tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41353846242354873802024-03-14T09:46:18.267-07:00Deep Cutz - [[Uncutz]]A Dialogue with Music...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1985125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135384624235487380.post-36455164936272990162019-05-14T14:41:00.001-07:002019-05-14T14:41:31.256-07:00Describe What You're Hearing<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 13.33px;">
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Writing about music never got easy. I think I became increasingly more attuned (pun intended) to the compositional mode I had to move into whilst typing under the influence of snug headphones. And anyone within a 3-5 year radius will all too eagerly tell you about how they came of age “before the Internet.” That’s pertinent when, as an 18-year-old, you’re trying to be a serious surveyor of mythologies. I’m talking about anything from the Beatles to the Pixies to Kool Herc to Fugazi to David Byrne to Malco;m MccLaren to Lester Bangs to Prince to the Belleville Three to Lou Reed or Lauire Anderson or Frankie Knuckles or Bjork or you name it… I had to become a student of music; specifically of music mythology. And “in my day,” that meant finding old copies of Magnet, Spin, or NME, scouring used book stores for copies of “Please Kill Me” or “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung…” Every “idol” I researched was portrayed upon a page I physically turned with a pinched index and thumb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">But I can recall, with a bit of bashfulness, how my first big article was a deep dive into the implications Myspace had on modern music. Myspace, the proto-social-media platform that presaged Facebook, a hybrid of blog, bandcamp, and Twitter, dating back to the summer of 2003; the year I started writing about music. Labels still retained their end-all/be-all rank among aspiring musicians; brick-and-mortar record stores chains, yes chains, were still a thing (Tower, Harmony House), Radiohead and Beyonce were still several years away from their surprise “drop” (read: release) of albums online… Anyway, what I’m getting to is that Myspace felt like the choppy rapids that my canoe was entering, only to then go over a waterfall’s edge into what would crystallize as my future’s predominant workload. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That metaphor’s problematic, because it implies a descent…</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135384624235487380.post-52551830070698088972019-03-31T10:15:00.001-07:002019-03-31T11:48:04.155-07:00Be there<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What was it all for?? That wasn't a question I ever asked myself. It's been thirteen years and we all just kept at it. There wasn't any kind of existential questioning. We just kept going... And I can remember it all.... I was hungry and enthusiastic, I was sleepless and zealous; I lived fully in the madness of the present and yet always had an eye toward getting back in line for the swirly slide the next night, and the next; I was surrounded by artists who were all creating variations of my drug of choice: music. I never asked what it was all for...., it was never a question at the forefront of my mind. It was filed in an unlabeled folder in the back of the bottom drawer of the cabinet in the back corner of my mind. I just kept going... But...<br />
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I remember Justin Walker jumping up onto the mantle of the fireplace where I lived, the co-op in East Lansing, the wild pique of a house party, kegs drained and amps precariously surrounded by dancing youths. </div>
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I remember Steve Beggars picking up DJ Millionaire like a sack of potatoes and carrying him around the Belmont. </div>
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I remember Drew Bardo singing poetic fire into a bullhorn in front of Wildcatting (which you know, now, as Bars of Gold), on a makeshift lumber stage in the backyard of the now bygone (and pre-raided) Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. </div>
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I remember John Sinclair doing something similar, poetically speaking, with a no-wave free-jazz orchestra of comrades, in a repurposed elementary school. </div>
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I remember the first Caveman Woodman performance, on the streets, with a portable amp. </div>
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I remember Child Bite and their giant eyeball costumes creating the most surreal of mosh pits. </div>
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I remember Marco Polio & the New Vaccines doing a parade down Joseph Campau in the middle of the night. </div>
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I remember Duende's first set, upstairs in Jacoby's.<br />
I remember moderating an interview between Champions of Breakfast and Kommie Kilpatrick. </div>
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I remember Silverghost playing in a mudfloor basement in Milford. </div>
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I remember Prussia playing to me and six other people in the Northern Lights Lounge on a Wednesday somewhere in 2007. </div>
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I remember Deastro. </div>
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I remember my first backyard Fairgrounds encounter with Theatre Bizarre. </div>
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I remember the Demolition Doll-Rods coming to Lansing. </div>
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I remember the Oscillating Fan Club making a love mix for me. I remember so many cups of coffee shared with Oblisk, with Passalacqua, with Audra Kubat & Chris Bathgate, with Misty Lyn & Matt Jones, with Johnny Headband..., with Mick Collins.<br />
I remember interviewing the High Strung in a sports bar in the middle of March Madness. </div>
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I remember interviewing Troy Gregory inside Jim Diamond's studio in 2003. </div>
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I remember every single Carjack set... </div>
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I remember always wanting to write. </div>
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I have so many memories, and they all came flooding back last night. I think I've shared an unforgettable, intimate, or long conversation with each and every person in the Ant Hall complex last night, likely for an article that I eventually wrote. But it was under circumstances none of us would have wished for, that brought us together; one of us, Justin Walker, had suffered a serious stroke eight weeks' prior--we were here to raise funds to help cover those medical costs, as well as just see our friend in person, hug him, and bring those positive energies to him, to encourage him, to heal him, to let him know how much he meant to us...</div>
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And then I realized..., that's what it's all for... So that we can come together. We weren't in this to show off, we weren't in this to realistically get famous beyond our state's borders, we weren't in this to make the scene, to be seen... We were here to come together. So that we can come together again. So that we can come together when it's needed. You transcend the scene, then, and you become a music community; you become a family. Memories are always there; sure we were crazier in the past. Now we have something, though. We have more than moments. We have each other. To be there. To be there for each other. I've never felt so enthused... And that's saying something. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135384624235487380.post-82961396534702292792019-02-18T04:30:00.000-08:002019-02-18T04:30:02.443-08:00Trev Tochnik's 'The Power of New Money'<br />
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And while I haven't covered anything like "musical theatre" before, in any prior post, I won't sweat breaking precedence, as this will, now, assuredly be, this blog's final post. But what kind of theatre did I witness...?<br />
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Well, an artist calling himself <a href="https://soundcloud.com/trevtochnik">Trev Tochnik</a> created an interactive performance piece that he called "The Power Of New Money." An actress from New York, Mick James, collaborated with this admittedly esoteric Michigan-based artist, working as the co-director for this minimalist-and-yet-still-complex dramaturgy.<br />
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Now, there is conceptual choreography and very specific lighting cues that go along with the actor's mannerisms and movements, but its all set to music. In fact, what's really been brought to life in this strange play are the songs that Trev Tochnik created..., it's just being channeled into a surreal mime-like opera of sorts, rather than a typical trope for "a band," like a night at a "club." I couldn't see if there was a sound engineer or a lighting crew, but I have to imagine there was some bustling around in the dark shadows of the claustrophobic backstage area that was allotted to Tochnik and his troupe, at the Tonsle Estate.<br />
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There are a few photos from this performance at the Tonsle Estate woven across this "final" blog post. You can see how I wound up discovering that the "backstage" area and the actual "stage" were transient. We followed Mick and Trev from the kitchen, to the bathroom, to a landing by the stairs, a vestibule, and then back to those bathrooms, a long and narrow space that provided just enough space for this small audience to peer into, and witness the movements. Each elbow bend, or furrowed brow, each awkward stretch or somehow graceful hunch of the back seemed to express a range of emotions that were both pensive and fearful, in love and in dread, relaxed, and yet yearning... Yearning for the ever-restoring power of "new money..."<br />
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If you've never been to the Tonsle Estate, it's not really near anything. In fact, its situated between two empty lots. This assured that the rock-tempo drum beat and clanging, fuzzed-out guitars of a song like "You Come Back When You Arrive" would not disturb any "neighbors." But also, the more ambient, swelling whole-notes of the solemn space-gospel "Maples" could attain an idyllic resonance, enveloping the house-bound audience with proper reverberation. The spaciousness of the house, as well as the unique architecture of some of the rooms, meant that the urgency, the alarm, the suddeness of moments in the play that involved loud screaming or gunshots, could attain sufficient emotional impact, without restraint. I'm amazed no one called the cops..., but yet, how could they be frightened when the tranquilly-groovy orchestral-jazz suite "Hawaii" started washing over them....<br />
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You could see in Tochnik's eyes that he was both excited, and distracted... Or perhaps that was his character? Perhaps that's at the heart of the album's true emotional import..., that we are all eager, and yet anxious, in this endless (and hot) pursuit, for this "proverbial" "new money." I know that Tochnik is eager for more ears to hear the songs that accompany his play... He told me after the performance that they would be available this Friday (Feb 22nd).<br />
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There is something about the softly booming bass, the arcing feedback roar, the sonambulistic swells of "Homelooking," that palpably suggest a kind of elevation, or a detachment..., a striking outward for new territories, a longing for grander things, or at least just more grandness..., a full, heart-swooning kind of ambient song that fills up any room that tries to contain it. At times, I felt like I was floating within the 10x10 confines of a certain room, as though the soundwaves had attained water-like qualities; the distortion curling after the chorus, the haunting synthesizers shuttering like curtains. I found myself forgetting to take every third breath. There is something about the softness and the ominousness, that makes me believe that Tochnik has a quiet and quaking ambition to use this music to only push his stage show further.<br />
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I only regret that I lost my programme from that night. It was seven pages worth about the play, with lyrics, credits, and thank-yous, that also included a diagram of the Tonsle Estate, it's unique layout; sort of a prepper on where we would be moving, with the performers/directors, throughout the night. But I'm still smitten with the music.... The Power of New Money; some kind of ambient-post-rock trip, threaded by croony, vibratto-heavy vocals that would phase in and out of a fuzzed-distortion, and a crisp, lilting lullaby.<br />
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I won't be surprised if this play is never seen again. Though I know there's intentions to create it elsewhere. The songs will haunt me, sublimely, for a while... And now, you'll get to hear them yourself. I keep returning to the disco-beat and curiously cadenced bass of the title track, "Power of New Money...," where <a href="https://soundcloud.com/trevtochnik">Tochnik</a> sings "...we surrendered..." That's how it felt, as the spell of the songs was cast, and as Trev, the actor, took on each song's evocation, through his eyes, and his stare. At what point, he left me asking myself, do we catch ourselves...., to keep from surrendering? Or are we complicit, and even enjoying the psychic and emotive forfeiture....<br />
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Thank you to everyone who stopped by this site. Thank you to everyone who read these words. Thank you to every artist who sat down with me over some coffee to chat. Thank you to everyone who let me listen to an album a week before it came out, so that I could string together a small tidal wave of emotions and adjectives onto these digital pages.<br />
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I have only glimpsed what might have been only a modest impact that this blog had... But, being uncertain of its sustained necessity, I am using this post to put a period on it all. The 2,100 or so posts that stretch back over the decade are all blips that fall together to form a grander collage... Not only a capturing of contemporary Detroit music history, such as it was, but telling the story of a kid who grew into his 30's and held onto that mad inspiration, held on to the enthusiasm he found at live shows and the modest transcendence offered in deep album dives, with headphones...<br />
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As I said, it's not a sad day, or a sad post, because I'll be writing over at WDET.org, or ecurrent.com, or via Local Spins in Grand Rapids, or maybe somewhere else... But this blog did bring me some joy, so it's bittersweet to move on... I hope it brought you some joy, too. Don't let the music you listen to ever recede into the background. That was the whole point of this blog. It's listening, rather than hearing. And I don't know what else to say or write... But here are 40 songs that have meant a lot to me, as I've updated this blog throughout the years. Some songs are older, some are newer. And there are at least 40 more, 80 more, that just didn't happen to be on this streaming platform..., which I regret. But anyway.... Wherever you go next, listen closely... Start a dialogue with the music.<br />
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OpenLIVE is a hardware and software solution that adds to Grove's internet of things solutions to great rehearsal spaces for musicians of all stripes. OpenLIVE allows artists to quickly create an account in 60 seconds, book their session on Grove's website and then book their recording time. Then, all they have to do is show up, perform and rehearse. Minutes later, you get a recording. The artist could either release it right there and then, on their bandcamp page, or just keep it as a demo.<br />
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OpenLIVE comes from an Australian company, and this Ypsi location is one of only three venues in the United States offering it to clientele/artists. You'll get free access to OpenLIVE if you book Grove's "deluxe room." (They also have a "classic room," with just the basics, PA, guitar, bass amps, drum kit). If you want to utilize Grove, it's not like you have to pay monthly dues or rent out a space... There are peak, and off-peak times, with rates ranging from $15-$25 per hour. You can book time online, and <a href="https://grovestudios.space/gift-vouchers/">there's 24/7 access</a>, available, if you'd like to be a Resident, rather than an hourly renter. You can see some promotional offers currently running on their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/grovestudios1">Facebook page. </a><br />
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So you can essentially think of this dynamic web app as having Hal 9000 recording you as you work, and then wrapping it all up for you once you're done. "We want artists to control their own content," said co-founder Rick Coughlin. "We just want to support making the means of accessing great content for them easy and affordable.<br />
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There is so much more that just two humans can manifest, musically...and yet still present as minimal. No, minimal's not the right word, it's just what you're compelled to write after you see two people locking in to a variety of grooves (danceable, funky, spacey, strutting, psychedelic, soulful), but shuffled into tempos that aren't in a hurry, but also aren't stagnant. With <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/www.car33r.club/">Career Club</a>, you could be hearing bass from a synthesizer, an electric guitar that's been looped, vocals that arc across a range of notes that are veiled by just a touch of distorting reverb, walking beats from live kits that know just when to fill in, or you might notice that a video-gamey-new-wavy sample is the perfect ambiance for a wordless vibrato incantation.<br />
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Oh, and about those loops. If your ears are filled by the minimal magic that Leah Barnett and Mark Sleeman are conjuring up there on stage, you might not immediately notice that you're being entranced, more than anything, by repetition. Like the pocket watch pendulum swinging, the ambiance is in, as I said, the incantation, the spell is cast by driving it home, and then driving it home again...<br />
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Fittingly, I'm writing this right before Groundhog Day--a holiday known for resulting in elevated ennui for a season but for which also is tied to an existential dark comedy about being in a loop. My longwinded point here, if I could circle back around, is that their very name, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/career.club/">Career Club</a>, is a dig at the certain business-day choreography that lots of us fall into, the same reply-all, cc'ed, action-item, vision-statement patterns that could be surreal when analyzed at a distance... And so, Barnett and Sleeman are analyzing that choreography..., musically.<br />
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Fest, so about 1 year ago... Can you tell me a bit of the origin story,
how this band got started...?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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met in high school but didn’t start playing music together until <i>just</i> after
our senior year during the summer of 2008. We were geeked about the Line6 DL4
loop pedal and wanted to make our sound seem bigger than just the two of us.
Once we introduced a second DL4, our sound as Career Club was born as we were
each able to do multiple things at once. Almost every time we’ve worked on some
type of musical endeavor, either solo or together, we’ve recorded each of those
sessions on our phones – so now we’ve accrued about 10 years’ worth of musical
data! It’s incredible to have this bank of recordings to pull material from,
and this is how our current live show setup has come to fruition. We’re able to
turn to our voice memos and say, “yea, I like this part” or, “let’s shorten
this loop” which allows for us to make something old feel new and fresh for our
current shows.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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good friend Augusta Morrison of Neue Haus Booking asked us to play a show in
March 2018 so we utilized that deadline to curate a lineup of tunes. Our first
live show (and each gig since then) has been the same set-up as our basement
sessions: we always play side-by-side. This configuration allows us to support
each other and embrace our sound as one fluid machine rather than separate cogs
spread around a stage. We also like the idea of allowing the audience to watch
all of our steps along the way, and both of us being near each other/the crowd
is a necessary part of our show. We like being able to see and feel our
audience’s reactions and we’re so thankful for everyone who’s been along for
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Your the first band I've seen that's brought a
media cart up on stage... but it's practical! ...Still, can you talk about the
songwriting/song-creation process...? Are you pre-recording things to trigger later when the song's done live? What's
the most challenging (or maybe fun?) aspects of this process?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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writing process usually stems from a guitar loop or key melody, maybe even some
howling, and then we build on top of that. Leah sits at the drums with her
guitar and I stand at the A.V. cart behind the mic and keyboard to start an
improv session. This ends up resulting in a track that we can fine tune and
perform live. Once we’ve reached a certain momentum on a tune, we’ll generally
know if it’s going to make it to the next stage: ...performance level... – and it’s
so exciting to try out new things for an audience, even if it’s just a few days
old!. Every loop is done live, which is both the most challenging and exciting
aspect of Career Club. The whole process is fluid with a structure we attempt
to follow each time we hit the stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>Leah: </b>...and the
AV cart isn’t only just functional but it’s also an integral component in the
theme of Career Club – we like the idea of using everyday objects that one
might use in school or an office and placing them elsewhere. We’re constantly
poking fun at, and playing with the phrase “...don’t take your work home with you” …
but what if you go to a dive bar and see an A.V. cart up on stage? How would
you feel if you saw an office in the sand one freezing morning on Belle Isle?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or at a coffeeshop, what kind of music you make or to describe your band...what
would you say? Or what have you actually already said in the past?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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consider ourselves to be pop! It’s really hard to put in a box – we like simple
yet complex and catchy layers. We like to reverse and reduce our loops to half
tempo for some variety to the hypnotic and repetitious grooves. Our music
sounds like when you win at solitaire and all the cards flash across the
screen, the delicious eating scenes in <i>Erin Brokovich</i> and/or <i>Selena</i>, and Burbank
California’s dive bar the Blue Room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I feel compelled to mention bands like River
Spirit or Double Winter, in terms of local reference points...in that, just
like CC, I can't put it into a box, or one set genre category... Can you talk
about any bands, be they local or other contemporaries or from the past that
you've drawn influences from, and what it is about what they did that inspired
you?</i> </span><br />
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Winter & River Spirit make us weep! We fondly admire Ween, R. Stevie
Moore, the B-52s, and Britney Spears to name just a FEW, too. Our obsession
with highly produced tracks and the endearing quality of lo-fi home recordings is inter-meshed in how we think about our music and, eventually, how our future
recordings will hopefully turn out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Leah: </b>We hope to have ourselves a little tour,
get some recordings onto the world wide web, and crank out some video projects
along the way this coming year. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our
friendship started with our love for music and to be able to play and create
together is something truly out of our wildest dreams… ....oh, we’ve gotta go …
our boss is asking us to use the T4 Server for the data files and percentages …
all we have is a TI-89 calculator for the projections …</span></div>
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The Hamtramck Music Festival starts on Thursday, March 7<br />More than 200 local bands<br />25 venues across the City of Hamtramck</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Venues featuring Bands during HMF</span> </div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/WerewolvesTheBand/">Werewolves </a>combine the menace of metal and the aggressive dynamics of post-punk, but never sacrifice a groove. Not that this is groovy music, per se, above all else it's gritty and guttural first, but there is always an undeniable hook, something like the rhythmic rollick of a rickety boat down some unforgiving rapids. The Stooges had this down when they threaded a steady ballad around that one riff for "Wanna Be Your Dog...," and it's similar with this Flint ensemble's new one "Places To Die."<br />
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Yes, it's not exactly a sunny-listen shining in the major key, but something about it trances you in you suddenly start deciphering the emotional language of intense/half-screaming vocalizations. To be a werewolf, anyhow, is to be in a state of surrender to the ferocities inside you that want to come out... Thus...<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2466397406708552/">we have a new batch of songs coming out </a>that fit that aesthetic.<br />
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There's nuance amid the sturm and drang, like when "Seen Mine Light" brings in a bit of slick 70's rock riffs to open it up, albeit sped up to a tempo of near-terminal velocity. The bass gets your legs loose, the downbeat makes you leave your feet, the guitar riffs unlock your shoulders, and the vocals, again, tap into that wild abandon...because even if this is heavy, fast, or intense, it still taps into what rock n roll should be all about...detachment, and a bit of permissible destructiveness.<br />
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<a href="http://werewolves.band/path-streaming/">Werewolves</a> are at Small's Bar on Saturday, Feb 2nd, for the release of their latest: <i>Path</i><br />
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Music is not a casual thing for <a href="http://steffchris.com/biography/">Steffanie Christi'an</a>. Melody, tonality, indelible choruses..., she has exceptional technique as any other artist, but few will reach her all-or-nothing exigency. When you hear Christi'an on a record, be it <i>It's Complicated </i>or <i>Way Too Much, </i>you get the feeling that you are in the studio with her, that this is live, that this is real, that this is urgent, that nothing else matters but this song, this next note... It freezes you, this power that she exerts, and it's a graceful berserker mode, an elegant ferocity, from the tenderness of soul to the coarser propulsion of rock.<br />
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Presence is the word. That dynamic voice doesn't so much demand full attention, but soars and envelops any space, be it a club of a few dozen or an unceilinged festival in a park full of hundreds to thousands. She keeps that fiery energy on each recording, but it naturally thrives on a stage. She's been making music all her life, strongly intent on following whatever muse she chooses...and that muse is usually inclined to rock n roll, which we'll talk about here.<br />
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<b><i><a href="https://soundcloud.com/steffchris">It's Complicated</a> </i>is completed, and coming out at the end of next month.Tell me about those songs and what the creation process and recording experiences were like..., and how they might be distinguished from the previous release, <i>Out of Time....</i></b><br />
<b>Steffanie Christi'an: </b>Ahhhhh. <i>It’s Complicated</i> is the musical baby birthed by myself and Dean <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EvryMusic/">Beanz</a>. It is my first full-length LP and I couldn't be happier for people to finally hear it. It has been a labor of love and I am very proud of it in its entirety. <i>Out of Time</i> and <i>It’s Complicated</i> are completely different while still both very good in their own right. All but 1 of the 4 songs on <i>Out of Time</i> were recorded with my old band <b>FluxPhonic</b> and we had never properly released those songs. Even though the band is no longer together, it was important to me that those songs still had the opportunity to be heard. In all honesty, I have been recording songs for <i>It’s Complicated</i> since like 2010. When Dean Beanz and I started working together we were just vibing and creating. It wasn’t until much later that we decided to move forward and create an album. He is an awesome creative all the way around from marketing, design, production and songwriting. He is a one-stop shop if you know what I mean. We just work and write very well together and I feel lucky that we found each other. In short though, It’s Complicated, with every song, encapsulates every fiber of my being.<br />
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<b>The New Year has begun.... when you look back on the last couple years..., getting to perform at those events for Aretha Franklin, doing the Thanksgiving Day Parade, putting out the album, what are your big takeaways? Or, are you one to look forward, look back, live in the moment?</b><b>SC: </b>Around a year or so ago, I wasn’t sure how it was going to happen but I decided that it was time that I start performing at more high caliber shows and to be honest, it just started to happen. Touring with <b><a href="http://www.taylormac.org/">Taylor Mac</a></b> for two years didn’t hurt either. Performing with him also gave me a lot of confidence to develop my <a href="https://rollingout.com/2016/11/19/steffanie-christian-gives-nice-rough/">Tina Turner tribute show.</a> Whatever the case, the past two years showed me that I can accomplish whatever it is I want as long as I put the work in. It’s counterproductive to doubt my talent. To be honest, I believe I live in a combination of all three. Whichever situation lends itself best to my sanity at that time, is the one I live according too.<br />
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<b>You've got some dates coming up in the summer that take you out of the states and across the pond. Can you talk about what it's like to perform for audiences outside of the states? And how any of those shows on tour compare to a hometown show here in Detroit?</b><br />
<b>SC: </b>I have the honor of touring as their vocalist with Detroit’s own techno pioneers, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Inner-City-Detroit-Techno-693860480669978/">Inner City</a>, to celebrate their 30 year anniversary. I just love performing in general. The stage is where my heart is and it is always so exciting but also nerve-wrecking to perform in front of audiences outside of the states. While the audience may love the show, there just may be cultural differences and they don’t react the same way someone in the states would. It’s not a good or a bad thing. Just different. I don’t think I am going to have that problem on this tour though because fans coming to these shows know exactly what they are coming to get. And every stop on this tour loves techno and loves Kevin Saunderson. I’m going to be icing on the cake. It’s always great performing in front of a Detroit audience. They are always interactive and you can feel the love. It’s been great watching people sing my songs from the stage. Really, really, great.<br />
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<b>SC: </b>My mom loves all types of music and she had me at 15 so when she was going to all these different concerts she totally brought me along. Since I was a little girl, I have seen it all and live music has always resonated with me. I also watched the birth of MTV and I was glued to the television. Once I saw the video for Private Dancer by Tina Turner I knew what I wanted to do and she showed me how to do it. I actually built my stage presence through performing traditional West Afrikan dance all throughout from middle school until I was in my twenties with different dance groups here in Detroit. When I first started to professionally write and record songs, it was just me and a guitar. The first time I recorded with a full band something seriously happened inside of me. I came alive. I changed in that studio and my voice and presence has never been the same. On that note, I’m super socially awkward and when I’m on stage, I can be whomever I want and all that awkwardness goes right out the window. I guess at the end of the day, I could say being on stage is a total release. When I’m on stage, my alter ego Grace Guns is the one you’re seeing.<br />
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<b>SC: </b>I have been asked this question before and it’s such a conundrum because I just find it ridiculous that it even has to be asked! Rock music doesn’t belong to anyone and if you want to get technical, we all know who invented Rock and Roll. Music is universal and I just find it disheartening when ANYONE feels put into a box. Rock music is not a gimmick for me. My mother was punk rocker with a purple mohawk and wore safety pins as earrings and yes she was black! I grew up listening to The Clash, Sex Pistols, Aerosmith, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zepplin and many others. It’s just who I am and I’ll be damned if anyone thinks they can tell me what kind of music I can enjoy or create because of the color of my skin.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Chloë</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span>guitar riffs are like a series of tiny explosions, a sustained roil that scintillates through the distortion to augment the rhythms of the drum and bass. It's like the grooved treads of a dirt-bike wheel, revved to near-dangerous velocities and grinding through the mud and soil and splaying it everywhere. It's the coiled foam of a wave that crests off a fiberglass surfboard that's turned at the last second from perilous rocks. It's driving. It instills the urge to stomp one's foot, to flex any muscle, to furrow your brow with a cool catharsis and shake your head to the beat...<br />
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Trying out a new music series where I check in with a different local artist every Friday... It won't matter if they've got something new coming out, or if they do or don't have a show on the horizon. We're just gonna talk! And we're starting off with an artist who I think is going to have an amazing year/future..., <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jayeprime/">Jaye Prime! </a></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">That’s why I plan to let
Jaye Prime do most of the talking here..., but not before we take a listen to
her latest single, “Rollin”...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">What I might have found unclassifiable
in the first paragraph might be a natural reaction to an artist who has gone
beyond defining her life by a type of music and has instead defined herself
from a perch that poises her at the periphery of all music. She first caught my
ear more than two years ago when Assemble Sound produced her single, “Lucid...,”
and that’s an affecting title, apt to capture her multifaceted abilities for
threading evocative melodies over beat arrangements that forge lyrics of a
crystalline reflection, an aural echo of what she encounters, a contemplative cut
to the bone expression to capture an experience..., like the lucid surface of
water, mirroring back whatever moods, meetings or muses she encounters and
coming to her own resolutions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Jaye Prime grew up on the
Westside of Detroit; her parents were both in the local entertainment industry.
She followed up that aforementioned 2016 single with an album in 2017, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Facing, </i>a conceptual production of
forthright confessionals and proclamations stemming from the experience of
smoking alone. Along with several collaborations over the past two years, she released
“Rollin’” in early December. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br />What would you consider one of your most formative moments as an artist?
What made it clear that you’d be pursuing music, songwriting, lyricism...? <br />
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I didn’t grow up in
a place where you saw people pursuing music as a real career or a true
foundation for what your mark will be as a person in this life. So, for me it’s
every interaction I have with supporters. Every conversation I have with
stranger telling me my music got them through something or they can’t wait to
see me blow up. I’ve always loved music. My parents love music. For lack of
better words, I am music. But seeing something I can’t live without, something
that I know in my soul I’m meant to do, be a light in someone else’s life, that
pushes me to keep going as professional artist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /><br />You’ve steadily carved out your own space over the last two years, blurring
between any boundary of genre or categorization. What distinguishes your
approach to songwriting, or just your whole creative process...? <br />
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Finding my “space”
in the world of music is interesting - essentially it’s all vibrations..., so
everything I put out is really just energy that’s been poured into me. I
wouldn’t consider myself ‘a hip-hop artist’ at all..., i just like my drums
banging. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">FACING</i> is actually more of a
reflection of me musically than anything else I’ve done so far & I’m
getting better with portraying my mental state musically. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My creative process is still
developing. I started out recording alone, in a closet; just doing everything
in solitude. But my music is a part of me, so now I feel the need to be
involved in all aspects, which makes it all more genuine, more personal. As far
as being distinctive from any other traditional approach...? ... I really don’t
believe that’s a real thing. Everyone has their freaky ways in the studio: it’s
just about finding someone with waves that’s on the same frequency as you, at
least for that moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /><br />I wouldn’t ask if there’s any formula, per se, but are there certain
elements, certain moods/feels, or even a message/emotion in the lyrics..., that
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">have </i>to be there before it feels like
a Jaye Prime song? Is it a complete openness to experimentation or following
wherever a muse takes you? <br />
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I don’t usually
think about my lyrics initially. I have to get comfortable in the session; almost
wanna have some house shoes on & get everybody laughing, feeling like
they’re at the crib. If I’m not comfortable, I struggle to not over think...
But once I’m comfortable enough to get going, I focus heavy on having the right
production before I get into actual “writing”. I’m more into melody first then
the words kinda come on their own. I review after I record & see if it
aligns with what I may want for the track. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I don’t set expectations for
my songs anymore & I’ve made it a point to not worry about writing. If I
can remember a song without writing it down, it’s because it feels good to me.
That’s what I want & I want you to feel good as a listener. I just go with
what feels good. I came up with “Nimbus” when I was driving to work. Wherever I
feel it, whatever it’s coming from, I try to embrace it. Good music is just
innovated energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /><br />Are there any artists, contemporaries around the Detroit music scene, that
you’ve drawn inspiration from...? <br />
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Detroit’s music
scene is outrageous - there’s so much that it’s low-key overwhelming sometimes.
But recently, I’ve been putting in a lot of work to get back into my live
instrumentation bag. I play the trumpet so the jazz scene has been giving me
real good vibes lately. One specifically is Ian Fink. I’m really into jazz so
seeing someone from my city, close to my age & freaking the genre in their
own way like he does super hype.<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2019 has only really just begun... What’s the future hold? <br />
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My plans really consist
of becoming a better artist. Just educating myself in business, practicing
theory, studying those that’s been doing this long before I knew what it was.
As for music, I have a band called PPT & us playing live is a priority for
me so I definitely plan on having more shows. I’ve also been sitting on a good
amount of music for some time now so I may drop some grooves here & there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As I've done before, I'll emphasize that no list can be comprehensive. I've collected 112 songs released by 112 individual artists from around Detroit (and Michigan). The point wasn't to pick favorites, but to just emphasize how much talent and creativity continues to surge from within the walls, lofts, basements, studios and garages of the cities and suburbs around this state...albeit, primarily on this blog, the SE corner...<br />
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Here's to a great year. Looking forward to the sounds of 2019, already<br />
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featuring<br />
Ancient Language<br />
Apollo Brown<br />
Aston Neighborhood Pleasure Club<br />
The Band Mint<br />
Brother Elsey<br />
Brother Hallow<br />
Child Bite<br />
Cousin Mouth<br />
Dani Darling<br />
Emily Rose<br />
Fred Thomas<br />
The Go Rounds<br />
Gold Crayon<br />
HandGrenades<br />
Jack & The Bear <br />
Joe Jaber<br />
King-V<br />
LXL (Large Extra Large)<br />
MotorKam<br />
P8tience<br />
Peace to Mateo<br />
Protomartyr<br />
Saajtak<br />
Shigeto<br />
Stef Chura<br />
Strange Heart<br />
Theatre Bizarre Orchestra<br />
Vazum<br />
White Bee<br />
Whitey Morgan<br />
Young Punk<br />
Zander Michigan Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135384624235487380.post-465243639987770872018-11-27T03:00:00.000-08:002018-11-27T05:07:49.835-08:00Aston Neighborhood Pleasure Club<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All music should have this much character and pizazz, verve and brio! The players of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AstonNeighborhoodPC/?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser">Aston Neighborhood Pleasure Club</a> infuse piques of emotions from across the spectrum, whether its hearted-eyes longing, hot-time-in-the-ol-town-tonight-rowdy spunk, wistful bittersweetness or boisterous celebration. You could almost qualify their classic jazz strains as soul music, in that it has <i>a </i>soul...with the way the music seems to literally come alive (even on an album) and start strutting, skidoo-ing, or jiving across the room in front of you--if not, than it compels the listener to unlock their own bodies and start wobbling about with a less-tamed ebullience.<br />
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The Ferndale-area ensemble specialize in trad-jazz vibes with a distinctly New Orleans flavor, blending in a mix of folk, country and Americana with clarinets, saxophones, trombones, and vocals, brushes and washboards, selmer/django-style guitars, the charming baritone booms of upright bass and tuba and all those signature timbres (old-timey front desk call-bells!!) that we associate with juke joints, piano bars, speakeasys, big easy's, and even, sometimes, ballrooms. It might be a music, you'd think, that would be best experienced LIVE. This is hot-off-the-skillet kind of music, so we want to ideally feel the fire of it, even if its a more downtempo waltzer... WELL then, best to capture that lightning into a proverbial album's bottle by-way-of releasing <a href="https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/theastonneighborhoodpleasurecl?fbclid=IwAR1XN8cPJA7y7aPcmMjJjTvPXgaRwIhdKe-rGhD4nvDghea2tMRD_WhwoYg">a batch of recordings caught on the fly at Howe's Bayou.</a> The ANPC players are all pretty much lifers in the jazz, dixie, and big-band music traditions, so it's no surprise that you could sit them down in an otherwise crowded space with main drag traffic whooshing by behind them and have them nail all these jams in one take.<br />
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The ANPC will celebrate perform a release party for their new album at Otus Supply in Ferndale. The energetic, flamboyant, theatrical, and swooning songs you'll hear on this album were recorded just down the street from Otus, at Howe's Bayou. You'll find covers like "Corinna, Corinna," and "Midnight, the Stars, and You," as well as some originals that fuse right into the traditional-sounding vibe, with a bit of a fresh contemporary kick and a flourish that could only come about through the collaboration of these inventive, music-loving minds. Meet the the Club at Otus Supply this Thursday.....<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/846741288856986/">Otus Supply and Grand Circus Media present: The Aston Neighborhood Pleasure Club</a><br />
Thursday, November 29, 2018<br />
The Parliament Room at Otus Supply<br />
8:00 PM Doors / 21+<br />
$10/15<br />
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featuring<br />
ADULT.<br />
Doogatron<br />
Drew Denton<br />
DUANE<br />
False Figures<br />
Girl Fight<br />
Heavy Color<br />
J. Walker & the Crossguards<br />
Jamie Norte<br />
Jay Daniel<br />
Jaye Prime<br />
Jenny & Jackie<br />
Jo Rad Silver<br />
Louis Picasso & the Gallery<br />
Mango Lane<br />
Mega Powers & Jade Lathan<br />
Mike Gentry<br />
My Girlfriend Beru<br />
The Old Adage<br />
Rogue Satellites<br />
SLOB<br />
The Stools<br />
Summer Like The Season<br />
Throwaway<br />
Waajeed<br />
Will Sessions<br />
YAKUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135384624235487380.post-7571154175518186482018-11-21T05:00:00.000-08:002018-11-21T05:00:05.362-08:00Best of 2018 (pt 2) Detroit/Michigan Music<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Apropos<br />
Britney Stoney<br />
Chris Orrick<br />
Chris Richards & the Subtractions<br />
Crimson Alchemist<br />
Deadbeat Beat<br />
Eddie Logix<br />
Extra Arms<br />
Flint Eastwood<br />
The Gasoline Gypsies<br />
HandGrenades<br />
Holly Bernt Band<br />
Jonathan Franco<br />
JUNGLEFOWL<br />
Kimball<br />
Mega Powers<br />
Native Howl<br />
Nick Piunti & the Complicated Men<br />
Primer<br />
Savage Seven<br />
Seth Bernard / Van Lente<br />
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South South Million<br />
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So, tomorrow, I'm posting another 28 songs released by Detroit-area or Michigan-based artists in 2018, and while it appears under the guise of a "Best Of" or "Favorites" list, I shy away from those words and emphasize, especially with this post, that it isn't comprehensive. No list can be comprehensive. But, what's most important to remember as you potentially skim some of the other forthcoming playlists tomorrow is that they are all Spotify experiments....and limited somewhat, as such.<br />
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I have just as many mixed feelings (and often quite dubious feelings) about this streaming platform, so I'm not endorsing it in anyway. However, at the end of the proverbial day, it's a means of framing a substantial amount of music in digestible and (inevitably) highly accessible means for you or for anyone else visiting this site with curiosities of exploring music made by Michiganders.<br />
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BUT........ Today... I'll be postings some of my favorite, yes favorite, songs by artists who have a presence on the Internet, yes..., (because that's just a necessity for forging a career in the arts...,) but who do not have music up on Spotify. It isn't mandatory, folks. Here are some bandcamp shoutouts...<br />
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<a href="https://betsysoukup.bandcamp.com/">Betsy Soukup - This Disquiet</a><br />
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<a href="https://sovietgirls.bandcamp.com/">Soviet Girls - Think Back</a><br />
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<a href="https://doublewinter.bandcamp.com/">Double Winter - Oxen's Eye</a><br />
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<a href="https://satinstone.bandcamp.com/track/your-own-way">Satin Stone - Your Own Way</a><br />
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<a href="https://sleepology.bandcamp.com/">Sleepology - Career</a><br />
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<a href="https://zzvava.bandcamp.com/">Zzvava - Mutable Moons</a><br />
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The High Strung - If You Wanna Roll<br />
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This isn't the first time that singer/songwriter Jim Cherewick has been part of a certain music project that sneaks out new material toward the end of a calendar year... He's done it before with a post-punk group known as Congress. Beautiful stuff comes from this raspy voiced warbler...And this time, he's hooked up with songwriter Joel Parkilla of an Ann Arbor based band, Human Skull..., another comparatively low key group that forgoes flashy social media presence and instead just rolls up to spots like Ziggy's, the 3rd Death Star, or the Trumbullplex, and lays down some gnarly strain of aerodynamic indie-rock. My ears are always peeled for whatever these two are going to do next, and they're true to form by just sort of setting this terrific and tender 8-song album out on the endtable of the Internet and shuffling away before I can tackle them with appreciation. <a href="https://falsefigures.bandcamp.com/releases">It's False Figures.</a><br />
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There's something about both of their voices to where I can't put my admiration into words without sounding off-putting... But there is an undeniably poignant frogginess to their high, creaky, but ever tuneful voices... These might be registers and intonations that the rest of us would only reach amid guttural stretches in the foggy mornings upon waking...I love the almost-diffident quaver and creak of these voices, punk-loving folk balladeers at the indie-rock honky tonk!<br />
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There is a feeling in each of their voices that won't be put into words on this blog, but it's something we've all felt...in times of bliss and dread, in times of hectic weariness and head-over-heels love. If I write about only one new album this year, it's gotta be False Figures, with Jason Lymangrover (of Hydropark) providing bass and guitar, and Cherewick/Parkilla swapping lead lyric-writing, and even covering 1 of each other's tunes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135384624235487380.post-18725914943014287042018-11-18T11:30:00.000-08:002018-11-18T11:39:18.704-08:00Latest Podcast Episode: Augusta Rose Augusta Rose is a Detroit-based artist/event-organizer/activist/violinist and much more! She is a member of the indie-rock quartet Double Winter and performs as a solo artist (Bigabite). She also runs her own booking organization known as Neue Haus. We wind up talking a lot about experimental/improvisational music!<br />
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The year-end list gets longer every year. Over my 11 years as a blogger and 15 as a music journalist, there's consistently been more output from artists based in this region year-to-year. And it's often the exercise of stepping back and surveying everything that's come out from January until December, that restores my inspiration to continue doing my best, week to week, to spill some words on this blog in hopes of "covering" this ever-burgeoning creative community...<br />
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Here's Vol 1 (of 4)<br />
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There's a certain kind of pop-rock that always sounds like its in flight. It could be as intense and angular as a jet making stunt-like maneuvers or as tender as an autumn leaf in the breeze. Local quartet <a href="https://www.strangeheartmusic.com/">Strange Heart</a> usually evoke a gliding sense of the former, but the vocals and lyrics particularly infuse their lithe and layered jams with arena-rock-sized emotional import. On their new album,<i> Sinking Ships,</i> the energy of the arrangements is definitely intent on raising vessels and travelers back up above the waterline and possibly ascending them even further, restoring oxygen, launching back towards warming and healing sunrays and eventually carrying them back to shore. </div>
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Joshua Clemens (lead vocals/guitar) and Bryce Carrol-Coe (lead guitar/vocals) each returned to the Mitten from individual stints of time spent on the west coast. Before forming Strange Heart, each had some significant (and in Clemens' case, tragic) events happen in their lives: Carrol-Coe had received a life-saving heart transplant the prior year, while Clemens suffered the loss of two of his sisters to cancer. Carrol-Coe was eager to make some music upon his return and connected with Clemens--and this was just as Clemens was also looking for some much needed catharsis-by-way-of songwriting. </div>
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While Clemens heartfelt and earnest lyrics capture the weary and wrenching road back from not just severe loss, but also his seven years away from home (Detroit), Carrol-Coe similarly threads a palpably reinvigorated life into his post-rock, almost-math-rock-like guitar lines. But the propulsive energy I'm responding to is also in part due to the rhythm section of former collaborators of Clemens--Mike Schneider (on bass) and bobby Jankowski (drums).<i> Sinking Ships</i> rises towards resilience, by way of blending a soulful Americana sound with an aerodynamic indie-rock. </div>
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Release party for Strange Heart's<i> Sinking Ships</i> is Friday, Nov 30 at the Loving Touch<br />
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The first "new" recording I'll play for you is actually one year old (to the day).<a href="https://patoypato.bandcamp.com/"> Pato Y Pato</a> is a "new" band that actually started a couple years ago as an experimental recording project - an adventure into ambient techno and dark/minimal krautrock, conjured by local musicians John Duffy and Mark Maynard. The track we have below captures the characteristic ominous-yet-centering, post-apocalyptically-calming, zen-dread of their harmonious synth conjurings.<br />
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<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/242325536465506/">Pato Y Pato perform on Friday, Nov 30 at PJs Lager House. </a></i><br />
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Up next, it's the techno/funk/hip-hop hybridist Motorkam. We featured Motorkam more than a year ago<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/09/07/motorkam-preview-dally-in-the-alley/635976001/"> in The Detroit Free Press</a> as a way of introducing audiences on this side of the state to a motivated and inventive new talent that had ignited within the Kalamazoo music scene. He's called Detroit home now for the last 18 months, and he just dropped a new album, a sequel to last year's <i>Black Daddy, </i>titled <i>Being Daddy Ain't Easy. </i>The lyricist/producer otherwise known as Kameron Potts (Motorkam), follows in the traditions of Ziggy Stardust, Dr. Funkenstein and Cybotron, in musically embodying a character to amplify and stack the energy and arrangements of his 3-minute sonic smorgasbords that sound like cosmic house music. Then again, this is the type of music that, as soon you try to categorize it, breaks free and runs farther, climbs the next staircase, or burrows to some other corner of the underground.<br />
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<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/MotorKam313/">Follow Motorkam for updates on future performances</a></i><br />
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Copper Thieves are up next. Just like Pato Y Pato, they don't have "new" music, but in a similar way, it would still be "new" to you... The trio of local rock vets put out an album at the very end of 2017 - but day jobs and engagements with other music projects tied them up and kept them from doing some proper local gigging to support that record. CT was never out to reinvent the wheel, in terms of guitar rock, they just wanted to refine it, create some sweet melodies, and find a deeper focus toward crafting some damn good indie/power-pop ballads, while also dropping more than a few poignant and contemplative lyrics reflecting on life's wild journey.<br />
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<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2334633283425414/">Copper Thieves are opening up for Jeremy Porter and the Tucos (a 7" Release Party) at PJs Lager House. </a></i><br />
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Next, we jump back into the ambient/experimental realms, similar to Pato Y Pato, with <a href="https://joradsilver.bandcamp.com/track/bx-bureau">Jo Rad Silver</a>. This is the solo sonic adventures of Jonah Radnus-Silverstein, a key part of the vanguard of Detroit's experimental music renaissance by way of noise-exploring bands like YAK and his work as a music-melder with Assemble Sound. He's also been curating live events for similarly unbounded and futuristic music at Donovan's (Technically, Yeah); the most recent of which served as a listening party for this, his new album, S.E.T. (Superhero Elevator Techno). What resonates most with me is how his compositions evoke a sense of being carried away--the material world disolving and some new technicolor/ultraviolet world manifesting around you as the intricate arrangement of percussive elements propels you forward. Then you listen closer, and closer, and realize that a human is tweakign something, pitch-shifting that tone, modulating another sound and then adding melodic guitars, all in this 5 minute fever, two corporeal hands and one active brain behind all the sounds of the machines. It's beautiful.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/joradsilver/events">The next'Technically, Yeah' is scheduled for Dec 6th stay tuned, here, for updates. </a><br />
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Ambient/neo-techno producer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/jaydaniel313/events/?ref=page_internal">Jay Daniel</a> also just dropped new material, a full-length album titled <i>TALA. </i>Just as transfixing as some of the other ambient-composers listed above, but infused with a bit of psychedelic funk and spaze-jazz, Daniel fuses smooth tones and calming melodies over frenetic beats, with sporadic eruptions of gnarly-toned synths. In a track like "Qalbi, its beautifully mixed so that you're conscious of each element and its subtle coalescing into this calm-yet-furtive odyssey...to where you feel it when those droning synths at the bottom drop away, or when they crest over like a tidal wave towards its conclusion....<br />
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<i><a href="https://www.songkick.com/concerts/35873009-danny-brown-at-masonic-temple-roller-rink?utm_source=1471&utm_medium=partner">Jay Daniel joins Danny Brown's Brusier Thanksgiving lineup next week. </a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135384624235487380.post-29687136042796097492018-11-09T05:22:00.001-08:002018-11-09T05:22:36.349-08:00Mark Whalen & the Buttermilk Boys <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wish I could boil it down for you, but you're just going to have to listen... ...While our geopolitics may continue to be rife with primitive, regressive and preposterously backward strains of anti-discourse, I'm happy to announce that our musicians, particularly Detroit-based songwriter/singer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/markwhalendetroit/">Mark Whalen</a>, are substantially evolving and if not pushing boundaries, blurring disparate stylistic territories together into an ultravioletly verdant Pangaea of sleekly exotic and spicily quirky charms that still produce in instantaneous pop-familiarity amidst an alien and magical-sounding sonic terrain.<br />
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What I mean is..., you can detect the ingredients of indie-rock as much as you could jazz-lounge or space-age pop, surfy neo-psychedelia or jangly indie-rock, or just some kind of new-new wave that is so new it's not even near the shores yet. It's disco from Pluto, it's dreamy-prog from the astral planes, it's Whalen manifesting the untethered possibilities of his vision onto a record...Or, if you've peeked <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1898835463503250/">the event page</a> for the release party of the new album by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/markwhalen">Mark Whalen and the Buttermilk Boys</a>, then you can get an even deeper sense of what to anticipate by reading the invitation's encouragement to "...wear your best 70's disco outfit." That being stated, I hear so many avenues explored in Whalen's newest songs that it doesn't feel throwback so much as it's boomeranged into the future--it might start with disco, but it arcs out, sideways, forward, and then back again, picking up a range of genres and especially a nuanced blend of tones.<br />
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...yes, tones...tones and groove. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/markwhalendetroit/">Whalen's </a>knack is modulating an effectively serene but spacey sounding tone with guitars and synths, while also arranging mid tempo (or even meditatively slowed tempo) rhythms that you can't help but dance to..., sway to, nod-to, float-away to... Even if you were walking (with headphones) to his song "Mother Bird," you'd have to resist the song's ability to compel you into a shuffle, into a bit of a shoulder-arcing, head-swiveling cadence. It's the groove that keeps you ambulating, dancing, advancing, exploring. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/markwhalen">Whalen and the Buttermilk Boys</a> might dig disco, but it's not a fashion statement, or reverting to the past, it's more about charting a course and using those grooves as a launchpad.<br />
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<u>The new album comes out November 16th</u><br />
Release Party at Small's<br />
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Four years ago, in October, Bauhaus-leader and modern goth-rock pioneer<a href="https://davidjofficial.bandcamp.com/"> David J</a>. came to town to perform an intimate and exclusive living room show. In attendance were the four members of Detroit-based experimental rock outfit Duende. The story we'll unfold in this piece is the creation of a new album that combines both Duende and David J, titled<i> Oracle of the Horizon </i><a href="https://glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/oracle-of-the-horizontal">(on Glass Modern Records)<i>.</i></a> You can attend a listening party for this momentous album on Friday, Nov 16th at the Ghost Light<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1900946299985770/"> INFO. </a><br />
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The album is a surge to the senses, a fever-dream torrent of phantasmagoric sounds arranged as beautifully psychedelic nocturnes. These are waltzes for the astral planes and suites for shaken and souls...and rallying cries for the weird wraiths wending near the backs of our minds.<br />
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But back to that living room show...<br />
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Now, around Detroit, Halloween is a big deal. But so is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bauhaus/109194179106090">Bauhaus</a>! Several psychedelic-shredders and garage-geeks that make up the local music scene here are big fans of David J., and you know we're all rocking "Bela Lugosi's Dead," when October comes around. Fatefully, that October night of four years ago found not only Duende's singer/guitarist Jeff Howitt, drummer Laura Willem, and lead guitarist Joel McCune, but also Matthew Pomroy (chief entertainment coordinator for the notoriously sensational and large-scale Halloween-masquerade known as Theatre Bizarre), and prominent Detroit jazz musician and bandleader Joshua James....<br />
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...what happened next was David J. basically made Detroit a second home. Not only did he wind up performing at the following Theatre Bizarre, but he built a collaborative relationship with James, recording <a href="https://davidjofficial.bandcamp.com/album/carpe-noctem">an album with the Theatre Bizarre Orchestra. </a>And it just so happened that Pomroy lived right next door to Howitt and Willem... When David J. returned to town to perform with the TBO, "...we would chit chat in our adjoining backyards," Willem said. "In 2016, we played the infamous Theatre Bizarre party and David came and watched our whole set, right up front! A few days later, he messaged us and said he enjoyed it. So... we then asked him if he'd be interested in collaborating...!"<br />
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"...there was a point when we realized it wasn't going to just be one session in the studio," recalls McCune. "When David (at Damien Youth's urging) decided more songs needed to happen, and that a full record was in order, the project became larger than its members! It has definitely taken on a life of it's own, and the story isn't over yet..., I don't believe."<br />
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Bassist Scott Sanford said that Bauhaus was a huge influence on his bass playing, (he also plays lead guitar in local rock band Pewter Cub). "David is very inspiring. I can speak for myself, and I think everyone in the band, was nervous to work with him initially. After the initial jitters David made us feel very comfortable. He has a great ear production wise and really elevated the songs with his ideas for arrangements and auxiliary instrumentation."<br />
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The album art that you're peeking in that bandcamp streamer up there shows David as the character he adopted for Theatre Bizarre Orchestra:<i> M.C. Nightshade.</i> Joshua James became a contributing instrumentalist in the recording sessions for<i> Oracle.</i> "...but the first song we put together, lyrically, as 'Get Out Of My Dreams,'" recalled Howitt. "...…” It’s not unlike another mythos of the Ouroboros. The snake devouring itself to create itself eternally. Damien Youth did the cover art. David had gone to New Orleans not long after our initial session with him, and it was Damien that was like, “You need to keep these songs together for an album.” David was going to use “Alice In The Windscreen” for his upcoming solo record, and the other three songs were going to be on a single or interspersed into our newly finished DUENDE! album. It’s still unreleased at the moment by the way."<br />
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Even though this was obviously going to be a distinctive project for Duende, McCune said they still developed the songs in "true Duende fashion...! An idea here, a snippet of old basement jam there, looseness, and the fearlessness required to go into the recording studio "semi prepared" and see what happens! I think 'Motor City Squeeze' and 'In the Shadow of 45' were the only finished musical ideas we took in. And we rehearsed nothing with David beforehand! Duende works very well under this kind of pressure, and David just stepped right into the fray quite naturally!"<br />
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Sanford said that they created the music for ('Get Out Of My Dreams') to fit the mood of those lyrics that Howitt and David had collaborated on via messenger. "...the rest of the album followed that initial mood. All of the music for the album was written as a group, collaboratively," said Sanford. "We created the songs at practices. Some were actually written (at least partially) years earlier while some were created specifically for the project."<br />
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But this writer, and a few others who have had some pre-release listenings have picked up on a bit a darker "shade" to the songs. "...As for the darkness of the songs," McCune said, "...sometimes the songs just develop themselves, and they wanted to be dark, brooding, introspective, even wicked at times. Oracle is not light listening, but it wasn't planned out that way."<br />
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Willem agrees that going darker wasn't intentional, or conscious. "...we just channeled the songs and opportunity," she said. McCune mentioned '<a href="https://glassmodern.bandcamp.com/track/motor-city-squeeze">Motor City Squeeze</a>,' but Willem comments further, referencing the lyrics of that song. "I think of that as David's love story of Detroit..., of the people and places." She goes on to elucidate a song like the epic title track. "...the lyrics were written by David in the 80s while he was on an acid. He requested 13 minutes of music, which we were able to provide! What I think is pretty incredible about this song is that Duende got the song in one take and then David did the vocals in one take, made me think the universe was rooting for us on that one! It sounds like we planned it. Especially, when David says “AWAKE” about halfway through the song, but it really was magic."<br />
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Howitt says that his own lyrics can be a little more symbolic, with accidental melodies. "It's more enunciatively presented, and conversationally, stream of consciousness," he said. He adds, poetically, about the experience of working with David J..."You walk into...or wake into David’s lyrics. See it! Listen to “Alice Through The Windscreen..." (which features James). "...you spend a chapter in there. You breathe with it. On this record he primarily does spoken word, except for, “Motor City Squeeze”, where he did a near spoken take, and another with almost a Joe Strummer vibe to it. I was like, “Put a little duende in there.” Leave it a bit unrestrained. Raw. With “In The Shadow Of 45”, which David plays harmonica on, and, came up with the title, after I recited the lyrics. He was like, “Now, what are you saying?”. “It’s the right time to jump off the bridge/With whatever you have/He’ll think it is/They don’t always shoot/But they don’t have to miss/Whatever you have/You better keep it hid” The notion of, it’s better to, as some First Nation peoples did, to jump off a cliff rather than give yourself to an oppressor if necessary. Rumination’s on sacrifice and dignity...!"<br />
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But to return to the perspective of, say, the guitar...a strictly musical perspective..., McCune said: "...for me there was not a lot of conscious inspiration, but more subconscious designs. Musically there wasn't a lot of pre-planning. I prefer that. It allows you to surprise yourself. There are a lot of mistakes and accidents on this record that we used to form the song structures. It allows a song to end up somewhere you never would have "written" it to go!"<br />
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David brought in not only Joshua James, but notable producer (and leader of His Name Is Alive) Warren Defever. "(Defever) came into the studio to work on the last two songs – Alice Through the Windscreen and Oracle. One of the first things he said was “You have something against bass?” We laughed. And Joshua James played saxophone (bari and tenor) and other noises. He also brought into Dave Vassella (trumpet) and John Raleeh (trombone). They were in the studio for only a couple hours, but they added so much, especially to Alice Trough the Windscreen. The horns in that song alone made it feel epic, but then they organized a gorgeous backing vocal melody which is at the end of the song. Watching them work was amazing – our mouths were agape!"<br />
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Sanford said his big takeaway from the experience is that "... some things in life do not occur by chance. Working with David is a major milestone for us as a band and as people. I think this was all meant to happen. The songs that seemed to come from nowhere might have been out there in the cosmos waiting for us all along."<br />
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Howitt noted that Defever and David go way back, to when they met during the Love & Rockets heydays. Defever contributed some mellotron to <i>Oracle</i>, but also brought a Fender Bass VI. "...it's a six string bass tuned to E to E, and an octave below regular guitar tuning with Jaguar style electronics. “It’s one of the best worst Instruments,” as Warren put it, “and probably never caught on because of the terrible name.” David J plays it on “Motor City Squeeze”. Warren, who had heard “Alice”, and called it a “Fuzz Symphony”, not only played Mellotron on that track, but also “Oracle”. Joshua James came in with a Sun Ra vibe, wailing his bari and tenor saxophones on “Oracle”. It just puts the song outside any time period or what we’ve done as a band. Very in the moment. Spontaneous but focused."<br />
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"Collaborating was great," said Willem. "I think we (Duende) were pretty nervous and excited. David had some ideas for songs and lyrics. In the studio, I found David really easy to work with. Truthfully, I wasn’t sure how he would be in the studio and once we got going, I felt very comfortable with him. It was interesting watching him mix – he really dissected the various instruments and vocal tracks, yet worked efficiently."<br />
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McCune said that much of this whole experience is beyond words for him. Both David J./Bauhaus and Love & Rockets are musical heroes of his... "Bauhaus was, for me, what people must have felt about Bowie in the seventies," said this local master of stormy/atmospheric guitar work. "They were from another planet! They didn't break musical rules as much as show the irrelevance of them, while utilizing them to their advantage at the same time! They were the freaks that allowed a young me to embrace my freakness as it were! So to end up making a record with David, was (and is) beyond surreal." In a way, for McCune and Duende's bassist Scott Sanford (who also plays guitar), this feels like a reward for decades of tirelessly playing music. And, McCune said, a "surreal" award after a life spent "...at least attempting originality and trying to accomplish something different than standard songwriting and musical redundancy."<br />
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Jeff : I am one of those people who believe that though we may live linearly, all time, every moment is happening simultaneously. David J mussing about his storage unit, and a book he wrote in opens to that poem. That moment decades ago was somehow connected to now. It’s not deja-vu. It’s beyond concepts of ancestors. We are our ancestors. Informing and deforming us as we are them with visions and terrors of the future. You might have been working on something for three hundred years, thirty years before it manifests. You read David’s book, Who Killed Mr. Moonlight?, and his relation beyond time with Genesis P-Orridge through Aleister Crowley, you start to sense how the work refines itself. <br />
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David J., meanwhile, is on tour: the "Ruby Rising" tour with Peter Murphy, celebrating 40 years of Bauhaus. The hope is that when Bauhaus tours through in February, some plans to perform behind this new material will solidify. "David Barker of Glass Modern Records has been immensely insightful and guided this project to completion," said Howitt. "He put out early records by bands I love... <i>Oracle </i>is in good company! There's a new (Duende) record that we finished just as we started (<i>Oracle</i>). What essentially times out to a double-disc...but it needs to have a needle dropped on it and played loud. We recorded (the new, yet-to-be-released album) with Tony Hamera (of The Blueflowers); he also engineered the <i>Oracle </i>sessions."<br />
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Willem said she's also excited about the double album's worth of new Duende material. "We have another video (for 'Out Of My Dreams') which was filmed in the Bohemian National Home in Detroit by Reginald Tiessen...it will be dark, eerie, and Victorian. We can't wait to see it."<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1900946299985770/">You can hear <i>Oracle </i>next Friday, Nov 16th, at the Ghost Light. </a><br />
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I was talking with a fellow writer this morning about a tossed-off quip from a movie review I read in the mid 1990's. I vividly recall registering shock at the appraisal, making an effective metaphor to demonstrate their distaste..., but really going for it and cutting to the bone with it--it was cruel. It was cruel, but damn if it wasn't clever. The thing is, negative criticism's barbs would have seemed sharper in the mid 1990s, because there wasn't a cottage industry of cynical one-upping memes and long-knives-drawn comments sections. The ridicule of a work of art wasn't given amplification by a SHARE or a RETWEET button. If you read a negative review on your own back then, you could make up your own mind as to whether you would explore it for yourself; that was just one critic's opinion, after all, right? But now, with a zillion sites modeled as authorities on pop culture, you can see a torrent of takedowns directed at something--something you might have seen or listened to and loved--and now you see the horde has mightily discredited it.<br />
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It's just that I'm worried we are very close to it being that no one can give themselves over, fully, to a work of art, and to feel comfortable or confident in stating their admiration for it publicly. No one should be able to influence what you like...! And I know I feel like I'm giving preachy advice to a 12-year-old struggling against the prods and dress-downs of bullies, but that is really what it has become... We are not as secure as we could be; there is a knee-jerk compulsion to present your cleverness by way of a social media post and put yourself apart from anyone else who would be crazy enough or stupid enough to like <i>this </i>or <i>that... </i>Your cleverness is your mechanism--I won't say defense mechanism, but it is a way of tethering you from falling into full fandom. I'm here to advocate for a bit of healthy mania over a piece of music...you must indulge with replays, you must sing along to it, loudly..., don't let the clever/cynical comments you see from hollow avatars hold you back.<br />
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Because everything can be ridiculed. And when that happens, it's not that "nothing is sacred," but it's that "nothing is precious...," or worse, "nothing is appreciated." Going back to feeling like I might be talking to 12-year-olds..., it's as though we experience art the way we would if we were out on a school night with our gang or gaggle of fellow 12-year-olds and we ambulated through a frightful and elaborately arranged haunted house attraction at the county fair... "That didn't scare <i>ME</i>..." ...we feel compelled to say. Nevermind the efforts of the crew who put together that haunted house. Or, "...that wasn't <i>THAT </i>good of a movie..." Or, "I don't see what the big deal is about so-and-so, their lyrics are <i>weak...</i>"<br />
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Are we consumers of art? Or do we more so enjoy being vandals of effort...?? Yes, the internet gives you access to almost everything. But it can't be true that everything, then, sucks... Whatever chemicals slosh around in your brain to give you a rush from being negative, you have to start ignoring them. Because it's just as exhilarating to give a work of art the chance to show you everything it has to offer. It's okay to admit that something scared you. It's okay to admit that something made you cry. Stand by it if it made you laugh. Stand by it if you like that chorus... Yes, you could think up something clever and seem cool when you get nine thumbs ups on social media for your meme that criticizes something..., but to what end?<br />
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Often, when I post a write-up on a local musician or band, it's shared with an elated preface, declaring the words I've composed as "kind..." The thing is..., all I ever try to do with posts is elucidate what I'm hearing, describe the mood/theme of a piece, comment on interesting experiments or arrangements, and just overall illuminate who this artist is....so that a reader who has never heard them before or maybe even doesn't even know what <i>techno, punk, post-industrial or backpack rap </i>IS..., can be invited in to experiencing this music... But since cruel and cynical is the baseline for anything on the internet, my words are thrown into that contrast of seeming more kind by comparison. Writing about music is seriously fucking emotional for me... Because I'm letting it take me over. I would encourage everyone to try that exercise on a weekly basis....<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” --- Theodore Roosevelt </i></b></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0