Mamie Van Doren In Xanadu is a radioshow curated by Dj No Breakfast, dedicated to cool & strange music, with special affection for amateurish masterpieces, misunderstood stars, obscure geniuses. Broadcast every wednesday 7pm - 8pm on radio FMR 89.1 (Toulouse, Fr.) streaming & podcast.
"fantastic drumming and bongos galore from chaino and his african percussion safari, along with chanting and dancing..." This album used to be available via Grooves Of Delight, but the blog seems to be closed now. So i've reupload it here for your listening pleasure.
I am glad to introduce to you a brand new project released by the excellent french netlabel Ego Twister. It is a compilation of movie soundtracks remixed by great artists such as Vernon Lenoir, Thiaz Itch, Yvan & Lendl, Bacalao, Edmond Leprince, David Fenech ...
"In the mood of the Party Ruiners vol.1 & 2 compilations, Ego Twister Movie Ruiners is the new free music project from Ego Twister records. For this one, we asked 33 artists to reinvent an original movie soundtrack. To make the exercise a little more exciting, we asked them to avoid the use of any sample extracted from the original tracks, as we wanted them to produce real covers, instead of remixes.
The result is an incredible musical maelström, where banjos mutate into 8bit synthesizers, keyboards into guitars, and American rappers into French singers…
We hope you will love this new release as much as we enjoyed making it! Please share it as much as you can.
Ego Twister records would like to warmly thank all the artist who played this game with us. Please take some time to visit their websites and discover their crazy musical universes."
Following the success of the critically acclaimed "Perpetuum Mobile" CD of 2007, renowned UK collagists / composers People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz reunite for "Rhapsody in Glue", a cycle of bricolage-ballet-music, skewed-waltzes, and skewiff-pop.
There is a story behind every album, and with "Rhapsody in Glue" we find a unique approach to constructing a record. Both long-term contributors to New York radio station WFMU, People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz decided to publicly tear apart their respective practices and create an album "in the open", presenting on a seafood-filled-platter the process of collaborative collage composition - informally discussing and jabbering nonsense to one another, resulting in the "Codpaste" free podcast series. "Rhapsody in Glue" is the culmination of the ideas explored in the podcast series.
"Rhapsody in Glue" continues in the bizarre ballroom vein of their previous efforts together, however, increasing the sonic palette into textural depths previously uncharted in their work. If "Carmic Waltz" is an expressionist painting by aged ballroom dance teacher who's eaten the wrong kind of mushrooms in her soufflé, then "Gary's Anatomy" is a slice of pure absurdist pop shot through with slabs of exotica and Ethel Merman. Recurring through the record is an apparent obsession with Prokofiev's "Troika (Sleigh Ride)", which merges and mashes with Burt Bacharach and Queen on "Snow Day", and lapses into pure fantasy on the almost entirely acoustic "Withers in the Whist", jarring with Ergo's strange, Victoriana obsessed lyrics. Then on "Dancing in the Carmen" we discover what happens if Nana Mouskouri is thrown into a pot with Peggy Lee and let simmer for 10 minutes, whilst "In The Waking" shimmers along on multitracked guitars, meandering melodies, and music boxes. (via PLU mailing list) -- DOWNLOAD the album via peoplelikeus.org or via ubu.com
Instrumental music from the forthcoming 10 part Ergo Phizmiz radio-art cycle "The House of Dr Faustus". Composed, performed & produced by Ergo Phizmiz.Recorded 2007-2009, on the Isle of Wight, La Ferriere aux Etangs, La Noe de Fendrement, & Buckfastleigh.
The image shows two angles on a 1920s "Joujouville" French puppet theatre piano, one of the reoccurring sounds on this collection.
The project is supported by Arts Council England, VentnorBlog.com, & Vaguely Marsupial Productions.
This collection is dedicated to James Nye / Jack Phoenix, without whose interaction and inspiration on the whole Faustus project this music would not have been made."
Incredible tracks from undefined style from the mid 50s by Jimmy Drake aka Nervous Nervus ... could be a kind of prehistoric rap according to WFMU, a very interesting article about these songs can be found here.
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