É real: o Olivia Tremor Control voltou a existir para além dos shows que fez na Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour no início do ano (vídeo abaixo), e já anunciou turnê pelos próximos meses, que culmina no All Tomorrow’s Parties curado pelo Jeff Mangum, na Inglaterra no final do ano (não confundir com o festival I’ll Be Your Mirror curado pelo Portishead – que chamou o Mangum – que acontece em outubro, nos EUA). Reativou o site, criou página no Feice e vai relançar dois de seus clássicos (ambos top 100 aqui em casa), Dusk at Cubist Castle e Black Foliage em edições cheias de extras e sobras. Que delírio.
Agora é só esperar pelo disco novo.
Sim, Chad Stockfleth está dirigindo um documentário sobre o genial coletivo de bandas dos anos 90 (e, possivelmente, uma das coisas mais legais daquela década). Curte lá:
Ele descreve o projeto:
By the mid-1990s, indie music was in a sorry state. Even the good stuff was obsessed with doubt, aggression and misery. At the same time as the grunge implosion was sucking all the joy out of music, four friends from small-town Louisiana started calling themselves Elephant 6 and tuned into what had been lost: friendship and joy. They got together, swapped tapes, taught each other chords, had visions, wrote songs, formed bands, recruited friends, made classic records, went on tour, had fun, and, over time, changed American music. But to move forward, they had to look backward.
Bill Doss, Will Hart, Jeff Mangum and Robert Schneider formed the Elephant 6 collective in Ruston, La. Their musical touchstones, painfully unfashionable at the time, were the Beatles, the Beach Boys, early Pink Floyd, Love, the Zombies…the daydream/nightmare psychedelia of the late 1960s. The first three bands to coalesce from Elephant 6 were the Apples in Stereo, the Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel, but there were no clear boundaries between projects. The four friends collaborated on everything, and produced some of the decade’s most visionary music, including In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Dusk at Cubist Castle, and Fun Trick Noisemaker, each of them an undisputed classic.
Because it was founded on friendship and cooperation, Elephant 6 was destined to grow. By the end of the decade, Doss, Hart, Mangum and Schneider had gathered dozens of like-minded musicians into the Elephant 6 fold. Some of the bands they formed lasted a day, some lasted a week, some are still making music: Of Montreal, Elf Power, Circulator System, The Music Tapes, The Minders, Beulah, Dressy Bessy, the Essex Green, the Gerbils, and on, and on, and on….
The Elephant 6 story has never been told. Made with the cooperation of the founding members of the collective, this film documents Elephant 6 through exclusive interviews, video archives, found footage, and live performance, following the collective from its beginnings, through its heyday, to its resurgence in the last few years, and finally to the Elephant 6-dominated All Tomorrow’s Parties, in Minehead, England, in the winter of 2011.
“What a beautiful dream,” sang Jeff Mangum, “that could flash on the screen in the blink of an eye and be gone.” “Define a transparent dream,” sang Doss and Hart. “What do you see,” sang Schneider, “when you dream about the future?” You see the past and the present. You see the Elephant 6.
E fala sobre o material que está reunindo nessa entrevista:
“Some of the live performances I’ve found are really good. I’m thankful that someone was there with a camera because those performances would have been lost to time. Getting an intimate look at how these guys create music with all of the esoteric instruments and machinery is quite interesting, too. Also, just learning how genuinely friendly everyone is has been a bit of a surprise”
Agora chore:
Demais! Demais!
Aproveitei a folga para iniciar um experimento.
LCD Soundsystem – “Dance Yrself Clean”
Warpaint – “Undertow”
Totom – “XXXO on the Dock of the Bay”
Cure – “Lovecats”
Young Galaxy – “We Have Everything”
Yeasayer – “O.N.E.”
Los Campesinos – “You! Me! Dancing!”
Guadalupe Plata – “Pobre Mary”
Do Amor – “Perdizes”
Vaccines – “We Are Happening”
Olivia Tremor Control – “No Growing (Exegesis)”
Hawa – “D.A.N.C.E.”
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – “Janglin’ (RAC Remix)”
Bird and the Bee – “Kiss On the List”
Depois de três programas praticamente monotemáticos, vamos de volta à já clássica rotina de seu podcast favorito, com músicas de todas as épocas, nacionalidades e estilos musicais diferentes.
Rita Lee & Tutti Frutti – “Luz del Fuego”
Ultrasom – “Eveready”
La Roux – “In It For the Kill (Lifelike Remix)”
Jupiter Apple – “Collector’s Inside Collection”
Nuuro – “Diamante”
Ike & Tina Turner – “Whole Lotta Love”
Ruído/mm – “Sanfona”
Franz Ferdinand – “Dream Again”
Olivia Tremor Control – “Jumping Fences”
Yeasayer – “Sunrise”
Memory Cassette – “Asleep at a Party”
Javiera Mena – “Cámara Lenta”
Honeycut – “Tough Kid”
Buffalo Springfield – “For What’s Worth”
Nara Leão – “Deixa”
Beck – “MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack”
Phil Collins Big Band – “Sussudio”
Olha essa pérola que o Silvano descolou: nada menos do que um show inteiro da minha banda favorita da Elephant 6, o Olivia Tremor Control, em seu auge, pouco após ter lançado o magnífico Dusk at Cubist Castle. O coletivo, pra quem não conhece, reunia nomes que hoje são verdadeiros bastiões do indie americano, como Elf Power, Of Montreal, Apples in Stereo e, claro, o Neutral Milk Hotel. Psicodelia temporã intravenosa. Aliás, vale dar uma sacada quem é o percussionista desta formação do OTC…
Bom dia.
Beastie Boys – “Pow”
Dave Brubeck Quartet – “Take Five”
Medeski Martin & Wood – “We’re All Connected”
João Gilberto – “É Luxo Só”
Juan Garcia Esquivel – “Bikina”
LCD Soundsystem – “Never As Tired As When I’m Waking Up”
Outkast – “Behold a Lady”
Scissor Sisters – “Invisible Light”
Happy Mondays – “Dennis and Lois”
Rolling Stones – “Memphis, Tennessee”
Apples in Stereo – “Hey Elevator”
Rita Lee & Tutti Frutti – “Cartão Postal”
Olivia Tremor Control – “No Growing (Exegesis)”
Beach Boys – “Let’s Go Away for a While”
Kassin + 2 – “Futurismo”
Mussum – “Chiclete de Hortelã”
Paul McCartney – “Momma Miss America”
Neutral Milk Hotel – “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”
Sebadoh – “Two Years, Two Days”
Já que estamos na Elephant 6…
Tava pensando que essa semana não tinha Vida Fodona? Pensou errado.
Talking Heads – “The Great Curve”
Picón de Mulo – “Ahí Va Otra Vez”
Beastie Boys – “Finger Lickin’ Good”
Of Montreal – “Jimmy”
Scott Walker – “Maria Bethania”
Cornershop – “Good Shit”
George Harrison – “All Those Years Ago”
Stevie Wonder – “I Wish”
Huey Lewis & the News – “I Want a New Drug”
Planet Hemp – “Quem Tem Seda?”
Olivia Tremor Control – “The Opera House”
Pink Floyd – “San Tropez”
Dr. Dre – “Fuck Wit Dre Day”
Zombies – “Beechwood Park”
Paul McCartney – “Eat at Home”
Radiohead – “Bangers and Mash”
Deus é pai!
Entre Floripa e Brasília, tive um tempinho pro bom & velho VF. Enjoy.
Beatles – “Flying”
Céu – “Sonâmbulo”
Emicida – “Pra Não Ter Tempo Ruim”
Franz Ferdinand – “Twilight Omens”
Arctic Monkeys – “Potion Approaching”
Lou Barlow – “The One I Call”
Stela Campos – “Se Você For, Onde Você For”
Imperial Teen – “Imperial Teen”
Hail Social – “Cherry Cola Funk”
Weezer – “(If You Are Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To”
Shawn Lee – “Playboy Bunny (feat. Darondo)”
Otto – “6 Minutos”
Cidadão Instigado – “Como as Luzes”
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot – “Bonnie & Clyde”
Air – “You Make it Easy”
3 na Massa – “Tatuí (com Karine Carvalho)”
Olivia Tremor Control – “Define a Transparent Dream”