The Listening Club - 15th January 2023

Hey folks,

Hope you're all doing okay. Wet as hell here in Amsterdam, seems like it's not stopped raining all week, so hunkering down indoors with something warm (cat) and tasty (beer) has been the order of the day, and maybe a little inevitable browsing of holiday websites too... le sigh.

Last Sunday, o my folks we did partake of the 2022 #FestiveVortex and, what do you know, it was another mighty fine mess of tunes. Thanks to everyone who chipped in one or two, it seems harder every year to blend the range, but, shucks, it always seems to work! (phew). 

Looking back to last year, we see @soundclamp holdling the frisbee and readying themselves for tonight's debut pick with this to say by way of introduction...

"It’s the mid-1990s and Japanese noizu (ノイズ) has captured the imagination of Westerners across a variety of underground music scenes. Today’s pick is the debut solo LP of this multi-instrumentalist who was already enjoying the fruits of being in a now famous Japanese psychedelic freak-out group. Mixing traditional Japanese folk music with a flair for psych-fueled jamming, punctuated by weirdo howling at the moon interludes, makes for a rather unique, yet compelling, listen. It's as if someone spilled a bit of their Bloody Mary on your chocolate peanut butter cup. But you know you love it."

Right then, download is here, stream is below:

See you 8pm GMT tonight.