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ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO (Part V)

Sunday, April 15, 2007

CHILLUM : CHILLUM (UK'71)

Plus 5 Bonus Tracks

Chillum was born from the ashes of the progressive-psychedelic band Second Hand. They released only one lp, on Mushroom Records, in 1971. The band was led by vocalist/keyboardist Ken Elliott and drummer Kieran O'Connor, who had recorded 2 albums "Reality" and "Death May Be Your Santa Claus" as Secondhand in the late 1960s. Guitarist Toy McGill joined Chillum for its lone album, and his playing shines throughout, blending nicely with the band's extended-jam style. In fact, "Brain Strain" was recorded during McGill's audition with the band, as producer Vic Keary had the tape machines running. Bassist George Hart rounded out the band's lineup and along with O'Connor formed a solid rock rhythm section.


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FAUST vs. DÄLEK : Derbe Respect Alder (2003)


Music From the Darkside

Sometimes things that shouldn't work just do. Take for example this collaboration between the veteran German industrialist outfit Faust and New Jersey hip hop trio Dalek. Maybe I just like things to stick to categories. If I'm going to listen to rap music then I'll pick out Eminem or Ol' Dirty Bastard. If I want Krautrock then I'll plump for a night in with Tangerine Dream or Klaus Schulze. The merging of the genres has as much appeal as mixing porridge and pork chops, or wearing snowshoes on the beach. So much for the blinkers, this record is that rare example of a collaboration between artists from radically different corners of the musical universe achieving significantly more than the sum total of its parts. Faust dispense with their noodling and deliver a full on set of brutal, focussed rock music, scuzzy at the edges, tripping over itself in its urge to carry the fight. This relentless assault is augmented by Still's awesome turntablism, and the bitter ranting of MC Dalek - together in the mix churning out a frothing rancid stew of noise, with a beat like a bludgeon, howling with rancour. This is a genuinely dark record, that carries with it pain and fury and resentful, toe-curling misery - no more so than with the gut wrenching 'Dead Lies', or the repeated blows to a bruise that constitute the nightmarish 'Bullets Need Violence'. This is indeed a violent record, a headlong journey in to danger.The closest thing I've heard to this is Ice's "Bad Blood", but even that is not as relentless as this. It doesn't matter if you don't usually buy hip-hop, or if you don't like artists old enough to be your father, if you like the dark side then you'll like this. A vision of Hell made flesh. Merciless.
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VV.AA. : Vertigo Mixed .... by Andy Votel
Andy Votel has produced a gem of a CD having somehow polished his beloved Vertigo collection of rough stones down producing a 60 minute mix CD featuring his pick of the bunch. Andy’s had an infatuation with the Vertigo rock catalogue for 20 years and explains on the sleeve the choice was tough, “As any symphonic-rock enthusiast will testify, prog rock tracks are not short.” 4 tracks alone could fill up this hour long album and It is testament to this DJ’s skill he has succeeded in arranging a CD grabbing your attention from start to finish, 52 superb tracks squeezed in to 68 minutes of classic progressive & psychedelic music.
Don’t be put off if you don’t recognise many names on the back cover, your peers will think you truly Avant Garde and any self-respecting muso would give his right arm for this collection. Vertigo records have so many layers they are simultaneously rocky, funky, moody & generally kick ass. Highlight of the album is the mesmerising minute long drum solo towards the end inducing the kind of dizziness you’d expect with Vertigo. This a great record to warm up pre-gig with a few JD and coke, just don’t forget to go out!
Sortofatracklist:
1. Linda Hoyle – Morning for One
2. Lighthouse – Love of A Woman
3. Gracious – Introduction
4. Nirvana – Modus Operandi
5. Aphrodite’s Child – Battle of The Locusts
6. Colosseum – The Kettle
7. Manfredd Mann – One Way Glass
8. Black Sabbath – Behind The Wall of Sleep
9. Assagai – Telephone Girl
10. Marsha Hunt’s 22 – The Beast Day
11. Affinity – Three Sisters
12. Juicy Lucy – Willie The Pimp
13. Gravy Train – Think of Life
14. Freedom – Toe Grabber
15. Flied Egg – Leave Me Woman
16. Frumpy – I’m Afraid Big Moon
17. Warhorse – Vulture Blood
18. Thin Lizzy – JTF Meets JTW
19. Uriah Heep – Walking In Your Shadow
20. Tea – Through Scarlet
21. Juicy Lucy – Train
22. Bob Downes – Piccadilly Circles
23. Juicy Lucy – She’s Mine
24. Buffalo – Ballade of Irvin Fink
25. Atlantis – It’s Getting Better
26. Janne Schaffer – Air Mattress
27. Ian Carr – Hector’s House
28. Patto – Government Man
29. Atlantis – Living At The End of Time
30. Affinity – I Am You
31. Beggars Opera – Time Machine
32. Alan Stivell – An Dro Nevez
33. Agitation Free – Rucksturrz
34. Zao – La Soupe
35. Catapilla – Embryonic Future
36. Brave New World – The End
37. Dr. Z – In A Tocken of Dispair
38. Atlantis – Let’s Get on The Road Again
39. Aphrodite’s Child – Do It
40. Black Sabbath – The Wizard
41. May Blitz – For Madmen Only
42. Baker Gurvitz Army – Memory Lane
43. May Blitz – In Part
44. Daddy Longlegs – Wheelin’ And Dealin’
45. Cressida – Lights In My Mind
46. Affinity – All Along The Watchtower
47. Trace – Galliarde
48. Brave New World – The End
49. May Blitz – Snakes And Ladders
50. Nucleus – Roots
51. Agitation Free – Haunted Island
52. Cressida – Let Them Come When They Will
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CRUSHED BUTLER : UNCRUSHED (UK'69-'71)
Underground Psychedelic-Punkrock (!!???)
Long before the Sex Pistols put the boot into what remained of the hippie dream, Read, guitarist Jesse Hector and bassist Alan Butler were living out those fantasies with a fury that gave other bands good reason for pause. Formed in 1969, the trio soon moved away from covering the day's more happening fare (including Small Faces' "Song Of A Baker") for an implosive urgency that won an underground following, but utterly baffled the labels that they courted. Uncrushed rounds up the six tracks honed at places like Regent Sound (1969), EMI House, Decca Studios (1970), and even the Marquee Club (1971) with a succession of bassists (including Barry Wyles of the pre-Queen link Smile). They even got a rave from Sounds following an impressive gig opening for UFO. But companies wouldn't bite, and manager/cohort Graham Breslau left in the summer of 1970, after nearly a year of fruitless effort. (Former Pink Floyd overseer Peter Jenner also declined to get involved.) By February 1971, the band had changed its name to Tiger, but found no takers for "High School Dropout"'s more restrained boogie-pop; former Crusaders guitarist Neil Christian bailed out, while orders by Black Sabbath/ELO overseer Don Arden to "sort out some gigs" never materialized. Crushed Butler split up in the spring of 1971 after Read approached Track Records - who'd rejected them before - and wound up being hired there as a songwriter.
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COIL : THE APE OF NAPLES (2005)
John Balance/Peter Christopherson/Drew McDowell
Simon Norris/Thighpaulsandra/Cliff Stapleton/Mike Yorke
A lot of these songs have surfaced before in previous versions but these versions are entirely unreleased. Aside from the obvious updates of "Teenage Lightning" and "Cold Cell", "I Don't Get It" is an evolved version of "Spastiche"- originally circulating on the Backwards demos bootleg and appearing as a Song of the Week at one point.During an interview in 1997, John Balance claimed the title of this album was going to be Fire of the Mind (both a Louis Wain painting and a Stapleton [Nurse with Wound]/Tibet [Current 93] song)."It's In My Blood" doesn't resemble "AYOR" very closely and "Heaven's Blade" does not resemble the "Heaven's Blade" on the Backwards demos bootleg."Going Up" is a tribute to the theme from Are You Being Served?.Featuring songs recorded in final days of John's life, as well as material originally recorded at Trent Reznor's studio in New Orleans, and now substantially re-arranged by Peter Christopherson, this album is sure to be seen as the 'classic' Coil album of all time, and is not to be missed under any circumstances!
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