Monday, October 02, 2006

Clinic: For Listening

"Visitations," Clinic's new album is in release and Domino, the label,
has put three song off of on their website--

Listen to 'Children of Kellogg'

Listen to 'Harvest (within you)'

Listen to 'Animal/Human'


Notes on the album by Erasmus Benedict
Clinic Studio/Release update August ’03 – Notes by Erasmus Benedict

"Clinic have now finished the recording of their third album at Elevator, Liverpool. More extremes of bubblegum/weirdness emerged as the recording progressed, with added harmonium, afuche, tables and an effects-driven hint of Professor Longhair. Also, a new song was included, provisionally titled ‘Fingers’, which neatly fits their general party derangement. This features pianola, yet more fuzz and an almost ‘Santa Dog’ Residents rhythm. At this stage the songs for inclusion should be:

‘Vertical take off in Egypt’
‘Falstaff’
‘Thank you (for living)’
‘Fingers’
‘Home’
‘Country Mile’
‘Anne’
‘W.D.Y.Y.B’
‘The Majestic #2’
‘Circle of Fifths’
‘Stardust’
‘August’
‘The Magician’

"Clinic are from Liverpool, but that’s where the similarity with any other quartet ends. In fact, Clinic sound like The Beatles never happened, as if pop remained in permanent thrall to Joe Meek before jumping straight to Studio One dub. Or as if The Shangri-Las drifted into Crime. Because Clinic sound like no other band. As individual as Suicide or The Monks, as self-sufficient as The Residents, they describe a twilit place: the streets surrounding John Carpenter’s Precinct 13, the disco on the inhabited side of the moon."

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The Minus One on slide show now playing "The Minus One" is the name of the group Dana Alberts, Liam Hart and Mike Henry started in the eighties. The band released four singles through the "Skate Rock" series through Thrasher Magazine, and appeared on “One Giant Leap”, a compilation record released in England on Venture Records in 1983. The next year, they recorded “Where A Man Was Made,” with Spencer Dryden on drums (Jefferson Airplane drummer) and Naomi Ruth Isenberg (Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks) on violin. Minus One toured the U.S. in 1985 with the VKTMS, the punk band formed by drummer Louis Gwerder and featuring Nyna Crawford. Later that year Alberts was approached by Danny Sugerman, the author and former manager of the “Doors, and Iggy Pop's manager, after Sugerman had heard a tape of the band. This led them to an offer of a record deal from Geffen Records. The band, broke up before the deal could be consummated. They reformed in late 2006, and are be currently rehearsing to play extensively in 2007.