LO / 60 EP
1. 1st Part
2. 2nd Part
3. 3rd Part
4. 4th Part
5. 5th Part
6. 6th Part
7. 7th Part
8. 8th Part
9. Last Part
Solo Analog Electronics EP by R-E
Cover by R-E
Out on 6th December for free download
23 November 2010
19 November 2010
From Your Correspondent
Check out this lovely review of Legendary Weapons of China's Molten Mirrors here on the excellent Not For Resale blog.
The Happy Home LP is going to be called Forts. I'd hope to share some of it pretty soon, in the next month or so. I'm trying to finish "True Believers" first cos Super Sinister is shooting a video for it, so that'll probably be the first thing you'll hear.
Lydia Whitmore /// Super Sinister has made some beautiful photographs of me. She's getting a deer's head in next week, and piles of green beetles. Intense times.
ALL LOVE,
RX
The Happy Home LP is going to be called Forts. I'd hope to share some of it pretty soon, in the next month or so. I'm trying to finish "True Believers" first cos Super Sinister is shooting a video for it, so that'll probably be the first thing you'll hear.
Lydia Whitmore /// Super Sinister has made some beautiful photographs of me. She's getting a deer's head in next week, and piles of green beetles. Intense times.
ALL LOVE,
RX
12 November 2010
QQQuote of the day
How to play Guitar
by David Fair
(via Yuri Landman's Hypercustom site, here)
I taught myself to play guitar. It’s incredibly easy when you understand the science of it. The skinny strings play the high sounds, and the fat strings play the low sounds. If you put your finger on the string father out by the tuning end it makes a lower sound. If you want to play fast move your hand fast and if you want to play slower move your hand slower. That’s all there is to it. You can learn the names of notes and how to make chords that other people use, but that’s pretty limiting. Even if you took a few years and learned all the chords you’d still have a limited number of options. If you ignore the chords your options are infinite and you can master guitar playing in one day.
Traditionally, guitars have a fat string on the top and they get skinnier and skinnier as they go down. But the thing to remember is it’s your guitar and you can put whatever you want on it. I like to put six different sized strings on it because that gives the most variety, but my brother used to put all of the same thickness on so he wouldn’t have so much to worry about. Whatever string he hit had to be the right one because they were all the same.
Tuning the guitar is kind of a ridiculous notion. If you have to wind the tuning pegs to just a certain place, that implies that every other place would be wrong. But that’s absurd. How could it be wrong? It’s your guitar and you’re the one playing it. It’s completely up to you to decide how it should sound. In fact I don’t tune by the sound at all. I wind the strings until they’re all about the same tightness. I highly recommend electric guitars for a couple of reasons. First of all they don’t depend on body resonating for the sound so it doesn’t matter if you paint them. As also, if you put all the knobs on your amplifier on 10 you can get a much higher reaction to effort ratio with an electric guitar than you can with an acoustic. Just a tiny tap on the strings can rattle your windows, and when you slam the strings, with your amp on 10, you can strip the paint off the walls.
The first guitar I bought was a Silvertone. Later I bought a Fender Telecaster, but it really doesn’t matter what kind you buy as long as the tuning pegs are on the end of the neck where they belong. A few years back someone came out with a guitar that tunes at the other end. I’ve never tried one. I guess they sound allright but they look ridiculous and I imagine you’d feel pretty foolish holding one. That would affect your playing. The idea isn’t to feel foolish. The idea is to put a pick in one hand and a guitar in the other and with a tiny movement rule the world.
by David Fair
(via Yuri Landman's Hypercustom site, here)
Traditionally, guitars have a fat string on the top and they get skinnier and skinnier as they go down. But the thing to remember is it’s your guitar and you can put whatever you want on it. I like to put six different sized strings on it because that gives the most variety, but my brother used to put all of the same thickness on so he wouldn’t have so much to worry about. Whatever string he hit had to be the right one because they were all the same.
Tuning the guitar is kind of a ridiculous notion. If you have to wind the tuning pegs to just a certain place, that implies that every other place would be wrong. But that’s absurd. How could it be wrong? It’s your guitar and you’re the one playing it. It’s completely up to you to decide how it should sound. In fact I don’t tune by the sound at all. I wind the strings until they’re all about the same tightness. I highly recommend electric guitars for a couple of reasons. First of all they don’t depend on body resonating for the sound so it doesn’t matter if you paint them. As also, if you put all the knobs on your amplifier on 10 you can get a much higher reaction to effort ratio with an electric guitar than you can with an acoustic. Just a tiny tap on the strings can rattle your windows, and when you slam the strings, with your amp on 10, you can strip the paint off the walls.
The first guitar I bought was a Silvertone. Later I bought a Fender Telecaster, but it really doesn’t matter what kind you buy as long as the tuning pegs are on the end of the neck where they belong. A few years back someone came out with a guitar that tunes at the other end. I’ve never tried one. I guess they sound allright but they look ridiculous and I imagine you’d feel pretty foolish holding one. That would affect your playing. The idea isn’t to feel foolish. The idea is to put a pick in one hand and a guitar in the other and with a tiny movement rule the world.
28 October 2010
Legendary Weapons of China - "Molten Mirrors" LP
Molten Mirrors will be available from Monday 1st November on the Legendary Weapons of China Bandcamp page HERE.
A few physical copies (CD only) will be made available either thru the bandcamp page or by contacting us via legendaryweaponsofchina(at)gmail.com...
The tracklist is:
1. "Royal Herbs" (2:57)
2. "Dumb Dust" (5:20)
3. "Rise Home, Rise Home" (6:35)
4. "High Roots" (7:15)
5. "Molten Mirrors" (14:10)
All songs written/arranged by Shanaz Mon Zaki and R-E
The album was recorded by R-E, throughout the summer of 2010.
The cover art is by Super Sinister.
23 October 2010
16 October 2010
Shanaz Mon Zaki
Check him out HERE
Shanaz Mon Zaki writes incredibly beautiful vapourous spirituals, like a kind of nourished haunted reverb. He's also half of Legendary Weapons of China.
I hope to record him sometime soon.
Shanaz Mon Zaki writes incredibly beautiful vapourous spirituals, like a kind of nourished haunted reverb. He's also half of Legendary Weapons of China.
I hope to record him sometime soon.
09 October 2010
26 September 2010
HH REXX
*******************************
Happy Home are recording an LP
Happy Home are recording an LP
at the moment. We're about 40% or
so of the way through it I'd guess.
Something like that. We think it
might be called "IRREAL TAPES"
but maybe a better idea will come
along in the meantime, let's see.
Further updates coming soonish.
- XXX R-E
19 September 2010
18 September 2010
11 September 2010
Legendary Weapons of China perform "High Roots" b/w "Utopia Modes"
As an ambling precursor to the Molten Mirrors LP here's the centrepiece song "High Roots", along with the singularly strawberryish "Utopia Modes". Available for free, digital download here.
The album should be out soon, we're a bit sketchy with dates and all.
Cover art by R-E.
"High Roots" b/w "Utopia Modes" by Legendary Weapons
17 August 2010
R-E plays IIIrd I
I played the inaugural Third Eye Club last Friday, the 13th, definitely an auspicious number. Many thanks to the organisers Self-Existing Eagle and Shanaz Mon Zaki for asking us to play, Luciano Foglia who did the lighting, Elian Gray for coaching duties and Super Sinister for the photographs.
Hopefully it will be the first of many of these.
Bears was exploring the desert and Mike Mike was exploring the valleys, so the set ended up as a lone wander thru the Happy Home...
Also there was a little preview of "High Roots" from the Legendary Weapons of China LP...
I heard a rumour that the set was filmed, you'll be the first to know if it was.
Love,
RX
02 August 2010
MLTN MRRZ
The first Legendary Weapons of China LP is going to be available in the next month or two, assuming we put it out ourselves. It is called Molten Mirrors.
side 1
1. Royal Herbs
2. Dumb Dust
3. Rise Home, Rise Home
4. High Roots
side 2
5. Molten Mirrors
The cover is by Super Sinister. I'll post it when finished, in the meantime here's some other awesome thing by her...
side 1
1. Royal Herbs
2. Dumb Dust
3. Rise Home, Rise Home
4. High Roots
side 2
5. Molten Mirrors
The cover is by Super Sinister. I'll post it when finished, in the meantime here's some other awesome thing by her...
02 July 2010
Legendary Weapons of China
Legendary Weapons of China are:
Shanaz Mon Zaki --> Synthesizers, Voice
R-E --> Drums, Voice
Here's some early versions:
Molten Magnets Set by Legendary Weapons
Shanaz Mon Zaki --> Synthesizers, Voice
R-E --> Drums, Voice
Here's some early versions:
Molten Magnets Set by Legendary Weapons
01 July 2010
Solo version
First Third, Otherwise Electra by R-E
^^^this is the solo instrumental version, the happy home (autobiographical) version can be heard here.
^^^this is the solo instrumental version, the happy home (autobiographical) version can be heard here.
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