Orphanville will be released on CD, Vinyl, and on Itunes and Amazon on September 1st. The album is more upbeat than the previous release Giants, Madmen, and Ghosts, with more drums and a wider variety of instruments. Many of the songs are in the psychedelic vein and some are based around funky bass and drum parts. Here is a new song from the upcoming album. Download below.
Workday/Schoolnight New Album
from experimentallmusic.blogspot.com
A year and a half ago Workday/Schoolnight stopped being just a recording project when I took it to various venues, houses and apartments around NC. This meant writing songs and organizing sounds based on the equipment I would have with me. All my other Workday/Schoolnight albums were very much a product of the recording process. This new album, “Plastic Ocean”, is a combination of songs written for performance as well as experiments utilizing home recording technology. However, the overall idea here was to record an album that would preserve the themes and songs of the live shows of the past year.
Using roughly 6 different consumer keyboards from the 1980s (casios, yamahas, kawais), a hammond rhythm machine, a bank of drum samples, and dozens of cassette tapes bought from thrift stores (as well as some other stuff), “Plastic Ocean” flows between experimental found sounds and synth-punk songs. Clocking in at over 70 minutes, “Plastic Ocean” keeps the listener tuned in by often times speaking directly to him or her. So, this may not be the best album to listen to while multitasking. The themes of alienation, working, pessimism about the state of the world, and general good ole antiestablishmentarianism found in the sung lyrics are put in an unsettling light when juxtaposed with self-help tapes, self-hypnotic tapes, daily affirmations, and vocabulary lessons.
I’m sure there is more to say about the album, but I’d rather have someone else’s point of view. So, feel free to leave comments about your listening experience.
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Secret Message Machine Teaser
some new sounds from the forthcoming album
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Casual Curious New Video
She Song - Casual Curious (live session) from DurtyDurham on Vimeo.
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Kaleidoscope Death Discography For Download
Chuck’s new blog will soon contain all the great Kaleidoscope Death releases.
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Happening. Oct 15th-18th. Guilford College, Lyndon St Artworks, Green Bean, Westerwood Tavern, My Favorite Things, Legitimate Business. ALL FREE.
Thursday October 15th - Guilford College- WQFS Presents
Computer Geek Salad
Yank Yer Blue Jeans
Secret Message Machine
Romancer
doors 7 pm show 8 pm
Friday October 16 @ Lyndon St Artworks *WUAG*
Workday Schoolnight
Casual Curious
Genghis Khan, Pens and Needles, Treason
L in Japanese / Tim Trouble / DJ Harley Lyles
doors 7 pm show 8 pm
Saturday October 17 @ Green Bean
Basalt
Sugar High Gang
Rough Hands
doors 7 pm show 8 pm
11pm GSOFest Afterparty @ Westerwood feat. Mutant League
Sunday October 18 @ My Favorite Things
Our Horse Jethro
JP Smith Jazz Unit
Sundrone
doors 5:00pm show 5:30pm
@ Legitimate Business
Low Sky
Resister
Kaleidoscope Death
Pinche Gringo
Torch Runner
doors 8pm show 8:30pm
Here are some recent live recordings for you. Enjoy.
Summer Camp Casanova Two Faces (live on WUAG)
Casual Curious Covering Workday Schoolnight @ The Green Bean
Secret Message Machine Madmen @ Lyndon St Artworks
Kaleidoscope Death Covering the Breeders Huffer @ The Green Bean
After five years of recording and playing shows blank blank will be playing it’s final one on July 9th at the Green Bean, downtown Greensboro. They will perform along with Invisible and it will be their last show as well.
At the same show, blank blank will release its fourth and final CD, new songs written over the past two years. Come hear them for the last time and get a copy of the final release.
In future release land we have a three way split between Kaleidoscope Death, Summer Camp Casanova, and Secret Message Machine coming out in August.
Casual Curious is also planning on recording their first full length album.
Secret Message Machine is working on their third full length CD.
And finally, the end of 2009 will mark five years of Subjective Collective and we will mark this occasion with a compilation of the best recordings made by the musical mafia and friends.
Now you don’t have to walk around town searching for flyers in bar windows or coffee shop doors (although you can still do this if you prefer). Square One has a website with an easy to read schedule of events. Visit now, visit often.
After releasing an amazin EP Casual Curious are taking their show to New York. Here are some upcoming shows.
Sqaure One5/24 Greensboro, North Carolina
Don Pedros6/21 Brooklyn, New York
Goodbye Blue Monday6/23 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York
Kaleidoscope Death, Summer Camp Casanova, and Casual Curious will all be releasing CDs on Saturday, February 21st. Come to the Green Bean in downtown Greensboro to hear it live and pick up some fresh local music.
Here are some tracks from the upcoming releases:
Kaleidoscope Death - Sender
Summer Camp Casanova - Rest of the Day
Casual Curious - Problems (Steez Reform)
