Knights-Supernatural Lover; self released, 2025

 

In a completely mysterious development, Disaster Amnesiac recently received an on-line promo kit for the new single by London based Knights and their tune Supernatural Lover. I have no clue how my contact made it onto Knights press mailing list. It's interesting to ponder. The song is an uptempo club banger of a track, driven by fast beats and driving synthesizer melody. Knights utilizes a clean vocal approach, reminiscent of Techno/Dance music from the 1980's and '90's. He is soon embarking upon a European tour, and surely it'll be a success. Unless of course the whole thing gets cancelled on account of WW III starting up like this weekend or something. If that happens, you can find Knights here and just boogie down at your place until the missiles start to rain down upon your city. Perhaps this next Apocalypse will be a fun one!

Live shot #175!

 

Poet David Weiss, working with collage and cut-up techniques. Private residence in Tucson, 6/9/25. Also performing were oud explorer Blue Stained Stems, research librarian poet Lisa Periale Martin, and high alto troubadour Snelby Grelling. No photos, sadly.

Eloine-Impractical Furniture; Personal Archives Records #226, 2025

 

Currently at casa de Amnesiac, there exists a stack of Public Eyesore/eh? Records product which still needs to be listened to. This fact is brought up as related to the latest release of Eloine, Impractical Furniture (dig that almost Hipnosis styled cover art!), because I've desired to listen to it a lot more than the three times it's graced the cassette deck. That said, time's moving very quickly, and Disaster Amnesiac always feels compelled to listen to the music that's being described as much as possible. Tapes such as this can certainly be played over and over again, as its mysterious and intuitively intriguing soundscapes offer new facets for the listener with each subsequent interaction. When one chooses to engage with sounds such as these, especially in the case of Bryan Day's singular solo work, with its unique rhythms and phrases, pulled from his portable exotic percussion amalgamation, one can always be treated to fresh, undiscovered aspects within the sound matrix. Impractical Furniture kicks off with Rubber Sawhorse, a longer track which evokes human sounding voices along with some deep tonally bass passages and bass drum sounds. I've heard it as a junkyard Gamelan ensemble. This is followed off with Sunken Corners and its dramatically moving sub-harmonics and subdued, eerie environments. Its coda passage is surprising and lovely. Potluck By Proxy kicks off side b of the tape with a frenetic start. It rather quickly gets more contemplative with its overtones, melodies from resonant metals, before some type of robotic warfare commences. Disaster Amnesiac has heard AI voices being drawn from Day's very analog rig on this one. Track two, Guiltlines, has high register clicks that dialogue with lower register ones for a very dramatic effect. It has waves of energy that are simultaneously intimate in their motions. Impractical Furniture ends with Bread Welder Again, a title worthy of prime Beefheart, a track with more quick pacing that leads to more overall Drone and clacking until its repetitive sound conclusion. It's another fine release from Bryan's Eloine project. Day's sound art seeks the beauty to be found in funky, unlikely sound sources. His rigs often look to Disaster Amnesiac like small cities or chip boards, and it's highly recommended that one see him perform live. Bryan Day must be highly intuitive, for he always makes such well considered and thoughtful sounds. It's completely alright to live by intuition you know.

Live shot #174!

 

Dedd Horsemen, Punchy's Tavern Sierra Vista AZ. 6/6/25. 

Garage Psych and Country and Rock 'n Roll blended into a kick ass racket. Incidental noise interludes. Funny lyrics. A Southwest region band you should see live.

Random shot!

 

HP Lovecraft tombstone Providence RI, June 2018.

Live shot(s) #173!

 A couple of shots from Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, Tucson 6/3/25.

Below: Taylor Honnicutt. Swaggering Alabama-based rockin' Country! 

Above: Charley Crockett. Excellent song writer/guitar player and performer with a top flight band. If you got it, flaunt it!

Many thanks to KXCI for tickets. Real people real radio ok!

Live shot(s) #172!

 Shots taken at 191 Toole, Tucson 5/31/25.

Below: Urikas Bedroom. Heartland Psych with a dollop of Emo. 

Below: Perfume Genius play extremely well crafted Art Pop. They have hard fans and it's easy to see and hear why this is so.

 

Below: this frame was magically flipped on my phone, it looks amazing.

Disaster Amnesiac noticed shows going on at Golden Saguaro and Wave Archive. Was told about shows at Che's Lounge, Black Iris Cafe, and Hotel Congress. So much happening in Tucson on a Saturday night, the mind reels.