Obviously, you start with Suicide. Then you hit the dusty highway & head backwards, about 15 years. On the way, you stop at a Howard Johnson's where you pick up smokes and an underage girl. Leaving, you spot a shoebox on the ground - it's filled with a stranger's snapshots, postcards and love-letters. You take it, because this will contain your memories. Heading back to the future, you make a pitstop in downtown NYC ca. 1981, just to wash up.
Now that you've got the basic ingredients for Dirty Beaches, you just need the right chef. He is Alex Zhang Hungtai, a bi-coastal Canadian of Taiwanese birth and no place of his own. Though currently, Montreal seems to be doing quite nicely.
Alex and guitarist Shub Roy recently made their first visit to WFMU, and I'm the lucky sumbitch who got to host & record them, while trying not to get drool on their sweet gear. Korg MS-10 synth! Ace Tone analog delay! A homemade fuzz pedal! Real nice mic too, I forgot to ask what that was.
Anyway, we're all real excited to share their live set with you, including an interview where we learn of other things happening in Montreal, and some upcoming releases, including 2 of Alex's film soundtrack projects. An Italian horror film!!
Check out the video of their performance, and here's more Dirty Beaches on the Free Music Archive.
" their live set" link is broken?
Posted by: Nevverdaily | August 03, 2012 at 05:01 PM
Ack! Thanks for catching that sir, it's fix'd now
Posted by: Scott W | August 03, 2012 at 05:05 PM
My hope is that someday somebody will travel to the distant future, find a box of future snapshots there, stop in 2051 just to wash up, and come back to us in the present and play for us the music of the future. If this doesn't happen I'm worried the immediate future is going look a lot like the immediate past.
You know of anyone who returned from the future musically?
Would love to hear.
Posted by: William | August 05, 2012 at 04:44 PM
Ack! Thanks for catching that sir, it's fix'd nowwww.diesel-generatorset.com
Posted by: pan | August 13, 2012 at 03:19 AM
Hey there. Talked to Alex someday a while ago... His microphone is an old BEYERDYNAMIC. I can't tell you wich modell exactly though. Greets.
Posted by: Art Trip | September 26, 2012 at 09:41 AM