Mountain
Mirrors - Voices EP
Mountain
Mirrors have been a mainstay on the Zeitgeist MP3 Zone for some time
now, and finally here is the chance to test it in proper audio environment.
Imagine if you will a freeform psychedelic jam taking in traditional
jams but throwing in some new age Tortoise type minimalism. Sounds mince?
Well you're wrong. 'Tis very, very good.
Of
the three tracks on offer, it's the title track ( a collaboration with
Vine Sweetland) that stands out, shimmering, ambient, sometimes jazz
structured, but always enthralling. Jeff Sanders has outgrown his teenage
influences, Pink Floyd, Metallica, and Rush and even set aside his time
playing lead guitar for a number of metal-based jam-bands, to create
his own post rock world where everything is a musical possibility.
http://www.mountainmirrors.com
mountainmirrors@yahoo.com
Honey
Barbara - 1-10 & W.AVE.
Aagh!
You can take experimentation too far, and putting your ceedee in a non
standard sized format is enough to have me mumbling dangerously whilst
walking along the street. And we all know where that ends up. And its
partly made of waste products. Hand me down my shooting iron, I smell
hippy. Oh, now I sort of get it. It's also the release of Emigré
Magazine, a long-running design periodical, whatever that is.
This,
quite frankly, belongs on the soundtrack of Eraserhead. For it is all
quite mad and uncategorisable. Which is a good thing. Casio keyboards,
steel drums, weird synth noises, vibes, you name it. It's here.
If
you remember 80s freakniks The Residents, then a) you're as old as me,
and b) you might have a vague notion of the non rock noise that emanates
from the speakers. Either that or my amp has packed up again. It doesnlt
get much different than this. Truly alternative.
www.émigré.com
JOHN BARTLE'S
MONO-CELLULAR SING-ALONG
Last
time around we reckoned Mr Bartles was "...wandering through his
Beefheartian world replete with 100% non-PC lyrics..." Nice to
see that some things never change, and this is another strange, strange
trip through the mind of someone you should never, ever accept a lift
from in a teen movie.
Highlights
this time include "I Want My Bees Please" and "Monkey
Poo". If this is the sound you hear in your own head, then don't
speak to me or contact me. Otherwise feel free to rejoice in the knowledge
that no matter how bad it gets, chances are you are in no way as psychiatrically
challenged as this CD.
Bartles,
PO Box 106, Livonia Center NY 14488, USA
SIR MILLARD
MULCH - The De-Evolution Of Yasmine Bleeth EP
You
see this is why I live in a PO Box. The nice postman feeds me on leftovers
every day, and makes sure that nasty objects are kept away from me.
Problem is, Old Jimmy has retired to the CWU club, and the young bucks
don't vet my mail properly. Hence this arriving.
Once
upon a time in a far off galaxy...but enough about shite films. I once
said, "Me I'm off to listen to my recently adopted theme tune,
"One Day I Shall Return, A King And Obliterate You All", the
best jazz death metal tune ever." This has apparently been taken
as some kind of compliment, ad now there's another one. Penicillin might
work? Strapping Young Lad bloke is on this, which means someone in the
Mulchorganisation is a very good liar or blackmailer. But in a strange
Zappa type way, real Zappa fans proclaim their hatred for this Zappaesque
creation which a) makes me inclined to like it, and b) means that Zappa
would probably approve of it.
Good
enough for Francis, good enough for me. Death To False Franks!
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