Brokeback - Morse Code In The Modern Age: Across The Americas
(download “Flat Handed and on the Wing”)
Seriously cool, empty post-genre half-improvised music you might hear in a bowling alley where the pins are sheep jumping over a fence.
People from Tortoise, Calexico, the Chicago Underground Duo, and the first recorded incarnation of Cat Power make the sort of music you would expect, except expect less whee and more aahmm. And those are some pretty aahmmy groups to start with.
In the end, I suspect that this music doesn’t really matter, unless it matters to you. It’s just too cool. It’s the ultimate rejection of the Led Zeppelin kind of grab-you-by-the-nostrils rock music. Punk was like a military coup which overthrows a corrupt government and then tyranizes. Tortoise and the rest of this ilk are like a Swedish utopian society that just moves along happily. You never would recognize it as important, but conceptually it’s very fit.
Recorded at two of my favorite studios, Tucson’s Wavelab and Soma in Chicago.
11 months ago
