Livingston is the musical experiment designed by a folklorist and a computer scientist with the goal of generating new, distinctly Canadian folk music with a computer. Continue reading “Livingston – Artificially Intelligent Folk Songs Of Canada, Vol.1”
Taking Medication – Prescribed Nonsense
if the rheostatics, primus, the residents, ween, grateful dead, frank zappa, new model army, mahogany frog, pink floyd (early era), king crimson, servotron, devo and wall of voodoo all got together and had a bastard son. then if that bastard son started a band. taking medication is that band. this album has something in it that fans of all those would find something to enjoy here. it is all over the map musically. from acoustic numbers to slightly extended drones. odd vocals, mentions of time machines, robots, archaeology; this is a quirky record for quirky people. (Oak Apple Records, oakapplerecords.com) c.frsn