Sunday, June 25, 2006
This week we celebrate The Unevenness Of The Moon's Surface's 20th podcast. Thanks to Jonah for so much fine music.For his 20th episode U/M/S gives us the spacey blues number Dustbowl Ballad Automaton. It's got everything we love about the U/M/S. Sad fractured electronics, space atmospherics and hidden melodies. A harmonica is misused to such a degree that hobos everywhere may take up the bassoon.
Speaking of an instrument misused, my latest, That Frightening Moment When The Sleeping Giant Wakes Up, could be the most devastating The Painful Leg Injuries Podcast to date. As part of my latest series Return To The Underground Chambers, the source material is approximately one minute of man playing a chinese lute. I then pplayed an improvised mix (thanks to the Isadora software) of the same sample constantly layered over itself with many pitch variations. Pain can lead to ecstasy, and they are not that different.
El Plan De Aguavodka gives us the latest of his Aguavideo series, Speeding Past A Desert Highway Traffic Jame [Aguavideo IV]. Another gorgeously reworked field recording.
Don't forget ot check out Foxy Digitalis' review of The Painful Leg Injuries' debut CD-R Backwards, Broken and Incorrectly, click here to read the review. They gave it a wonderfully positive write up and scored it an 8 out of 10. Thanks to Foxy Digitalis, Eden, and writer, Chris Jaques.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Foxy Digitalis Gives The Painful Leg Injuries' Broken, Backwards and Incorrectly an 8 out of 10!
Foxy Digitalis, the awesome online magazine/review site reviewed my CD-R Broken, Backwards and Incorrectly, on June 14th, I believe. Writer Chris Jaques, kindly gave it a 8 out of 10. Click here to read Foxy Digitalis' review of the Painful Leg Injuries' Broken, Backwards, and Incorrectly.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
It's the middle of June and 2006 is half over. We're celebrating the 20th episode of the El Plan De Aguavodka podcast.
Now for his 20th podcast, El Plan De Aguavodka's Aguavideo Series, Book About Fire. It's brittle and psychedelic and everything we love about EPDA. If haven't subscribed to the El Plan De Aguavodka Podcast, you really need to. John's work every week, is exciting, creative and totally out there. Click here to subscribe using Itunes. Also, catch up on the older podcasts in the archive.
For this week's The Unevenness of the Moon's Surface Podcast, we see a trun back to the softer more melodic, yet still unpredictable U/M/S with Enfield's Composite Machinations. Nicely merged Wolf Eyes electronics in the background and Fennesz styled melodic droney guitar up front.
Who's not a sucker for a guitar player spilling his guts in the middle of the Port Authority Bus Terminal? Well I'm certainly the above-described sucker. For this week's The Painful Leg Injuries Podcast, I continue the Return to the Four Chambers series with It Takes Six Strings To Laugh Again. These underground folkies are not just collecting change, they offer a commuter group therapy, if you speak their language. Spanish or the blues?
Sunday, June 11, 2006
This week we launch the 11th Series of The Painful Leg Injuries Podcast, Return To The Four Chambers. Last year, for the 3rd Series I podcasted Underground Chambers, sound collages made from my cell phone recordings of NYC's street musicians. I made four episodes, and the series had a good response. I felt like at some point I needed to return to this work, as I felt it could be taken further. This week, the first of six episodes in this new series begins with Central Park, May 6th 2006, Pet Adoption Fair, (For Crindy).In returning to this work I've changed a few things, first, I am now using a memo recorder instead of my cell phone. As you know, the crappy mic on my cell phone was key to the aesthetic here. However the memo recorder has an equally crappy mic, but the change was inspired by my wanting to have longer samples and recordings. I've also tweaked the source material more, I allowed myself some effects I did allow myself in the previous cycle. For more info on this series check out our blog.
El Plan De Aguavodka's latest, East River Reflections (Aguavideo IV), is a psychedelic jouney into, of all places, the east river. This is the fourth in EPDA's series of video used as the source for his explorations. John knows how to take us on a frightening journey into the most unseeming places. This one's full of microscopic details, listen close and loudly. You may not survive, as you probably wouldn't survive a swim in that drink.
What the hell is the Unevenness of Moon's Surface doing? Is this the worst hip-hop beat ever? Is this what happens if Wolf Eyes got hold of early Autechre tapes? Stop asking stupid questions and love it, the most surprising and perversely satisfying U/M/S podcast to date, Taras Bulba. Did Chewbacca drop a few rhymes at the end? Very cool.
Also, don't forget to check out this month's Signal To Noise, and see our ad on page 77. Also, the Painful Leg Injuries' debut Backwards, Broken and Incorrectly is now available for digital download on Itunes. Click here to launch Itunes and sample the tracks or purchase the album.
Friday, June 09, 2006
The Painful Leg Injuries' album Backwards, Broken and Incorrectly is now for sale through Apple's Itunes music library. Click here to launch Itunes and sample tracks or download it.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
The next time you hit your local record store/bookstore/mag rack, check out our first print ad in the latest Signal To Noise, (a great read for fans of experimental, improvised, electronic and jazz) summer 2006, issue #42 Tony Conrad's on the cover. We're on page 77. Our first non-digital form of advertising take a look. Can definitely be found at Tower Records, and NYC's Other Music (who also sell PLI cd's).
Monday, June 05, 2006
The Painful Leg Injuries' 5 dollar, 7CD-R boxset, Interpreting Codes Into Robust Details: The 2005 Podcasts is now available through Tower Records.com. It's music is no longer available through this site, and for 5 dollars it's worth it for the price of the cool metal case it comes in. I got them at the Container Store and they are awesome.Sunday, June 04, 2006
We Are Back
We are back after a pleasant Memorial Weekend. I had a chance to visit our good friend Jonah Goldstein of the Unevenness of the Moon's Surface in LA. The U/M/S podcast returns this week after Jonah suffered the modern equivalent of your house burning down, laptop hard drive failure. Luckily it wasn't as bad as it could of been, he had luck at the genius bar, but he addresses technological mishaps and data loss in his new podcast The Age of Technological Disaster. Is computer failure the worst thing in the world now? Or is it still a Y2K type joke? His busted organ sounds like the return of a good friend. I've missed it over the last few weeks. I got to see it last weekend and I can't wait U/M/S to take that on tour somewhere down the line.
El Plan De Aguavodka has been blowing my mind every week and his latest in his series of processed home movie audio, Walk Under Trees [Aguavideo III] is no exception. The strange sounds of disembodied drones curdle and bend as beautifully as the sunlight shines through leaves on a tree. Don't miss it.
The Painful Leg Injuries wrap up the latest series, Improvised Sensorlab this week. For the 7th and final episode of this series I used some live digital processing while I erformed this piece. This one definitely drones more than the previous episodes. I've loved making this series and this will not be the end of work I'm making along these lines, so we'll keep you posted. Next week, for the 11th series, I return to my collaged recordings of street musicians for Return to the Four Chambers.
Also, we've changed our updates here to be more blog-like. Please give us any feedback you like by commenting right here. Until next week, take care.
El Plan De Aguavodka has been blowing my mind every week and his latest in his series of processed home movie audio, Walk Under Trees [Aguavideo III] is no exception. The strange sounds of disembodied drones curdle and bend as beautifully as the sunlight shines through leaves on a tree. Don't miss it.
The Painful Leg Injuries wrap up the latest series, Improvised Sensorlab this week. For the 7th and final episode of this series I used some live digital processing while I erformed this piece. This one definitely drones more than the previous episodes. I've loved making this series and this will not be the end of work I'm making along these lines, so we'll keep you posted. Next week, for the 11th series, I return to my collaged recordings of street musicians for Return to the Four Chambers.
Also, we've changed our updates here to be more blog-like. Please give us any feedback you like by commenting right here. Until next week, take care.
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