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@otherdemon: Ah, Ashra! Wonderful stuff! New Age of Earth is a great favourite of mine!
I received both CDs a few days back. I have been delighted to be able to play Child of the Future LOUD on CD players dotted around the place – and in the car! It’s in my top 5 MP albums, even though I find the rankings rather fluid! Ahsol Caravan is a pleasure of an entirely different kind. (I suppose that would be of the Ahsol variety.)
Can they come and shag the UK? I think we might already be fucked though…
The Young Gods’ latest album – their hardest for a while. They are on tour throughout Europe in October, November and December. They are great live, so, if they are anywhere near you, I highly recommend you get along. Everybody knows we will be kissing the sun!
Me too! I really hoped they would make an ambient, instrumental album (not in the vein of Begynnelser). I thought it was in there. The quiet parts of Ancient Astronauts made me think they might go for it. Something like the first half of that Roadworks chien (with Lo) in an expanded, recorded form would also be right up my street!
I’m taking it as read that Child of the Future is brilliant. It’s always been one of their best for me, and I’ve been begging for it in CD/digital form for years! I’m really hoping the direction the next album is supposed to be taking will have something of the same flavour.
Ahsol Caravan is sending me off in all sorts of directions. I mentioned earlier what I guessed was Edgar Froese‘s Bathtub and Florian Fricke‘s Final Flowering. The Holy Mountain mention might or might not be a nod to Jodorowsky. The poster puts me in mind of Meetings with Remarkable Men; I am doubtful that this is a reference, but I do recall an early scene in the film where there is an interesting singing competition in a remote location to which contestants have travelled for days, and it features drones and throat singing.
With the Fricke / Popol Vuh connection, I also note that the film’s credits list Holger Herzog amd Klaus Lyzski – names that might hint at the territory.
Kailash was nagging at me and then I remembered that it was a film Florian made himself rather than scoring for Werner Herzog. As an experiment, I have tried watching it on mute while listening to Ahsol Caravan. Well, it’s not quite the miraculous match (with minor tweaking) that was so stunning with chien/2001 but, actually, it is working quite well! (I’m trying to convince myself I didn’t waste the last three quarters of an hour.) For anyone else out there who doesn’t have a life, see for yourself! I link to the film below.
What I must add is that no one should miss out on Florian’s own soundtrack – nor indeed on almost anything he did! (In den Gärten Pharaos, the Aguirre soundtrack and the beautiful piano of Spirit of Peace come to mind.)
As I said before, that track hits the spot. This video is really nice too. It has a quality that matches the feel of the music. Both offer a space beyond the intellect in which to immerse oneself. You should be proud. Great work!
Maybe I was late finding my way to this, but for anyone else who has been waiting:
Stanley – including bass. In fact, I think this might have more bass than the original broadcast. What do you think, Johnny and Joecoco?
I thought I’d resurrect this thread as some ideas are coming in again over on the Burg Herzberg 2025 thread.
I think some Budgie would really suit Motorpsycho. I’m talking classic Budgie – not the inferior NWOBHM incarnation of the band.
I know many here will be familiar with them, but, for the uninitiated, Budgie were a Welsh three-piece playing hard rock with some softer, acoustic and atmospheric interludes. They were led by the late Burke Shelley who was bassist and singer with a vocal range not unlike that of Geddy Lee, and, therefore, in the Bent envelope, I’d say.
Motorpsycho are kings of the massive riff. Budgie surely held that title in the 70s. On some of their greats, there might be a gentle preamble before the beast is unleashed. Once the riff gets going, there is so much space for some great improvisation. A Motorpsycho cover could actually top the original in that respect.
I just think they would love playing this stuff.
Breadfan is already taken by Metallica. In for the Kill is an obvious one. However, I would be keen to hear what they could do with epics like Napoleon Bona Parts 1 & 2 or Zoom Club. Here is the latter for reference:
Released on Friday just gone, the debut album from Sevendials – ‘A Crash Course in Catastrophe’ – brings together Big Paul Ferguson, Chris Connelly and Mark Gemini Thwaite, between them boasting a pedigree comprising Killing Joke, Ministry, The Mission, Revolting Cocks, etc. For some reason, they have chosen to cover a Sparks song (‘Number One Song in Heaven’) on which I wonder how they could have hoped to top the original. (It’s not a bad stab, but what’s the point?) Otherwise, the album might make for interesting listening. Here is ‘Zodiac Morals’:
