Inspired by this doom-like slow down of a Rush song: http://www.rustbrothers.com/rust/images/working%20man%20slowEdit.mp3
I thought I'd try speeding up a favorite Muddy Water's track 'til it sounded like a Slitbreeze lo-fi twanger. Click on it below to check it out
As per this conversation,
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&thre...
...Bendy did a quick mix of 10 quite nice songs in the hardcore punk style. Favorites from A.O.D. and D.I. and P.I. and Dr. K. and even our beloved locals: The -/- (http://www.myspace.com/thedoublenegative). Didn't check for levels or nothing, but if you got sound-quality complaints, you're not getting the point, right?
Here you go
On Tuesday, Vodak will be playing with Texas craggy-indierock rockers The Burning Hotels. Years ago, Bendy was in a short-lived band called Burning Circus. And they sounded a bit like Burning Hotels even- dry tones, layering guitars.
And we've got a new song for you here: Robot In Ecstasy
Come out and do some house rockin' at this all ages show. It's in a garage with two other bands, the Leeves from Greensboro (www.myspace.com/theleeves6) and the Can Kickers, from New London, Connecticut (www.myspace.com/cankickers). Bring your dancing shoes and a couple of bucks for the touring bands.
See you there.
A scant 40 minutes after Besty-Shane left her house to get to the Reservoir for our gig with Ribbons, she got a call from a roommate saying the place had been broken into, and their TV was stolen. B-S fled back home to file a police report while Ribbons took the stage.
Ribbons served up powerfully stark stuff. Their music moves from spare and airy to amazingly dense (for just two people.) There were points where the tumbling beats and guitar-frizz shared something with speed metal, even if there was no formal similarity. Dreamy music that that was somehow still intricate. It's their first trip out of NYC. I hope they come back through NC this summer.
B-S returned just in time to keep the gig flowing, and we started off with a new song, "The Girl at the Party Who Sulks in the Corner and Doesn't Talk to Anyone". And you all seemed to like it. Betsy-Shane deserves a major show-must-go-on award.
But is one crisis enough to make a good gig? Nay! Earlier in the day, Kev was at the animal shelter, and was patting a hamster on the head, only to bitten by the thing.
Kev is a tough guy, or at least a guy who clots quickly, so he didn't do anything about. But when he started playing the bass, it ripped open and the blood did drizzle all over the bass. Jenny from Ribbons, being on tour and prepared, provided band-aids to mitigate the blood-loss after a few songs.
All the angst and bodily fluids emanating from Vodak apparently inspired the audience enough to ask us for more songs, and we launched into our barely-hanging-together recreation of "Hanging on the Telephone", a song I only recently discovered wasn't a Blondie original
Here's a nice write-up of a show that had a good vibe, courtesy Katie Cranford of carolinianonline.com
Choice quote: "Armed with a guitar emblazoned with "slut" on the body, guitarist and vocalist Betsy Shane does a riot girl proud. "
A song for you to download. This is the first song from our Hot Wednesday Nights in the Storage Facility EP.
You may support our efforts by, perhaps, by obtaining the rest of the songs from the online store of your choice:
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Next show up is on Thursday April 9th. The Reservoir hooked us up the Brooklyn's Ribbons. Ribbons has also got a guitarist shows some affection for the chorus pedal:
below are the results of a three way collision of Vodak guitarist Bendy, some bottles of wine and a stack of CDs sent by a metal promotor.
12:22am
First candidate for iTunes importing: Satyricon. Hearing My War with Black Metal drums. "The House of Lords" mentioned in the first song, as though it might be something other than the stuffy upper house of Parliament.
12:26am
Okay, nice lopsided riffs taking the edge off an evening of toddler 'n' tween candied-mango-fueled meltdowns. Too much double kick drums, tho'.
12:31am
"Black Crow on a Tombstone" with it's wicked thrash lights my candle, mama, too hard to etc. Not sure the rest will grow on me though. But in it goes.
Next up: a proggy looking band called Diagonal
12:39am
Liner notes quote "Sniffing Glue" fanzine on the DIY ethic. Pro: photo looks like German hippies from 1974, and they have a clarinet. Con: shortest song is 5:32. Here goes
12:44am
Whooshy wind-of-the-unicorn's-wings synths and general krautiness made the first 3 minutes good, but then the vocals came in. Not so good. Roxy Music horns are working though.
12:45am
They sing "Don't tell the sun how to rise it may fall from the sky"
12:47am
Track 1: 6 minutes down, 5 to go. We're in the Mazarek organ jam. And I'm still listening.
12:49am
skipping to the next bit, where pasty-norther-Euro idea of a Latin rhythm come it. With phasers on the drums. Good, but do I need to hear it again?
12:53am
Rest of the songs get fussy and too tight. Will import that first one ("Semi Permeable Membrane") and if it shows proper party loyalty, will consider recalling the other counter-revolutionaries back from the gulag.
12:55am
Next band. Unearth: back cover looks like Hank Rollins attacked by a Francis Bacon painting
12:57am
If I text 66555 I can get some of these diddly-wangers on mi cell!
1:01am
Backward ballcap metal: I look at the back and it was recorded in Grafton, MA. I thought I sensed chowder monkeys! Song three, "Crow Killer" does not kill Satyrions "Black Crow on a Tombstone"
1:02am
They sing "Real pain with your blood"
My prescription: stop string tapping so much.
1:03am
I am trapped in Daddy's Junky Music. Hitting eject.
1:05am
Dead Man: Swedish acoustic stoners, I am told
1:10am
On the gatefold, they stare longingly through a dusty window. Back cover has dandelion thingies blowing in the wind. First song ends with bongos. Second song is a Bo Diddly. Need more wine to properly assess.
1:27am
"As I watch the yearning winds dance with all the trees / gradually my mind comes to ease". This is mellow, but like so many Swedish bands really likable. I'm getting Mike Gira/Angels of Light vibe to the music: soft but intense. "I Must be Blind" has a southern rock vibe.
Which reminds me: over Xmas, talked to jam-rock friend who's band is playing the middle of the bill on the Lynyrd Skynyrd cruise in a few days. Someone should make a "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" documentary about that scene. Skynrd, 38 Special, Marshall Tucker, Molly Hatchet, all on a cruise boat.
My weird uncle went on a cruise, and impressed upon me with how he paid a crewmember at the start to keep a bucket of cold Busch lights ever-full in his state room. I know that my weird uncle doesn't drink much. I wonder what possessed him to do this "bribe".
Dead Man just switched to either speaking Swedish or backwards masking. I really like this!
1:33am
"Rest in Peace" Van Morrison's Swiss Amry Knife cutting up his fingers trying to get the resin out of his bong. YAW!
1:36am
Then the gongs come in!
1:38am
gratuitous Arabic scales and tablas!
1:40am
Now flutes, all the same 9 minute song. Fucking fuckheads Diagonal need to take a lesson from these guys.
1:51am
Last one tonight: Serpentcult. RIYL Celtic Frost and Sleep. I do.
1:56am
Girl vocalist or girly man vocals? One-sheet says vocalist is Michelle Nocon. But from Belguim. Aren't all Belgians, male or female named Michelle? Myspace reveals: a girl.
2:06am
Title track "Weight of Light" is decent doom: sort of like Iron Maiden slowed way down with Bruce's vocal sped up to a higher register. Good enough to listen more. Next track threatens to "awaken the kraken" but as someone who supports marine scientists in the dayjob, I know we really should be befriending the cephalopods, our even-more-spineless but intelligent brethren.
2:20am
"Arkanum" has a nice gothy grind. And it gives away to the even more grinding "Red Dawn" which has a High on Fire thing going on. This is low, low, low in the valley. Lord, we don't need another mountain. There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb. There are oceans and rivers enough to cross, enough to last till the end of time. What the world needs now is another song with a High on Fire thing going on.
For those of you playing along at home, you can hear some of the tracks observed above, at:
http://www.myspace.com/satyriconbm
http://www.myspace.com/diagonalband
http://www.myspace.com/unearth
http://www.myspace.com/deadmansweden
http://www.serpentcult.be/
Special thanks goes out to Charles Shaw Vinyards. Or as I like to call it, Chuck Taylor's Cab.
