Music Mumblings: Plastic People of the Universe, Fushitsusha, Marble Sheep, Harm's Way & Arthur Lee and Love!!!

Music Mumblings from the past few days...

Plastic People of the Universe: Lazy Love (2001)
Wow and double fucking WOW!!!
I was rocking my ass off - I knew it was the Plastic People of the Universe - and thinking, hey, the sound on this one is pretty great...then I looked it up, and it's the 1st album of new material made by the 1997 reunited PPOTU...

They did not fuck around...
vital
dense
deep and rockin' avante garde jazz
going into some very
powerful dimensions...

The power of "Snake Dream" changes to the experimental spacey poetry recital of "Dear Mr. K"...these revolutionaries are incredible and are more than worthy of our respect!

--- oh yeh --- I really dug the drumming on this...

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Fu-shit-sus-ha are another Japanese "noise" band led by the mercurial Keiji Haino on guitar and vocals...that I absolutely think are - quoting Mel Torme - "the tops!"

What the fuck is a "noise" band you may ask?
A band that uses "noise" as it's driving force???
Using "noise" as an instrument????
Not really sure myself...

anyhow...

Besides Fushitsusha, I also loved the first Marble Sheep album. There's a lo-fi purity in this music. As a comparison, I'm digging Harm's Way: Oxytocin (2006) on the headphones now, and it's a pretty hard rockin' slab of retread (but the good parts!) metal. Well-played, heavy and rockin' crashing...not bad at all!

however...

it's so well played, and well produced that there's a "sterility" about it. Maybe, that means it's NOT well produced. I don't know - I would think these guys could be a driving force live, but modern recording techniques seem to remove the "earthiness" out of the recording. Is this the difference between analog & digital?????

Call Neil Young!!!!!

He seems to be up on all the technology...and he seems to think that blu-ray is the new thing. Is it? Until the next NEW technology?

Maybe...

Ya see....Harm's Way just finished and Pebbles, vol. 7 was cued up next, and immediately I appreciated the "earthy" production of these garage rock gems. It's not sterile...you can almost see the music and sweat bouncing off the concrete walls!!!
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Thoughts while listening to Love: Live at the Fillmore 1970:

"arthur lee was a true fucking punk!!"
"if only he and (maybe) sly could have kept it, just a little bit, more together...imagine..."
"this album keeps getting better as it goes along - or maybe I'm just getting more stoned?"
"now this is fucking earthy!"
"i wanna play live...right now...dammit!!"
"wow...wow...wow...signed d.c is absolutely blowing my mind right now - i mean - right now - dammit!!"
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Here's some youtubes of Arthur Lee & Love

1) This one is from 1970 Copenhagen and is really high quality...excellent! thanks tkskott!

2) This one looks like it's from the early 90s and shows that Arthur Lee was still a punk! And drunk!!...great performance...great energy...what a guy! thanks arthurlovelee!!

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