An impressive cover of Echo And The Bunnymen’s 1984 anthem performed on traditional Korean gayageum by deft-fingered musician Luna Lee.
Previously: People Are Strange (On Gayageum)
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The Bonk – psych-rock sideproject comes to the fore
What you may need to know…
01. Beginning life as an outlet for Waterford/O Emperor man Phil Christie’s more eclectic ideas, The Bonk has since become something a bit more fully-fledged.
02. Since its emergence, The Bonk has gigged intermittently yet memorably, including a set at last year’s Sudden Club Weekender fest in Cork.
03. Streaming above (in a Broadsheet premiere!) is the video for the Bonk’s new instrumental single Monologue.
04. It releases ahead of a string of dates around Ireland this month and next, including a Leeside return date at Coughlan’s on April 20th (insert word-that-sounds-like-“bonk”-pun here), with support from Patrick Freeman. Full info on their social media in the coming weeks.
Thoughts: A wee creeper of a tune, led by unfettered synth noodling, but underpinned by steadfastly psychey experimentation.
REST – Cork post-metal/instrumental veterans
What you may need to know…
01. Beginning life in the Cork scene many moons ago as Wretch, post-metallers Rest have come a long way since making (expletive) of Fred Zeppelin’s and inspiring other local outfits to get it together.
02. Early signees to influential Limerick label Out on a Limb, they released debut album Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame in 2004, followed up by the Operation: Impending Doom extended-player in 2007. A protracted break was broken up by the release in 2013 of second full-length I Hold the Wolf, a joint release between OOAL and Cork’s PLUGD Records shop.
03. Streaming above in its entirety is Endanger Us, a document of the band’s release gig for Operation: Impending Doom at Cyprus Avenue. Released late last month, it marked the tenth anniversary of the show and came off the back of a surprise live appearance at Out on a Limb’s Xmas spectacular at Dolan’s.
04. Next up: Connolly’s of Leap on February 18th, where the band, alongside Hope is Noise, Horse, and The Liminals go under the hammers for a ruck. More info here.
Thoughts: Good to see these specialists in astral heft return to stage. They ought to be something else in the environs of Connolly’s.
Ten Past Seven – instrumental freakery from Kerry
What you may need to know…
01. At long last, an excuse to talk about Ten Past Seven. That genre of theirs in full: “Kinky Kerry Sex Metal Trad Scat Gael Core Bog Prog”. Das’ right.
02. Assembling in the early 2000s, the band released debut long-player Shutupyourface in 2006, via the venerable Out on a Limb Records, followed by a split 7″ with Los Langeros that was launched atop Carrantuohill, a string of EPs and intermittent live activity.
03. Streaming above is most recent extended-player Black Box Recordings, crowdfunded and recorded in Black Box Studios in France in 2011.
04. Playing Dublin’s Tivoli Theatre on the 28th, supporting Guilty Optics alongside fellow veterans Elk.
Thoughts: Loathe as your writer is to revert to old tropes, ye olde “if you have to ask” applies to Ten Past Seven. Listening yields more noisy insanity than we have room for in this column.
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The second instalment of cdza’s Instrumentals Series features jazz drummer Allan Mednard’s effortless transition through the modern history of the beat.
Previously: 50 Years Of The Guitar Solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz7opiAtG14&feature=c4-overview&list=UUntKl1elmzoL8hdML3hMjBw
President of the National University of Ireland Maynooth Music Society, Alan Costello, writes:
“As today is World Mental Health Day we decided to get involved and use what we know, music. We created a project called InstruMENTAL Health, and this video is the result. Music has long been known to have a therapeutic and restorative effect to a person’s mental and even physical health, and we’re encouraging everyone to get involved, we’re asking everyone to Tweet and Facebook with #InstruMENTALHealth with their experiences with music. Thanks for watching. :)”
Thanks Alan