Michal Turtle
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 7:10 am
Long shot but faint heart never won fair maiden.
I absolutely love the releases on Music From Memory and over the past year or so they've released a couple of compilations and a 12' by lost postpunkfunkfourthworlder Michal Turtle. I have absolutely loved the records and at the same time been quite frustrated with myself in not discovering his 80's record Music From The Living Room which rather maddeningly I was pretty much standing right next to when I h]bought other Shout label records by the likes of Shoc Corridor, Headhunters and The Lucy Show.
I thought about doing one on Phantoms Of Dreamland but now there's a few records out I thought I'd give it a go.
Michal was an Englishman who now lives in Switzerland who recorded most of his music at home, often just on a portastudio which somehow still sounds fantastic and made a living playing in orchestras and it's a real shame it's taken this long for it to find a wider audience. He's hard to pin down but he tends to work out of a broadly fourth world territory and reminds me of everything from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts to, Jon Hassell, to Hula, to A Certain Ratio, to A Primary Industry, to 23 Skidoo, to Shoc Corridor, to Maximum Joy, to Material, to Cabaret Voltaire, to Clock DVA, to Japan, to Allez Allez, early 70's Miles Davis, to ECM, to Grace Jones and on and on.
He's an odd one, on the one hand he definitely owns a fez and surely wears his bass just under his chin but on the other hand his music is often deeply in the shade and prone to taking unexpected very post punk swerves.
Full stream ahead matey!
Phantoms Of Dreamland 2X12 compilation.
Return To Jeka 1X12 compilation
Are You Psychic? / Astral Decoy 12'. This is from fucking 1983 and yet it could be brand new. Magical!
D
P.S. Music From Memory is indeed a brilliant label and a really good first dip would be
Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991, check out the track by Violet Eves if you've only got time for one, or add in Lost Gringos if you have time for tea for two.
I absolutely love the releases on Music From Memory and over the past year or so they've released a couple of compilations and a 12' by lost postpunkfunkfourthworlder Michal Turtle. I have absolutely loved the records and at the same time been quite frustrated with myself in not discovering his 80's record Music From The Living Room which rather maddeningly I was pretty much standing right next to when I h]bought other Shout label records by the likes of Shoc Corridor, Headhunters and The Lucy Show.
I thought about doing one on Phantoms Of Dreamland but now there's a few records out I thought I'd give it a go.
Michal was an Englishman who now lives in Switzerland who recorded most of his music at home, often just on a portastudio which somehow still sounds fantastic and made a living playing in orchestras and it's a real shame it's taken this long for it to find a wider audience. He's hard to pin down but he tends to work out of a broadly fourth world territory and reminds me of everything from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts to, Jon Hassell, to Hula, to A Certain Ratio, to A Primary Industry, to 23 Skidoo, to Shoc Corridor, to Maximum Joy, to Material, to Cabaret Voltaire, to Clock DVA, to Japan, to Allez Allez, early 70's Miles Davis, to ECM, to Grace Jones and on and on.
He's an odd one, on the one hand he definitely owns a fez and surely wears his bass just under his chin but on the other hand his music is often deeply in the shade and prone to taking unexpected very post punk swerves.
Full stream ahead matey!
Phantoms Of Dreamland 2X12 compilation.
Return To Jeka 1X12 compilation
Are You Psychic? / Astral Decoy 12'. This is from fucking 1983 and yet it could be brand new. Magical!
D
P.S. Music From Memory is indeed a brilliant label and a really good first dip would be
Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991, check out the track by Violet Eves if you've only got time for one, or add in Lost Gringos if you have time for tea for two.