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BryanOrMan - demotape
(3tx 1999 self-produced) - Imagine David Bowie with a 4 tracks
before he began singing life on mars, then a sort of 'plim plom plam'
sunday morning-like by Velvet Underground and a 60s
lovesong like retrò taste.. Then imagine certain notes that if pronounced
in perfect series must break the heart (never happened?): growing up song,
for a blindmans child, the round tail . I worn out this
demotape, listening to it i don't know how many times by day, - i'm afraid
i can spoil it, or that my cassette player eat it. Bryanorman
have a beautiful voice, it takes its roots 
into yr head and U can't forget its
resounding cadence, as if it could swing on yr brain. 3 gtr-driven songs,
with a delicacy close to be dangerous.. touching in its simplicity.. I put
a couple of stupid questions: "who-are-You? J: The Bryanorman
line up on the cassette is Me [James] on
singing and xylophone and guitar, my friend Barnsey on guitar
and xylophone and singing, and a girl called Elizabeth
on organ and some singing. K: How many hearts have You broken with
these 3 songs? J: I'm not sure whose hearts we've broken, but
their are lot's of interviews and reviews with us sprinkled all over the web,
some are actually worth reading!... Search for FROG OF DESTINY fanzine for
the first one.. (http://kryssss.tripod.com/fod/bryanorman-done.htm)"
– James tells me Bryanorman is flowed into another
new project called Beam Ships and soon there'll be some news.. Moreover,
he plays in some london clubs with a band called Aeronaut/Silvery
- Info: james, 8 harvest road, southampton, so53 4hf, uk - beamships@hotmail.com
__by yrkomakino@gmail.comPao Mice
Mother Energy - Big Pig (10 trx, cd
P.N.T.S.A. autoprod.) - Sincerely? Frantic. He, Simone, plays every
single instrument you can hear: from voice to gtrs, bs, keyb, cello, drms,
percussions, signing musics & his crazy lyrics. He gives to the light
an own label naming it prodotto non testato sugli animali (that is:
product not tested on animals). His voice gave me a strange embarrassment..
what kind of music does he play? Oh god.. it's a soup with metal & melodicmetal
ingredients, some heavy gtrs sometimes smothered by soft pauses,
- an italian sung mixed with
english, - but the scaring thing more than anything else is the continue use
of the pitch effect on the voice.. as example star trek.. A sort of
pantera meets guns & roses (brrr!!) and alice in chains'
singer.. Maybe i should guess there is a background irony in his purposes,
- on the contrary i cannot find the reason.. anyway, very faraway from KomakIno's
tastes.. In a couple of songs Clara Donà sings.. technically angelical
voice.. Every songs has some lines on the booklet to introduce them [.] To
notice the Cd package, among a tetta and a big pig: a picture (i guess) of
Simone in yoga position with red slippers.. see above.. Well, as You can read
i cannot understand his intentions, anyway he's bravo if You look his work
under a technical point of view.. but what is or what can arrive/mean technique
in the music without the shining ?.. Neuro: Simone Cossignani - v.
Giuseppe Verdi, 15 - 61020 - Gallo (pesaro/urbino) - mother_energy@libero.it
Some Men - Come Tomorrow Come (cd single, 3tx,
temper scent rec 1998) - What a name. Well, a little generic, and surely it's
not simple catching info about Them on the web, as if i would want search
for The Names. Anyway, - from Birmingham, Some Men are not so
simple to describe. Let's begin saying that i like Them, and i see Them as
if They were ready to start on some undefined starting point. Well,
they look like they have a good potentiality to envelope, - for example let's
talk about bombshell, - it's a good song with a cool sung,
quasi-clash like, with a bass always leading, soiled with a
chorus effect, assisted by a gtr resound on a delay. The title track gives
the impression to have been performanced on a stage in the middle of a desert
land, where minimalistic sounds spacing all around, - this song has got a
spirit more deeply rooted in new wave music, and it looks like a discreet
visiting card, that maybe needs some confirmations. Maybe they should need
another gtr, or, better, a more wicked attitude on the bombshell direction.
Soon a site will be on line with several birmingham bands, (http://www.newbrummusic.fsnet.co.uk/,
newbrummusic@talk21.com ), and Some
Men will feature with some mp3, worth to be heard. Waiting for their next
épreuve. Info: tom bradshaw – 89 burford road – kingstanding –
birmingham – b44 8ed - england __ bye yrkomakino@gmail.compaolo mice
Tzukor Bila Smert - S/t 24 tx (cd - 99 - snowdonia & mizmaze prod.)Here u R Also for this month some Snowdonia news! This time in collaboration with a brand new label called Mizmaze, milan (italy) based. They inaugurate this brotherhood co-producing Tsukor Bila Smert (in english Sugar With Death), ecleptic polish band. NOw-wave? Wow wave? Avant-retro-guarde? Maybe it's like that, maybe not! Band 's sonorous directives , leaded by the singer-poet Svitlana Ohrimenko, have their roots into the folk musics of the countries of the far-est (ukraina-wave?=?), where piano, organ, trumpets and various nick-nacks create bare & prickly lullabies, where the voluptuous Svitlana's voice pompously flyes. Ideal sound Trk for yr last passover. Great. - snowdonia@ctonline.it ___By Bernie
Crush 22 - I feel to
envy Crush 22 Their pop vein frailty. From gainesville,
florida, They shine like a flame as beautiful as frail, ethereal and delicate,
They shine under a particular light, drawing or awakening dancing shadows
into listeners' head. At the lyrics Estelle (keyb), whose dreamy
voice recalls a soul lost between Stereolab and My Bloody Valentine, 
- together with Mario
(i guess), (he plays gtr too) who seems to be a weak/intangible entity, +
Josh (drms) and Roy (bs). They released only wrapped around,
an oneiric fly into space abysses, edited on a vinyl, yearbook comp.,
on claire de leon rec. This trk as other 5 songs are mp3, available
for free on www.mp3.com.
These feelings looks like a french pop version of love will tear
us a part; and if it wasn’t for this holds inside its-self
a winter impression. Keyboards style have an 80s/new wave taste (unsatisfied),
and everything is deeply lovable. As i can read, Crush 22
had a brief 7 months life in 98, then They split up, flowing into brittle
stars (shelflife rec) [read
an interview with Them], le
tigre and argentina.
__by yrkomakino@gmail.compao mice
Ro_robot - Mannequin (demotape,
4tx, sept 98, self-produced) - Well, i have to confess that i 
prefer
this demotape than the cd, - this because here the sound is more compact &
homogenic, breathless, showing a stronger rage, wilder, - i refer for example
to the whispers on new medicine. As what regards stereo matters, -
well, the only difference is in the circular shape of the cd, as this tape
is recorded very very well. For whom don't know yet Ro-robot, well they are
a good holland power trio, playing a sort of post punk music here very chaotic.
Two singers (gtr & bs) share here cool songs, - and i state again that
i'm convinced of the Joy Division influence (despite their disagreement),
on bass gtr and vcls. Well, they have some good ideas, and i'm curious to
see them live & loud.. Info: RO-roBOT's website (there
are some mp3's), waandersm@texim.eurodis.com,
ro-robot – lansinkstraat 10 – 7481 Jp Haaksbergen – Netherlands
----> by yrkomakino@gmail.compao mice
Loomer - World tripped blue
(98 - cd, evileye rec) - Their name recalls to some lucky people a My
Bloody Valentine's song. Well, anyway i think this san francisco trio
doesn't have much in common with Them. But, staring from a song as i don't
know what you want from me (my fave one), there the keybs look like they
have attended a kiss me kiss me kiss me high school, teacher sir. Robert
Smith, lesson 
about one more time. Well, if
this idea was right, well, nothing to add, - you know, i adore when something
(Someone in this case) purely borns from a song i love - otherwise, well,
what a chance! Let's add to all this some episodes of a gtr à la Cocteau
Twins (when it's not distorted), some drms often electronic, some synth,
and a femal voice hanging over an etheric plan. Their music could wear the
word shoegazing, - it's so leaden & nocturnal. Maybe an error for
Them could be to bet only on the delicate hands of Lynda Mandolyn (voice),
or on the unique brightness of Her soul, whose beautiful voice sometimes remembers
of a Bilinda Butcher_direction. Well, Hugh Caley (gtr, bass,
drums, synths, sequencing) and Serge Vladimiroff (gtr, bass, synths,
seqncg), for example, seem to play on i'm coming down just only to
give a pretext to Lynda for singing with her dreaming voice. They have
only released world tripped blue cd ('98), for the evil eye rec
(www.zun.com/evileye),
and a cd single (shine, you always shine), but on web there are available
for free several mp3 (look on www.mp3.com/loomer).
bye yrkomakino@gmail.comPao Mice