The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
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!
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This issue features an EXCLUSIVE Pink Fairies
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next weekend, an oral hygiene tool endorsed by an Oriental dictator, A
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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
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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
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