Sunday, September 6, 2009

BATANG FRISCO-S/T, LP, 1986, USA



Requested a while back, the uneven but sometimes fascinating melange concocted by this moody Bay Area crew fused languidly reverberant and drifty pop strategies to pensively tense Iron Curtain-like minimal synthy structures. Don't be put off by the late date for this sorta thing. Some of this is quite fine...

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9 comments:

  1. Wow, thank you very much, Eric!!!!

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  2. Good stuff!!

    glad to stumble over such an album.

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  3. Initially I found the vocals a little callow sounding, but the farther I get into the album the more I'm coming around to them.
    The boneheaded Miami-Vice guitar in "Sewing Machine" is so sweet!

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  4. Amazing, awesome, beautiful. Does not sound like 80s at all! Can't thank you enough for this!

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  5. if you dig on stuff like this checkout this band twmwk from ny, delicious.

    thanks for putting this one up.

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  6. Just want you to know that "Batang Frisco" is my huband, Bill DiMichele's creation. He wrote all the songs and lyrics. He also has a CD, "Sick Man Teacher Dead Man". Check him out in Wikipedia, Pure Volume and MySpace.

    Julie

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  7. What a band!!cant stop hear this record amazing, sounds, melodies. Saludos desde Argentina

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  8. hello,

    this message is for Julie DiMichele.
    i would really love to get in touch with you and your husband in order to interview for my magazine.
    i would really appreciate if you could get in touch with me.
    thanks in advance and sorry mutants for taking this space (by the way, you did a great job putting this wonderful album online).
    iker / morning magazine

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  9. This man did to me one of the most massive disk and timeless

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