Play Louder are reissuing the only 7″ single released by the 70s Faust.
From 1972, “So Far/It’s A Bit Of A Pain” features versions of the songs different to those on the original albums.
“How different?” I hear you cry [or am I developing paranoia?]. Well, judge for yourself as you can listen to it HERE
You may have heard the news that Michael Rother was going to be touring the music of Neu! this year. ‘Hallogallo 2010’ consists of Michael Rother with Steve Shelley, and Aaron Mullan. This group will perform NEU! music and selections from Rother’s work with Harmonia and his solo albums.
Steve Shelley is best known for drumming in Sonic Youth since 1985. He has also recorded or performed with The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, Arto Lindsay, Loren Mazacane Connors, The High Confessions, Christina Rosenvinge, Richard Hell, Giant Sand, the Matt Zivich Trio, Ron Asheton, Tom Verlaine, Mike Watt, Townes Van Zandt, Cat Power, The Raincoats, Brigitte Fontaine, Robert Quine, Enrique Morente and many others.
Aaron Mullan is ½ the guitars of Tall Firs. He has collaborated with Chris Corsano and The Matt Zivich Trio, amongst others.
August
4 Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ (Michael Rother and Freunde)
6 Lincoln Center in NY, NY at Damrosch Park Bandshell -w/ Hermeto Pascoal
8 International House of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA
15 Dockville Festival in Hamburg, Germany
17 Edinburgh Picture House Edinburgh, Scotland
27 Polyforum Siqueiros Mexico City (DF), Mexico
28 tba – Guadalajara, Mexico
September
4 ATP NY Festival along with Sonic Youth + Text of Light and many others
7 Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH
8 Chicago, Il – venue tba
10 Detroit, Mi – venue tba
14 Kagelbanan in Stockholm, Sweden
15 KB in Malmo, Sweden
17 Numusic in Stavanger, Norway
19 Incubate Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands
21 Vooruit in Ghent, Belgium
October
21 Barbican – London
24 Supersonic Festival – Birmingham, UK
November
12 Rolling Stone Weekender, Weissenhauser Strand – Baltic Sea
13 Gloria Theatre, Cologne
December
6-9 In Between Days – ATP UK
In this months Mojo magaizne, Irmin Schmidt reveals some exciting news for Can-heads. He states there are 20 to 30 hours of unreleased music in the Can archive and that he has begun digitising it. He mentions there are live recordings and a lot of soundtrack work and alternative versions of existing songs (he cites Vitamin C as an example of a song they tried out in different styles).
In Autumn, deluxe vinyl editions of the classic Can albums will be released with the unreleased material to follow:
“It might be a series of albums, two or three at least” he is quoted as saying “There are some really nice and strange jams of the four of us alone in the studio which have never been heard since. There will be songs with Malcolm and Damo; there’s a live piece with Malcolm I remember, and two or three with Damo”
When asked what will happen to the rest of the archive he is quoted as saying it will be put on the internet for download.
“THIS IS NOT A REUNION. It’s not some dumb-ass nostalgia act. It is not repeating the past. After 5 Angels Of Light albums, I needed a way to move FORWARD, in a new direction, and it just so happens that reviviing the idea of Swans is allowing me to do that. “ Michael Gira
Swans have announced that their new album “MY FATHER WILL GUIDE ME UP A ROPE TO THE SKY” is coming out on September 20th on CD, LP & download. It features guest spots from Bill Rieflin (of REM, Ministry & original Swans) on various instruments, Grasshopper from Mercury Rev on mandolins and Devendra Banhart sings lead vocals, accompanied by Gira’s 3 year old daughter Saoirse, on the song “You Fucking People Make Me Sick”.
The band tour the UK with James Blackshaw in support, see this news item for more details.
For more info on Swans & the new album, go to http://younggodrecords.com/
Good news for UK-ers wanting some Summer magic, MV + EE head out out on a UK tour in AUGUST & SEPTEMBER, taking in:
AUGUST
21 GLASGOW, SUBCURRENTS FESTIVAL @ CCA
22 BRADFORD, THE VICARAGE
24 SHEFFIELD, THE HARLEY
25 CARDIFF, NORWEGIAN CHURCH
27 COVENTRY, TAYLOR JOHN’S
28 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, BARN NOVA
29 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, BARN NOVA
30 LONDON, CAFE OTO
31 PENRYN, MISS PEAPODS
SEPTEMBER
1 PENRYN, MISS PEAPODS
2 EXETER, PHOENIX
Here’s some official word:
For the past decade Matt “MV” Valentine (Tower Recordings) and Erika “EE” Elder (Heroine Celestial Agriculture/The MV & EE Medicine Show) have been formulating an ancient-modern universe of sound from their base deep in the Vermont woods, via their own Child of Microtones imprint as well as prolific activity on some of the most respected boutique labels in the world. Latest album Barn Novafollows two previous killer cuts on Ecstatic Peace, Green Blues and Gettin’ Gone, honestly slipstreaming peak Neil Young-esque Americana, Grateful Dead harmonix, old time front porch vibes, and time/space defying spectral jams with the help of fellow avatars The Golden Road.
In April of this year MV & EE blazed some more golden road on the Eisenhower interstate system and trans canadian highway. They rolled on the “no floor tour” as a quartet with Mick Flower (bass/japan banjo) and John Moloney (drums) on a double headline bill withFlower/Corsano duo. Mick, of course is no stranger to the MV & EE universe, doing several UK runs together both in full on electric stomps and as a transreal “folk” trio. He was also along for the ride when Matt and Erika brought a big band to primavera a coupla years back. John Moloney is contributed masterful throne work on Gettin’ Gone as well as the “Ringside seat, nosebleed tone” bootleg. He has been working with the group for 4 years now when he needs a zen wrangle away from his group Sunburned Hand of The Man.
There are a handful of deep underground records (and tapes) in the works for later this year. There is the reissue of Liberty Rose, which came out on Child of Microtones this past winter and will be birthed on LP via arbitrary signs, the imprint run by Pete Nolan (Magik Markers/Spectre Folk). There is also a follow up to the Home Comfort LP in the works for Woodsist. In addition to those two jugs of love are LP’s for Time-Lag and for 3-Lobed Recordings, both of which have been slowly simmering at Maximum Arousal Farm over the last few years now.
And that’s not all fellow sky pilots as there will be an EIGHT cassette box on Blackest Rainbow to coincide with the tour. This is the follow up to the 12 cassette road trips compendium from last year. In the great UK cassette pack tradition this will have some drum and bass courtesy of Moloney and Flower, and it will document every show, full sets in all their glory from the above mentioned ‘no floor tour’. The sound is pristine captured loud and proud in the tapers pit and there are a few guests joining in, Doc Dunn and J Mascis with freak flags flying high. This one sure is sounding sweet in the working stage and will sound really fine in the analog medium.