Vacant Little Stare~SepiaChord Playlist 5.04.08

Sepiachord

May 4 2008 2:49 AM  Playlist for the Week Ending 5/4 Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau: Engine No 9 Juan Prophet Organization: Factory Big Fish Ensemble: I am Woman Nap Hayes & Matthew Prater: Prater Blues Festival: Hold off the Earth Andrew & Jim Baxter: The Moore Girl  Demonika and the Darklings: Everyday is Halloween  Make a Rising: Sneffels Yokul ECPE: Sunrise Princeton: Leonard Woolf Painted Saints: Paladin Whine Jo Gabriel: Vacant Little Stare Taylor’s Kentucky Boys: Soldier Joy Alabama Sheiks: Sittin’ on Top of the World Fern Knight: Loch Na Fooey Paul Mercer: L’Etoile de Mer Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Crowns make Pigs Sterilize Stereo: Mary’s Doll The Other Flesh: Waltzing Down the Road to Hell Kim Vermillion: Organ Donor’s March Bauhaus: Who Killed Mr Moonlight? Grey DeLisle: Bohemian Rhapsody Slim Cessna’s Auto Club: An Introduction to the Power of Braces: Faith Ex Reverie: Clouds? or Smoke? Susan Voelz: Ode to Billy Joe Kansas City Strummers: Broken Bed Blues Ditty Bops: Sister Kate Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Deus Ibi Est Voodoo Organist: Ain’t Dead Yet Vic Chesnutt: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

Advertisement

Fable Honey: SepiaChords Playlist 4.27.08

Sepiachord

Apr 28 2008 11:09 PM  Playlist for the Week Ending 4/27/08 Del Rey and the Sun Kings: I am the Light Ex Reverie: Cloud? or Smoke? Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau: Acquiesce  Jo Gabriel: Fable Honey Juan Prophet Organization: Birthday Dirge Grand Archives: Miniature Birds R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders : Singing in the Bathtub Demonika and the Darklings: Who? Joe Black: Curl Mcgee Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers: Bible, Candle & SKull Munly & the Lee Lewis Harots: Jacob Dumb Jill Tracy: Torture Miss Moonshine: It’s Only a Paper Moon Slim Cessna’s Auto Club: That Fierce Cow is Common Sense in a Country Dress ECPE: Winter Song Princeton: Leonard Woolf Thomas Nola et son Orchestre: Gloomy Sunday Make a Rising: Your Karmic Obstacle Orion Rigel Dommisse: Alice & Sarah Paul Weller: Early Morning Rain Ego Plum & the Ebola Music Orchsestra: The Chinese Carnival Show Festival: Blown Light Oval Portraits: Crying Windows The Other Flesh: Waltzing Down the Road to Hell Sterilize Stereo: Give it a Rest Fern Knight: Sundew 16 Horsepower: American Wheeze

Mick Mercer has entered the room…

Mick Mercer granted me the honor of reviewing both The Amber Sessions and The Last Drive In~ And in his inimitable writing style, he graced my work with a very complimentary testimonial indeed~

I am feeling very grateful these days for the incredible praise that both these albums are attracting from various people who I greatly respect. A thousand kisses and sunflowers cast their way!

Mick tells that a review of Fools and Orphans is immanent…

I think I’ll go buy myself an ice cream now.

Here are his reviews of Amber and Drive In:

http://mickmercer.livejournal.com/836856.html

http://mickmercer.livejournal.com/835071.html

Rather than answer Mick’s query’s directly since he’s most likely busy writing some fantastic review for some particular artist~ I thought i’d post a little explanation for a few of the things he mentioned amidst his covering both The Amber Sessions and The Last Drive In~ first he wondered if goats dance and if I had some knowledge of that! Well yes they do, and I did! In fact my publishing company Dancing Goat Music, is named after these magically lyrical creatures who inadvertently discovered that lovely nectar of the gods Coffee! Here is the link and the legend as it goes: http://www.dancinggoats.com/Home_C277.cfm?CFID=6926294&CFTOKEN=79250333 The Legend of the Dancing Goats® Coffee was first discovered in what is now called Ethiopia. According to legend, the area’s remote highlands were home to a goatherd named Kaldi. One day he noticed his goats dancing and prancing after eating the small, red fruit of a nearby shrub. Not wishing to be left out of the fun, Kaldi ate the coffee cherries and soon he was dancing with his goats! Now concerning the following pondering: “in the bump of night”, which is a lovely phrase I haven’t heard before. I have no idea how this ties in with the cover imagery; perhaps not at all, perhaps with blistering clarity for those who understood. My love of horror films and the lost art of the genre is getting to be pretty well known amongst my fans~and how I long for that past time that once gloriously showcased some of the more off the beaten path style films, the cult, the b movie, etc~ The Last Drive In is my homage to that nostalgic time when we piled into our cars, dressed in our pajamas and watched all things gruesome and unreal jump off the big screen at us while we cowered in the back seat of dad’s chevy! I liked the idea of saying The Bump of Night instead of a bump in the night! And I am so thrilled Mick liked it too! ‘There’s A Crack In The Wall’ is giddy and light-headed, with the spectre of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds circling, which I accept must be accidental. A scrawny beauty, this is like an eerie breeze commanding the piano with its lid left open” Yes, the essence of that Lucy effect came quite naturally to the piece as the entire album felt channeled to me~ It struck me the same once it was done, but i really liked it’s attitude and felt that it should remain as is~ Again, I am thrilled that Mick sensed it’s spontaneous appearance in the song~ and i love his term Scrawny beauty! he does know how to turn a phrase~ thank you again Mick~ i hope this clears up a few of the scratching one’s head moments~ Cheers all~ Joey Posted by Jo Gabriel on Saturday, May 03, 2008 at 8:20 PM

Of Love and Ether ~ Ninthspace review of track off Fools&Orphans

Jo Gabriel’s forthcoming Fools and Orphans could well turn out to be her signature album. Whilst it bears elements from her previous releases and may be open to inevitable musical comparisons, what’s exhibited in these new songs is fiercely individual and nothing short of staggering: musically inventive and lyrically impressive.

Like all of the tracks, Of Love and Ether has this paradox of richness and sparsity – in this instance bringing together a duo of string instruments (and birdsong) to join Jo’s piano and unique voice in a delicate yet powerfully emotive poem.

Fools and Orphans has an artist’s limited release from 7 May through Ephemera and will also be released in Winter 2008 through Kalinkaland.

God Grant She Lye Still ~SepiaChord playlist ending 4.20.08

Sepiachord

Apr 20 2008 9:56 AM       Comment Back – Send Message – Block User Playlist for the Week Ending 4.20.08 juan Prophet Organization: Factory Miss Moonshine: It’s Only a Paper Moon Slim Cessna’s Auto Club: Boom Magalina Hagalina Boom  Ex Reverie: Second Son Make a Rising: Peaceful Paths Voltaire: Anastasia Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau: The Ballad of Lettice Finding & Oscar Cutlet Priscilla Hernandez: Fairy Tale ECPE: All Tomorrow’s Parties Mad Tea Party: Do You Have What it Takes? One-Eyed Doll: Suicidal Again Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Safe Hospital Bed (Sweet Toothless Smile) The Other Flesh: Waltzing Down the Road to Hell Sterilize Stereo: The Great Division Jo Gabriel: God Grant She Lye Still Alessandro Moreschi: Ave Maria Jill Tracy: Sell My Soul Ilya Monosov: The Beauty that You Are Festival: Zebulon Vermillion Lies: Global Warming Fern Knight: Magpie Suite, Part III Paul Mercer: L’Etoile de Mer Kim Vermillion: The Day We Met  Oval Portraits: Crying Windows Demonika and the Darklings: Cry Me a River Tom Waits: Bone Chain

Ninthspace review of “Island”

MARCH 22 2008

Island, Jo Gabriel’s fourth full-length album (released in 2005) is probably an ideal introduction to her work because it holds new songs and others from earlier releases. Jo takes the indulgences of This Mortal Coil and weaves them inside traditional and otherworldly piano pieces, accompanied by strings, fretless bass, guitar, her sometimes unusual vocals and Linda Mackley’s perfectly balanced percussion. Whilst the results are obviously off-centre, they remains deliciously melodic and listenable even if the lyrics travel to other places.