"Gone Away" While purchasing the Silent Diane 7" from Answering Machine Records a few minutes ago, JJJV recommended I also pick up the How I Quit Crack single. Intrigued, I scoped the sound and was instantly flooded by synthetic goo crooning from a robotic pipe-organ somewhere under Gotham City. Wiccan drum machines build over frothing synths that make grandfather clocks stop beating. Her reworkings of Beatles and Nirvana tracks on MySpace are at one part haunting and disillusioned, while channeling inner-demons intrinsique to life in the 21st century. "Gone Away" is a spacier-poppier exploration, propelled by digital snares and ErnestinaForbis's alluring siren sound. Check out her YouTube list, 273 psych'd out videos strong.
"He's got old, cold hands" Sunday Brunch is a recurring feature where we explore some music related ish that we find enjoyable. In this edition we highlight live music documenteer's SwitchBurn.TV. While, there is no shortage of unique live performance videos competing on the web these days (La Blogotheque's Take Away Shows, The Black Cab Sessions, etc), what makes SwitchBurn.TV so great is that they take us to the most familiar place but provide a unique angle makes viewing a regular gig seem utterly fresh. Like Wallace Steven's "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (my favorite poem), it's all about perspective.
The concept is simple: the SwitchBurn guys capture a show, like the Black Lips show at Austin's Emo's (above), by using multiple cameras to document different angles. But rather than editing the different angles into a single shot, instead they present all three angles at one time, giving you the feeling of being in the middle of the pit, center stage and on stage all at the same time. Unless you're a total schizo, you've never seen a show the way SwitchBurn.TV presents it. Essentially, they make it possible for you to be in the bathroom, at the bar and raging the front row at the same time. Pretty cool if you ask me. So far these guys have done videos of ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Dan Deacon, Dead Confederate, {{{Sunset}}}, and the aforementioned Black Lips. Expect more in the near future.
Dan Deacon "Crystal Cat" at Emo's, Austin, Texas 1/11/2008
One of, if not, the first truly psychedelic band, The 13th Floor Elevators represented a clear shift in consciousness, not only in their super reverberated R&B, but in their unequaled "quest for pure sanity." For example, the liner notes for The Psychedelic Sounds... read like some sort of avant-psych manifesto:
Recently, it has become possible for man to chemically alter his mental state and thus alter his point of view...He then can restructure his thinking and change his language so that his thoughts bear more relation to his life and his problems, therefore approaching them more sanely. It is this quest for pure sanity that forms the basis of the songs on this album
The 13th Floor Elevators convey this hedonistic psychedelic voyage on songs like the frantic, reverb soaked "Fire Engine", which features the reverberating whirl of the electric jug amongst lyrics like "Let me take you to the empty place in my fire engine/ it can drive you out of your mind." The dark trip doesn't end their, as everything the 13th Floor Elevators touched was soaked in a haunting blend of LSD, best exemplified in "Reverberation."
Two years ahead of the San Francisco psychedelic revolution, The 13th Floor Elevators paved the way for acid-heads for years to come by getting freaky-deaky and looking perpetually inward, making The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators a sort of white American equivalent to The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
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