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Listed: The Spatulas — Part 2
The Listed by members of The Spatulas is continued.
5 of Lila Jarzombek’s fave tunes:
Linda Smith — In This, 1988-'96
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I love this particular cassette! Linda Smith is such a great songwriter. Her orientation to playing and home recording is a source of inspiration for me!
Dadamah — Brian’s Children, 1994
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One of my favorite New Zealand bands. Love the pace and density of this song.
Relatively Clean Rivers — The Persian Caravan, 1976
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I love this entire album and the guitar playing on it! Was hard to choose my favorite song, they’re all so good.
Mirrors — How Could I, 1974
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This song makes me think about playing with the Spatulas! Maybe someday we will have an organ or keyboard….or flutes!?
International Harvester — Sommarlåten, 1976
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Late 60’s/early 70’s Psychedelic Swedish rock band related to Parson Sound and the later group Trad Gras & Stenar. Such great jams and the guitar playing just rips. Always makes me excited to play after listening.
4 tunes Jon Grothman’sbeen hitting pretty hard on the reg:
Les Rallizes Dénudés — Memory is Far Away, 1967-'69
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One of the heaviest bands in the world wistfully chooglin’ and burnin’ a kazoo.
Makanda Ken McIntyre — Mambooga, 2004
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This amazing woodwind quartet was all performed and overdubbed by Makanda Ken McIntyre. It sounds like Eric Dolphy calliope music.
How To Get Rich in Rotterdam — Swinging With Ingeborg, 1980s
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Dutch weirdos making weird Dutch music. Effective use of wah.
Pressler / Morgan — Hand Piece, 1979
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Very cool Cleveland poetry punk band.
#dusted magazine#listed#the spatulas#linda smith#dadamah#relatively clean rivers#mirrors#international harvester#les rallizes dénudés#makanda ken mcintyre#how to get rich in rotterdam#pressler / morgan
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Roy Montgomery & Friends – Broken Heart Surgery LP (Discreet Music)
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The importance and depth/body of work of Christchurch, NZ's Roy Montgomery is too long for me to get into here, and probably redundant for a lot of you, but the gap between his '90s works and the spate of releases from 2016 on (dutifully documented by Omaha's Grapefruit label) feels nearly closed now, and in 2024 it's all had time for new chasms to open around it. (If you're mistaking him for the character from TV's Castle, put down the remote and go outside). Other works of recent years have been dedicated to Montgomery's longtime partner Kerry McCarthy's passing back in 2021, but Broken Heart Surgery really feels like the effort where the grief has settled in his bones, some of the acoustic crispness of more recent releases like Rhymes of Chance muted down into mournful low clouds of chorus pedal chords and the haunting vocals of longtime compatriots and collaborators like Stephen Cogle (Terminals, Victor Dimisch Band, Vacuum; essentially the other lynchpin of New Zealand's modern music) and Garbage and the Flowers vocalist Emma Johnstone. Barricaded in by gentle vocal reveries, haunted poetry and atmospheric synths, this one feels colder and slower, yet more immediate than some of his other works, looking back to his '90s touchstones Scenes from the South Island and the soon-to-be-reissued Temple IV, as well as the massive RMHQ box set, as milemarkers in his astonishing career. Words like "goth" don't even begin to set the stage for the desolation and ultimate rebirth that takes place across these six tracks, and I find myself at a loss for an audience who needs to discover this and won't feel it within their bones, forever attached. Unlike the Grapefruit titles this one's a Swedish import and will not hang out for long. Absolutely essential, the first true stunner of 2024.
(Doug Mosurock)
#roy montgomery#dadamah#pin group#terminals#dissolve#discreet music#gothenburg#christchurch#new zealand#still single#doug mosurock#album review#vinyl record#bandcamp#Bandcamp
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7/18/22.
First listen hitting a summer feeling sweet spot.
"This is a recuperative project of easeful making; attempting reclamations of lost narratives, exploring love, loss and the psychedelic of the everyday." - Caroline Kennedy, January 2022, London
Dirty Three bandmates Jim White and Mick Turner play in the band. The loose and gently torn edges of these songs bring to mind some great melding of Garbage and the Flowers, Dadamah, Maryrose Crook's songs with the Renderers, Dear Nora, Amy Rigby...
Caroline Kennedy is from Melbourne. This is the band's second record and is out on Grapefruit Records.
#Caroline No#Grapefruit Records#Melbourne#Australia#Dirty Three#The Garbage and the Flowers#Dadamah#The Renderers#Dear Nora#Amy Rigby#Dig Nitty#micah
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for my whole life, in my wildest and most romantic mental fantasies i am united forever in holy matrimony with some imaginary guy who has spent his whole life thinking he'd never meet anybody who shared his passions and interests, until he meets me, and our meeting would be a burning flash of enlightenment, a once-in-a-lifetime-recognition-through-the-other. (i don't know why but the fantasy is primarily about the other guy, and the other guy's firsthand experience, but go ahead and blame that on whatever) in my fantasy me and the imaginary guy would talk about like jackie o motherfucker and faust and henry cow and bongwater and dadamah and spacemen 3 and early mercury rev and so on. in a juvenile way i spent my whole adolescence upset that i was never been viewed as a manic pixie dream whatever. and even bearing in mind that that's an objectifying position to be in, i still like the idea of being mystical to someone, and feel like i missed out on having that experience while it was still possible, and while it could have still been motivated by sincerity and innocence. i feel like if i ever have been in such a position its been more objectifying because its not for the things i think are special but its been about like, my being a "GOTH CHICK" (imaginining this phrase impersonally & mechanically carved into a giant monolith of crude iron or something)
i think i'm too geographically remote for this dream to ever be actualized in any way, which also means that i'll never know the mundane reality of something that halfway resembles my wild fantasy, and my wild fantasy will never dissipate or scar over. i'm in a state of arrested development about it and its really just an embarrassing thing. it just causes limerence and all kinds of weird shit. if things continue this way i'm just going to draw a big picture on my bedroom wall of a guy who listens to dadamah and jackie o motherfucker and all that stuff and talk to it
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Abstract Concrete! Population II! Th' Faith Healers! Polvo! Stereolab! Moonshake! Long Fin Killie! ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead! The 3Ds! Archers Of Loaf! Pitchblende! Laurels! Helium! Superchunk! Sebadoh! Pavement! U.S. Maple! Dinosaur Jr.! Dadamah! Nirvana!
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the wires are overhit
there's no shelter in the glass
the clash of every frequency
high tension house
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#violet#songs#trackcollection#1980s music#musician#original music#rock music#song lyrics#music#remix#singing#new song#new music
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6/1/20.
Roy Montgomery (Christchurch, New Zealand) has been part of so many different bands with different sounds over the course of the past 40 years - The Pin Group and Dadamah are the most known to me. A few years back he embarked on a truly daunting project which turned out to be RMHQ - Headquarters. This is a 4 LP behemoth where each LP has a different feel. This is far different from The Pin Group’s post-punk or the loose structures of Dadamah.
There are shades of pop everywhere among this experimental project. “R” (the first LP) is the “catchiest”. I fell asleep listening to “M” today and was a little freaked out by a drone when I awoke.
The music is haunting and beautiful (the same words I used when referring to the Cindy Lee post from a couple of weeks ago). Montgomery’s vocals are the perfect amount of low - not as low as Calvin Johnson or Johnny Cash, but hovering in those realms.
This was released by Grapefruit Records. Let me use this occasion to remind you that Grapefruit is having an amazing sale right now. Noah Sterba, The Terminals, Roy Montgomery, and The Garbage and The Flowers can all be had at steep discounts (sometimes as high as 80%).
#Roy Montgomery#Christchurch#New Zealand#The Pin Group#Dadamah#Cindy Lee#Calvin Johnson#Johnny Cash#Grapefruit Records#Noah Sterba#The Terminals#The Garbage And The Flowers
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‘Limbo Swing’ by Dadamah, from ‘This Is Not a Dream’
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The shared experience of cloistered living led us to this moment. We stand upon the precipice of delight, with no notions of shape or sender, only an expectation crafted from an unmentionable past. Swearing we wouldn’t betray ourselves like this hasn’t gotten us anywhere ( it never does). everything will get ahead of us as soon as we start fancying for this that and the other. “Remember the last time?”, she utters with an agency greater than herself. “We built up this big picture, made all that racket about changing our lives up, and look…” sweeping hand gesture
[I appear to be listening, focusing instead on a picture of somewhere I’d never known. A place explored and experienced when this meant nothing. Where were we back then? I can’t for the life of me say with certainty. But now…this is what’s left to be dealt with. Earning a living in order to understand, there’s something inherently wrong here. Whoever wrote this script was taking back door payments. Neither of us believe the lines given to us, nor is our faith with those who want chaos with no contingency plan.]
“Hello?!” hand comes into frame stage left, makes contact with cheek “How long have I been talking to myself for?” [look at her, apologize, tell her to continue]
“You know, for all your theories you sure are useless sometimes.”
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Still Single / Heathen Disco 2020 End of Year Recap
I guess I’m back! I started gingerly dipping back over into Tumblr to publish some reviews as a means of cutting through all the bondage photos and anime screencaps and people still living on Tumblrs (shout out to anyone still Tumblin', it's alright). I also redoubled my efforts to do great radio shows, and that seems to bother some of you enough to unsubscribe, but I'm feeling great about all that. If you wanna hear those shows, you can go to Mixcloud and listen to your hearts' content. Those 5-6 reviews on here actually turned up worthwhile music in my PO box, so thanks to those who submitted.
This was gonna be the year I reintroduced myself to the world. Don't make plans like that. Things are a lot better now than I thought they'd be, and the time I burnt up on movies and self-reflection this year was probably more needed than another DJ gig or whatever. Radio sustained me, I will freely admit, and finding records out in the wild once shops reopened was really killer too.
Anyway, time for a year-end recap, right?
Top 10 albums, historical (alphabetical):
Adulkt Life – Book of Curses (What’s Your Rupture?)
Bailterspace – Concret (self-released)
The Cowboy – Wi-Fi on the Prairie (Feel It)
Angel Bat Dawid and Tha Brotherhood – Live (International Anthem)
Home Blitz – All Through the Year EP (Sophomore Lounge)
MJ Guider – Sour Cherry Bell (Kranky)
David Nance – Staunch Honey (Trouble in Mind)
Theo Parrish – Wuddaji (Sound Signature)
Schisms – Speech Copy Rap Master (Fort Evil Fruit)
Sweeping Promises – Hunger for a Way Out (Feel It)
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Ana Roxanne – Because of a Flower (Kranky)
Clemency – References EP and remixes (2 B REAL)
Tara Clerkin Trio – self-titled (Laura Lies In)
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger – Force Majeure (International Anthem)
DJ Python – Mas Amable (Incienso)
FACS – Void Moments (Trouble in Mind)
Green/Blue – self-titled (Slovenly)
Gun Outfit – Clean Runs the Thread (Joyful Noise)
Janedriver – You Know It’s True EP (self-released)
Junk Drawer – Ready for the House (Art for Blind)
Lavender Flu – Barbarian Dust (In the Red) / Tomorrow Cleaners (MEDS) … technically two releases, but really just chapters in the same book
Lewsberg – In This House (12XU)
Melenas – Dias Raros (Trouble in Mind)
The Midnight Steppers – Isolation Drives (Radical Documents)
Oily Boys – Cro Memory Grin (Cool Death)
Optic Sink – self-titled (Goner)
Permission – Organised People Suffer (La Vida Es Un Mus)
Pool Holograph – Love Touched Time … and Time Began to Sweat (Sunroof)
Riki – self-titled (Dais)
Sacred Product – Same Old Gag (Eternal Souncheck)
The Soft Pink Truth – Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase? (Thrill Jockey)
Special Interest – The Passion Of (Night School/Thrilling Living)
Luke Stewart – Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet (Astral Spirits)
Vanessa Worm – VANESSA 77 (Optimo Musik)
Jim White & Marisa Anderson – The Quickening (Thrill Jockey)
15 reissues/archival, alphabetical yet again:
Dadamah – This Is Not a Dream (Grapefruit)
East Village – Hotrod Hotel (Slumberland)
The Eighteenth Day of May – self-titled (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube)
Endless Boogie – The Gathered and Scattered (No Quarter)
Flaming Tunes – self-titled (Superior Viaduct)
Anthony Moore – OUT (Drag City)
Musica Transonic – self-titled (Black Editions)
Naujawanan Baidar – self-titled (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube)
No Trend – Too Many Humans/Teen Love box set (Drag City)
The Only Ones – Live in Chicago 1979 (Alona’s Dream)
Rema-Rema – Wheel in Small Doses Extended Version (Le Coq Musique)
Vertical Slit – Live at Browns (Siltbreeze)
Vivienne Styg – Rose of Texas (Tall Texan)
The Whip – self-titled (Wantage USA)
Various Artists – Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground (Captured Tracks)
Top 10 Record Scores this year, A to zed:
The Church – Sing-Songs 12” EP (Parlophone)
The Equals – Equals Party live promo 12” (Phonogram)
HNO3 – Doughnut Dollies 12” (R & S)
Annea Lockwood – Glass World of Anna Lockwood LP (Tangent)
Optik/Equal Phaze – split one-sided 12” test press (no label)
Six Finger Satellite – Severe Exposure LP/12” (Sub Pop)
Sweet Breeze – Across the Desert LP (Feathers)
Tappi Tíkarrass – Miranda LP (Gramm)
Various Artists – Best of the Beat Greatest Hits LP, purple sleeve (Espera)
Various Artists – Le Mysterieux 12” EP (Musique Pour La Danse)
Favorite movies discovered in 2020:
“Animals” | 2019, d. Sophie Hyde
“Band of the Hand” | 1986, d. Paul Michael Glaser
“Bell, Book & Candle” | 1958, d. Richard Quine
“Breaking In” | 1989, d. Bill Forsyth
“Le Choc du Futur” | 2019, d. Marc Collin
“The City Girl” | 1984, d. Martha Coolidge
“Conquest” | 1983, d. Lucio Fulci
“Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992” | 2018, d. Jeremy Deller
“G.B.H” | 1982, d. David Kent-Watson
“Luz” | 2018, d. Tilman Singer
“The Pyx” | 1973, d. Harvey Hart
“Ring of Darkness” | 1979, d. Pier Carpi
“Rivals” | 1972, d. Krishna Shah (and RIP to Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, who made me aware of it, as he made many people aware of the insane secret histories of genre cinema)
“Satisfaction” | 1988, d. Joan Freeman
“Savage Three” | 1975, d. Vittorio Salerno
“Simon, King of the Witches” | 1971, d. Bruce Kessler
“Swallow” | 2019, d. Carlo Mirabella-Davis
“Thief” | 1981, d. Michael Mann
“Two Gentlemen Sharing” | 1969, d. Ted Kotcheff
“X, Y & Zee” | 1972, d. Brian G. Hutton
Resolutions for 2021: Open things up, share more, care more.
_______ New Year,
Doug Mosurock
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Dadamah - Limbo Swing
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