retrodog

Bio:

"During the middle bit I had the distinct sensation that I was listening to a cruise-liner-show-band while coming up strongly on LSD! I love it when a musician can combine a tuneful pop sensibility with genuine out-there quirkiness."

"This is beguiling, surprising; cartoon-amimational, surreal; mindvista-shifting (I liked your correspondent's remarks about coming up on acid on a cruise ship - very authentic). You are an antishiny, natural-to-admire "filmic" composer. You are versatile in ways that transcend the more received, or banal, criteria for "versatility". You eccentr-iate your OWN voice. Besides a hangretrodog humility, there is febrile humour, imagination, ringmodulational "atonality" (esp. amidst a poppy diversion)."

"Oh yes, I really love this! It comes together perfectly. It reminds of the same feel (although a totally different musical style) of some of the wilco yankee hotel foxtrot stuff."

"99% of all human endeavor is accomplished through prioritization more than inspiration. The entire science of management can basically be boiled down to prioritization. First things first, and second things not at all. If you can get through the first priority, then the second priority will become the first, and so on, until the only things left are fairly small." (yep)

"If I could explain and demonstrate the value of my own works, that from my point of view at least would prove that they were constructed entirely from elements that were obvious, superficial and tangible..." Maurice RAVEL


All pieces recorded at The Cot Room, Bristol.


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Member Since:

January 31, 2009

Members:

Me, occasional vocals from 'retrobiche', so far...anyone else?

Influences:

Can, Beach Boys, John Cale, Super Furry Animals/Gruff Rhys, JV, Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen's Gong, Soft Machine 1, 2, 3, and bits of 4, Miles Davis, Matching Mole, Sean Hagan/High Llamas, XTC, Big Star, Kevin Ayers, Fela Kuti, gamelan, Gil Evans, Gene Clark, Syd Barrett, Jack Bruce/Cream, Van Dyke Parks, Uncle Frank and his Mothers, Spirit, Sinatra (Nancy), Small Faces, Jim O'Rourke, The Kinks, Stereolab, Planxty, Yardbirds, Magazine, Buzzcocks, The Famous Men, The Smiths, Ziggy, Crucifixers, Oregon/Ralph Towner, Paul Bradley/Organelles, Tony Williams, Sibelius, Debussy, Belle and Sebastian, Brian Eno, Don Cherry, Mingus, Dylan, The Duke, Pete Rowan, Jennifer Gentle, Modern Lovers, Jimi Tenor, Aphex Twin, The Dan, JPG&R of course...

Sounds Like:

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One of my all time favourites bands, Jennifer Gentle from Italy, via Cambridge 1967