Extended, almost 26 minutes long live version of The Speed Of Fear by English alternative rock band Gallon Drunk from their recent album The Soul Of The Hour is free to download. A 7 minutes long version:

Have you any idea of it?
Please let me introduce Kirik Cizgi to you.
It’s a keyboard-bass-drums trio with post punk inspired irrational melodic structures.
In Koppány’s view: „They are a bit like cooler No Wave bands like Bush Tetras or Talking Heads. But when I hear them I always have Czech bands in my mind,
like Psí Vojaci, Uz Jsme Doma, or sometimes the Russian N.O.M. (the early).
But Csikar had right when he said, ‘the Turkish Dragibus’, which is true for a few songs.”

Kirik Cizgi in Budapest at the 41st RNR666 Party, 27, June 2010

Kirik Cizgi = Broken Line

One of the best European garage rock/punk label is Goodbye Boozy Records. It was founded in the late 90s in Teramo, which is a little central Italian town. The label is focusing limited edition 7″ vinyls. Some names of the roster: Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin, King Khan, BBQ, Lantern, LiveFastDie, Red Mass, Straight Arrows, Movie Star Junkies.

Some of the recent 7″ vinyls are free to download now: The Hemingers, Sick Thought, Blowtops, Cosmonauts, People’s Temple, Tight Jeans, Livids, Drags, Warm Soda.

Saul Conrad is a classically-trained American musician. Almost impossible to categorize his peculiar music: experimental chamber „pop” with surprising key changes, nonsensical rhythmic shifts, overlapping melodies, and folk elements.  His third album is more listener friendly than the previous two. There are easy melodies instead of experiments. But at the same time it’s a very serious album. Perhaps it’s more serious than the previous ones.

The non-musical influences: Kierkegaard. Especially his book about the despair, “The Sickness Unto Death.” Surprising or not, in Japan the book of the Danish existentialist philosopher is living its own renaissance as anime, manga and video game soundtrack. By the way, always the same thing occurs to me from Kierkegaard (1813-1855): during a night I read through his work titled Either/Or, then I vomited out of the window – but that is quite another story.

“The Four Zoas: The torments of Love & Jealousy in The death and Judgment of Albion the Ancient Man.” It’s a prophetic book by English romantic poet William Blake (1757- 1827). Conrad’s album title “A Tyrant And Lamb” references to a pair of poems of Blake: The Tyger, and The Lamb, about the dualism of nature and God. Conrad sings about alternation of this duality in the human sphere.

And now the gruesome list of musicians who have influenced on this album

Blaze Foley, the Duct Tape Messiah, country outsider, was „a genius and a beautiful loser” according to Lucinda Williams, was shot to death at his age of 39 in 1989.

Gram Parsons of The Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers, alcohol, drugs, overdose, 26.

Townes Van Zandt, country music outsider, in the 70s, when the bigger part of his highly praised life-work was released he lived outside of Nashville in a tin-roofed, bare-boards shack with no heat, stayed almost entirely unknown until the 80s, when Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered one of his songs, which became a number one hit, and he played at dive bars and lived cheap motels invariably until January 1, 1997, when his femoral neck fracture and his delirium tremens were treated with vodka and weed for good, and stayed 52 for ever.

Harry Nilsson, singer/songwriter, nothing special except for his songs, but a heart attack, 52.

Syd Barrett, the most creative member of the early Pink Floyd, for the most part he wrote the first album alone, LSD, became unable to play in the group, two solo albums in 1970 and nothing more, but a nine parts composition by Pink Floyd to tribute to him in 1975, titled Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Died in 2006 at his age of 60.

Elliott Smith, singer/songwriter, alcohol, drugs, paranoia, suicide, 34. Strange fact, in 1997 he released an album titled Either/Or, which is based on Kierkegaard…

I’m sure, you are very curious

Saul Conrad – „A Tyrant And Lamb” album on Mountain of Leopards and Cavity Search Records. Buy LP or digital copy

The Plan – To Play Ducks and Drakes of 340 Million

Uncle Sting has declared that his children shouldn’t expect big inheritage, because he wants to run through his entire fortune. If those were not just void words, he must think about his agenda seriously, because he must spends all of his money in a way that he may hold shares, properties, jewels, works of art, luxury cars, helicopters, yachts, briefly, any kind of valuable things only temporarily in the following 20-30 years.

For the sake of the cause it is absolutely necessary to sell his author’s and neighbouring rights immediately, to end his works and to concentrate on this mission alone. He must run through roughly 340 million dollars in, let’s say, 30 years. Almost 11 million a year!

The simplest method is the combination of gambling and space tourism. A plain suborbital flight: 200 000 (but it’s so underclass), a real orbital: 40 million, the flight to the moon is under construction, but it will be about 100 million USD/person.

Furthermore he can invest his money to such promising enterprises as whale hunting expedition to Cincinnati, fast food restaurant chain of Western-Sahara, or RNR666. I also know some artists of starvation whose works will still be worthless after 100 years. He can safely buy anything from them.

But I think that Sting doesn’t know what he says. Obviously he went off his chumps. He should be put under guardianship before he does something madness, for example a musical about his life.

Unfortunately I have heard nothing about Doc Neeson (1947-2014)
while I haven’t seen this video in which four Australian underground bands
(Fait Accompoli, The Rumours, Lepers and Crooks, Dead Bear)
perform together one of his songs

Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again

to pay tribute to him. Yes, he really is a rock’n’roll legend in Australia.