Damo Suzuki's final effort is Can's most atmospheric and beautiful record, a spartan collection of lengthy, jazz-like compositions recorded with minimal vocal contributions. Employing keyboard washes to create a breezy, almost oceanic feel (indeed, two of the tracks are titled "Spray" and "Bel Air"), the mix buries Suzuki's voice to elevate drummer Jaki Liebezeit's complex rhythms to the foreground; despite the deceptive tranquility of its surface, Future Days is an intense work, bubbling with radical ideas and concepts.
It's been a while since I posted on my band, Flood Empty Lakes. Not that things haven't been moving forward, I just didn't want to bore you with details. I mean, you guys have been awesome in your support and comments, but it's not like you want to follow us around a la Deadhead style, is it?So I thought I'd wait and just mention the bigger things. And the biggest news of all is that we are ...
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. . . and that means NaNoWriMo time. If you weren't here last year while I underwent this ordeal, NaNoWriMo is an annual contest of sorts to try and get as many people as possible to write a novel during the month of November. The rules are pretty simple: you have to write 50,000 words between the first and last day of November. If you do, you win. Regardless of how terrible the actual qual...
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