tarwater

tarwater are one of the few bands who do the normal instrument / digital sound combination very, very well. "silur" (1st complete album) is probably their best, at least it's the most cohesive and has their best songs. their 2nd "animals, suns and atoms" leans more to the digital electronics side and is probably a bit too cold beacuse of that. "11/6 12/10" is a sort of b-side / remix thing that has more to offer than "animals". their latest "dwellers on the threshold" seems to be trying for the style of "silur" but it peters out about 1/2 way through. and... the guy's damn droning monotone vocals are entirely past their use by date.

Really in the mood for some new Tarwater / TRR ...

second arthyr!

definitely thee highlight of 11/6 12/10. silur is usually the go-to for them, though.

listening to this band's new album

it is wonderful!

i'm suprised they don't get more love on ilx

def hits that "third" by portishead type vibe for me in a good way (w/o sounding like portishead)

didn't even know there was a new one out. and i still need to hear the TRR thing that came out a year ago. backlog.

this new album is fucking gorgeous, unbelievable

How did I miss this?

They are sounding very fucking beautiful this evening.

"Iggy Pop / Tarwater / Alva Noto"

O T O M O

These guys are really good when they are instrumental.

These guys are really bad when they use vocals.

I really like Ronald Lippok's vocals!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdN3yJaJtRE

Weird, I thought I had contributed to this thread earlier.

Anyway, am amazed that this seems to be *the* Tarwater thread. Such a great band and one that I am surprised that ilxor is luke warm about.

Funny that you say that. I was sure I had contributed to this thread too. One of the few German bands I like. I got that early album from 1996 "11 6 12 10". The singer's voice reminds me of Lawrence from Felt.

Euroslut (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANqGhrx6XtY

Having a Tarwater Friday. God, they sound fucking beautiful.

Pondering what else was on that Tarwater/To Rococo Rot/Kreidler spectrum? (Not necessarily involving the same people - more, reaching similar conclusions).

The Notwist, Schneider TM? Some K-RAA-K label stuff?

Pondering what else was on that Tarwater/To Rococo Rot/Kreidler spectrum? (Not necessarily involving the same people - more, reaching similar conclusions).

check Arca, the French duo of Joan Cambon and Sylvain Chauveau (not the Venezuelan musician)

Playing Animals, Suns & Atoms because of this. What a great record. Good memories.

Isn't it, just? I sometimes play it and think it approaches my idea of perfection.

Ta, all.

A work in progress:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wWCfdCHxVEVeKp8E2Gbxv

Can't quite get the track listing right but so enjoying trying (and/or loving playing Tarwater and To Rococo Rot, particularly).

(Just noticed there was a new Kreidler album last month).

Sort of compiling a follow-up of later works by the bands on the link above:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5h767IBOgdm7StF7jz7eBC

(I'm actually mostly just enjoying some of the more recent releases that I'm slightly less likely to have heard. I've not actually been that methodical so "later works" is very flexible according to how much wine I've had).

But I always enjoy ILXOR pointers about tracks.

My favorite later-period track from this cohort is Kreidler's "Radio Island" - from their European Song EP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNU9sJMW0A

Thanks for the tip-off - not heard that before.

New Tarwater album due before the end of the year.

Out November 22. New single Trapdoor Spider is very promising. Love the trumpet embellishments.

I confess to feeling a bit giddy.

I listened to and really enjoyed this year's Kreidler album when it came out, but then it was pushed out of my head by the relentless onslaught of other stuff. Revisiting it and it's really great.

"Loisaida Sisters" sounds like something from Simple Minds' 'Sons and Fascination'.

Gah! CD would be £19 inc postage from Norman, £24 if I order from Morr Music. It must be so difficult to run a small-ish label these days.

Yeah, import costs and vinyl/digital-only releases drove me to digital for a lot of bands. It's 8 euros at Bandcamp, fyi. https://tarwater.bandcamp.com/album/nuts-of-ay

I had completely missed their collaboration with Immersion (Colin Newman & Malka Spigel): https://swim.greedbag.com/buy/nanocluster-vol-2/

Tarwater can sometimes seem so *perfect* that I feel bemused that they've only pressed up 1000 copies of the album (I realise they could do a repress).

This band had completely passed me by. I think I got them confused with Tarnation maybe - assumed they were a roots thing. Anyway, *Animals, Suns & Atoms* is totally working for me this morning. The vocals remind me of him of Hood. Another thought, and I don't see them mentioned in the thread, was Lali Puna.

xp So djh, I take it that you're loving the new record? I'm still absorbing it as I'm also kinda swamped with end of year recommendations.

While waiting for this new album to land, I stumbled over the TRR/Tarwater post-punk precursor, Ornament & Verbrechen. Much more experimental than their subsequent groups, the formerly GDR outfit was active in the 80s, fully reconvened for a performance in 2009, and again in 2015 with just the two Lippok brothers. YT clips are available of earlier recordings, as well as from their latter performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND7fI3KGi3g