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> Andrew Norman wrote on Wed 20 Jan 99: > > I found a new album by Ma Cherie for Painting at the weekend ("Samba > > Continentale", I believe it's only available in some ridiculously tiny > > vinyl edition on a German label), and bits of it could be AMP in their > > new cleaner incarnation - It's not as good as the Earworm album but it's > > well worth getting hold of if you are into that sort of > > nouveau-krautrock thing. First MCFP release which doesn't have a > > version of "Eurosports" on it, I think. > > I noticed that MCFP album on the latest update at Norman records > (http://www.normrecs.u-net.com). Does it pre- or post-date the > Earworm album (Una Producion Pop)? The Earworm album is very good... > especially that droning 2nd track on side B (can't work out what it's > called) but I never have been able to get into that final track. To me it > just goes on and on monotonously. I'm probably just missing the point... 2nd track on side B is "Lineal", I think (it's not immediately apparent from the vinyl version which tracks are on which side, but the next one's definitely a variation of "Eurosports"). I agree about the final track - it starts well but the last five minutes sound like a locked groove to me. There's no information on the new album other than the name, track listing (first one's called "Fuck the Spin Doctors"), and the label details (Ontor, fax 0711 6366103, Bebelstr. 73 70193 Stuttgart). I don't think the Warp Peel sessions have been mentioned on this list - Autechre (1995) and Boards of Canada (98) have been released in the last couple of weeks, Black Dog (95) next week. The Autechre one is superb, 3 exclusive pieces from what I think was one of their strongest periods, the BoC one has one non-album track and is good but if you have the album it's not particularly good value. -- Andrew Norman, Leicester, England andrew@riverrun.demon.co.uk http://www.riverrun.demon.co.uk/ http://www.riverrun.demon.co.uk/singles/ --------- NME: MA CHERIE FOR PAINTING Una Producion Pop (Earworm) THE STADIUM ROARS INTO LIFE, ITS CAPACITY crowd yelling their lungs out. And then? Then? Well, nothing, except for an uncomfortable, sticky grey hiss and the sporadic dripping of a tap. But calm yourselves, for you join us not at this year's Milton Keynes Bowl Surrealist Noise Odyssey all-dayer but at the beginning of Ma Cherie For Painting's debut album. From here on in, some vague semblance of normality is resumed. We'd expect nothing less from MCFP, though; a band who, over a series of much-cherished and deceptively perky singles, have inked a wry smile on the face of post-rock. True they may have an unfair advantage over their Krautrockin' peers in that they are actually German - from Stuttgart -; but in the universal language of the elongated bass fondle and the sequenced drone (see: Ui, Ganger, Tortoise), all are equal. Which is arguably why the genre has been so creatively stagnant of late: it's too bogged down in its structural mechanics when it should be dazzling with its dynamic new expressions of motion. And to an extent, 'Una Producion Pop' does just that, particularly on 'Le Petit Ca Mion' where a percolated Neu! bass wiggle glides into a languid Spiritualized piano groove. Or on the 12-minute 'Hope That Doesn't Rock The Boat Too Much', which starts with bold chiming guitars only to trickle out as a claustrophobic gurgle. We're talking jazz, but with our mouths full. Don't book the Enormodome yet, then, there's still a long way to go. Enjoy the ride. 7/10 Piers Martin -------- Milkbone reviews: http://www.abilnet.com/milkbone/reviews/new/m29/29_ma_cherie.shtml MA CHERIE FOR PAINTING "UNA PRODUCION POP" (EARWORM) CD/LP The easy thing to say about Ma Cherie For Painting is "Tortoise." That's a little too easy, though. I'd be hard-pressed to find the song on this, their first full length, that really screams "Hey! We listen to Tortoise!". Yes, it has that same sort of instrumentation: bass, drums, and the "electronic element", but Tortoise never wrote songs like these. So how are they different? Well, for one thing, they actually sound live-something the slick beast that is Tortoise has failed to do in some many years now. It almost seems as if the band is playing live and the electronic sounds-washes of water, static, voices-intrudes over the top of it. The electronic stuff also serves as a segue from song to song, which gives the whole album a very conceptual and fluid feel. The strike against the album is that nothing feels terribly urgent-that is, nothing makes me sit up and smile, like for instance the new Third Eye Foundation does or Low's last album did. This album is very subdued-which isn't necessarily bad-but it's also easy to forget. There's just enough gems in here that make it worth owning; it's the kind of album I like to listen to, but I have to be doing something else while I'm listening. It's a backhanded compliment, but this is excellent background music. - Scott << SOON: PIANO MAGIC/ MA CHERIE FOR PAINTING. remixes/split 12" summer 1999 back.... URL: people.a2000.nl/nschipp/paginfo.html Last modified 25-Apr-99 - page size 910 bytes ---Off Bontje site:
Marco sagt: Eine wunderbare 7" namens "Extra bille" auf dem britischen Earworm* Label machte mich auf diese wirklich gute Band aus Stuttgart aufmerksam. Dieser Song Ihrer offensichtlich selbst produzierten 12" besticht durch das ausgefeilte Steigerung-Zurücknahme-Steigerung-usf-Prinzip eines simplen Songthemas über 6 Minuten, ohne in gängige Post-Rock-Klischees zu verfallen... allerdings krautig wie sonstwas. Und wie Bernd noch bemerkt, im allerpositivsten Sinne... "Wieso sind die noch nicht von Kitty Yo gesignt?" fragt Marco da wohl zu recht. *) Marco sagt auch fuer alle von Euch die's gemerkt haben: Sorry für den Faux-pas mit Wurlitzer Jukebox...