Brian Eno/The Smiths/Nitin Sawhney/David Byrne/Johnny Cash/Muddy Waters/Thievery Corporation/The Last Poets/Curtis Mayfield/Captain Beefheart/Stephen Fretwell/Blur/Chris Isaak/Bootsy/Yes/Pearl Jam/Elbow/The Average White Band/Charlie Mingus/Miles Davis/Louisiana Red/John Lee Hooker/Lemon Jelly/David Sylvian/Fun Lovin' Criminals/Kings of Leon/Tom Waits/Sibelius/Bartok/Yehudi Menuhin/Buddy Holly/Bo Diddley/Bob Dylan/Outkast/Gnarls Barkley/Telepopmusik/Television/Crash Test Dummies/Camille/Mariza/Randy Newman/Neil Young/Joanna Newsom/Al Green/Bob Marley/Big Youth/Bim Sherman/Gregory Isaacs/Underworld/Tim Buckley/Little Axe/The Penguin Café Orchestra/Terence Trent D'Arby/Prince/Général Alcazar/Youssou N'Dour/Khaled/Duke Ellington/Ian Curtis/Bruce Nauman/Joseph Beuys.
Sounds Like
"...isn't your normal run-of-the mill"
"...were they on the same planet?"
"...follow in a kind of Beefheart/Zappa tradition"
"...stripped to its minimalist bones"
CM magazine
u n c l e j i m is just over two years old though it’s members - Rob Robinson & David Goard - have worked together on art installations for more than a decade.
As u n c l e j i m it is Rob that has the more avant-garde sensibility whilst David manifests as a miserable version of an Everly Brother (who?). The situation is compounded by a fairly extreme difference in musical tastes. Rob insists that he doesn’t write songs whilst that is exactly what David is trying to do!
Influences? They are as long as your arm and as diverse as dogs but in spite of this - or maybe BECAUSE of this - Rob & David come together to create "digitised music with a fat dab of humanity".
click here for u n c l e j i m BACK CATALOGUE - 25 tracks + lyrics
how are you doing? Always nice hearing from you! Cool news bout the nu songs, I'll be listening through them as soon as I'm back. As to your collabs, I'm good friends with Baldur and so... I heard about your collab! I'm really looking forward to this, good idea!
Yeah, you have struck a rich vein of melancholia atmosherica or whatever Wire magazine calls it. You might like Hood and Pram if you don't know em' already. Yeah, again, another bunch of students are evicted from the sanctuary of art college to the outside world or perhaps the next rung in the education ladder. It will soon be September again though...the revolving door awaits the next housemates... As for me, Well I'm plodding away in the studio just now, collecting 'stuff' etc. Just made a 'tribute' artwork for Robert Rauschenberg. Nothing major on the horizon though. My stuff's at www. flickr. com/foggodavid If you are still in town through the summer perhaps we could meet up for lunch and chew the fat - both literally and metaphorically. Anyway, bye for now.
..hola Uncle Jim...thanks for those new releases...generous sunday !Right now I go jump in the swimming pool...34 degrees around here!...see you..i'll be back..
Hi there....very sorry I was very busy on tour with the dance Co...I'll soon take the time to listen carefully your new tracks... Have a look on the cd sleeve of my forthcoming album. See you
...bonjour Uncle Jim....j'ai été un peu absent ces derniers temps ...now I'm back....I'll give news...today full sun in the south...flee market is waitin' for me nearby a river...have a nice day .
“chatter box” languid, unsettling, tentative, melancholy. Love the cold comfortable strings. Original lyric that suggests all kind of possibilities.
“trapped” contemplative, floating, unwinding, desert Almost a Rain Tree Crow synth feel to this at times that, for me, gives it an aloof unwinding quality. Wonderful atmospheric sound. As always, a thought-provoking lyric.
“comfort zone” made me think of a car journey through an unfamiliar city at night, stop signs, illuminated shop doorways, Sort of John Martyn’s “I’d Rather Meet The Devil” on a night out with Tom Waits! Gorgeous textures.
Hi David. See you have new sounds up. Will be back soon to scribble a few notes about them. Back up and running after computer probs. Satnav is nearing its destination. Cheers for now, Mark
Hello Dave. Been quiet lately. Nice to hear your new tunes. Just thought I would mention the death of Robert Rauschenberg at 82. A big influence on most artists over the last 50 years or so. More so for me at Foundation level certainly. Just Jasper left now...I think anyway!
Ah, belatedly having a listen to “a little song”. Sorry about the delay. Love the luscious strings, though still has a stark presence: Resignation, driving, melancholy, succinct. At first I thought I’d like it to have gone on longer, but on reflection it seems right. Should have bought a satnav!
I hope you are well. As a build up to my album I have released an E.P. titled ‘Cinema for the Ears’. This gives a little taster of what’s to come in the album!!! Some of the songs featured on my myspace page are on the E.P. as well as some new one’s. If you like any of my work, check out the E.P!!!!!
oooh now that little song is rather good. dark, brooding and atmospheric. i think it's probably one of the best songs you've done. respect is due to you.
so finally I did let myself find some time for your tunes. And would you believe? I like caption best.
So how are your days right now? All white and snowy? Or just melodic? I'm fighting with a sine study, loving my reed organ though. Time is taking so many moments but still, some are lasting.
THE NANO_CORPORATION IS AN INTENDT TO CRITIQUE, MIMIC OR OTHERWISE EXPLORE THE LOGIC OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES AND OTHER WEB 2.0 PHENOMENA THROUGH ART.
eating lying down : metallic, spindly, anxious, compulsive
hope street : dungeons, intimate, daggers, ennui
the house (remix) : spiral, detached, cold-comfort, unwind
caption : after-hours, stalking, sinister, cool
Love the acoustic bass on “caption”: dark and delicious sounds – my favourite here. I can “see” the movie. “eating lying down” and “hope street” I can imagine on a Brothers Quay-type animation., the latter particularly has a luxuriantly melancholy atmosphere.
Well, despite the lurgy you seem to have had a creative post-xmas period.
A perverse part of me wants to take my annoying cough to the nearest cinema audience! Toodle pip, Mark
And happy new year to you too - only just resurfing and blinking in the bright light after a bout of flu. Willl give your new tracks a proper listen and be back to you in a trice..or at least by the end of the week;-)Cheers, Mark
Hi Guys, Thanks for your words. I think, we're searching in similar spaces . Nice to see, that there are more people, who know and like Jean Tinguely. I often visited the Tinguely-Museum in Basel and it has been every time a great pleasure to me.
Your new songs sounds great and I like your kind of sensibility, a little bit strange and very deep.
I wish you a lot of creativity and inspiration for 2008
it is always a pleasure to read lines from you. So well, I will surely listen a bit closer to your new tracks asap, just being back home from a concert at university, it's been a long nite so far.
Well, have a good week still ahead and above all, still a great start into this new year!
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