Midday Veil will be releasing 2 brand new CDs on the brand new Translinguistic Other imprint this Friday, October the 13th at the Black Lodge in Seattle. Both are editions of 300 CDs with artwork beautifully printed by Emily. The music was mastered by Mell Dettmer at Aleph Studios.
This show kicks off our 2009 West Coast tour – our first. Show listings are here. We will be touring with Janina Angel Bath, a psychedelic songstress from Cali. Friday night will also include heavy surf-noir masters Diminished Men and killer psych garage rockers Night Beats. Word has it that some special guests may appear as well. This will be one to remember.
Queen of the Void is an EP documenting the 5-member incarnation of Midday Veil that included Simon Henneman on lead guitar, myself on electric bass, Chris Pollina on drums, David Golightly on analog synths and Emily Pothast on vocals and guitar. It features 2 long compositions recorded at The Josephine.
Subterranean Ritual consists entirely of material improvised one night in September 2009. By this point, we had switched to a 4-member lineup with myself on lead baritone guitar. Channeled from the beyond.
Update 11/30/2009:
Some coverage from the tour…
Tour recap @ Translinguistic Other including videos from various performances
Small writeup and video @ The Stranger
Our writeup in the Willamette Week:
Seattle’s Midday Veil stops off in Portland for the first date of a West Coast tour, a jaunt that will likely squeegee clean a number of third eyes along the way. Its brand of mind-expanding psychedelia rarely gets above a snail’s pace, allowing you to experience every spiraling guitar run and droning bleat of the band’s vintage synthesizers, as well as the fluttering arc of Emily Pothast’s space-mother vocals. It’s a sound custom designed to coax you down the rabbit hole, leaving you blissfully lost in wonderland. —Robert Ham.
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What the Future Sounded Like
Here’s a documentary on Britain’s Electronic Music Studios (EMS):
I was watching a documentary on Merzbow recently and was interested to note that he was using an EMS synth in his studio. “This filter will make the sound very cold,” he says.
Midday Veil live at Deerborn House, Seattle – October 24, 2009.
We’ll be at The Josephine this Thursday with Cursillistas and Paintings for Animals.
Soundboard recording of Eldridge Gravy & the Court Supreme “Can’t Help It” live in Portland, Oregon. Mt Tabor Theater – October 17, 2009
Check us out at the Eastside Tavern in Olympia October 30, and at Nectar in Seattle November 6.
Captured under hypnosis
Faster and faster images
Can a meaning be obtained
Or this mystery explainedI’m in orbit
Held by magnet
And the force fields
So much closer than loveLogic offers no defence
Underneath this influence
While this puzzle of intent
Holds emotion in suspense-Broadcast, “Pendulum”
It can be strange (or comforting) to feel out of step from the prevailing trends of the day. There’s not much current pop music that does it for me – or even registers as existing. Broadcast is an exception.
That was a preview of Broadcast’s new 23 track mini-album, “Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age”. It should be hitting stores any day now. If that video didn’t sound and look incredible to you, we are not cut from the same cloth. Johnny Trunk’s writeup and the audio preview are stranger and suggest that they’re getting more psyched out than ever. This is no surprise given their oft-stated admiration for Joseph Byrd.
The band’s been much on my mind lately, not only because of the new album, but because I’ll be seeing them perform at Neumo’s this Halloween. Not only that, but the Seattle Symphony will be performing the score to Hitchcock’s Psycho. A memorable Halloween, to be sure.
Here’s a couple early Broadcast videos that first captured my attention:
This one prominently features the Dream Machine, popularized by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin:
Exploring glitchier electronic worlds, from more recent releases:
This last one is an odd video, but the tune is outstanding. Streamlined krautrock with a female lead – harder edged than Stereolab:
Live set from Pillow Full of Drone 8 @ Visionary Dance Studio (Fremont) Sunday, October 11, 2009.
The other performers for the night were Noisepoetnobody, Fejj, and Xaxis Wye.
Many thanks to Lane Brandon Phelps for the recording.
A little crack of funky sunshine falls on their hopelessly square, button-down lives. Glorious.
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Erdal Erzincan – Şelpe
Anatolian master baglama player Erdal Erzincan live in concert. Sadly, I don’t speak Turkish, but I can tell you that the baglama saz is usually played with a plectrum. Erzincan developed his own distinctive finger style which is on full display here.
Do you like tempo changes? I do.
You probably remember Eddy Grant from good old Electric Avenue – which makes me laugh every time – but I didn’t know about this tune. Pretty cool lyrics and video. I love that synth bass. Early in the video there is a synth string part, but they show real violin players. You can’t fool us that way!
Plus, who hasn’t always wanted to take a bath on the beach?
