Presently Anthony Burnside AKA Anton Burns and Paddy Steer
But some members and collaborators from past 10 years still include/and have included Graham Massey, Seaming To, Semay Wu, Simon King, Faron Brooks, Richard Harrison, Pat Illingworth, Rosie Lowdell, Justin Lingard, Matt Batty, James Ford, Steve Chadwick, Bob Dinn, Sasha Pushkin, Andy Diagram, Rina Aroyo, Sally Steer, Owen Bourne, Howard Jacobs
Paddy Steer & Tony Burnside have now amassed a sizable back catalogue of releases under the moniker HOMELIFE . It's almost a home recording experiment that grew into an orchestra, gathering in some of MCR's finest musicians, one by one, to create the work with a craftsman’s care. Then with equal attention to detail to recreate the music and take it on tour: a labor of love which continued for several years. Then at some point this" red giant” exploded into a "white dwarf"
: Paddy, it seems, decided that he would play all the instruments at once. 'Madness!' I hear you say except; that this is what appears to be happening as he sits at the drum kit plays, bass with his feet and wields dozens of homemade instruments into some strange kinetic sculpture. Now a duo, Tony"s song-writing has come to the fore, nicely balanced by the DIY approach to the instrumentation that keeps it more akin to outsider music than traditional song forms.
HOMELIFE - EXOTIC INTERLUDE
"Your houses, they look like cakes! "(Japanese visitor to Manchester 1993)The world of the exotic lives in the imagination, a way of looking at the world, A useful way of coping now we live on Google Earth, mapped and finite, a shrunken head. More than an interlude, Homelife have painted an Exotic English landscape. An urban crust on heathen clay, the village green from tower blocks. The tower blocks seen distant from green hill sides, Pagan pylons bathed in antiseptic sunlight fingers. Bright moulds, vines and blooms on Victorian iron decay. Feel the sandstone turn to limestone, rock of ages, dirty flags, caves of blue john, land of lakes and red brick evening glow. Exotic Interlude is a mature work, slow brewed. I feel I’ve heard it all in a dream, its familiar but utterly strange. It might be words engaging me, emotions I can empathize with, uncomfortably honest, sweetened by being set amongst gardens of glowing music. The music is both ethereal yet earthy, with heavy use of acoustic timbres, swarms of coloured percussion, bulbous synths and fresh use of languid Hawaiian guitar. A timeless English summer of a record.—Graham Massey
Hi! We are an Aggrotech/Orgasmik band from Montreal, Canada ! Thanks for the Add and the Support! Come and visit our Myspace for further news and informations!
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Dear friends, We are very very happy to present our new album, STELLAR CONNECTION. Nine tracks sung in Elfic language; a mystic journey from ethnic Progressive to morning Trance, including "Elfic Mantra" and "Suns Of Tatooine - Aeropulsar remix", a remix by our friend CELL ! Thanx for your support ! Love from us both Elea & Swann
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Tracklisting 01. Marissa Nadler - The Hole Is Wide [Kemado] 02. The Durutti Column - Sketch For Dawn (I) [Factory] 03. Tunnel Vision - Watching The Hydroplanes [Factory] 04. Shriekback - Mothloop [Kaz] 05. R. Stevie Moore - I Still Want It [Forty-Seven] 06. Vetiver - Sister [Sub Pop] 07. Miss Ludella Black & The Masonics - Take A Heart [Damaged Goods] 08. Suburban Laws - Flying Saucer Safari [I.R.S.] 09. Young Marble Giants - Wurlitzer Jukebox [Rough Trade] 10. The Wolfgang Press - Prostitute I [4AD] 11. WEAVE! - Bravery [Pacific Reasons] 12. The Raincoats - Off Duty Trip [Rough Trade] 13. X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! [Virgin] 14. Rapeman - Trouser Minnow [Blast First] 15. Jane's Addiction - Summertime Rolls [Warner Bros.] 16. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Stranger Than Kindness [Mute] 17. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Dali's Car [Reprise] 18. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About The Weather [Red Rhino] 19. Crispy Ambulance - Deaf [Factory] 20. Section 25 - Dirty Disco [Factory] 21. Flipper - Sex Bomb [Beggars Banquet] 22. Black Flag - Slip It In [SST]
People of Manchester – we’re playing the delightful, Moho Live on Thursday 21st May. Their will be jugglers, taxidermy, colouring in, advanced sock puppetry…In fairness probably just music – but we may pull a few shapes! So get down! X
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Tracklisting 01. Pere Ubu - Real World [Rough Trade] 02. John Cale - Sabotage [I.R.S. ] 03. Sonic Youth - (I Got A) Catholic Block [Blast First] 04. T-Rex - Cosmic Dancer [Fly] 05. Douglas Wood - Folk Ghost [Trunk] 06. Mayo Thompson - Black Legs [Glass] 07. Woody Leafer - There Are Drums In My Typewriter [Beat Jazz] 08. Dirty Three - At The Bar [Bella Union] 09. Jeffrey Lewis - The Gasman Cometh [Rough Trade] 10. Burnt Friedman - Where Should I Go [Nonplace] 11. John Zorn - Atmosphere [Tzadik] 12. Butthole Surfers - 22 Going On 23 [Blast First] 13. D.A.F. - Verlier NIcht Den Kopf [Virgin] 14. Einsturzende Neubaten - Sand [Some Bizzare] 15. XYX - Nunca, Nunca [S-S] 16. Mi Ami - Echononecho [Quarterstick] 17. Weave! - Little Liar [Pacific Reasons] 18. Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Doubt/Hope [Leaf] 19. Topmost - The End [Love]
Vampire Blues is the duo of guitar player Jon Collin (Serfs, The Whole Voyald) and harmonium player Jon Marshall (The Hunter Gracchus, Peril Hill). They have a pretty special tape out on Blackest Rainbow. We can't recommend them highly enough.
The Fifth Band is the gobsmacking trio of Stephen Lawrie (The Telescopes), Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra) and Kryszt Hladowski (The Family Elan). Oof.
A Wake is the duo of Nick Mitchell and Fliss Horrocks who also play in Beach Fuzz. This will actually probably end-up being a Beach Fuzz performance - this incarnation's first inside the UK.
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