(OFF) Krankschaft, New album available for FREE download.

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Steve Pond wrote:

> Just before Christmas Krankschaft held a competition which entailed
> people sending in their song lyrics or poems and we'd turn the best
> one into a recording.
>
> Well, we got carried away and turned the best 10 into an album.
>
> So to celebrate the New Year and to counteract the slow slide into
> recession we're making it available for free via our website.
>
> It's got everything from Space rock to Edwardian music hall and we had
> great fun making it. So make the most of the ridiculous price and nab
> a copy of Krankschaft's Song Poem album for yourself at:
>
> www.krankschaft.com

 	I have done this, and it's been on surprisingly heavy rotation, 
surprising I mean only because the whole thing was thrown together in two 
weeks, says the website. Doesn't show! Okay, not all of it is sparking my 
interest, but I would especially recommend `Commotion', which shows how 
much difference interesting (and, okay, a bit dramatic) words can make to 
space-rock, `Brundlefly', which is compellingly creepy electro again more 
or less made by the *odd* words, and `Sexy Archaeologist', a frank and 
gritty excursus[1] on a dilemma that has probably faced any of us who work 
on the distant past at some point, I know it has me. For the rest you 
probably have to make up your own mind, but it's certainly worth trying. 
Congratulations, Steve and via you Fred and also Mick (hurrah for whose 
return to the drums!) for making producing an album of new music in about 
ten different styles in a fortnight look so easy! Yours all,
 							     Jon


[1] Actually, all three of the words `frank',`gritty' and `excursus' are 
lies; it's more of a smuttier rewrite of the Bonzos' `Tent' to the tune of 
`The Intergalactic Laxative'. But none the worse for that! as I'm sure Viv 
Stanshall's ghost would agree.
ObCD: Star One - _Space Metal_ (because the taste barriers are already 
down now)
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       Jonathan Jarrett, Oxford       jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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