Record Club is an initiative of Beck, intended as “an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track is put up here once a week. The songs are rough renditions, often first takes that document what happened over the course of a day as opposed to a polished rendering. There is no intention to ‘add to’ the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens.”
Some true beauties:
Jamie Lidell covers Skip Spence’s Cripple Creek. As overwhelming as always, this rare Jamie species.
This is Skip Spence:
Alexander Lee “Skip” Spence (1946 – 1999) was a musician and singer-songwriter best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and as a solo artist. He was born in Canada, and his family relocated to San Jose, California in the late 1950s. His career was plagued by drug addictions coupled with mental health problems, and is described by a biographer as man who “neither died young nor had a chance to find his way out.” During his tenure in the public eye, he had a profound impact on the outsider music and psych-folk genres.
One with hummingbird Feist, covering ‘Weighted Down’ of Skip Spence:
O and this one is so tribalistic! (with Jeff Tweedy junior on the drum computer):
One with Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) in full regalia, covering Skip Spence’s Dixie Peach Promenade (with jr on the real drums this time):
Fuck* they are good. Lip-sync’n but good.
The Seeds – Pushin’ too hard (Try to understand!)
* “Irrespective of its origins or etymology, Fuck is as profane and
offensive today as it was a century ago and its meaning has not
changed much although it has certainly picked up speed. Fuck always
seemed to suggest somewhat more than just intercourse or copulation
and somehow put a more animal or primal spin on the idea of coitus.
The power and magic of this mere four letter word is best exemplified
by the fact that even to this day it remains forbidden on MTV, the
fortress of everything transient, transgressive and fashionable. I
have long maintained that if you want to destroy something make it
into a fashion and that is precisely the function of MTV (or “EMPTY V”
as I prefer to call it) Every subversive concept or revolutionary idea
from Punk to Ché Guevara gets digested and destroyed into a three week
make over on MTV only to be then re-issued as a perfume or t-shirt.
And yet you still cannot say Fuck !
We call it a “swear” word or a “curse” word and perhaps therein lies
the key to its secret identity. We swear an oath or swear on the Bible
in order “to make a solemn declaration, invoking a deity or a sacred
person or thing, in confirmation of and witness to the honesty or
truth of such a declaration.” Similarly a curse is also ” a prayer or
an invocation for harm or injury to come upon one” or “an
ecclesiastical censure or anathema.”
(…)
South African artist Kendell Geers has an interesting vision, not only on the notion of ‘fuck’. I had the pleasure to talk with him during a conversation with lovely Hannelore Knuts for her UltraMegaLore exhibition, soon to be shown in the Modemuseum of Hasselt. A reflection I wrote on this forthright talk about ‘the art of being a muse’, will appear in the accompanying UltraMegaLore catalogue. Threegirls will keep you posted!
And I guess you there wouldn’t mind ending with a sassy thing dancing for the health of your seeds.
(thank you K for tipping me)
Oh and yes before we forget, Threegirls wants to wish you all a delightful new year. We hope 2010 will bring you a lot of insights, sunshine breezes and much more sumptuous breakfasts than last year.
(just reading Raymond Carver’s whatwetalkaboutwhenwetalkaboutlove, ‘Why don’t you dance’ is one of the short stories)
What a gem! William Onyeabor is a funk musician from Nigeria. He studied cinematography in Russia for many years, returning to Nigeria in the mid-70s to start his own Wilfilms music label and a music and film production studio. He recorded a number of hit songs in Nigeria during the 70s, the biggest of which was “Atomic Bomb” in 1978. His songs are often heavily rhythmic and synthesized, occasionally epic in scope, with lyrics decrying war sung by both Onyeabor himself and female backing vocalists. In recent years a number of his songs have appeared on various compilations, most often his biggest hit “Better Change Your Mind”, through labels such as Luaka Bop. His albums have long since gone out of print, prompting high prices from collectors on eBay.
William has now been crowned a High Chief in Enugu, where he lives today as a successful businessman working on government contracts and running his own flour mill..
(Sources: Last FM and Wikipedia)
The Dead Weather.. New Jack White Stripe project. One of the best intro’s I have ever seen. And what follows is so simple but strong. He’s a master.
And Charlotte Gainsbourg’s fruitful encounter with Beck.. (I love Charlotte! She’s cool+sweet)
ESG are the South Bronx juwels Emerald, Sapphire, and Gold (or the Scroggins sisters Renee, Deborah, Valerie and Marie). They combine house, hip-hop and punk in a way no one did before. Accordingly, their raw minimal bass and drum sound has been sampled many many times (UFO by DJ Shadow for example). Dancefloor music pur sang..
You can find a discography and more info here.
And now it’s time to listen to ‘Moody’. Like this!
and they appeared “live” in a scene of the 1989 movie Vampire’s Kiss..
Voila. Apparently they still perform, a little less stringy, but hey.
Primavera Sound 2006
We are Gini Rose, Julia and Suzy. We draw, take pictures, film, and write (in English or Dutch) about everything we are intrigued by. We are never bored. Our hobby is to search for that kind of reality which may be elusive until the right kind of imagination falls upon it. We like to go outside. We also like to party. Want to know more? About is your button. Or click here to read our mighty mission statement. This page is our magazine, or a cabinet of views, viewpoints and new work. Here you'll find the RSS feed to stay updated. For an overview of our portfolio, take a dive into the deepsea..
