May 2005

Future Lisa : No Head for you (Self Release).
"I know you love me more
than I love you..."
from Love You Less"
The album opens on a slow, dark Cure-like mood that will not swing widly. "My Limits" sets the tone of the piece: from confidential to surrealistic narratives/confidences. The tracks are usually minimalist: a piano/keyboard, bass, drums, and always, always this magnificent, strong voice with an unmistakable accent. Nothing short of musical literature: a collection of short stories between sanity and madness (or is it mere sincerity). Future Lisa performs a powerful artisitic personality with its share of humour ("I need a pony boy of my own, my needs have grown", Pony Boy), heart breaks ("Since you've gone constant pain getting down (...) I need a new heart, one that won't break or make me want to hurl" Heart Transplant) or glimpses of hopeful philosophy -after all- ("I zombified myself thinking my future stretched out b4 me, never realizing that my future is now" Future is Now). A trip into a weird world beyond taboos (Autistic Lovers, all drums and schizophrenic-like vocals), within passions.
And more precisely, a word on Future Lisa's Concept
I feel at any time it's possible to disappear into another identity.......
We could become someone else if we choose to....
We could create a whole new past and with it a new future.
I can be whoever I want to be.....
We can all be whoever we want to be....
http://www.futurelisa.dnswh.com/

The Shaggs : Philosophy of the World (Third World).
You won't believe your ears (or eyes, for that matter)! Once upon a time, in the very end of the 60s, 3 sisters recorded songs one of them had written. It was like traditional Apalachian folk music & teen rock'n'roll spirit in one. It was out of tune, out of beat, the 2 guiatrs/drums/vocals are almost NEVER playing together. But still, still, there is something fascinating about the Shaggs, this monument of "arboriginal rock" as it was described -and no, it does not say it all... It was apparently daddy who insisted on their recording, hoping for popularity, a tour. Daddy's own private dream was not completely broken by harsh reality, though: his daughters made it up to Franck Zappa's top 3 list (he told Playboy in 70s, at a time when 2/3 of the US population was dropping acid, it seems... yes, it is nostalgia), to Kathleen Hannah's and other Olympian Artqueens a bit later. Anyway, you really have to hear it to believe it, and you definitely should listen, it's an anthology of popular culture! The Slits, the Raincoats, all the early Bikini Kills, + post punk, riot women performances sound like expert virtuosos after you've heard the Philosophy of the World. Welcome the Shaggs in your record collection: women in punk 10 years before punk - oh sweet 60s!

Also check out No Evil, Morgan+Takamine, they have two songs on Urørt site at http://www11.nrk.no/urort/user/?id=6805. Hope Sandoval's style and guitars of soft despair, simply beautiful. Numb, over and over. snoevil@hotmail.com

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