Feast of Beast

Cannot Believe I snoozed on this album from early last year, considering how much it alines with my personal taste, but I suppose thats bound to happen occasionally. If James Cargill were to suddenly announce that a long lost early recordings of Broadcast LP was just discovered, I believe it might sound something like this fine record from Death and Vanilla. (As opposed to the final recordings from Trish that were just actually released as the soundtrack to Berberbian Sound Studio)

Gorgeously atmospheric and dripping with seductive samples, the s/t LP from Death and Vanilla borders brillance. The duo hail from Malmö, you know, the southernmost province of Scania, Sweden’s third largest city. This album demands to be listened through in the truest sense of the LP, with dark electronica and beautiful vocals flowing beautifully and with intent. They self describe their songs as psychedelic kraut lullabies, drawing influence fromlibrary music, electronic pioneer works and french & italian movie soundtracks from the 50s and 60s.

Using dreamy vocals, ghostlike samples, vibraphonette, spring reverbs and Moog synthezisers as their means, the supernatural is an important factor for Death And Vanilla as aesthetic source material and methodological starting-point.

The Death and Vanilla s/t LP was a dual release via Hands In The Dark and Kalligrammofon, originally limited to 300 copies on yellow colored vinyl and very OOP, with a 300 copy repress on white vinyl that’s also mostly OOP. Fortunately you can stream the whole album from good ol’ SnDcLd. If you’re in love with this release as much as me, hit me up and I may be able to point you in the direction a leftover copy of vinyl…

#Death and Vanilla #Hands In The Dark #Kalligrammofon #Broadcast

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Broadcast - Hammer Without a Master

Live from Black Session, Paris (5/4/2000)

Download: Broadcast :: Black Session (La Maison de la Radio: Paris, France)

I listen to a lot of music. Frankly at times too much to keep with, so I don’t take it lightly when I declare that Broadcast is my all time favorite band. Hands down, no doubt. The tragic death of their singer Trish Keenan at the beginning of this year hit me harder than I would have expected; I almost felt like I lost a best friend, and it saddened me that I’d never hear new music from them or see them live. I managed to track down all their records, including the singles and EPs maybe a couple of months before the news, but I just couldn’t get enough. I was thrilled when the mixtape made by Trish surfaced after her death and was uploaded to the net.

I was even more excited to recently read that James Cargill, Trish’s band mate from Broadcast, is working on a new Broadcast album with lyrics from Trish. James commented, “Trish left a lot of tapes, four-tracks and stuff, and I’ve been going through those. It’s difficult, and I’m connected to it at the same time. It’s wonderful, but I’m also feeling a sense of loss.” I myself had heard that Broadcast were working on new material in between their collaborations with The Focus Group, and I’ve been wondering since the announcement of her death if James would release their material at a later date. Looks like that’s on the horizon for 2012, and let’s hope for vinyl.

In the mean time you can enjoy this recently surfaced and rare live set from Broadcast that I snatched from what. After all this time loving the band, its beautiful to finally here their live sound. Here’s a couple notes about the release from discogs:

Black Sessions are performances of the live music broadcast on the French Radio station France Inter. These are recorded in front of a small live audience (200) and featured on a C’est Lenoir show. Session no. 162 recorded live at Studio 105 on May 4, 2000. The CDs were released for mostly local radio DJ’s in Europe by Sangatte Records. The releases are marked as “promotional” and are in a limited series of 2500. Numbered limited edition Promo CD in card sleeve.

#Broadcast #Warp

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Broadcast Tribute

RIP Trish Keenan. Three days later & my Broadcast vinyl in still constantly spinning. Miss you already.

Broadcast existed out of time and out of place … they never followed trends or were about “selling,” they were true artists in the old fashioned meaning of the word.
In a world full of ugliness they provided a glimpse of much needed beauty…

UPDATE:

A beautiful and poignant mix of psych rarities / obscurities that Broadcast’s Trish Keenan made for a friend shortly before her trip to Australia. No tracklist — they’re filling in some of the blanks here — but a lot of this stuff is really amazing. Thx for the heads up to the Arts Desk. Download the mix here via mediafire.

“Before she went to Australia Trish sent me a mix CD of bonkers pop music she compiled, I never thanked her. Its called Mind Bending Motorway Mix and I want to share it with you, please pass the link on, share it far and wide, its a little tribute to an (as a friend referred to her today) exhilarating woman…”

#Broadcast

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