Listening.
I’m about to start writing and recording the next One Warm Spark record. Here’s the stuff that I keep coming back to, lately, to give you an idea of what the material may sound like:
Animal Collective – “My Girls” (Live)
Boris / Merzbow – “Flower Sun Rain” (Live)
Peter Brötzmann – “Machine Gun”
Kate Bush – “Hello Earth”
Alice Coltrane – “Isis and Osiris” (Live)
Gastr Del Sol – “Each Dream is an Example”
Harvey Milk – “The Anvil Will Fall”
PJ Harvey – “Hardly Wait” (Demo)
Melvins – “Night Goat”
Merzbow – “Hachiman Taro No Uta”
Mogwai – “Travel is Dangerous”
Joanna Newsom – “Monkey and Bear”
Jim O’Rourke – “Halfway to a Threeway”
Original Silence – “If Light Has No Age, Time Has No Shadow”
Iggy Pop – “Neighborhood Threat”
The Raincoats – “Shouting Out Loud”
Ratatat – “Breaking Away”
Roxy Music – “In Every Dream Home a Heartache”
Run DMC – “It’s Like That”
The Smiths – “What Difference Does It Make?”
Sun Ra – “Space is the Place Suite” (Life is Splendid)
Throbbing Gristle – “IBM”
Mary Timony – “Fire Myself”
The Velvet Underground – “What Goes On” (Live)
Kanye West – “Paranoid”
Wire – “On Returning”
Robert Wyatt – “Free Will and Testament”
X-Ray Spex – “I Can’t Do Anything”
The songs above point to more vocals and more distortion. Beyond that… who knows.
How about you? What are you listening to?