NIK,OFF: Farflung CD

[K Henderson]

Thomas asked...

>What is The Myth of Solid Ground? Is it a new Farflung project? How would
one >go about getting it, if so, and is it as good as The Belief Module,
which I >think is one of the best releases of '99 (IMHO)...

I knew there was a reason I saved old posts.  :)

Here's a 'transcript' of the last major discussion on this...authors: >>Tim,
then >Jon perhaps (?), then me.

>> Was given 25,000 feet per second by
>> Farflung recently (thanks Keith).  Pretty good.  What other Farflung albums
>> are recommended?
>
>        _The Belief Module_, the latest one, is the current frontier of
>explored space. Sell your relatives to get it. Of the other two, _So Man
>Minds, So Little Time_ is a collection of pre-band, single and out-take
>material which is apparently OK, and _The Raven That Ate The Moon_ is
>truly badly pressed (no-one knows how may tracks there actually are, the
>CD saying 4 and the liner listing six but referring to guests on Nos. 7 &
>8... ), and has some amazing mind-expanding improv. stuff, but never
>really settles down to anything apart from the twenty-five minute tacky
>synth loop it runs off with. Only for the brave.

Yeah, that's pretty awful, innit?  The earlier stuff on that album makes it
worthwhile though.

I agree with the overall consensus, 25K ft./sec and TBM being the best ones.

Keith H. (FAA)

NP:  Farflung - The Myth of Solid Ground (1999, pre-release CD-R)...some
high points here also!!
Tracks...
1.  When I Woke to Sleep No More - slowish space-march with Neu!-like sound f/X
2.  Breach of I - a little like a heavy, punkish reading of Dust of Time,
with Ozzy-esque (i.e., mocking voice) singing, ending up with an excellent
long space-blanga jam
3.  Prototype of a Traveller - excellent classic space-rock style
riff....totally jammin' and cosmic (fantastic track!)
4.  Those Clouds are Solid - heavy space-punk number, monotonish vocals...decent
5.  Something in the Water - extended spacey ambient noodling...
6.  I Have Seen the Saucers - quiet, subdued ditty...
7.  The Larval Stage - heavy stompin' and deliberate number with heavy
f/X'ed vocals.   Appropriately titled...degeneration proceeding!  Not bad
actually.

>> Keith H. (FAA)
>>
>> P.S.  Any word on the release of The Myth of Solid Ground?  I've got it on
>> CD-R via Tommy himself and at the time, he said it would be released on Big
>> Jesus, a little indie label (vinyl?) that have done some FF/PH 7"'s in the
>> past I think, but have heard zero on the issue since SD'99.

Tommy had 30 CD-R's made up of the master, presumably to pass off to
promotional outlets or maybe for prospective labels (?).  Anyway, AI ended
up with one, so I'm one of the lucky ones to have heard it.  Other than
what's written here above, I don't know any other plans for its release. And
their website says proudly, "NEW! Our latest album "So Many Minds, So Little
Time" is out now!" so you know there's no answer forthcoming there either!
:)  Tommy's e-mail (publicly listed) is glortch at aol.com (or at least it
was), though I don't think I got an answer last time I tried it.  (Paul Fox
is pretty responsive from what I remember, tho' he's just a PH guy, right?)
Did anyone talk to Tommy at Spaceland?  Or did Len say anything about it?
Chuck, Dan, Doug?

Keith H. (FAA)

P.S. Trivial tidbit...I'm pretty certain the title must've come from this LA
Weekly article that the FarFlungers must've seen and liked.
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/99/20/news-ulin.shtml
(Anyway, this is the only 'hit' I get when searching the Web on the title.)