:Episode One Hundred Seventy-Two: 1.24.2020
| Artist | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Oulu Space Jam Collective | Nebulus Horn | Drug Rings of Saturn |
| Hôpital De La Conception (Featuring Junk Nurse) | Part 1 | Electric Rockin' Chair |
| Pussy | Everybody's Song | Pussy Plays |
| Mike Tingley | Monotony's Message | The Abstract Prince |
| Pink Purple | 180 Main | Red |
| Mr. Elevator | Alone Together | Goodbye, Blue Sky |
| Emerald Web | Beyond the Towers | Sound Trek |
| Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | Tides V | Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga |
| Black Deer | FR Yeah | Black Deer |
| Pod Blotz | Double Helix | Double Helix (Single) |
| Bohren & Der Club of Gore | Tief Gesunken | Tief Gesunken (Single) |
| Jeff Parker | Go Away | Go Away (Single) |
| Contraviento Uruguay | Desencanto | V/A: América Invertida |
| Jaime Roos & Estela Magnone | Tras Tus Ojos | V/A: América Invertida |
| Eduardo Mateo | El Chi-Li-Ban-Dan | V/A: América Invertida |
| Dark Arts | Memory Of A Dream | Reflections In A Rear View Mirror |
| Galya Bisengalieva | Umay | EP Two |
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* Not on Spotify:
Oulu Space Jam Collective - Nebulus Horn
Hôpital De La Conception (Featuring Junk Nurse) - Part 1
Description
[Once again, I have to apologize for a technical issue: namely the station's ancient CD player acting up during the first two tracks. There are a few gaps in the first song, and I had to abandon playing the second song entirely with about five minutes still remaining. Because neither is on Spotify, I provide links, as per usual, so you can hear them in their entirety]
Opening the first set is the intentionally stupidly named Oulu Space Jam Collective (I mean, apologies if I'm wrong, and their name is in fact a heartfelt tribute to the movie Space Jam, but, given that their music is very non-stupid, I feel fairly confident in my assertion) with a searing, sax-heavy freakout reminiscent of the last few tracks on the Stooges' Fun House (which I brought up in the last capsule - it's one of my favorite albums of all time and so I'm fairly receptive to any band that seems inspired by it). After that is the minimalist, blues-y drone of Hôpital De La Conception, who sound a bit like legendary Belgian guitar primitivist Ignatz sitting in with Space Program favorites 75 Dollar Bill. Then, wrapping things up are two artists who recently had albums reissued: the unfortunately named Pussy, a late-60s, organ-heavy classic psych group, and Mike Tingley, who put out an incredible album of orchestral psychedelic folk in 1968 and then more or less disappeared.
The middle set this week is electronic-focused, and starts out with Pink Purple, a side project of the Flaming Lips (a band that I think I should like, in theory, but that I've never really been a big fan of). It's an odd album that vacillates between Bobb Trimble-ish lo-fi, keyboard-y folk and throbbing, analog synth-heavy rock bangers a la their Jackpot Records labelmates, Portland's own Crock (take a wild guess which of these two modes I chose to showcase). We also get some 60s style keyboard-driven rock by Mr. Elevator; some "new age" ambience, old and new, from Emerald Web and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith; John Carpenter-ish (circa Escape From New York) pop-kosmische by Black Deer; and some uncategorizable weirdness by Pod Blotz.
The last set starts with Bohren & Der Club of Gore, who started off, ages ago, doing dark cabaret jazz, but who in more recent years have adopted a more synth-heavy, Angelo Badalamenti circa Fire Walk With Me sound. Following this are: Jeff Parker, longtime member of Tortoise, with some swirling, psych-influenced jazz; three tracks from a great new compilation of the Uruguayan avant-garde scene of the 1980s; some early, recently reissued dark ambience from the appropriately-named Dark Arts; and the wildly inventive violin stylings of Galya Bisengalieva