Recently, I have been playing with oishi cassette sampling a lot, so I am preparing to release a cassette on the label Bezirk. After recording several times, I finally recorded one that I really liked while enjoying the aroma of alcohol. I made a proper cover for it, which was the result of a lot of effort from me and Zheng Hao. I can't wait for the official release to meet everyone!
I wrote an email to my favorite improviser and finally got a reply. I asked if they could listen to my stuff, so I immediately got up from bed and started recording vocals. After recording, I thought it was okay, but when I compared it to someone else's solo, I felt a huge gap. So I didn't dare to release it and kept delaying. I'll try recording again later.
I'm going to eat at Dilara Uyghur Restaurant later, have a delicious meal, and then go see Sly & The Family Drone's performance!
This time, it was mabu who dragged me, a homebody, out. He used a paragraph he wrote:
Sly & The Family Drone is the band I've seen live the most since I came to London. Last winter, the band's mastermind Matt Cargill had a car accident while on tour and almost died. Half a year later, when I saw him again, I got this live recording from 2015, and it has been in my CD player ever since. In terms of music, Sly should belong to the lineage of Nurse With Wound, a British improvisational noise band, but they are clearly not as skilled. With cassette sampling, drums, and vocals with effects, although there are decent percussion arrangements at the beginning, most of the time it's a chaotic mess, throwing cups as signals and behaving like a mob. Overall, it's a mindless frenzy.
But their live performances are a completely different story. The show always happens below the stage, with people forming a small circle like street performers, climbing upwards amidst the chaotic sounds. As the performance progresses, the drum set is dismantled, and the musicians throw drumsticks to the audience, freeing their hands to make other noises. The show continues until it ends in a frenzy of indistinguishable sweat and alcohol, with a sense of warmth of a community echoing in the narrow space, as if immersed in the vast ocean of people's war.
Huh? It seems pretty good, so let's look forward to tonight!