Martes martes: Dragon cat fox cat scn (Expanded Edition) (Editions JAV, 2023)

October 1, 2023 at 3:28 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Martes martes: Dragon cat fox cat scn (Expanded Edition)

Martes martes was a solo project of former WCBN DJ Jeffrey Nolan Carey during the 2000s. This CD contains an album he released on Jib Kidder’s short-lived Capt Bass label, plus an EP on another long-gone imprint, Burning Tongue Records. Carey plays a lot of delicate acoustic instruments, and even toys, including harp, dulcimer, recorders, French horn, and more, as well as samples and Mario Paint. It’s very delicate and homemade, not unlike Frank Pahl’s music and films, or the fragmentary folk of Maher Shalal Hash Baz. There’s also a significant new age influence here, but the earlier private press weirdo kind, not the commercialized health food store and spa kind. It’s all playful and curious, and “miniature” enough to appeal to fans of strange experimental indie stuff, yet it feels too well-crafted to tag it as “lo-fi”. Drum machines, clapping, piping woodwinds, and sophisticated guitar plucking collide on the gleeful march “Pine Marten Traveling Song”. Other songs make nice music for playing in the forest during autumn. “A Ydych Chi Wedi Gweld Bele’r Coed Yn Eryn” takes things in a different direction, with mbira melodies and eerie whirring. “Martens at Night” is a lovely string-heavy piece, and the string quartet version of “Autumn Walking Song” (track 14) is also in this vein. “Foggy Morning” starts bleary and then wakes up with a barrage of ringing alarm samples. Curiously, the CD ends with hissing and beating sounds of a lung machine.

Show #686 – 10/1/23

October 1, 2023 at 2:27 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:00 AM Setting ~ A Sun Harp ~ Shone a Rainbow Light On ~ Paradise of Bachelors ~ 2023
12:10 AM Martes martes ~ Tanuki Song I ~ Dragon Cat Fox Cat Scn (Expanded Edition) ~ Editions JAV ~ 2004
12:13 AM Oneohtrix Point Never ~ Plastic Antique ~ Again ~ Warp Records ~ 2023
12:18 AM Jlin ~ Duality ~ Perspective EP ~ Planet Mu ~ 2023
12:24 AM Conflict at Serenity Pools ~ Jasmine ~ Ladders of Misfortune ~ no label ~ 2023
12:28 AM Sparks ~ Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is ~ The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte ~ Universal-Island Records Ltd. ~ 2023
12:32 AM The Breeders ~ Go Man Go ~ Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition) ~ 4AD ~ 1993
12:34 AM yeule ~ x w x ~ softscars ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2023
12:36 AM The Armed ~ Clone ~ Perfect Saviors ~ Sargent House ~ 2023
12:39 AM DEBBY FRIDAY ~ let u in ~ single ~ Sub Pop ~ 2023
12:43 AM Whale featuring Tricky ~ Tryzasnice ~ We Care ~ Hut ~ 1995
12:48 AM Leslie Keffer ~ Mineral Cloak ~ Veiled Matter ~ NO PART OF IT ~ 2023
12:53 AM Nihiloxica ~ Source of Denial ~ Source of Denial ~ Crammed Discs ~ 2023
12:57 AM Witch ~ Stop the Rot ~ Zango ~ Desert Daze Sound ~ 2023
1:02 AM Jovia Armstrong ~ Birth ~ Inception ~ Black Earth Music ~ 2023
1:07 AM Yussef Dayes ~ Raisins Under the Sun (feat. Shabaka Hutchings) ~ Black Classical Music ~ Nonesuch ~ 2023
1:12 AM Laksa ~ Madu’s Break ~ Delicates EP ~ Ilian Tape ~ 2018
1:18 AM Salami Rose Joe Louis ~ Cathartic Interlude ~ Akousmatikous ~ Brainfeeder ~ 2023
1:20 AM Sparklehorse ~ I Fucked It Up ~ Bird Machine ~ Anti/Epitaph ~ 2023
1:21 AM Genesis Owusu ~ Balthazar ~ STRUGGLER ~ Ourness ~ 2023
1:24 AM Khruangbin ~ So We Won’t Forget ~ Live at Radio City Music Hall (split LP w/ Nubya Garcia) ~ Dead Oceans ~ 2023
1:29 AM Emeralds ~ Genetic (Rehearsal) ~ Does It Look Like I’m Here? (Expanded Remaster) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2010

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