28/09/09 - Amorphous cover Falling Down

Yep - as if the remix wasn't enough, now Amorphous have covered Oasis' Falling Down. What the song is for, whether it'll be released or not, and so on, is yet to be revealed, but Alisha Sufit writes this on her blog...

VOV! Well . . . not VOV really . . . that was just what it sounded like when my French friend used to say WOW!! But, yes, WOW! All yesterday Amorphous Androgynous were recording their very own new cover version of Oasis's Falling Down (love that song!) down at The Way studio run by nice Steve. Gorgeous chaps Virgil and Kes came in early to lay down the drums and bass and then we layered the rest – WonderAnt on guitar, Dave BAD! bongos, fab fiddle from Steve, cello from genius Hannah Miller, vocals from me in the early hours, vocals from SuperDave in the even later early hours . . . in between times, Dave (Sanderson), Edd Keene (flute), me and Hannah gently sessioned upstairs in the loungey place. Mare Street is good for great takeaways, too. I don't know what the poor little rescued canary made of it all in his big cage in the office, but he sang a bit as well! Then a nice Turk cabbed me home to my bed with a smile on my chops at 2 a.m. – no hour for an old hippie still to be up!! I went out like a light as soon as my head hit the feathers. Yes, we didn't finish till late . . . LATE!! Who was it on the studio sofa said, "And you're mixing it tonight, too, are you?" I THINK NOT! Gaz Cobain and Brian Dougans will put their wizard hats on and beaver away with their mixing bowls for quite some time to make a good pud for Mojo, so we hope so . . . .

MPB out now - and gig rearrangements

Right, after a lot of confusing realigning of dates, the upcoming Amorphous Androgynous gigs are...
Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble album launch @ Matter, London O2 Arena, 30th October, with Hawkwind, Comus, Yellow Moon Band, Nick Nicely's Unlived Lives, Cranium Pie, Alisha Sufit and special guests. Noel Gallagher is no longer appearing with The Amorphous Androgynous.

And the Athens gig is... er, 'December'. We'll let you know more on that one as and when.

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind 2: Pagan Love Vibrations is out on CD and Download today from FSOLDigital (and all major high street blah blah blah).

14/09/09 - Gaz and The Independent

I'll let this one speak for itself.
We're on the lookout for videos/audio/setlists of FSOL at Bestival this Saturday just gone. Any help, links or such would be appreciated!

FSOLDigital branches out, Gaz on filesharing

After the two EBV releases of the late '90s, FSOL have once again branched out into artist distribution - this time with two digital releases.
First up is 'Prestatyn' by longtime FSOL friend and collaborator, Riz Maslen as Neotropic.
"Prestatyn is a journey of melancholy, inspired by childhood holidays in the bleak yet beautiful landscape of Prestatyn in North Wales. Although these holidays were happy times, there is the back story of the struggles of a single mum trying to make ends meat and give her kids some kind of escape away from the traumas of a family break up! Riz creates her landscape filled with her memories, with its dark meanderings leading to the ever hopeful crescendo."
Tracklist includes The Horse Trainer, Patience and Farewell/Home. The digital release includes a Yage remix of Home, while the CD runs at only three tracks.
Second up is Hegira by Seafar - better known to some of you as FSOLBoard poster Mason Bentley. The two hour album is described as:
"A new comer to FSOLdigital - SEAFAR deliver a fat slice of electric space music - Hegira the sounds of a flight from danger. Wander the streets together, the noise of life muted by sheets of rain, brilliant colours dimmed in a pervading mist of grey. An instrumental amalgam of moody beats and synth drenched noises."
The 26 track album can be downloaded from FSOLDigital, where you can also find the Neotropic download, and the Neotropic CD purchase link. The site itself has had a brief overhaul with a sparser look, new fonts and a link to the second Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble CD release (as well as a broken link to an MPB8 podcast - coming soon perhaps?). And fear not, links to the forthcoming 2" Tape Reels and Environments 3 remain!

Meanwhile, Gaz is kicking up a storm on the internet, this time in an argument with a poster on YouTube which has been recounted in full on WATMM and can be read. It all ended peacefully, but throws an interesting light on the perspective of filesharing from the owner of an independent digital label.

We'll have news on confirmed dates for the next Amorphous shows - the MPB launch has been moved tentatively to 'October' - soon.