June 2009
2 posts
Brent Spiner - Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back (1991)
The guy who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation sings loungey songs a bit tone-deafly, backed by the band that scored the entire Star Trek TNG series. One track features Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton and Michael Dorn singing backup. This is an incredible album.
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Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane...
I haven’t listened to this yet so I can’t say anything about it really, but hey, it’s new Elvis Costello and that’s never a bad thing. Neat cover, too.
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May 2009
4 posts
Magik Markers - Baltimore Trust (2009)
VOLCANIC TONGUE sez: “Excellent quality archival live recordings of the classic trio line-up of Magik Markers – Elisa Ambrogio, Pete Nolan and Leah Quimby – recorded in Baltimore in 2003. Never got to see this line-up of the band as much as I would have liked to as they were a ferocious and unpredictable spectacle every night. Here they’re playing at some kind of tortuously down-tuned peak,...
The Vim and Vigour of Alvarius B. and Cerberus...
Alright here is a good one! Alvarius B. aka Alan Bishop aka Uncle Jim aka 1/3 of the always brilliant Sun City Girls performing three songs and Cerberus Shoal performing the same three songs. Two are Alvarius B. originals and have appeared in a different form on his second self-titled album, and one is a Cerberus Shoal original. The Cerberus Shoal song is maybe my favorite song ever, a sixteen...
Ken Nordine - Colors
Okay, so I already missed a day. Blame my roommate, he had my power cord (we share). So to make it up to you, here is the Greatest Album Ever.
In the late 50s, after getting his start in advertising voiceovers, Ken Nordine invented Word Jazz. What is word jazz? It’s just mostly the kind of unremarkable music you might hear in an elevator of a fancy hotel, or in the lobby while...
Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange - Dreams
So back in 1964, Delia Derbyshire (of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop) collaborated with a man named Barry Bermange on a few radio programs/programmes, this is the first one. Barry Bermange interviewed people about their dreams, and Delia Derbyshire spliced up the resulting recordings and put some eerie electronic music behind it. And the result is the most terrifying thing you will ever hear....