Smorgasbord - Review by Kert Semm

Today, on Kert Semm's blog Recent Music Heroes (http://agier.blogspot.com/), a great review on Smorgasbord. ThanX alot, Kert!!!

Check it here (autotranslated from Estonis):

Oax and Yan is back - two crazy old man is back in Sweden. And, as a rule I do not care what the old musicians do: I do not care what Robert Fripp and Holger Czukay make even Morrissey, Brett Anderson, Jarvis Cocker and the `i` i no longer feel the case against public interest. But these two 60s though a passport with an interest is languid. They are representatives of the old school, born a few years after World War II, however, make many of today's musicians for the eyes, miserably. Men are vinged makers, as they have defeated the gang last year `s King Crimson, Pat accepted and Mastoletto küberpunkar Siratori Kenji (the latter is also represented on this album).

"Smorgasboard" is undoubtedly a writer for this year's expected reliis. And once again, expectations are gullible, breaking parimadki imaginations of listeners. 12 tracking period 2005-2010, which will focus on "the rarities and veidrustele". True, it is added to the relative tautological as to be familiar with the duo earlier creations. Again, balancing the spatial ekspansiivsuse, krautrock-kosmische `i` s psychedelic music, and hypnotic electronic lõpmatusemärgi flow between and after. And when we talk about infinity, I'm doing so great reputation. It makes no sense to highlight the separate compositions, in spite of the fact that they differ greatly - so elemental as the emotional angle. Just saund it is infinite, cosmic good. I do not know exactly what could mean a "cosmic good," but this album I think of it aimavat as saund is self-sufficient, and the transcendental. You just have to take time off and let the sounds of emotions, and spirit guide. And if you watch and record label Clinical Archives plaadiümbrist diskograafianumbrit `i (402), it seems to matter even more ulmelisem. Your Inner Outer space is our space.

Listen to the album here http://www.archive.org/details/ca402_jp

Smorgasbord - Oddities and Rarities 2005-2010

Smorgasbord - Oddities and Rarities 2005-2010

Out now on Clinical Archives

Orchestral; contemporary; noise; lounge; ambient; experimental; psychedelic; trance; spoken word; easy-listening music from Joxfield ProjeX

Joxfield ProjeX for dinner! Why not? “Smorgasbord” is a collection of oddities and rarities from the five years of Joxfield ProjeX existence 2005 until now. These are tunes recorded mostly between album sessions, out of context, standing on their own feet. Some of them are radical remixes/re-makes of something released/not released during this period. And believe it or not, you’ll find Kenji Siratori as a spoken word crooner… Enjoy the meal!

01 - Watching Andromeda on a Siberi 6.15
02 - Unnecessary Wounds (incl. Insane Asylum) 9.51
03 - The Steak 10.54
04 - As Close As You Are 3.35
05 - Jokesfield Installation 1 4.33
06 - GG Dancers on Trance 4.12
07 - Machine Place 7.30
08 - PnB 5 2.46
09 - Absent Gurus 16.43
10 - Surprise For Dr Y 2.32
11 - In the middle of winter - and a fly sits on the window 7.29
12 - New Andromeda 1.37

Yan: Keyboard, bass, percussion programmer, vocals, samples, treatments, a gentle and serious mind
Oax: Guitar, glissando, vocals, samples, treatments, additional bass and percussion, innocence and naïvity.
Guests: Kenji Siratori: Spoken words on 02 and 04
Sussi Johansson: Additional vocal on 04

All words and music by Yan and Oax. Kenji's words written by himself.
Recorded at Camps Kolpebo, Batang & Anna 2005 - 2010
Powered by Tin Can Music.

http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com/
http://www.archive.org/details/ca402_jp

Education Pt 1 & Pt 2

Two gentle pieces of pure education.
Anyone not familiar with The Fugs? Well, here they are.
From Swedish Teli 1968. I remember watching it more than 40 years ago.
Good portrait interviews and complete, uncensored songs, including Ed Sanders hillarious introductions: Crystal Liason, I Couldn't Get High, The Garden Is Open, Super Girl

Pt 1


Pt 2


Take it away!

O'

Life Is Funny.... Tuli RIP

Read the news today, o boy...
Well, read today, but actually not the news of today, but, anyway, on the 12th this month Tuli Kupferberg passed away at the age of 86.
Both as writer, anarcho-beat-poet, singer and composer this guy has made parts of our lives much funnier, more serious and better.
For about twelve days ago, for no specific reason, maybe just coincidential, when driving the rented car through the landscape I put on a burnt CD, 'The Fugs - Live in the 60's' and through the partly bad sound quality I heard songs and presentations of them that made my mind go spiritual clear of pure joy, songs as the Tuli epic 'Nothing', here recorded in Sweden and called 'The Swedish Nada'. Maybe an homage without knowing playing these tracks.
Otherwise, for you who have no relationship to this guy, start the journey with 'Life Is Funny', a 14 seconds happy pop tune from the 1968 album "It crawled into my hand honest":

Life is funny
Life is free
Got all them goodies come to me
It's so funny I could cry
It's so funny you could die
It's so funny

O'

Rumbles For July

Anyone interested in some artistic and wellwritten reviews from... yes, you're right, you have to be your own detective, dear Watson...

http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_July_2010.htm

O'

As If Anyone Would Notice...

...but the blog-master a.k.a. The Terrible Guitarist of the Cosy Combo, a.k.a. the unexperienced part of The Jane Henry Experience, the grey member of Ambient DarkWhite et cetera, et cetera, will enter the small countryside cottage (made famous through the cover art shown on the previous blog entry) for a month or so, for some well deserved resting, enjoying good reading, music, eating and drinking, sometimes in good company, watching the grass grow...

... well, probably you've got the message.

O'

This Week 5 Years Ago....

Yepp. This week 5 years ago Dark White Morning was recorded, unmixed, unedited and unoverdubbed.
Time flies like a jetplane.
It seems like yesterday, but also like 30 years ago.
Life's nothing but a surreal pudding.
Cheers for us!
O'

Classic ! ! !

Can't resist this piece of art.
Joe Yamanaka was the original lead singer of Flower Travelli' Band when they released their super classic Japanese prog-psych album Satori in 1971.
This live version can't be more than 5-10 years old and he still has his strange voice kept in good condition.
I have no idea who the other musicians are, but I doubt any of them are from the original FTB line up. The three drummers in a row are nice...
O'

Joxfield ProjeX vs. Ambient DarkWhite

It's made and it's played

Joxfield ProjeX vs. Ambient DarkWhite

Ambient DarkWhite's noir piece Death of a Sirloin Steak has reached its destiny through a Joxfield ProjeX' psychedelic ambient noise RMX, The Steak.

Capture it on the player - Shake yer legs Yeh Yeh Bla Bla!

Might be released as a split single in Futura

The Joxfield ProjeX Dance Patrol

www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojex

O'

Anyday Now

Just an ordinary Saturday morning, could be any day and it just is.
The sun is shining and that's nice, brings some energy to life.

On the player is Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.'s 'Cometary Orbital Drive' (2008), a 70 minutes piece divided into four parts, based on the note sequence A-E-D-A-G-Db, repeated within the frames of various surroundings, creating a mantra-like psychedelic symphony of a kind seldom heard.

Following that is the same band's very beautiful and varied 'Univers Zen Ou De Zéro A Zéro' (2002), the extended 4 LP version. Could this be Acid Mother's best album? No-one will tell you and no-one will ever know. Band pix above is probably from around that time.

Anyway,
meanwhile working hard on the cover of the forthcoming split single by Joxfield ProjeX/Ambient Darkwhite, 'The Steak RMX'/'Death Of A Sirloin Steak'.
Stricly limited once in a lifetime pressing, out on Tin Can Music in a present future close to you.
Keep updated!
O'

This Is Art!!!!!!!!.....

....and also partly an explanation why I love this guy.
Magnifique!
O'

Reach Out And Grab It!

....well, if not grab at least you can use your finger and copy this link
http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_April_2010.htm
and find out what yours truely occupies his mind with when not hunting Yan in order to fix this and that with our own weird Joxfield sounds of muzak.
April's here and with that new reviews and rumbles in mighty Terrascope Online.
Grab it!

O'

GONG - Escape Control Delete

Aahh, Give Me Sweet Potato.
50 seconds of interviewing, then the Muzak, bringing back memories from early summer 2009.
Summer? Remember that un-snowy period of the year?
O'

Other Activities

The cold and gloomy winter continues.
Maybe it's a bit beautiful when the sun shows up and the white snow tenderly sparkle.
But, when it's grey and cloudy, day after day....
Ok, there are other activities to do other than whatching the sky and catalogize the shifting of clouds.
You can read what your favourite reviewer has in mind..

http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_January10.htm

O'

The Past Is Present 2

Something to put your teeth in...

Nynningen - För Full Hals (1973)

Nynningen - 1974 (1974)

Nynningen - Äntligen En Ny Dag (1976)

The Band ca... well, maybe around 1973. With a core of four or five members there was also about 25 others circulating to and fro.
And for anyone who don't understand the sung words, don't give up, let the music speak.

O'

'Appy New 'Ear

A New Year in town....


And forthcomming aural terror from the bums...


Watch Out!!!!

Powered by....

Phantastique

Here we go: Joxfield ProjeX' Christmas gift to you all.

"Phantastique" is a virtual LP. The intension was to make a straight, plain and simple jam record based on some repetitive patterns, at least in Joxfield ProjeX' terms of what is straight, plain and simple. Not to get too much stuck into the spacey jams the tunes are separated by some short experimental pieces. Look at these moments as opportunities to get some good, fresh air.
Even though it's maybe not heard in the music, the main inspirational sources for these recordings are some albums by Acid Mothers Temple, especially Kawabata Makoto's mixing style, but also some funky grooves from Miles Davis' 'On The Corner' period.
This album should be played LOUD, in excitement and full awareness.

Recorded at Camps Anna & Batang 2007-2009
Produced by Oax & Yan of Joxfield ProjeX
Powered by Tin Can Music

Yan: Keyboards, percussion programmer
Oax: Guitars, bass, voice- & percussion samples

This is Joxfield ProjeX fifth Clinical Archives release.
ThanX Alex for majestic support!

O'

December Is Grey And Cold...

..Yes, it really is.
And how to survive?
Maybe a kind of luxury problem knowing we don't have to starv
and we do have roofs over our heads when we want,
we don't have to freeze, we have cloths, we can go inside if it gets too chilly,
etc etc etc
Nevertheless,
sometimes we get bored
and on occasions like that we grab hold on the best we have:
CULTURE!
which here means
MUSIC!
which here means
MUTANT SOUNDS!,
possibly the best ever blog site for download links of very, I mean
VERY!
interesting music, mostly unknown, at least in my little world.
Experimental and underground of all kinds (synth, prog, psyxch, contemporary, sound constructions, name it), always music with a twist, always pointing forward.
It's rips of LPs, Cassettes, CDRs, CDs, whatever, mainly from the 70's and 80's, but could be from anytime.
All music are from very unavailable albums, out of stock for ages.
Kind of mental lifesaver...
Or something

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/

O'

2009 Kolpebo Sessions - November

O, Mah God, was it really time again, 2½ years since last time in June 2007?
The strict and quick answer is: Yes!
So, we headed for Camp Kolpebo, the beautiful recording enviroment, the heart of our creativity, when we comes together in the same room with our instruments, our opened minds and some basic recording equipment (yeah yeah, beer, wine and whisky, we know... let's not talk about it...)

The magnificent view from our window.
It seems to be a bit cold outside.
Beer and food inside the house this time, we guess...

This is a table...

... and Yan start to unpack the gear...

Done!

And so with the guitarist's stuff...

Action (1)

Action (2)

Hum Di Dumm.... This Is Abnormal Science...
Ableton Live's a bit tricky for The Dept. of Technology, but works fine in the end

The Innocent Dreamer

Ola & The Jugglers

That's it, folks.
Five days of hard work.
Almost 4 hours of terror ready for edits, treatments, adds, whatever...
Stuff back into the car.
House cleaned.
Off we go...

But...ehhrr....The Result?

Wait and see, just wait and see.
The future will come closer and closer and one day...
Say no more

A big THANX to Thomas & Anette for letting us use the house

O'