“Free play “- Hamilton de Holanda Quinteto – “O Mundo Não Acabou” – it felt like Dave needed a song and this was a free play while we waited for folks to arrive. Amazing playing and concepts here! Very metal at times! I found out about Hamilton from Tom Moon’s excellent Echolocator blog, very amazing musician!
Dave – The Wood Brothers – “The Luckiest Man” – Cool song, it feels like instrumentally its playing Weezer “Say It Ain’t So” but with an entirely different melody and lyrics above it. Their voices are great and Chris Wood is the Bass Player for the Wood Brothers. I even think Chris plays some bass lines that quote the Weezer melody? Nice invention.
Travis – Travis drops some sick mind bending beats and synthtrip. I love it and some of it is almost familiar, sampled perhaps? And then manipulated rhythmically? Or new arrangements that draw on retro devices, like soundtracks and orchestrated musical scores, which are then dissected and then reconfigured with broken rhythms all over the spectrum. I enjoy. Petter Eldh – “LORIMER” feat. Savannah Harris (I think that is the correct Savannah Harris?) I’d like to know more about the concept here.
Nawi – Nawi goes with a weird bendy synth or piano sound, maybe I need to continue the synth weirdness and make it a theme. Ultimately this isn’t that weird but it sounds so outer space. Definitely lots of claustrophobic corridors and overthinking minute actions. We have been talking soundtracks/scores without movies and this works for me in that way. Scott Cruthers (Diesel Bodine?) – “Quarter-tone Piano Prelude #1” – Seems like a Youtuber? I only find his page and I’m still not exactly sure what’s happening on that page but the piano piece is cool.
Dan – Dump – “The Beautiful Ones” – This is an amazing and underrated Prince song. This tribute collection by Dump, which is a 4 Track project of Yo La Tengo’s bassist James McNew. Dump has many recordings but I think this is the only “covers” collection. And it is a fun perspective on Prince, very Lo-Fi and as Travis mentions sort of Beck doing Prince. This tune is maybe the least manipulated of the collection, but it’s an a favorite song – can’t say Dump captures the song’s climax though.
Found Sounds 