Artist.......: VA
Album........: a fifty gallon drum of savage customs fresh flesh
Label........: brothersisterrecords
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: bsr007
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: nov.-07-2007
str.date.....: 3 March 2007
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.brothersisterrecords.org/comp.html
track title time
01. Pompey - fifty gallon drum 04:11
02. Brutal Vainqueur - were you gone 03:18
03. Emperors of Blefuscu - savage customs 04:12
04. Inquiet - fresh flesh 03:14
05. Squimaoto - rich in vitamin c 03:10
06. Design A Wave - compy 05:17
07. Directorsound - before the march 02:50
08. The Andersens - ether 05:40
09. Saitto Electtrico Good Sound - world 02:31
premiere grand revue
10. Aranos - broken eights 03:26
11. Ploand - random pop 03:30
12. Supercreep - get off my beach 04:49
Runtime 46:08 min
Size 58,8 MB
Release Notes:
A fifty gallon drum... is the seventh overall (and
first non CD-R) release of brother sister records,
an entirely artist-run label based in Melbourne,
Australia. The compilation was curated by two of
the label's founding members, Royce Ng and Sam
Szoke-Burke, who also feature of the compilation
via Emperors of Blefuscu and Inquiet respectively.
The compilation is an eclectic and unconventional
inquiry into the world of whimsical, childish and
primitive pop music that charts a map of the globe
based on a series of colorfully detailled and
irregular songs.
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globe based on a series of colorfully detailled and
irregular songs.
Pompey (Australia) makes polyrhythmic pop and
sounds, linked in ways to environmental sounds, and
'studio'-as-instrument.
Brutal Vainqueur (France) are an
improv-folk-psyche-noise band consisting of
Francois Virot who has a very steady solo career
and Gael Moissonnier who runs the Lyon based CD-R
label Zero Jardins.
Emperors of Blefuscu (Australia) are informed by
jungles, house music, animals and tough kids, and
manage to sound like all the above at once.
Inquiet (Australia) write hazy, windtunnel based
songs which sound like the musical equivalent of
girls looking through telescopes.
Squimaoto (Japan) are three girls based in Osaka
who alternate between noisy art-rock and unsteady
melodic wanderings.
Design A Wave (UK) is Tom Hirst, a one man
recording machine creating retro pop tributes to R.
Stevie Moore. He is DIY to the core and also plays
in the Directorsound liveband.
Directorsound (UK)'s Tales from the Tightrope was
described by Yuichiro Fujimoto as "like a broken
toy marching band which also sounds like grandpa's
band playing music in a countryside pub."
The Andersens (Japan) is an amorphous children's
pop band featuring members of Maher Shalal Hash Baz
and The Tenniscoats. The band's one constant in
eccentric Onozaki Kiyokazu who ensures no two
Andersens's shows are ever alike.
Saitto Electtrico Good Sound (Japan) play intensely
detailed, seemingly random and incredibly brief
songs that sound like the haphazard musical musings
of a four year old played by a full band live, and
(eventually) with precision.
Aranos (Czech Republic/ UK) plays an experimental
brand of East European gypsy music and has
collaborated with members of Nurse with Wound,
Volcano the Bear & Current 93.
Poland (Australia) plays primitive DSP pop music
that is new and confounding stuff. She is possessed
of an unwieldy and irregular sense of rhythm and
along with Pompey, has an Ep out through
Melbourne's best label, Pocketclock Music.
Supercreep (USA) is an Ariel Pink affiliate whose
music seems liberally bathed by the Los Angeles
sun. He co-runs the newly formed Human Ear Music
with Pink, and sings with a disturbing sincerity,
"I told you not to call my cellphone number..."
* Poland used to be called Holland, but had to
change her name for legal reasons...