Last week Mister F and I went up to the Shacklewell Arms in London's trendy Dalston to see the young American noise-a-teers Laurel Canyon.
According to the blurb for their self-titled debut album "the guitars are drenched in an Asheton worshipping haze, melded alongside a Velvets chug and mid-to-late 80s Pacific Northwest guttural/ primal howl... this is American primitive music at its most powerful".
Now I don't know about any of that but they make a splendid racket and deserved a more responsive crowd than they got. Go and cheer them on if they pass through your town.
I have teamed them up with an earlier Laurel to pad things out a bit (not that anything Mr Aitken did could ever be dismissed as padding),
"Tangiers" - Laurel Canyon
"Boogie In My Bones" - Laurel Aitken
From Younng American Noise-a-teers to Young New Mexican Puppeteers - not Tom's original but a German Version for George and Mister F. They know what they did.
Despite not knowing what the original song is I enjoyed that slice of german-mexicana. Other news: did you know that the extremely famous (here, anyway) singer Marco Paulo has died? He is so famous and seemingly admired that even President Marcelo de Sousa paid his respects.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of him but commiserations to you and all his other fans
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