Bonnie Prince Billy is releasing an EP on Drag City on July 24th of new versions of old songs. Entitled “Now Here’s My Plan”, here’s the first taste:
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Can announce “The Lost Tapes”
cut and pasted from the Mute website:
Spoon Records and Mute are delighted to announce the release of Can – The Lost Tapes, the long awaited box set of unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material.
The Lost Tapes, out on 18 June 2012, was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore, and edited by Jono Podmore.
When the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock N Pop Museum, they bought everything, including the army mattresses that covered the walls for sound protection, and relocated it to Gronau.
Whilst dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive. With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore started to go through over 30 hours of music.
What they found was years of archived material, not outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons – soundtracks to films that were never released and tracks that didn’t make it onto the final versions of albums due to space.
Irmin Schmidt explains “Obviously the tapes weren’t really lost, but were left in the cupboards of the studio archives for so long everybody just forgot about them. Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn’t allow forgetting.”
The final cut of tracks, dating from 1968-1977, features studio material recorded at Schloss Nörvenich and Can Studio, Weilerswist with the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and on most tracks, vocals from Malcolm Mooney or Damo Suzuki.
Can was formed by ex-student of Stockhausen Irmin Schmidt, who, fired by the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa abandoned his career in classic music to form a group which could utilise and transcend all boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical music.
According to Spin CDs, the box set will be a “very limited edition, numbered 10” square, old fashioned tape box style packaging with 24 page 10” booklet.” and retail for less than £30. They also have a tracklist:
The Lost Tapes – Part 1
1. Millionenspiel
2. Waiting For The Streetcar
3. Evening All Day
4. Deadly Doris
5. Graublau
6. When Darkness Comes
7. Blind Mirror Surf
8. Oscura Primavera
9. Buble Rap
The Lost Tapes – Part 2
1. Your Friendly Neighbourhood Whore
2. Waiting For The Streetcar
3. The Agreement
4. Midnight Sky
5. Desert
6. Spoon (Live)
7. Dead Pigeon Suite
8. Abra Cada Braxas
9. A Swan Is Born
10. The Loop
The Lost Tapes – Part 3
1. Godzilla Fragment
2. On The Way To Mother Sky
3. Midnight Men
4. Networks Of Foam
5. Messers, Scissors, Fork and Light
6. Barnacles
7. E.F.S 108
8. Private Nocturnal
9. Alice
10. Mushroom (Live)
11. One More Saturday Night (Live)
Preview of the JK Flesh album
The man behind Godflesh, Techno Animal, Jesu, Napalm Death and many others, Justin Broadrick, is releasing his first full length album as J K Flesh. It is called “Posthuman” and is coming out on April 30th on 3by3. Here is the first preview:
Jimmy Page to make limited vinyl release of “Lucifer Rising” soundtrack
Jimmy Page is releasing a vinyl only release of “Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks” on March 20th to mark the Spring Equinox. However, there will only be a run of 418 numbered copies, sold from his website www.jimmypage.com
White Hills new video for “Pads of Light”
Here’s the new video from White Hills for the song “Pads of Light” from the new album “Frying On This Rock” out March 20th
White Hills – Pads of Light from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.
The band are going to tour all over Europe and North America in support
Black Mass Rising
As the title suggests, “Black Mass Rising” is a new dark and psychedelic film inspired by the likes of Kenneth Anger. It features music from Kawabata Makoto, Master Musicians of Bukake, Bobby Beausoleil (who scored “Lucifer Rising”), Mater Suspiria Vision, Burial Hex and Sylvester Anfang II among many other. Made by the mysterious Shazzula, it’s been released on DVD in a limited edition of 666. Check out this preview:
BLACK MASS RISING movie (Official Trailer) from shazzula on Vimeo.
His Naked Torso cover Valerie
Had the pleasure of catching His Naked Torso’s frentic live show recently in Cardiff, so I was delighted to learn they’ve made a tribute to Amy Winehouse’s version of “Valerie” but in their own experimental style.
New Astral Social Club Action
Ahhh, a bit of Astral Social Club action for you lovely people, from a forthcoming LP called “DESTINY SNFU” on the Ultra Eczema label.
new Christina Vantzou video
As you can tell from our review, we really loved Christina Vantzou’s new album “No.1” on Kranky. Well, here’s a video for “Prelude for Juan” so you can see why we’re raving so much about this one:
It’s the six hour song!
Oklahoma’s greatest export, The Flaming Lips, have unleashed upon us a six hour song. The band are currently on an experimental roll, having put out a series of very limited records on undistributed 12″s, USB sticks inside gummi skulls and feotuses and collaborating with the likes of Lightning Bolt.
The Flaming Lips – Found a Star on the Ground [Part One of Three] by Slow•Nerve•Action 3
The Flaming Lips – Found a Star on the Ground [Part Two of Three] by Slow•Nerve•Action 2
The Flaming Lips – Found a Star on the Ground [Part Three of Three] by Slow•Nerve•Action