New Joemus album announced!

[imomus]

Life would be no fun without contrasts, which is why I think a mega-trad Momus album of early 1950s-style torch ballads would be all the more intriguing if the slowies were mixed in with the digital beats mayhem of a splattercore master like, oh, perhaps Joe Howe from Glasgow's Gay Against You. That way you'd have the trad and the avant on one record; traditional expressivity together with radical formal experimentation. Big ballads and mad beats. The best of pop, in other words.

As it happens, Joe is readying a new Germlin album (that's his solo project) just now -- you can hear tracks on his MySpace page -- and last week he asked me to supply vocals for an 8-bit glam stomper teetering on the precipice of insanity. I came back with a Scottish nursery rhyme chant and a new mid-section sung by some kind of deranged Anthony Newley character locked in a planetarium. This is what it sounds like:

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After Joe's album Thrash'r comes out on ADAADAT, he'll be working -- in Berlin and Glasgow -- on the new Momus album (or do we call it Joemus?) with me. I think you can get a good feel of the record's contrasts if I put the Cliff cover I did last week next to the new Germlin track:

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All we need now is for Gay Against You to announce they're producing Sir Cliff Richard's next album.

Comments

Joemus

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds great Nick..like playing badminton with cucumbers..go for it!!

maf

[(Anonymous)]

naf

[(Anonymous)]

you're quick

[kaipfeiffer.livejournal.com]

heavy balladeering EMOmus? oh yes!
but i'd much rather hear you backed up by a small orchestra/chamber ensemble like scott walker on his last albums!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

But Scott Walker was backed up by slices of raw meat and sledgehammers on his last albums!

[(Anonymous)]

You're really too old for this sort of nonsense, it never works for you give it up. Fine if you could work with people who are good at the genre but they probably wouldn't touch you with a glow stick even if they had heard of you. Stick to what your good at, the Cliff cover is good just need a bit better production. You should aim up not down for quality in production.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

TOO OLD? I'm only 28, you rude pig! Or is it 82? I never can remember.

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

lololol why did he ruin a perfectly good pillowcase to make a crappy outfit?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Hisae's reply: "No, he's very cute like a little fairy!"

My reply: "His girlfriend probably made it for him. But you have to see Gay Against You live to understand."

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[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

I'm not cool enough to go to a Gay Against You gig.

[(Anonymous)]

Who cares about being a hypocrite? Maybe you should stop listening to people on the interweb and do what you want.

Who cares that some people don't like it. Who cares that in an alternative world this is Momus' Tin Machine project!!!!

Just doing something new is enough!

:-)

[crowjake.livejournal.com]

I love gay against you and you aaaak, can't fooking waaiitt... only i can't hear your words very well on his track, if it sounds like that i like that i hope you have a lyric book

[fishwithissues.livejournal.com]

i'm surprised you haven't mentioned the charming videos you made for these songs. they're great! i want to know what those foggy bird things are flying around the misty cheese grater thing.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Jordan! I have a huge stock library of stuff I've filmed over the years, and for these videos I just put appropriate images together from my collection.

The foggy bird things are some kind of artwork I saw in Japan, maybe in the Panasonic Museum or something. It was a really amazing little installation in which butterflies were projected onto smoke rising from a dry ice machine.

[(Anonymous)]

really REALLY looking forward to this! germlins album "youth pixxel" is mindblowing.

[alphacomp.livejournal.com]

Will you ever make your own beats again? The self-produced momus had it's momunts.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I very seldom made my own beats, even in the old days. For instance, a lot of mid-90s Momus beat patterns came from a Sly and Robbie drum samples CD!

That makes Joe the new Sly and Robbie! Bambaclat!

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

The trad contrasting the avant-garde? That is what I've been doing with my music all along!... Or glossy production contrasting improvisation.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Never mind your music, it's there at the heart of your hats!

[count-vronsky.livejournal.com]

Fresh beats mixed with 50's crooning? It's been done.



And that is cool about Sly and Robbie. I went through a deep reggae phase when I was a teen and collected a bunch of their stuff. On vinyl no less! I wish I had been smart enough to hear them in your music, but I missed it. Cool connection anyway.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Maybe we'll have to call the album "Momus: Still Alive". Or "Gay at Last (Lord, I am Gay at Last)!"

higher bitrate mp3 of "Mr Proctor"?

[clitpride.livejournal.com]

anyone have?


this will have to do for now
http://www.zshare.net/audio/104910112846665a/ (http://www.zshare.net/audio/104910112846665a/)

Re: higher bitrate mp3 of "Mr Proctor"?

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.zshare.net/audio/105387687bb07ab7/

Heironymus Merkin

[pay-option07.livejournal.com]

Tony must have had similar interests as you towards perversion and relationships when he wrote Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)

time becomes a loop..........

[(Anonymous)]

8-bit meets classic concepts and reinterpretations of classic pieces of music? Does anyone remember the Super Madrigal Brothers and there two full-length releases (one in 2002, the other in early 2005)? Nick, you must have forgotten the roots of 8-bit and fuckery for a second, no? Good luck to you Nick on this new album, hope it makes a good listen in the end...and KIND NOTE TO ALL READERS AND CRITICS: WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, FASHION FLESH IS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH OR RELATED ARTISTICALLY/COLLABORATIVELY/MUSICALLY TO GAY AGAINST YOU. PLEASE DO NOT POST ANY STATEMENTS THAT WILL CONNECT THE TWO INCORRECTLY.
much love to all,
John / Fashion Flesh
www.fashionflesh.com
www.supermadrigalbros.com

Re: time becomes a loop..........

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I may be missing the joke, John (maybe this is the point), but aren't you the only one doing what you're telling people not -- under any circumstances -- to do here?

Gay Against Cliff

[(Anonymous)]

I like the sound of it, whilst not being in tune with all Momus recent musical picks, i think Momus being Gay Against Cliff sounds good.

[(Anonymous)]

A mega-trad Momus album sounds like it would be great, and I'm excited to hear it. I think the recontextualization of old musical forms is a really fascinating idea. It's something Hosono Haruomi has been doing since the mid-70s with spectacular results. His newest album, Flying Saucer 1947 is kind of an experiment in mega-trad as well.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

[(Anonymous)]

That's a stunning bloom! I wish I could see it in person, and take in the scent et al...please keep posting more pictures of such beautiful creatures; I will quit reading the words and continue viewing your captured images.
-John / FF

!!!!!!!!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

http://imgsrc.ru/frikulin/8418756.html#pic (http://imgsrc.ru/frikulin/8418756.html#pic)

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

Well, it sounds good to me.

Oh boo hoo

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's pretty lazy to not go and see Gay Against You and then compare them to Klaxons. They are doing mimed collabs with Rihanna, not Momus, guys. How on earth you can mix up handsewn plush animal/islamic prayer rug/beach towel outfits and home produced music with Casetteplaya high fashion and trust funded "too Shoreditch" shenanigans I don't know. Maybe you were "too depressed, but i'll leave that for my personal LJ" to leave the house.

Personally I am really excited about the project. Nick and Joe are as excited about each others' new music as ever and I think that's all that is important here. There are a lot of similarities in their approaches and background if you don't want to be lazy about your assumptions. It is sad that for there to be so much initial bitterness because people can't stomach something new. You're both just ahead of your time, give it a while.

Emma (and no, Nick, I didn't make the pillowcase. I only bought the shorts and came up with the name... Lachlann is responsible for any fashion errors!)

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

"How on earth you can mix up handsewn plush animal/islamic prayer rug/beach towel outfits and home produced music with Casetteplaya high fashion and trust funded "too Shoreditch" shenanigans?"



It's a complete mystery to me too, Emma. You're all unique snowflakes standing proudly apart from each other in your artistic endeavors, as opposed to a big collective mass of trendy, neon slush thats melting all over myspace as we speak.

"B...BUT THE IRONIC ISLAMIC PRAYER MATS!"

The fact your main retort is a list of gimmicks says it all really. Maybe you didnt make that pillowcase outfit, but you seem really keen on insisting you're making the Emperor's new clothes.

And keep reaching for the personal attacks Emma, you don't know shit about my life or my circumstances.

[(Anonymous)]

I like how your main argument is an MS PAINT montage you so painstakingly knocked up yourself. you might as well have retorted with <3333s BFFs LOLZ NEON

never mind

high quality mp3

[(Anonymous)]

here you go:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/105387687bb07ab7/

320kbps

j

Re: high quality mp3

[shoreditchlocks.livejournal.com]

Thanks foe the DL link.

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Hey there!

[(Anonymous)]

How its going?