Talking of Mark Clifford, has anyone else heard the new Disjecta EP? It was available through Warpmart for a while, now I think you can just get it through his record label (
http://www.polyfusiarecords.com/index.html <
http://www.polyfusiarecords.com/index.html> ). One of the tracks on it also pops up on the Autechre ATP comp under a different name.
It's pretty good if you ask me - fairly abstract, fractured stuff, but it has that nice warm samped guitar sound on a lot of it. Sounds a bit like a glitchy Brian Eno in places, around the time he was working with Robert Fripp.
Let us know if you manage to track down any live Seefeel stuff - I loved that band and I'd be interested to know if they were able to replicate that sort of stuff live. Shame they're not about any more.
Still, it's only another 7 years or so to wait 'til the next MBV record.
Dan.
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 03:03:07 -0700
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
From: "Aaron McCammon" <plosive@hotpop.com>
Subject: Re: [idm] scala
Message-ID: <001801c33580$d1a9d480$0c0a0a0a@stumm>
quoted 8 lines Yes, Beauty Nowhere was quite beautiful and dirty. I agree that the
> >Yes, Beauty Nowhere was quite beautiful and dirty. I agree that the
> >Heart of Glass cover is excellent. I think Mark Clifford is quite
> >underrated as a producer.
>
> Scala's version of "Heart of Glass" was excellent and Mark Clifford is
> underrated, but he had nothing to do with Scala. Scala was the
> remaining three members of Seefeel with producer/friend Mark Van Hoen.
>
Right,. and Mark Clifford's project is Sneakster (w/ Sophie Hinkley). Pseudo-Noveau, the only full length Sneakster album i know of, has its good moments but overall Scala is/was more interesting.
Seefeel was one of those projects that will probably never reach the interesting levels like those they achieved before they split. Another band this reminds me of with the same fate is Spacemen3. Spectrum and Spiritualized will never come close to meeting what spacemen3 did. All in all tho, its nice to still have em all around and enjoy their post group work.. It's kind of odd. (warning: going non-electric
here) Bands of the time of seefeel that often drew comparisons suffered similar fates also.....MBV (snowpony? s'ok, just debbie tho), JAMC (freeheat/lazycame..bleh).
hasn't seefeel done some live reunion shows? if so i need to find some recordings ;]