Lonesome Organist - More Sexy Than Momus? [WARNING

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More deft than Squarepusher?

― Esther Hoover, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hooray!!! i love the Lonesome Organist, but he never seems to get any props. i only have Cavalcade but its really really good (is the first one as good?? i should buy it too).

he is playing ATP next year, but i don't really like most of the other things on, hopefully he'll do a London date too.

what is good is just how much fun his records are, like Tom Waits on E, no, maybe not, i don't know. backwoods carnival grotesquerie?

― gareth, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'...Tom Waits on E': A succinctly vivid analogy, though I feel the Lonesome Organist is more sinister. He's a musical taxidermist, stuffing the family cat to get the right percussive sound; and one could imagine him slapping the padded strap of a fluorescent delivery bag against the lifeless body of the paper boy, if he thought the resulting sound could furnish his song with a unique low frequency brush on the traditional snare drum.

'Cavalcade' is very good. Last summer, I took 'Collector of Cactus Echo Bags' to an island off Croatia, and took to dangling my portable speakers over the side of the well outside our hut. I would then stand a fair distance away from the well, recording on to Dat the ensuing hellish echo - adulterated with the atmospheric sound of cicadas and speed boats. I'm sending clones of my recordings to the Lonesome Organist, in case at some point in the future he would like to wedge these wet unidentifiable pellets into his songs.

― Esther Hoover, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i like the lonesome organist. similarities between cavalcade + cactus echo bags????????????????

maybe 1 album enough of his stuff, like bogdan. but good fun.

any enlightenment on how he actually produces it. theres a feeling propagated by him that he just does it all live like a one man band. but this isnt possible, right?

― ambrose, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i saw a picture of him doing a live show, and he did seem to have loads of instruments all strapped to him, so maybe...

― gareth, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He's married to a Kennedy.

― Gotch, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hes certainly not sexy:

look:

urgh! maybe thats a bit harsh, but he certainly looks.....unusual

― ambrose, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i wish you hadn't posted that picture. he looks like an extra from Taxi

― gareth, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

but where is the new record?

― gareth, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

is there a new record, even>? i saw him do a tap dance number at Bowie's 'Meltdown' earlier this year, and was completely hooked - rushing into the foyer after his support slot to purchase his first two albums. if there is any more, more recent, stuff, i haven't heard about it..

― Ken, Thursday, 3 October 2002 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

it seems there isn't. i haven't heard anything anyway. he is great though...

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 3 October 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

He was one of the best things at ATP this year.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 3 October 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

LONESOME ONANIST

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 October 2002 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

His new album (the first this century) is called "Forms and Follies" - anyone heard it?

― Ken R., Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

no not yet, but i'm glad to see he's back!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Got an album of his, played it once, you can have it if you like

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I got "Forms & Follies" used just the other day - it comes with a HUGE booklet that's a flip-movie - the album itself is really good, haunting but playful, easy place to get lost - like a one-man Orb with different cultural affiliations, like.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

forms and follies is in fop for 7 quid!
it is in the sheffield one anyway

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

also is sheffield fop - steve malkmus and the jicks cd for 3.00

fopp is a mentalist.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Not very interesting fact: When I was studying in Sheffield in the late nineties, I bought Cavalcade from a shop near Fop, also on Devonshire Street.

― Ken R., Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

No way
http://www.imomus.com/michaelangelo.jpeg

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet that's not a lonesome organ.

― cream with that, Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Although, not necessarily a winning hand.

― cream with that, Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I just heard Collector . . . this past weekend. It's really good. In a weird way it made me think of a hillbilly version of Kid Koala or something (= "with different cultural affiliations"?)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

god, i'm blind now. why didn't i heed your warning?!

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

what in bloody hell

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

that is SO photoshopped.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah you're right...wooden flooring with that penis?

― ..., Friday, 23 April 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"I bought Cavalcade from a shop near Fop, also on Devonshire Street."

"the store"?

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 23 April 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

that is SO photoshopped.

You should have been here for the original appraisals. And the photoshop jobs that followed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"the store"? Sorry, its name escapes me ... It was chiefly vinyl, and I remember that it had decks in it, for the use of browsing customers, but I was always to shy to test out the records before purchasing. The first time I went in, I think the shopkeeper saw that I wasn't too hip, but instead of patronising me, he kindly handed me Cavalcade on vinyl, and one or two other records. Oh yeah, it was about two shops down, and on the same side, as the Forum. I really miss Sheffield - Rare and Racy, chip road, The Morrissey pub, etc. -- I saw Phil Oakey once, stepping out of a black jag with his burly entourage - that was outside of his Red Tape recording studios. ANother so interesting fact!

― Ken R., Friday, 23 April 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"that is SO photoshopped."
"You should have been here for the original appraisals. And the photoshop jobs that followed."

So, is the above picture photoshopped, or not?

― lush milan, Friday, 23 April 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

And here's my answer:

Momus is......... NEKID!!! [link not safe for work]

― lush milan, Friday, 23 April 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

i got forms and follies when i was in seattle

nobody on ilx has really said anything about it. i like it, its patchy, but i like parts of it. i love the last piano piece, postlude to a happy ending, it feels like childrens music,

― T 916 lido, se10, *** 3/30 (home is where the heartcore is) (gareth), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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Lonesome Organist - More Sexy Than Momus? [WARNING - PIC of MOMUS' KNOB WITHIN]