Matmos!

Noise to Annihilate a Few Seconds
Playlist for October 23, 2003

Background: Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis

N - The Broke Review - ALl Those Letters - Oldtime-Futureshock - Smart Guy

Tom Zé - Ma - Brazil Classics 4 - Luaka Bop
Les Thugs - Paranoia - IABF - Alternative Tentacles
N - Vincebus Eruptus - The Shit - s/t - Load
N - Japanther - Critical - Dump the Body in Rikki Lake - Menlo Park
Mark Kozalek - Love at First Feel - Next to the Moon - Badman
N - Tommy McCook - Tommy’s Mood - Blazing Horns/Tenor in Roots - Blood and Fire
Dogbowl - Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain - Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain - Shimmy Disc
Clinic - The Return of Evil Bill - Internal Wrangler - Domino

N - Lyrics Born - The Last Trumpet - Later that Day - Quannum
Mix Master Mike - Bazooka Canyon - Return of the Cyclops - Asphodel
N - Joe Strummer and the Mescalaros - Long Shadow - Streetcore - Hellcat
N - Kronos Quartet - Leaving Carmel, Californi-el - Harry Partch: US Highball - Nonesuch
N - Stark Reality - Cooking - Now - Stones Throw
N - Brother Ali - Forest Whitiker - Shadows on the Sun - Rhymesayers

Matmos Interview
Björk - Cacoon - Vespertine - Elektra
Sun Ra - Strange Strings (Excerpt) - Strange Strings - Saturn
C - Erase Errata/Matmos - Other Animals - Dancing Machine - Troubleman Unlimited
N - Matmos - Stars and Stripes Forever/Struggle Against Unreality - Civil War - Matador

Naked Raygun - Vanilla Blue - Free Shit - Haunted Town
Yo - Bowl of Cherries - Charm World - Deadbeat
N - USAISAMONSTER - Somehow - Tasheyana Compost - Load
Mocket - Morse Code - Fanfare - K
Rick Rizzo and Tara Key - Good Evening Mr Peckinoah - Dark Edison Tiger - Thrill Jockey
C - Mulata Astatqe - A Man of Experience and Wisdom - Ethiopiques 4 - Buda
N - Sole - Furthermore - Bottle of Humans - Anticon

Gerry Hemingway Quintet - Holler Up - Demon Chaser - HatJazz
You Fantastic - Ciceros - Homesickness - Skin Graft
N - Screaming Mee-Mees - Hot Sody - Live From the Basement - Gulcher
Chris Brokaw - King Ferdinand - Red Cities - Atavistic
Superunit - Two - Nia-Ha 12” - Skin Graft

Prokofiev - Quintet mvt. 1 - True Color - Klavier

notes:
-joe strummer could still write songs even up to the end. that song was pretty great.

-got a couple hecklers over the kronos quartet. someone saying that it wasn't real music and that I should "play more punk." silly close-minded people.

-matmos was in town on october 15 for a colloquim at the princeton music department. I had a chance to interview them beforehand. unfortunately, the first 5-10 minutes of the interview were lost in a tragic minidisk accident. but the rest was still very interesting. martin schmidt and drew daniel are both remarkably intelligent. I may post a transcript of the interview here if I get some time. the songs listed after the interview were actually interspersed between sections of it.

-I had a chance to improvise with gerry hemmingway the day before this show for a class on improvisation that I'm in. definitely one of the more fun/rewarding musical experiences I've ever had.

-other than that, no real comments. some good songs individually, but as a whole, today's show just didn't seem to work quite right. 
¶ 7:13 PM