PILP = Public Image Ltd Parody
(not a new incarnation of Pulp with Jarvis displaced by Johnny)
A potential micro=genre suggested by the chance hearing of this (off the second Mekons album, 1980)
The bass and the guitar also have a Leveney-Wobbley quality on this track from 1982's odds'n'sodsment assemblage The Mekons Story
Killing Joke - contrary to opinion voiced by some, they are one of my favorite groups of the entire p-p era, indeed I saw them twice which is something I can't say for any other bands of that time (Friars Aylesbury around the first album, Dunstable circa Fire Dances) but KJ at the very start were distinctly PiL-indebted.
That's not exactly a parody - more like an influence that has yet to be internally alchemized and transfigured into your own identity yet (as it would be very soon with the Joke)
(Youth was a bit of Vicious parody though, in terms of his look / mien )
Ah now, this next one is an actual parody / pastiche (but also I'm sure a tribute - the sincerest form of flattery)
Who else is there in the realm of PiL-homage? Not just being inspired by them (loads of examples there) but actually rather slavishly copying the sound...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Sunday, March 17, 2019
invented instruments - the return
MONOPHONIE from Phillip sollmann on Vimeo.
Music for selected Instruments of Harry Partch, Sound Sculptures by Bertoiastudio and a Double-Siren of Herrmann von Helmholtz
reviewed at Frieze
Sunday, March 10, 2019
gabi gabi gabi hey versus gorl power (love it to the Bohn)
Don't ask me why - given that my funds for buying records were restricted in those days - but I bought the Gabi Delgado solo album back in 1983 (?)
I think it might have been on one of those first-weeks-of-release Our Price discounts, 2.99 or even 1.99 jobs. The discount no doubt facilitated by the record company in hopes of getting it to enter the charts. That was a thing then, although more with 12 inch singles as I recall.
At any rate I took it back a week later and either made up some excuse and got a refund, or perhaps Ijust sold it on at the second hand place in Oxford, recouped some of the loss and applied to some other purchase. I can't remember
It wasn't very good - not a patch on the proper DAF albums I had taped off of Stubbs.
The Robert Gorl solo job (with Annie Lennox backing vocals) is better. Good hook.
But not much better...
Gabi again - watch out for the strobing video, if you suffer from epileptic tendencies
Ever so cute, but not a great dancer really.
No, they were much, much better together, DAF.
Love it to the Bohn (bum bum) (mein herz macht...)
And Morley of course was a big fan, wrote a few sex-pol orgasm-as-revolution paeans to them, in his homoeroticism-aspiring mode (see also paeans to Pete Murphy's lips, Kirk Brandon's ears, David Sylvian's being too fragile to fuck)
In a way, Propaganda was his consolation prize, or proxy - "this time, let's make it happen in the UK too".
digitalirium
course Creelheads mostly know / love Laszlo for this beaut
later appearance as synthstrumentalist
this was tomorrow
Interesting chap, John Pfeiffer - he helped RCA develop stereo and quadraphonic techniques
Also produced a couple of Tomita albums, including my favorite The Planets, which includes this marvel of stereophonia
Although that said, the version on YouTube appears to actually be in mono, annoyingly!
Worth searching out on vinyl (and be sure to go with the 1976 original, rather than the later digi-ed up revisiting)
Like the mispelling of the title there - "dawn chores"!
And produced a shitload of classical on the RCA Victor Red Seal and Victrola imprints
In terms of his own music, however, Electronomusic was Pfeiffer's only recording, sadly
Never noticed before the cool parentheticals behind each title:
Warm-Up, Canon And Peace [For Inharmonic Side Band] 7:28
Reflection Of A String [For Contraformer] 3:07
Drops [For Programmer And Sines] 2:47
Moments [Events For Parametric Blocks] 6:37
Take Off [For Metric Transperformer] 3:32
Forests [Modes For Alphormer And Set] 12:52
Pavone [A Duotonic Transform] 3:20
Orders [For Sequential Sines] 5:45
After Hours [For Ordered Simpliformer] 3:05
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