Bill Callahan Santa Barbara 12" Vinyl EP 2024
- Beautiful Child
- Cold Discovery
- Dirty Pants
- Jesus
December 2001, Maida Vale: Bill Callahanâs âSmogâ perform with demonstrative zeal for their British witness at the BBC, shimmering and hissing with a Lynchian vibe of U.S. darkness in the invariable shadows of the fallen towers. Callahan & band (Jessica Billey, Mike Saenz and Jim White) cover Stevie Nicks, Lou Reed and Smog with grey, ashen resolve and tour-torn flexibility, amassing a bruised, plaintive essence of humanity with their efforts.
âThis one to me is a time capsule more than most any of my recordings. All music is a time trapped in time that preaches timelessness -â preaching either convincingly or not. But with a radio session such as this, there is a different aspect. Itâs all live, all first take, no overdubs. Also I think having the BBC engineers at the controls, with their own aesthetic, not one I am bringing to the studio, that makes it more encapsulated -- âremember that day we did that?â The circumstances and the memory of the smell of the studio makes it stand out. So itâs more of a performance maybe than a usual recording, because the audience (engineer and producer) were foreign to us. British, milk in tea. So we gave them something to show them who WE were -â Dale Coopers with our black coffees.
Somebody said this EP is very Twin Peaksy. Not in a Badalamenti, torch-song way â- a deeper connection. I can see that.
âBeautiful Childâ has been turned into a minor key song because, well, it really should have been one in the first place! âCold Discoveryâ was a live staple then and some nights it could really catch fire. We got a pretty good one for BBC. âDirty Pantsâ here is probably better than the LP version. And then thereâs âJesusâ. Sweet, sweet âJesusâ. Here sounding like a deathbed plea shot through with visitations from the angel of mercy.â
- Bill, 2024
Bill Callahan Santa Barbara 12" Vinyl EP 2024
- Beautiful Child
- Cold Discovery
- Dirty Pants
- Jesus
December 2001, Maida Vale: Bill Callahanâs âSmogâ perform with demonstrative zeal for their British witness at the BBC, shimmering and hissing with a Lynchian vibe of U.S. darkness in the invariable shadows of the fallen towers. Callahan & band (Jessica Billey, Mike Saenz and Jim White) cover Stevie Nicks, Lou Reed and Smog with grey, ashen resolve and tour-torn flexibility, amassing a bruised, plaintive essence of humanity with their efforts.
âThis one to me is a time capsule more than most any of my recordings. All music is a time trapped in time that preaches timelessness -â preaching either convincingly or not. But with a radio session such as this, there is a different aspect. Itâs all live, all first take, no overdubs. Also I think having the BBC engineers at the controls, with their own aesthetic, not one I am bringing to the studio, that makes it more encapsulated -- âremember that day we did that?â The circumstances and the memory of the smell of the studio makes it stand out. So itâs more of a performance maybe than a usual recording, because the audience (engineer and producer) were foreign to us. British, milk in tea. So we gave them something to show them who WE were -â Dale Coopers with our black coffees.
Somebody said this EP is very Twin Peaksy. Not in a Badalamenti, torch-song way â- a deeper connection. I can see that.
âBeautiful Childâ has been turned into a minor key song because, well, it really should have been one in the first place! âCold Discoveryâ was a live staple then and some nights it could really catch fire. We got a pretty good one for BBC. âDirty Pantsâ here is probably better than the LP version. And then thereâs âJesusâ. Sweet, sweet âJesusâ. Here sounding like a deathbed plea shot through with visitations from the angel of mercy.â
- Bill, 2024
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- Beautiful Child
- Cold Discovery
- Dirty Pants
- Jesus
December 2001, Maida Vale: Bill Callahanâs âSmogâ perform with demonstrative zeal for their British witness at the BBC, shimmering and hissing with a Lynchian vibe of U.S. darkness in the invariable shadows of the fallen towers. Callahan & band (Jessica Billey, Mike Saenz and Jim White) cover Stevie Nicks, Lou Reed and Smog with grey, ashen resolve and tour-torn flexibility, amassing a bruised, plaintive essence of humanity with their efforts.
âThis one to me is a time capsule more than most any of my recordings. All music is a time trapped in time that preaches timelessness -â preaching either convincingly or not. But with a radio session such as this, there is a different aspect. Itâs all live, all first take, no overdubs. Also I think having the BBC engineers at the controls, with their own aesthetic, not one I am bringing to the studio, that makes it more encapsulated -- âremember that day we did that?â The circumstances and the memory of the smell of the studio makes it stand out. So itâs more of a performance maybe than a usual recording, because the audience (engineer and producer) were foreign to us. British, milk in tea. So we gave them something to show them who WE were -â Dale Coopers with our black coffees.
Somebody said this EP is very Twin Peaksy. Not in a Badalamenti, torch-song way â- a deeper connection. I can see that.
âBeautiful Childâ has been turned into a minor key song because, well, it really should have been one in the first place! âCold Discoveryâ was a live staple then and some nights it could really catch fire. We got a pretty good one for BBC. âDirty Pantsâ here is probably better than the LP version. And then thereâs âJesusâ. Sweet, sweet âJesusâ. Here sounding like a deathbed plea shot through with visitations from the angel of mercy.â
- Bill, 2024
