Friday, December 22, 2006PLI's 25 Favorite CD's Of 2006
Yes, I know 25 is excessive, and many of you won't care, but some of you might and I'm big on sharing. In truth, this list is going to be fairly useless as it has changed little from my half year list, but hey, it's longer and here goes.
1. Rafael Toral - Space 2. Wolf Eyes - River Slaughter 3. Steve Reid and Kieran Hebden - Exhcange Sessions Vol. 1 4. Girl Talk - Night Ripper 5. Tod Dokckstader - Aerial 3 6. Belbury P0ly - The Owl's Map 7. Scott Walker - The Drift 8. Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex 9. Starving Wierdos - Eastern Light 10. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls of America 11. Fe- Mail - Blixter Toad 12. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain 13. Grizzly Bear- Yellow House 14. John Wiese - Black Magic Pond 15. Dr. Octagon - The Return Of Dr. Octagon 16. Spunk - En Aldeles Forferdelig Sykdom 17. An Albatross - Blessphemy... 18. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal 19. Phill Niblock - Touch Three 20. Boxcutter - Oneiric 21. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere 22. Keith Rowe and Toshimaru Nokamura - between 23. Thom Yorke - The Eraser 24. Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton - Black Vomit 25. Peeesseye - Commuting Between The Surface and the Underworld Sunday, December 17, 2006Update 12/17 Thanks for checking in with us again. This is the final podcast update of 2006, and I'd like to thank everyone who has listened and subscribed this year. OKSRNA's one year anniversary is just around the corner, I'd like thank everyone who's sent us those very encouraging and flattering emails.This week also marks the final episode of the Unevenness of the Moon's Surface Podcast. Jonah delivers one of his finest and most bizarre, Have No Detective, using the titles of spam emails as the source material for the internet mounting tower of babel. It could be the best use of Simpletext speech since Radiohead's OK Computer. U/M/S goes out with a bang, thanks for all the noise, Jones. For the '06 finale of the Painful Leg Injuries Podcast, I saved my favorite episode of the year for last, Down The Garbage Hole. A microphone's journey down the building's garbage chute reveals a number of ghosts looming in the quickest way to the dumpster. El Plan De Aguavodka's Hide and Seek In The Windbreak Trees is an real stunning show of John vision of the future past. Strange instruments wizz around the room like a spirit from a 1940's radio drama. Lovely and mind-blowing. El Plan De Aguavodka and The Painful Leg Injuries podcasts return on Monday, January 8th, as well as the premiere episode of the Jev Stephens Podcast. Sunday, December 10, 2006Update 12/10 Welcome back everyone. This week's podcasts are quite a pretty bunch.El Plan De Aguavodka's Another Modified Equestrian Statue is a lovely and melodic piece that combines a Fennesz/Tim Hecker-style tune with a foreign film soundtrack. The Unevenness of the Moon's Surface's latest, Deux Excematae shows U/M/S returning to what he does best, finding that perfect place where everything slows to a beautiful yet noisy snapshot. It's like bag pipes in super-slo-mo. This is one of my favorite U/M/S podcasts. The Painful Leg Injuries deliver a spiky bushel of plinky sounds this time in the form of a wild live manipulated performance of tapped glasses, You Can See Through and Go Back To. There's new review of the PLI's Backwards, Broken and Incorrectly, written by experimental radio show "It's Too Damn Early" host, Dave X, now published at the blog Startling Moniker. Click here to check out his review. Next week will be the final podcasts of 2006. Also, it will be the final final episode of the Unevenness of the Moon's Surface Podcast. Don't miss it. Update 12/10 Welcome back everyone. This week's podcasts are quite a pretty bunch.El Plan De Aguavodka's Another Modified Equestrian Statue is a lovely and melodic piece that combines a Fennesz/Tim Hecker-style tune with a foreign film soundtrack. The Unevenness of the Moon's Surface's latest, Deux Excematae shows U/M/S returning to what he does best, finding that perfect place where everything slows to a beautiful yet noisy snapshot. It's like bag pipes in super-slo-mo. This is one of my favorite U/M/S podcasts. The Painful Leg Injuries deliver a spiky bushel of plinky sounds this time in the form of a wild live manipulated performance of tapped glasses, You Can See Through and Go Back To. There's new review of the PLI's Backwards, Broken and Incorrectly, written by experimental radio show "It's Too Damn Early" host, Dave X, now published at the blog Startling Moniker. Click here to check out his review. Next week will be the final podcasts of 2006. Also, it will be the final final episode of the Unevenness of the Moon's Surface Podcast. Don't miss it. Friday, December 08, 2006The Painful Leg Injuries New Album Now Available At CD Baby![]() If The Devil's In The Details Then How How Many Details Can You Fit Upon A Match? The new sophomore full length CD-R (and DVD - R) by the Painful Leg Injuries is now available at CDbaby.com, click here to order! The Painful Leg Injuries have integrated some bold experiments into their established melodic technique to yield an album that is both more experimental and more appealing than their previous releases. On Backwards, Broken and Incorrectly, Bill and Suzanne created ambient electronic music with a fractured, alien beauty, large haunting atmospherics and distinct, emergent melodies. On If The Devil’s In The Details, Then How Many Details Can You Fit Upon A Match? Bill decided to consolidate the approach to make music that was no longer content to stay in the background, a more aggressive assertive sound that grabs hold of the listener’s attention. The Painful Leg Injuries’ refine their soundscapes into a busy, punk-fuelled version of world music from Venus. Suzanne’s cello appears prominently in the album’s opening track Every Minute of Everyday Someone Is Having An Apocalypse, a taut piece of classically inspired noise that builds to a cathartic release. Bill digs back to his hardcore roots with I Did Not Agree With the Prophets offering up a vision what Lightning Bolt would sound like if they added a laptop. They’ve also integrated several new elements such as Bill’s homemade Sensorlab feedback machines, field recordings, and instrumentation that includes trumpet, kalimba, melodica, autoharp, xylophone, accordian, and homemade rubber band stringed instruments. On A Complete Lack Of Charisma and/Or Talent they layer a simple phrase played on a variety of instruments to yield a dense fog of strangely beautiful sounds. Also the CD-R comes with our first DVD-R release with six videos directed by Jonah Goldstein, Matthew Lancit, John Ibarra and Bill Byrne. Sample Tracks: Every Minute Of Everyday Someone Is Having An Apocalypse I Did Not Agree With The Prophets Music Video: I Did Not Agree With The Prophets Sunday, December 03, 2006Update 12/3 Many exciting things to report this week. First, the fourth major release from OKSRNA, the second album by yours truly and my wife, Suzanne, The Painful Leg Injuries' If the Devil's In The Details Then How Many Details Can You Fit Upon A Match? shipped this weekend and will be available at CD Baby and our site within the next week or two, check in here for updates.It's the first CD-R + DVD-R release from our label. The DVD-R will includes six music videos directed by Matthew Lancit, John Ibarra, Jonah Goldstein and myself. Keep an eye on our newly restored Videos page for the appearence of some of these videos. Next, we will be taking a break from the podcasts from December 17th until January 7th. On January 7th we will launch the addition of a new podcast from audionaut/VJ, Jev Stephens (formally of Angeltech, and They Wait). We also added two more artists to the OKSRNA roster, avant-guitarist, and electronic composer Marco Oppedisano, and quirky electro-jam band Little Ricky's House of Chanklattas. Both are scheduled to release CD-R's with us in 2007. And speaking of Marco Oppedisano, make plans to be in NYC on February 17th to catch Marco, El Plan De Aguavodka and The Painful Leg Injuries live at NYC's the Monkey. Aside from their solo sets the three artists will perform a group improvisation. It's El Plan De Aguavodka's first live debut, don't miss out. Also in some bad news, The Unevenness of the Moon's Surface Podcast will be ending on December 17th. Don't fret too hard, Jonah's going to be concentrating on recording the U/M/S's debut CD-R and finally finishing The Harmful Free Radicals' debut Chinese Democracy, er sorry, I mean, The Duplicate Factories of Washington State (Sorry, Axl, it's not meant as insult, I swear, I still believe it'll be amazing) as well as writing screenplays and playing with ducks. As far as this week's podcasts go the latest in The Painful Leg Injuries' series of domestic disturbance is the sounds of bowls and glasses warped into a Tom Waits ripping off Harry Partch-esque and making a tinkly percussion jam, Holding Liquids, Circular At Top. El Plan De Aguavodka continues his Interrogation series with Interrogation No.6, a slow journey into complete darkness. The Unevenness of the Moon's Surface takes us to the dentist for his latest mind-cleaner, The Python Ate The Phoenix's Ashes. Until next week, take care. Friday, December 01, 2006Marco Oppedisano, The Painful Leg Injuries and El Plan De Aguavodka Live On February 17th![]() That's right on February 17th there's going to be a performance by three OKSRNA artists. The show will be at NYC's The Monkey, a great venue with an amazng 5.1 surround system. Marco played there on October 28th to a sold out crowd. On this evening El Plan De Aguavodka plays live for the first time, follwed by The Painful Leg Injuries and then a set by new OKSRNA artist Marco Oppedisano. After their three individual sets the artists will perform a group improvisation which should be very interesting to say the least. For details click here to visit the Monkey's site, advance tickets are available by contacting the venue. Tickets are recommended since the last time Marco played there it did sell out. Archives06/01/2006 - 07/01/2006 07/01/2006 - 08/01/2006 08/01/2006 - 09/01/2006 09/01/2006 - 10/01/2006 10/01/2006 - 11/01/2006 11/01/2006 - 12/01/2006 12/01/2006 - 01/01/2007 01/01/2007 - 02/01/2007 02/01/2007 - 03/01/2007 03/01/2007 - 04/01/2007 04/01/2007 - 05/01/2007 05/01/2007 - 06/01/2007 06/01/2007 - 07/01/2007 07/01/2007 - 08/01/2007 08/01/2007 - 09/01/2007 |