Journal
I have a fascination for subcultures, specially those with a close-knit relationship with leftfield and challenging music, so music does take center stage here. Glad if it resonates with you in some way and you discover something new here, in which case you should explore more and support the artists.
Band: BEYOND DAWN
Album: Revelry (1998)
Track: Phase to Phase (08:14)
A band which started sounding like a mix of My Dying Bride and Swans and by this album, 3 years after their debut, had managed to dump all the needless gothy references and now sounded unlike any other, flirting with slowcore and post-punk.
Revelry is such a gratifying album, and yet criminally forgotten. Sure you have to be in the mood, but really, all it takes is a moment of inner peace, a lazy Sunday, a walk by the shore, cigarette in hand. Equally of note is their follow-up, '99's "Electric Sulking Machine", both albums well deserving of wider recognition.
Band: RAMESES III
Album: Across Wounded Galaxies (2016)
Track: When the phone goes dead II (06:12)
Band: JAMES WELBURN
Album: Sleeper in the Void (2021)
Track: In and Out of Blue (05:00)
Band: XIU XIU Ft. CHELSEA WOLFE
Album: Oh No (2021)
Track: One Hundred Years (06:26)
Band: AMBARCHI + O'MALLEY + DUNN
Album: Shade Temes from Kairos (2014)
Track: Temporal, Eponymous (11:28)
Band: SWANS
Album: To be Kind (2014)
Track: Just a little Boy (for Chester Burnett) (12:39)
Band: GLENN BRANCA
Album: The Ascension (1981)
Track: The Ascension (13:09)
Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba
Dakota Suite & Vampillia
THE SEA IS NEVER FULL
The origin of this collaboration began two months prior to the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Dakota Suite had been touring Japan with their friends from the Japanese band Vampillia and had been in several coastal locations in Wakayama as well as places near to Fukushima. The tsunami was very upsetting for Chris Hooson and David Buxton from Dakota Suite who then set about making music to reflect this overwhelming sadness and loss for Japan. They approached Vampillia to work on these somber reflective songs for the sea.
This collaboration is highly recommended and in remembrance of the disaster that cost the life of over 18000 people which will be 10 years next 11th Mach, I couldn't think of a more fitting piece of music than my favorite track of the album "The sea is never full - Part 2". At 27 minutes it demands your full attention but the reward comes in bundles of honest emotion.
Posted: 18/01/2021
Band: DAKOTA SUITE & VAMPILLIA
Album: The Sea is never full (2016)
Track: The Sea is never full (Part 2) (27:07)
Band: STEPHEN O'MALLEY
Album: Eternelle Idole (2015)
Track: Eternal Idol / Arrival of the Trainer (edit) (13:38)
Band: MANES
Album: Slow Motion Death Sequence (2018)
Track: Night Vision (04:24)
Band: URAL UMBO
Album: Ural Umbo (2010)
Track: Stumbling upon blood and mercury (07:34)
Band: CS + KREME
Album: Snoopy (2020)
Track: Time is a Bozo (04:18)
Band: SEX SWING
Album: Sex Swing (2016)
Track: The Murder of Maria Marten (08:55)
Band: FLY PAN AM
Album: C'est ça (2019)
Track: Interface your shattered dreams (05:16)
Band: LOVE AND ROCKETS
Album: Express (1986)
Track: Love Me (03:54)
Band: SWANS
Album: Leaving meaning. (2019)
Track: Amnesia (05:49)
Band: NUMUN
Album: Voyage au Soleil (2020)
Track: Tranquility Base (08:21)
Band: MARIO BATKOVIC
Album: Life Goes On (2019)
Track: Allé Sauvage (04:55)
Band: ULVER
Album: Blood Inside (2005)
Track: Your Call + Operator (9:46)