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July 11, 2006
Vetiver Revisited
Andy Cabic's Vetiver is playing at Kings tomorrow night. When Vetiver came through this area two summers ago, I took the opportunity to share my general enthusiasm for Andy's various musical projects past and present (Vetiver, Devendra Banhart, Tussle, The Raymond Brake, DJing at El Rio). In that post I also included a link to an MP3 of The Raymond Brake's awesome Cognitive Mapping Vol. II contribution.
This time around, Andy's touring band includes Sanders Trippe (far right in the photo above, wearing the cowboy hat) and Brent Dunn (in the back, wearing the blue jacket), both formerly of the vastly underappreciated Greensboro rock geniuses Rebar. So I'm going to once again use a Vetiver show as motivation for posting a track off of Cognitive Mapping Volume II. Here's Rebar's "Das Math Girl", aka "the pissing-on-the-floor song":
Rebar - "Das Math Girl" (3:03, 4.20 MB)
I posted Dave Brylawski's CogMapII track after UNC won the NCAA Championship last April. So even though I'm the only one counting here, that makes three CogMapII tracks down and twenty-three more to go. At this rate the whole thing will be online by 2029. Or who knows, maybe a lot sooner than that...
Back to Vetiver....the new album To Find Me Gone is shimmeringly gorgeous, a really nice progression from the 2004 debut. The Midheaven/Revolver site has an MP3 of the song "Double" available for download right now. The MP3 file is confusingly mislabeled and mistagged as a Jel track(!), but here's the correct link:. Link has been fixed, MP3 now properly tagged:
Vetiver - "Double" (5:15, 6.01 MB)
One of Vetiver's opening acts tomorrow night is Danny Vaughn's NONCANON project. NONCANON was great as a one-person solo thing before the Analogue reunion at 506 last fall (oops, guess I missed that obvious opportunity to post an MP3 of Analogue's "Goofball"...). Now NONCANON is apparently a two-piece that features the considerable percussion skills of Rob Koegler. Should be worth checking out, for sure.
Posted by Tim at July 11, 2006 08:25 PM
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after all your talk about cognitive mapping vol. 2 i finally decided to track down a copy. god bless ebay- $4 and change, shipped...
any other old triangle comps i should be searching for?
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at July 12, 2006 10:02 AM
Let me know if they break out a Vetiverized version of "The Burn That Is On Me".
Posted by: Stuart at July 12, 2006 11:18 AM
Other old NC comps, hmm.....if you dig oddball sounds and audio tape-fuckery, the Wifflefist Scattered and Smothered CD from 1995 is really good. Jettison's Falling Off The Planet from 1993 is a really nice look at bunch of early 90s bands that didn't get as much attention as the better-known Merge bands. I remember Detox's Pyloric Waves (1993) being kind of uneven but it did have some good stuff on it, not to mention rare tracks from Superchunk, Polvo, and Erectus Monotone. Oh, and Ross Grady put out a Richard Hell tribute CD (Who The Hell) and a "live on WXDU" CD (Tower of Power), both of which are filled with local acts (including my old band, even.)
Posted by: Tim at July 15, 2006 01:40 PM
What's up, Timbaross?
All that talk of CogMap III has me hankering after an mp3 of Polvo's live cover of 'Fly Like an Eagle'. Am I misremembering, or don't you have a recording of that somewhere?
Posted by: archie at August 8, 2006 02:04 PM
Yup, here's the first little bit of Polvo's show at Mergefest '94:
http://www.tubafrenzy.org/weblog/mp3/Polvo%20-%20FlyLikeAnEagle,%20Hummus.mp3
Posted by: Tim at August 12, 2006 12:57 PM