3stripe – a music blog by James Greig comprising 27 posts

My first collaboration with another artist is finally off the press! I recorded six tracks on Jocky Venkataraman’s new double-disk LP, “Motorways Died Young/This is Not Food, This is Not Even Food”, out on Adam Stafford’s Wise Blood label in Glasgow.

Three of the tracks (see above) have organ/synth/drum contributions by me.

“You can’t really say that Jocky Venkataraman sounds like anybody else apart from Jocky Venkataraman. Sure, some have made comparisons to Daniel Johnson (who Jocky hadn’t heard until recently) and Malcolm Middleton, but nobody in Scottish music today imbues the kind of idiosyncratic blend of the personal and political with such humour and naive charm quite like Jocky.

The songs cover a broad range of topics from cycling In Sanquhar (where Jocky’s legs get wet), the horrible, transparent nothingness shopping-mall town of Newton Mearns and the mundane conversations you have with your relatives on graduation day (Graduatitive).”

(from the Wise Blood release notes)

Head over to Jocky’s MySpace to order your copy.

Comments

• Michael / April 27th, 2009
  
  

  I minimally enjoy your minimalist work.

  Those are dope, love the little melody in #2…

• 3stripe / April 27th, 2009
  
  

  Cheers Michael :)

• John / September 18th, 2009
  
  

  Nice one, old man. #3 might become my new get-drunk-and-try-to-sing-Scottish song.

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