recent listening
Cocorosie's Noah's Ark is a great album, perfect for a chilly fall morning. I keep hearing it described as part of some new-folk genre but I don't think that really fits. I mean, what is folk about it? I guess the fact that it has minimal instrumentation has something to do with it, but other than that I don't see it. It's just an album made by a very creative duo.
Last week I saw Matmos, the Lehn/Schmickler duo and Fe-Mail play at Mills College. The Lehn/Schmickler duo made some extreme harsh noise, the likes of which haven't seen the light of day since Tokyo, 1995 or Munich, 1999. Nobody does Noise like the Germans and the Japanese. Fe-Mail are great, very noisy but with a layer of subtlety. And Matmos was Matmos, offering up a kind of ironic beat-driven pastiche of sample-happy silliness. There is an intrinsic San Francisco aesthetic in that duo, a kind of slapstick and eccentric approach.
Comments
awesome
Posted by: r. | September 19, 2005 8:29 PM
i also really love Cocorosie's new album! i like its stateless atmosphere, and also their own petit-fantasy world...
enjoy your time in the fall,roddy !
Posted by: midori | September 24, 2005 8:02 PM
Thanks Midori, hope you have a nice fall as well. It's my favorite season.
Posted by: roddy | September 27, 2005 3:07 PM
After listening to one track from the new CD my first thought was that one of the singers from cocorosie is starting to sing a bit like Joanna Newsom. Are they all listening to each others music too much, these New Folk folks?
Posted by: seamus | September 28, 2005 10:44 AM
I'm sure they are. And it might just be fun to try to sing like Joanna Newsom. I wish I could!
Posted by: roddy | October 3, 2005 8:54 AM