Thursday, July 17, 2014

Hosewheel - Through the Mill



My latest keyboard attempts.  Probably could have trimmed out two or three songs for length/repetition but ended up enjoying enough moments in all of them to make it my largest session.  Mostly jazz oriented, some Latin grooves, sad keys, chiptune, 80's soundtracks that never happened, etc.  "Marimba Alley" might be the best thing I've accidentally done.

The album art is from some castle in Luxembourg...I figured the modern lighting plus the archaic knight is about the summation of my music in general.  Plus it's just a cool picture.

1. Leviasons [4:10]
2. York [4:03]
3. Omni [3:30]
4. Torn Together [3:37]
5. Juice & Distant Death [3:07]
6. Call Me What You Want [3:16]
7. Mad Nomad [4:55]
8. Flutterer [3:25]
9. The Name Became Memory [4:26]
10. Bailey Cat [2:23]
11. Hosewheel [2:51]
12. Marimba Alley [5:00]
13. Razzmatazz [3:08]
14. Clocking In & Punching Out [3:15]
15. Miles Apart & Yet Crawling [5:42]
16. The Beast from the Sea [3:11]
17. Gangsta [2:59]
18. Quell Box [4:18]
19. Waltzing With Papa [3:38]
20. Influence Yourself [4:56]
21. Exhale Flows Around [3:11]
22. Port Bliss [2:12]
23. Space Aces [3:54]










Hobosexual - Hobosexual II



Following up the no-frills, lo-fidelity, down n’ dirty jet-propelled blues of their self-titled debut CD in 2010, Seattle rock duo Hobosexual have finished recording their ultimate bombastic love letter to the forces that nourish them: honesty, robots with rocket launchers for fingers, dirt, empty carbohydrates, fire and hair. Perhaps a nice single-malt scotch as well.

Asked by writer Trent Moorman to describe Hobosexual’s sound, guitarist Ben Harwood summed it up as “Bearded glory… I also love the idea of the 1980s. Not necessarily the actual decade or reality of the 1980s, but more the one-liners, like when Schwarzenegger throws a steam pipe through the chest of his assailant at the end of Commando and says, ‘Let off some steam.’ That whole rhetoric, over-the-top Reaganomic banter will never be seen or heard again.”

Awesome album, sounds like Jack White singing through a hangover.  Something like that.  I first heard them through live vids on youtube, and as a testament to the band, their live vids match if not better their audio on the recordings.  Check out the rest of their vids from this set and become an instant fan, every track is spot on with great energy.  The album is great too but this is definitely a band I'd want to see live.

http://hobosexualmusic.bandcamp.com/album/hobosexual










Kikagaku Moyo - Forest of Lost Children



幾何学模様 (Kikagaku Moyo, meaning “geometric patterns”) is a psychedelic rock band from Tokyo, Japan, founded in the summer of 2012 by Go Kurosawa and Tomo Katsurada. Their first self-titled EP was released in September 2013 on Cosmic Eye Records / Sound Effect Records.

The five set make a nice psychedelic/ambient mix accentuated by the sitar on their 2014 'Forest of Lost Children', an album that seams song to song for an eclectic overall album.  And as usual I was drawn in by the cover...

http://geometricpatterns.bandcamp.com/