Night Watch
Sunday January 7th, 2018 with Dav Fot
H de Heutz!! Fet.Nat.! Hemmingway! Moths and Locusts! TBWNIAS! Grails! Hampton Grease Band!
We start the first Nightwatch of 2018 with a bang - and features galore! I was tight for cash before Xmas, so my pent-up music-acquisition urges went unfulfilled until recently, when I was able to get a few of the releases that were nibbling at the edges of my consciousness (like a handful of new local releases), and a few chance-finds that made my year (already!).
| Starting out with two tracks each from two new (ish) ottawa bands from each of their latest releases. These bands are definitely something to catch live! |
| REL FVEY H de Heutz - The Natural World 
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| Non-Member H de Heutz - The Natural World
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| Trust Cops Fet Nat - Gaoler
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| Le Rictus de Geolier/Cible du Malfrat Fet Nat - Gaoler
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| The next two tracks are from a new release from a Toronto band, a digital-collage project - surprisingly chill for the Nightwatch, but too well-done to ignore. Then we hit a few miscellaneous tracks (definitely NOT beat/chill! :) ), to get us on an even keel before the next few features. |
| Ocean Hues Hemingway - Memoirs
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| Memoirs Hemingway - Memoirs
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| The Fall of Siagon This Heat - First |
| Vitus Dance Virgil Moorefield - Transformations |
| Spicy Spiders Space Invaders & Nik Turner - Plays the Sonic Space Opera |
| Time to delve into some neo-psych, starting out with 2 tracks from a prolific Toronto band, and an LP of rarities/outakes from local meisters, The Band Whose Name is a Symbol (TBWNIAS hereafter). |
| Acid Cloud (Part 1) Moths and Locusts - Intro/Outro
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| Acid Cloud (Part 2) Moths and Locusts - Intro/Outro
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| Eastern Teutonic Curfew TBWNIAS - Cosmic Curios
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| Finishing the 'regular '(heh) part of the Nightwatch with a few tracks from an LP that was released in 2008 by Portland Oregon's Grails. 'Take Refuge in Clean Living' an LP that saw the crystallization their sound, IMHO. |
| Stoned at the Taj Again Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living |
| Take Refuge Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living |
| Clean Living Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living |
| We finish with a full-2xLP feature on one of the 'chance finds' I referred to earlier - the Hampton Grease Band. This album is one of those LPs I had never heard of, despite the fact that it is many-storied. Very hard to find (and you can tell this one is well-played - there is a LOT of surface noise on it, hope it doesn't bother the sensitive listener....), it's been hailed as a jam-band classic, fronted by Col. Bruce Hampton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Hampton), who was active in the music scene in Atlanta GA., mentoring a lot of 'freak scene'and jam bands, eventually passing away on May 1st of last year. I find it a great accomplishment... and, since it's a hard one to find, I play it for you, in its 1.5-hour entirety. I generally don't like to do a final feature that is quite THAT long... but this is a special'' LP, and one that deserves a good accolade. |
| Halifax Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat |
| Maria Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat |
| Six Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat |
| Evans (a: Egyptian Beaver; b: Evans) Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat |
| Lawton Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat |
| Hey Old Lady and Bert's Song Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat |
| Hendon (a: Spray Paint; b: Major Bones; c: Sewell Park; d: Improvisation) Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat |
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