COLIN LLOYD TUCKER: The Man Behind The Tide

Colin Lloyd Tucker performs and writes music since late seventies. He is not unknown in music industry, although his art is odd enough to keep him in a distant sight. Initially singer/composer of the new-wavers Plain Characters, and The Gadgets, he participates to the first three albums of the lattest, and in the meanwhile forms, along with Simon Turner, the french girls (!!) duo of Deux Filles. Deux Filles make two avant-ambient-instrumental albums before their transformation to the also short-lived Jeremy's Secret.

When, in mid-eighties, Colin goes solo, his music reveals clearer its love for the pop-rock of seventies and a relation with artists such as David Bowie and Peter Hammill.  These  years his output includes releases as "Toybox" (1984, lp made much earlier), "Mind Box" (12'', 1986) and "Head" (mini lp, 1987).

First half of nineties is a quite creative period. Colin finishes and releases on Humbug Records the full album "Remarkable" (1990) and extends his collaboration with Paddy Bush (brother of Kate Bush) to the Bushtucker project.

Fruit  of this collaboration is the album "Skyscraping"(1993), a combination of songwriting, texture and sampling, an ambitious but positive world-art -rock attempt.
Next solo release is "Songs Of Life, Love And Liquid"(1995), more ordinary than previous efforts, marked by Colin's moving to an island off the coast, in the North Sea. The album is out on Humbug again and it is followed by a long "silent" period with some unrealised recording plans and very rare public performances.

"Fear Of  Flying" album breaks finally the silence in 2004 and since then, up to his new pre-announced  work "Inner Nutshell", some more stuff discreetly comes  out. Constantly unpredictable and off the publicity radar Colin Lloyd Tucker continues making new music.

Colin (left) and Paddy Bush during the making of Skyscraping album

[photo taken by Tucker's site]

The LaFolieDuJour introduction to Colin Lloyd Tucker music.

01 Bodorgan (1980)
(from The Gadgets "Love Curiosity Freckles And Doubt")
02 Not For Resale (1981)
(from Plain Characters "Invisible Yearnings")
03 Long Empty Train (1983)
(from The Gadgets "Blue Album")
04 She Slides (1982)
(from Deux Filles "Silence and Wisdom")
05 Our English Friends ( 1983)
(from Deux Filles "Double Hapiness")
06 The Ultimate Act Of Love (1986)
(from C Lloyd Tucker "Mind Box")
07 Use It (1986)
(from C Lloyd Tucker "Mind Box")
08 Don't Crack My Dreams (1987)
(from C Lloyd Tucker "Head")
09 A Remarkable Girl (1990)
(from C Lloyd Tucker "Remarkable")
10 Big Brass Band (1990)
(from C Lloyd Tucker "Remarkable")
11 House On The Hill (1990)
(from C Lloyd Tucker "Remarkable")
12 Remarkable Reprise (1990)
(from C Lloyd Tucker "Remarkable")
13 Love Bombs (1990)
(from C Lloyd Tucker "Remarkable")
14 Transmission Moon (1994)
(from Bushtucker "Skyscraping")

Colin Lloyd Tucker

THE WORLDS OF LOVE: Unconvectional Re-Inventions Of The Romantic Song

The Worlds Of Love

DAVID GARLAND
vocals, synths, accordion, bass, guitars, flute, melodica, theremin, toy piano, percussion, vibrolute
IKUE MORI
vocals, hand-played drum machines, powerbook, percussion
CINNIE COLE
vocals, banjo, synthesizer

front cover of LP edition (1989, Review Records)

front cover of CD edition (2000, Review Records)
[reissue with new-written extras]

artwork from CD edition

Paper Cup

Here’s my paper cup;
won’t you fill it up?
It should last just long enough for me to drink.

Soon my time is up;
soggy paper cup
falls apart so flimsily and spills my drink.

Pour it all in
My paper cup is waterlogged
but the liquid reached my lips.

Why should I give up,
when my paper cup
gives me drinks, and even sometimes gives me thirst.

Pour it all in.
For all intents and purposes
my old paper cup is all I need.

[lyrics by David Garland]

Paper Cup

"I want to be free of stylistic assumptions, so that as i create music i'm not thinking about traditions, but instead i'm working with the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, words and sonic color to built a new and true experience" -David Garland

EPIC SOUNDTRACKS

Selections from the limited, mail-order only album "DEBRIS" (Normal / Return To Sender, 1995) accompanied with some tracks from his other releases.
"SLEEPING STAR" (1994) was EPIC's second solo album and ""CHANGE MY LIFE " (1996) his last. "GOOD THINGS" (2005) and the compilation "EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY" (1999) are posthumous releases. Listen also to "RISE ABOVE" album here.

An EPIC SOUNDTRACKS collection

01 Stealaway [Change My Life]
02 Sleepy City [Change My Life]
03 Something's Wrong [Change My Life]
04 Cry A Tear [Good Things]
05 Sunny Day [Debris]
06 Carolans [Everything Is Temporary]
07 Stack-O-Tracks [Debris]
08 Night Time [Everything Is Temporary]
09 I Got To Be Free [Good Things]
10 Hole Of A Heart [Everything Is Temporary]
11 The Persuader [Debris]
12 Lot To Learn [Good Things]
13 Waiting For The Train Again (group version) [Debris]
14 A Three Acre Floor [Debris]
15 Wild & Smiling (mystery session) [Debris]
16 Tonight's The Night (R'N'R Lullaby) [Sleeping Star]

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

REBBY SHARP "Green Street / Hollow Earth" 7'', 1982

REBBY's first solo attempt. A two-track acoustic 7'' single released in 1982 from german label Zensor. Listen to it
HERE

More Rebby Sharp at La Folie Du Jour:

REBBY SHARP -In One Mouth And Out The Other

ORTHOTONICS - Wake Up You Must Remember

ORTHOTONICS - Luminous Bipeds

REBBY SHARP "Into One Mouth And Out The Other" (US, 1989)

REBBY SHARP worked here with SHIMMY DISC boss, KRAMER, and TOM CORA, DAVID LICHT and FRED FRITH for her first (and only) solo LP, a work quite different from her releases with ORTHOTONICS.
Influenced by the avant-art-rock spirit of Rebby's collaborators and also focused on the creation of a poor-sounded atmosphere with references to primitive folk or retro-folk, "In One Mouth and Out The Other" can be seen retrospectively as one of those distant odd pre-announcements of the "weird-folk/lo-fi" genres of the recent years.

REBBY SHARP
composition, vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin, banjo, percussion, artwork

KRAMER
bass, percussion, trombone, arrangements, production

TOM CORA
cello, voice

DAVID LICHT
percussion

FRED FRITH
guitar, violin

COBY BATTY
vocals

Listen to samples of the album here:


REBBY SHARP Just in time


REBBY SHARP The Harmfulness Of Tobacco

PETER JEFFERIES " A Chorus Of Interludes " (NZ, 1996)

AJAX Records release including compilation tracks, singles, collaborations and rarities from 'La Folie' favourite kiwi artist, Peter Jefferies.

PETER JEFFERIES (with ROBBIE MUIR) - Swerve


A Chorus Of Interludes

BILL DIREEN: Buildings on a velvet land

Poet, author, playwright, and perhaps the greatest less discovered songwriter of NZ's diy culture, BILL DIREEN is responsible for some of the most important episodes of early lo-fi days. His '80 - '84 works - under various monikers (Builders, Bilders, Die Bilder, Bilderine, Soluble Fish, Urbs...) - spirited by haunted velvet psych visions and kiwish post punk rawness, place him at equal height to JEFFERIES bros, ALASTAIR GALBRAITH, CHRIS KNOX, SANDRA BELL...

The introductory compilation, we prepared here, includes selections from:
"Six Impossible Things", 7'', 1981
BILDERS - "Soloman's Ball", 7'', 1981
DIE BILDER - "Schwimmen In Der See", 7'', 1981
BUILDERS - "Beati/en Hearts", LP, 1983
BILDERINE - "Split Seconds", LP, 1984

Musicians : Bill Direen (voc, lyrics, composition, piano, guitars, percussion etc), Malcolm Grant (drums), Campbell Mclay (bass), Peter Stapleton (drums), Allen Meek (keyboards)... and also Steven Cogle, Maryrose Crook, Liz Silver, Lisa Siegel, Hamish Kilgour, Tony O'Blaney, Alec Bathgate, Chris Knox and others...

*Some of the material derives from 90's Flying Nun reissues.
For a complete discography see here.

Bill Direen

(22 tracks, approx 70 min)

CHRIS NEWMAN " New Songs Of Social Conscience / Six Sick Songs/ London "

"...singing the songs i do not try to be a singer but rather a singing self..."
CHRIS NEWMAN

Songs of social conscience. Songs occured with no preconception as to what they are "meant" to sound like. Songs made of the "not exceptional", grabbed from the bare, uncensored revelation of everyday material...

Chris Newman is a London born artist. He has studied music theatre with great Mauricio Kagel in Cologne. He is also a poet, an author, a visual artist...

The album consists of 14 compositions derived from 1984 (Six Sick Songs), 1990 (New Songs Of Social Conscience) and 1992 (London). Recorded in 1998 in Berlin.

CHRIS NEWMAN - composition, voice, lyrics
MICHAEL FINNISSY - piano, vocals

CHRIS NEWMAN - She Nose It

PATRIK FITZGERALD "Grubby Stories" (UK,1979)

Drifting through love and anger, believing nothing, adoring this LP

GRUBBY STORIES

created by KOROVIOV

LOUIS PHILIPPE " Appointment with venus" (UK,1986)

Before he started writing songs, the talented Mr LOUIS PHILIPPE (born 1959 in France as Philippe Auclair) was a university teacher, documentary director, writer... His first music attempts (with "THE BORDER BOYS" and "THE ARCADIANS") released from Brussels based label Le Disques Du Crepuscule circa 1984-85.
That time, MIKE ALWAY had just founded el records (el-Benelux) which first releases supported by Le Disques Du Crepuscule. So Louis Philippe joined el records and after the 12``single "Red roses and red noses" , he released "Appointment with Venus".
"Ivory Tower" and "Yuri Gagarin" were the other two LPs, this romantic "latin-englishman" made for el before the demise of label.

APPOINTMENT (53mb)

MOMUS "Circus Maximus" (UK,1986)

The beginning of momusic...

Momus - Circus Maximus (1986)

01.Lucky Like St. Sebastian
02.The Lesson Of Sodom (According To Lot)
03.John The Baptist Jones
04.King Solomon's Song And Mine
05.Little Lord Obedience (5:13)
06.The Day The Circus Came To Town
07.The Rape Of Lucretia
08.Paper Wraps Rock
09.Rules Of The Game Of Quoits

CIRCUS MAXIMUS  (link updated april 2013)
...and

Momus - Don't Stop The Night (1989)

Momus - Tender Pervert (1988)

MOMUS "Monsters of love (singles 1985-90)" (UK,1990)

"From the siesta of reason come monsters of love..." MOMUS

FRANCISCO DE GOYA, El sueno de la razon produce monstruos, 1797-98

[The sleep of reason produces monsters]

Monsters Of Love (92mb)

MOMUS " Nicky " (UK,1986)

Accompaniment to CIRCUS MAXIMUS long play album, this 3-track EP shows the european/folk/ballad origins of Nicholas art. Inspired momus spoken adaptions of Jacques Brel tunes constitute a respectful homage to the (greatest of the greatests) belgian songwriter... but Momus whimsical idiosyncracy drips like poison from the heart of the songs.

NICKY (14mb)

PAUL ROLAND "Strychnine" (UK,1992)

Along with new versions of some of his own songs, the master of haunted-folk-gothic-psych chemical reactions... covers old classic gems fitted in with his idiosyncracy.Poisoning as one of the fine arts.

TRACKLIST:01.Too much to dream / 02.Arabian Nights / 03.Iscariot / 04.Strychnine / 05.Young girl blues / 06.Guinevere / 07.Lady Rachel / 08.Venus in Furs / 09.The King is dead / 10.Great Edwardian air raid / 11.Candy says / 12.Ghost Ships

Τον αφήνεις να ψάξει ξένα σεντούκια και αυτός, ως ανίατη περίπτωση παλαιομοδίτη που εξελίσεται όσο του ανοίγεται ο ορίζοντας προς το παρελθόν, πάλι εντοπίζει και ανασύρει μεσα απο κρύπτες του χρόνου... το λυρικό, το στοιχειωμένο, το ρομαντικό, το φαντασιακό. Εκτός όμως απο ζήτημα ιδιοσυγκρασίας & εξαίρετου προσωπικού γούστου, οι επιλογές του Paul Roland παραπέμπουν σε εποχές, πρόσωπα και καταστάσεις ορόσημα για τις ανα τους καιρούς παραστρατημένες νεολαίες... και εν πολλοις συνθέτουν μια μινι αναφορά στην σύγχρονη ηλεκτρική & ακουστική ιστορία αγωγής, μύησης και συνειδησιακής διάβρωσης, γνωστής και ως ροκ εν ρολ. Γύρω λοιπόν απο τον άξονα αγάπης-γνώσης-μνημης-θάρρους εξυφαίνεται (όπως κάθε αξιοπρεπής αλχημεία), η αισθητική πλεκτάνη τούτων των διασκευών στις οποίες εμπλέκονται σεμνά και μερικές δικές του συνθέσεις, σε νέες (ακουστικές κυρίως) εκδοχές. Μολονότι μερικές στιγμές στέκονται σε λίγο χαμηλότερο επίπεδο έμπνευσης, και γενικά τα παλιά εκμαυλιστικά τεχνάσματα ακούγονται που και που λίγο φθαρμένα, ειναι τελικά αυτή η φωνή, η ραμμένη λες πάνω στην πρωταρχική ανάσα των τραγουδιών, που περνώντας τα μέσα απο την αχλυ του βαλσαμωμένου λυκόφωτου, τα κάνει να σε ξανααποπλανούν. Το κάτι δε παραπάνω που ξέρει ο Πωλ για τις συντελούμενες μέσα στα έργα και τους άλλους οργανισμούς χημικές αντιδράσεις... τον κανει να ονομάζει την στοιχειωμένη αυτή συνεστίαση που παραθέτει στα πνεύματα του παρελθόντος... " ΣΤΡΥΧΝΙΝΗ".

STRYCHNINE (58mb) 

( version free of other poisons)

More poisons-added version of the ...medicine

(Νεώτερη έκδοση του φάρμακου ενισχυμένη και με άλλα δηλητήρια).

MOMUS "Timelord" (UK, 1993)

Sheltered and wandering into the empty isolated rooms of open space, the MOMUS persona of this album extends his life bitter account to a sad, skeptical view over the passage of time, the modern human condition & civilization. It `s not the first (nor last) time, Nicholas develops his provocative mixture of irony & lyricism based on negative feelings and a sharp, inauspicious logic fed by despair. It is though, one of the occasions that the difference between the odd roles he plays... and his very own personal "soul & mind striptease" looks very small. And most of those who love him, they would have felt, i guess, that somewhere into the ambiguity of this difference,... it lies the key for such an extremely seductive, influential art.

Listen to TIMELORD vinyl rip (60mb)

PETER JEFFERIES "Closed Circuit" (NZ, 2001)

Compared with its predecessors (SUBSTATIC,1998 & ELEVATOR MADNESS,1996) "CLOSED CIRCUIT" is a more song orientated work. Peter concetrates his acoustic-electric, art-minimal-noise aeshtetics in shorter compositions and the album, generally, sounds dense, more lofi, less experimental than past. Critical, yet poetic lyrics place him next to artists like Peter Hammill. He remains one of the last great romantics in a dull world...

Check also our previous post about Peter Jefferies "ELEVATOR MADNESS"

Closed Circuit (34 mb)

ROBERT FORSTER " Warm Nights " (AUS, 1996)

Despite of no commenting on our previous RF post, we feel there is a lot of love and interest in THE GO BETWEENS, and ROBERT FORSTER albums, so ... we post here one more of his solo works.

Recorded in London January/February 1996 (with EDWYN COLLINS as producer & session musician) "WARM NIGHTS" reflects not much of a winter longing for warmth; it is more a sentimental journey, full of images of the endless australian landscape that comes out in mind , under the hot oceanic sky, around or after dusk. Music, lyrics, & album artwork refer to country life daily drama and lonely wandering. Behind town scenes, heavy warm clouded skies, motels, neon lighted signs, highways, luna parks, old cars crashed or parked in the middle of nowhere,... ROBERT misses the TGB days ("Rock-N-Roll friend") ... while accompanying instruments (cello, tuba, sax, trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn) adds to the indie/ country/folk/pop/b-road movie atmosphere some more artistic romance.

LISTEN HERE (59mb)

ROBERT FORSTER "Calling from a country phone" (AUS, 1993)

After THE GO BETWEENS disbanded,(1989), members GRANT McLENNAN & ROBERT FORSTER went solo for a few years. Rejoined circa 2000, released 3 more albums and became history when GRANT passed away in his sleep at home in Brisbane, in 2006,... while recently, (2008), ROBERT released "THE EVANGELIST", a work with high emotional importance for all those followed the band or members history through the last 30 years.

"CALLING FROM A COUNTRY PHONE", recorded at his native Brisbane in 1993, is second ROBERT`s solo album. After the quest of the indie pop perfectness with TGB, ROBERT pursues a new refreshed contact with the music language of the australian landscape. Following "DANGER IN THE PAST"(1990) - a work with indirect references to the historical/philosophical thoughts of WALTER BENJAMIN(!) - CALLING FROM A COUNTRY PHONE is an LP of that particular electric/acoustic blues-country-folk blended flavour that we recognize as idiosyncratic australian rock and roll.

Autumn sun

pale,weak,

dissatisfaction for those

that want a burning sun

an ever present sun

a guardian sun

a tyrrant.

the Autumn sun

lights beauty, and in natural

corners shadows decay,

the giving and taking that many say

is the way to live.

R.FORSTER (from the inner sleeve notes)

LISTEN HERE

MOMUS "Slender Sherbet" (UK , 1995)

under the constellation of chameleon...

As requested, here it is "Slender Sherbet", a collection of alter versions of early Momus songs, recorded in Paris, in 1995. Tracks from " Circus Maximus" , "Poison Boyfriend", "Tender Pervert", " Don`t stop the night" LPs etc., revisited (or perhaps revised) by Momus himself, in search of a more fashionable, poisonous, provocative, (experimental sometime) musical form. Stranger than any remix practice, yet equally modern as the middlenineties pop status, Nick covers Nick, knowing well that there is no such thing as a definite composition.

"...if you really love me, you must love my insecurity/ if you really love me, take lovers/if you really love me you must really love my jealousy/ if you really love me, love the others."

from "A complete History of Sexual Jealousy..."

LISTEN HERE (98mb)

MOMUS "the poison boyfriend" (UK,1987)

could have been your consciousness, but i guess that never works, so treat me like an equal till it hurts (from VIOLETS)

MOMUS is the mythological Greek god of mockery and laughter and also the pseudonym behind of which you find the "tender pervert" Scotchman, Nicholas Currie, a like no other, provocative intellectual in the heart of modern music industry. Momus, like a chameleon, changes personas from album to album and from song to song, presenting for more than 20 years now an extraordinary gamut of "others", among which the less famous (as ironically has been said) is himshelf. His musical style, similarly,varies from acoustic ballads, to electropop, acid house, techno, sophisticated lounge, electronic cabaret, a.o. Any kind of fashionable music style can be good enough to "serve" his mocking plans. Although he has the instinct of gifted, simple, catchy melody, the core of his art is more like an author`s, a bitter philosopher`s and a comedian`s, - an ideal combination for controversial acceptance. Nicholas,as one of the most post modern figures in recent music, mixes sociology,anthropology, psycho-sexuality, clear political attitudes, black humour, romantism, cynism, misanthropy and a deep knowledge of literature, confusing the roles of delight and cultural critisism.

THE POISON BOYFRIEND, his second album, first for Creation records, (fortunately has not much to do with the boring sound of this label) is quite influenced by the spirit of poetic european intellectualism. Nick doesn`t hide his love for J.Brel & S.Gainsbourg, while the acoustic style of his fine debut "CIRCUS MAXIMUS" goes parallel with the slow development of an electronic pallete that would master his following works.

The vinyl version, we post here, consists of 8 songs, while another version of the album has additionally: "11 executioners", "what will death be like", and "murderers, the hope of women".These 3 extra songs can be found in "MONSTERS OF LOVE" singles collection (an album we might post in future). Instead of those, our post includes as bonus tracks the 1995 revisited versions of "the gatecrasher" & "closer to you" (from album "SLENDER SHERBET").

Riped from original vinyl. (75mb)
listen here

For lyrics ,discography,etc go to:

www.phespirit.info/momus

also visit Nicholas blog:

http://imomus.livejournal.com/