| Degenerate Art Ensemble / Bastress, The |
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| Album: | Bastress, The | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Degenerate Art Ensemble | Added: | Mar 2006 | |
| Label: | Tellous | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-04-16 | Pull Date: | 2006-06-18 |
| Week Ending: | May 21 | May 7 | Apr 30 | Apr 23 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 13, 2009: | Music Casserole Tits And Honey | 4. | May 04, 2006: | Baptism of Solitude Oni Gorshi | |
| 2. | May 17, 2006: | Foreplay and Sex Wax Lucky | 5. | Apr 26, 2006: | The Evil Twins Dreams From Wounded Mouth | |
| 3. | May 16, 2006: | America's Least Wanted Tits And Honey | 6. | Apr 25, 2006: | Radio Of Imagination Tits And Honey |
| Album Review |
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| Ben Wolfson Reviewed 2006-04-15 | ||
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Quirky avant–big band with rock sensibilities. The songs sometimes remind of After Dinner or Iva Bittová, and frequently the pieces change direction, not quite as stop-on-a-dime as Naked City, but with a similar effect. FCC: 5 Best: 4, 6, 9, 10, 11 1: slightly squeaky vocals with some reeds, with a very After Dinner-like build into a kinda goofy canterburyesque section, then rocks out. 2: Great active bass line, power trio beginning and entering horns like a more aggressive Virgil Moorefield, horn squalls, then some hard jazzy soloing (nice trumpet work) over extremely busy accompaniment. 3: Off-kilter music with distorted, hard to make out, echoed female vocals. The words aren't quite screamed, but they're pretty harsh sounding. Then a man declaims text from Les Miserables—Inspector Javert denouncing Jean Valjean. -2:47 that abruptly stops and a series of soft, moody solos (can't quite tell what instruments) until -0:58, at which point the vocal craziness begins again. 4: Rollicking rhythm section supporting upbeat unison parts in the front lines. -4:44 things get sparser; more abstract & “modern” sounding (some dissonant string parts, not as melodic) for about 1:30, then the main theme from before reenters more prominently. Bass solo --> distorted guitar. Changes come more rapidly towards the end. 5: FCC! Bass put very far forward in the mix. First 1:30 completely instrumental and not unlike 2, so you could just play that with no worries. But -2:10 lots of “get me the fuck out”s. 6: Very pretty song, vocals plus (sounds like) accordion and occasional plucked bass. Liberal use of echo, very cinematic. 7: Alamaailman Vasarat/Hamster Theatre–like, starts off with horn stabs, some distorted guitar, all in all more than a little circus-like. 8: Screamed vocals, stop-start. 9: Absolute chaos, horns and guitars and bass all going off at once. Full-band blowouts alternate with energetic soloing. 10: Violin, soprano sax, and bass trio in the beginning; drums & guitar enter; very good, mid-energy jazzy playing; jaunty. 11: Starts off low, almost ambient, somewhat reminiscent of the Dirty Three or Friends of Dean Martinez; vocals sound similar to in 6 (though lyrics, which are in English, aren't the best). -3:14 violin squalls and the pace and volume pick up dramatically, wordless ululations and off-kilter riffs. Ends with a righteous clatter. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Oni Gorshi | 6. | Dreams From Wounded Mouth | |||
| 2. | Beast With A Bellyful Of Bedsprings | 7. | Bitchslap | |||
| 3. | Bastress | 8. | Transmission | |||
| 4. | Tits And Honey | 9. | Lucky | |||
| 5. | Smoking Car | 10. | Cod Liver River | |||
| 11. | Smoking Baby | |||||