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b/art's Playlist for Friday, 10 Dezember 1999 (23.00 - 00.04)
Sound of Pogus | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| The Wreck This Mess Story (Black Sifichi) #03b12wtm99 | |
| Alien Bog Section #1 | Pauline Oliveros [1] |
| Barump Poe (exc) | If, Bwana [2] |
| Unidentifried | Mix Master Mike [2a] |
| This is Your Day | Rob Swift [3] |
| Alien Bog Section #2 | Pauline Oliveros [1] |
| Barump Poe (exc) | If, Bwana [2] |
| Confirmation Slow Burn | Allegory Chapel [4] |
| Sabatrana | Leo Kupper and Anna Maria Kieffer [5] |
| Schönes Gefühl | Klangkrieg [6] |
| Chant, Bow Chime, and Horn | Robert Rutman [7] |
| The Wreck This Mess Story (Black Sifichi) #03b12wtm99 | |
| Clara Nostra | If, Bwana [8] |
| + Left / Right (exc. repeated) | Digital Poodle [9] |
| 1348 - "14f13" | Crawling with Tarts vs Destruktiv Technologies Foundation [10] |
| Live! 8-12-96 | Tit Wrench [11] |
| 10:38:26 | Matthew Ostrowski [12] |
| Well Wicked | Mix Master Mike [2a] |
| Alien Bog Section #3 | Pauline Oliveros [1] |
| My Dreams Collapse in the Orange Landscape | La Sonorite Jaune [13] |
| No Objective Standard of Psychosis | Croiners [14] |
| Two Dutch Yodels by Anonymous Yodelers - One a Yodel Polka! [I only wish I knew the sources] [15] | |
| Alien Bog Section #4 | Pauline Oliveros [1] |
| The Wreck This Mess Story (Black Sifichi) #03b12wtm99 | |
| [1] "Pauline Oliveros" on Pogus http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm is an historical partial reissue of some classic avant electronica. "Alien Bog" dating from 1967 utilizes the original Buchla Box 100 series wascreated for the Tape Music Center in Oakland California. Teh take up reel was on tape machine 1 and the playback reel on tape machine 2. "Through patching the playback signals from tracks 1-4 were re-routed back to the recording head of machine 1 in a variety of configurations controlled by the composer." Oliveros: "I was deeply impressed by the sounds from the frog pond outside the studio window at Mills [College.] I loved the accompaniment as I worked on my pieces. Though I never recorded the frogs I was of course influenced by the sounds from the pond..." | |
| [2] "Breathing" on Pogus http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm this is a beautiful piece of ethereal vocals by Detta Andreana that sound like Hildegaard von Bingen in outer space or inner space with Dave prescott on wind, Dan Andreana on vocals, Debbie Goldberg on vocals and Al Margolis on numerous wind and string instruments and tapes. The piece continues to circle right in on you until you are good and calm and your thoughts are your own again or are they someone else's. | |
| [2a] "Anti-Theft Device" on Asphodel www.asphodel.com is major conniving fun. Full of beats and fun pop samples. Lots of busyness going mixing old style hiphop with really agile hands on the knobs. Pop at its trenchant best. Inventive and tweaky. Jittery in all the right places. | |
| [3] "The Ablist" on Asphodel www.asphodel.com is Rob Swift's conscious attempt to champion the turntablist as a true musician. Some magical moments but also a bit draggy and self-conscious. This guy has talent but knowing you have talent isn't always enough. | |
| [4] "Confirmation" on Sound of Pig http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm was the cassette forefather of Pogus and was the virile or at least most-reproductive grand daddy of all cassette labels with some 230 plus releases in the 1980s. Sound of Pig helped redefine independent music by taking back the means of production from the companies via the true mass enabler, the cassette and DIY... SOP was still going when Pogus began. Pogus was an outlet for Margolis and Dave Prescott (along with the legendary Gen Ken) to produce some contemporary classical and improv - Lindblad, amm, Morphogenesis, Robert Rutman - as the cassette phenom gave way to cds and rewriteable cds and newer higher fidelity technologies and formats You can still order most of the amazingly broad and dense catalog of Sound of Pig recordings. See what the future of electronica was back then - in the early 80s when cassettes were the sonic equivalent of bath tub gin. | |
| [5] "Ways of the Voice" on Pogus http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm is reminiscent of Jackson Maclow and Ann Tardos or Meredith Monk. Anna Kieffer (vocalist and musicologist specializing in Brazilian music) in this piece from the "Rezas Populares do Brasil" chants healing prayers and vocals composed by Kupper. Not as new Agey as it sounds They are all based on the notions of "healing sounds aiming at curing as well as the soul, plants and animals." Leo Kupper reprocessed the material. | |
| [6] "Das Fieber der Mennschlichen Stimme" by Klangkrieg on Audioview/Lowlands lowlands@innet.be (a label dedicated to dislocated electronic turbulence") is an interesting collection of sonic sculptures dictated by non-logical sounds emited by the mouth. Heidesieck, Gysin, Futurists, Dadaists ... its all here and more. The mouth has become the prosthesis of electronica or vice versa. | |
| [7] "1939" on Pogus http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm is a hypnotic droning blend of electronic and indigenous / acoustic sounds. This label seldom fails to deliver the very edge of experimentation but that doesn't mean unlistenable. Challenging can also be enjoyable. Formerly known as Sound of Pig, at the 80s avant garde of the cassette music revolution. This is a true hypnotic bottom feeder where the decibels overtake the 2 beats per minute. All attention to everyday details seems to evaporate as you stand in front of this wall of drone. | |
| [8] "Clara Nostra" on Pogus http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm is a reworking of a piece for 106,476 clarinets oringinally released on sound of Pig as "Horn & Hard Acts." The original recording of 4 separate clarinet tracks, as the liner notes note, was bounced back and forth between the 4 track, an 8 track and a 2 track, slowed up, speeded up and generally bounced and rebounced so that the end result technically was the 100,000 plus clarinets. | |
| [9] "Industrial Mix Machine" on Cleopatra, a 2-cd compilation of dark techno-industrial before you could dance to it. Gloomy grumpy, dirgeful and really not music you take anywhere unless you want to annoy someone. The sound of young men wanting to be retro-futurists? | |
| [10] 1348 - "14f13" on Sound of Pig http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm This black cassette is one of my favorites. It is an incredible blend of esoteric scrapings off a hard earth and techno bagpipe. Rousing and mesmerizing. This is SOP #157. | |
| [11] Unamerican Activity" on OmniBot www.vinylcomm.com a compilation of pure snot-nose noise punk jazz. | |
| [12] "Vertebra" Matthew Ostrowski ex of Krackhouse here in his solo - i think - debut. Als an ex-WFMU dj. | |
| [13] "Ersatia" on Sound of Pig http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm SOP #111: Pascal Dauzier was part of that French sampler mob of obscure soundings that evoke mystery. This was back when the cassette revolution was not only redefining the market and distribution but also what could be put on recording tape. Anything goes and Dauzier was certainly defining and extending this philosophy in Paris. | |
| [14] "The Relentless Rhythm of Change" a SOP recording artist but this one is on Jim Tapes. This guy out there in the original Levittown, NY had an incredible library of samples already back in the mid-80s. He was out there behind his decks and there you were face to face with a real homebody. | |
| [15] Thanks to Eskimo host of the "Eskimo Show" here on Radio 100 for supplying these amazing 2 yodels! | |