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"Churn Milk Joan's trademark minimal space-Kraut-funk, Richard's Mooney-Suzuki-Beefheart voice... marvellous Can vibe... sinuous snake rhythms... ferocious fuzzed guitar... careens along like a bus...

Churn Milk Joan's fourth album in 16 months...

http://churnmilkjoan.bandcamp.com/album/without-a-horse

Insightful retrospective of Churn Milk Joan

http://astoundedbysound.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/churn-milk-joan-without-horse.html

Now I've had a message "How come none of you are smiling?"

It's a song that references the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612 - what do you want us to do, grin and giggle ?

:)

Someone told me this sounded like Van Der Graaf Generator, which surprised me... !

A short film lovingly crafted by my own fair hands...

"The Letter" by Churn Milk Joan, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Pendle Witch Trials.

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Another good review:
http://unwashedterritories.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/churn-milk-joan-8-black-postcards.html

We've just about finished the next Churn Milk Joan album, so grab this one now... !

Update - ARP Quartet (piano sound) through Wahoo (touch-wah vowel sound) - instant "Sparky's Magic Piano". Not a sound I want to use.

Or is it?

In the top and straight out the bottom !

Here's the link again !

http://churnmilkjoan.bandcamp.com/album/8-black-postcards

Cheers Lino, thanks for playing Churn Milk Joan.

Salford Sunday? I used to live in Salford until recently...

Listening now.

And here's Paul Foster's review:

Colin Robinson and Richard Knutson are seasoned musicians with a background in prog/punk/post-punk who have seen many fads and fashions in music pass-by and have...

Good review of it here:
http://echoesanddust.com/2013/01/churn-milk-joan-8-black-postcards/

Thanks very much Lino, glad you liked it. We're all really pleased with it.

Now's the time to download it, before the free downloads get used up...

This from Michael Inman:

Wrap your brain around this heady improvisational new release from Churn Milk Joan! To describe their new release "8 Black Postcards" (if that's even possible) in a...

The third Churn Milk Joan album, "8 Black Postcards", is now available on Bandcamp.
It features 5 pieces that sprung from improvisations recorded in Hebden Bridge on Saturday 13th October 2012 -...

I've got to say, I much preferred John Foxx-era Ultravox to the Midge Ure version.

I had the first Visage album on vinyl and liked it a lot at the time, but I haven't heard it for years.
...

Remember that Midge Ure wasn't the vocalist in Visage, he was the guitarist.

The first album I ever bought was today's featured CD, "Death Walks Behind You" by Atomic Rooster, back in 1971 (I thimk).

The first single I bought was "Ride a White Swan" by T.Rex... but my...

This is the first album I ever bought, after buying "Tomorrow Night" as a single (which was a minor hit in the UK).

An amazing album.

That's 'cos there is a lead guitar on this album - John Du Cann. There's no bass player.

Yes, I'm still releasing new music - 4 albums last year (two from Churn Milk Joan and two from Jumble Hole Clough), one just about to come out, enough material for another one at least.

1. Why? ...

Like your spell-checker :)

The first gig I ever saw was King Crimson (Islands Tour) at Leeds Town Hall in 1971.

That's the idea !

The sound quality is bad, but there's something endearing about them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha_machine#Buddha_Machine

Anyone got one of these?

I've got a Series 3 one (they just released Series 4) and have used it on a couple of recordings - just...

Recording this weekend, putting the finishing touches to the Churn Milk Joan material we recorded with Pete Scullion. I'm looking forward to it - punchy stuff.

Mostly vocal recording with...

Great wah-wah pedal, but I'm probably spending more time on the envelope and lfo sections.

I need to try other instruments through it, not just guitar and bass. I have someone's old ARP Quartet...

Big Block 454

The band has been in abeyance since 2011’s “Bells & Proclamations” album. Will there ever be another BB454 album? Quite possibly, but certain criteria would have to be met:

1. ...

I can't remember whether I told you about this or not. Anyway - more about cotton mills and less about moors this time.

http://jumbleholeclough.bandcamp.com/

Very sad.

I need to spend some time really understanding this pedal - but it's like having a wah-wah pedal with two analog synth filters / LFOs.
Some of the preset sounds are very good, and it's very easy to...

He was very anti-Nazi. Mind you, he didn't like Stalin either.

;)

I've just bought one of these...

Can't stop now, too busy diving into the editing screen on my PC and making the filters do wild things...

http://www.sonuus.com/products_wahoo.html

I saw The Fall playing live at the Brudenell Club in Leeds last Friday.

Wow. An experience. Very tight band, almost Krautrock. Mark E.Smith was completely untogether at first, rummaging through...

And I've got tickets !

http://louderthanwar.com/lee-scratch-perry-announces-2013-uk-tour/

One last thought - I pronounce "paw", "pore", "pour" and "poor" (almost) the same - though quite a few true northerners would pronouce "poor" as "poo-er".

Interesting - I pronounce all those 6 words exactly the same. I was born in Devon, but I've lived most of my life in Lancashire and Yorkshire.

I looked on Dictionary.com, which has a soundfile...

Wanna bet?

Certainly there were words used in Elizabethan English which died out in England but are still used in American English - such as "Fall" for Autumn and "gotten".

Sometimes Brits attempting to sing in an American style went overboard with the Rs, as did Paul McCartney in his cover of “Till There Was You,” pronouncing saw more like sawr.

Why do people from...

This link from the original article is interesting.

http://david-crystal.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/on-singing-accents.html

- although when he says A Liverpudlian accent regularly stands out in...

Yes, I'm struggling with it too. Clumsy, messy - just not any fun to use.

One thing that made me laugh recently are the comments (presumably from Americans) on the Sonuus demo videos. They don't seem to be able to figure out where the guy is from at all - several people...

"American pop-punk vocalists like Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day took on a British-tinged accent to sound more like seminal artists such as Joe Strummer of the Clash. "

What? He doesn't sound...

D-ah-nce is a southern English pronounciation, da-nce is northern English. Phil Collins is from London, so you'd expect him to say "d-ah-nce".

However, perhaps the vocals on "I can't dance" were...

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Eh?

Isn't this a post? Or is it a thread?

True. The original was sung by Gloria Jones - the woman who killed Marc Bolan.

Black Sabbath - "War Pigs"

Generals gather in their masses
Just like witches at black masses

That's not really the rhyme of the song, as he emphasises the ran/run part of the phrase.

The second Jumble Hole Clough album (and my 4th album release this year...) - "Raising the Nap" is now available through Bandcamp.

Jumble Hole Clough is a project to produce some unobtrusive music...

Two Eric Bogle songs (covered by loads of people):

"And the band played Waltzing Matilda"

"No Man's Land" (also known as "The Green Fields of France")

Terribly sad songs.

"Music for Films" and "More Music For Films" are lovely - not some much ambient, but more like little vignettes.

Splitting hairs here, but that's not the original Quo. At the time of "Pictures of Matchstick Men" and "Ice in the Sun", they had an organist - Roy Lynes.

I've got one of his albums, it's great.

Al Doum & The Faryds at Inkfolk in Machpelah Mill Hebden Bridge, last Sunday night.

Only a tiny venue, but very entertaining. An Italian 6-piece band who play what they call Arabic psychedelic...