New stuff happening on the blog!
Last week we dropped a new Nice V (this one from our own Yoshigem) focused on live microtonal performances)
And today we share an interview with our own Gizzverse guru, W.B.T.G. Slinger from the Rhombus Connection podcast on JEMP Radio.
Join us as we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of everyone’s favorite nine-sided, infinitely looping masterpiece! @TimelandIsWacky has kicked down another great write-up!
Wow, I had somehow missed that it was Nonagon that led to the need to do “just some songs” on PMDB.
Yeah I found that really interesting, too. I liked reading about the connections between Nonagon and Murder of the Universe. I hadn’t realized that a lot of stuff they first did in Nonagon was the initial foray into what evolved into later works. Like could they have made Rats Nest without Road Train?
This is what I love so much about KGLW – they’re not afraid to take risks on albums and plant seeds that grow in future works. As the listener, it adds useful context and meaning to their work beyond the music itself, and that’s the kind of music that really resonates with me.
I was just thinking the other day about how they sowed the seeds for the electronic influences to creep into their work which has now bloomed into the upcoming techno album. Its been so cool to see these electronic ideas go from their infancy on BF3K (which the band was unable to figure out how to perform live for a while!), the emergence of a eurorack on stage that Joey would use during Magenta Mountain, the birth and growth of Nathan which bloomed into The Silver Cord, and now here were go with something the band is confident enough in to label as techno!
Heck, even when they “take a break” from a musical thread they’re tugging at, the results are generally pretty good. I mean good grief, their “b-sides” albums are pretty killer on their own!