18/06/10 - Gaz talks Monstrous Bubble 3, Greatest Trips and... FSOL?

Thanks, once more, to Dell1972 for locating this lovely interview from backstage at the Mojo awards, in which Gaz - and briefly Brian - speak about A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble and forthcoming releases, which now include:
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Vol. 3: The Revolution Will Not Be Digitised
The Amorphous Androgynous - The Greatest Trips, supposedly a best of for the AA psych project
More Future Sound of London material
Monstrous Bubble Records to include compilations, signings, remixes and all sorts
A possibility of a remix for a track on the next Van Der Graaf Generator record... maybe.

15/06/10 - Gaz Cobain, the first man to get an encore for an acceptance speech

Can't say anything else but: watch this.

14/06/10 - News Of The World matchmaking again

After the Sun (apparently incorrectly) suggested Noel Gallagher is in the studio with 'dance duo' Amorphous Androgynous, now its Sunday sister paper The News Of The World has some quotes and then some rather citation needed text from Paul Weller.

Weller admits he got stuck in a rut before parting with his long-term backing band five years ago. "I was making music, but I wasn't fired up," he says. "I'd hemmed myself in with barriers, but I wrote some new types of songs that felt like a crack in the sky appearing.

"I realised I was the only one who'd created those boundaries. I'm on a roll and, after this record, the possibilities are endless."

Weller reveals he wants to write with singer Richard Hawley and dance duo Amorphous Androgynous, adding: "The one real idea I've got for my next record is to make it even more experimental!"

We'll see.

'Dance duo'. Really.

11/06/10 - Amorphous win a Mojo!

Congratulations all round to Brian and Gaz for winning this year's Mojo award for Best Compilation, for A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind, Volume 2: Pagan Love Vibrations. The Mojo Editor in chief had this to say:

"Amorphous Androgynous are the greatest psychedelic crate-diggers of all-time. Noel Gallagher loves them, Paul Weller loves them and MOJO readers clearly love them. They did a mix for an issue of MOJO that tangled up '60s psychedelia with soul, jazz and space rock and it is one of the most talked-about covermount CDs in the history of the magazine. They really are a force to be reckoned with and I think the next 12 months will see them bring a whole lot more to the party."

Pictures below - and see if you can spot their two appearances here.

08/06/10 - Gaz's Ambient Masterclass

This month's issue of UK music technology magazine Computer Music (Issue 153, July 2010) contains a feature entitled Ambient Masterclass, which features Dr Alex Patterson of the Orb, Gier Jenssen - better known as Biosphere - and FSOL's own Garry Cobain giving their tips and advice on creating ambient music. The article itself is probably more interesting to beginners than anyone who's, y'know, actually made ambient music before, but Gaz does take the chance to wax lyrical about the lines between technology and human, and does actually talk about the immersive nature of great ambient music, so it could be an interesting read for fans. Just don't expect any reverb recommentations...

03/06/10 - Gary Lucas in the studio

Brian has posted a rather unusual video on YouTube of Amorphous Androgynous recording Gary Lucas at Way Studios in London earlier this year. The bizarre footage is filmed using a Microsoft Research Sense cam.