Golden Calves – “Mod Bacteria” by forcefieldpr
The Doozer – “Fold Up Chair” by forcefieldpr
About The Doozer
Keep It Together is the fourth full-length album from the Fenlands shadow puppet master The Doozer. Relocating to a village hall, little theatre style, The Doozer set the task with a cast of 11 players dipping in and out of the village, with old Mrs. Mallows holding the keys. Previous albums were primarily lonesome affairs, so this group activity holds sway on the sound of this all-enveloping record. Chords are the name of the game, and it’s certainly got them! You’ll hear guitars, bass, piano, drums and slipping in to lift those harmonies, a string quartet and horns…. Is that a tuba from the Salvation Army you say? Yeah it is, and salvation is at hand. Just let it come down from the ‘Aluminum Dome’. I mean, perhaps you know what the weather’s like here, but if you don’t, take some advice from ‘Fen Drayton’ or if you’re in doubt about what flowers to get your girl, then check out ‘Fold Up Chair’ or are you undecided on your God? That’s ‘Oh Unbelievers!’. But none of its good advice, it’s just a crack at the seam.
“A recent show that blew all attending asses out of the water was a short gig by a Cambridge UK duo known as The Doozer. The Doozer actually seems to be one guy, and his playing partner is called Ben, but never you mind. Anyway, they have a new LP out on Siltbreeze called Great Explorers and it is a gas and a pleasure of great dimensions. The lazy man’s way to review it to call it a bridge between Syd B and Chris Knox, carrying all the weird damage and superb left field pop motion that implies.”- Byron Coley / Bull Tongue 2010 top 10
The Doozer
Keep It Together
(Woodsist)
Street Date: Jan. 31, 2012
Formats: LP, Digital
SIDE ONE
1. BURNING BRIGHT
2. LOWEST POINT
3. FOLD UP CHAIR
4. THE ISLAND
5. FEN DRAYTON
6. THE FRANK SONG
SIDE TWO
7. JOBSWORTH
8. ALUMINIUM DOME
9. DISPLAY CABINETS
10. OH BELEIVERS !
11. KEEP IT TOGETHER
About Golden Calves
Collection gathers pre-Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice material from James Jackson Toth’s Golden Calves project. Originally released in 1996; reissue is limited to 1000 copies.
“It was really all about The Godz, Jandek, The Shadow Ring, Strapping Fieldhands, Swell Maps and Tower Recordings. Beyond these, I had only heard the ‘classic’ and most available free jazz, krautrock and noise albums. I was a long way from, say, the second Comus album or Charles Gayle. But this music changed my life. It was a record store owner named Eric McCarthy and a man who needs no introduction to anyone reading these notes, Matt Valentine, who taught me that there was a world beyond Dischord, Vermiform and Ebullition. I went to college, met hip people, and got a job at both the local record store and the college radio station. I was taking drugs. I bought a four track and began emulating my heroes. I called the project Golden Calves. I was eighteen years old….
In hindsight, I like to think that the noise scene liked us and responded so positively to us because, in our own naïve way, we were subverting a very rigid paradigm. Touring with noise bands and moving in experimental circles but playing proper ‘songs’ is what made us weird. It was an exciting, unforgettable time.
These are not perfect records. Perhaps worse than so-called ‘naïve art’ is ‘only-marginally-informed art’ and that’s what this is. I should have let my talents marinate for a while before rushing out records that now sound to me like thinly-veiled love letters to Siltbreeze. But fuck it, man. I was hopelessly arrogant then and remain so today. Why else would I greenlight this fucking thing?”
James Jackson Toth
Lexington, KY
– Collects the Golden Calves Money Band LP and Golden Calves Century Band 12″(from their 3-way split LP with Thurston Moore and Dr Gretchen Musical Weightlifting Program)
-Pre-WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE / Dead Machines
-limited to 1,000
Golden Calves
Collection: Money Band LP+Century Band 12″
(Woodsist)
Street Date: Jan. 31, 2012
Formats: 2LP, Digital
Money Band LP
side A
1. In The Centre Of The Ring They Are Torturing A Bear
2. Seraphim Radar Rallies
3. Hollow Earth Worship (The Ouijja Machine)
4. Rideshare Infiltrates (For Jim Shaw)
5. Pocket Organ Grinder (For Jocy de Oliveira)
6. The Haunted Cabaret Of Nordic Nymphs
7. Panoramic Corporate Lobby Shots, Pts I and II
8. Meet The Airhearts
side B
1. Psychic Console II
2. New Intrinsic Worth And The Quality Of Judgers
3. The Karmic Disenchantment Of The Evil Leaper Neighborhood Watch
4. Machine: Measurer Of Man (For Jean Claude van Itallie)
5. The Hangman’s Hideous Son
6. Calves Heavenward
Century Band 12″
side C
1. Equinox: Neon Spotted Owls
2. Consciousness for Juju (Negotiating The Plastic Infant Reel)
3. Mod Bacteria (for Fred Neil)
4. Alchemy Interlude
side D
5. Atrium 5: The Absinthe Labyrinth (for Theo Angel)
6. Cornflower Sweet (for Dary-John Mizelle)
7. Mod Bacteria II
Links: The Doozer on MySpace//Woodsist