Irmin Schmidt – Le Weekend
Bowing us out this week is former Can keyboardist and all-round cool dude, Irmin Schmidt with his 1991 track “Le Weekend”. Taken from the album Impossible Holidays, the song is a four and bit minutes of tango-inspired silliness, which let’s face it, all of us need after a loooong week [...]
Pecker – Pecker Power Part Two
Some usual dub stylings for you today from the acclaimed Japanese percussionist Pecker. Released in 1980, the LP Pecker Power was the result of the sometime Yellow Magic Orchestra collaborator asking a certain Bob Marley whether he would be interested in recording a dub/reggae album. Bob thought it was a [...]
Single of the Day: Material – Ciguri
Taking their cue from Antonin Artuad and his studies of ancient Mexico solar culture, Material’s Ciguri is a dark and warped piece of ‘punk-funk’ disco. Released on Red Records in 1981, this special disco mix 12” combines one wicked bassline from one of the stalwarts of the New York ‘Downtown’ [...]
Surreal Singles Club: Yoko Ono – Hirake (Open Your Box)
Ahh, Yoko Ono. No Surreal Week on a blog would be complete without her. Always remembered by the masses as the bird that split up the Beatles, here at Days Are Numbers however, we regard her as a pioneering female avant-garde artist. But we don’t really have time to get [...]
Downtown Week: An Introduction
Hello cool cats and jive turkeys, welcome to Daysarenumbers’ Downtown week! This week we’ll be traveling back in time to late 70s & 80s New York to celebrate one of the most creatively fertile periods of popular music and film. From the Big Apple to Gotham City, New York has [...]
Single of the Day – Can – Aspectacle (Holger Czukay edit)
Electronic pioneers Can have always been a bit funky. From the disco silliness of I Want More to the hypnotic Vitamin C, the group’s influence stretched further than the usual rock parameters. The band’s experimental sound broke the mould of traditional rock ‘n’ roll. Their use of early synthesizers, avant-garde [...]
Single of the Day – Gina X Performance – Kaddish
Not many bands would take creative inspiration from the Jewish Mourners’ Prayer – The Kaddish, but cult avant-garde electro-disco pioneers Gina X Performance did just that with their 1981 song ‘Kaddish’.