June 2012
30 posts
On August 9th 2012 Japanese companies Studio Warp and Nu Things team up to release a limited edition (300 copies) CD and DVD package entitled Momus in Samoa (Remodel 06). The audio disk contains a 45-minute instrumental composition entitled Samoa Sonata, and the DVD features a visual piece called The Conductor accompanied by a different version of Samoa Sonata expanded to 90 minutes. A release...
I ramble in a slightly drugged-sounding way...
This is wonderful. Chapter 8 of my Book of Japans instructs the reader to follow the route taken by two characters via Google Streetview while listening to a piece of music by Paul Lansky. Well, someone has reconstructed the resulting sights and sounds (“glitch flaneuring”) in a YouTube video entitled Return from bovine time travel:
In Brussels…
…to give an unreliable tour of the Wiels Art Centre…
…where Abel Auer is showing some paintings.
Sweet mint tea is free (it’s an artwork of some kind).
My tour takes as its theme the tyranny of vitality, and begins “When Franz Kafka joined the Velvet Underground…”.
The last sentence is: “Lock all your desires in a...
Cologne, mostly looking at 2000 year-old oil lamps — the iPhones of their time, in terms of product ubiquity and kudos — at the Roman Museum.
Issue 341 of The Wire comes shrink-wrapped with The Wire Tapper 29, a CD compilation including a track by Momus and John Henriksson, Futura Bold, from the Thunderclown album.
Meanwhile, reviews continue to appear of the current album Bibliotek. “Bibliotek… is filled with enough memorable songs and enough death, estrangement, pastoral horror, and hauntological creepiness to make it one of...
In Zurich, mostly at Perla Mode and Motto, June 19th 2012.
Two videos of Momus live in concert at CCA Glasgow on 8th June 2012:
Love Wakes The Devil, Hypnoprism
Death Ruins Everything
There’s a Momus concert in Zurich tonight, 10pm, at Perla Mode: Mark Divo presents Cabaret Vulgaire, Langstrasse 84, Zurich.
Below you’ll find a breakdown into seven audio tracks of the song Farther from the new Momus album Bibliotek. Take the linked mp3s and add or subtract elements, change the order, layer the tracks, do whatever you want. When you have a remix you’re happy with, upload it somewhere and leave a link in the comments section here.
Elements of the song: Bass Chords Drums Versechord...
Momus interview in the new edition of Tank magazine. Blog review of the June 8th show at Glasgow CCA.
In Oban, gateway to the Hebrides…
…I’m sitting waiting for the ferry to Barra…
…when an email from my mother arrives.
She’s had her DNA read from a saliva sample.
It seems we are basically Finnish, with Siberian roots.
Which is interesting, because I’ve always felt rather Asian.
The ferry skirts our more recent ancestral homeland, the island of Mull, on its way...
I’m in the Budapest Ethnographic Museum bookshop.
They have these books of ethnographic dissertations — Dissertationes Ethnographicae — going back to the 1970s.
They’re really cheaply printed, and inside just typewriter-set photo-litho. You can buy them for about 2 euros each.
Later, these volumes lost their initial elegance and became functional and ugly. But...
I’m in Vienna, where I’m performing tomorrow night with the artist Silvi Simon, who will be projecting birds around a glitterball:
I’ll sing Bibliotek songs, particularly those relating to birds, so this:
It’s happening at the Wien Museum, Karlsplatz, at 9pm on Tuesday evening, and it’s free. Also performing, the excellent Kaffe Matthews. Into the City Grand Lux...
May 2012
50 posts
The first review of a new album is always an interesting moment. What will “they” say? Well, I’m pleased to see Bibliotek getting a qualified thumbs-up from Frontiers, a Los Angeles gay paper, which tells its readers I’m “Neil Tennant on massive amounts of opiates”.
