I'm listening to, and enjoying, the Project Perfect CD on Community Library. The recordings date from Portland, 2000-2002, and PM+ is some sort of reissue. Andy Brown from Jessamine and Fontanelle is one of the brains behind the thing, and it's my favorite record he's been involved with.
I'm having a really tough time describing this one. It sounds vaguely like Miles Davis Get Up with It but it's a lot sparser and even more lost/meandering. It's a lot less riff-centered than Tortoise and a lot mellower than This Heat. It's more confusing and less lucid (or structured) than any of these reference points. The closest comparison might be Spaceheads, but without the most overt dance grooves (though there are weird beats thrown in sometimes).
I've listened to PM+ a couple of times and have found it a bit impenetrable, definitely strange and fascinating.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Retirement Community Overthrow
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Charlie's band Laundry I always thought didn't get its due. Lots of sex in ivory tights and a long train song and my heart broken to bits more than a few times. Singer was sometimes a bit over the top in way yhat if he was your friend you might be embarassaed for him, but the guitar and bass work were excellent and lyrics better than you'd expect and overall sound refreshingly original. I have two of their CDs. A deep cut Chittle influence, but more Greg-side.
The Empire Builder (a song of theirs of particularly large scope and awesomeness) is the train that goes from Seattle to Chicago. They knew that. And deserve credit for it.
The Hiawatha goes from Chicago to Milwaukee. If you knew that, a ringer for you. Brook Stevens designed the original and it was goddam beautiful.
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Matt Morgan played in Fontanelle. He played in some other band, too, I forget which one.... but it wasn't this Project Prefect's labelmates Christmas Decorations (a celebrated goth band) nor Dare Damon (an uncelebrated goth band from Milwaukee), but I'm pretty certain it was something along those lines.
He looked like a muppet sometimes, Matt Morgan did, and I called him Fairchild. Owed me a damn fat lot of money at a time when it mattered and paid back every last cent of it *before* skipping town for Portland, and that's what I call a gentleman. He's probably still living off good karma from that move.
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