Laddio Bolocko & The Psychic Paramount

[kbit]

I've had a growing love for both of these bands over the past year or two and I don't know why they aren't mentioned more often. Incredible musicians. Drew & Ben (guitar & bass (primarily)) are the two constants in each. Laddio had more of a dark free jazz vibe, while Psychic is super driving and blown out to all hell, but the strong rhythmic and noisey presence really connects them to each other so well, even in the more laid back material.

LOVE THEM, ILF, PLEASE.

[backwardsvoyager]

ahah, i'd never made that connection before despite being a fan of both for a few years.
i gravitate more towards Laddio Bolocko, they have a surprising amount of variation in their material.
Really makes me wish i'd properly picked up the sax.

[D.o.S.]

Never really got into P.P. during my "find bands that sound like Comets on Fire" phase.

[Invisible Man]

Blake Fleming is my SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[kbit]

He's a beast behind the kit, and last I heard teaches at a state college in upstate NY, which is pretty cool. I jammed with a student of his once.

I also listened to an interview with Juan Alderete where he said Omar fired him from the Mars Volta cuz he was an asshole. But I'm sure a lot of people think that about Omar, too, so...

ahah, i'd never made that connection before despite being a fan of both for a few years.
i gravitate more towards Laddio Bolocko, they have a surprising amount of variation in their material.
Really makes me wish i'd properly picked up the sax.

Yeah, listening to them definitely makes me wish I played sax in primary school rather than the French horn

I really like the variety in their material as well, there's lots of slow jams and noisey stuff on the unreleased 1997-2000 box set that came out last December. Also, "How About This For My Hair? Part A" from that same box set sounds like it eventually evolved into "Echoh Air" from PP's first album.

[kbit]

Fun fact, Marcus (sax in Laddio) does acupunture now.
http://marcusdegrazia.com

[voerking]

i was (and am) a HUGE fan of Blake's first band, Dazzling Killmen.
I saw Laddio a couple times when they came back to St. Louis after they all moved to NY. they were pretty awesome.
I love their stuff & (to a slightly lesser degree) Psychic Paramount, too.
this current band reminds me of LB/PP a bit:
https://usco.bandcamp.com/album/tuskflower

[voerking]

oh, yeah, this is a really good recording of a Psychic Paramount live set:
http://www.nyctaper.com/2011/08/the-psy ... ming-song/

[kbit]

YESSS downloading that now, thank you sir.

Fellow ILFer Chet had actually sent me U SCO before but I didn't know they had a new album out.
Gonna jam that and some Dazzling Killmen this weekend for sure.

[voerking]

Gonna jam that and some Dazzling Killmen this weekend for sure.

crazy vinyl reissue coming soon, FYI:
https://skingraftrecords.bandcamp.com/a ... al-edition

[baremountain]

I was in a band (still am, but we're on hiatus while our drummer is in Peru) that sounds a little like Laddio! I found out about them last year when I put up a band whose drummer takes lessons from Blake and he recommended them. Never listened to Psychic Paramount, but I'm about to fix that.
Fun fact (from Blake's student): Blake's preferred technique to recording drums is finding a sweet spot in the room about 10 ft (I think) from the kit, setting up two microphones close to each other & pointing at the snare, then setting one to capture audio like you normally would (getting sub-clipping levels), but then setting the second mic to clip to hell. He'd play with those two tracks and mix it up to get a unique drum sound.

[D.o.S.]

*Still waiting for kibbles and kbits to check out Comets on Fire*

[voerking]

blake's solo drum record is pretty cool:
https://blakefleming.bandcamp.com/album/times-up

[kbit]

That micing technique sounds interesting and make sense with how dirty some of the Laddio drum tracks are.

*Still waiting for kibbles and kbits to check out Comets on Fire*

Based off my brief listen I dont really see the connection between them and either of these bands? Long songs maybe but they seem way more fundamentally rooted in blues, which I don't hear as strongly in either of these bands.

[D.o.S.]

*The following is totally tainted by the fact that I was recommended TPP based on digging CoF so the idea that you wouldn't love Comets is foreign to me.*

Go listen to Field Recordings from the Sun and then realize it came out nearly a decade before TPP's II.

Or just listen to Blue Cathedral.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il6jibq ... 4BB0hXmCTL

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