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Playlist 14.06.26

Playlist 14.06.26

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Songs heavy & dark, glitchy & light, raps in English & Turkish, beats bassy & percussive, jazz upbeat & minimal… It’s Utility Fog! LISTEN AGAIN, you might have missed something the first time? Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here. YHWH Nailgun – Burns [AD93/Bandcamp] YHWH Nailgun – Innocent Sigh [AD93/Bandcamp] The super-intense sound of YHWH Nailgun is hard to pin down – they get described as a band where each member is playing a different genre. There’s something of hardcore punk, some kind of prog tendencies, drumming that’s like live jungle, but hints of 80s new romantic somehow? So what do you do if you’ve got so many ideas? Distill them down into an 11-minute album apparently! Magazine presents 10 songs in 11 minutes, and while none is quite Napalm Death’s “You Suffer” (but why?), the title track is only 35 second long. And while one in particular sounds like it cuts off just as it’s beginning, others manage to make a complete statement in only 1:20. I’m not sure this release will change people’s minds in either direction, but for my money YHWH Nailgun are doing something genuinely interesting & new. Big|Brave – verdure [Thrill Jockey/Bandcamp] Big|Brave – holding tongue [Thrill Jockey/Bandcamp] Montréal’s Big|Brave haven’t ever really sat still in terms of musical genre, once being lumped in with metal, clearly owing much to the postrock of their hometown, and last year making an abstract, vocal-less album called OST (that preceded the movie that it may be a sountrack to). On the metal side, mind you, they made an incredible album with the body that somehow sounded most like… folk-rock? In any case, for the stunning in grief or hope, the vocals & instruments of Robin Wattie and Matt Ball, combined with the bass of MY DISCO‘s Liam Andrews and electronics of Machines With Magnets‘ Seth Manchester, have resulted in the heaviest work yet from the band, leaning deeply into controlled distortion. Wattie’s voice holds the grief as expressively as ever, while some of the hope may be expressed in the pulsating instrumental “holding tongue”. Proving once again that Big|Brave are one of the most vital bands currently in existence. Tujiko Noriko – Only on Love [Editions Mego/Bandcamp] Back in March I was fortunate to be invited to DJ at White Bay Power Station for a Liquid Architecture event headlined by the brilliant Japanese glitch/ambient-pop pioneer, Tujiko Noriko. Since 2001, Noriko has made fragile, experimental pop songs and ambient compositions that sit comfortably in the glitch world that was to a large extent originated by the Viennese label Mego who picked up her debut album. In the intervening 2½ decades, Noriko has made music with acoustic improvisers, beatmakers, sound-artists, and of course put out lots more of her own stuff, including more song-based music, soundtracks, more ambient-leaning works. While her latest full album for (Editions) Mego, 2013’s Crépuscule I & II was very much on the ambient soundtrackerly vibe, Noriko also released last year an incredible debut of a trio with Adrian Corker and George Barton that they’ve named CxBxT, whose album .After is songs & beats, if no less experimental for it. So PON, Noriko’s latest album and a long time coming, sits somewhere between those poles – ambient pop, I guess. Quite romantic, Japanesely twinkly, with strange mood-shifts & disembodied voices ensuring you don’t get too complacent. Mariam Wallentin & Vestnorsk Jazzensemble – Blanket Dance [Hubro/Bandcamp] Mariam Wallentin is one of the most extraordinary singers of our age – known for her postrock/pop/experimental duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums with her husband, drummer Andreas Werliin, and for her immense, emotive vocals with Fire! Orchestra, the Nordic free jazz big band centred around the Swedish trio Fire! formed by Werliin along with bassist Johan Berthling and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. Wallentin also has a solo project as Mariam The Believer which is perhaps more pop but still involves many experimental/jazz musicians. Here she is working with the Vestnorsk Jazzensemble, a jazz ensemble based in Bergen in the west of Norway, who commissioned an earlier collaboration with Wallentin reworking her older material. But new album Spring Flood, now released on key Norwegian label Hubro, is all new material, and it’s a bit of a wonder – of course it is, considering the calbire of the musicians and Wallentin’s genius at beautiful songwriting that sites well with contemporary & free jazz. With ideas originating from Wallentin’s stay on Basel, on the banks of the Rhine, which were then developed collaboratively with the ensemble, the arrangements go from abstract sound-environments to intimate jazz to rhythmic big band to heavy rock. Quite something! Laura Misch – Kairos [One Little Independent/Bandcamp] Annoyingly, London saxophonist, singer & sound-artist Laura Misch is often described as “Tom Misch‘s...
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