From Pietro Sent Tue, May 30th 2000, 23:22
Some press notes that will/should please some of you. 2000 looks to be a solid year for Matador --Pole/Jega/BoC being my top three. Check out www.matador.recs.com for more.. >*J U N E* >20 POLE 3 =20 >Another installment in the brilliant recording career of=20 >German vinyl-cutter Stefan Betke, whose records are among the=20 >most acclaimed electronic releases of recent years. Built=20 >around abstract, irregular rhythms emitted by defective=20 >equipment (i.e. "noise"), Betke adds dub bass, frugal=20 >melodies, echoes, and loops and crafts gorgeous soundscapes=20 >as fleshy as they are cerebral. On 3, he flirts with=20 >percussion and almost gets funky. >25 JIMI TENOR Out Of Nowhere =20 >Jimi Tenor--pop star, Tenorwear proprietor, toast of=20 >Barcelona--has been called "the Elton John of Jazz" and "the=20 >Barry White of Finland," and has been compared to Sun Ra,=20 >Curtis Mayfield, Tom Waits, and Gary Glitter in the same=20 >breath. His 5th solo album is a major work, employing a 55- >piece orchestra for a drum machine & sample-free product,=20 >though it=92s as freewheeling and mischievous as Jimi himself. >*A U G U S T* >15 COUCH Fantasy =20 >The first domestic release for this remarkable album,=20 >released last year on the German label Kitty-Yo (Tarwater,=20 >Tied and Tickled Trio). Couch are an instrumental Munich=20 >band with definite krautrock and after-rock vibes, but a=20 >genuinely distinctive sound; it=92s one of the most likeable=20 >records we=92ve put out in a long time. NME says: "Fantasy is=20 >Couch=92s 3rd album of elegant, electronically-enhanced analog=20 >instrumentals, taking us on a journey of warmth & depth=20 >without the utterance of a word." Look for a new Couch CD on=20 >Matador in early =9101. > >29 THE WISDOM OF HARRY House Of Binary =20 >Words like "cinematic" and "minimalist" have been used to=20 >describe prior recordings by Pete Astor's The Wisdom Of=20 >Harry, but if you put them together all you have is a movie=20 >theatre without air conditioning. On House Of Binary, Astor=20 >combines his moody lyrical bent with even moodier music=20 >(think The The), but please=97there's nothing =91experimental=92=20 >about a band that nails it every time. >*S E P T E M B E R* >12 JEGA Geometry =20 >This followup to 1998=92s Spectrum (released on Matador last=20 >year) is another wild conglomeration of styles, drum =91n=92 bass=20 >to jazz to ambient to jungle to funk to hardcore=85and back. =20 >Comparisons to fellow sonic extremists might happen if Dylan=20 >Nathan (aka Jega) stopped long enough to invite them. >COMING SOON--NON PHIXION, PIZZICATO FIVE, MOUNT FLORIDA,=20 >LESSER, BOARDS OF CANADA, CAT POWER & MORE!! Pietro. //np-- Oval --Ovalprocess. ___________________________________________ p i e t r o d a s a c c o a u d i o - n i m b u s c j a m 91.5 fm saturdays from midnight - 2am EST 9745 lynngrove cr, windsor, ontario, n8r 1b8, canada g r o o v e s m a g a z i n e www.groovesmag.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: xxx-xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx For additional commands, e-mail: xxx-xxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx