Monday 10 October 2011

The Red in the Sky......wandering on the dark side...Part 1
















Around the 2:30 mark the chilling fiddle of Jesper Jarold. He pokes his scraping head in and out from time to time. This stuff had a dramatic effect on my teenage brain. Another fiddle riddled number from this 1992 At The Gates album The Red In The Sky Is Ours....if the Death Metal is too much skip to last few minutes for the Swedish fiddle-style piece "The Season To Come"...
















Same era...same DM obssessed corner of Sverige. In Flames' earlier albums prove they weren't always shit and they too made use of the ye olde Swedish fiddle playing. This time from their album Lunar Strain. Another one that blew my teenage mind....fiddle by Ylvah Wahlstedt....





Monday 26 September 2011

The Art of Tony Conrad



Legendary drone violinist Tony Conrad is putting some of his art up for auction to raise money for something via the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn. He's also performing in a trio with Kim Gordon...

http://www.issueprojectroom.org/

Tuesday 13 September 2011

Ecocide...Crusty violin....







Ecocide appear to be some kind of US based Blackened Crust band with some serious Anarchist leanings. Right up your humble narrator's alley. A bit rough around the edges but a very interesting context for the violin that reminds me a lot of the old At The Gates albums like "The Red in the Sky is Ours" which featured violin prominently in their death metal madness.


Anyway found this self titled something or other at this fine blog:
http://r-a-b-m.blogspot.com/

I'm sure they won't mind me sharing it with you and if they do then they should let me know. Here it is: