Setting Sun New Interviews

Dear all;
These all have recently posted on ‘Setting Sun’ as interviews – More on the way – both acts are excellent although in completely different ways:

Solypsis aka James for example is probably one of the wildest acts ‘Setting Sun’ has ever had the chance to listen to let alone interview. This is for people who Aphex Twin or Kid 606 rule, but even some of his stuff makes them look tame!

Vialka in contrast are a very different kind of beast altogether, formed around a French singing drummer and a Canadian guitarist who make music which is certainly not like the White Stripes – indeed seeming to forge their own musical language in impro sets which Marylise sounds like a howling banshee or on their albums which for some reason they remind me a bit of Stereolab minus the cheesy synths and the crap pop in the sense they are their own people..

Both acts are recommended… Check them out on ‘Setting Sun’ – http://www.geocities.com/aen1mpo if you can

There is at least five other interviews pending at the moment – September and October I think are going to be busy months for interviews here.
Cheers
AEN

New Reviews for DIH and M.A.N.

Dear all;
My pal, Thrill Racer posted this review of the new M.A.N. self titled CD and the forthcoming DIH CD’ Internal Conflict’ on her website… Cheers, Thrill for the honest nature of your review.
Cheers AEN

M.A.N. - S/t / D.I.H. - Suicide (I meant forever) split album:

With the M.A.N. album we have an English chap, Andy M., speaking poetry over Andy N’s background soundcapes and mixes.

Andy N’s work is solid as usual, but sometimes Andy M’s deliveries get on my nerves. On "Sea Song 1" I can tell he’s making his story up as he goes along. Sometimes he pauses mid-line, then repeats the last phrase he spoke, like he’s buying time to think of the next line.

Check out this line: "I saw you--while I was there sitting on my rock; I was sitting on my rock wondering where my life was, where my life had been, and where it was about to go." He puts on a tender inflection while saying "where my life was", but the listener can’t buy that he’s having these deep existential thoughts.

First he was standing underneath the cliffs, then he saw someone who didn’t see him; he tried to catch up with this person, but the waves prevented him from doing so. Then he says he saw this person while he was sitting on his rock having these deep feelings about being ignored by someone who he saw and didn’t see him back.

The next track, "Piece for Nico," sounds more prepared. Andy M. is reciting a word association type of thing. "Spam, javelin, stiffy." See where he’s going?

Andy N. mixed this track well; it sounds real professional. Even though this CD is home-produced, I can see this track getting more exposure, like playing during the intro scenes in a movie. A comedy. Sound-track makers should really try discovering different stuff from the underground.

With the D.I.H. album we have Andy N., this time, speaking the poetry over the soundscapes. He sometimes swallows his words so the words are less clear than with M.A.N., but Andy likes to get guest vocals in sometimes. I (yes, me) spoke a reverby version of "And the Rest is Silence" over one of Andy N’s more warpy sci-fi soundscapes. One of my favorite D.I.H. tracks with guest vocals ("Brown Eyes") goes all the way back to their first demo, "Further." The mix really works out with the laughing voice. D.I.H. do tons of work, including a Christmas album every year (last year’s included "The Holly & The Ivy.") Visit http://www.geocities.com/aen1mpo

Robots with Electric Brains

Dear all;
Don’t you know if any of you read a zine called Robots with Electronic Brains (www.robotsandelectronicbrains.co.uk) a long standing electronical / weird bits and pieces fanzine that has proved a massive influence on ‘Setting Sun’ – my own webzine (http://www.geocities.com/aen1mpo) over the years by the simple factor it covers and explores all kinds of sometimes un-usual and in some cases downright weird music and has resulted in a number of acts being interviewed for ‘Setting Sun’ over the past few years namely Everygreen Days, Guitare Brothers, Horowtiz, Japhy Ryder and Trilemma to name but a few.
Anyway, I received issue 16 of the fanzine only the other day and Jimmy – it’s editor / chief hack etc had pubished a little thought I had wrote for the celeberation of the 10th year of Robots and Electronic Brains.

I will be creating a journalism section for the writings side of my fanzine as I have wrote a number of articles over the years and it will be cool to include them as examples of my style of factual writings but in the meantime, here is my extract which I wrote for the magazine
‘When I first tried saying what Robots means to me I wrote a long answer about how I felt it championed the underground in a way that the mainstream press didn’t, but Robots goes deeper than that
Then I wrote about how Robots had affected my life and website, Setting Sun set up after I read my first issue of Robots. It encouraged me to keep on challenging, find new bands and artists to interview, but Robots goes deeper than that.

I thought about writing about the free CD and the way I always hurriedly place it in my stereo. I am not sure what I am going to get, but still keen enough to jump in and worry about the conquences later on, but Robots goes deeper than that.

Robots is more like a dear friend who you hear from, never frequently enough with all kinds of surprises, some of which you’ll love, some not’

Long may it run for another 10 years!
Cheers
AEN