Bang a gong, the first Revolver / Midheaven podcast of the year is ready for your enjoyment. In Podcast #20 Captain Uli and Pots-dawg bid farewell to the year '09 with some lovely tunes by: Blues Control, Flower-Corsano Duo, Pinch, Nurse With Wound, Black Meteoric Star, Summer Cats, Ty Segall, Champagne Socialists, Bad Secrets, Bloody Panda, Robert Pollard, Octopus Project, Milanese, James Curd, Spider Bags. You can stream or download an AAC file of this podcast and all other Revolver podcasts at the Revolver pod-page: http://www.midheaven.com/audio/podcast/
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Flower-Corsano Duo lands 4 out of 5 stars "Eureka!" review on Tiny Mix Tapes.
"....... Mick Flower and Chris Corsano, virtuoso madmen whose contributions to American experimental music are by now legion. Flower, the electro-acoustic sage on “Japan banjo”; Corsano, the shape-shifting genius drummer boy of aggro-jazz, noise rock, and, well, cricketing: to perceive The Four Aims as the work of just a duo is to gloss over the immense complexity within each pole, the subdivisions and layers of sonic sedition that weave through each man’s playing. It’s a profoundly collaborative product, but even to voice that cripplingly broad claim is to evade the dynamics of contention that enliven and, indeed, define the record. The five pieces and 51 minutes evince a mounting tension whose internal logic begs inspection only after having run its course, interpellating and pummeling the curious into bewildered submission....."
Read full review HERE.