This week I'm going to be playing a live 40-minute recording by the new Wellington noise group Neoteric Sound Research Unit No. 0001. NSRUN 0001 are David Cauchi, Tribby Gonix, Laura Shepard, and Matt Whitwell. This is their first recording. Exciting!

neoteric Rare ~adj. 1. belonging to a new fashion or trend, modern: a neoteric genre. ~n. 2. a new writer or philosopher. [C16: via Late Latin from Greek neoterikos young, fresh, from neoteros younger, more recent, from neos new, recent] – neoterically adv.

The Aesthetics

Last night we went to see The Aesthetics at The Adelaide. It was lots of fun. I drank way too much beer. I enjoyed seeing Matt Middeleton play live as Crude. He's pretty entertaining. I hated the saxophone though. I really really hate noodly sax playing. It's just a thing of mine. It doesn't matter how much people improvise and how much they experiment. It still sounds like a sax. Must have been too much Kenny Gee on the radio in the 80s or something. Anyways, there were a couple of girls who played some really great garagey rock who go by the name of Newtown. They were lots of fun. Lots of power and plenty of balls. I thought they were pretty neat. Nice growly vocals. And yelling not screaming. Zombie Fuck were up next, and they sound good till the screeching vocals start. I wasn't big on that. I don't think I want to see them again. I've seen them once before at Happy and was not keen then either. Well there ya go. You can't like everything. Sorry if you read this, Zombie Fuck. I'm sure you've got your followers.

The Aesthetics were just great. Lots of energy, plenty of people up dancing. Matt Middleton has heaps of mad energy on the stage.

Here's what they have to say about themselves on their website: "Our mission : to keep the moronic in vogue, in focus. To apply our kollective learnings to the infantile and primitive ritual/release that is punk rock, to render the stupid the highest peak of aesthetic life, of life itself. To strip back the layers of self-deception and self-betrayal that is the everyday, the brattish hubub of late modern capitalism and , assisted by all types of poisons, brandish our musical weapons with ugly, stupid, turbulent simplicity. We , the Aesthetics : obviously boys, stupid men, drunk, in trance, yelping and stuffing down food offerings, pissing profits away, we activate a new, deep subconcious stream and , through our group ritual, keep new zealand on it's feet. For if these artists, these madmen, were to be denied their right to performance, the cancer that is 'straight' new zealand society would metastasize exponentally. 'Real men', all hair-product and credit, would wake up one gray morning, pick up a knife, and murder with android indifference. We keep this country on it's feet. We realize and heal these repressed subconcious collective evils bursting at the seams of the 'real world' through our music/ritual. All for no reward. Perhaps a strained, guilty half-smile from a city counsellor. WE ROCK. WE ROCK ON. WE ROCK ON . ONWARD - INTO OUR 30S. OUR 4OS."

It's a shame Pumice was on in the same night. I would have liked to have gone to that gig too. Always a bummer when they coincide.