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The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday

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Yesterday was actually a rather nice one. The new intern seems to be working out very well. Saskia and Ellie are delightful young ladies who work hard, achieve a lot and are both useful and a pleasure to have around the place. However this morning didn't start very well, as I received a totally unexpected electricity bill for about £1,100 for stuff I should have been billed for months ago and wasn't. As I type, Graham is currently upstairs trying to sort things out with SWEB. However, things are not all doom and gloom here this morning because as I rose to greet the day I was met with a Facebook message from a bloke called Pedro telling me about a band called Sendelica.

Somewhere in West Wales,  at the edge of the Western lands, about as far west as you can go on the island of Great Britain without getting your feet wet, a bunch of musicians lurk in the outer darkness making some extraordinary music. Inhabiting vaguely the same space as many of the other bands that I am currently listening to, Sendelica's music has been described as blending "the hypnotic pulse of Can, the impressionistic atmospherics of Pink Floyd, the motorized proto-punk of Neu, the space patrolling guitar pyrotechnics of Hendrix and the otherworldly ambiences of The Orb." But that is a horribly sterile way of describing them, but I suppose that I did nick it from Wikipedia.

For all their electronics and technology this is an incredibly organic ensemble, in tune with the rhythms of the earth. There is something impressively basal and primal about them which is difficult to put one's fingers on. To relate them to Pink Floyd is lazy journalism, because apart from the fact that they are vaguely spacy and have a sax player who sounds more like Dick Parry on 'Us and Them' than Nik Turner on 'Orgone Accumulator', they are - to my mind - far closer to an unholy German bands like Can and Neu, and the trippy, largely instrumental bits of Electric Ladyland. But then again the dance music comparisons, at least as far as the atmospherics of The Orb and even Aphex Twin are concerned make a weird sort of sense, even though there ain't a sign of repetitive beats in sight!

I would seriously check them out!

A Termite in the Wood: Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-termite-in-wood-captain-beefheart.html

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Hawkwind - Hassan I Sahba
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/02/gonzo-track-of-day-hawkwind-hassan-i.html

JOEY MOLLAND INTERVIEW
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/02/joey-molland-interview_19.html

Jones, Percy: Cape Catastrophe (reissue) Review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/02/jones-percy-cape-catastrophe-reissue.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/02/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_18.html

Brand X: US review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/02/brand-x-us-review_19.html

AND OTHER STUFF...

Remember, the Farplace Animal Rescue people need your help. They are good guys and only need just over 100 more signatures...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/02/appeal-for-farplace-animal-rescue.html

Issue 65 of The Gonzo Weekly is now available.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-story-chris-squireyes-02-11-14.html

This issue features an EXCLUSIVE Pink Fairies interview, an exclusive interview with prog album artist Sandor Kwiatkowski, the return of the mighty Six Foot Three, Clepsydra box set details, a massively desirable slice of Acid Mothers Temple memorabilia, news about Hawkwind live next weekend, an oral hygiene tool endorsed by an Oriental dictator, A Communique from Pussy Riot, the Psychedelic Warlords live, and more news, reviews, views, interviews and brindled gnus (OK, no specialised African antelopes but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's COMPLETELY FREE!!!

You can read it here:
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2014/02/gonzo-weekly-65.html

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*  Jon Downes, the editor of all these ventures (and several others), is an old hippy of 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon, which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus...did we mention the orange cat?