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December 16th - Theres high desert, and theres low desert
@brogestarck: #stonerxmas 16: Over the course of 10 EPs The Desert Sessions have brought us rock, pop, acid, stoner... And a few bands!
The Desert Session is basically an amazing collective of musicians, that go out into a studio in Joshua Tree in the Californian desert, to write and record music. Its evident when you hear it that not a lot of time is spend on writing/recording each song, and the entire projects oozes of fast creativity and fun fun fun.
It's the brainchild of Joshua Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age a.m.m.), and since 1997 they have released 10 albums that features a huge list of amazing musicians: PJ Harvey, Alain Johannes, Mark Lanegan, Brant Bjork, Nick Oliveri, Pete Stahl, Dave Cathing and many many more. Oh and borrowing musicians from Soundgarden, Monster Magnet, Earthlings?, and many many more.
The 10 albums (Named from 1 through 10, but with a subtitle as well), are all EXTREMELY different from each other. The first are instrumental and quite mellow and psych-inspired. The middle ones are both very experimenting and rocking, and the last 4 has featured the most melodic stuff we've heard from them.
And you know whats really fun? Bands like Queens Of The Stone Age, Eagles Of Death Metal, Earthlings?, Mondo Generator and more all have songs that started out on a Desert Sessions album, and later became a key track on one of their own albums.
Its totally impossible to play 1 song, and by that give anyone a good idea of what The Desert Sessions is all about. So... heres 2! The first is called Crawl Home. Its from No. 9, and features PJ Harvey on vocals:
... and the second is called Johnny The Boy. It's from No. 2, and features Joshua Homme on vocals:
Here comes the bad news: Except for 9 & 10 (they are on iTunes) they are IMPOSSIBLE to find anywhere. On legal sites, anyway. I think you can find bootlegs on Ebay, and of course theres the good old torrent sites. Do it! These 10 albums are ... Bible.
Here's a link for a decent youtube playlist. Thats gonna have to do until they decide to press these gems up again.
December 14th - Lysergic bliss
@brogestarck: #stonerxmas 14: Inspired by @badgirloftennis post yesterday, the next days I will highlight a few psych bands. Go listen!
As some maybe noticed, yesterday the blog was taken over by a very sweet girl. She highlighted a really cool (and new to me) 60s psych band, and that inspired me to pull out some of my favorite psych bands, and tell you all about them! After all, most stoner bands are inspired 1:1 by psych, so it's not too far fetched is it.
Amongst the psych bands that are from this century, this is - by far - my absolute favorite.
The Black Angels have taken the long slow way up from the dusty Texan roads in Austin: First started touring the States, then got themselves on board a tour bus to Europe alongside Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and from there they've builded enough, to now headline their second European tour this coming spring.
On this trip they've also released 3 albums, that each has something completely different and amazing to offer. Its extremely jammy and drony, but always with a very clear path towards what seems to be their goal: A guitar and Farfisa indused lysergic bliss!
I've been thinking ALL day what one song with The Black Angels I wanted to play. And I still really haven't figured it out. So I'll go ahead and play you the very first song I heard with them. It got me hooked like a junkie on smack, and I hope it'll do the same for you!
Buy on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/passover/id138073699
Buy one of their vinyls: http://www.theblackangels.com/index2.php#/store/featured-items
Listen on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/76GyFrn5IwAYp2OGmhIlan
Listen on Wimp: http://getwimp.dk/album/2717701
December 7th - Down below
@brogestarck: #stonerxmas 7: Detuned like there was no tomorrow and hard as concrete. But probably the most poppy melodies in the genre!
Florida based trio "Floor" could very well have chosen their name because its pretty damn difficult to imagine anyone going any deeper than these guys. Except maybe for Sunn O))), of course (watch out for a post about them later on in December).
Their guitars were extremely detuned, and rarely in any form of tune actually. But somehow they made it work. I think in their first original lineup they didnt even have a bass player actually, but they sure had some fat strings on the guitars!
They actually defunct back in 1996, after having recorded only 2 albums and some singles, but heres a really fun fact! Earlier this year they released a box set containing all their recordings: 8 LPs, with 92 songs all in all!! That... is a lot of b-sides.
Enjoy the amazing "Kallisti - Song for Eris" below. Its taken from their second and self-titled album, and it has the coolest mix of heavy-as-hell stoner rock and really cool male/female indie vocals that even Sonic Youth would be proud of.
Not much info to be found on these cats, since they haven't been around for quite some time. But:
Buy on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/self-titled-outtakes/id358935399
Listen on Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/floorplaylist
December 6th - Into the woods
#stonerxmas 6: The debut from The Sword sounds like if Black Sabbath and Old-Metallica had sex and made an album together. http://v.gd/xmas6
Due to Tumblr's fallout for the last 24 hours, this is the post from yesterday. Todays post will be up as usual during the afternoon.
The Sword has always been a personal favorite. Some would argue that they are more heavy metal than stoner, but their sound is just too fat and laid back to be heavy metal. I think I’ll just call them technical stoner rock.
3 albums down the road, this Texan outfit has developed quite a bit since their debut ‘Age of Winters’. They are more produced today, and there’s less speed-of-light type solos. Its definitely more eatable, but the album that really stands out as a classic I’ll always listen to, is without a doubt the debut, closely followed by the second album ‘Gods of the Earth’.
Listen below to the absolutely phenomenal “The Horned Goddess” from the ‘Age of Winters’ album. I’m totally blown away by the vocals in this one, and the amazing and constant shifts in tempo and style.
Buy on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/gods-of-the-earth/id291714955
Listen on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/77ZAnxOwAodoQ2u4VVm9N3
Listen on Wimp: http://getwimp.dk/album/2667947
Check out their website: http://www.swordofdoom.com/
December 5th - The silent roar
@brogestarck: #stonerxmas 5: Slowpased, quiet, instrumental, highly repetitive and quite folksy. "Earth" is stoner rock for sundays!
After having released 3 full length albums, a few EP's and some live recordings, Earth and its main-composer/player Dylan Carlson disappeared from the face of the planet. Everyone expected that that was it. Carlson had serious drug and legal problems, and for the last many years the band had been in an everlasting struggle with various record labels.
But in 2005 the band released their first album in 9 years: "Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method". The album was in almost extreme contrast to what they had sounded before: The guitars were clean, the music was heavily inspired by american-indian roots and folk music, and they used instruments like trombone, organ, tubular bells and wind chimes.
Earth have continued to explore this "new sound", and have now done 3 albums this way. Listen below to the majestic "The Driver" from the "The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull" album.
When you listen to Earth today, its quite impossible to imagine that this started out loud, bone-rattling and heavy-beyond-belief.
Their website: http://www.thronesanddominions.com
Buy on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/hex-or-printing-in-infernal/id215873951
Listen on Wimp: http://getwimp.dk/album/4490864
Listen on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/earthplaylist