Work in progress

Semaphore Therapy

Original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No

About the song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Will_Tear_Us_Apart

Some other cover versions on Soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/r17595/r-plus-love-will-tear-us-1
https://soundcloud.com/uschi-hans/love-will-tear-us-apart
https://soundcloud.com/psychicrites/love-will-tear-us-apart
https://soundcloud.com/hannibal-the-cannibal-87584391/love-will-tear-us-apart

Pic - cover of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, 17th century political theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)

Love will tear us apart (Joy Division cover, German language)

Surf pop stomper. 

Pic: Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 1992 by Geoff Descartes

Surfdom

I'm not really sure how to describe this. Any ideas?

Butterfly Bank

About the title - the title is taken from the William Blake poem "Ah! Sunflower" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43649/ah-sun-flower

This is also the title of a novel by Walter Tevis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Steps_of_the_Sun

Steps of the sun

Caterpillar

Synthesised male vocal. Lyrics created using a cut-up method. Hard edged late 1970s new wave dance beat with distorted guitar and synths. Massive handclaps in the style of classic Chic.

Astronauts Kiss

Late 1970s UK new wave / post-punk thumper with slicing guitars in the vein of Gang of Four and The Pop Group.

About these bands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(band)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pop_Group


About the title - "Sirenbang" is Chinese for Gang of Four.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four

Sirenbang

Why cover this song? 

From David Bowie's 1974 album Diamond Dogs, one of my favourite Bowie albums. Diamond Dogs divided critical opinion at the time of its release but has been favourably re-evaluated in recent years.

I realised recently that Diamond Dogs is actually a gateway to William Burroughs, covering themes found in Burroughs' work and George Orwell's 1984. We are the Dead (title from 1984) sung by Bowie with an alternating tenderness and dread is, for me, amongst his greatest vocal performances.

Original - https://youtu.be/4QEs1sjlLYA?si=IH0_dFyq9RYJ9fHG

Another cover of this song on Soundcloud - Enrique Seknadje https://on.soundcloud.com/PnoRj79t8fHGn5wyi0

We are the dead (David Bowie cover)

1935. “Schultz's last words were a strange stream-of-consciousness babble spoken in his hospital bed to police officers who attempted to calm him and question him for useful information. Although the police were unable to extract anything coherent from Schultz, his rambling was fully transcribed by a police stenographer."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Schultz)

On the Road to Wigan Casino (ESO7)

The Last words (of Dutch Schultz) (remaster)

Welcome to the load-bearing wall of sound.

Music: No boundaries / Knows no boundaries. I don’t look anything like my profile photograph; I'm actually slightly shorter and a figment of my own delusions.

I’m also known as the wild man of transcendental meditation.

New tracks tagged #art_rock