It’s the party end of the year (well it was when I started this post) and it’s time for the first ever inaugural Stubbadub top 10 albums of the year list!

Even without any significant contributions from Mike Patton this year, which can be directly attributed to a certain reunion tour, there have been many great Stubbadub related releases to tickle our ear drums.

So lets get started. Counting down from 10 to 1:

10.  Zu – Carboniferous (Mike Patton) - Italian metallers Zu released their latest album Carboniferous via Mike Patton’s label Ipecac Recordings. Mike appears on a couple of tracks (Soulympics and Orc) along with Buzz from the Melvins (Chthonian).

09. Shrinebuilder – Self Titled (Dale Crover) - Featuring Dale Crover of The Melvins fame on drums and Neurosis frontman Scott Kelly on Guitar, Shrinebuilder released their stoner fueled debut album in October.

08. MadLove – White with Foam (Trevor Dunn) – Trevor Dunn’s Rock Album. Nuff said. Go get it.

07. Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine – The Audacity of Hype (Billy Gould) – The latest installment from outspoken ex-Dead Kennedys’ vocalist, Eric Reed Boucher aka Jello Biafra is a kick in the sack from start to finish. The album features Billy Gould on bass and one has to assume that he would have toured with the band if he hadn’t been side tracked by the recent reformation of Faith No More. Hopefully he can make the next tour (and they bring it to Australia )

06. Chuck Mosley and the VUA – Will Rap over Hard Rock for Food (Chuck Mosley) – It’s been a while since Chuck released anything of significance, but it was worth the wait. A good album over all and the rework of Faith No More’s We Care a Lot (Featuring special guest Mr Roddy Bottum on keys) is very interesting and worth grabbing the album for alone.

05. Umlaut – Self Titled (Bar McKinnon) – Bar’s first release since becoming an Aussie. Recently toured with Les Claypool. A very tidy album all round with some very nice Bungle-esque/Secret Chiefs 3 moments.

04. Isis – Wavering Radiant (Ipecac Recordings) – The latest installment from rockers Isis as usual does not disappoint.

03. Secret Chiefs 3 – Traditionalists : Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini (Trey Spruance) – The newest SC3 album took everyone by surprise as Trey bucked his usual trend of announcing an album release and then missing that date by large margins. A great release by sub band “Traditionalists”, but leaves you hanging for the next book release.

02. The Fantastic Terrific Munkle – Music to Dance To (Danny Heifetz) – It is very difficult to keep up with what Danny is working on nowdays as he does not have any established online presence, but the best thing he is involved with at the moment is the Munkle band. Check this album out

01. John Zorn – O’o (Trevor Dunn) – The latest in Zorn’s “Romance” series and the follow up to 2008’s “The Dreamers”, this is an amazing record and by far my album of the year.

Honourable Mentions:

• SUNN O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions (Timb Harris, Eyvind Kang)

• Crank: High Voltage Soundtrack (Mike Patton)

Hopefully next year we will see the highly anticipated release of Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane, possibly Crudo and fingers crossed another Fantomas would be most welcome.

Also March 23rd sees the release of the Dillinger Escape Plan’s latest album, Option Paralysis, and from the new song making the rounds (Farewell Mona Lisa), it’s gonna be kickarse.

Feel free to post your thoughts on albums in this list, or your own top 10 lists in the comments or in the forum.

Happy New Year Stubbers!

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Hardtimes.ca just published a long interview with Trey Spruance. Check it:

Secret Chiefs 3 Interview HARDTIMES . CA

Great old school Faith No More article by Jai Young Kim. Includes loads of Trey!

http://www.scaruffi.com/interv/fnm.html

I wonder if it was their jaded attitude to touring that put Trey off?

http://rs402.rapidshare.com/files/181753969/NTF.zip

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IFJEGG7E

Tracks included:

Noddingturd Fan – Mary Niel and the Collapsed Corpse of the Universe (1995)
Noddingturd Fan – Attempts the Imprisonment of Mind Undifferentiated by Fabrication of Demiurge [Precipitation] (1995)
Millers Higher Life – Forms Web of Mimicry [Indiscreet Stereo Test Record] (1995)
Noddingturd Fan [Kitchen Sink Live] (1999)
NT Fan – The Secret Mausoleum of Mankind [Bad Times Ahead for Me] (2000)

More info on NT Fan here

Great interview, have a read.

“I think the discipline it demands to pull things off is very healthy for the soul, and I am very proud of the members of SC3 for being LIFERS who are purified of all illusion having to do with what it means to be a “musician”. This is a great source of strength…”

http://reyporundia.phplibre.com.es/modules/news/article.php?storyid=361

http://reyporundia.phplibre.com.es/modules/news/article.php?storyid=363

http://reyporundia.phplibre.com.es/modules/news/article.php?storyid=364

http://rapidshare.com/files/128890120/trey_rock-a-rolla.zip

http://markprindle.com/spruance-i.htm

Photo courtesy of HLK

Trey Spruance and Tawb b. Dorenfeld (Director/Writer of The Anna Cabrini Chronicles) conducted an interview with UCSC Radio to talk about the movie The Anna Cabrini Chronicles. I have been keen to see this movie and after seeing snippets in these interviews I am even more so. If you are interested in the move after watching these interviews, head on over to www.annacabrini.com.

Part 1:

Part 2:

My friend Henrik from the cv mailing list recently posted an overview of the Trey Spruance interview recently published in the magazine rock-a-rolla. Go grab a copy, it’s a great read.

I’ve got the new issue with Trey’s interview and it was pretty
interesting. I’ll mention a few interesting things from the interview.

First of all Trey talked about how he came to do the Xaphan album.
When SC3 were playing at the Stone, Zorn happened to be there and he
ran home and came back with Masada Book II (300 charts) at the end of
the show and offered Trey to make a record and arrange however he
wanted. Next Trey and Jason Schimmel looked through the charts and the
ones Zorn suggested struck him immediately and he knew exactly what he
wanted to do.

Then he compares Zorn’s way of doing this to his own way, for example
the amount of time he spends on SC3 records. Also the way of doing
live shows is different, where Zorn get the players ready on the same
day of the show (or they’ve rehearsed before) and play the show.
Whereas Trey has a “pool” of players that are “broken in” and get
whoever’s available for those shows.

He also says he’s more into composing than being “fixated” on an
instrument. The Book of Souls is divided into three folios and a lot
of it is at the mixing stage and doing the Xaphan got in the way of
that, but helped creatively.

He says that FORMS and Holy Vehm is next up for the live shows.

Furthermore, he says that he “resents” iPods for ruining the artwork/
image aspect of the album/single.

WoM will release a cd with a band called The Diminshed Men, some kind
of surf-ish music and also Girth (the band which Peijman is in).

At the end of the interview he talks about the demise of Mr. Bungle,
saying that he probably was the one who was in denial longest, until
late 2005 and the way that it ended was weird, sad and awkward. He
thought the problems could be solved and that the band could’ve made a
fourth album. Trey says: ” “Management” certainly didn’t help, and
continues not to, and that’s the only grudge I bear.”

He says he doesn’t have a grudge against Patton, but that he wouldn’t
be too eager to get into a band situation with him these days. But
all in all, he thinks Mr. Bungle had a good run and that he thinks
fondly of those days.
He also stated that he still has material for a Bungle record and that
he would be positive to a live album.

Then he talks about the other members of Bungle, saying that he’s
heard some of Trevor Dunn’s stuff and that he always likes his
playing. He mentions that he played with Umläut, Bär McKinnon’s band,
on the Australian tour and that he always likes things about Fantômas.
He also sounds enthusiastic about Patton’s Mondo Cane project and
says: …”which sounds perfect for him – like something he should have
done all along.” He’s not into the more rock/hip-hop stuff that
Patton’s been doing, but that’s probably because he doesn’t like
anything that sounds that way. At the end he expresses his admiration
for Danny Heifetz drumwork.

He also talks a lot about middle eastern philosophy and the difference
in recording techniques between SC3 and Bungle. Well there you go,
that’s about as much as I can write about it!

/Henrik

clicky here for Sitting Now Trey Spruance Interview part 2