Sunday, March 6, 2011

Excerpts (#14)

Source here. Originally recorded on August 9th, 1996.

I watched a documentary on Brian Eno this past week (mumble mumble find it on bit-torrent mumble), which I was reminded of as I started the player on this particular file. 1996 was a very droney year in general, and this particular composition in a very long and methodical way. I'd say "shoegaze", but us folks were _always_ looking at our shoes, so it was hard to tell when we were doing it as part of a thing don't you know?

It drops into many other things later on, more typical of a non-themed show, but in general it looks like we're definitely trying not to do too much at once and be more methodical about our choices.
  1. Cold, windswept open
  2. Warmer, throbbing mechanics
  3. a break between distortion for beginners and clean bright finger picking
  4. A vague medieval flavour
  5. Songs from our great leader's songbook
  6. Possibly the worst cover ever
  7. For best results, wipe the sandpaper over the CD
  8. Mallets in Wonderland
  9. A moment of radio scanning
  10. Low Fi or "Low Fi"?
  11. Instruction or Explanation about Milk and other Foods
  12. Big Strong Hands and Arms
  13. Zanzibar to Alcatraz!