But I Still Want You to Come Visit New York, Dammit
Ladies and gentlemen, the good people of Manhattan's mighty Other Music have now made it possible for you to buy many of their fine musical wares as digital downloads. $1.11 per track ($9.99 for albums) for DRM-less MP3s of bands from Animal Collective to Zodiacs.*
I submit that this is a FINE THING. (Full disclosure: one of my colleagues at Ye Olde Interweb Retaile Establishment has a deep and abiding -- indeed, one might say, "familial" -- connection to OM. But I'd be excited by this just the same, even if I didn't know her.)
Go ye and shop!
* No, I didn't know who the Zodiacs are, either. But they're on the same label (Holy Mountain) as Six Organs of Admittance, a psychedelic outfit favored by some of the expat social psychologist types known to lurk in these spaces. Which means that we must, in some nth-degree-of-separation sense, think of ourselves as connected to them.
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hey BT--thanks for turning me onto zodiacs (my kinda "scuzz damage"). Um, from the Holy Mountain website:
"Deep one-percenter scuzz damage from the Zodiacs, a group whose Zodiac Speedcreep [aka Clay Ruby], Ezekiel Blackouts III [aka Keith Wood] and Grim Jim Gypsy [aka James Toth] - are also involved in Hush Arbors, Sunburned Hand of the Man and Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice. Gone is full of l-o-n-g jams that bring to mind such wild ones as German Oak, Magic Muscle and foggy dreams of The Stooges moonlighting as a Hawkwind tribute band during the off season. Zodiacs burn a heavy trail to the days when outlaw biker clubs roasted and consumed whole horses in celebration of the wild life. Get your wings!"
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April 24, 2007 08:19 AM
I'd just like to point out that Art has forwarded me some of Sunburned Hand of the Man's more accessible work, and my dream life is definitely more interesting now.
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April 24, 2007 09:14 AM
Actually you might find that Wooden Wand's latest CD ("Second Attention") is really very accessible in a Stones-y/Dylan kind of way. Yes really! Sunburned is always going to be a trip and a half, I think.
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April 24, 2007 08:40 PM