Incredible Bongo Band — Bongo Rock Dave DaviesMetallic Silver Art Reissue Pressed in 2021 There's a fun story behind this album, retold in detail in the liner notes. In 1972, Michael Viner was an executive at MGM Records. Asked to put together some music for the soundtrack of an upcoming B movie horror film, The Thing with Two Heads, he called on songwriter Perry Botkin, Jr., and the two of them whipped up a pair of songs called "Bongo Rock" and "Bongolia." By the middle of 1973, the songs,
Mind Raft in 2010 (Lovepump United) and The Expanding Flower Planet in 2015 (Anticon)
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but the similarity ends there: It's a lame attempt at disco done in by Ike's lazy singing and irritatingly banal lyrics
[Cory Hanson is from Wand]
depicts a prism dispersing light into colour and represents the band's lighting
The production of the album was regularly scuppered by technical problems that erased whole takes from their computer hard drives
Before long we started the mysterious process of building new songs
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Sprain's initial home-recorded forays into minimalistic slowcore resulted in their self-titled EP (2018) that distinguished them from the lo-fi pack through visceral expressions of depressed life
with repeated listens revealing new layers of depth and meaning
a sort of trust fall in reverse
After the fact