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Wednesday's
Korner
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Morose Music
...for the Morbid and Melancholy and those who need a soundtrack for their painful, bitter life.
If you feel
there's a gloomy artist who should be here, send as much information as
you can to Wednesday 13
Sigur Rós ( ) was nominated for best alternative music album at the 46th annual grammy awards. the other nominees were radiohead, the flaming lips, the yeah yeah yeahs and the white stripes. the band and their comrad from fatcat, alex torrance, are also nominated for best recording package, for ( )
NY Times Review of Iceland Airwaves 2000
An excellent site for Sigur Rós fans looking for music and videos to download
Sigur Rós
talks about
their studio with Birgir Orn of Maus, an Icelandic rock band.
studio picture #1
studio picture #2
interview in Exclaim from the Spring 2001 tour
Sigur Ros tour with Amina, the string quartet
find them on the Icelandic music web site
Best online
ordering for music in the US: AB-CD is
great for imports or Half.com is wonderful
for used items in general.
It's
too demeaning to have to go into some record stores and have them look
down upon you because you like different music... and then pay full price.
We all need to become more conscious of recycling our possessions or spending
less to own them.
Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979 -- Joy Division
I have the chills
throughout my first listen to these live tracks...
Ian,
I hope you found peace and tranquility
Girls Against Boys are in the movie called Series 7. They're one of Wednesday13's favorite live bands. Their sound is based in loud, crunchy guitars along with sultry-smooth vocals and headbanging rhythms.
Girls Against Boys are not currently on tour. But they have been touring as Gina Gershon's band. "Rocked with Gina Gershon" is one of my favorite tv shows.
Girls Against Boys band site.
Review of the London Scala concert
Anyone Can Play Radiohead: A Tribute To Radiohead with Miranda Sex Garden, The Illuminati, and Lunasect
Trust Obey's Fear and Bullets The Soundtrack to The Crow graphic novel on Invisible/Deezal. Fear and Bullets is sold in major record stores and comic book stores; ask about it with your local retailers. Lyrics are by John Bergin (Trust Obey) and James O'Barr, author/artist of The Crow. The soundtrack articulates the anger, sorrow, insanity, and revenge portrayed by Eric Draven, the major character in The Crow. The soundtrack guest stars Patrick McBride of Paved in Skin on "Sleeping Angel."
Praemedia web site contains info on John Bergin working with Lance Grabmiller of Odalisque. Lance can be seen around San Francisco: dates. Anthropology is available to order online or find it in stores now.
Hers is Blood reviewed: "Award-winning jazz artist Pam Bricker is the right vocal complement for Bergin and Smith, and together they deftly blur the line between seduction and destruction." - Suite 101 September Choice Cuts
Reviews of a previous Tertium Non Data release, The Third Not Given from Soleilmoon Recordings site: The Third is Not Given is the long awaited experimental collaboration between John Bergin and Brett Smith, who also work together as the industrial/goth core entity Trust Obey. Smith is noteworthy for his dark-ambient alter ego Caul, while Bergin composes his own celebrated style of orchestrated ambience under the name C17H19NO3. Since forming Tertium Non Data in 1994, numerous compositions were created. The finest of these have been assembled for this release, in addition to more recently constructed pieces. Tertium Non Data's debut effort can be described as tense, cinematic pieces blending seamlessly with haunting soundscapes, thereby creating a cold, black atmosphere with an elegant and commanding pervasiveness. TND is a diverse and effective hybrid of the two artists' respective styles as Caul and C17H19NO3. For the curious ones, Tertium Non Data is latin for "the third is not given". According to Mr. Bergin, "It is an alchemic term which refers to the process of combining two disparate elements to create a new, third element. The process of transformation is a mystery - an unknown."
The quickest way to own this disc is to get it from Crowd Control Activities. Please mention that you found it through Wednesday's Korner.
Crowd Control worked with the members of Tertium Non Data on the project called Blackmouth consisting of Bergin, Smith and Jarboe (ex-Swans).
Invisible
Records/Deezal released C17H19NO3's Terra Damnata album
remastered and remixed. New material by C17 is also available now
called Terra Null and is a double cd. It's music for the new apocalyptic
age. You can imagine that most of Bergin's dreams are similar to creepiness
a la David Lynch. Order both CDs here
plus 1692/2092.
The C17H19NO3
"soundtrack", 1692/2092 is available from the indie label,
Malignant Records.
Jarboe recorded vocals for "Room of Ice" and "Electric Air". Her provocative
vocals are tainted with an eerie energy that coexists with the presence
of death and resurrection. The music on 1692/2092moves like
a soundtrack; emotionally dark, yet powerful and supernaturally cinematic.
It contains themes reminiscent of Arvo Part and Graeme Revell.
Though John Bergin records under C17H19NO3, a.k.a. morphine,
his music inspires a higher consciousness, and, to the extreme, conjures
beautiful horrific nightmares.
Music from C17H19NO3 and Trust Obey and also see this page of music samples.
Hands of Ash and other music titles are for sale here if you can't find it at your neighborhood record shop.
Sonic Boom's interview with John Bergin plus a review of Terminal Sect's Gun Worship EP to which he's also contributed.
Angels of Light aka Michael Gira
Anhedoniac, a personalized form of a psychiatric
term meaning "the inability to experience pleasure" is the title of the
fourth solo CD--and significantly the first post-Swans release by
Jarboe.
Anhedoniac's
words
conjure the most provocative images. Order your copy now
through the web site, the only way you can obtain the CD which is limited
to 1500 copies.
4AD founder and This Mortal Coil creator, Ivo Watts Russell, talks about the project The Hope Blister which features Louise Rutkowski, one of the singers from This Mortal Coil. Anyone who obtained The Hope Blister's ...smile's ok should go to 4AD's web site and find out more about the mail order-only title, Underarms.
The Gus Gus record of instrumentals (mostly) is called GUS GUS Vs T World. Gus Gus take a journey into gorgeous deep house territory, with Biggi Veira and Herb Legowitz at the controls on 7 tracks of lush, gently building dance music, available on CD and double vinyl.
More 4ad artists are listed on The Eyesore Database
All the following titles are from Metropolis Records:
Juno Reactor Read the latest News and listen to "Pistolero" from their latest cd Shango
Crocodile Shop is fueled their latest with corrosive metals, Everything is Dead and Gone which is quite the sentiment with the current void into which we're falling. "Thirteen" is exactly 13 minutes long and is an excellent choice for the 13th hour of your demonic day. It has evil sounding samples... perfect soundtrack for all you guillotine owners and collectors. Available from eMusic
Hear samples
at
the Kill Rock Stars site
This title is available through Amazon
Photek Form
+ Function
(Astralwerks)
Source Direct Controlled Developments and Exorcise the Demons(Astralwerks)
Arvo Pärt
Arvo
Pärt's music is available from ECM
Records.
Caul has the new album out called muein. go to the official site for more details on the the newly released album Swan.
Review of Reliquary also by Caul and released on Eibon Records.
Non-Badman represented Red House Painters and Mark Kozelek's music is available for sale here
Hurry up and get there latest release The Angels Have Landed. Based in San Francisco, California; fans of My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, Mercury Rev, Spiritualized, Red House Painters, and Radiohead really dig their sound. They have won critical appraise in national and local 'zines as well.
Bauhaus reunited and toured in 1998. If you saw them or you missed them, now you can indulge yourself with the concert on the live CD Gotham courtesy of Metropolis Records. The two CD digi-pak documents the Bauhaus show at the Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC. Those who may have attended one of the shows on the Resurrection Tour will recall the astounding performance of Dead Can Dance's "Severence" and, marking their first studio recording in 16 years, the studio version is also included with this release. Yes, there is video version of Gotham so you should be well-prepared to salivate inside your caves with the VCR, humming along to "In the Flat Field," "Kick in the Eye," "Boys," "She's in Parties," "Dark Entries," "Telegram Sam," and other favorites.
Helicopter Helicopter - latest is Wild dogs with X-Ray Eyes from the label Initial Records. They may be on tour near you. Here are current show dates.
Helicopter Helicopter's By Starlight is their latest record is available from Lunch Records.
By Starlight will have you singing and swaying night and day. Songs like "And Just Once," "Moveable," and "Trembling God" will pull the rug out from under you with their pop hooks. Julie Chadwick and Chris Zerby's harmonies seduce you and their melodic choruses tease you. Produced by Mathew Ellard (Tanya Donelly/Juliana Hatfield), By Starlight was recorded at Fort Apache and Q Division in Boston and has garnered recognition from CMJ, Rolling Stone, the Boston Globe and the Tennesean among others.
Hear the latest Helicopter Helicopter MP3s which certainly must be played at maximum volume.
Helicopter
Helicopter's Analog & Electrical Fields (Lunch Records).
Helicopter
Helicopter combine tight performing and songwriting with starpower personality.
Please, someone, put them on a soundtrack! A movie about teenage angst and
rock-n-roll or sour summer love in an ice cream parlor somewhere in the Northeast
corner of the US.
Favorite songs include "Ghost Face", an eerie tune of spent emotion. Ghosts are a subject Helicopter Helicopter seems to be fond of as they appear again in "Ever Since the Buzzards Moaned" where the verse goes, "I believe in coup d'etats/You believe in strong ghosts/I have lived in this mirage/Ever since the buzzards moaned," which present immensely powerful images easily accessible for the young indie rock sect. "I will miss you for a million years/When I'm a scarab in a hole" ("Scarab in a Hole") provokes a sense of longing we all feel as winter approaches and we think of all our dead friends who got away from living in this lonely, unloving world.
"Map" covers the best part of our ever-evolving world: volcanoes. It's metaphor speaks symbolically to lovers of the erupting, fiery abyss of newborn craters while there are others who, like much of the earth, are stuck in a static and never are ripped apart by energy fields and fault lines.
Indeed, Helicopter Helicopter evicts the core of our love and dysfunctional being and our willingness to rock with it.
Vocals by Julie Chadwick and/or Chris Zerby, combined with a melodic raucous of guitars send me over the edge -- Analog & Electrical Fields is worth a repeat listen for several days.
Analog
& Electrical Fields and By Starlight are for sale
at their site.
Contact them to request your copy.
Delerium's Poemordered online here with other albums by Delerium
Bernard Herrmann
Alfred
Hitchcock's sinister soundtrack composer
Tom Verlaine scores music for silent films
Low's
entire catalog is available from
this
site on pages two and three in the search for Low...be sure to scan
all pages in the search.
Low's current show dates
Tranquility Bass, DJ Vadim, Jimmy Somerville and Sally Herbert are among the contributers.
Melancholy Music covering Chris Bell, Dead Can Dance, Galaxie 500, Nick Drake, Richard Buckner and more.
Projekt Online Only Sale with loads of twin-paks for the Gothic music lovers.
Tara MacLean
Her
1996 release, Silence, displays powerful, poetic lyrics and
foreboding metaphorical images like falling rain, bitter cold, shadows on
walls, and floating face down in a river. Her voice sincerely conveys the
essence of longing, loving, languishing, leaving, and living. On the song,
"More," Maclean sends you dreaming of intimate exploration, singing,
"I want to give no reason/To touch your perfect face/I will die between your
lips/And live in your embrace/Forever more". I am, however, partial to the
lines, "I want to see you frightened/And I want to feel you strong." The
title track is reminiscent of an old traditional blues ballad. As much as
Maclean sings softly, her voice can turn you on as she belts out the chorus
on "Red," carried by a promiscuously passionate jazzy sax.
The liner notes also contains poetry by E.E. Cummings, Kahil Gibran, and Rainer Maria Rilke along with ethereal black and white photography.
Check out Tara's follow-up record,Passenger.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds latest album is called Nocturama.
Boatman's Call
(Mute)
The
words on Boatman's Call evoke loneliness, pining for an unrequited love.
Perhaps it's Cave's ode to the beauty of dark sadness and sweet misery.
It sounds more honest than his recent releases and it's quite refreshing
to hear organic sounds of piano, organ, acoustic guitar, and violins playing
slow, smooth and mellow melodies. A possession of some higher power permeates
through songs like "Brompton Oratory," "There is a Kingdom," and
"Idiot Prayer." Yet it's apparent that Cave's soul is no closer to being
saved in "Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?"
Any fiend would know that it's worth investing some time in Murder Ballads
Everything is Temporary
It was
put together by Nikki Sudden. Epic was found dead in his apartment on November 6, 1997. He was
37.
The Birthday Party's albums for sale online
Lyrics to the Tom Waits album,Beautiful Maladies
C-Tec
They
put music to a Dorothy Parker poem called "Epitaph". In case you're
not familiar with it, here's the entire poem, taken from The
Portable Dorothy Parker:
The first time
I died, I walked my ways;
I followed
the file of limping days.
I held me tall,
with my head flung up,
But
I dared not look on the new moon's cup.
I dared not
look on the sweet young rain,
And
between my ribs was a gleaming pain.
The next time
I died, they laid me deep.
They
spoke worn words to hallow my sleep.
They tossed
me petals, they wreathed me fern,
They
weighted me down with a marble urn.
And I lie here
warm, and I lie here dry,
And
watch the worms slip by, slip by.
Dorothy Parker's biography, "What Fresh Hell Is This?" by Marion Meade comments:
Depressed, her mood degenerated into morbidity. A poem she wrote in June suggests how insubstantial and unsafe rejecting men made her feel... she sensed herself plunging into that same torment again.
The poem ran in the New Yorker without her byline.
Dorothy Parker pages can be found on Fiendish Reading Material
The Simpsons: Songs In
The Key Of Springfield (Rhino Records)
Track
36 is the homage to "The Addams Family" TV theme.
Now available,
The
Simpsons: Go Simpsonic With The Simpsons: More Original Music from The Television
Series
