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In choosing the fourth and last in our series of extracts from the Anachronisms' Dead Sexy, we felt impelled to choose an example from yet another genre the Anachronisms have mastered: the topical song.The musician is of the world as well as in it. The commodification of Western music by corporate interests, though, has resulted in musicians acting as if they are in the world, but not of it. The lives of the musicians the corporate interests favour become realizations of the musicians' own fantasies (did madonna come to mind just then?), while the Anachronisms are more concerned that most people are forced to live in someone else's fantasy.
The plight of the western Canadian concerned the Anachronisms' Carlos C. Carlos so much that he wrote a song about it and the Anachronisms recorded it. The stark arrangement allows the description of the oppression of the west to be presented as forcefully as possible. While the focus of the recording is the lyrics, the slow tempo echoes the relaxed lifestyle of the West, and the chorus's performance displays the individualism and lack of interest in elitist tradition (such as key) so characteristic of western Canada.
Ballad of the Western Whiners is about 4.0 megabytes in size. To download it click here (or right-click and save the link). You may download one copy for personal non-commercial use only. All rights to this selection are reserved to the Anachronisms.
The third in our series of extracts from the Anachronisms' Dead Sexy, is a song with lyrics by our own C. C. Thistlethwaite. Carlos Carlos' lead vocal captures the brooding menace of the lyrics alive, while Dulcimer Zither's second vocal, with its touch of the Notre Dame Mass, adds the perfect note of concomitant bewilderment. Hector LaPaunche contributes a riveting violin solo, and Sid "Screamin' Tex" Taxation works out pretty good on the additional percussion.As so often with the Anachronisms' recordings, though, the real star is the lyric. To the Anachronisms, lyrics seem to be gems for which they create the perfect settings. To them, a song is a song – it has lyrics so that it can say something. This lyric should freak you right out. If it don't, look in the yellow Pages for your nearest voodoo practitioner, because somebody have turned you into a zombie.
You may download one copy of "The Botulism Jive" for personal non-commercial use only. All rights to this selection are reserved to the Anachronisms.
The file is about 3.1 megabytes in size. To download it click here (or right-click and save the link).
This week we're offering the second in our series of extracts from Dead Sexy, the new CD by the distinguished metamusic group The Anachronisms. We believe that after listening to "Love Cheese" many of you will think it should have been named "Head Cheese," because it really plays with your head. "It can be orange or white or yellow/ It can be old or young/ But whether it's sharp or mellow/ It always feels right on my tongue." Oh, wow.The comparison of life's supreme emotion to cheese has a long tradition in Western civilization, beginning with this song. And why has love never been identified with cheese before? Is it because until the last quarter-century there were no Anachronisms, maîtres de fromage as well as maîtres d'amour? You be the judge.
"Love Cheese" is sung by Sid "Screamin' Tex" Taxation with misterioso keyboard accompaniment by his co-composer Carlos Carlos. The cut concludes with a violin solo by Hector LaPaunche.
You may download one copy for personal non-commercial use only. All rights to this selection are reserved to the Anachronisms.
The file is about 3.2 megabytes in size. To download it click here (or right-click and save the link).
Our latest musical offering is the first of a series from Dead Sexy, the new CD by the distinguished metamusic group The Anachronisms. "No One Knows the Pain of a Man on a Plane Writing Cheques" starts out as a straightforward rock anthem, with Hector LaPaunche handling lead vocal. However, just when we've settled down wondering if it is true that no one knows the pain of man on a plane writing cheques, and who this man is, anyway, and who he's writing cheques to, the lads transform the song. The standard homophonic-style lead vocal all of a sudden becomes a shifting, complex group effort, with Hector, Dulcimer Zither, and Sid "Screamin' Tex" Taxation throwing lead and back-up roles back and forth between themselves like the Harlem Globetrotters toying with the Washington Generals. The foundation of the piece is the heavy keyboard work of Carlos Carlos, with Sid's simple, ethereal guitar figures and Dulcimer and Hector's colour-laden chords floating between it and the masterly interplay of the vocal parts. Which is all to say it's way freaking heavy. Does anyone know the pain of a man on a plane writing cheques? Listen and find out.You may download one copy for personal non-commercial use only. All rights to this selection are reserved to the Anachronisms.
The file is about 3.4 megabytes in size. To download it click here (or right-click and save the link).
We were agonizing over what our last selection should be from Next, the latest CD from the distinguished metamusic group The Anachronisms, when the great Zinedine Zidane solved the problem for us. In one of those coincidences which show how great artists on all fields are simultaneously aware of the important new trends as they surge ahead of the cultural curve, Zidane lived out one of the tracks on Next, which was released three months before the World Cup. Or had he simply been listening to Next and realized that as his great career reached its end he could do no better than rendre hommage to the great metamusicians? We may never know, but we can still enjoy the opening track on Next – "Whom Shall I Head Butt?"You may download one copy for personal non-commercial use only. All rights to this selection are reserved to the Anachronisms.
The file is about 1.7 megabytes in size. To download it click here.
For a change of pace, this week's excerpt from Next, the groundbreaking release by distinguished metamusical group The Anachronisms, is a haunting love ballad. Sid Taxation sings "O Condoleezza," which he co-wrote with fellow bandmember Carlos C. Carlos. The arrangement showcases the touching lyric, which Sid delivers with a charming sincerity. Carlos wraps everything up perfectly with a neat, concise keyboard solo. Who is Condoleezza? The guys aren't letting on, but whoever she is, she obviously means a lot to at least two of them. May the course of true love run smooth, just this once.You may download one copy for personal non-commercial use only. All rights to this selection are reserved to the Anachronisms.
The file is about 1.9 megabytes in size. To download it click here.
This week's excerpt from Next, the latest release by distinguished metamusical group The Anachronisms, is "Phosphorous," a Carlos Carlos composition sung by the composer. The point of this song is the lyric. Instead of descending into the romanticization or demonization which characterize other performers' songs about its subject, "Phosphorous" offers us a long look into the depths of the generic soul. The restrained arrangement (the only solo a very staid one by Sid Taxation) focusses attention on the words and the horror they unveil.You may download one copy for personal non-commercial use only. All rights to this selection are reserved to the Anachronisms.
The file is about 2.2 megabytes in size. To download it click here.
Next, the latest release by distinguished metamusical group The Anachronisms, represents such an advance in the understanding of metamusic that over the next few weeks we will be presenting several excerpts from it. This week's selection, "Ride My Love Cycle," is an illustration of a current school of metamusical thought which defines metamusic as something like music.Is "Ride My Love Cycle" music? Is it metamusic? Is it a bunch of guys just goofing around? Is there any real difference between those three things? You be the judge – metamusic is nothing if not democratic, which may be one way in which it's not like music.
Sid Taxation (formerly Sid Herpes) sings this composition which he co-wrote with fellow band member Carlos C. Carlos – or does he recite it? And how about that percussion part?
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