Koozies, Woodies and Beer

Sounds dirty, doesn't it? Actually it's a compilation put together by Brah Records, an imprint of Jagjaguwar run by the Oneida guys. They maintain that "koozies" are those foam wraps that keep beer cold, "woodies" are a kind of organ (the musical kind) and beer is...well, you know what beer is, don't you? Anyway, my review runs today at Dusted.

Various Artists
Koozies, Woodies & Beers: A Brah/Ocropolis Benefit Compilation for Japan Relief
Brah

Koozies, Woodies & Beers documents the restless, genre-slipping scene that grew up around NYC art rockers in Oneida, gathering 19 tracks from bands closely (and loosely) associated with Oneida. All were recorded in the now defunct Ocropolis (the second of Oneida’s home-built studios to be squeezed out by gentrification), each band getting free run of the studio for four hours of recording and four hours of mixing. Like the all-day psychedelic freak-out which closed out Oneida’s tenure at the Monster Island facility, this compilation tests listeners’ willingness to jump boundaries, their ability to consider music and noise as a continuum (or maybe the same thing) and, most of all, their endurance. But it also demonstrates the reach, the relentless inquiry and the fuck-it-all self-actualization of the community that grew up around Oneida in the mid- to late-2000s.

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Noveller's Glacial Glow

A really wonderful experimental guitar album from Sarah Lipstate who has, among other tihngs, played guitar in Parts & Labor.

Noveller
Glacial Glow
Weird Forest

Guitarist Sarah Lipstate started out in the noisy environs of the not-fun crowd, crafting her first couple of solo works out of feedback, rather than guitar. She has focused more and more, over the course of four albums, on the guitar itself. In Glacial Glow, she filters her tones through an array of pedals, loops and effects, creating ghostly, luminescent textures of sound, but they are recognizably guitar sounds, however altered.

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There's a good bit of Noveller at the Free Music Archive.

The two faces of Noveller

Noveller, according to The Onion, is an i-Phone ap that allows you to write your novel as you go through your day.


Noveller, according to Sarah Lipstate (ex of cool bands like Parts & Labor, Carla Bozulich and others), is an electro-acoustic, ambient noise project with an album called Paint on the Shadows out on No Fun Productions this April. She is currently moving up the heavily played list at WFMU, which is how I found out about her, and you can see why…what she doesn’t isn’t exactly easy or comfortable, but it is very, very beautiful stuff.

Here she is performing at P.S. 1



Some live tracks recorded at the Issue Project Room have turned up at the Free Music Archive


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