I already mentioned that I love BABYBIRD and I really admire him for the courage to not giving a fuck of what people think. These tracks are more or less soundscapes, released as a 3x3-inch cd-box and they would fit wonderfully to my book that is posted on my other blog. (You can find the link somewhere on THIS IS INDIE. It's German!) I always wanted to post it as an audio book with these tracks in between. But of course I never will, unless STEPHEN JONES forces me to... :-)
STEPHEN JONES - 1985-2001 (2005) 01 Nevercoming Home 02 The Rice Trail 03 0-1-800-Jesus 04 Sawcuts 05 Nervous Ice In Cheap Cola 06 Do You Think He Was Singing It? 07 The Broken 88 08 Squeeze The Trigger Gently 09 Arthritis Kid 10 Jokeshop Bullethole 11 Tolls on the Freeway 12 Gang Cult No 5: The Black Reindeers 13 Here We Attack 14 17 Blue Sun Road, Yellow Hill 15 25 Watt Halo 16 Baby's Coming 17 Hai 18 The Restaurant is Guilty II 19 Baby Jesus Opens His Presents 20 Tealeaves on the Rooftiles 21 Waking Up In The Coffin 22 Always Bright 23 Loveable Thug 24 Commercial Suicide
Dark and fairylike music. I cannot describe it in another way.
This here is the fifth album of the Icelandic band. The name refers to one band member's sister who's name is Sigurros. She was born on the day of the band's founding.
I could listen to the first song for the whole day although it's mainly kind of a soundscape.
"Takk" is icelandic for "Thanks" that goes to all fans who made all the albums possible.
The Remix Album - a bonus from "Forever Delayed" - with great mixes from Massive Attack, The Chemical Brothers, David Holmes, Ian Brown, Stereolab and others.
Dear listeners, followers, friends and ANDY PAWLAK-addicts.
As announced ANDY wanted to take the chance to answer a few questions that are frequently asked here.
"Any plans to record something in the future?"
The simple answer is I just dont know. I was pretty badly burned by Universal after "Low Beat Folk" and I just thought fuck it.
I have always tried so hard with my songs and I thought enough is enough. I ain't touched a guitar in a while but you never know the feeling might come back. That's the strange thing about song writing - it comes when it comes, I dont really have any control over it,
I'm just the sucker who gets to write it down.
"Why was there no follow up after Shoebox?"
There was! and it was good but the record company didn't like it. It was a lot of very hard work wasted. It was more guitar based than "shoebox" more mature and tougher. There was some good songs that will never be heard. I was so upset I destroyed all the demos.
Thats when I decided to fuck off for a few years and went to San Francisco to do my helicopter stuff. (From an earlier mail: I had just got out of my first record deal with Phonogram and fancied a change of direction so I grabbed my suitcase and a guitar and moved to San Francisco to to go to flight school. It took 7 months to get my commercial licence then I trained to become a flight instructor.I stayed in California about 5 years then came back to London and signed with Island Records to do Low Beat Folk. I had many amazing adventures flying, one of the best was flying to Michael Jacksons house (twice), and spending the afternoon pissing about in his golf cart around the ranch in never never land.)
"Why was Low Beat never released?"
Well for me that's the big question. I did 5 or so years in California and started to write again so I moved back to London to get a deal.
One of my dreams had always been to sign with Island Records, so I finished the album and put a band together called "Monkey".
Island went for it and" Low Beat Folk" was recorded. It took 3 years to write and record and I was so proud of the work we had all done..... Then out of the blue, Island were bought out by Universal and they dropped the project after spending a lot of money on it. I was so fucking gutted. I went to New York and secured a deal for it within 2 weeks. The contracts arrived, and I was about to sign, when I got word from Universal legal dept that they would not allow the recordings to be used. The Mother Fuckers effectivley shut us down. It broke my heart...
Thanks so much, Andy! If you readers have any more questions let me know.
Today's song...:
This one is an incredible song from the album "Tales From The Monkeyshed" recorded under the name SUBDELUXE.
The album is available at iTunes (here) or sooner or later on THIS IS INDIE. Of course with ANDY PAWLAK's permission.
