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“PJ Harvey Confirms Two Russian Shows For June”
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Klezmer metal

Wow, I ended up with a very strange chart for last week (according to my last.fm profile):

So basically it’s Zorn-released avant-klezmer on top, followed by French black metal, Dutch goregrind, my beloved Dead Raven Choir (black folk noise or some shit like that), more raw black metal, my own Eat Rust (I really dig my black metal songs, see previous post), classic black metal (Bathory’s s/t album is very good), dronish dark folk, PJ Harvey ♥, and Shrum, psychedelic death metal with two bass guitarists (one being from Acid Bath).

And all this leads me to
KLEZMER METAL!!

The world lacks good klezmer metal. I mean, I’m not sure it’s needed… but damn it. I composed some under the moniker Bavarians of Bohemia. The song title is very original, I know… First I wanted to name it “Ancient Traditions: Cut it Off!!” but changed my mind.

Bavarians of Bohemia – Mazel Tov [download]

2007.

Great albums from 2007:

Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris

PJ Harvey – White Chalk

Dead Raven Choir – My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind

Oxbow – The Narcotic Story

Soulsavers – It’s Not How Far You Fall, It’s The Way You Land

The White Stripes – Icky Thump

Husky Rescue – Ghost Is Not Real

Blonde Redhead – 23

The Angelic Process – Weighing Souls With Sand

Burning Star Core – Operator Dead… Post Abandoned

it took the night

I found the setlist of the PJ Harvey concert I’ve been to in Barcelona (on this amazing PJ fansite). Added some youtube links. This user has some good videos from Summercase festival.

Oh My Lover [youtube]
Send His Love To Me
Mansize
The Devil [youtube]
When Under Ether [youtube, bad quality. But she's cuuuute!]
Snake
Dress
Angelene
My Beautiful Leah
Electric Light
Nina In Ecstasy
Who The Fuck?
Big Exit
Silence
Horses In My Dreams
Rid Of Me [youtube]
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Water [youtube, medicore quality record]

I wanna see her again… It was an amazing experience.

That was my veil

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POLLY!!

(yeah, shame on me, I’m a day late. I *love* this photo, by the way.)

Razor Totin’ Jim

Another video for ya lot:
PJ Harvey performing Wang Dang Doodle, back in ‘93…

Yeah, second post in the new blogging session and I’m already down to the usual “PJ kicks ass, watch this, this and this” style. Whateevvvah.

Funny, because interesting blog-worthy things happen to me all the time. Like the guy on the metro who had the best trousers ever. Yeah. Then he threw up, ruining the best trousers ever. They were white, with all kinds of black and red stamps and letters on ‘em. *sigh*

16th floor

*drumroll*

And blogging resumes! All hail the omnipresent omnipotent, the ultimate timewaster: internet! Yes, I finally got internet in my room, the speed is decent, not for mass downloads, but that’ll make it harder to get sucked into the depths of the hyperspace.

So, it’s a whole new life for me. University. Stuff like that. I quite like it so far. Interesting lectures, nice people (funny thing: 3 students from the total 30 are boys! Yey! Yeah, history of arts, aren’t you the most masculine job ever), overall goodness. Less paperwork would be an improvement, but you just can’t avoid that.

Well, theoretically, you can avoid it, but it will lead to baaaad things (you know, no monthly metro ticket or getting kicked out of the country).

Okay, to improve the entertainment value of this entry, here’s a little song from John Zorn’s Invitation to a Suicide soundtrack, Bugsy’s Jazztet:

Woohoo, music talk time! Our main focus: PJ Harvey’s new album,
WHITE CHALK

It’s mainly all piano songs, very minimalistic and amazingly beautiful. Differs from her previous works. Here’s a lil’ youtube link: PJ Harvey – The Devil. The album version has some drums in it, but PJ and the piano dominate.
And while you’re there, check out PJ Harvey performing Down by the Water solo, on autoharp.

That’s it.

You hate your boss but in your dreams you can blow his head off

That’s probably my longest title so far.

So, I was thinking about putting together a dream supergroup of all my favourite musicians, but I encountered some problems.

First, what music would they play? Yeah, probably some kind of rock… That’s not the main problem. You see, if you get five/six very talented and creative musicians together, they’ll just argue or something. Two can agree on something (see: The Raconteurs), but more than that, it’s just impossible.
Also, supergroups never really get into experimentating. They take parts of their original band(s) and put it together.

So, my dream supergroup would try to do something different.

But who’d be in it? Let’s see…

Don’t go all college drama on me!

Did you know that PJ Harvey’s voice is better than mine? I know it’s hard, but please, believe me. Don’t make me prove it.

PJ Harvey – Shame (live)
Listen to PJ Harvey herself instead.

In other news: at last, I have school holidays, which is greaaaat!