Bled, Blight, And Rue

Sparkiovoggel, The
Self-Release
General | Apr 2007

Reviews

Michael Shapira
Reviewed 2007-05-24
Quirky, parodying art pop/experimental music, sometimes psychedelic, using both sampling and a capella singing (mostly male). Great stuff! Each track (most are around 1 min long) is centered on an idea, which is mocking, by exaggeration, something - musical style, life, or anything. Something of the Frank Zappa here, but no FCCs.
**1/1:54. Nature – from pastoral to an aggressive mayhem. Amazing!
2. Bluesy depression for male voices and acoustic guitar. Funny.
3. A short parody on male a capella jazzy music.
*4/3:17. Frank Zappa style male “a capella” accompanied by sampled percussion and flute.
*5. A short christmass-y carol, sung a capella, about ice-cream.
**6/6:03. Attraction – cool beat and jazzy bass. Man-woman dialogue, half spoken.
*7. A short rhythmic sample art track – chewing insect and chimes.
8. Short and quirky – a capella singing about courting with flowers.
9. Slow Blues – acoustic guitar and male vox.
10. A capella singing about a social reject.
*11/3:13. Bass and male vox joined by sampling bits. Nice and rhythmic.
*12. Cool and funny beat with throat noises (something between groaning and puking).
**13/2:56. Sort-of hip-hop. Male/female a capella-based beat and effects (and a drum machine), and singing about “you are what you eat”.
14/2:56. The plastic giant song. Spooky monster strings. Female background vox. Nice psych sampling art at the end.
*15. A radio play for 4 voices (and a fluttering robot butterfly). Funny. Merges to
**16. Psychedelic rhythmic sampling.
17. Sampling art. Running faucets and deflating balloons.
*18. A political soundspace. Sampling from news. Urgent.
19. Threats – a quirky song, acoustic guitar and male vox.
*20/3:34. Cool IDM with samples and male voices.
21. Toys and male voices.
22. The troubadour. Merges nicely to #23.
23/5:22. Depressing song. Ties to track #2.
*24. Chimes and toys.

Recent airplay

Mean Streak
Rocky JohnsonJul 26, 2007
Erroneous Zone
Cognitive OverloadJul 21, 2007
Entro
Summer ducksJul 09, 2007
Entro
Summer ducksJul 02, 2007
G-Force
Intertim duck 2Jun 18, 2007
Entro
interim ducks1Jun 11, 2007

Charting

2007-05-27 — 2007-07-29
Week EndingAirplays
Jul 29 1
Jul 22 1
Jul 15 1
Jul 8 1
Jun 24 1
Jun 17 1
Jun 3 4

Track listing

1. Entro
2. Mean Streak
3. Brunch
4. Words Are So Cheesy
5. Sundae
6. G-Force
7. Spider-Webbed Feet
8. Lady Helena
9. Howazidano
10. Apart Of The Party
11. Impossible!
12. Erroneous Zone
13. Y'ar What Y'ar
14. Udderly Delicious
15. Characters
16. Whack And Blight
17. Squeaky And Leaky
18. Gassahole
19. Cantankerous Clown
20. Ogre Brew Ha Ha
21. Dead Worm
22. Graveyard Shift
23. Broke The Brain
24. Let's To This (Sort Of) Thing