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

[Steve Pond]

Cheers Jon!

I'm forwarding your note to the author of Sexy Archaeologist, because
my accusation that he'd ruined Time Team for a generation wasn't what
he wanted to hear!

-Steve



On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:02:18 +0000, you sent through the ether:

>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)