Friday, April 06, 2007

brian dewan


I don't know why Brian Dewan's not a superstar, especially now that the kids are all into this so-called "freak folk." This zither-playing, musical-instrument-constructing, multi-media art-producing, enthusiast of arcane americana is freakier and folkier than most. Dewan is probably best-known for for his various collaborations with They Might Be Giants and his quirky police-killing tune, "99 cops." I highly recommend tracking down his two wonderful albums and seeing him perform live if you ever get the chance. Featured here is one of his 2 rare EPs from John Flansburg's Hello Cd of the month club. It's got three great original tunes and a "traditional" song (probably dating from the 19th century) which uses smoking as a metaphor for human mortality. Unfortunately, I don't have his other Hello EP or his songs from the Hello holiday album, but perhaps someone else out there does...

re-upped!

Also, someone from WFMU requested I email them George Martin's 1962, "Ray Cathode" 7" so it could be posted on their music blog (which I assume you're familiar with). I'm of course happy to oblige, but wasn't able to email the files because of a spam firewall. So I'll just re-post them here:

Ray Cathode single

6 comments:

Lee said...

Hey Adam,

Here you go. Enjoy.

Adam Infanticide said...

most appreciated!

Anonymous said...

hi,
the links seem to be dead...
i remember '99 cops' from the John Peel show circa '89, i've thought the singer's name is Brian Duane.
greetings from Poland - darek

Anonymous said...

can you re-up file, please.

Adam Infanticide said...

ok, folks:

it's up again.

Anonymous said...

I'm selling this CD as a part of the complete subscription set. Get the word out! Here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110163811478&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=001