Despite the lack of a full-length release, Duchess Says has become one of the poster bands of Montreal, having performed at most of the major festivals in their native Quebec as well as representing Montreal at the prestigious Montreal showcase at SXSW. The album treats listeners to a mixture of punked-out electronic music that recalls the likes of Six Finger Satellite, whom they pay respects to with their blazing cover of Rabies, as well contemporaries Glass Candy and The Chromatics.
The record opens with Teneu Non Neu which, giving a great indication of the fever pitch intensity of the band, finds Annie-C producing one explosive auricular orgasm after another with the band in hot pursuit matching her intensity. Labels: canadian , Duchess Says , electronic , indie. Newer Post Older Post Home. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Articles Features Interviews Lists. Streams Videos All Posts. My Profile. Advanced Search.
Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs Review by Stewart Mason. Track Listing. Tenen Non Neu. Duchess Says. Ccut Up. La Friche. Rabies Baby's Got The. Their second release, following a compilation 'Bits Of Quartz Glitter' is a split release between two new bands, for me new that is. Gorsky, who open the proceedings here. Also both bands have three members. Stylewise the two bands are related but there are minor differences. They operate both in a corner where rock meets electronic meets improvisation.
There is the use of real instruments, guitar, drums, harmonium with the additional use of laptops to create an expanded rock sound. Gorsky things are much more musical. They also use a voice in one track, but the soft mumbling is not really my cup of beer. With differences so small, it's hard to believe that these are two different bands. I must admit I didn't notice it until after playing it for the second time and taking a closer look at the cover.
The musical quality however is very high for both bands. Great playing, moody music, enough sense of experimentalism, make this a great CD that can easily meet the best in this otherwise not very crowded field. Vienna to be more precise. Early in his career he was specialized in playing modern composed music. Later he turned to improvised music. This background is very obvious on his new CD 'Herz. Songs that are deeply rooted in the austrian musical song tradition.
Songs that are sung in the beautiful vienna dialect, that you do not wish to understand because the expression and sound of it, says it all. In a very natural way these old songs are combined with improvisation and a more modern jazzy approach, always staying close to the original spirit of these old songs.
All of them play acoustic. There is only an electric guitar on some of the songs like in 'Warum' where Bruckner plays a nice solo, and where Berghammer is even more impressive on trumpet.
This music is open to everything that happens in life, but always keeps a smile on his face. True soul music. He plays guitar, obviously, plus loop pedal in six pieces that all breath a fresh breeze, morning sun light and tranquility. Ambient music with the big A that is. He does a very refined job here, absolutely weightless, timeless and whatever less one can think off, but since Brian Eno took off with the Apollo, there is not much news under the ambient sun.
If you like calm, thoughtful and contemplating music, this is the place to be. As far as I can remember from the Belfi concert, in relationship to 'Knots', I think this CD is the culmination of playing that material. Belfi is a drummer, but one with a soft, gentle touch.
He doesn't have the harsh banging methods of say Jon Mueller, but his work is more about silence. He carefully hits a bit, even a rhythm or two be reminded that this is hardly the work of improvisation , to which he adds a small, delicate blend of electronics hammond organ perhaps, humming, static crackles.
Like Pilia soft music that however is less ambient than Pilia, or rather perhaps it is ambient, but not of the well-known kind. Belfi actually does something that crosses the paths of ambient, post rock and electronica and perhaps even a bit of ethnic music, I should add , and has crafted a really beautiful piece of work. Pilia is good, but known. Belfi is better because it bends the genre a bit further.
Lullatone is a name that I surely remember from the past - but where from? I don't seem to remember. They have ten tracks in twenty minutes and their instruments are shown on the inside of the cover. The Orff instruments, a stripped down set of drums and some sort of organ.
But if you look well, there is also a computer. Shawn Seymour and Yoshimi Tomida are Lullatone and they play a highly naive form of popmusic. The singing is almost that of a child, a bit false, the music is dreamy. It sounds like a further stripped down version of Tujiko Noriko, but stripped off the longer endings.
The whole brief character of the CD makes this actually quite nice. Short, sweet tracks, many in number, small in length, makes this a very nice, just about long enough release. Popmusic too, but then something entirely different comes from the Rational Academy, which, according to the cover again! The people around them, from Ben Frost to For Barry Ray, who provide a part electronic, part rock based sound, but at the centre the vocals of the principle core duo.
Perhaps it's the extended line up of various musicians that make this a highly varied CD. McHugh's voice reminds me of Noriko but not at all through the music though , the music is a fine mixture of electronic rock, rocktronic. I am no expert in this particular field, but I can say I surely enjoyed these seven songs a lot.
Alternative rock at it's best. Well, my guess that is. One of the things I looked forward to was the new Klangwart. They have been working together since but their has been only a handful of releases.
In fact five, all in the years to Since then things have been quiet, but Klangwart has been around playing concerts. As such 'Stadtlandfluss' is not exactly new, since they attempted to record a version of it in , when I saw this also performed live at Extrapool.
In they finally succeeded in recording a version they liked. Using loops and electronics, along a pretty flexible score, they can perform this piece is various ways. Sometimes close to the Germanic krautrock and cosmic music, the gamelan of 'Hamanamah' sounds very ungerman and absolutely gorgeous. If I understood the press text correctly, the releases by Paul Wirkus and Mapstation a.
Stefan Schneider was recorded outside, in a forest. Wirkus plays drums, cymbals, branches, leaves and 'air improvisations', while Schneider is responsible for 'steps, recording, editing and mixing'. It's an interesting idea, I think, not to mix some field recordings along some improvised percussion music, but to record it out in the field, complete with birds, voices or an airplane overhead.
The playing of the drums and natural elements is rather loose and highly improvised, but it seems to me that Schneider is using various recordings and plays them over each other.
It's a very fine work, a fine concept which is worked out in a very consistent manner. Nice one. Jasmina Maschina is one half of Minit, the Australian duo in Berlin, who blew me away with a great concert in Extrapool some time ago. Her solo record may suggest industrial music mayhem, 'The Demolition Series' only demolishes your idea about Jasmina Maschina, as her solo music is quite far away from Minit. She plays guitar, sings and gets help from a bunch of musicians on melodica, piano, drums and more voice.
It's music that is not found very often in these pages, as it's more folk than anything else - and I must state right away I am no folkie, so it's hard for me to make a proper judgment about it. I can hear elements of Maschina's other work drone, noise somewhere remotely in the background, so no doubt her work will be too strange for real folkies, but for me the whole thing is a bit too sweet and normal. Great lazy sunday afternoon music though and as such I must say I did quite like it.
Pedal plays the grand piano, the Steinway. Two pianos, four hands, seven pieces of music, which are all improvised. All of this culminate in something that is dreamy like piano music, inspired by Satie and Debussy, light verse jazz music, rhythmical, classical. They play with a light, impressionist touch, even when it's a bit louder as in 'Burgeon'. Great music, rather the first to play on that sunday afternoon - just after waking up, with the coffee still warm and then, after that Jasmina Maschina.
That makes a fine afternoon and one is ready for some more heavy music. Fried Shallots by Ty Segall. Ultramarr by Fred Fortin. Isocaos, from Lima, Peru, contrasts broken IDM geometry with ambient-inflected punk for a maddening, mesmerizing listening experience. All proceeds from this hefty compilation of psych, surf, prog, and experimental bands will be donated to racial justice mutual aid funds. Sunless by Floating Room.
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Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs by Duchess Says. I Am surprised i had not heard of Them before. Rodney Cinkan. How this is not in at least collections is blowing my f king mind. In a Fung Day T is a must as well, cant wait for new one in July. Favorite track: Ccut up. Zoe Camp.
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