The Days of Lore http://thedaysoflore.com Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:50:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Feel Peter Cat Recording Co.’s love fuzz http://thedaysoflore.com/feel-peter-cat-recording-co-s-love-fuzz/ http://thedaysoflore.com/feel-peter-cat-recording-co-s-love-fuzz/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:36:25 +0000 admin http://thedaysoflore.com/?p=2037 I’m not ready to return to the States just yet. After spending the better part of last week in New Zealand, I now flap my arms northwest to India, a country not known for its rock bands. Despite their confusing name, Peter Cat Recording Co. is actually a band. The New Delhi four-piece released their excellent debut record Sinema back in early 2011 and the spaced-out followup Wall of Want last year (you can download both for free at their Bandcamp). They’ve received some press in their neck of the woods, but not outside their country … which is insane.

Peter Cat Recording Co. take elements of Bollywood, Hindi folk and American psych, and turn it into something otherworldly. The band—well, the concept at least—started a few years ago by guitarist-vocalist Suryakant Sawhney, while he was studying in San Francisco. PCRC is rounded out by Rohan Kulshreshtha, K.S. Pillai and Karan Singh, all of whom moonlight in New Delhi metal band Lycanthropia.

Kulshreshtha told me the band is working on new material, which should surface this year, and they’re planning some U.S. shows. Of course, I’ll keep you posted right here. In the meantime you can chew on PCRC’s new video “Love Demons,” easily the best cut from Sinema, and perfectly captures the band’s frazzled, out-there soundz.

“Love Demons” – Peter Cat Recording Co. (Sinema)

“Sweet Sweet Poison” – Peter Cat Recording Co. (Wall of Want)

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]]> http://thedaysoflore.com/feel-peter-cat-recording-co-s-love-fuzz/feed/ 0 TDoL has Split Enz, pt. wha http://thedaysoflore.com/tdol-has-split-enz-pt-wha/ http://thedaysoflore.com/tdol-has-split-enz-pt-wha/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:20:00 +0000 admin http://thedaysoflore.com/?p=2019 The final installment, but not the enz of my current Split Enz obsession. I leave you with a short documentary on the band’s calling it a day in 1984 (boo!), followed by a clip of The Enz performing “History Never Repeats” during a reunion show in 2007 (yay!). I’m now realizing how many music videos these guys made—Split Enz were prolific, weird, and fantastic popsters (and still somewhat underrated in America). Dig it, and dig in.

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]]> http://thedaysoflore.com/tdol-has-split-enz-pt-wha/feed/ 0 TDoL has Split Enz, pt. toru http://thedaysoflore.com/tdol-has-split-enz-pt-toru/ http://thedaysoflore.com/tdol-has-split-enz-pt-toru/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:00:54 +0000 admin http://thedaysoflore.com/?p=2010 Happy Valentines Day, the day I celebrate my love for my wife … and also Neil Finn. Released as a single in 1978, and later added to 1979′s Frenzy LP, “I See Red” is The Enz’s punk rock song. It also seems kind of fitting for today. Frenzy was the first record to feature Tim’s younger bro Neil, and it continued the band’s progression into simpler pop.

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]]> http://thedaysoflore.com/tdol-has-split-enz-pt-toru/feed/ 0 TDoL has Split Enz, pt. rua http://thedaysoflore.com/tdol-has-split-enz-pt-rua/ http://thedaysoflore.com/tdol-has-split-enz-pt-rua/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:19:13 +0000 admin http://thedaysoflore.com/?p=1996 I’m still deep in the Split Enz wormhole, and I like it … it’s great for productivity. This pre-Neil Finn clip comes from the band’s 1976 Second Thoughts LP, their last with original member Phil Judd. More great pop, but this preceded the band’s New Wave leanings that were to come. But the theatrics are still there, courtesy of member Noel Crombie, who played the spoons and served essentially as the band’s artistic director.

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]]> http://thedaysoflore.com/tdol-has-split-enz-pt-rua/feed/ 0 TDoL has Split Enz http://thedaysoflore.com/tdol-has-split-enz/ http://thedaysoflore.com/tdol-has-split-enz/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:29:08 +0000 admin http://thedaysoflore.com/?p=1982 I’m on a Split Enz kick … now, so are you. For the rest of the week I’ll be posting video earworms from my time down in the YouTube wormhole (not such a bad place if you can avoid the comments section).

I start with this one—one of the great pop songs … well, ever. And, of course, the video for “I Got You” shows why these kids from New Zealand were ready-made for MTV. It also gives me an intense flashback of eating Cap’n Crunch and playing drums along to it with markers on the arm of the couch.

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