Friday, August 06, 2004
this week's mp3 suggestion
Dead Raven Choir, a "band" made up of a Texas-based Polish dude who calls himself Smolken the Digger, is one of the more interesting parties involved in that whole Wire-endorsed "freefolk" deal. Like many of those bands, it's hard to tell just how serious D. Smolken is; his highly dramatic voice and Vincent Price horror movie lyrics can veer pretty close to parody sometimes, and his obsession with wolves and goats is obviously wielded in the name of hilarity. He's occasionally invovled with the Jewelled Antler folks, though, and they're not quite as overtly comedic as the Sunburned Hand of the Man guys and other such people. So who knows.
But here's an mp3 from his site, a noisy, almost unlistenable cover of Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan". It sounds somewhat like the Dead C, and somewhat like sticking your head in a jet engine.
Dead Raven Choir, a "band" made up of a Texas-based Polish dude who calls himself Smolken the Digger, is one of the more interesting parties involved in that whole Wire-endorsed "freefolk" deal. Like many of those bands, it's hard to tell just how serious D. Smolken is; his highly dramatic voice and Vincent Price horror movie lyrics can veer pretty close to parody sometimes, and his obsession with wolves and goats is obviously wielded in the name of hilarity. He's occasionally invovled with the Jewelled Antler folks, though, and they're not quite as overtly comedic as the Sunburned Hand of the Man guys and other such people. So who knows.
But here's an mp3 from his site, a noisy, almost unlistenable cover of Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan". It sounds somewhat like the Dead C, and somewhat like sticking your head in a jet engine.
