Sparkiovoggel, the

Sparkiovoggel, the
Self-Release
General | Jun 2003

Reviews

johnn
Reviewed 2003-07-16
THIS IS GREAT! Think of a capella on crack, with occasional passes into late 60s psych and avant garde contemporary classical music. The Sparkiovoggel construct music with vocal loops layered one after the other along with synth loops until reaching the point of absurdity. Occasionally, there is a minimal guitar-driven song, but most tracks are experimental vocal loops that work really well. The songs take me somewhere in between the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Magnetic Fields, and Ween. Really funny, kind of disturbing, very interesting.

Experiments: 2, 5, 9, 15, 17.
Songs: 27, 10, 18

1. looped low-pitched vocals. very funny
2. continues with drony saxophone and screams. funny, haunting.
3. quiet expansive synth
4. synth xylophone swirlies
5. *wonderful vocal loop, walking jazz bassline
6. percussion loop, island-y harmonized vocals
7. vocal loops build into a beat. really cool texture.
8. looped sentences layered to absurdity
9. ghostly layers of vocals. avantgarde classical. Seriously.
10. acoustic song a la magnetic fields
11. looped phrase with shouts crescendos
12. steady djembe beat, saxophone melody
13. like #9, but more melodic than ghostly
14. song form, like cracked out a capella
15. great glitchy echoey samples
16. cartoon voices looped
17. dirty chaotic beat, screams, synth, builds really nicely
18. song with electric guitar, late 60s psych feel
19. high-pitched squeals, organ samples
20. nice percussion, strummed acoustic, disintegrating folk
21. great vocal layering, bllllrrrr with the lips
22. layered TV samples
23. short glitchy vocal loop
24. short vocal and electric guitar
25. growling vocals, echoey
26. organ/synth loops with political war samples on top
27. acoustic guitar song, great, like west coast pop art exp.
28. vocal loops with keyboard doodles

Recent airplay

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Charting

2003-07-14 — 2003-09-15 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
Sep 14 3
Sep 7 2
Aug 24 2
Aug 17 1
Jul 27 4
Jul 20 4

Track listing

1. High Kite Left Toe
2. Hum Bum
3. Chipmonks
4. Nebula
5. Furley
6. Oobmab
7. Bah
8. Scrambled Realities
9. Prayer Bleeds
10. Primitive Urge
11. Jerry
12. Sextrance
13. Pseudo Faux Pas
14. Ummbe
15. Bog Bride
16. Fireflies
17. Spaze
18. Tom the Fish Trader
19. Skeleton Remote Control
20. Quagmire
21. Nose Wheel
22. Sick Day
23. Spaghetti Food
24. The News
25. Aargh
26. God Bless America
27. Amokefunk
28. Quantum Entanglement