Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Syzygys


A friend of mine recently insisted that I listen to this atonal band from japan with a name that neither of us really know how to say(well a least I don't). Syzygys play music featuring a modified reed organ, tuned to Harry Partch's 43 note to the octave scale. This song is from a compilation of all of their studio albums released on John Zorn's Tzadik Label.

Their official web site is great, sharing such tidbits as the bands collective interests: Frontier things, sweets,hot stuffs, wine, salt. It is not surprising that one half of Syzygys is active in scoring video game soundtracks, which I bet are great! Which makes me think of this rumor that circulated in my elementary school about this kid who's name I forget being a large fan of Nintendo music
"I hear he records Nintendo music onto cassettes and listens to it over and over" someone once told me. This sort of behavior was looked down on.

Fauna Grotesque
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We are moving towards a 2 week only hosting of mp3s so if you haven't checked out the archives do it quick...

Elsewhere:
Fluxblog posted a song by the A-Frames, a Sub Pop band. The song is great. I thought I'd mention it here there has been discussion of lesser know sub pop bands.

posted by Jay at 11:30 PM  

4 Comments:

carol said...

According to the Japanese version of the site, "SYZYGYS" is pronounced "shi-ji-jeez". Pronounce away!

8:33 AM  
Jay said...

Thank you! I can now stop calling them "the japanese atonal band that have many z's in their name"

9:24 AM  
hello pretty city said...

here in our hood there's a radio show called "VG memories." as in "video game memories."

for sometimes longer than two hours each week you can catch up with your favorite video game tunes, harking back all the way to way before nintendo.

i try to miss it each week but somehow i'm always turning on the radio when they're broadcasting.

you can stream it through: www.wrpi.org

leg.

10:34 AM  
marcel gonsalves said...

okay, i just spent ten minutes setting up a blogger account so i can say the syzygys are amazing. pathetic? you tell me.

i have their complete studio output as released on tzadik, and find it really varied and interesting. solid pop songwriting executed in unconventional method. some of those tunes, with their microtonal hooks...they just make me grin.

6:36 AM  

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