Clutching the short straw

1. Susan Deyhim – The spilled cup
2. In Slaughter Natives – Behind my walls
3. Scott Walker – Bouncer See Bouncer…
4. Foetal Noise – DEP (Descansa En el Pozo)
5. Trajedesaliva – Ya no soy quien solía ser
6. Morpheus – Snakeskin
7. Buck 65 – Riverbed 7
8. Man – Maïomie
9. Laurie Anderson – Night in Bagdad
10. Bauhaus – Who killed Mr.Moonlight
11. Antony and the Johnsons – Virgin Mary
12. Current 93 – A song for Douglas (after he’s dead)
13. Leonard Cohen – Who by fire
14. Calexico – All the pretty little horses
15. The Dead Brothers – Marlene
16. Circus Contraption – Marshmallows and a Holy Bible
17. Tiger Lillies – Souvenirs
18. Gitane Demone & Rozz Williams – Lament
19. DeVotchKa – Charlotte Minacht (the fabulous story of…)
20. Reverend Glasseye and his wooden legs – Carnival of pills
21. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- The weeping song
22. Woven Hand – Ain’t no sunshine
23. Spiritual Front – Jesus died in Las Vegas

Una gran noche, aunque fuera más breve de lo que hubiese querido por culpa de ese maldito alcohol envenenado, ahem. Mil gracias a la gente que se pasó en exclusiva, me alegré mucho de ver a algunos de vosotros (y vosotras!). Mil gracias también a las buenas gentes de La Cripta por el hueco y a los que disfrutaron con sonidos hasta ahora nuevos para ellos. ¡Fue un auténtico placer!

Yeah! Vuelvo a las andadas aunque sea de manera puntual: el sábado 26 de Agosto estaré ocupando el primer nicho horario de La Cripta (de 23:00 a 00:30) con mi inimitable combinación de dark ambient, folk (que NO dark folk, ¡ojo!), decadencia y cabareterías varias. Prepárense para una noche de alcohol, humo, atmósferas enrarecidas y corazones rotos a manos de Nick Cave, Scott Walker, Woven Hand, Jill Tracy, Current 93, Trajedesaliva y muchos, muchos más…

¡Huelga decir que se ruega puntualidad y etiqueta apropiada!

“I nomi sconosciuti e la recensione breve non vi traggano in inganno. Lo split (quattro brani a testa e un paio in comune) realizzato dalle due band ispaniche è un lavoro denso di significati musicali e sociali. Trajedesaliva oscillano tra sperimentazione free form di derivazione tanto jazz quanto rock rumorosa (come degli Alboth! impastati). Chaos Condensed snocciolano invettive anti statunitensi su basi industriali mutevoli e frammentate. Insieme prima esplorano la malattia ambientale, poi ci fanno sprofondare nelle dilatazioni elettroniche radicate nel post dub gotico. Disco molto bello.”

(From Musicclub.it)

Hi there! Yes, I’m alive… And in fact, there has been quite a lot of new stuff going on recently; only thing is, I’ve been so lazy to update (and I’m still too lazy to translate this into Spanish, in fact) that I’ve forgotten a bunch of things. Blah. Who cares.

First, the “Unclassified” gallery at Chaospiral Studios has been updated with the photographs featured here during the last weeks… errrr, months: “Elvis never left the building”, “The killer awoke before dawn” and “Irreverence”. However, if you read this journal regularly or watch me at DeviantArt or Flickr you have already seen them, so big news for ya. There are also, of course, some new prints at Ye Olde Printe Shoppe.

In the World Domination section, we have a couple of new “Ciertos animales de costumbres discretas” reviews. From Gothic Paradise comes the first and only one yet we’ve had in English, while in Mentenebre, Spanish readers can enjoy the wise words of Pedro Ortega (ex-Maldoror magazine and cultural association), to whom by the way I wish much luck with this new project of his.

On Fun Stuff and Water Sports, the collaboration with Sathorys Elenorth for his project Der Blaue Reiter has come out wonderfully! In the end I contributed vocals and lyrics to one track and a poem for the inner sleeve, and I can say I’m truly proud of the result. His tracks were tremendously inspiring and managed to really shake me out of this blank slate-state I’m in when it comes to making music. In all, a great experience… which may or may not end here *wink*wink*

Last but not least, in the Grab-Hold-Of-Yer-Socks-Joel-Robinson Department, some Really Great News ™ loom ahead for September. Just a teaser: stick your nose to the screen and try to read the list of words underneath “Scar13″. See if there’s anything that seems familiar there:

And that’s all as far as the Public Eye is concerned. I’m doing fine, I finally got a decent dayjob, my baby just cares for me and there are plans for a Great Photoshoot ahead; but that will be in a couple of weeks, so don’t hold your breath. Cheers!