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Listed: The Spatulas — Part 2

The Listed by members of The Spatulas is continued.

5 of Lila Jarzombek’s fave tunes:

Linda Smith — In This, 1988-'96

I love this particular cassette! Linda Smith is such a great songwriter. Her orientation to playing and home recording is a source of inspiration for me!

Dadamah — Brian’s Children, 1994

One of my favorite New Zealand bands. Love the pace and density of this song.

Relatively Clean Rivers — The Persian Caravan, 1976

I love this entire album and the guitar playing on it! Was hard to choose my favorite song, they’re all so good.

Mirrors — How Could I, 1974

This song makes me think about playing with the Spatulas! Maybe someday we will have an organ or keyboard….or flutes!?

International Harvester — Sommarlåten, 1976

Late 60’s/early 70’s Psychedelic Swedish rock band related to Parson Sound and the later group Trad Gras & Stenar. Such great jams and the guitar playing just rips. Always makes me excited to play after listening.

4 tunes Jon Grothman’sbeen hitting pretty hard on the reg:

Les Rallizes Dénudés — Memory is Far Away, 1967-'69

One of the heaviest bands in the world wistfully chooglin’ and burnin’ a kazoo.

Makanda Ken McIntyre — Mambooga, 2004

This amazing woodwind quartet was all performed and overdubbed by Makanda Ken McIntyre. It sounds like Eric Dolphy calliope music.

How To Get Rich in Rotterdam — Swinging With Ingeborg, 1980s

Dutch weirdos making weird Dutch music. Effective use of wah.

Pressler / Morgan — Hand Piece, 1979

Very cool Cleveland poetry punk band.

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from dadamah’s 1995 compilation on kranky, this is not a dream, originally released on the 1992 LP of the same name.

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6/1/20.

Roy Montgomery (Christchurch, New Zealand) has been part of so many different bands with different sounds over the course of the past 40 years - The Pin Group and Dadamah are the most known to me.  A few years back he embarked on a truly daunting project which turned out to be RMHQ - Headquarters.  This is a 4 LP behemoth where each LP has a different feel.  This is far different from The Pin Group’s post-punk or the loose structures of Dadamah. 

There are shades of pop everywhere among this experimental project.  “R” (the first LP) is the “catchiest”.  I fell asleep listening to “M” today and was a little freaked out by a drone when I awoke. 

The music is haunting and beautiful (the same words I used when referring to the Cindy Lee post from a couple of weeks ago).  Montgomery’s vocals are the perfect amount of low - not as low as Calvin Johnson or Johnny Cash, but hovering in those realms.

This was released by Grapefruit Records.  Let me use this occasion to remind you that Grapefruit is having an amazing sale right now.  Noah Sterba, The Terminals, Roy Montgomery, and The Garbage and The Flowers can all be had at steep discounts (sometimes as high as 80%).

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Dadamah - Limbo Swing

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The shared experience of cloistered living led us to this moment. We stand upon the precipice of delight, with no notions of shape or sender, only an expectation crafted from an unmentionable past. Swearing we wouldn’t betray ourselves like this hasn’t gotten us anywhere ( it never does). everything will get ahead of us as soon as we start fancying for this that and the other. “Remember the last time?”, she utters with an agency greater than herself. “We built up this big picture, made all that racket about changing our lives up, and look…” sweeping hand gesture [I appear to be listening, focusing instead on a picture of somewhere I’d never known. A place explored and experienced when this meant nothing. Where were we back then? I can’t for the life of me say with certainty. But now…this is what’s left to be dealt with. Earning a living in order to understand, there’s something inherently wrong here. Whoever wrote this script was taking back door payments. Neither of us believe the lines given to us, nor is our faith with those who want chaos with no contingency plan.]    “Hello?!” hand comes into frame stage left, makes contact with cheek “How long have I been talking to myself for?” [look at her, apologize, tell her to continue] “You know, for all your theories you sure are useless sometimes.”

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Dadamah - Papa Doc

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“ High Tension House”, Dadamah

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Roy Montgomery & Friends – Broken Heart Surgery LP (Discreet Music)

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The importance and depth/body of work of Christchurch, NZ's Roy Montgomery is too long for me to get into here, and probably redundant for a lot of you, but the gap between his '90s works and the spate of releases from 2016 on (dutifully documented by Omaha's Grapefruit label) feels nearly closed now, and in 2024 it's all had time for new chasms to open around it. (If you're mistaking him for the character from TV's Castle, put down the remote and go outside). Other works of recent years have been dedicated to Montgomery's longtime partner Kerry McCarthy's passing back in 2021, but Broken Heart Surgery really feels like the effort where the grief has settled in his bones, some of the acoustic crispness of more recent releases like Rhymes of Chance muted down into mournful low clouds of chorus pedal chords and the haunting vocals of longtime compatriots and collaborators like Stephen Cogle (Terminals, Victor Dimisch Band, Vacuum; essentially the other lynchpin of New Zealand's modern music) and Garbage and the Flowers vocalist Emma Johnstone. Barricaded in by gentle vocal reveries, haunted poetry and atmospheric synths, this one feels colder and slower, yet more immediate than some of his other works, looking back to his '90s touchstones Scenes from the South Island and the soon-to-be-reissued Temple IV, as well as the massive RMHQ box set, as milemarkers in his astonishing career. Words like "goth" don't even begin to set the stage for the desolation and ultimate rebirth that takes place across these six tracks, and I find myself at a loss for an audience who needs to discover this and won't feel it within their bones, forever attached. Unlike the Grapefruit titles this one's a Swedish import and will not hang out for long. Absolutely essential, the first true stunner of 2024. (Doug Mosurock)