I listened to Alvarius B "Blood Operatives" yesterday and it might be my favorite thing in the whole SCG catalog.

yeah, it's sickening how much I love alvarius b solo in comparison to the rest of the scg (and solo and side project) discography... and I've heard everything..

Get the UNCLE JIM's TRUE CONFESSIONS album sometime, though, that's definitely one of my favs..

Will do.

The only truly good Sun City Girls thread should be one that's as long and twisted as their catalog. This thread is what made me a SCG fan.

I've only just begun to expand beyond the straight SCG canon and explore some of the side projects. Salvador Kali has been incredible.

YES!

Final album, out on Abduction, out October 2010.

be prepared.

(thanks threelobed for the info)

YES!

kinda pissed to learn that Rangda isn't playing Boston...i might have to travel west for the show.

So is this last album still going to feature stuff from Gocher? Will it be made up of recordings before his death? I'm interested, can't really find out much about it.

Yes, I've heard they recorded this before his death; they supposedly have tons of tapes of them jamming and whatnot, but this will be the last official studio recording.

What's the Eastern instrument in 'And So The Dead Tongue Sang'?

On closer inspection it could just be a saxophone or chanter.

"On closer inspection, these are loafers".

I dunno but I'd love to know. I love that song. So eerie but hip.

I always imagined it was kind of like the instrument they use in this video at 1:16:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fz8w2SNPog

But I'm probably wrong.

is it the instrument used in every secret chiefs 3 song ever?

Like I said, it might be a chanter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=J8oQ...eature=related

I think it's some variation of that...

Funeral Mariachi will be released at the end of September on vinyl.

The basic tracks were recorded back in 1997.

It will be the last proper Sun City Girls' studio album, but there will be more material from the vaults released in the future.

Rick joins Jeff Tweedy on stage @ the Solid Sound Fest for a rendition of "Tennessee Porch Swing."



at the press conference i asked who was the person who asked Rick to play as part of the festival, and if that person was also a SCG fan. Tweedy answered that it was him, and that seeing SCG play w/ JFA scared the shit out of him.

review and photos of the entire shindig here:
http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/soli...ival-of-music/

and a shot of Rick prior to his solo performance (which included 'vinegar stroke,' 'abydos' and 'esoterica of abyssynia')

holy shit, amazing!