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'As their name suggests, These New Puritans are a group on a very precise mission. Hailing from around Southend-On-Sea, and consisting of Jack Barnett, his twin brother George, Thomas Hein and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson. They first came to prominence with their 2008 debut album, Beat Pyramid. Urgent, pared down, eyes on stalks, sharp as a stick, it was hailed by the NME as demonstrating a “span of ideas and singularity of vision that simply shouldn't happen to 20 year olds. They've created their own imperfect world.”' -- Domino Records____________
'Bruce McClure doesn’t make films, he performs them. Most movies are frozen on celluloid or written on videotape. McClure’s don’t exist until he creates them in the theater. Twirling knobs, flipping switches, and adjusting lenses, he coaxes a bank of whirring projectors into producing images impossible to record: moire patterns dancing in mid-air, a glowing orb rising from the surface of the screen, prismatic bursts flashing about the room.' -- Brooklyn Rail____________
'Mark McGuire has been a member of triadic mega-unit Emeralds since their inception. Besides contributing to their ever growing catalogue, he's also worked with Daniel "Oneohtrix Point Never" Lopatin as Skyramp and a prolific number of other solo projects that cross lines and psychedelic boundaries between noise squalls, lush-out synth washes and pastoral guitar passages, making nods to the endless vistas of Klaus Schulze and the phasing techniques of Steve Reich with an all-encompassing vision beyond his years.' -- boomkat____________
'Call Back the Giants is a sublime, perfectly outside slab of UK underground weirdness from Tim Goss, ex of The Shadow Ring. The atmosphere has a cracked real-people/oddball edge, cut-up with that patented Shadow Ring suburban science feel. There’s an understated sense darkness as well, the feel of late-night radio transmissions and haunted shortwave, drones populated by ghost voices and vocals pitched-down and mutated so that at points it feels like an apocalyptic council estate take on Basil Kirchin or even a bedroom Biota.' -- Volcanic Tongue____________
'Joe Colley has spent ten years exploring the multiple conceptual possibilities of sound, through music production, installations, or collaborations with video artists, dancers, and even prisoners. Colley first began recording under the moniker Crawl Unit in 1993, and later dropped the name in favor of his given name in 2001. He's released numerous recordings for Auscultare, Antifrost, ERS, Manifold, C.I.P, and his own Povertech Industries.' -- 23five____________
'A table, a chair. A tall man takes a seat and pretends to be a robot whose limbs make a noise with every move – a noise the man creates with his mouth. Xavier Le Roy’s solo “Self Unfinished” starts with an amusing scene that leads to a dismantling and astonishing transformation of the body. The piece that was created ten years ago exactly and has since been shown at almost all important contemporary festivals and stages in Europe is considered one of the most significant works of choreographic conceptualism.' -- ImPulsTanz____________
'Cindytalk have been in existence as a band since 1982 with transgendered Gordon Sharp as its one constant. Beginning with a heavily European-influenced post-punk sound, Sharp appeared on some of the early records by the 4AD ethereal umbrella project This Mortal Coil. They moved quickly and quietly towards a more fractured ‘ambi-dustrial’ feeling and over the last two decades have released sound sporadically as well as becoming involved in sound-system culture.' -- The Quietus----
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p.s. Hey. ** Syreearmwellion, Hey, man. Very nice review! Congrats, my friend. Everyone, d.l. Syreearmwellion aka the wonderful writer Joshua Nilles, just got a terrific review for two new books by him that will be showcased right here on this very blog next week, so get a taste of what you'll be seeing if you like. So, yeah, I'll launch the post next week sometime, and I'll give you a heads up when the date is locked in. I'll have an editor for the new novel when or if my publisher accepts the book. I think a lot of writers work heavily with their editors to get novels in proper shape. I haven't so far because I'm so anal and perfectionist about my prose that there isn't much for editors to do. But I think that's pretty unusual. Gun Outfit: I don't I know them, hunh. Seems like I would from the context. I'll hunt them down. Thanks, man, and congrats again on the recognition. ** David Ehrenstein, Actually, some current porn maker should snap up 'Tearoom Trade'. I think 'period porn' is a genre just waiting to happen. 'The Asbestos Diaries', wow, yeah, I did have that in my collection at one point. Maybe I still do. Man, I haven't thought of that book in ages. It was one of the real 'go-to' gay books at one point. Interesting. It must be incredibly out of print. Nice lunch and lunch companions you had there. Dorff seems like an interesting guy.** Sypha, Glad you got it, and glad it's okay. I had fake blurbs on my first self-published poetry book. Kathy Acker made up a fake Robbe-Grillet quote that was on the first edition of 'Great Expectations'. On one of David Trinidad's early books, he grabbed a few positive phrases out of a very negative review of one of his even earlier books, strung them together with ' ...'s and used it as a blurb. ** Josh Feola, Hey. Oh, thanks a lot for the web addresses! I just bookmarked them to explore when I get out of here today. Everyone, the fine writer and d.l. Josh Feola runs or co-runs a website out of Beijing that concentrates on the experimental music and performing scene there, something that has been rarely covered outside of China, and which, to me at least, will be a fascinating resource. So, if you're interested in the sound of that, I encourage to click this link, which leads to the main site, and this link, which takes you to the site's 'radio' component where you can stream music. Thanks so much again, Josh. I'm very excited to explore the site, and I'll let you know my thoughts, etc. ** Adjoun, Well, the new novel won't be out for at least a year. Okay, that was an odd, interesting bus encounter you had there, yes. Someone taking Holland's famous 'tolerance' at its word, it seems. ** Stan Czarnecki, Hey. The shoot sounds like it was a blast. Awesome. And that's obviously quite good if tentative news about the social security number thing via LACC. I hope she was right. That would decloud the future quite a bit. Oh, me, I'm just working every second to finish my novel, so I'm kind of fried and exhausted and reclusive and trying to concentrate. It's okay. Yury's situation here is stable. We're looking to try for a US tourist visa for him soon because he's more qualified now than he's ever been before and we haven't tried since Obama took over. I'll be there in February at least for a bit, yeah. Been a long time. Really dying to get home. Have a good one, Stan. ** Jon Reiss, Hey, Jon! Yeah, of course I remember meeting and hanging out with you after that 'Them' show. Sorry about not getting back to you vis a vis the Facebook messages. I'm the absolutely worst correspondent in the West. The blog basically doubles as my mailbox at this point, I guess, ha ha. Try not to take the second pass to heart. Passes are just stair steps or whatever. Anyway, I'm glad you dropped in, and, yeah, you should hang out and be a gang member if you feel like it. ** Steevee, Sorry to hear that about 'The Fighter'. What a drag. ** Andrew, And here I am begging the sky for snow. The world is a funny place. Ixnay on the appendage removal. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hey. Yeah, I hear the 3D in the new 'Tron' is supposed to be a total wow. That'll get me in there. And I'm curious how the de-aging Jeff Bridges thing looks. Oh, no, the stalker is back. I can only hope her family lives in Ohio or something and that she'll be spending a very long Xmas holiday there. Your day wasn't so bad. It wasn't. Mine, however, was majorly uninteresting. I just worked on the novel all day with great frustration. Really, I think part of my brain died from over-exertion yesterday. And I didn't finish the fourth chapter, although I finally did this morning, thank fucking God. I'm praying or whatever that it'll be much smoother sailing from here on out. Uh, I did pop over to my friend and fellow Recollets resident Scott Treleaven's room for tea. He's moving out in a couple of weeks, and he's giving away stuff. The only thing I took so far is a book about the breakup of The Smiths, but I might take a bookshelf if I can figure out a place to put it. I'm really, really behind schedule on the blog because the novel has eaten my brain, so I put together a post in a kind of haze, but I won't say which one it is in case it turned out okay after all. French TV showed 'Into the Wild' last night, and I watched part of it because I'd never seen it, and maybe just because it was dubbed into French, it seemed really corny and not so hot, so I turned it off. I didn't pay my rent, but I should have. I bought cigarettes at a Tabac I don't go to very often, but it worked out okay. Yeah, I'm stretching now. I just worked on the novel, basically. I'll try to take a break today and do something out of the ordinary today if I can. So, how the heck was your Tuesday? ** Bill, Hey. I thought you might know Demainis' work. I thought you might even know him personally due to your shared locale. Nice little vid on Derek White's site. I wonder if he has something new coming out. Derek White, I mean. ** Colin, Hi, Colin. Thanks a lot about the post. Oh, what a shame that Raworth couldn't make it to the reading. Can you reschedule it or something? I've always wanted to see him read. ** Misanthrope, Well, even though these things change constantly, the dollar is kicking the Euro's ass at the moment, so at least you might get deals here if you could get here. So, today's the day? This morning, in fact? You getting knocked out for it? Enjoy the drugs whatever they do to you. And give us the wrap-up. ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, Hey. I'm really glad you found Demarinis' work interesting. Me too, obviously. Plus, and this doesn't matter (much), but he was really my type when he was young. Or when he posed for that photo at least. Anyway, I'm glad Neil Innes is still alive and doing stuff, in the USA no less. Curious. 'King of Scurf', yes indeed. I've got to pull those old Bonzos records out or gain access to their files at least. Oh, fuck, it just raining here. No, wait, it's snowing. No, wait, it's hard to tell. It's snaining. ** Nick Hudson, My pleasure, man. I'm going to listen to the track today. Yesterday was too hellish to risk it. My novel's called 'The Marbled Swarm'. Sounds odd, but it'll make sense. Enjoy the gig tonight, hugs, and all the usual buddy-buddy comportments. ** Okay, today you get a constructed concert made out things I happen to listening to and/ or looking into at the moment and which I seem to be greatly enjoying. I'll get back to my novel now, and I'll see you tomorrow.
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