nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (05/12/85)
I just saw Holy Cow, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, and Einsturzende Neubaten Thursday night at The Channel in Boston. What a night! Holy Cow: Bass guitar, lead guitar, drums, singer. These guys make The Swans seem happy. This was true angstmusic. Very disonant, wall of sound, screaming vocals, feedback. The singer had a powerful aura of evil depression about him. Highlights included "39 Lashes" with all 39 enumerated, and "I Wish I Were God". Worth seeing at least once. Bird Songs of the Mesozoic: These guys were great! I'm definitely going to get their album "Magnetic Flip". They have three keyboardists, a guitar player, and a rhythm machine. Each of the keyboardists sometimes played drums too. One of the keyboardists also played some sort of strange whistle. Very complicated music. Quite melodic, but with lots of interesting dissonance too. One of the keyboardists would sort of bang on his keyboard at random every now and then. They didn't do their version of "Rite of Spring", but they did do a cover of Brian Eno's Sombre Reptiles. Einsturzende Neubaten: THUNK THUNK CRUNCH GRIND THUNK GRIND THUNK THUNK CRUNCH GRIND THUNK GRIND. These guys have definitely NOT gone disco, though perhaps, maybe you could sort of dance to some of it. Bass guitar, two percussionists, singer. I can't call these guys dissonant, because their weren't any notes in their music. Their music sort of sounds like a troop of sentient pile drivers jamming. The two percussionists played on various pieces of industrial scrap metal, car differentials, springs, a shoping cart, etc., that were amplified and fed through various electronic effects so that it all sounded like different sorts of heavy machinery. The bass player mostly banged on his guitar rhymically, every now and then he'd throw in some scraping dissonace or maybe a chord or two. Good stuff. Check them out! "I hope you remember to treat the gelignite tenderly for me" Doug Alan mit-eddie!nessus Nessus@MIT-MC.ARPA
ir408@sdcc6.UUCP (ir408) (05/16/85)
As an ardent fan of Einsturzende, it bereaves me to here they were on the east coast and did not play here in southern California, as they did last year (definitely my concert of the year). Serious industrial rock fans should be alerted to the film "Dekoder", which stars F.M. Einheit (one of the buzzsaw players in Einsturzende), as well as Christiane Fellenshur (the reformed junkie on whose life the film Christiane F. was based). Genesis P. Orridge and William S. Burroughs have bit parts. The film has been released in Germany, and the filmmaker is currently trying to arrange distribution in the US. I saw a poor quality VHS copy with abyssmal subtitling, but even this could not detract from its brilliance. There will probably be a soundtrack album out soon (imported, of course), and this should be good mood music for those nights when you feel like playing with the high voltage coils in the back of the TV. One other thing to watch for is an EP from a group called the Abasydarians (spelling is approximate). Etherial, but gloomy none-the-less. "Life ... Don't talk to me about life" Jeff E Mandel MD UCSD Anesthesia Research
plutchak@uwmacc.UUCP (Joel Plutchak) (05/21/85)
In article <2076@sdcc6.UUCP> ir408@sdcc6.UUCP (ir408) writes: >...this should be good mood music for those >nights when you feel like playing with the high voltage coils in the >back of the TV. > >"Life ... Don't talk to me about life" > > Jeff E Mandel MD > UCSD Anesthesia Research I've always wondered what anesthesiologists did in their spare time... -- - joel ***************************************** Honk if you love silence! *****************************************