Nothin' Sez Somethin'

A Further Nod to ZF

2026-05-10T00:16:00.001-04:00

During the March Madness League Play-offs I received a great deal of helpful insight from many Frienz of NSS who gagged along with the go. One of the most insightful is dear Frienz FlaccusMUC.

In one comment he sez:
"If you've got any of the ones that I haven't got (The End of Nothing, the Beginning of Everything, Russian Heterodoxical Songs, A Long Walk, The Tables Are Turning, Further Collusion, A Third Collusion, Ω ℧), I'd be very happy, if you find the time ..."

I picked the Play-off choices from what I have, mostly 80s / 90s releases. I do have a few newer Zoviet France though, four of which were on F-MUC's list which I'm sharing now. Try these out, my friend...

:zoviet*france: - The Tables are Turning, Soleilmoon Recordings SOL182CD, 2013.
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The Grit in the Clouds
Amber Rose Hand
Flam
Moss Balls on Moss
Green Air
Prophecy Loved a Child
Sweeping Arbor Low
The Fire of Revolution
Sandbox
The Fire of Revolution 2
A Moment of Film
Poured out Slowly

:zoviet-france: - The End of Nothing, the Beginning of Something,

Vinyl-on-demand VOD165-1, 2020.

Side 0 -
Das Singende, Klingende Bäumchen
The Monkey is Back
Radar Screen
Side 1 -
A Song Before the End of Nothing
One More Time
A Song After the Beginning of Everything
Hurleburlebutz

:zoviet*france: - Russian Heterodoxical Songs, Vinyl-on-demand VOD165-6, 2020.

Side ☼ -
Неортодоксальность (Hétérodoxie)
Ересь (Hérésie)
Отступничество (Apostasie)
Неподчинение (Indocilité)
Разногласие (Dissension)
Инакомыслие (Non-Conformité)
Side ▲ -
Вариация (Variation)
Изменение (Changement)
Противоречие (Contradiction)
Отказ (Renouncement)
Инспирация (Inspiration)
Автономия (Autonomie)
Возражение (Riposte)
Деконструкция (Déconstruction)

:zoviet*france: - Further Collusion 2xLP, Vinyl-on-demand VOD 165-16/17, 2020.

Side 1 -
With Us Today
Sucking the Instrument
Spike
Side 2 -
I Felt the Breath of My Assassin
Soft & Close by Me
False Witness
Side 3 -
Synaestetica
Mir
Daisy Gun
I'saram
Side 4 -
Eleven Drops

Enjoy,
NØ

Nation Lights the Fuse

2026-05-08T13:02:06.971-04:00

Wanted to share a couple hot releases from cool Nation Records. Nation Records was started in Ladbroke Grove UK by Propa-Ganhi of the band Fun-Da-Mental (real name Aki Nawaz).

As his philosophy, Aki sez:
"It has always been based on an idea from the punk era, be radical musically and politically, never work by the book, re-invent the rules and then re-invent them again when those rules become the norm."

I've shared favorites of mine from Nation Records roster before: Natacha Atlas & Transglobal Underground; the above mentioned Fun-Da-Mental; “Radio Morocco” by Pulse 8 (Jah Wobble & friends); the Macro Dub Infection I shared recently; Asian Dub Foundation & too many more to name.

This first one is the first one for Nation. #001 is a compilation introducing the world to the cultural hybrid which fused bhangra & Latin with house / techno rhythms through then unknown artists such as Mahatma T (now better known as Talvin Singh) & Pulse 8 (which included the musicians from On-U-Sound, David Harrow with Jah Wobble & Justin Adams) that I shared as My Radio is Picking up Morocco here.

Various - Fuse-World Dance Music, Nation Records NR0001L, 1989.
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SIDE ONE -
Yassassin (Wild Assassin mix) - David Harrow
Jihad - Mahatma T
Sapna– Ah Kudia - Sapna
Encantador - !Loca!

SIDE TWO -
O'dhe O'dhe - Sapna
Radio Morocco (Club mix) - Pulse 8
Shanti - Mahatma T
Teus Quay Ana - Paradise Organisation

Here's the follow-up Fuse II...

Various - Fuse II-World Dance Music, Nation Records NR0005CD,1991.

Stotinki (Aki Nawaz remix) featuring Jah Wobble - the Space Cadets
Timbal (Chris Greenwood remix) - !Loca!
Yab Yum (Aki Nawaz & Katherine Canoville remix) - Uzma
Chinatown New York (Wobble mix) - Bebop 90
The Unspoken Word - Invaders of the Heart
Radio Africa (Aki Nawaz remix) - Ntuli Abrahamse
Tarana (Talvin Singh remix) - Gondwana
The Voice of Hassan - Amahl
Zapotech - Aztec To Hi-Tech
Chinatown New York (Will 'Shamen' Sin remix) - Bebop 90
Timbal - !Loca!
Stotinki (Dub mix) - the Space Cadets

Enjoy,
NØ

Wobbly Winer

2026-05-06T13:00:00.004-04:00

My perusing Jah Wobble's catalogue also led me to this. What a treasure to uncover.

A world star that few know...Leslie Winer.

Leslie Winer moved from Weston, Massachusetts to New York City in the late 70s to attend School of Visual Arts. While there she met William Burroughs (who became her mentor & life-long friend) & dated Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 1980 she began a career as a fashion model. Her androgynous look & being difficult to work with gained her fame in the modelling world. She was a Chritian Dior girl & appeared on numerous Vogue covers. In the mid 80s her modeling gigs brought her to London. She became a regular at the Taboo nightclub where she became friends with Jah Wobble.

In 1990 she recorded her debut album Witch with Jah Wobble. John Peel played some tracks from the white-label promo & the recording became a minor cult classic. With this debut album Winer recorded one of the earliest testimonies of a new genre that was to become the signature sound of the 90s, Trip-hop. Although recorded one year before Massive Attack's Blue Lines, Witch never saw release until 1993. Witch is still considered by those in the know to be the birth of the fusion of hip hop with Jamaican dancehall, integrating a psychedelically colourful bouquet of Funk, soul, house, & R&B elements with electronic stylings.

Leslie Winer (also released under the name ©) - Witch, Transglobal GLOBAL1CD, 1993.
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He Was
Flove
N1ear
The Boy who Used 2 Whistle
John Says
5
1nce Upon a Time
Skin
Dream 1

The musicians Winer has collaborated with include acts as diverse as Björk, Bill Laswell, Tim Simenon aka Bomb the Bass, Holger Hiller, Karl Bonnie (Renegade Soundwave), Jon Hassell, Vincent Gallo, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Mekon, Diamond Version, Christopher Chaplin, Jay Glass Dubs, & Maxwell Sterling. Winer's songs have been interpreted by the likes of Grace Jones, Boy George, & Sinéad O’Connor.

About Winer, Boy George sez:
"She might just be the coolest woman on the planet!"

But despite her coolness, her closeness & connection with legendary artists, her name is familiar to only a small minority. This next is a career-spanning anthology of Winer's music. It covers three decades of a musical body of work that is unparalleled in terms of independence & originality. "Hold on Postcards" & "Fragment #2" are previously unreleased.

Leslie Winer - When I Hit You - You'll Feel It, Light in the Attic LITA181, 2021.

When I was Walt Whitman
N1 Ear
Tree - Leslie Winer
Personals - Jon Hassell & Bluescreen featuring Leslie Winer
Dream 1 - Leslie Winer
Dunderhead - Purity Supreme
The Boy who Used 2 Whistle
Hold on Postcards
He Was
RoundUp Ready
Skin
Box - Leslie Winer
This Blank Action (Diamond version featuring Leslie Winer)
Battle Porn - Leslie Winer
Woodshedded - Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs
Fragment #2 - Leslie Winer & Mari G. Mooney

note: the original file I shared was missing track 13. I have fixed it & apologize to all. Thanks, Sam S.

The song “Woodshedded” above is from the Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs - YMFEES. It is an amazing record, a superb mix of spoken word & Ambient Dub, I couldn't not share it here as well.

Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs - YMFEES, Bokeh Versions BKV015, 2018.

Side A -
Woodshedded
Tin Mine
Cogged
Side B -
About the Author
#29
No Famous Actors

Enjoy,
NØ

Wobbly Weather, All

2026-05-04T21:59:00.000-04:00

My voyage into Sir Jah's music led me to this fantastic remix release.

Jah Wobble & Andrew Weatherall together, doing Primal Scream with the Orb taking the duties on the other side.

Primal Scream - Higher than the Sun (remix), Creation Records CRE096X, 1991
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Side A -
Higher than the Sun (a Dub Symphony in Two Parts) featuring Jah Wobble & produced by Andrew Weatherall
Side B -
Higher than the Orb

Enjoy,
NØ

MAYDAY MAYDAY

2026-05-03T00:14:00.000-04:00

The 77th anniversary of my entry to this world is May 3rd. So as a gift to myself I'm going (to try) to do what the hell ever I want to this month. I intended to do something like this at the beginning of this year. I felt I had been pushing things too hard last year & wanted to slow down a bit. But this crazee blog thing has a life, a mind, & a tempo of its own & I've been going break-neck. I couldn't even finish April in April.

I'm just going to throw together what I'm listening to at the moment & see what forms of it all. That's what I say right now. We'll see what is transpiring come Memorial Day.

In Febuary I did a month of Dub & Dub adjacent musick, Started out the month with the great Don (Donovan) Letts. Highly successful, it led to Jah Wobble. Since then I've been listening to the Wobbly One quite a bit. Seems like a great place to start & a great way to start off my Birdlegs.

I suppose my favorite Jah Wobble project is Invaders of the Heart. Since the release of Without Judgement in 1990 I have been following their course. It is a varied but thoughtful journey, culminating last year with the double bassed enslaught of NYC with Wobble & my other favorite bassist Bill Laswell working the Invaders.

Here's their first, my first of theirs, & my all-time favorite that I still listen to regularly in its entirety even after 35+ years...

Invaders of the Heart - Without Judgement, KK records KK039, 1990.
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Bungalow Park
What the Problem Is
Anything Can Happen
A13
Drowned & the Saved
So Many Years
Message from Our Sponsor
Coypu
Burger Bar
What Will You Say
Spirit
Voodoo
Psyche
Good Ghosts
Saracen
Eternal Vendor
Invisible Cities
Inferno
Location
Uncommercial Road
Will the Circle be Unbroken

Here's another one that will give the above a run for its money, the follow-up...

Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Rising Above Bedlam, Oval 782386-2, 1991.

Visions of You
Relight the Flame
Bomba
Ungodly Kingdom
Rising Above Bedlam
Erzulie
Everyman's an Island
Soledad
Sweet Divinity
Wonderful World

One more Invasion that I couldn't forget...

Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart - Full Moon Over the Shopping Mall, 30 Hertz Records 30HZCD10, 1999.

Full Moon Over the Shopping Mall
Ethos
Waxing Moon
Waning Moon
Acting the Goat
I'll Be Sad to See You Go

Finishing off this tour-de-force of the Wobbly One, a 34 track behemoth of Dub...

Jah Wobble - In Dub 2xCD, 30 Hertz Records 30HXCD430, 2016.

CD1 -
Cleopatra King Size with Temple of Sound
I'd Love to Take You Away
I'd Love to Take You Away (Dub version)
Orion with Bill Laswell
Metamorphosis (Burnt Umber Youth Dub) with Invaders of the Heart
Blacksmith with Invaders of the Heart
Blacksmith Dub with Invaders of the Heart
Club Scene Dub
Kodak Dub
On the Right Road
On the Right Road Dub
Symphony of Palms with Temple of Sound
Forest Funk Dub with Invaders of the Heart
Dragon & Phoenix with the Chinese Dub Orchestra
Dragon & Phoenix Dub with the Chinese Dub Orchestra
Universal Dub
Invaders of the Heart (Decadent Disco mix) with Invaders of the Heart

CD 2 -
Shinto Dub with the Nippon Dub Ensemble
Last Days
Last Days Dub
L1 Dub with the Chinese Dub Orchestra
Nice Cop; Nasty Cop
Forest Gate Dub with Invaders of the Heart
The Way I Feel alias The Sweetest Feeling (new mix)
Lam Saravane with Invaders of the Heart
Lam Saravane Dub with Invaders of the Heart
Alam Dub with Bill Laswell
Night
Appearance & Thing-in-Itself
I Remember that Time
I Remember that Time (Dub version)
Inspector Out of Space (Youth Inner Space Dub) with Invaders of the Heart
Once Upon a Time in the East
Tyger Tyger

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Two Lone Swordsmen

2026-05-02T13:11:00.000-04:00

Finishing off the letter T is one from two...Two Lone Swordsmen. that is. Only ran over by a couple days.

Thought I had all Andrew's stuff fixed up & sorted. Somehow overlooked this choice cut.

All I need say is Keith Tenniswood & Andrew Weatherall. You all should know. I've shared elsewhere before now. Here's one of my favorites, repaired at last.

Two Lone Swordsmen - Stay Down, Warp Records WARPCD58, 1998.
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Hope We Never Surface
Ink Cloud
The Big Clapper
Ivy & Lead
We Change the Frequency
No Red Stopping
Spine Bubbles
Mr. Paris's Monsters
Light the Last Flare
We Discordians (Must Stick Apart)
Alpha School
As Worldly Pleasures Wave Goodbye...

Anyone still waiting for ABBA, I was (April) foolin'.

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Wotk: T - The Tropicals

2026-05-01T12:43:00.001-04:00

The Tropicals was the Italian duo of Giancarlo Barigozzi alias Ginazzi, a jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist & Oscar Rocchi alias Chiarosi who provides the electric piano & keyboard to the drum-laden LP Urubamba.

Urubamba intermixes field recordings & sound library music with cavalcades of drums, flutes, & funk exotica. The release presents an overarching African flavor but travels to tropical climes of Jamaica, India, & other locations all around the globe. Rounding out the enthralling sounds is the tasteful use of acoustic guitars, several bongos, congas, & djembes as well as the terrific voice of an otherwise uncredited female singer who provides chants similar to Sally Terry's vocal range off Robert Drasnin's classic 1959 Voodoo!. Urubamba is one of the lost exotica diamonds.

The Tropicals - Urubamba, Jump Records J-0119, 1972.
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Side A -
Urubamba
African Popcorn
The Girl from Morococha
Brazilian Butterfly
Flute Safari
Tropical Love

Side B -
Tarzan Dance
Jamaican Love Song
Message from the Jungle
Baobab Blues
Amazon River
Indian Cobra

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work : T - Techno Animal

2026-04-30T12:35:00.001-04:00

Birningham native, multi-instrumentalist Justin Broadrick & London's Kevin Martin (The Bug & King Midas Sound) were Techno Animal.

They now continue the Techno Animal sound performing as Zonal.

Techno Animal - The Brotherhood of the Bomb, Matador OLE482-2, 2001.
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Cruise Mode 101
Glass Prism Enclosure
Hypertension
DC-10
Robosapien
Freefall
Monoscopic
Piranha
Sub Species
We Can Build You
Blood Money
Hell

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - The Thing with Five Eyes

2026-04-29T16:25:00.001-04:00

The Thing with Five Eyes is a experimental drone darkjazz project of Jason Köhnen, formerly of the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (which I have shared before here) & The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation. Where those bands mixed jazz with drone & doom elements to create ‘darkjazz’, The Thing with Five Eyes has a fresher appeal, taking electronica & jazz, then throwing in a palette of Middle Eastern sounds / atmospheres to create an album that feels more worldly with fewer mountains.

About The Thing with Five Eyes, Jason sez:
"Our music cleaves the depth of mystical and occult territories of the soul."

On this one Köhnen is aided by Leila Bounos - vocals & Izzy Op De Beeck - trumpet. The harsh unpredictability & brutality of darkness is conveyed through a soundscape of body rumbling bass, intriguing drum/break formations, uncanny sounds of human heaving, electronic manipulations of rattling noises, & the plummeting yet buoyant vocals of the wonderous Algerian/French Leila Bounous who sounds a lot like Natasha Atlas of Transglobal Underground.

The Thing with Five Eyes - Noirabesque, Svart Lava LAVA003, 2018.
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Salem
Alma
Hedra
Zigurhat
Nakba
Taurus
Nehex
Qun
Selenga

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Twiggy Frostbite

2026-04-28T13:59:00.001-04:00

Twiggy Frostbite was originally a five piece indie pop outfit made up of Elin Lindfors - vocals, Joel Thedéen - guitar, AnnaKarin Berglund - keyboards, Emma Sjöberg - bass, & David Kramer - drums from Gävle, Sweden.

Twiggy Frostbite play a unique style of dreamy ethereal pop, spectral icy music that recall Mazzy Star, Cocteau Twins, or Sigur Ros. The band is now an all-female quartet consisting of Elin Lindfors, Anna-Karin Berglund, Emma Sjöberg with newly added member Sofia Stolpe.

Twiggy Frostbite - Through Fire, Despotz Records DZCD006, 2009.
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Intro
Eye for an Eye
Morning
Thrown in Two
Chimera
Heroes
Grime Star
Narrow Pride
Along Your Way
All I Need
Still Here
Angels

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Tar Babies

2026-04-27T12:25:00.001-04:00

The Tar Babies was a band from Madison, Wisconsin. The original line-up consisted of Bucky Pope - guitar), brothers Jeremy & Robin Davies - vocals & bass respectively with Dan Bitney - drums.

They played their own unique style of artsy-hardcore punk. With the departure of Jeremy Davies in 1987, the remaining trio signed to SST Records. By this point their sound had progressed into a streamlined punk/Funk sound.

Tar Babies - Fried Milk, SST Records SST101, 1987.
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Side A -
More Salt
My Spiritual Forklift
Clenched Fist
Swing Set
Loose Convictions
Karma Soldier
Pig Relevance
Sound & Color
No Light Ever
On the Phone (W/ Pepsodent)

Side B -
Love Epidemic
Vices
Ceiling Skies
Set Me Up
Blood Sugar
Stryofoam
Flower Power
Storm’s Over
Paradise Shines

On No Contest, the trio has added saxophone player Tony Jarvis who pushes their sound ever so slightly in a jazzier direction.

Tar Babies - No Contest, SST Records SSTCD169, 1988.

Lay of the Law
Lupe
Link in a Chain
Actualizing
Clean Living
Catch My Fall
Wisdom Drill
Cure it All
Blood Onion
Real Time

The Tar Babies - Honey Bubble, SST Records SSTCD236, 1989.

Rockhead
Rhino a Go Go
Lab Test Animal
Ninety Pounds
Bimbos & Idiots
Joy Ride
Yama Yama Man
Waking
Reprise Reprise
Spaight & Ashbury

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Traces of Torpid

2026-04-26T18:36:00.000-04:00

Traces of Torpid is a Russian trip-hop project made up of BogoMire (Mikhail Tulikov) - guitar / bass & Squash - sampling / programming / drums, recorded at SquashHomeStudio, Moscow, Russia.

Traces of Torpid - Plastic Mirror EP, No Head Records, 2002.
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Silence Sale
Traces of Torpid
Overhelming Sorrows Laugh
Azure Pantomime

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Time for Dreams

2026-04-25T19:28:00.001-04:00

Time for Dreams is the Australian duo of Amanda Roff & Tom Carlyon.

They make bleak yet vivid bad-dream pop where the twosome's thoughts & memories are condensed into sound driven by deep Dub basslines, beats, mesmeric melodies, & vocals.

Time for Dreams - In Time, It Records itCD009, 2017.
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Projects
The Stranger
Lighthouse
Move It
I Love that Tiger
My Operator
Orders
Newscene

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Traffic

2026-04-24T16:14:00.002-04:00

Traffic was basically a super-group of British musicians: Steve Winwood; Dave Mason; Jim Capaldi & Chris Wood. They were around from 1967 until 1975 with break-ups between & many line-up changes. Winwood was in post-Cream band Blind Faith during a 1969-1970 break-up. They re-united briefly in 1994.

Here's one of their classics, released next after the John Barleycorn reunion of 1970, graced by the sublime presence of Rebop Kwaku Baah...

Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Island Records SW9306, 1971.
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Side 1 -
Hidden Treasure
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Light Up or Leave Me Alone

Side 2 -
Rock & Roll Stew
Many a Mile to Freedom
Rainmaker

Enjoy,
NØ

Over 5,000,000 Served

2026-04-23T11:30:00.006-04:00

On October 4, 2025 I posted 4,000,000 Served. On that post I sez:
"Well this time it only took from June 7 last year until now (October 4) to pass the 4,000,000 mark. So for a "backwater blog" like I've got going here, I'm even more more mightily chuffed. I have you all to thank for making my journey here so rewarding. You are the best."

Previosly it took from 2007 until July 2017 to reach 1 million, then from July 2017 until October 27, 2021 to reach 2 million, then from October 27, 2021 until June 4, 2024 to reach 3 million, then from June 4, 2024 until October 4, 2025 to reach 4 million...an ever accelerating rate that had my head spinning.

Well, over night last night (April 23) my visitor count passed the 5,000,000 mark. So in less than seven months I’ve had another one million visits. I don’t even know how to express my gratitude to all of you who come by here for a look or a listen. The only reason that I do what I do is all of you. All I can really say to you out there cruising the interweb searching for musick is...

Thank you so much. I am truly overwhelmed, You all are what keep me going & I salute you.

NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - The The

2026-04-22T15:18:00.002-04:00

This band survived the purge of "The" from the band names because there was nowhere to hide. I doubt if I need to go into much of a history of this band. Pretty much anyone interested in music is familiar with the musical work of Matt Johnson, the founder & only constant member of The The.

This version of Soul Mining, The The's first full-length comes with a bonus 12" 45rpm limited edition...

The The - Soul Mining, Epic EPC25525, 1983.
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Side A -
I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow (All of My Life)
This is the Day
The Sinking Feeling
Uncertain Smile
Side B -
The Twilight Hour
Soul Mining
Giant

The The - Perfect limited edition bonus 12", Epic XPR1250, 1983.

Side A (over) -
Perfect
Side B -
Fruit of the Heart
Soup of Mixed Emotions

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Twilit Grotto

2026-04-21T20:35:00.001-04:00

Twilit Grotto was a short-lived experimental avantgarde Art rock Noise project of Mark Dicker of London.

Twilit Grotto - Holiday Snaps cassette, Beartown Records, 2013.

Side 1 -
Digging the Sunken Palace
Old City Walls
Side 2 -
Bats in the Cave
bonus track
Ascending Node

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Thousand Yard Prayer

2026-04-20T19:01:00.002-04:00

Thousand Yard Prayer is the alter-ego of Secret Archives of the Vatican's Vince Millett & Louis Counter & friends.

They make Dark Age primordial music: medieval echoes, Dub dubstep, D'n'B, metal, & prog all rolled into one tight sound.

Thousand Yard Prayer - Seven Towers, Broken Drum Records, 2015.
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Uyghurs with Attitude
Enter the House of Wisdom
The 24 Villages of Xianjing
The Fortress of Seven Towers
Fierabras

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Twisted Nerve

2026-04-19T20:24:00.002-04:00

Twisted Nerve was a band from Edinburgh, Scotland. They formed in the late 70s as a punk unit originally caled the Insults. By the early 80s they had changed to Twisted Nerve & had transformed into a Goth band. They often played alongside Sex Gang Children as part of the old Batcave scene.

The band consisted of Craig Paterson - vocals, Colin Moxey - guitar, Norbert Bassbin - bass, & Keith Hamilton - drums.

Twisted Nerve – Eyes You Can Drown In 12" EP, Criminal Damage Records, 1983
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This Side –
Medusa
Other Side –
Gargoyle
Geronimo

Twisted Nerve – Séance 12" mini-LP, +1 Records, 1984.

Nerve 1A (45rpm) –
Séance

Nerve 1 (33.3 rpm) –
Yes Man
Twisted Nervosis
Freak of Nature
Scaramouche
It's All in the Mind

Enjoy,
NØ

Music that Needed Work: T - Trumans Water

2026-04-18T19:58:00.001-04:00

Trumans Water is an experimental post-punk outfit from San Diego.

They were formed in 1991 by brothers Kirk (guitar) & Kevin (bass) Bransletter along with Jeff Jones (drums). The three advertised for a "lead singer, brain optional" & soon added Glen Galloway. Galloway quit part way through the 1993 Godspeed tetralogy (Godspeed the Static, ...the Punchline, ...the Hemorrhage, & ...the Vortex).

Trumans Water - Godspeed the Static, Drunken Fish Records DF10, 1993.
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Side Black -
Sweet Sister Gay
Kick Penmanship
Other Side Blacker -
Shower Stopper Shower Stopper Shower Stopper Shower Stopper Yeah
California Lies

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - The Tapes

2026-04-17T13:24:00.001-04:00

The Tapes (one of the T bands making the The cut cut) are a late 70s/ early 80s band from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

I bought this record when it first came out on Passport in 1980. At the time I knew nothing about the band, but picked up the LP at the suggestion of a good friend. Over time I accumulated all three of their releases but this one is still my favorite. The band has been called "the Dutch Talking Heads" but I don't really think that is very accurate. To me they have a sound all their own. Listen & decide for yourself.

The Tapes - Party, Passport Records PB9842, 1980.
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Side 1 -
(I Fall) Head First
The Mating Season
Blue Thighs
Point Eighty-eight
Into Action

Side 2 -
To Assemble
LG/DG
In the Crocodile's Mouth
Lonesome Max
Party
Inside Out

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: T - Tortoise

2026-04-16T16:45:00.005-04:00

Tortoise is a post-rock band from Chicago formed in 1990. In fact, Tortoise is one of the progenitors of the whole 90s post-rock sound. Their eclectic blending of Dub, dance, electronica, lo-fi, punk along with spaghetti western, jazz, & classic rock set the tone for the entire genre

.

One of the really unique things about the band was its instrumental make-up, initially two bass guitars (Doug McCombs/co-founder & Bundy K. Brown) with three percussionists(John Herndon/co-founder, John McEntire, & Dan Bitney) switching between drums, vibraphones, & marimbas, all manipulated by John McEntire’s recording & mixing genius. Around 1998 Jeff Parker joined the group as guitarist.

Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship, Thrill Jockey THRILL210, 2009.
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High Class Slim Came Floatin' In
Prepare Your Coffin
Northern Something
Gigantes
Penumbra
Yinxianghechengqi
The Fall of Seven Diamonds Plus One
Minors
Monument Six One Thousand
De Chelly
Charteroak Foundation

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Musick that Needed Work: T - Turn Me on Dead Man

2026-04-15T20:21:00.000-04:00

Turn Me on Dead Man was a psychedelic glam rock band from San Francisco, California formed in 2003. They play heavy psych space rock ala Ziggy Stardust meets Jane's Addiction.

Jello Biafra sez:
"Turn Me On Dead Man plays Heavy Crush Bliss Rock breaking the sound barrier on their own private Lear Jet headed straight to HELL!"

So put on your headphones, turn up the volume, & let Turn Me on Dead Man turn you on...

Turn Me on Dead Man - God Bless the Electric Freak, Alternative Tentacles VIRUS340, 2005.
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Killer Sound Waves from Space
The Hale-Bopp
Astrophobia
Silky Milky Way
Sunshine Supercreep
Apocalypse Rock
Beatle George
Molecules
Take a Stress Pill
Daisy
Yzai
Mystery Ride

Turn Me on Dead Man - Technicolour Mother, Alternative Tentacles VIRUS362, 2005.

Child in the Sunburst Pyramid
67 Dreams
Cyclops (Dedicated to the One Eye Love)
La Creature d'Amour
Pharmaceutical Rainbows
Wondermint
Galaxina
Her Planet is Love
El Schizo
Goodbye Earth
Spiral Marilyn
First Rockstar

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Musick that Needed Work: T - Tin Huey

2026-04-14T22:01:00.002-04:00

Tin Huey was another proto-punk band from 1970s Ohio. Unlike many of the bands hailing from Cleveland, Tin Huey sprang up from Akron, Ohio in 1972. Their original run was until 1983. They disbanded for a while, then regrouped from about 1999 until 2011.

Their original line-up featured: Michael Aylward - guitar & vocals; Harvey Gold - keyboards, guitar, & vocals; Mike Price - bass & vocals; & Nappy Lemans (Stuart Austin) - drums with Ralph Carney playing horns.

This line-up of Tin Huey played at venues such as Cleveland's Pirate's Cove & The Viking Saloon, venues where they gigged with Rocket from the Tombs, Mirrors, & the Styrene, then Kent's Townhouse & ultimately a 3-night-per-week gig at JB's on Kent's notorious Water Street, home of the legendary northeastern Ohio Numbers Band & the launch pad for Joe Walsh's James Gang. The first real "break" for the Hueys came about due to the rising popularity on a national scale of Devo, fellow geeks that were focusing national attention on Akron.

In 1977, Tin Huey pal Nick Nicholis of the Bizarros founded Clone Records & ran it 'til it folded in 1981. The label worked to document the scene in Akron, 39 miles south of Pere Ubu's Cleveland. Clone Records released more than a dozen records from bands such as Tin Huey, the Human Switchboard, the Waitresses, Unit 5, Teacher's Pet, Gray Bunnies, & the Bizarros.

The second release by Clone Records was Tin Huey's self-titled four-song EP...

Tin Huey - Tin Huey, Clone Records CL002, 1977.
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Side A -
Puppet Wipes
Cuyahoga Creeping Bent
Side B -
Poor Alphonso (live)
The Tin Huey Story

The following year they released their second on Clone, the single Breakfast with the Hueys...

Tin Huey - Breakfast with the Hueys, Clone Records CL004, 1978.

Side One -
Robert Takes the Road to Lieber Nawash
Side Two -
Squirm You Worm

After these two releases came a whirlwind of activity. Chris Butler, guitarist from The Numbers Band joins the Hueys . Tin Huey does a show at JBs with the Bizarros that is attended by Robert Christgau of the Village Voice who has been doing a series called "Down in the Boonies" & is interested in the Akron sound. Christgau likes what he hears & contacts Warner Brothers A&R. Two weeks later the Hueys headline another show at JBs attended by Karin Berg of Warner Brothers A&R. Warner Brothers signs the band, flies them to L.A. & they record Contents Dislodged During Shipment which is finished & remixed by November 1978.

Contents Dislodged During Shipment was released in the spring of 1979. It was signed, sealed, & obscure by mid-summer. Tin Huey had made a largely non-commercial record for a label that was not going to promote it. This all perfectly coincided with the record industry crash of '79. Too much weirdness. A garage band gets a taste, does it's damndest, loses it's footing...

Tin Huey - Contents Dislodged During Shipment, Warner Brothers Records BSK3297, 1979.

Side 1 -

I'm a Believer
The Revelations of Dr. Modesto
I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts
Coronation
Slide

Side 2 -
Hump Day
Pink Berets
Squirm You Worm
Chinese Circus
Puppet Wipes
New Yorks Finest Dining Experience

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Musick that Needed Work: T - Temple of Bon Matin

2026-04-13T19:49:00.003-04:00

Noise rock collective Temple of Bon Matin was formed in 1991 in Philadelphia by percussionist Ed Wilcox & keyboardist John Mulvaney. Their earliest sound was lo-fi space-rock, described as “"a blend of MC5 & Hawkwind played by a band of drunk amateurs".

The band evolved into an organic quintet playing near atonal free-jazz abstractions, like Albert Ayler improvising over themes by Merzbow, Faust, & the Residents fronted by Ed Wilcox, a deranged bard in the vein of Pere Ubu's David Thomas.

This first one should be a great place to start with this band. Nothing about it is sane. The name here is (Laser) Temple of Bon Matin??? (it doesn't even start with T) & what appears to be a track list on the tray card in no way (or some unknown way) corresponds to the tracks on the actual CD.

(Laser) Temple of Bon Matin - Bullet into Mesmer's Brain, Bulb Records BLB054, 1998.
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actual tracks -
Track 1 7:54
Track 2 27:45
Track 3 10:39
Track 4 7:03
Track 5 20:02

track list on CD -
Bullets Into Mesmer's Brain
Dipper Mouth Blues
Souls Below Solo
Blue Skies Shining on Me
Mood Indigo
Slomo Oroman Aroma
Shells
ALH84001
7 Inches of Snow
A Bleak Stark Beauty
One Little Goat
History Is Bunk

& now you’re on your own. I will give you a bit of help. If you are interested in a deeper understanding of Ed Wilcox & Temple of Bon Matin, you should read Julian Cope's most literate album of the month review of Ed & band here.

Temple of Bon Matin - Monkeys Straw Raincoat, Spirit of Orr SO59R, 2006.

Take Tthe Highway
Bandicoot
Jump for Joy
Jacobite
Bad Girl 1
Laguna
Bad Girl 2
God G
Soul Review
Never Been Home Before
Cockney Rebel Song

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