Peace'n'Stuff - Bits & Pieces (GER 1999-2002)

 

 

PEACE'N'STUFF is a german blues and rock band in the Mannheim/Heidelberg area.

Besides playing traditional blues rock and the occasional 70s cover, PEACE'N'STUFF have always integrated several other styles into their unique mix. Their albums and setlists featured heavy rock and even punk cabaret numbers, folk tunes, rock ballads with progressive and/or psychedelic influences. Lyrics are mostly in german.

Check out their site here.

"Bits & Pieces" is a collection of songs from 1999-2002, taken from the albums "Wüstabschub" and "brummer!" sessions, featuring a huge jam at the end of the song "Ausflug", reminding even a little bit of the good ol' GRATEFUL DEAD in their prime, while especially the song "Foumo" has a kind of GOLDEN EARRING sound... Pretty interesting stuff! I especially like the occasional flute playing.

Peace'n'Stuff - Bits & Pieces (1999-2002)

(mp3 zip, 5 tracks, 42 min, 63,1 MB)

1. Foumo - 7.05

2. Orient Express - 6.47

3. Miebschutte - 5.16

4. Auf der Kippe - 9.21

5. Ausflug - 13.38

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Klaus Dinger R.I.P. (1946-2008)

Sad news: Krautrock drummer Klaus Dinger died March 21st 2008, age 61.

Dinger, born in 1946 in Düsseldorf, Germany, first studied architecture before becoming an innovative rock drummer. In 1969 Dinger met jazz pianist Ralf Hütter and flutist Florian Schneider, with whom he recorded the first KRAFTWERK LP in 1970. After a brief live intermezzo with Michael Rother in the short time KRAFTWERK 3 man line-up (Schneider, Rother, Dinger) featured at the german BEATCLUB, Dinger founded NEU! with guitarist Rother. NEU! recorded three groundbreaking records between 1972 and 1975 before breaking up. In 1974 Rother founded HARMONIA and Dinger went to LA DÜSSELDORF, who in Germany became quite famous in the late 70s.

Dinger's motorik minimalistic style of drumming influenced many electronic bands and later djs – first of all the british band STEREOLAB.

The Janitors Of Lunacy - 1984-'87 (GER)

This is the third part of my series called "A VISIT TO THE DARK SIDE".

The band THE JANITORS OF LUNACY was founded in 1983 in Worms, Germany, as a dark experimental industrial band and soon moved to Berlin. Most of their songs have a real sinister atmosphere full of angst and depression and despair.

In the beginning the JANITORS were heavily influenced by THROBBING GRISTLE, but soon moved on to a greater variety of sounds. Of course there is a strong NICO and VELVET UNDERGROUND influence (the band is named after a NICO song), but one can also hear traces of SUICIDE or BAUHAUS. "We All Want To Be Loved" could easily be an early EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN track, and "L'etranger" sounds like a JOY DIVISION instrumental outtake. 
The singer sometimes resembles a sedated late JIM MORRISON (e.g. on "Back to the 50ies"), while the girl singer most of the time sounds EXACTLY like NICO. Really amazing!

 
My personal favourite tracks are "Stanley Kubrick's Diaries" and "The Sweat of Fear in Lying Beds".

 
In late '87 the band simply vanished from the German Underground scene, and guitarist Maxim Engl later went on to ORANGE and EPHEMEROL in the Frankfurt/Rhein-Main area.

The Janitors of Lunacy - 1984-'87

(mp3 zip, 14 songs,100,4 MB, 73 min)

01. L'etranger - 4.01

02. Twenty Three - 2.39

03. Today (version 1) - 3.04

04. We All Want to be Loved - 6.30

05. The Long Tomorrow - 8.34

06. Back To The 50ies - 4.37

07. Stanley Kubrick's Diaries - 7.11

08. Catholic Girl - 3.10

09. Today (version 2) - 2.26

10. The Sweat Of Fear in Lying Beds - 11.16

11. Stormy Weather - 7.50

12. Won't You Try - 3.23

13. When A White Swan Meets A Black - 4.42

14. Alia - 3.20

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Orange Is In - Another Lame Semi-Tragedy (USA 2006)

George Kovacik, the singer from ORANGE IS IN (no connection to the German psychedelic grunge band ORANGE b.t.w.!), sent me a mail and asked me to post this recording if I liked it. Well, I do – though the music of ORANGE IS IT is neither psychedelic nor lofi. It's straight-forward powerful American contemporary rock, featuring the strong voice of Kovacik that is reminding somehow of Bruce Springsteen and also Elvis Costello. (But so what? I mean, one can't listen to UMMAGUMMA all the time...)

The band formed in 2002 and is from Houston, TX, where they seem to have won quite a lot of fans as a very good live band. "Another Lame Semi-Tragedy" is their first full-lenght CD. They also have a newer recording out, "Come and Take It", from July 2007. Sadly the very competent violinist Amy Price has left the band recently.

If you like the band, PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTISTS! Check out their offical site and Myspace.

ORANGE IS IN - Another Lame Semi-Tragedy (2006) 

(mp3 zip, 14 tracks, 73,9 MB, 60 min)

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Buy new cd: here.

Szbutä Soröh - om shiva/The thing we found amongst the woodsticks (Brazil 2007)

SZBUTÄ SORÖH is a Brazilian one-man experimental/noise music project. So guys please notice: THIS ISN'T ROCK MUSIC!
The man behind these 2 amazing recordings from 2007 is SAMUEL MACEDO from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Samuel uses a variety of different instruments and many different sources for his music, ranging from bamboo flutes, acoustic and electric guitars to field recordings, that afterwards are manipulated through computer processings.

The music generated that way is quite a rewarding adventure, taking the suprised listener through all kinds of different moods and atmospheres. Listening on headphones is recommended!
If you like the music, please support the artist! Visit Samuel's site.

SZBUTÄ SORÖH - The thing we found amongst

the woodsticks (BZ 2008)

(vbr mp3 zip, 95,2 MB, 11 tracks, 66 min, art incl.)

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SZBUTÄ SORÖH: Om Shiva (BZ 2007)

(mp3 zip, 56,8 MB, 5 tracks, 57 min, art incl.)

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Maurice Rickard - Guitar Clouds/Live: Circuits of Steel Tour (USA 2003)

Two more recordings of MAURICE RICKARD (see earlier post), this time live from the year 2003.

"Guitar Clouds" was recorded in Pittsburgh, PA and "Live – Circuits Of Steel Tour 2003" in Chicago, St. Louis and Muncie. Maurice Rickard is playing some strange guitar sounds above an electronically processed backing, including some samplings, evoking dreamlike soundscapes, sometimes quite relaxing, other times more unnerving.

Some passages are even reminding slightly of ROBERT FRIPP's and BRIAN ENO's electronic works/frippertronics. Though not extremely disturbing I'd say this work probably could be termed as dark ambient.  (Is this "A VISIT TO THE DARK SIDE - Pt. II"?)
Please check out Maurice Rickard's site and support the artist.

 

MAURICE RICKARD - Guitar Clouds

(mp3 zip, 4 tracks, 39 min, art incl.)

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MAURICE RICKARD - Live, Circuits Of Steel Tour 2003

(mp3 zip, 3 tracks, 61 min, art incl.)

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Cloud Nine & The Vitamin C - Evolution of a psychedelic Band (3)(GER.)

Here we go: The 3rd part of my feature "EVOLUTION OF A PSYCHEDELIC BAND" about the german late 80s psych band CLOUD NINE & THE VITAMIN C. This again is a live recording, this time from a small youth club in Heppenheim, Germany, from Jan. 21st, 1989. Only the "highligts" are presented here. The complete concert lastet about twice as long...

 
Though the sound is far from perfect (the band was having severe problems with the sound system, especially concerning the vocals, that came out heavily distorted for most of the time), CNVC nevertheless on that occasion created an overall psychedelic atmosphere, that was rather special. The light show presented that evening (consisting of slides, movies and liquids) contributed very much to that effect and was probably the best the band ever had and something most people in the young audience had never seen before...

 
The playing on that evening was – again – sloppy in places, rather rough, quite heavy – and very experimental. The band played some seldom performed songs ("Sing a Song") and some completely new material (the rather lame "Helicopter"and "Reggae" – only played on that occasion –, as well as an early version of "Angel of Mine") as well as some "classics" like "Jack'o'Lantern", "I'm Lost" or "Black Queen". But the real highlights and by far the most psychedelic tracks of this concert were the first part of "Brainstorm" and especially the encore improvisation called "Blind" – very much in the style of PINK FLOYD in their THE MAN/THE JOURNEY phase in 1969/70 and some KRAUTROCK jamming in the style of – say: early AMON DÜÜL II.

 
This was the last gig featuring the classic CNVC # 3 line-up with the Schupp brothers on guitar and drums.
There were some good reviews on the local press, calling the performance "rather special" with a "fanciful and suggestive overall atmosphere".

CLOUD NINE & THE VITAMIN C - Official Bootleg Archives Vol. 4

(live 1989) (mp3 zip, 12 songs, 67 min, artwork incl.)

1. Helicopter - 6.31

2. Reggae - 2.57

3. (Guitar solo from) Black Queen - 1.35

4. Brainstorm - 6.35

5. Car Car - 3.32

6. Angel of Mine (early version) - 6.38

7. Jack'o'Lantern (parts 1-5: Theme/On the Road/Digging Noise/Drums/Pete's Song) - 8.20

8. Jack'o'Lantern (end theme) - 1.18

9. Annemarie - 4.04

10. Last Night - 3.49

11. Sing A Song - 7.18

12. Blind (Improvisation) - 14.03
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Jeweled Scabbard - Jeweled Scabbard (USA 2008)

This is the first part of my little series called: "A VISIT TO THE DARK SIDE". This first post is featuring JEWELED SCABBARD, the highly experimental electronic one man project of Matthew Haggerty from Salem, Massachusettes, USA.

The music is a dark psychedelic electronic sound, synthesizer based, often distorted, and many listeners will find this quite awe-inspiring and unnerving. I think it's great – giving each one of us the chance to catch a glimpse at the dark side of our souls... These soundscapses are really hard to compare with other band's work. To my mind comes some musical output of ADD N TO X, HELIOS CREED or maybe CHROME, but then, again, this here is nevertheless radically different.

This is JEWELED SCABBARD's first release. There soon will be a 100 cassette run of some of the newer stuff. If you like this work, please support the artist. Please go and check out his site at Myspace.

More dark stuff will follow soon.

 

JEWELED SCABBARD (2008)

(mp3 zip, 21 tracks, 70 min, 64,4 MB)

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