I used to be a girl with a video camera. Videos from the early 90s taken with my Canon hi8 recorder. 50% of dead label persona non grata and 100% harmonica noise joke Tico Puta.
So you're the person behind Persona non Grata, from New York right? Your label's release Live Shizuka is my favorite Shizuka release other than their studio album Heavenly Persona. Interesting Shizuka was your label's first release right. Also I was under the impression Live Shizuka was only released in 1995, but now that you wrote it was in 1994-5, so it was even earlier than Heavenly Persona, making it Shizuka's actual debut? Very interesting. Do you know if the recording engineer in your label's Shizuka release, Amano Onkyo Giken, is actually Kohei Amano? And if the bassist is Tomoya Hirata? How did you came to know Shizuka and the process into getting to release them? Did you talk with Shizuka Miura or any other member? Did you take part in any of their tours in the United States along Mason Jones? Also, I always thought Alkaloid Serenade was the performance of Shizuka with Takashi Mizutani. I thought the one you uploaded was called just "Shizuka" instead. Thanks for everything you've done Shizuka-related! ---Shizuka Star, a previously very active Shizuka fan
i've been reviewing their early output lately, it blows my mind a little to discover me had these songs written for albums that wouldn't even come out for years. but that's kinda the way it goes with us crazy songwriters....such an inspiration
0:59 - Trudy 3:10 - Tall Ships 8:00 - Vigilant Always 13:09 - Pancake 17:03 - Upstairs 21:42 - Park The Car By The Side Of The Road 27:37 - Sarah Sitting 30:02 - Bell 34:16 - Impromptu cover of You Really Got Me by The Kinks for 10 seconds 34:54 - Jeremy Parker
Just watched this. What a miraculous and spiritual find. I say this as an archivist, producer and writer. I've been in and out of the scene since 1991. I got turned onto the Merritt frequency in 2006. I consider him to be one of the greatest writers of modern Americana.
i LOVE the sped up version of Dancing in your eyes. It feels like you are running hand in hand with your love rather than walking briskly. And that cello in that number. Chefs kiss.Wayward bus is my favorite album of all time. People here applauding knew they were witnessing magic. Hurry up time; I need to see them in Chicago in April 24' already xD
As I hear it, it’s the lack of melody that makes this music so fascinating. Soft, soothing textures and notes but also very abstract. Short musical phrases floating by like mist over the hilltops. It’s foggy and then the sun shines through and then it’s foggy again. But I’m still the same, except for the memory of what just happened.
Great video. Keiji plowing some especially deep fields around 14:00 in, some blues-y vibes creeping in around the edges. That wave of crazy beautiful Japanese music that hit the US around this time was huge. Changed my DNA!
thanks!! i just dont get it why theyare not considered ultra legends now, with tour dates poppin every side of the world. They're literally best shoegaze act in us, top2 overall, adding to genre after MBV which is so hard feat that none of the bands ever came close.... or remotely close to invite them to their tours if theyre for real. hey Swirlies band, if you reading this, huge thanks and respect from poland, europe
Very interesting! It actually sounds very good. Interesting that all those songs were yet to be recorded and not released until several years later. So this must be considered the original Magnetic Fields lineup I guess, even though they did not perform on the first album.
