RA Podcast 212 – Elektro Guzzi
(photo of crowd at EG’s Sonar gig courtesy of Jorge Socarras, we could not spot editor 5 either)
Stefan Goldmann @ Cuemix Magazine
Jorge Socarras & Honey Soundsystem featured on Beats In Space!
Jorge Socarras on leaving home
The ever wonderful Jorge Socarras has installed a soundcloud page. Beats listening to dodgy disco edits and laptop sets there by miles if you ask us.
For this edition of the D*ruffalo gigwatch, we have a very special treat. We proudly present you a live concert of the seminal Post Punk sensation Indoor Life, recorded by Erathostene in Bordeaux in 1981. Very special thanks to Pascal Godjikian of La STPO for hooking us up with it, and of course to the ever wonderful Jorge Socarras for sending us some according notes further below…
“Indoor Life formed in San Francisco in1980, determined to challenge the status quo that a rock band had to be premised on guitar. In lieu of guitar we had J.A. Deane playing electronically treated trombone, creating sounds unlike anything in the genre then or now. Bob Hoffnar played bass with a bent towards harmonic effects, and drummer Joe Sabella’s diverse musicality further freed us from any prescribed sound. Myself coming from an art and performance background, I approached singing as an expressionistic medium.
In our first year we put out an independently produced EP, relocated to New York, and formed a liaison with the French label Celluloid. We were especially eager to play for European audiences because they had a reputation for appreciating more avant-garde music, so when in 1981 the opportunity arose to tour Europe with San Francisco’s Ralph Records recording artists and cronies Tuxedomoon and Snakefinger, it seemed the perfect vehicle for us. The tour was billed as “California Wave” and generated quite a bit of advance press. While we also played in Belgium and Switzerland, the main focus was France, where Celluloid was releasing the Indoor Life EP.
These were tremendously exciting concerts for us because we found we could indeed perform with a great degree of intensity and spontaneity without being limited by our recorded sound. The Bordeaux concert of April 1, 1981 is exemplary in this regard. Bob Hoffnar comments: “The concert shows us at our best – a wild open band with more gas pedal than steering wheel – the way rock concerts are supposed to be. The use of improvised bi-tonalities was ahead of its time in that context. It was absolutely the time where I developed a big part of what has remained my musical voice.” I think the rest of us in the band agree. As for the outrageous fun we had touring with Tuxedomoon and Snakefinger, that is the stuff of memoirs.”
(Jorge Socarras)
1. Revely
2. Contre Nature
3. No Escape
4. Miuzu
5. Archeology
6. Gilmore Of The Fillmore
7. Voices In The Sky (previously unreleased)
8. Voodoo
9. Mambo
Another fine interview with Jorge Socarras about Catholic.
Jorge talks Catholic. Read the story and hear the show.
The international Macro conspiracy. Evidence courtesy of Jorge Socarras
More evidence to follow soon, n’est-ce pas?
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