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KEXP, a Seattle-based radio station I listen to every work day, will periodically do an entire day (or more) of “6 Degrees of Separation” programming, where every DJ comes up with their playlist on the fly, connecting each song by some thread – a shared band member/writer/producer/studio, one artist covering the other’s song, a previous/future collaboration, etc. Each DJ will often try to reach a particular artist by the end of their show, and the next DJ has to continue from where the previous DJ left off.
If you follow me on Mastodon, you may have seen that I was curious if we could play the 6 Degrees game with The List. My initial aim was to simply connect 6 albums from The List, starting with the last album we had a spotlight on (with no particular album as an end goal), but that was easy enough so I kept going. One of The List contributors also came up with a set, so I incorporated those into what I came up with and kept going some more. So far, we’ve connected 50ish albums from The List in a row.
I think each set provides a nice multi-day playlist (and, for a mega nerd like myself, following these trails is quite a bit of fun), so I wanted to share them here, one set at a time. And because (spoilers!) Prince features heavily in the last few sets, we’re going to time it so the last set is on the anniversary of him leaving us (April 21), and pick out some other fun Prince-connections along the way.
Okay, here we go…
6 Degrees of Separation: Yellow Magic Orchestra to Medicine Singers
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Solid State Survivor (list number 85)
>> One of the band members of YMO was…Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async (901)
…Ryuichi Sakamoto, who acted in the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence alongside…David Bowie – Low (537)
…David Bowie, who recruited Adrian Belew for the Isolar II (i.e., Low/Heroes) tour (and the live album Stage, then Lodger, and, later, the Sound+Vision tour). Following Lodger, Belew recorded guitar solos and played in the live band for…Talking Heads – Remain In Light (946)
…this album by Talking Heads, whose David Byrne later collaborated with St. Vincent, who is on…Swans – To Be Kind (646)
…this album by Swans, whose Thor Harris and Christopher Pravdica are on…Medicine Singers – Medicine Singers (972)
…this album by Medicine Singers. <<Prince 6
Though we don’t have a Prince album in today’s list, here are some fun connections the above artists have to The Purple One:
- Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “You Do Me” (Youtube), from the international release of his 1989 album Beauty, features Jill Jones, who performed/collaborated with Prince in many of his projects (including the 1999 album, Purple Rain and Graffiti Bridge films, and the Vanity 6 and Apollonia 6 side-projects) and was on his Paisley Park Records label.
- Ingrid Chavez, who was on Prince’s Lovesexy album, was originally on the Paisley Park label, and acted alongside Prince in Graffiti Bridge, also performed on Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 1991 album Heartbeat.
- According to the forums on prince.org, there’s a bootleg recording of a Prince rehearsal session called 1999 Revisited where Prince throws in some tweaked Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” lyrics into his “D.M.S.R.” song.
- In 2018, David Byrne showed up at a tiki-karaoke bar in Portland and sang “When Doves Cry” (Youtube).
- In Tom Hagler’s 2021 book We Could Be…Bowie and His Heroes, there’s a brief story about the only time Prince and David Bowie met. In 1987, after Bowie played a show in Minneapolis, Prince invited him back to Paisley Park for a party. Prince put on an album he had just recently written but not yet released, The Black Album, and everyone including Bowie and his band danced to and enjoyed the record. (Prince later said that one of the reasons why he decided to pull the album was because he didn’t like a comment that someone else who was also there that night said about the album, even though it was a compliment.)
- After Bowie died, while on his Piano & A Microphone Tour, Prince incorporated a cover of “Heroes” into a few of his shows.
Tune in on Thursday for Part 2, to see how we get from Medicine Singers to R.E.M.!
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/09/6-degrees-of-separation-part-1/
#1001OtherAlbums #6DegreesOfSeparation #AdrianBelew #ChristopherPravdica #DavidBowie #DavidByrne #MedicineSingers #Prince #RyuichiSakamoto #StVincent #Swans #TalkingHeads #ThorHarris
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@buffyleigh definitely an all star cast.......just a quick look #ThorHarris #Laraaji #IkueMori
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@buffyleigh definitely an all star cast.......just a quick look #ThorHarris #Laraaji #IkueMori
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@buffyleigh definitely an all star cast.......just a quick look #ThorHarris #Laraaji #IkueMori
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@buffyleigh definitely an all star cast.......just a quick look #ThorHarris #Laraaji #IkueMori
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KEXP, a Seattle-based radio station I listen to every work day, will periodically do an entire day (or more) of “6 Degrees of Separation” programming, where every DJ comes up with their playlist on the fly, connecting each song by some thread – a shared band member/writer/producer/studio, one artist covering the other’s song, a previous/future collaboration, etc. Each DJ will often try to reach a particular artist by the end of their show, and the next DJ has to continue from where the previous DJ left off.
If you follow me on Mastodon, you may have seen that I was curious if we could play the 6 Degrees game with The List. My initial aim was to simply connect 6 albums from The List, starting with the last album we had a spotlight on (with no particular album as an end goal), but that was easy enough so I kept going. One of The List contributors also came up with a set, so I incorporated those into what I came up with and kept going some more. So far, we’ve connected 50ish albums from The List in a row.
I think each set provides a nice multi-day playlist (and, for a mega nerd like myself, following these trails is quite a bit of fun), so I wanted to share them here, one set at a time. And because (spoilers!) Prince features heavily in the last few sets, we’re going to time it so the last set is on the anniversary of him leaving us (April 21), and pick out some other fun Prince-connections along the way.
Okay, here we go…
6 Degrees of Separation: Yellow Magic Orchestra to Medicine Singers
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Solid State Survivor (list number 85)
>> One of the band members of YMO was…Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async (901)
…Ryuichi Sakamoto, who acted in the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence alongside…David Bowie – Low (537)
…David Bowie, who recruited Adrian Belew for the Isolar II (i.e., Low/Heroes) tour (and the live album Stage, then Lodger, and, later, the Sound+Vision tour). Following Lodger, Belew recorded guitar solos and played in the live band for…Talking Heads – Remain In Light (946)
…this album by Talking Heads, whose David Byrne later collaborated with St. Vincent, who is on…Swans – To Be Kind (646)
…this album by Swans, whose Thor Harris and Christopher Pravdica are on…Medicine Singers – Medicine Singers (972)
…this album by Medicine Singers. <<Prince 6
Though we don’t have a Prince album in today’s list, here are some fun connections the above artists have to The Purple One:
- Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “You Do Me” (Youtube), from the international release of his 1989 album Beauty, features Jill Jones, who performed/collaborated with Prince in many of his projects (including the 1999 album, Purple Rain and Graffiti Bridge films, and the Vanity 6 and Apollonia 6 side-projects) and was on his Paisley Park Records label.
- Ingrid Chavez, who was on Prince’s Lovesexy album, was originally on the Paisley Park label, and acted alongside Prince in Graffiti Bridge, also performed on Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 1991 album Heartbeat.
- According to the forums on prince.org, there’s a bootleg recording of a Prince rehearsal session called 1999 Revisited where Prince throws in some tweaked Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” lyrics into his “D.M.S.R.” song.
- In 2018, David Byrne showed up at a tiki-karaoke bar in Portland and sang “When Doves Cry” (Youtube).
- In Tom Hagler’s 2021 book We Could Be…Bowie and His Heroes, there’s a brief story about the only time Prince and David Bowie met. In 1987, after Bowie played a show in Minneapolis, Prince invited him back to Paisley Park for a party. Prince put on an album he had just recently written but not yet released, The Black Album, and everyone including Bowie and his band danced to and enjoyed the record. (Prince later said that one of the reasons why he decided to pull the album was because he didn’t like a comment that someone else who was also there that night said about the album, even though it was a compliment.)
- After Bowie died, while on his Piano & A Microphone Tour, Prince incorporated a cover of “Heroes” into a few of his shows.
Tune in on Thursday for Part 2, to see how we get from Medicine Singers to R.E.M.!
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/09/6-degrees-of-separation-part-1/
#1001OtherAlbums #6DegreesOfSeparation #AdrianBelew #ChristopherPravdica #DavidBowie #DavidByrne #MedicineSingers #Prince #RyuichiSakamoto #StVincent #Swans #TalkingHeads #ThorHarris
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Adam Torres, High Lonesome
Out across the open plain ....
Lay me down the High Lonesome way ...Performed in Austin with drummer Thor Harris, and Aisha Burns on violin
This song was released on Torres' 2016 Pearls to Swine Album on Fat Possum Records
#adamrorres #highlonesome #austinmusic #thorharris #aishaburns #pearlstoswine #music #americana #musicworld #folkmusic #livemusic #nowplaying #listenup #nowheathis #mixtape #randomplay #austinmusicscene #musicscene #westernmusic #prairiemusic #musicilove
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Adam Torres, High Lonesome
Out across the open plain ....
Lay me down the High Lonesome way ...Performed in Austin with drummer Thor Harris, and Aisha Burns on violin
This song was released on Torres' 2016 Pearls to Swine Album on Fat Possum Records
#adamrorres #highlonesome #austinmusic #thorharris #aishaburns #pearlstoswine #music #americana #musicworld #folkmusic #livemusic #nowplaying #listenup #nowheathis #mixtape #randomplay #austinmusicscene #musicscene #westernmusic #prairiemusic #musicilove
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Adam Torres, High Lonesome
Out across the open plain ....
Lay me down the High Lonesome way ...Performed in Austin with drummer Thor Harris, and Aisha Burns on violin
This song was released on Torres' 2016 Pearls to Swine Album on Fat Possum Records
#adamrorres #highlonesome #austinmusic #thorharris #aishaburns #pearlstoswine #music #americana #musicworld #folkmusic #livemusic #nowplaying #listenup #nowheathis #mixtape #randomplay #austinmusicscene #musicscene #westernmusic #prairiemusic #musicilove
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New #review today: "#Immersion and #Nanocluster started as a one-off pop-up gig at the Rosehill in Brighton in 2017 and turned into an album series. Built around #ColinNewman (#Wire) and his partner #MalkaSpigel (#MinimalCompact), they collaborated with various influential musical guests. Their new album, Nanocluster Vol. 2, features guest artists #ThorHarris (#Swans), #JackWolter (#Cubzoa and #PenelopeIsles), and #MattSchulz on drums." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/immersion-nanocluster-vol-2-6.html
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New #review today: "#Immersion and #Nanocluster started as a one-off pop-up gig at the Rosehill in Brighton in 2017 and turned into an album series. Built around #ColinNewman (#Wire) and his partner #MalkaSpigel (#MinimalCompact), they collaborated with various influential musical guests. Their new album, Nanocluster Vol. 2, features guest artists #ThorHarris (#Swans), #JackWolter (#Cubzoa and #PenelopeIsles), and #MattSchulz on drums." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/immersion-nanocluster-vol-2-6.html
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New #review today: "#Immersion and #Nanocluster started as a one-off pop-up gig at the Rosehill in Brighton in 2017 and turned into an album series. Built around #ColinNewman (#Wire) and his partner #MalkaSpigel (#MinimalCompact), they collaborated with various influential musical guests. Their new album, Nanocluster Vol. 2, features guest artists #ThorHarris (#Swans), #JackWolter (#Cubzoa and #PenelopeIsles), and #MattSchulz on drums." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/immersion-nanocluster-vol-2-6.html
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New #review today: "#Immersion and #Nanocluster started as a one-off pop-up gig at the Rosehill in Brighton in 2017 and turned into an album series. Built around #ColinNewman (#Wire) and his partner #MalkaSpigel (#MinimalCompact), they collaborated with various influential musical guests. Their new album, Nanocluster Vol. 2, features guest artists #ThorHarris (#Swans), #JackWolter (#Cubzoa and #PenelopeIsles), and #MattSchulz on drums." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/immersion-nanocluster-vol-2-6.html
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New #review today: "#Immersion and #Nanocluster started as a one-off pop-up gig at the Rosehill in Brighton in 2017 and turned into an album series. Built around #ColinNewman (#Wire) and his partner #MalkaSpigel (#MinimalCompact), they collaborated with various influential musical guests. Their new album, Nanocluster Vol. 2, features guest artists #ThorHarris (#Swans), #JackWolter (#Cubzoa and #PenelopeIsles), and #MattSchulz on drums." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/immersion-nanocluster-vol-2-6.html
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test pressing of the grass jones "weedbeard" homage tshirt came in! will be making this design available to the public next week! have rarely felt so damn fresh!!! https://youtu.be/Z0XLzIswI2s #wearetheradio custom design always available @Antonnewcombe @thorharris #textiles #textiledesign #bootleg #weed #beauxarts #dada #artbrut #grace #inyourface #design #graphic
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Adam Torres, High Lonesome
Out across the open plain ....
Lay me down the High Lonesome way ...Performed in Austin with drummer Thor Harris, and Aisha Burns on violin
This song was released on Torres' 2016 Pearls to Swine Album on Fat Possum Records
#adamrorres #highlonesome #austinmusic #thorharris #aishaburns #pearlstoswine #music #americana #musicworld #folkmusic #livemusic #nowplaying #listenup #nowheathis #mixtape #randomplay #austinmusicscene #musicscene #westernmusic #prairiemusic #musicilove
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KEXP, a Seattle-based radio station I listen to every work day, will periodically do an entire day (or more) of “6 Degrees of Separation” programming, where every DJ comes up with their playlist on the fly, connecting each song by some thread – a shared band member/writer/producer/studio, one artist covering the other’s song, a previous/future collaboration, etc. Each DJ will often try to reach a particular artist by the end of their show, and the next DJ has to continue from where the previous DJ left off.
If you follow me on Mastodon, you may have seen that I was curious if we could play the 6 Degrees game with The List. My initial aim was to simply connect 6 albums from The List, starting with the last album we had a spotlight on (with no particular album as an end goal), but that was easy enough so I kept going. One of The List contributors also came up with a set, so I incorporated those into what I came up with and kept going some more. So far, we’ve connected 50ish albums from The List in a row.
I think each set provides a nice multi-day playlist (and, for a mega nerd like myself, following these trails is quite a bit of fun), so I wanted to share them here, one set at a time. And because (spoilers!) Prince features heavily in the last few sets, we’re going to time it so the last set is on the anniversary of him leaving us (April 21), and pick out some other fun Prince-connections along the way.
Okay, here we go…
6 Degrees of Separation: Yellow Magic Orchestra to Medicine Singers
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Solid State Survivor (number 85)
>> One of the band members of YMO was…Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async (number 901)
…Ryuichi Sakamoto, who acted in the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence alongside…David Bowie – Low (number 537)
…David Bowie, who recruited Adrian Belew for the Isolar II (i.e., Low/Heroes) tour (and the live album Stage, then Lodger, and, later, the Sound+Vision tour). Following Lodger, Belew recorded guitar solos and played in the live band for…Talking Heads – Remain In Light (number 946)
…this album by Talking Heads, whose David Byrne later collaborated with St. Vincent, who is on…Swans – To Be Kind (number 646)
…this album by Swans, whose Thor Harris and Christopher Pravdica are onMedicine Singers – Medicine Singers (number 972)
…this album by Medicine Singers. <<Prince 6
Though we don’t have a Prince album in today’s list, here are some fun connections the above artists have to the Purple One:
- Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “You Do Me” (Youtube), from the international release of his 1989 album Beauty, features Jill Jones, who performed/collaborated with Prince in many of his projects (including the 1999 album, Purple Rain and Graffiti Bridge films, and the Vanity 6 and Apollonia 6 side-projects) and was on his Paisley Park Records label.
- Ingrid Chavez, who was on Prince’s Lovesexy album, was originally on the Paisley Park label, and acted alongside Prince in Graffiti Bridge, also performed on Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 1991 album Heartbeat.
- According to the forums on prince.org, there’s a bootleg recording of a Prince rehearsal session called 1999 Revisited where Prince throws in some tweaked Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” lyrics into his “D.M.S.R.” song.
- In 2018, David Byrne showed up at a tiki-karaoke bar in Portland and sang “When Doves Cry” (Youtube).
- In Tom Hagler’s 2021 book We Could Be…Bowie and His Heroes, there’s a brief story about the only time Prince and David Bowie met. In 1987, after Bowie played a show in Minneapolis, Prince invited him back to Paisley Park for a party. Prince put on an album he had just recently written but not yet released, The Black Album, and everyone including Bowie and his band danced to and enjoyed the record. (Prince later said that one of the reasons why he decided to pull the album was because he didn’t like a comment that someone else who was also there that night said about the album, even though it was a compliment.)
- After Bowie died, while on his Piano & A Microphone Tour, Prince incorporated a cover of “Heroes” into a few of his shows.
Tune in on Thursday for Part 2, to see how we get from Medicine Singers to REM!
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/09/6-degrees-of-separation-part-1/
#1001OtherAlbums #6DegreesOfSeparation #AdrianBelew #ChristopherPravdica #DavidBowie #DavidByrne #MedicineSingers #Prince #RyuichiSakamoto #StVincent #Swans #TalkingHeads #ThorHarris
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KEXP, a Seattle-based radio station I listen to every work day, will periodically do an entire day (or more) of “6 Degrees of Separation” programming, where every DJ comes up with their playlist on the fly, connecting each song by some thread – a shared band member/writer/producer/studio, one artist covering the other’s song, a previous/future collaboration, etc. Each DJ will often try to reach a particular artist by the end of their show, and the next DJ has to continue from where the previous DJ left off.
If you follow me on Mastodon, you may have seen that I was curious if we could play the 6 Degrees game with The List. My initial aim was to simply connect 6 albums from The List, starting with the last album we had a spotlight on (with no particular album as an end goal), but that was easy enough so I kept going. One of The List contributors also came up with a set, so I incorporated those into what I came up with and kept going some more. So far, we’ve connected 50ish albums from The List in a row.
I think each set provides a nice multi-day playlist (and, for a mega nerd like myself, following these trails is quite a bit of fun), so I wanted to share them here, one set at a time. And because (spoilers!) Prince features heavily in the last few sets, we’re going to time it so the last set is on the anniversary of him leaving us (April 21), and pick out some other fun Prince-connections along the way.
Okay, here we go…
6 Degrees of Separation: Yellow Magic Orchestra to Medicine Singers
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Solid State Survivor (number 85)
>> One of the band members of YMO was…Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async (number 901)
…Ryuichi Sakamoto, who acted in the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence alongside…David Bowie – Low (number 537)
…David Bowie, who recruited Adrian Belew for the Isolar II (i.e., Low/Heroes) tour (and the live album Stage, then Lodger, and, later, the Sound+Vision tour). Following Lodger, Belew recorded guitar solos and played in the live band for…Talking Heads – Remain In Light (number 946)
…this album by Talking Heads, whose David Byrne later collaborated with St. Vincent, who is on…Swans – To Be Kind (number 646)
…this album by Swans, whose Thor Harris and Christopher Pravdica are onMedicine Singers – Medicine Singers (number 972)
…this album by Medicine Singers. <<Prince 6
Though we don’t have a Prince album in today’s list, here are some fun connections the above artists have to the Purple One:
- Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “You Do Me” (Youtube), from the international release of his 1989 album Beauty, features Jill Jones, who performed/collaborated with Prince in many of his projects (including the 1999 album, Purple Rain and Graffiti Bridge films, and the Vanity 6 and Apollonia 6 side-projects) and was on his Paisley Park Records label.
- Ingrid Chavez, who was on Prince’s Lovesexy album, was originally on the Paisley Park label, and acted alongside Prince in Graffiti Bridge, also performed on Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 1991 album Heartbeat.
- According to the forums on prince.org, there’s a bootleg recording of a Prince rehearsal session called 1999 Revisited where Prince throws in some tweaked Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” lyrics into his “D.M.S.R.” song.
- In 2018, David Byrne showed up at a tiki-karaoke bar in Portland and sang “When Doves Cry” (Youtube).
- In Tom Hagler’s 2021 book We Could Be…Bowie and His Heroes, there’s a brief story about the only time Prince and David Bowie met. In 1987, after Bowie played a show in Minneapolis, Prince invited him back to Paisley Park for a party. Prince put on an album he had just recently written but not yet released, The Black Album, and everyone including Bowie and his band danced to and enjoyed the record. (Prince later said that one of the reasons why he decided to pull the album was because he didn’t like a comment that someone else who was also there that night said about the album, even though it was a compliment.)
- After Bowie died, while on his Piano & A Microphone Tour, Prince incorporated a cover of “Heroes” into a few of his shows.
Tune in on Thursday for Part 2, to see how we get from Medicine Singers to REM!
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/09/6-degrees-of-separation-part-1/
#1001OtherAlbums #6DegreesOfSeparation #AdrianBelew #ChristopherPravdica #DavidBowie #DavidByrne #MedicineSingers #Prince #RyuichiSakamoto #StVincent #Swans #TalkingHeads #ThorHarris
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KEXP, a Seattle-based radio station I listen to every work day, will periodically do an entire day (or more) of “6 Degrees of Separation” programming, where every DJ comes up with their playlist on the fly, connecting each song by some thread – a shared band member/writer/producer/studio, one artist covering the other’s song, a previous/future collaboration, etc. Each DJ will often try to reach a particular artist by the end of their show, and the next DJ has to continue from where the previous DJ left off.
If you follow me on Mastodon, you may have seen that I was curious if we could play the 6 Degrees game with The List. My initial aim was to simply connect 6 albums from The List, starting with the last album we had a spotlight on (with no particular album as an end goal), but that was easy enough so I kept going. One of The List contributors also came up with a set, so I incorporated those into what I came up with and kept going some more. So far, we’ve connected 50ish albums from The List in a row.
I think each set provides a nice multi-day playlist (and, for a mega nerd like myself, following these trails is quite a bit of fun), so I wanted to share them here, one set at a time. And because (spoilers!) Prince features heavily in the last few sets, we’re going to time it so the last set is on the anniversary of him leaving us (April 21), and pick out some other fun Prince-connections along the way.
Okay, here we go…
6 Degrees of Separation: Yellow Magic Orchestra to Medicine Singers
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Solid State Survivor (number 85)
>> One of the band members of YMO was…Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async (number 901)
…Ryuichi Sakamoto, who acted in the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence alongside…David Bowie – Low (number 537)
…David Bowie, who recruited Adrian Belew for the Isolar II (i.e., Low/Heroes) tour (and the live album Stage, then Lodger, and, later, the Sound+Vision tour). Following Lodger, Belew recorded guitar solos and played in the live band for…Talking Heads – Remain In Light (number 946)
…this album by Talking Heads, whose David Byrne later collaborated with St. Vincent, who is on…Swans – To Be Kind (number 646)
…this album by Swans, whose Thor Harris and Christopher Pravdica are onMedicine Singers – Medicine Singers (number 972)
…this album by Medicine Singers. <<Prince 6
Though we don’t have a Prince album in today’s list, here are some fun connections the above artists have to the Purple One:
- Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “You Do Me” (Youtube), from the international release of his 1989 album Beauty, features Jill Jones, who performed/collaborated with Prince in many of his projects (including the 1999 album, Purple Rain and Graffiti Bridge films, and the Vanity 6 and Apollonia 6 side-projects) and was on his Paisley Park Records label.
- Ingrid Chavez, who was on Prince’s Lovesexy album, was originally on the Paisley Park label, and acted alongside Prince in Graffiti Bridge, also performed on Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 1991 album Heartbeat.
- According to the forums on prince.org, there’s a bootleg recording of a Prince rehearsal session called 1999 Revisited where Prince throws in some tweaked Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” lyrics into his “D.M.S.R.” song.
- In 2018, David Byrne showed up at a tiki-karaoke bar in Portland and sang “When Doves Cry” (Youtube).
- In Tom Hagler’s 2021 book We Could Be…Bowie and His Heroes, there’s a brief story about the only time Prince and David Bowie met. In 1987, after Bowie played a show in Minneapolis, Prince invited him back to Paisley Park for a party. Prince put on an album he had just recently written but not yet released, The Black Album, and everyone including Bowie and his band danced to and enjoyed the record. (Prince later said that one of the reasons why he decided to pull the album was because he didn’t like a comment that someone else who was also there that night said about the album, even though it was a compliment.)
- After Bowie died, while on his Piano & A Microphone Tour, Prince incorporated a cover of “Heroes” into a few of his shows.
Tune in on Thursday for Part 2, to see how we get from Medicine Singers to REM!
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/09/6-degrees-of-separation-part-1/
#1001OtherAlbums #6DegreesOfSeparation #AdrianBelew #ChristopherPravdica #DavidBowie #DavidByrne #MedicineSingers #Prince #RyuichiSakamoto #StVincent #Swans #TalkingHeads #ThorHarris
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Nanocluster - Vol. 2 - Immersion with Thor Harris / Cubzoa
Immersion (Colin Newman. Malka Spigel & Matt Schulz) are joined by Harris (Swans/Shearwater/The Nighty Nite) and Jack Wolter (Cubzoa) for their second Nanocluster outing.
Nanocluster is a project where Immersion teams up with individuals they know and appreciate, and collaborate.
The first two sides are instrumental, the second have vocals, mostly provided by Spigel (occasionally joined by Newman).
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Jarboe to tour UK and Europe in May 2026 as a duo with Joy Von Spain after Thor Harris stepped down #Jarboe
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Gift Orban scored a hat-trick in three and a half minutes in the previous round of the #UECL...
Ahead of Gent's game against #WHUFC, @[email protected] speaks to those closest to the striker to get an insight into the making of a potential superstar.
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By Thus Spoke
True genius, especially in art, is often not recognized when it first emerges. Van Gogh barely made a penny and garnered little acclaim for paintings that people now travel the world to see. Art may be subjective, but an entirely new world of debate arises when something comes along for which there are very few, if any, analogues. With this in mind, let us turn to Moiii, and their self-titled debut. It’s the fusion of musical minds hardcore and rock-centric—Scott Shellhamer (American Heritage, Ghosts and Vodka)—and electronica, pop, and folk-inclined—Jason Butler1 (Thee Conductor)—plus an additional healthy helping of aggressive noise rock—Thor Harris (Swans) performs percussion. On paper, there’s nothing spectacularly strange about combining the above genres; plenty of electronic music is somewhat dissonant, noisy, and dense, whilst also being kind of danceable, and catchy. But whatever you’re imagining, it almost certainly doesn’t come close to Moiii.
Moiii is quite simply baffling. You don’t know whether to reserve judgment until you feel like you understand it—perhaps accepting you never will—or heap scorn over its fickle irreverence and jarring bizarreness. Each track feels like an experiment, almost a jam apart from the fact it’s been well-mixed and mastered. Common quirks shared between them—flickering, bassy static (“Turtle Legs,” “Scarab of Ra”), pervasive waves of noise (“Tangled Chords,” “Motion Picture”), and a penchant for dissonant combinations of all kinds of sound, as well as generally slow-to-medium tempos—help provide some coherence, but that’s where it ends. Don’t expect closure, catharsis, or completeness in these compositions. Moiii are intent on subverting your expectations in this respect—or at least, they seem to be—as they use individual pieces as microcosms for genre subversion, maintaining their states without evolution, abandoning them, or perhaps even following them through in an expected fashion, just as a little surprise.
As strange as it is, Moiii can be quite charming. I didn’t know I wanted to hear xylophonic chords being played alongside foghorns and sludgy riffs (“Tangled Chords”), but it was great. I also didn’t know how brilliant a groove could be achieved through intense, rhythmic breathing and steel drumming so sharp and tinny it sounds like it’s being played on a set of saucepans (“You Won’t Be Alive To Feel It”). Nor did I expect to be so viscerally affected by the humming, clicking, stalking, and whatever else is going on in “Motion Picture.” Though generally averse to utilizing the pretty side of electronica, in favor of that which makes you feel slightly ill in its constantly crescendoing, dissonant lurchiness (“Turtle Legs,” “Motion Picture”), Moiii make another play out of left field with the suddenly pleasant “Shhhhhhhhhhhhh”2 which begins in something akin to synthy shoegaze, played drunk, and eventually transforms into more-or-less straightforward sludge. Moiii create some surprisingly cool sequences with interspersions of bass feedback, guitar, and bubbly, fluttering synths (“Turtle Legs,” “Scarab of Ra”), and injections of wonky rhythm (“Tangled Chords,” “You Won’t Be Alive To Feel It”). And with a runtime that barely scrapes past half an hour, the record works a fun little mini-trip, the perfect length of time needed to indulge your weird side before returning to back-to-back replays of Ulcerate (or whatever else you people are listening to).
And yet, Moiii leaves me very conflicted. While there’s plenty to enjoy, at least in snippets, it’s hard not to see the offerings as unfinished drafts, as though each was a idea sketched out but never filled in. With the exception of “You Wont Be Alive To Feel It,” songs barely maintain enough momentum, enough dynamism to keep you truly invested, which is a shame considering the obvious talent and genuinely interesting fusions on display. “Motion Picture” has bags of potential hidden in its near-cinematic crescendoes of synth and spine-tingling ascending plucks, but Moiii refuse to develop it, and its eight-and-a-half-minutes begin to drag. Overall, the character of the album leaves it in the awkward position of being too odd and too jarring to comfortably act as background music, but not compelling enough to adequately occupy your attention all the way through.
But is Moiii perhaps a genius I fail to recognize? While it’s impossible to say, my gut tells me no. It’s clever when it needs to be, but possibly too clever for its own good, sacrificing substance for an over-commitment to kooky style. If Moiii make more music in future, it’ll be worth checking out, but for now, judge for yourself how far your curiosity can take your taste. You may even find you love it.
Rating: Mixed
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Someoddpilot Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: August 2nd, 2024#25 #2024 #AmericanMetal #Aug24 #ElectronicMetal #Electronica #ExperimentalMetal #Industrial #Moiii #Noise #Review #Reviews #SomeoddpilotRecords
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