Alotus is another good one in that unforgivably tight style, imo.
― Mr. Farmer, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
loose, Can-ish
Brilliant Colours for Bright Ideas!
(off Zopalki, the rest of which is not loose and not so great either, but that track is the first Circle track I ever heard and probably still my favourite. no idea if it is on Grooveshark or Spotify; it's not on Youtube, alas, or I'd link it)
― brony island baby (case spudette), Monday, 12 December 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, there's a live versh on Surface too but I can't remember it. Too many releases.
― brony island baby (case spudette), Monday, 12 December 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
i will say hello to burnt friedman & jaki liebezeit's secret rhythms on the circle thread, maybe you folks can introduce them to a singin troll in a igloo or summat
― farah ferrigno, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
I've given Horn (above posted PO live album) another listen and came back to offer a stronger recommendation. It's not like they've invented something new, but what they're doing they do so well that it hardly matters. Doesn't really matter at all, to me. It occurred to me also that they seem a lot like Atomic (Norwegian --?-jazz band) in that way: not really busting any boundaries, but hopping around so deftly that it's noteworthy.
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
Here is a link to Pharaoh Overlord #2 -- the whole thing is great, "August" is my personal fave but it's a satisfying album from start to finish. http://grooveshark.com/album/+number+2/3956501
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
Only PO I'm really familiar with is the live record "Battle of the Axehammer." It is of the "unrelenting riffage" variety. I listened to #3 earlier today and was pleasantly surprised by its difference from that pattern. The bass and drums were very locked in, but the guitars were all over the place. It was actually kind of mellow.
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
You would like #2, I'd put money on it.
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure I would! There haven't been many records from this camp that I don't enjoy on some level.
Some friends of mine saw them at the Empty bottle a few years ago. One of them walked out! I was surprised by that. He said "it didn't sound like any Circle I'd ever heard before." I watched some youtube videos from that tour and didn't really understand his comment. I think he was freaked out by the way they looked more than anything. Pretty funny.
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
that's lame. if i had known i liked them this much, i would have gone to that show myself. oh well.
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it is lame. He enjoyed Endless Boogie's set, at least.Digging #2, thanks for the link.
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
to be fair i love circle plenty but i saw em live in london whenever years ago, and they were not on fire or in the zone - nowhere close - i had no qualms about leaving early for the last tube home.aavikko guy was wearing a zorro mask tho which kinda made up for the whole thing.
― farah ferrigno, Thursday, 15 December 2011 07:23 (twelve years ago) link