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August 20th Lincoln Center/Damrosch Park Bandshell W 62nd Street & Amsterdam, Manhattan 6:00-10:00 PM Free to the Public THE EX with GETATCHEW MEKURYA MAHMOUD AHMED and ALEMAYEHU ESHETE w/ EITHER/ORCHESTRA EXTRA GOLDEN Produced by Lincoln Center in collaboration with WFMU Radio. Part of WFMU's 50th Anniversary celebrations, and its Free Concert Series.
This is the first ever NYC appearance of avant-punk Dutch band the Ex with the legendary Getatchew Mekurya on saxophone. Lincoln Center's addition of singers Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete with the Either/Orchestra offers a great, historical presentation of classic Ethiopian artists (all of whom have been showcased in the famed Ethiopiques series of recordings). Extra Golden's recordings forge a fusion between American rock and Kenyan Benga sounds, and have issued releases on the Thrill Jockey label. WFMU is a freeform, listener-sponsored radio station in Jersey City, NJ, broadcasting at 91.1 fm (NYC/Metro NJ) and 90.1 fm (Catskills, Hudson Valley, W.NJ, Eastern PA) called by Rolling Stone critics "the Best Radio Station in America", and publicly lauded by the likes of Lou Reed, Matt Groening, Jim Jarmusch, Julian Cope, the WIRE, the New York Times, John Peel, and more. www.wfmu.org. The entire event will be broadcast live on WFMU and wfmu.org. WFMU also lent special support to the July 4th Battery Park show with SONIC YOUTH and the reunited FEELIES, produced by the Downtown Alliance and River to River Festival. Past concerts in our Free Music series in 2007: Jonathan Kane/DJ Rupture/Flaming Fire/Major Stars Simply Saucer/Oneida/Alan Vega/Old Time Relijun (both at Southpaw in Brooklyn) Future WFMU Free Music Series event: WIRE at The Fillmore NYC at Irving Plaza on Thursday, October 9th. See WFMU's site (www.wfmu.org) for further info.
If you were never really into any of the early shoegaze bands of the 90's now might be a pretty good time to delve into them. Cherry Red just reissued Chapterhouse's classic second release Blood Music which was given a new mix and it sounds great. Not only that but they threw in the Mesmerise EP and the We are the Beautiful single. If you find that to your liking Chapterhouse's first one (Whirlpool) was also reissued by Cherry Red a few months back. To my ears Blood Music started to take the whole genre in another direction and had a really exciting sound to it. I included the Mesmerise video below. Check it out.
I have not been on Mog lately so I'm not sure if anyone had posted anything on the Cleveland underground rock musician Jim Jones who passed away in February. Jim played in a number of legendary Cleveland bands including Pere Ubu, Mirrors, Styrenes, Home and Garden and my favorite the Easter Monkeys. I did a tribute show on Jim a weeks back which features these bands as well as a few more.
You can check it out here - http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26630
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i thought you were speaking on another jim jones. there are a lot. i was not aware of this one, he was too underground for me to catch. cool show.
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Nice one! love me the chapterhouse... i am a bit more familiar with Blood Music actually - but i did go through a phase of some heavy chapterhouse / loop / my bloody valentine listening a couple of years ago...
i like gazing at my shoes.
Hey Lou, nice to see you back...I want to check into this further, but I have something playing that I don't have the heart to stop. (It's Kilgour's Feather in the Engine.) But I'll be back.
Nice sounds... I lost the thread of shoegaze, though I had My Bloody Valentine and Jesus & Marychain records in the '80s, from there headed towards Flaming Lips ("Acid Rain"), a bit of Britpop - Blur, Kula Shaker, Inspiral Carpets and some electronica like Republica and Moby...
thanks for the push back in the direction towards dense heady sounds I like - but know almost nothing about.