Tell me something about Otto Spooky
Feb. 21st, 2005 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusToday I'd like anyone who's got a copy of my new album Otto Spooky to tell me something about it... and you.
How does this long-playing Momus record fit into your listening routine? What records do you play before and after it? Have you bought anything since, and is Herr Spooky throwing shade or overshadowed? Were you particularly struck by certain lines? Do Otto's musical textures please you? What's great and what grates? Where does Otto stand in your personal canon of Momus records (assuming you have some other ones)? What do you think of John Talaga's intermezzi? Have you fallen asleep to this music, made love to it, got lost in it, jogged with it, played it in your car while driving through a National Park? Did you cover your children's ears when the song about the fascist boyscout came on? (Assuming you have children, that is.) Did your dog chew James Goggin's digipak (if so, print the JPEG above on stiff card and spray it with some foul-smelling fixative). Do any of the songs play in your head even when the record isn't on? When you're at the supermarket, do you ever look around to see if Robin Hood is there "in a wheelchair buying food", kidney dialysis colostomy bag by his side? Are you a top-scoring, panda-topping Lute Score wizard?
How does this long-playing Momus record fit into your listening routine? What records do you play before and after it? Have you bought anything since, and is Herr Spooky throwing shade or overshadowed? Were you particularly struck by certain lines? Do Otto's musical textures please you? What's great and what grates? Where does Otto stand in your personal canon of Momus records (assuming you have some other ones)? What do you think of John Talaga's intermezzi? Have you fallen asleep to this music, made love to it, got lost in it, jogged with it, played it in your car while driving through a National Park? Did you cover your children's ears when the song about the fascist boyscout came on? (Assuming you have children, that is.) Did your dog chew James Goggin's digipak (if so, print the JPEG above on stiff card and spray it with some foul-smelling fixative). Do any of the songs play in your head even when the record isn't on? When you're at the supermarket, do you ever look around to see if Robin Hood is there "in a wheelchair buying food", kidney dialysis colostomy bag by his side? Are you a top-scoring, panda-topping Lute Score wizard?
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lady france knickers
Date: 2005-02-21 08:00 pm (UTC)what is great? sempreverde, life of the fields, robin hood, lute score
what grates? cockle pickers and perhaps.... the artist overwhelmed (i'm not sure yet)
however... you might like to know that although lady fancy knickers is not a favourite of mine... whenever i pop into the kitchen to make a cup of tea, boil pasta, wash dishes, look into the freezer, make toast, get rice, etc., i start humming the shirelles section of the song... i love that part... "ahhhhhh ah ahhhh... ahhhhh ahh ahhhhhh!" lovely. reminds me of moments on stars forever.
i enjoy taking walks with the album. for example, last week i took a two hour walk in the suburbs... the speeding cars and ugly trackhousing which usually grate my nerves were transported to little bubbles which floated up to the sky. i became entranced... feeling my way through my own perspex cube... fields of orange and pink, shrines, ithyphallic dogs, taxi rides in foreign countries, peg legged singers sitting on a porch, the son of god walking with me telling a story... these people and places replaced the normal dog, bus stop and liquor store one passes on a mid-morning walk. thank you!
highlights:
sempreverde // absolute masterpiece // the production quality is amazingly simple but effective. the computer generated/manipulated singing gives me the creeps even more than bjork's all is full of love video. the instrumentals over the lyrics towards the end gives me the chills.
life of the fields // i forget... was this the 'new order' track? // there's this overwhelming sense of build up throughout... this push and pull... i love the constant beat... it reminds me of some of my favourite summer tracks... you know, the kind of music you listen to while sitting on your california porch with a cocktail... feeling nostalgic... soaking up sun... songs like: harmony korine (kahimi karie), electric relaxation (tribe called quest), a dancehall remix of the fugees,
robin hood // link from zelda gets picked up and thrown into a rockin' 80s track with hot air guitar and big hair... we built this city on rock and roll...momus!
bantam boys // this is just creepy/sad/familiar // maybe it was my previous life!
more later <3 <3 <3
alec
a.k.a. sadlittlemonkey
Re: lady france knickers
Date: 2005-02-21 10:18 pm (UTC)Re: lady france knickers
Date: 2005-02-21 11:43 pm (UTC)<3,
alec
a.k.a. sadlittlemonkey
Re: lady france knickers
Date: 2005-02-22 08:04 am (UTC)Ooh. Well. I love the Turkish pop I hear at Tek-Mer, the Turkish supermarket I go to in Kreuzberg. That takes me somewhere far away. I also love old German spoken word records on the Litera label. And kabuki music. And Tatar music. I guess I'd add Devendra Banhart and Animal Collective. And grime! I was sitting on a bus in London last month and some 12 year-old Asian kid was playing some incredible track. I didn't dare ask what it was, but it sounded pretty exciting. In Hokkaido I've mostly been listening to 70s dub reggae because there's lots of it in the house I'm staying in.
Re: lady france knickers
Date: 2005-02-22 01:02 pm (UTC)Aso