If Music Could Talk

Dr. Medulla wrote:Some pretty fucking fantastic album sleeves on that label, too. Plenty worth mounting and framing.

If you enjoy those, you'd probably enjoy this art/design project:
http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/
The book covers are especially good.

eumaas wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:Some pretty fucking fantastic album sleeves on that label, too. Plenty worth mounting and framing.

If you enjoy those, you'd probably enjoy this art/design project:
http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/
The book covers are especially good.

Oh my lord, there is some gorgeous genius there. I guffawed hard at this one:


I can't not order this guy's real book.

The first one I ever saw:

I have decided that Heston, Marky, and Wally all grew up in this town and nothing will ever dissuade me of this, nor of the scars they must carry from the experience.

Dr. Medulla wrote:I have decided that Heston, Marky, and Wally all grew up in this town and nothing will ever dissuade me of this, nor of the scars they must carry from the experience.

It's tempting to imagine.

I mean, wouldn't this:

explain condom pastrami? Sealed pancakes? Fuck the Royalty being lizard people; everyone is demonically possessed.

People need to read that blog. It's incredibly inspired work and the execution is pitch perfect.

Dr. Medulla wrote:People need to read that blog. It's incredibly inspired work and the execution is pitch perfect.

It really is perfect. I've been praising it on FB for a while in hope it would catch on

I think it's interesting that Ghost Box and Scarfolk have converged on a similar aesthetic. I have to wonder if part of it is down to the digital age--cultural artifacts from the 70s (such as children's television in Britain) are now so widely available that even I, an American born in the 80s, can have a meaningful sense of where both are coming from.

eumaas wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:People need to read that blog. It's incredibly inspired work and the execution is pitch perfect.

It really is perfect. I've been praising it on FB for a while in hope it would catch on

I think it's interesting that Ghost Box and Scarfolk have converged on a similar aesthetic. I have to wonder if part of it is down to the digital age--cultural artifacts from the 70s (such as children's television in Britain) are now so widely available that even I, an American born in the 80s, can have a meaningful sense of where both are coming from.

Digital technology that makes so much readily available and a postmodern sensibility that dives deeper and deeper into pastiche, breaking shit apart over and over. It's kinda curious that Simon Reynolds has lauded Ghost Box because I'm almost certain that in his book Retromania he whines that nothing new is being created, that it's all just recycling old ideas. Personally, I find the restructuring and reconfiguring of the familiar more fascinating than the exotic.

Dr. Medulla wrote:

eumaas wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:People need to read that blog. It's incredibly inspired work and the execution is pitch perfect.

It really is perfect. I've been praising it on FB for a while in hope it would catch on

I think it's interesting that Ghost Box and Scarfolk have converged on a similar aesthetic. I have to wonder if part of it is down to the digital age--cultural artifacts from the 70s (such as children's television in Britain) are now so widely available that even I, an American born in the 80s, can have a meaningful sense of where both are coming from.

Digital technology that makes so much readily available and a postmodern sensibility that dives deeper and deeper into pastiche, breaking shit apart over and over. It's kinda curious that Simon Reynolds has lauded Ghost Box because I'm almost certain that in his book Retromania he whines that nothing new is being created, that it's all just recycling old ideas. Personally, I find the restructuring and reconfiguring of the familiar more fascinating than the exotic.

After listening to the stuff I mentioned in this post (of five years past!), I'm not sure much remains to be done but some kind of restructuring.

Part of what I like about Zorn, perhaps more now that he's in his 60s, is that much of his work isn't focused on pushing the avant-garde, but rather restructuralism in the service of something so old fashioned as melody. That's not to say that he doesn't still produce challenging music, but there's a lot of his music that seems relaxed and at home within conventional constraints.

http://thequietus.com/articles/12902-gh ... -interview

http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/label ... -ghost-box

Good academic piece on the aesthetic and related media:
https://www.academia.edu/1532338/Weird_ ... e_Heritage

eumaas wrote:Good academic piece on the aesthetic and related media:
https://www.academia.edu/1532338/Weird_ ... e_Heritage

The word “hauntology” stems from the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida,who used the term to think through Marxism and the specters that continue to hauntthe present (in particular the ghosts of political revolution)

Along the same lines, my favourite quote from Marx is: "The tradition of dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."

Book arrived today and it'll immediately insert itself as my bedtime book starting tonight. Just flipping thru, it contains a newspaper with a glorious headline, "Two Boys Disappear Or Something". Which neatly sums up what Strauss and Howe argued about childrearing in the 70s.

Just reading this thread for the first time. If I wasn't scrambling to throw together a used buy, I'd be listening, but I'm very much looking forward to coming back to check it out soon. Seems like some very interesting stuff.

I'd like to mention that I like Berg a lot, but Webern is my favorite. Schoenberg actually doesn't get many spins around here.

Nowhere in the ballpark musically, but this semi-recent video from Camera Obscura pulls from that same facet of 1970s British popular culture: