Fuck, I hate starting these threads that I know nobody is going to answer.
Anyway, had my ipod on shuffle the other day and this song came on that I was sure was by Ut, but then it turns out to be this indie schmindie band called Icewater Scandal. They got a bit of publicity a few years ago thanks to being produced by a Sonic Youth. Seem to have completely disappeared.
The song, Klat, is better than I'd remembered, and I just finished listening to the whole six song album and it's a little better than I'd remembered. Semi-noisy stuff w/very Jessamine-y girl vocals. There's not so much of this around that you can take it for granted, you know. There's a half-decent mp3 of them doing Great Society's "Free Advice" that goes on forever all Dead C like, and has some moments.
Nobody's ever going to reissue this, and they're going to vanish. Kind of curious if any of them are still around?
― dlp9001, Sunday, 22 June 2008 20:58 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.thesocialregistry.com/_mp3/artistmp3menus/iws/iws.htm
― Tape Store, Sunday, 22 June 2008 21:00 (seventeen years ago)
The requested URL /_mp3/mp3/iws_klatt.mp3 does not exist.
Semi-noisy stuff w/very Jessamine-y girl vocals.
WTF! This the band the first occured to me when I saw this thread on the board. I remember when Jessamine came around with their first album and were supposed to be the next Spacemen 3 or something, and then actually recorded an album with one of the members of Spacemen 3, and then just sort of vanished without a trace, failing also to be trotted out down the road for reassessment/canonization like some other bands of their ilk (Bark Psychosis, Disco Inferno, Seefeel etc).
― Pillbox, Sunday, 22 June 2008 21:06 (seventeen years ago)
Don't worry!
― Tape Store, Sunday, 22 June 2008 21:13 (seventeen years ago)
I'm super smooth: http://www.thesocialregistry.com/_mp3/mp3/icewaterscandal/
Pretty sure Jessamine became the boring Fontanelle, btw
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 22 June 2008 21:35 (seventeen years ago)
Oh. News to me, then.
― Pillbox, Sunday, 22 June 2008 21:38 (seventeen years ago)
I only thought one song of the Jessamine album was any good. I don't have it anymore, but I think it was track 5.
― res, Monday, 23 June 2008 02:38 (seventeen years ago)
yeah the first bunch of jessamine stuff was great, i really really dug that debut at the time. fontanelle did nothing for me.
― electricsound, Monday, 23 June 2008 02:42 (seventeen years ago)
But, on that thread, what about Magnog? They were pretty great...
Also - where has David Roback been since Mazzy Star?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 23 June 2008 02:44 (seventeen years ago)
good bloody question
― electricsound, Monday, 23 June 2008 02:53 (seventeen years ago)
probably playing darts at the pub with harriet wheeler and david gavurin
― electricsound, Monday, 23 June 2008 02:54 (seventeen years ago)
The main guy in Icewater Scandal was Sean Malfucci, who had previously appeared on some record on Table of the Elements. The band was originally called The AM Radio or something, until some band that was touring with Weezer with that name intervened. Sean has played in several bands in the NY area and operates the recording studio that is home to many of the Social Registry acts. The female singer/guitarist in Icewater Scandal's name I can't remember just now, as I haven't seen her in a thousand years, but she recorded solo as Paintbox Soldiers or something like that, I think they had a 12" on The Social Registry as well.
I loved Jessamine's first album, but they were kind of a one trick pony...pun intended. I sometimes put that record on a bliss out on a wave of mid 90s nostalgia. It's a really awesome sounding record, and the vellum packaging is totally cool.
They had some 7"s as well, I have a 2x7" that I think reissued their first singles, with a Silver Apples cover, or maybe Suicide or something.
Magnog? Oh man, I'm gonna have to break out all my VHF records now. Rake and Doldrums too. I was also super obsessed with the Freek label. Various Skullflower and Ramleh related releases, Lazer Boy, The Marilyn Decade...
― dan selzer, Monday, 23 June 2008 04:46 (seventeen years ago)
I actually last saw Sean playing guitar with Kid Congo and Thalia Zedek.
― dan selzer, Monday, 23 June 2008 04:48 (seventeen years ago)
on a vaguely related trip i wouldn't mind knowing what happened to sabine and buddha on the moon
― electricsound, Monday, 23 June 2008 04:50 (seventeen years ago)
Dawn Smithson has been a member of the Sunn 0))) studio entourage. not sure if she ever joined O'Malley & Co. on the road. didn't she contribute vocals to one of the Ginnungagap albums? i recall her solo album being nice but not very Jessamine-like.
there was a Jessamine spin-off, Swoon23, who were (and, for all i know, still are) hit-or-miss but occasionally great. on the poppier side, but plenty spacey.
― Mr. Hal Jam, Monday, 23 June 2008 05:23 (seventeen years ago)
(de-lurk) Dawn's finished her new record too, it's gorgeous. Also, that live Sunn disc from PDXs Dunes is a beast.
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 03:50 (seventeen years ago)
Apparently Rex Ritter of Jessamine is part of Sunn 0))) massive also
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 21:53 (sixteen years ago)
Rex has been on the recordings for years. Back at least to White One Live shows less so.
― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)
Sorry, White One "period". Live etc..
― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)