Utility FogYour weekly fix of postfolkrocktronica, dronenoise, power ambient, post-everything improv... and more? Sunday nights from 9 to 11pm on FBi Radio, 94.5 FM in Sydney, Australia. {Hey! Sign up to Utilityfoglet and get playlists emailed to you after each show!}
Please Like us on Facebook! Here it is: Utility Fog on Facebook {and while you're at it, become a fan on Facebook} Sunday, 10th of January, 2010
Playlist 10.01.10 (10:15 pm)
Well. Tonight's show is primarily based around music that will be coming up this week for Sydney Festival - well, a few of the things coming up, which I'm self-indulgently stringing out into nearly a whole show (see bottom for LISTEN AGAIN link - not including all the overtime stuff!). Then the bulk of the show: our Sydney Festival specials. Severed Heads’ importance to Australian and international music can't be overstressed. We heard material going back pretty early, with tape loop experiments, early amazingly-prescient techno (like, ultra-early: 1982), and some of Tom Ellard's exquisitely understated and brilliant pop songs. Next up: John Cale, whose importance doesn't even need to be stressed by the likes of me. My selections were, I guess, nothing more than a little essay in John Cale's importance to me, and why not? That said, The Books are probably one of the most important bands for me in the last decade, at least. Featuring my instrument, the cello, and a wonderfully gregarious approach to music-making, with digital cut-ups commingling with Appalachian folk and more... They're the perfect Utility Fog band... SydFest are doing well, because Grizzly Bear are undoubtedly another of the most important recent bands for me, along with Dan Rossen's other project, Department of Eagles. I tried to play a number of unusual and different related tracks tonight (and we had a couple of rare Books tunes as well earlier). And finally (for the Festival), Patrick Watson’s début album Close to Paradise was a revelation when it came out in 2006; it won Canada's Polaris Music Prize, a surprising accolade for a quite experimental (or at least non-mainstream) release. His 2009 album Wooden Arms was an equally beautiful blend of songwriting, post-classical and jazz, along with bits of electronica and experimental touches. Sydney musician Eve Klein's Textile Audio project has been a long time coming. Operatically trained, Klein has been working on this mix of classical music (including her operatic vocals) and electronica for well over 5 years if I'm right. The results here are very impressive. From Sydney's Frequency Lab comes another download comp (not free), and we heard Sydney artist Edseven doing a nice wonky number. And finally, the new single from Pikelet, in anticipation of her new album Stem, out in February. I cannot wait - Evelyn is one of Australia's musical gems. Oneohtrix Point Never - Grief and Repetition [No Fun Productions] Listen again — ~ 198MB 4 Responses to “Playlist 10.01.10”
Check the sidebar for archive links!
|
email: utilityfog at frogworth dot com bsky Mastodon Utility Fog teeters on the cusp between acoustic and electronic, organic and digital. Constantly changing and rearranging, this aural cloud of nanotech consumes genres and spits them out in new forms. Whether cataloguing the jungle resurgence, tracking the ups and downs of noise and drone, or unearthing the remnants of glitch and folktronica, all is contextualised within artist & genre histories for a fulfilling sonic journey. Since all these genre names are already pretty ridiculous, we thought we'd coin a new one. So "postfolkrocktronica" it is. Wear it. Now available: free "Live on Utility Fog" downloads! We got tasty rss2 or atom feeds - get Utility Fog playlists in your favourite RSS reader/aggregator. There's also a dedicated podcast feed. Click here to subscribe in iTunes. Archives of all previous playlists and entries are available:
Other: Login if you're, like, the author or something Meta: RSS 2.0 Comments RSS 2.0 WordPress |
48 queries. 0.078 seconds. Powered by WordPress |
January 11th, 2010 at 12:55 am
Great show. Unearthing gold. Severed Heads are strangely timeless. Grizzly Bear, sublime.
January 11th, 2010 at 1:17 am
Thanks Maxxi! Has been good fun for me. I agree - Severed Heads still sound amazingly fresh, even the really early stuff!
January 11th, 2010 at 9:53 am
i'm glad you archive these shows as i missed it. but that status has changed
January 11th, 2010 at 11:39 am
Yep, now "un-missed"!
I need that as a tag-line: "Missed last night's Utility Fog? Now you can UN-miss it - just head to the website."