Author: CaptainFez
Curmudgeon.
Music for a busy afternoon
Like the thing says, Feed Me Weird Things.
Shirley Temple meets Buzzo
You’ve probably heard about Shirley Temple’s death. Which means you’ve probably also heard The Good Ship Lollipop far too many times than is good for you.
Take some comfort in her passing from this fine article, reminding you that her daughter played with the Melvins.
Have some footage.
Free Fela!
This page features almost fifty of Fela Kuti’s albums. Streaming. For free.
If you don’t know him, you should. Here’s a taste.
Got any blacker?
A documentary larded with historic footage of Nordic black metal’s ground zero crew.
This video is a good accompaniment to Lords of Chaos, which is the book on the whole burning churches/eating bandmates’ brains happy times surrounding Mayhem et al.
GRIMM.
NWW: Salt Marie Celeste
Having mentioned one of my favourite Nurse With Wound albums, it would be remiss of me to leave without posting it. Suitable given today’s grey, drizzly nature.
If you enjoy it, go and buy something from the band.
New split 12-inch review
My review of If, Bwana and Gerald Fiebig’s split 12-inch on Attenuation Circuit has gone live at Cyclic Defrost. You can listen to excerpts from the record here.
Gerald Fiebig’s ‘Sustained Development’ features the same reedy organ tones, but with more organisation. They’re constructed in waves, creating a feeling of motion, of tidal drift. It’s a slow-burn piece, but seems more at home in the ambient Nurse With Wound part of the world; its slow iterations and feeling of bobbing, rising waves would sit well with any fans of NWW’s Salt Marie Celeste.
New Yellow6 review
Another Cyclic Defrost review has gone live. It’s a write-up of Yellow6‘s 5 EP, part of Silber Records’ 5 in 5 project. Five minutes, five songs. A buck to download.
‘5.2’ sounds like Sling Blade-era Daniel Lanois, while ’5.3′ brings to mind Charlie Owen’s guitar work on Louis Tillett’s Midnight Rain. ‘5.4’ brings a venomous, plodding chunk to the mix, coupled with a howling noise which manages not to upset the measured, clean chord pluckings that command attention, leading to the EP’s final Godspeed You Black Emperor guitar-neighbourhood track.
What to say?
Well, hello.
I’ve finally pushed captainfez.com back somewhere. I’m sure it’s annoyed at being pressed into service again after so many years, but that’s tough.
This site will (eventually) contain a bunch of my older reviews, as well as links to newly-written stuff – and maybe even the odd round of navel gazing.
My general torpor was interrupted when I found I could no longer find some of my reviews online without making use of the Wayback Machine. So I figured that it would be fun to rescue some of them from the gaping abyss of unpaid hosting bills.
I’m not sure how many of them are really worth reading – especially as I like to think that my writing has improved in the years since they were written – but I hope that you enjoy them anyway.
If you are here because you used to read |lukelog| I am pretty amazed that you even remember me, much less tolerate my lax update schedule.
Onwards.
New Carl Kruger review
My Cyclic Defrost review for Carl Kruger’s Sexist Tranny (out on Silber Records) has now gone live. A brief sample?
The prevailing feeling of the recordings – and their provenance is unknown, buried in multiple layerings and laptop manipulations – is that of deep space, or of machinery talking to itself. Opener ‘Dead Biz Novelle’ is the sound of gigantic terrestrial radios, tuning from bogs to the vistas of cold space. ‘Bead Hell Oven Zit’ is a record of someone dropping their keys down the back of a DEC PDP-9 while it complains, loudly.
Yeah nah. 