Gallon Drunk – Blood Is Red
Raymen – Bad Blood
Godflesh – Vampires
Strangers Die Every Day – …And The Blood Shall Spill
Yeah Yeah Noh – Blood Soup
Band Of Skulls – Bruises
MuteMath – Blood Pressure
National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
Mountain Goats – Sax Rohmer #1
Nina Nastasia & Jim White – Late Night
Luxúria – Stupid Blood
Buck 65 – Blood Of A Young Wolf
Ghislain Poirier – No More Blood
Singers & Players & Congo Ashanti Roy – African Blood
Mark Stewart – Blood Money 2
Halls – Lifeblood
Philip Glass & Kronos Quartet – String Quartet No. 3 “Mishima” V. Blood Oath
“Lifeblood” by Halls is stupendous. Love that sound. Also loved Strangers Die Every Day, Raymen, The National, Ghislain Poirier, Singers & Players & Congo Ashanti Roy. SDED reminded me that I forgot to nom at least Tenhi songs. Oh well, the blog got lucky there…
What happened to the 6 I typed? Sodding, blood-soaked key-sticking keypad.
And now the comma’s in… Ach! Sod it!
Tenhi sound interesting – any particular album to start with?
Glad someone likes Halls – was starting to think it was just me.
Cheers, Fuel.
What would I recommend? Well the Tenhi template is something very slow with a few lyrics sketching an image of a small detail of an unforgiving natural world. Baritone vocals that fit mournful, wandering music. (They have actually written cheerful lyrics to a couple of songs but not put vocals to the song.) And sometimes they remember that the drum is something that you can hit to make a rhythmic sound with. I imagine them in the studio saying “Can you make that violin sound even sadder”. They go well with early morning silence and moments of contemplation. They don’t wander far from this template. Think of birds in cold weather sitting still in trees for ages, soaring high then landing and bouncing to their food and stabbing and swallowing it before being still again.
If you want to know what the songs are about and if you are buying the digital format I’d start with something older than Saivo as they have the impressionistic English lyrics online. If you are buying the CD then Saivo has lovely artwork and the lyrics in English and Finnish and that’s where I’d start. Maybe Maaäet or Väre. The triple CD “Folk Aesthetic” is nice selection of early EPs, unreleased and rare, and new recordings. But that’s well over three hours of folk gloom. ( I tend to skip some of the songs, unless in the mood.) If you want I could send some MP3s your way.
Mournful folk sounds good to me. The language barrier can be difficult with these things.
Will digitise a few tracks from a selection of the CDs and send them your way. Might start with some early Stranglers-style waltzing.
Seem to really crave silence lately and find i’m to listen to much music. Thought i’d give this a try – what a great first set. Especially loved Gallon Drunk and Godflesh. Awesome.
Loved the first three of the second set, especially Mute Math. And loved the Nina Nanastasia song too – thing her songs have been a standout for me on all of your playlists that she’s shown up on.
Hey Amy – Happy New Year.
Happy New Year, Shoey.
Liked the reggae-ish ones best in the last set. Never a big Philip glass fan, but that was lovely. Thanks.
Yay! for Raymen. And Yeah! for Yeah Yeah Noh.
Not able to listen to much music at the mo, but looks like a bloody good (sorry) playlist.
Hope life lets you get some tune time soon – thanks fir stopping by.
ace list shoey.
Cheers. Where’s yours?
…. too pissed off.
In general or something in particular?
both.
Shane. If you’re still there – or here rather. Thought of you when I watched this video again today.
Hope you ok mate.
heehee Thank you – that’s what I need a bloody big wall to deface! I haven’t managed to do any artwork this year yet – and it drags me down – I did manage to help the boys create Tintin’s dog in the snow though – that was fun.
It’s a well worked video, isn’t it – the colour intensifying with the release of energy.
I’ve been thinking of you too – and really hope whatever is going on in your world is improving …. all things pass, hopefully. xxx
Yeah it’s a great vid, and spot on with the colour thing. I don’t know why they split up, as some nice tunes on their albums. We all feel like that guy from time to time don’t we? I do hope you get to do some artwork soon. It must be so frustrating when you can’t get anything done. Having a young family isn’t easy either is it? No matter how much you love em.
As for me, I’m ok thanks. Nothing life threatening. Just suffering from a prolonged attack of acute noises in me head which has been a bit like this. But fighting it slowly with the help of some good dub (the only sounds that don’t make it worse) and some quality herbal medication
xxx
Link should have been to Munch’s ‘The Scream’ pic btw. Note to self. Don’t do anything technical while making tea!
heehee – it came up with ‘FAILED TO OPEN’ and ‘can’t find the server’ … sums up my head at the moment (and made me laugh – even if it was a mistake) ….
great quick interview here:
Roots Manuva: ‘My whole career is just like a massive mistake’
possibly best not to listen to the scratchy noises in this (but it fits):
splendid.
Ha ha! Me too when I checked the link. Fuck wit fuck up me!
Ta for Rodders. Love him! That interview put a big smile on me face. And Movements a big fave. Left . . right. . left . . right. The big soundscapes in the Roots toons are actually good medicine. The cruffatin liveth!
Take care you x