john davis | blue mountains

for most people, if you know john davis at all, it's from his collaboration with lou barlow as folk implosion, a band i first heard via their chocolate monk cassette debut. "everyone" of course knows lou, but here's a later period album from the wispy-voiced other half of the duo.

to me, john's music is all about silence and fragility. my favourite song by him is his contribution to the shrimper compilation "abridged perversion", "i had a dream i was down by the ocean" - it's so dreamily wistful. i only got this album recently - his records are sadly hard to find these days - but on cursory listen it's very much in that vein.

as far as i can tell he hasn't released anything since he left folk implosion in 2000 - i wonder what he's doing now.

lp released by shrimper in 1997.

get it.

various | our salvation is in hand

following on from abridged perversion is this gem of a compilation, stuffed to the gills with lo-fi 4-track songs from the days when people still had 4-tracks. makes me nostalgic for the days of cutting out tape inlays and gluing labels and stuffing jiffy bags full of flyers. in other words the days before the internet came along and stole our innocence.

features my favourite mountain goats song ever, alpha omega. theme park was a great label too.

released in 1995 on theme park.

::: paul nini - down to the floor
::: the bruces - beginning to see the red light fade
::: father - teach us
::: the mountain goats - alpha omega
::: bucknalls - travelsick
::: simon joyner - sorrow floats
::: neil mcclury - untitled
::: national heroes - untitled
::: the losers - she never promised
::: paste - 68x8
::: matthew hattie hein & wham o - new house basement
::: franklin bruno - cat scratch fever
::: steve lindstrom - me and the weatherman
::: m-ways - the last deep mine
::: fungoboat - radio city
::: spacehopper - spoken for
::: mark s - stephen
::: the post - the joy of spring
::: brown tower - bacterial home
::: nick jackman - fucked up & free
::: trewavas - who needs me?
::: yak & - my own fiefdom
::: party of one - hit the north 3
::: the mountain goats - hand ball
::: john davis - waiting for my wife
::: hood - art without precedent or tradition

hit me up. *re-upped at 320mbps*

various | abridged perversion

who remembers shrimper? the tape label that ruled them all? the tape label that put out vinyl and cds? some of them by lou barlow? do you?

why does no one ever stop me in the street and ask me these questions? because with compilations like this one, they should.

released in 1993

::: colonial awards of 1984
::: the extra glens - badger song
::: the buxx - holiday
::: nothing painted blue - big pink heart
::: sentridoh - certain dance - circumstance
::: goosewind - manny's mote
::: shoeface - future shock
::: will simmons - 50 miles
::: insect feelings - zisk
::: mountain goats - the window song
::: junket - tiresome
::: massengil - premature cheese
::: joey burns - do it all the time
::: wckr spgt - fluffy cat
::: punk rock - happiness is a warm gun
::: diskothi-q - pork chop
::: franklin bruno - clean needle
::: halo - fever pitch
::: paste - hips
::: primordial undermind - delerium insomnia cal
::: guffey - creepy
::: refrigerator - map to the stars
::: simon wickham smith - finnish but not finnished (with bill + karl)
::: john davis - i had a dream i was down by the ocean
::: ah bus - fisherman's friend
::: buzzsaw - die rote luft
::: bügsküll - you don't know
::: the jim bishop guitar army - (instigation)
::: carne-a - canker town
::: satnam puppets - guitar in room p.7
::: jive - old family box
::: party of one - throwaway
::: lil' johhny h - incomplete #1
::: lou barlow - revolution #37

i remember dennis callaci.