Oxbow

Oxbow needs no introduction on this part of the web. An all time personal favorites for me, so here's one of these big posts with all the rare stuff I've managed to grab along the way, bootlegs, videos.

1992.10.02 - Live Video At Kennel Club, San Francisco, California
This one was actually uploaded to youtube not too long ago but for some reason vanished, so I'm here to fix that.

Eugene Robinson
Les Tontons Flingueurs, Rennes, 1995

00:00 30 Miles
05:24 Burn
10:51 Curse
16:15 Daughter
20:33 Bomb
26:24 Unknown (early version of The Virgin Bride perhaps ?)

2002.05.19 - Live Video At Diksmuide, Belgium
Officially released on Love That's Last compilation (2006)

1. Black Light Improvisation
2. Skin
3. Yoke
4. Sorry
5. Stallkicker
6. Woe
7. Sweetheart
8. The Valley
9. Glimmer (partial)

2003 - Music For Adults
Documentary

2003.10.11 - Live on Futility Fest at Nyabinghi, Youngstown, Ohio

Dan Adams, Eugene, Greg Davis, Niko Wenner
Live at The Eagle, San Francisco, 2004

1. Intro / Sweetheart
2. Bull's Eye
3. Sawmill
4. Burn
5. The Last Good Time (Youtube Video)
6. 1000
7. Babydoll
8. O'Clock
9. ...The Stick

2004.11.14 - Live Video At Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California
Officially released on Love That's Last compilation (2006)

1. ...The Stick
2. Bullseye
3. Babydoll
4. 1000
5. Sawmill

2009.11.16 - Live Bootleg at Grrrnd Zero, Lyon, France

1. 3 O'Clock
2. Sawmill
3. Babydoll
4. The Geometry of Business
5. La Luna
6. Frank's Frolic
7. She's A Find
8. Coalking
9 + 10. Cat And Mouse 
11. Over
12. Angel

2011 - The Luxury of Empire
I tend not to post new things here as you may know.. but it's more than 10 years now, think it's long enough. I know it was already circulating online for a couple of years anyway.

1. The Luxury of Empire (documentary)
2. Still Before (documentary)
3. 2009.11.08 - Live Video at La Maroquinerie, Paris, France

    1. Down A Stair Backward
    2. Yoke
    3. Sawmill
    4. Time, Gentlemen, Time
    5. Bull's Eye
    6. Sorry
    7. Shine (Glimmer)
    8. Babydoll (includ. intro with lyrics from future A Gentleman's Gentleman)
    9. Sunday
    10. Last Good Time

2012.10.22 - Live Bootleg at Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, England
Oxbow Orchestra, not to be confused with Love's Holiday Orchestra, this one is indeed, a classical orchestra, and featuring only Niko and Eugene.

00:00 Bomb (Partial Youtube Video)
06:55 Cold And Well-Lit Place
11:40 She's A Find
19:52 Unknown
25:50 Unknown
34:08 Ecce Homo
39:20 The Valley
50:23 1000 (encore, Niko and Eugene alone) (Partial Youtube Video)

I'm always on the lookout for 2012's official "In Camera" and not gonna buy a pricey second hand DVD for 3 songs on discogs. Also looking for a track called "Brujita", released on "Double of Love Volume Uno" compilation. If you have those or anything else interesting, don't spare us please.

The Garden/The River Split

Kids like The Garden (right ?), I like The Garden.. so here's The Garden.
I've had this split files lying around for years and wanted to post it, but haven't got to do it (like many other planned posts, someday). And now when I finally got it, I discovered that in the meantime it was uploaded to the band's youtube channel, so I wasn't planning to post it, but I noticed that my version has an extra song, with unknown origin, so of course it justifies this post just for the slim chance some fanatic groupie will ever stumble upon it.
The track order is also different from the known tape version, I left it as it was. I excluded The River's part of the split since it's available on their bandcamp.

1. Fruits & Vegetables
2. Quick
3. Tear
4. Bag
5. Release
6. Indina Hollering
7. Silk
8. Glass Eyes
9. Fantasies
10. Air

The Consultant's Flower Garden

*****,*****

Ringwood, Green, Coop

Pronounced as two coughs, or sometimes just Cough, Cough and pretty much impossible to google, so here's me hoping to make life easier for those who seek for their music. Short lived trio started in Canberra later moved to Melbourne. Two self-released cassettes, art-punk, lot of no-wave vibes (also a bit This Heat, The Gordons), cool stuff generally, not the greatest quality though.
Allan Coop (later Sunday Painters) on bass, Peter Ringwood on guitar and vocals on second cassette, and Cathy Green (later X, the Aussie X. Could have just equally said the good band called X right ? you would understand which one I'm talkin' about) drumming.

1982 - 1 [mostly instrumental, material from 1980-81]

1. Introduction
2. Punkesque
3. Extract
4. Executive B
5. Father
6. Study For Falling Apart
7. Tina
8. Mazda
9. Highway 31
10. Take Me
11. Other Places (Extract)
12. Other Places
13. Enfant
14. 20 Questions
15. Extract

1982 - Conflicts

1. ****
2. Childrens Song
3. Enfante
4. Try To Forget
5. Executive B
6. Introduction
7. Asylum
8. Jungle Song
9. Father
10. Knots
11. Stand
12. Don't Want To Be Alright
13. Heat
14. Danger

Convulsif Big Band

When I made a list of 2016 releases you shouldn't miss, Convulsif made their first appearance here on the blog. 6 years later and I still love these guys. You can find most of their discography on their bandcamp page, all their recordings as a quartet.

What's not there is their first incarnation, the Big Band, and it's pretty hard to find online as well. So here I am.. I think they formed around 2009, by Loïc Grobéty. They had some kind of ever changing line-up concept at that time, which was abandoned as they fixed on the current quartet.

2011 - 1

- Guido Wyss / drum
- Sébastien Aegerter / vibraphone
- Gregor Vidic / baritone sax
- Marc Jufer / sax tenor
- Loïc Grobéty / bass
- Stéphane Loup / guitars
[not part of this recording but also around that time, - Benjamin Pluss / vocals]

My PC file says it's from 2013, but intertnet says 2011, internet wins.
I think it's a live recording of a show, one longass track.
Know that this is pretty different from the quartet, much less brutal and heavy, a lot more atmospheric jazz. But still retain some metallic ideas that would appear later on.
Goes through different segments, some slow and smooth, some free jazz crazylike.

2013 - 2

- Martin Perret / drums
- Matthieu Amstutz / drums
- Christian Müller / clarinet + electronics
- Loïc Grobéty / bass + electronics + K7
- Gregor Vidic / baritone saxophone
- Marc Jufer / saxophone tenor + soprano
- Stéphane Loup / guitar + electronics

Double CD.
The first is almost the same length as on the first album, and starts with the same segment, but continues different, so I guess it's another live recording from the same era, same vibes and atmosphere. The second one is mostly pure drone noise for you abstract lovers.

Konstrukt - Dis-Co

Found this on my PC, no idea where I got it from. Ultra sludge dirty powerviolence from Vienna, can't get much uglier than this. Couldn't find lot of info about these guys, in fact, couldn't find more of their releases except this split right here and very few other short tracks on youtube.

The download file has only one track, the full vinyl rip, both sides. I have no idea even what type of file this is (some unknown extension), but just play it with your media player, it works fine for me.. 
I actually tried to create time stamps but gave up fairly quickly (The Doors cover is on 08:44 (i think)  the Deep Purple one is on 30:04, if you care).
Also included are some cover photos taken by some guy who's selling this vinyl on ebay, so thanks man.

is hardcore dead? hardcore is disco...just become extinct