John Paul Young ~ The Life Of Ermie Scub [CMDC, 1980] 320kbps

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A1. Ermie Has Feelers
A2. All The Sad Goodbyes
A3. Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?
A4. Our Time Escapes
A5. Summertime!
A6. Is That Why?

B1. The Monster In Ed
B2. The Girl Spells Grief
B3. Angels With Dirty Faces
B4. The Boulevards Of Hope
B5. Surrender To The Void



Electronics – Stanley A. Viezner
Performer [Instruments], Vocals – John Paul Young

'After founding Toronto-based art punk(ish) band Cardboard Brains back in 1976, and leading them through a pair of swell EPs (the frankly formulaic Cardboard Brains 77 and the poppier Black EP two years later) as well as a slot on the scene-defining Last Pogo LP, John Paul Young must have felt constricted by the form-fitting straitjacket of three-chord punk. Young was the middle-class son of medical doctors, and allegedly progeny of both Brigham Young and the founder of American rocketry, Dr. Robert Goddard, and was probably a poor fit for a Toronto scene populated by yobs, headbangers and street youth (as chronicled in Liz Worth's excellent Treat Me Like Dirt).

By 1980 Young had set off on his own, playing all the instruments on this quasi-conceptual collection of robot-like minimal synth tracks. And on a continent that was still digesting the original punk movement, The Life of Ermie Scub would surely have been as left-field as they came. With its period analog synths, percolating drum machines and disaffected vocals, the record had more in common with the early OMD, the Normal or even San Francisco's Units than much of what was happening in Toronto at the time. That said, the bulk of ...Ermie Scub is mopy and tedious, with Young's lethargic singing especially annoying. Still, there are flickers of brilliance here, like the two-minute 'Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?', a frantic electro-workout worthy of Martin Rev, or the whimsical synths on 'The Boulevards of Hope', which seem to edge curiously close to Residents territory [circa The Commercial Album].' ~ Michael Pananontin

i don't find the vocals tedious at all, but then i dig weird art punk. and though jp's voice might initially contrast with some of the gorgeous synth melodies on display here, this album has really grown on me over the years. definitely one for fans of Gary Wilson. please enjoy this interwebular upgrade of one of my favorite canadian synth joints, 320 blips later

Jean C. Roché / Bill H. Gunn ~ Les Loups en Liberté [Sittelle/Frémeaux & Associés, 1993]

Wailing Wolves from Canada & France, FA674

01. Wild wolves in canada: four young on a small island 1:34
02. Wild wolves in canada: a large, very excited pack 1:26
03. Wild wolves in canada: a small pack in a mixed forest 1:41
04. Wild wolves in canada: another pack a little further off 2:32
05. Wild wolves in canada: a family of two adults and three young 1:28
06. Wild wolves in canada: another pack in forest at nightfall 6:02
07. Semi-captive wolves in france: a chorus during early night 4:54
08. Semi-captive wolves in france: various cries and growls of the same family 11:03
09. Semi-captive wolves in france: cries from another pack in the middle of the night 7:07

recorded in 1965

'To listen to the concert made by wild wolves in a forest is an unforgettable experience! No doubt partly due to a shiver of ancestral fear awoken in us, but above all for the real musical quality of a chorus of several voices. The title “Wailing Wolves” applies to the first six recordings, made by Bill Gunn in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. The next three recordings were made by Jean C. Roché in a French park, in Lozère, southern-central France, which has free-running European wolves.' ~ Patrick Frémeaux

sounds exactly how it looks: earie. every good home should have at least one recording of wolves to break out at parties. 320 rips later

Bernard Fort ~ Canadian Soundscapes [Frémeaux & Associés]

1. Woodpeckers and Song Sparrow at Mount Saint Hilaire
2. Beavers and Hermit Thrush in Forillon National Park
3. Northern Waterthrush & Winter Wren at Mount Saint Hilaire
4. Redwinged Blackbird and American Robin at Sorel Islands
5. Rain in the Forest at Mount Saint Hilaire
6. Hot weather at Mount Saint Hilaire
7. The Gaspésie of Bonaventure Island

Invited by the University of Montreal Faculty of Music in 1995, Bernard Fort took his ornithological knowledge of sound recording & captured seven concerts of natural landscapes in Canada during the spring & summer of 1995. 70 minutes of ecological symphonie, these recordings are a testimony of relaxation & meditation. Close your eyes & hear the streams, beavers, woodpeckers, thrushes, concert gannets on the edge of the cliffs of Gaspé, cries of seals, some amphibians at Mont Saint Hilaire & white-throated sparrows & swallows on the Sorel Islands. this one goes out to grey calx

The Plastic Cloud [Allied,1968]

1. Epistle to Paradise
2. Shadows of Your Mind
3. Art's a Happy Man
4. You Don't Care
5. Bridge Under The Sky
6. Face Behind the Sun
7. Dainty General Rides
8. Civilization Machine



'In 1968, the Plastic Cloud based out of Bay Ridges, Ontario, recorded, quite simply, one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever made. This a record with few equals, full of foreboding melodies and lovely hippie harmonies, as well as some of the most superb and trippiest, Eastern sounding fuzz guitar ever recorded. There is no point singling out a specific track, they are all excellent one is equally as good as the next. Take for example the album centerpiece, the ten-and-a-half-minute You Don't Care, an insane piece of social commentary that features terrific back-of-the-mix fuzz guitar as an elusive focal point to its extended pounding-drum laden instrumental breaks; with a great chorus and a plaintive melody in the verse, it doesn't overstay its welcome, winding its way to a final freak out. Essential psychedelia' ~ hype

one of the hardest pills to swallow about starting a blog smack in the middle of 2010 is the realization that many of me favourite slabs have ample representation elsewhere, which leaves me constantly scouring olden posts on other blogs to insure i'm not unwittingly wasting anyone else's flavour. still, this has gotta be the most exciting age to be delving into sweet sounds as none of this was possible like a decade ago & as a result we have the great fortune to finally hear many of the publications we might've previously only heard [or read] about. unsurprisingly this grower of an album owlready lives on at least 5 other blogs, but they seem to be sharing the same tired rip. here goes a much needed upgrade to cure yr sweltering summerthyme blues. 320 tremulous trills to Ontario, Canada :)

CIAC's electronic magazine

Montreal Uluslarası Çağdaş Sanat Merkezi (CIAC) sanal ingilizce-fransızca bir dergi çıkarmakta. sosyal bilimler ve sanat çalışmalarını buluşturan bir çalışma.

The Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC) is publishing an bilingual [fr + eng] online magazine. a work between arts and social sciences.

sanal şehir üzerine olan 20.,21. ve 22. sayılar ilgiyi fazlasıyla hakediyor. / especially volumes on "the virtual city" 20[architecture] - 21[the political] - 22[public space/private space] are worth of attention.

son sayı için / for the last issue [it is announced that due to a grant cut in this volume texts appeared only in their originals (meaning that some are just in french)]

arşivler için / for archives [ list is in french ]