Do it.
grouper, hauschka, chrome wings, saudade, tom greenwood (dj set)
SE 10th & morrison
portland, or
8:00 $8
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
a sampling of recent preferences..
01Philip Jeck - Unveiled
This has been a real inspiration point for me - the first time I heard Jeck I was blown away by the mechanical sounds of his equipment. I had no idea turntablism could be taken this far.
02Richard Skelton - Lowe
“Marking Time” caught my ear the first time I heard it but I have never been happy to revisit it until now. My favorite part of this piece is the sound of fingers on the strings and the intermittent “popping” of the central loop. When the circling mechanical noise comes in, everything is complete.
03Bird Show - Clouds and Their Shadows
This record is so excellent, i really enjoy the ethnic pieces as well. I opted for the vinyl version from BARGE over the Kranky CD. I recommend you do as well.
04Brethren of the Free Spirit - The Lifting of the Veil
Sweet sweet chamber.. James Blackshaw and a German minimalist whose name is escaping me right now. I saw James play here with Richard Bishop last month and it was the best performance I had seen in a while.
05Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - Eyes are Mosaics
A natural companion to Jason’s CT/Budd selection. A fixture in our house lately, thanks to Jason for helping me rediscover the twins.
06Steve Hauschildt - Indoor Travel
Hauschildt is known for his work with Emeralds but this tremfuzz oscillation from his “Rapt for Liquid Minister” cassette has me thinking I’ll be following his solo work much more closely.
07Group Bombino - Tenere
I have been listening to a lot of African music and this Sublime Frequencies issue of Saharan guitar/folk music totally knocked me out.
08Sun City Girls - Space Prophet Dogon
I have been introducing friends to SCG through “Torch of the Mystics” and hope to turn a few more on through this - I would love to be playing this in my basement.
09Mayyors - Airplanes
This is fucking loud and crashes hard. What the hell is happening to punk rock?
Friday, March 27, 2009
Take 2 - these are all the songs that occupied more of my winter playlist. The next one will be everything that has been occupying my brain as of late…
01Cocteau Twins And Harold Budd - She Will Destroy You
So fucking ethereal and distant. Harold Budd was a huge influence for me and I often return to his works when I feel I need something somber and focused to help re-evaluate situations or otherwise. The combination of his lucid playing and the sheer beauty of Elisabeth Fraser’s voice make this song ghostly and fucking timeless.
02Lau Nau - Ruususuu
I really love the ease and emotive quality of this song. I bought this album by chance in an actual record store (gasp) in Vermont - I was not dissappointed
03 Lil Wayne - Fly In
Dude, I listened to this song so many fucking times I began to believe I actually wrote it. Seriously. Just listen to the first couple of verses…Fucking christ.
04Machinefabriek -Porselein
Honestly I often have trouble listening to pieces of music like Porselein because they don’t catch that certain spark in my brain. This song however has and I like the contrast and silence inherent throughout the piece.
05 Saudade - Hidden Talented
This song’s genesis and follow through is all Chris. When I returned from Vermont in January, A massive windstorm was lashing the houses and trees and the river making landing near the columbia treacherous. What interests me is that is exactly what I hear all through this song. If you listen closely you can hear a counter balance I created inside the swirling maelstorm near the end…like a plane landing gracefully and cautiously. I also really like the final seconds with the boots walking through the snow.
06Tim Hecker - Sea Of Pulses
This song is just fucking good. I don’t want to say anything else about it.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Here it is….fuckbrains, the first of my early spring mixes. These songs are what I have listened to pretty consistently since Dec….The next two will be more recent? And most likely include Lil Wayne…
Oh, and due to only being able to upload 50 MB at a time - I had to split this up into 2 zip files.
01The Fun Years - Fucking Milwaukee’s Been Hesher Forever
This album made many top ten lists this last year and with good reason. It is a concise and accessible piece of surging, impressionistic beauty. We played with these guys back in October and I really dug their style of collaboration.
02Grouper - False Horizon
Liz Harris continues to amaze me.
03The Smiths - Suffer Little Children
My friend Alex has been recommending me this shit for years. I first heard this during the winter blast which covered Portland around Xmas and the listened to it daily for about two weeks straight. “Manchester, Manchester so much to answer for.” Damn.
04Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron, Fred Squire -O My Heart
The lyrics in this song became almost a mantra for me during the early fall and winter - The idea of hunting for your heart, viewing it as a kind of prey. It speaks to me as a kind of understanding on ones self and perhaps our capacity to love? It just sounds grounded and I am always attracted to that…
05 Benoit Pioulard - Idyll
I know this dude lives somewhere around my neighborhood and I think I ran in to him one time in New Seasons. I heard he rarely performs live…This song is great, I like its brevity and emotive charge.
06 Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Logic Moon
I love glitch songs that emerge as meditative clicking lucidity. The contradiction of using something digital to create something organic is fucking brilliant.
07 David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything that happens will happen today
Fuck. This song begins so inconspicuously and then by the chrous it has guided us to an almost choral emotive catharsis.
08 Circle - Understanding New Age
If every new age song sounded like a fucking viking blitzkrieg, I would be down with the genre a whole lot more. Listen to the keyboards behind the churning the guitar, they keep their own time and provide an almost classical counter harmony which makes me want to listen more.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Come out this thursday - its free (for real dog? yes for real)
Saudade will play right at 6:30 - slightly quieter then other times - less intense? No! Fuck You!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Peasant Magik releases some amazing shit (including some of my older works as Weather Exposed Skeleton Music) ‘The Hooded Ones’ is now available through them on cassette. I think our music will translate well to this medium and I encourage everyone to buy a copy.
You can order it directly HERE
Thursday, February 5, 2009
we’re playing sunday with moodring and lickity at hush in portland.
willamette week says:
Saudade, Tape Deck Mountain, Lickity, Moodring
[NOSTALGIC AMBIENT SOUNDS] “Saudade” is an untranslatable Portuguese word that evokes feelings of nostalgia and loss, carrying with it the understanding that what you are longing for might never return. It’s an apt moniker for this Portland duo’s ambient creations. Using guitars and other manipulated sounds, it ekes out heartbreaking melodies that have a slightly dreamy feel to them. But they are always undercut with that tinge of sadness, knowing their lovely creations—like a dream—will inevitably come to an end. ROBERT HAM. 8 pm. The Hush, 14 NW 3rd Ave., . Cover. All ages.
also a new track
HIDDEN TALENTED