Friday, May 09, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] Lots of fun


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Bossa nova: the coolest sound under the sun

I think Joyce takes a narrow view.  The US-backed dictatorship was monstrous, of course, and certainly put the country on a different track than it would have been on.  Maybe as a result the music is different than it would have been. 

Perhaps without Reagan and Thatcher we would have had 35 unbroken years of prog rock dominance in the US and England.  To some people that would be good.  For lovers of the Sex Pistols and the Clash and all that followed, not so good.

I totally revere the indie rock scene in Brazil.  Check out Lulina at http://tramavirtual.uol.com.br/artista.jsp?id=6754 - great songs to listen to, and tons of free downloads if you join (free).  Then check out the thousands and thousands of other bands on the tramavirtual site. 

Brazil has huge problems, but there is also much to be excited about, and not all of it is bossa nova!

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Telstar wrote:

"Bossa nova is a vision of Brazil as it should have been," says the singer
Joyce, who is organising a bossa nova 50th birthday concert at the Barbican
that will feature the style's originators and its new exponents. "We should
have been a wonderful, democratic country. Instead we had 21 years of
military dictatorship, something we are still paying for. So bossa nova
represents a different way of life; a culture more sophisticated than the
one we have today."

http://tinyurl.com/4c8yon

Al


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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] You gotta see this!




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I saw this page on Dirty Ol Scoundrel Label Acts and thought you might like it. Eventually all my the Bands on the Dirty Ol Scoundrel label will be up there. what appeals to me about this is that anybody can come along and edit anything any way they chose, even anonymously. So if you feel like having a little harmless (or malicious) fun, adding information about the Dirty Ol Scoundrel acts, go to it.

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Monday, May 05, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] Blind Kiwi Fillmore plays the blues (again).

Check out the new tune 'From Cyberia With Love' at the Blind Kiwi Fillmore site at Soundclick. This particular little morsel is joint project of Blind Kiwi, Lu Flukur, and Ludwig Van Frankenstein of The Frost Heaves.  Other tasty bluze toons by Blind Kiwi there, too...


Band page: http://soundclick.com/blindkiwifillmore

Song page: http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6513838
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"The Most Unwanted Song"

I think the many stylistic shifts and unexpected elements keep it interesting and fun. Of course, the object of the game wasn't really to create unlistenable music, it was to show the absurdity of creating (art or politics or anything else) on the basis of public opinion polls. At least, I think that's the object.  Maybe I should conduct a poll and see what other people think....

Honing in on an idea and not letting go of it for at least several minutes (at least) creates music that's much more unlistenable (and unwanted).

I offer up by way of example a couple of different tracks:

The Professor Builds An Escape Machine by Ernest Youngman at:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=517202&songID=6509688 

All of these pieces at this site (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=517202)
are just about unlistenable, but I figure this is about the worst.

I also recommend "Pending Doom" by Pseudojandek at
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=430098&songID=5956919

I'm told it was prepared for a Jandek covers open mic event, and reportedly even hard core Jandek fans got a deer-in-the-headlights look about them and took off.  All the patrons were chased out except for one hardy soul who stayed through the whole thing.


On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Telstar wrote:

A link to the famous Komar & Melamid track:

"Hiphop tuba plus a soprano rapping about the Old West -- what's not to
like?"

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/17/25-minute-compositio.html

I have to download this. I have a track by them on the "Revolutions Per
Minute (The Art Record)" album. On it they teach a classroom of art students
how to say "F*uck Your Mother" in Russian.

Al


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Thursday, May 01, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] Enjoy the new song by Wayne N Cheeze

Check out this song: 'Stuck' by WayneNCheeze.


Band page: http://soundclick.com/waynencheeze

Song page: http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6507882
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Sunday, April 27, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] Dateline, Paris: Just walk away, Renee...

... and your little friend too.

I may have missed my chance to meet the French Quiet Grrrl I talked about in my last post. 

I was Walking through a park, when I heard guitar, and some sweet vocals.  I walked around the hedge, and I saw two girls sitting on a bench with a black steel string acoustic guitar between them.  They sounded really good.

I was trying to decide how I could look real casual-like and sit down next to them to listen, when two other guys got the same idea and plopped down in the empty spot.

After that they became inhibited, and the concert was over. As they walked away, I felt a wave of melancholy. I was thinking about how different it would be if my label was up and running.  I could be real forthright, and there wouldn't be suspicion of my motivations, only elation at my interest....

I'd say, "Hey babe, hey sugar, how would yooze like to be big rawk starz?"


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Friday, April 25, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] The Frost Heaves heave again

The Frost Heaves have posted a controversial new song "Assassino" on their Soundclick site.


It has ignited a firestorm of protest, and longtime fans are livid.  The heavies (as the fans are popularly known) decry it as the biggest hard rock sell-out since Kiss went disco with "I was made for loving you."

However, lead guitarist Ludwig Van Frankenstein was quick to respond to these criticisms: "Yeah, maybe it's a little slicker than our past efforts, but it's as drastic, spastic, and stochastic as anything we've ever done."

The absence of even a single yelp from Marge Simpson-soundalike vocalist Trevor Baskerville added credibility to rumors that all is not well with the popular group.

However, sources close to the band denied rumors that Baskerville has left the band, as well as rumors that fellow geriatric metal gods Iron Maiden dropped them from the upcoming Preparation H-sponsored tour, "The Aging Assholes of Metal."

Check out it out and see what you think.

Band page: http://soundclick.com/thefrostheaves

Song page: http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6457126
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[Zebra_Trucks] A song recommendation for you

Please, if you could be so kind as to check out the new song: 'Stuck'. I would be ever so grateful.  I was hangin with my Parisian homies, Hank and Maury, and we be jammin and this is what came out


Band page: http://soundclick.com/mattlove

Song page: http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6491671
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[Zebra_Trucks] Dateline: Paris

I am looking for a girl.

She will be in her mid-twenties, she will be playing her guitar ina  cafĂ©, wearing a black beret, and singing charming songs about snails, and magical kingdoms hidden in the basement of the Louvre.

When she was 17, she had a small part in the movie, "Plan 18 From Outer Space."  Or was it, when she was 18, she had a small part in "Plan 17 From Outer Space"?

Whatever.

I will buy one of her CDs, and strike up an email correspondence with her, rave about her to my friends until they get quite tired of it, and start to wonder if there is something wrong with me.

She may think I'm nice, or she may think I'm a creepy stalker, and ask me to leave her alone.  One thing is for certain – she will resist any effort I make to influence her music.  When I suggest she cover "My Old Shotgun" (www.soundclick.com/mattlove) or "The Beezebub of Scrub A Dub Dub" (www.soundclick.com/thefrostheaves) she will simply not respond to my emails.

I have spent hours over the last two days, walking all over Paris, and all I've seen so far is a guy playing guitar, an amped up accordion player, and three hippies playing drums.  But it is destiny that I will find her.

Oh, yes. I will find her!

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Saturday, April 05, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] Fwd: [Spin The Globe news] Global Beatles cover songs

God, wouldn't you know it.  the first show he's done in ages that I wanted to stream.... and most of the first hour (with the beatles covers) is not there.  Who knows what gems I missed?  but still for the best version of Let It Be ever recorded, check out the  Shang Shang Typhoon version (link in the "listen again" section below) - you have to wait out an aimless and pointless version of Norwegian wood, but it's worth the wait. 

In fact, it's a life changing experience.

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UPCOMING EVENTS: Gaelica, Brazilian Carnival, Fubuki Daiko, John Cruz, Vagabond Opera, Debashish Bhattacharya, Dave Stringer, World Rhythm Festival, Procession of the Species, and more. For details, see the frequently updated Spin the Globe calendar

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