fat cat records night, brighton, 9th may

[Lady E]

did any other boarders go to this?

i saw dirtyho there...
it was really good...highlights were the animal collective, david grubbs and crescent

although i have to say i think black dice were terrible and we left then...such a shame that they headlined, above david grubbs who is a LEGEND

ill give them the benefit of the doubt though, who knows...

oh yes and semi-conductor's films were excellent

[decadnids]

Nah I missed it emma, although I really wanted to go.
I like Fat Cat - a good label, and generally good guys.

did any one else go to the massive advance night last thursday (in brighton)?

[V Knid esq]

Oh I completely forgot... bah. I am loving the new Crescent album... it's a bit Leonard Cohen. Black Dice do come over a bit like some of the Disastronaut random jams we used to do at the Lift (though there is a fucking AMAZING remix of one of their songs by EYE from the Boredoms coming out on DFA)

[decadnids]

V Knid esq
you used to do the Disastronaut things at the lift in brighton?

[V Knid esq]

Decadnids
yes I did. I did almost all the production for the Disastronaut album "Music Is Taping Home Killing" (it was a split album with Joe & Ruth Semiconductor's stuff on the other side) using source material that Jeff had collected / performed on a four-tracks, but Jeffrey uses the name now.

[decadnids]

V Knid you still making musick?

[MUX]

he is an official pop-whore now they say...
sorry for me ignorance but whose david grubbs ?

[Lady E]

re: black dice - well we stayed beyond track one because like super_collider in their very earliest incarnations when totally unplanned and unrehearsed, jams can sound terrible and noodly then a moment of togetherness and its amazing...but it didnt sound to me like anything was going to happen. everything else was great though. i think ill like the crescent album - they were really good live, pretty shambolic in places but a lot of heart, classic post-rock use of millions of instruments and the vocals are very ian curtis...there were 5 of them onstage and i imagine the album is really well produced so ill look forward to that

the animal collective were pretty amazing - two geeky guys with acoustic guitars, who did a 45 min track, with lots of yelping, howling and beating their guitars for rhythm..really got very loud, it was joyful and cathartic...a really nice musical space being carved out.

[MUX]

Originally posted by emma
like super_collider in their very earliest incarnations when totally unplanned and unrehearsed, jams can sound terrible and noodly then a moment of togetherness and its amazing...

i liked that sentence.. that is so true
jamming is always great musical appriciation

[Lady E]

david grubbs was in a band called squirrel bait in the 80s , who were quite influential - they were actually quite melodic hardcore - dare i say it even emo? then formed slint early 90s, widely thought of as the godfathers of post-rock. their album spiderland is very good.

he was in gastr del sol with jim o'rourke, they did a couple of albums i think, and recently has released solo albums, most recent 'rickets and scurvy' is on fat cat

he's a stalwart of the chicago scene which also produced tortoise and im sure he has done a lot more music than i know about collaborating with all sorts of great types like will oldham etc

[MUX]

no idea of any of the names mentioned but ill keep my eyes open...
i like Fatcat.. their musical direction is great

[V Knid esq]

The Black Dice album certainly has a few of those moments of togetherness, but could have done with some tighter editing I reckon.

The Crescent album certainly is very well produced. Love the lyrics, too... very mad and zen take on mundane life. I thought the singer's more Nick Cave than Ian Curtis, but I see what you're saying. I was really surprised by it cos the first Crescent album is just pure abstract sound sculptures with practically no conventional instrumentation at all.

Talking of FatCat, the forthcoming HiM album is just amazing also... beautiful twinkly sparkly future Afro-funk type of thing.

Decadnids - check the Knid folder in the Erutufon Public doodah (but wait half an hour or so - there's some fresh tracks just uploading now)

[audiofelch]

has anyone heard that really nice noodley french thing on fatcat, by Dorine Muraille? acoustic french folk songs style arrangements given a fennesz-oval fractured treatment. its real good.

[dirtyho]

I thought black dice was good - but it took a while for them to warm up. Their drummer was wicked, really staccatto stop/start kind of beats. Grubbs I was unaware of, my mate who I went with is a big fan - he was great. The whole line-up was pretty impressive for me. well done fat-cat!

[V Knid esq]

Originally posted by audiofelch
has anyone heard that really nice noodley french thing on fatcat, by Dorine Muraille? acoustic french folk songs style arrangements given a fennesz-oval fractured treatment. its real good.

If you like that you HAVE to check the Pedro vs Kathryn Williams EP on Moshi Moshi records - I've never heard acoustic instruments and mad glitch shit blended better... like Four Tet but more so, with real gorgeous vocals to boot.