or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRiNzDOf0kk&feature=related
Chanced on this via review in recent Wire of the Shangaan electro comp, which is crazy good BTW. The recordings are selling in 10s of 1000s in South Africa, which is huge for that market.
See especially the spot-on comment with one of the videos, spotting the totally serendipitous Fever Ray similarities (speeded to 170-180bpm of course). What other points of comparison/influence do you detect?
H
PS: Cardew eventually of course clued into the fact that there's something to be said for creating music that people'd want to listen to why quaffing lagers and, if not exactly shaking their hips, maybe tapping their feet.
On 11 Dec 2010, at 7:01 PM, pandora akkiraz wrote:
> It was largely through correspondence with Eddie Prevost (when i was
> 15
> years old) that i first earned my wings in european free improv
> listening.
>
> Rowe (a Maoist, as was Cardew) was a big influence on Syd-era Pink
> Floyd
> (whose producer did the AMMMusic LP). Rowe left AMM after a
> disagreement
> regarding John Tilbury's refusal to play in the US while the wars in
> the
> Middle East were at their height -- he spoke eloquently and i had
> the chance
> to debate this point with him at the Camden People's Theater a few
> years
> ago.
>
> Rowe's prepared/radio guitar style is not comparable to MBV. Totally
> different approaches -- i own about half of Rowe's records and can't
> hum
> along or groove to many of them! (I've played in two terrible
> shoegaze
> bands, and recommend Snic Boom's E.A.R's Koner Experiment LP for an
> interesting -- partly successful -- attempt to combine British indie
> rock w/
> a more improv approach via a German electronica wiz at the editing
> desk)
>
>
> Also check this out if it's new to some on the listserv (and brings
> things
> back to Saint Marx): http://newmediakitchen.com/cardew222.html
>
>
>
> On 11 December 2010 09:19, Angelus Novus
> <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> pandora akkiraz wrote:
>>
>>> Guitars had simply never sounded that way before [...] -- most were
>> created
>>> using drone strings and slight alternative tunings
>>
>>
>> Huh? What about Keith Rowe and AMM? That's a sound that goes far
>> beyond
>> mere
>> drone strings and alternate tunings. And all that a good fifteen
>> years
>> before
>> Glenn Branca.
>>
>> It's weird that now that Rowe and AMM are finally accorded some
>> respect in
>> the
>> free jazz and improvised music worlds, they still seem totally
>> disregarded
>> by
>> people coming from a rock background (unless people know Rowe from
>> his
>> collaborations with Christian Fennesz).
>>
>>
>>
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