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Anyone heard this? During the looong wait for new Bore/Vooreproduct I have grown antsy, and new music from Yoshimi & co. is always nice. I can't find any useful information except its Amazon import listing (nice cover):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FPWYZE/ref=wl_itt_dp/102-4160126-8151314?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=2HPJURRPTJFT2&coliid=I4WNAO8IEG3CV&v=glance&n=5174

and Thrill Jockey's press release:

http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/index.html?id=10034

saying it should be out in the US on Thrill Jockey sometime in the fall.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 13 July 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

It came out last week in Japan. It's pretty great, a lot of the new songs from the last US tour in 2004 show up.

I've only listened a few times... it's a new band (3rd album in a row with a new band), so things are still pretty fluid... but a little more along the OUT edge of the last one. Pretty exotic rhythms/percussion with some weirdo eclectica takes on jazz, funk, minimal, prog on top.

There's a super long song in the middle that has this javanese gamelan breakdown with these acid guitar lines on top which is probably my favorite moment on the record. The record is (almost) bookended by these polyrhythmic drumline-driven chant-y type songs ("uma" & "umo") but unfortunately, nothing as delicious as the JOY single shows up. This could get the remix treatment.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 13 July 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Okay, so I finally bit the bullet and downloaded this (September is too long to wait), but I can't stop listening to "UMA." Just putting it on repeat and turning the volume on my headphones up to an absolutely silly level. I...wow.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

I like this a lot more than the last

― Dominique (dleone), Saturday, 5 August 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ditto

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 5 August 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

excellente

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Absolutely love this. The first song is like a more expansive j-pop Afrirampo. Joyous.
Also puts me in mind of Konono No1 in places - that whole polyrhythmic trance out thing...
The one with the pumping house beat is dynamite. Should get played at Optimo.

― Stew (stew s), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

There's an EP coming out in October with an EY3 remix of UMA!

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Man, they played on July 17th with ESG. What a show that would have been....

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

ATS would sound totally rad if you threw some hand clapping over it

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I think there is *some* already

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

There's an EP coming out in October with an EY3 remix of UMA!

my brane done ak sploed

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

stew - did you get this in glasgow? i ordered it from japan but it is taking forever to arrive.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

this is so good. incidentally stew, it's the first track 'uma' that i've ended up playing out. i can't wait for the EY3 mix.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 20 August 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=69

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 20 August 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Stirmonster, that would sound ace at Optimo. Curse my Mon-Fri job. :(

I got the promo from Hermana btw - sorry, didn't see the message until now due to all the server problems and then being away at Green Man.

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 21 August 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

UMO >>>> UMA

also:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=halcali&search=Search

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 28 August 2006 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Ok, did anyone notice that UMA is this 1976 track that got posted on the wfmu blog?

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/BL/0510/Roberto_de_Simone_-_Secondo_Coro_Delle_Lavandaie.mp3

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

This was panned on All About Jazz, of all places ("of all places" because it's not their meat and potatoes, and also because they do so few negative reviews--but then maybe that explains it, "It's not jazz, we can be tougher with it").

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

sounds great on first listen, we got our Thrill Jockey promo this week.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

one of the best albums of 2006. sweet packaging too...

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

dudes, check that fmu track i linked

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

yeah it sounds the same all right

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Green & Gold quite a bit, so this should own.

― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

it came out and it's great.
much better than the present Boredoms.

― emekars (emekars), Saturday, 7 October 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

So about the fact that one of the songs is a completely faithful uncredited cover (of a song I've loved to DJ for a few years, borrowing a friend's copy) -- isn't that really fucking weak, and in fact blatant plagiarism? I mean, I really love that song, and I feel weird about someone just....stealing it and claiming it as her own.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Sunday, 8 October 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hm? Which song, and what's it a cover of?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 8 October 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

See above....UMA is an old obscuro Italian jam -- I know it b/c a friend has it on a random 12" EP from the mid-80's with a few other cool totally obscure grooves collected. It seems like she just figured she could get away with it b/c nobody knows it, maybe? Or an honest fuckup, maybe, like a subcionscious plagiarism? But really, it's EXACTLY the same.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Sunday, 8 October 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

It's called "secondo coro delle lavandaie" by roberto de simone & NCCP.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Sunday, 8 October 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

it's not exactly the same at all. yoshimi just sings a bit of the chant from it. the ooioo version goes all over the place and is FAR more intense.

this however IS a direct copy of it.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 8 October 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

This mixture of punk/post-punk screaching fury vocals and this and that from prog./krautrock/fusion(yes, I think so) sounds pretty awful overall (though oddly I can see its appeal--there are some good sounds involved). I don't like the approach to rhythm here, either. Seems very clunky to me. Maybe that's the point, but I don't like it. (I'm wondering if I would even like Super Ae if I went back to it now.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

one of the most amazing live shows I´ve seen in a year or two. I bumped the Boredoms thread cause I couldn´t find this one, but now I have the direct ILX search power!

they were a five piece with two drummers who just killed it the whole time. everything sounded like three times better than the record. I think they´re done with the tour now but maybe yáll still have a chance.

alos, thank you to the Doug Fir Lounge sound people for not being excessively loud. what a pleasure!

― sleeve, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Listening to the EYE REMIX EP. Incredible! I need to pick up the 12" asap.

― Harpal, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

saw them at knitting factry last week. they were great. (i really do kinda hate the knitting factory though. that room is designed so badly.) i meant to check for the remix at the merch table and totally forgot. i loved all the breakdowns and change-ups, and how you can see them build those crazy syncopations much more clearly when you're watching each part being played.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 30 March 2007 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

(in concert and especially on this album it's really clear how much it's a drummer's band.)

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 30 March 2007 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

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