Recently, I have been playing with oishi cassette sampling a lot, so I am preparing to release a cassette on the label Bezirk. After several recordings, I finally recorded one that I really liked while enjoying the aroma of alcohol. I made a proper cover for it, which is the result of a lot of effort from me and Zheng Hao. I can't wait for the official release to meet everyone!
I wrote an email to my favorite improviser and finally got a reply. I asked if they could listen to my stuff, so I immediately got up from bed and started recording vocals. After recording, I thought it was okay, but when I compared it to someone else's solo, I felt a huge gap. So I didn't dare to release it and kept procrastinating. I'll try recording again later.
I'm going to eat at Dilara Uyghur Restaurant later and then go see Sly & The Family Drone's performance!
This time, mabu got me, a shut-in, out of the house again. He used a paragraph he wrote:
Sly & The Family Drone is the band I've seen live the most since I came to London. Last winter, the band's mastermind, Matt Cargill, had a car accident while on tour and almost died. Half a year later, when I saw him again, I got this live recording from 2015, and it has been in my CD player ever since. In terms of music, Sly should belong to the lineage of Nurse With Wound, a British improvisational noise band, but they are clearly not as skilled. With cassette sampling, drums, and vocals with effects, although there are decent percussion arrangements at the beginning, most of the time it's a chaotic mess, throwing cups as signals and behaving like a mob. Overall, it's a lack of intellectual stimulation.
But their live performances are a completely different story. The performance always happens below the stage, with people forming a small circle like street performers. They rise together in the chaotic sound, as the performance progresses, the drums are dismantled, the musicians throw drumsticks to the audience, freeing their hands to make other noises. The performance ends in a frenzy of sweat and alcohol, and in the narrow space, there is a warmth of community, as if immersed in the vast ocean of people's war.
Huh? It seems pretty good, so let's look forward to tonight!