fin-de-siecle absinthe binges and a goatboy discography

Subject : fin-de-siecle absinthe binges and henry moore
Posted Date: : 02 Mar 2007, 17:32

as you may have noticed horsemouth is a satie fan - but he's also a debussy fan, a faure fan, a collette fan and a ravel fan - horsemouth likes this world of sleazy publishers, cabarets absinthe fuelled decadence and wagner inspired composition - at least at a distance of 100 years. horsemouth is still suffering under the fat donkey controllers (and their even fatter children) and should be on his way to an attendance mandatory after hours meeting but he can't be arsed (or asked if you'er from newcasL) even though it's time and a half (allegedly).

  there's a worm on the lose that makes computers into zombies horsemouth has finally ushered the music/zombies/web2.0 article out of the door - though this is probably the first you've read about it - he's missed his opportunity to comment on those making use of the use value of henry moore bronzes (by melting them down) and thus negating the extent to which art is an absolute commodity but there will be a follow up article (which if you are reading this in 3 months time horsemouth will probably have mentioned.

Subject : more fabricated authenticity than blind joe death
Posted Date: : 20 Feb 2007, 22:05

horsemouth is reading the book below and giving himself a rest from relational aesthetics - well actually horsemouth forgot to take a book to work (oh they work him so hard) and so had to buy one lunchtime and it was the pre-release copy of fabricating authenticity - creating country music. horsemouth was horrified to discover that 'blind joe death' the fictitious rediscovered bluesman invented by john fahey was not the first time this trick had been used - it in fact dates back to jean thomas (an alleged 'circuit court stenographer') and her 'discovery' of 'blind jilson: the singing fiddler of lost hope hollow' player of elizabethan ballads. In 1931 thomas took him to london where he played a folk festival at the royal albert hall. but his real name was blind bill day, lost hope hollow is not in kentucky, he was a town beggar playing novelty songs - and jean thomas was not a court stenographer but a hollywood scenario writer and amateur folklorist. tommorow horsemouth goes back to work on his web 2.0 article

Subject : a goatboy discography
Posted Date: : 14 Feb 2007, 19:32

goatboy is currently back in the bossom of his family having been found by the side of a motorway in south london with two broken legs - get well soon. The four tracks on goatboys website are selected from a session he and horsemouth recorded round at sam's flat that produced 8 tracks. At that time sam had not yet taken the pledge and the recordings were frequently fraught - on the positive side this enabled horsemouth to record whaterver backing he chose to each of the tracks before goatboy arrived in the morning. Sam does a great job throughout, goatboys vocals are a bit rough, and there a re glitches a plenty in the playing. One other track 'because' was recorded by ayesha taylor whilst gertrude were in the studio and a version mixed by horsemouth. It appears on the 2nd phoenix compilation.

The four tracks on www.myspace.com/goatboycutout are;

1. Crash In addition to pointing out that this was a waltz, horsemouth does the country guitar at the start -goatboy improvised an amazing harmonica solo - the guitar goes from e on the verse to a c on the chorus - horsemouth tried to get goatboy to put down a pad of two harmonica notes e and g.

2.Rocks horsemouth plays the organ, doubles the goatboy's guitar chords and plays an e-bow on acoustic guitar solo. Goatboy's favourite. Edited down by Sam from its original 8 minutes. Goatboy wanted a version with no organ on the chorus but he lost his copy of the cd so horsemouth wins...

3. Legs horsemouth does the niggling repetitive blues guitar phrases against goatboys slide (another song played on a guitar tuned to e) and adds yet more howling e-bow on acoustic (a strategy he can't recommend enough). eagle eared listeners will also detect whistling, bass humming, a sample of the jbs going 'yeah', all standards from horsemouths box of producing tricks and even some evil dead grandmother backing vocals (turned down so low you'd need a submarine to find them).

4. Porcelain Doll goatboy came up with the keyboard part - horsemouth does a sub fugazi guitar part and played the drum machine, sadly the bass line is a little out of tune and uncompressed. This required a lot of vocal comping because goatboy was spectacularly fucked when he recorded the vocal (mostly to capture this fuckedness for posterity). There's some sub hari-krishna chanting and clapping by horsemouth but get your submarine out because its low in the mix.