Improvisations

In case you visited the Swamp in the last weeks, you may have noticed a post of mine about a band from Baltimore, Mother Sun Flower, tagged by an anonymous, maybe a bit naïve-looking, “botanical” cover art.
That band is worth of note not only for its very cool demo output but also because of the musician involved. One is the talented drummer Elias Schutzman from the retro-sounding heavy psych rock The Flying Eyes, and the other outstanding musicians are guitarist/vocalist John Lipscomb and bassist Timmy Shaw from the “psych grindcore” band Whoarfrost.
About Whoarfrost, they say “take one part Jimi Hendrix, one part John Coltrane, one part Hella, one part Lightning Bolt, one part Nirvana, & one part Ornette Coleman”.

Well, for the moment I’m not posting anything about Whoarfrost but I’m posting here something quite tasty and directly related to Whoarfrost’s substrate, i.e. band Transparent Flesh Of Present Time.
Jon Lipscomb himself draw my attention on this project which involves him on gitar/voice, Ethan Snyder from Whoarfrost on drums and Casimir Liberski on keyboards.

The act has so far produced some interesting, completely improvised tunes developing in the eclectic territories of experimental and avantgarde music and involving free jazz and psychedelic rock jams.
All this is hosted in the first release, A Functioning Police State Needs No Police (2011), which is available for free download on Bandcamp.
As reported on the download site, all songs were improvised and recorded by Andrew Nault, live with no overdubs in the Boston cold. Mixed by Jon Lipscomb and Andrew Nault. The cool artwork is by piano player Casimir Liberski.

“Transparent Flesh of Present Time is the charging restless mute unvoiced road keening in a seizure of power into the penciled traceries of our faintest wishes. Enjoy...”

Band

Noise

(Thanks to Jon from the band(s) for pulling my jacket)

First-rate.

Paras bändi maailmassa.

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Humble.

Same story, less materials.

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moon in the band name, moon in the album name

its so cold out tonight that i feel ridiculous standing outside, every night i walk outside and stand for as long as i see fit in my stupid brain and just assess the sky and listen, so naturally to me in my shitty westernized world this is me "getting it" and i feel some weird kinship with everything around me and i've noticed that i'm starting to breathe through my nose more and like rub my finger tips together. long story short i'm so full of shit and fighting crippling depression at every day that i'm basically kidding myself into being centered...what? heres that semi-boring synth-psych album you've been looking for if you wanted to just space out with out having to pay any attention, quite enjoyable great music if you like ride or bjtm. and if not then i guess its fuck all huh beardo?

when i saw this leaked i was hoping for moonspell or moonsorrow but instead i found a less electronic m83 that goes in second gear. it sounds like the keyboardist holds the same note through the entire album with the synthy background whatever description is going nowhere fast. like my fucking bruins.

a trim 11 members and from what i've seen their live show looks like a blast too, though i don't know if i could sit through a psychedelic band live, i don't do drugs and i'd probably just wanna lay down and nap or read, i wanna do that when i listen to any music so i don't even know what this paragraph was gonna do or say anyways, why the fuck am i still typing? 3 paragraphs and i don't know what the fuck this band is about or anything about the music, really knocked this one out.


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Layered.

Sixth full-length, first since line up change. Less guitar, more blues, more drums less calmness.

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Sincere.

The brothers return with a new album. Album limited to a 1000 copies & comes in a custom fabricated silk-screened jacket.

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