Day 36. Continuing the quarantine. There’s been a small delay with the CD sleeves for the fanzine. I am very sorry. I expected to mail all orders today but it seems I will have to do it early next week. I believe they should be arriving today in the evening. The good thing is that I’ll have the weekend to do these things.
Some important finds from the past few days:
Hangman’s Beautiful Daughters: A few weeks ago I got the CD retrospective “Smashed Full of Wonder” from Optic Nerve Records and it is a must. It is also available in LP vinyl. But what I found out the other day was that a video was just put together for the song “Out of My Head”. And maybe you missed that too. So be sure to watch it!
Love, Burns: this is the new project by Phil Sutton from Pale Lights. And on this new project he is going solo. He has just put out on Bandcamp 8 songs for his album (or mini-album?) “Fiftieth and Marlborough”. The songs sound amazing, jangly and classy. I hope there is a release of it, even if it is in limited copies.
The Snogs: out now on tape on the label Discontinuous Innovation out of San Francisco is this lo-fi bedroom pop project. It is totally new for me and I am really charmed by this 13 song album titled “Charmless”. Boy/girl vocals, and catchy hooks from this Santa Cruz band.
Gula Gången: who are this band from Stockholm?! 10 days ago they uploaded a whole album called “Spela Allt Från Ditt Hjärta” to Soundcloud and since then it has been in heavy rotation at home! I need to find more info by them. They have some superb tunes!
Pash: lastly a two song cassette release called “Demonstration” on Urban Cowboy Records from Sydney. These two songs by the Sydney band Pash are “Shoplifting” and “Double Date”. The label compares them to Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Talulah Gosh, so that must be a good thing. They label them as a crush-pop band. That I don’t know what it is, but sounds good! We can preview just the first song, “Shoplifting”, and with that we know we are on for a treat!
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Returning to the wonderful German tape compilation “Frischer Morgentau”. Why? Because there are many treasures there of course. In the past I’ve written about the band Schade Schokolade, Die Busfahrer, Die Wurzelsepps, Moosblüten, The Almanacs and Friends Ahoi, all of them contributing a track to this comp! So today I wanted to introduce you to a new band, that if you haven’t heard them, Die Kupferschmiede.
Die Kupferschmiede means the coppersmith in English. A strange choice for a name, right? I think it is pretty cool though. The song they contributed was called “Einsames Wochenende”, which translates to lonely weekend. Who hasn’t had one of those?
Aside from this information my knowledge about the band is zero.
We know a bit about the tape though, stuff I’ve mentioned in the past like that it was released by Steinpilz Tonträger (Stein 1), a label run by Uli Hahndorf, the brother of our friend Peter who runs Twee.net and was the person behind Clarendon Records too.
Supposedly the tape came with a 16 page booklet with info about each of the bands. Maybe someone could help me with that. Get some band members names. Where in Germany where they from. That sort of info. Maybe that could help me track them down as I’d love to know if they have more songs. Can’t be just this one, this wonderful jangly upbeat catchy track.
So yes, any help, will be appreciated!
Edit: My friend Mike scanned the booklet from the “Frischer Morgentau” tape. There is not much info there about the band but two interesting details. First the band hailed from Quickborn. Second the contact address is the same for the label. Does this mean that the person behind the band was Uli Hahndorf?
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