RFI: Sunroof!

much prefer the first Bradley / Campbell tapes tho

Marc played with Matthew (and Moloney from Sunburned) as Sunroof, at Tonic, not long after the free103 show, and from all accounts it was a lot better.

Julian Bradey rules for this sorta thing...the CD comp on Veglia...so good I gave it to my dad.

I know lo-fi recording and such is part of the aesthethic of lots of "noise" and all, but often I feel like bands are shooting themselves in the foot.

Like some Dead C and lots of Skullflower I remember always thinking I wished the drums didn't sound like they were hitting cardboard boxes in the next room.

I believe I read an interview with Bruce Russell long ago where he said that the recordings weren't necessarily bad...that it was the way their amps actually sounded live.

sunroof- I haven't enjoyed anything I heard from them nor did i like sunroof! when I saw them live a few months ago with double leopards.

fave dead C: 'clyma est mort' 'operation..' and 'repent' but I don't think I've ever heard a bad record from them.

http://www.apexonline.com/freek/catalogue.html

I have 18 of these records.

http://www.audiolunchbox.com/images/albums/70k/70461-500.jpg

^^^

ya autobahn is best... also the one with hunmmingbird on it (bliss), chirpy pretty powerdrones, great.
new one 'panzer division lou reed' is only for when you, like, need a really strong cup of coffee.

<i>cloudz</i> is really good. i like that brief period where it sounded like he was listening to tons of harmonia/cluster/kraftwerk/neu or something. burbling squishy chirpy stuff.

youngsbower > sunroof!

i got "bliss", "found star sound" (my favorite) and "cloudz"

wish they'd reissue "sad frog wind"

youngsbower reminds me a lot of that thread where jw embedded like 8 of the same nintendo music clip slighly offset

youngsbower sounds like this but played through a flanger down a 500-yard metal pipe

minimalism

^ A+ thread

hadn't heard of the youngsbower. can u leonardo ^_^

im liking USSA a lot, some of it reminds me me of fripp+eno "swastika girls". also "trampled dawns" from silver bear mist is gr8

i can do youngsbower later. it's seriously gra8te, definite cluster/harmonia vibe. cloudz and ussa are probably my favorites of sunroof

the other day i got the new birchville cat motel which has bower on it

There are two youngsbower recs, first one is pretty heavy - think they're playing their gtrs w/ metal bars and shit - and has never been issued on cd. the second one, 'relayer' (haha) is more dreamy and processy

youngsbower - relayer

the first one (site/realm) was released as "richard youngs and matthew bower" tho. that's totally different.

thanks am0n

marijuana suicide

i got this awesome richard youngs disc called red and blue bear. so grate. i need to scan the booklet first though, it's a handpainted children's story that's the basis for the music.

i've heard of that. is it on vhf?

yes

collab w/ simon wickham smith, "red and blue bear".

most of the reviews are negative. =(

sunroof! is like a chemistry lab full of beakers of colored water. green, blue, red, orange, brown, purple, lavender, lapis, royal blue, white, and black. each feeling, each emotion, is seperated into its own color. close your heads ... in your mind there is a red light, scalined like on a monitor. blue in the corner of your midn. hazy striations on the horizon. rusted metal and smog. t his s t hte ialbu sunfroof.

youyr mind is scanlined. your emtoins are a lie about some illusion from a past that never existed. only in commercials on TV you remember. this is sunroof! the colors of lapis and roytal blue and lavender bright inside the inside the liquid of your eyes. you miss the past, but it enver existed. everything is like each day you swee those hazy lines of color in the sky. your are the color. each sound has its color, each feeling has its sound and you sre all of these thigns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GEezUKhY_A

ahhhh that beautiful blissed out thing

sunroof! still so bomb

yes

rainbow electric sabbath

i'm having trouble getting into anything after cloudz, seems like bower puts out way more music than he needs to (drone disease)

what the hell happened to them, anyway? double leopards: good. sunroof: good. 1/4 of double leopards + sunroof get together: sounds like a guy blowing through a straw amplified in goldwave until it clips.

-- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 00:49

^^ re: hototogisu but applies to later sunroof too

u should get 'ussa' tho

have not kept up with this guy, but the vibracathedral orchestra reissue that just came out on VHF is great! comes with a dvd! i always have these two bands linked in my mind. dunno why. or, well, i do know why. bower played on the vibracathedral WFMU set which i haven't listened to in ages but recall liking a lot. surely online somewhere..

dan s is right way up thread that the youngsbower lp is kind of disappointing.

huh i never heard that one

i still think youngsbower is my favorite, but i am a techno guy! it's like running a delia and gavin album through a woodchipper

oh i guess i don't mean youngsbower proper, i mean this thing --
http://www.discogs.com/Matthew-Bower-Richard-Youngs-Site-Realm/release/325838

ah, not heard that

if you like daniel higgs and nobukazu takemura you'll love

http://s.cdon.com/media-dynamic/images/product/music/album/image5/red_blue_bear_import-youngswickham-3254068-frnt.jpg

btw bears

you know i don't listen to vibracathedral orchestra for the same reason i don't listen to nnck or jomf anymore, too clumsy and random

i would rather listen to two chord rallizes bizness like sunroof! or roy montgomery

are you a charalambides fan?

or bardo pond?

i'm having trouble getting into anything after cloudz, seems like bower puts out way more music than he needs to (drone disease)

― the late great, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 6:17 PM (Yesterday)

it's funny to see this in 2012, I was saying the same thing in 1995. almost everything skullflower did from 88-92 was incredible, then 20 years of frustrating meandering inconsistency.

could the democratization of recording and reproduction have led to lower standards in the noise, drone & improvised music fields? only time will tell... /sarcasm

rejected onion article concepts

kneeling over pedals causes blood loss to brain leading to reduced quality control

too clumsy and random
― the late great, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 7:15 PM

how much have you heard, the more recent vib. orch. got pretty tight

xxp ian i got the bardo ponds and hash jar tempo, only know charlambides via comps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjolHwVXvu8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uUZnvvw0NY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRbS_iFFQc4

market square is a good charalambides starting point imo

do u guys fuck with a birchville cat motel? that used to be my shit back inna hazy CD changer daze

birchville cat motel was 'good live', and i like a split alb he made w/ bruce russell. saw him play a sweet gig once w/ richard youngs in a tiny basement venue in glasgow. he also had a power metal outfit ala sunn)))). lots of his other recs seemed a bit identikit, but i guess that is true of these prolific noize dudes. def prefer him to jackie o motherfucker, who were by far the most useless of all the improv-psych-jam band outfits that i saw live (nnck were amazing twice, saw vibra play a very sweet early morning atp set w/ bower on electronics, and had a gd time at a sunburnt hand of the man show...wld still travel to see nnck, they seem to be able to MAKE THINGS HAPPEN)

will always love the 'metal' phase of hototogisu (i never seem to see the cd reissue of floating gardens...cheap either)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV4r6akvEmM

this is a weird new direction for matthew bower, but i like it

f u

cuckoo cloudland

new album out, credited to BLACK SUN ROOF. anyone heard? comes with CD of old recordings too i guess. i should open one up at work today and jam, will report back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_9KoLnBsrs

too metal :(