Tosh Berman's Blog, page 82
July 17, 2021
Les Sewing Sisters's new album "Les Sewing Sisters"
Our new album is produced by Adam Lee Miller (ADULT.)!! will be out July 23rd! @ band campAbout Streaming Live Show on July 30thhttps://bit.ly/3hgIogR
Buy "Sparks-Tastic" by Tosh Berman here!
In 2008, Tosh Berman—author and publisher of TamTam Books—got on a plane with a single motive: Sparks Spectacular. It had been announced that the band Sparks would perform all twenty-one of their albums in a succession of twenty-one nights in London...a monumental experience for any Sparks fanatic, which Tosh certainly is. Part travel journal, part personal memoir, Berman takes us through the streets of London and Paris, observing each city's history and culture through the eye of an obsessive Sparks fan. Including album-by-album reviews of all twenty-one shows and beyond, Sparks-Tastic defines a place and time in music history that's too defining to be ignored. Get the book here: Buy "Sparks-Tastic" here
July 16, 2021
Tosh Berman on Shaun Cassidy's "Wasp" (1980, Warner Brothers Records)
Tosh Berman on Shaun Cassidy's "Wasp." Made and recorded in 1980. But now reissued in 2021 for Record Store Day.
The Needle Is Damaged by Les Sewing Sisters
here are no guitars, drums, synths - just voices and the beautiful sounds of the sewing machine fine-tuned via computer. new album- July 23rd @ band camp About Streaming Live Show on July 30th
July 15, 2021
Book Musik (No. 50) Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall with guest Dave Ehrlich
Book Musik 050 – Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall with guest Dave EhrlichPosted on July 15, 2021 by Book Musik
Tosh and Kimley discuss Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall (ed. by Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley) with special guest, number one fan of The Fall, Dave Ehrlich. We are neophytes to the forbidding and frankly overwhelming world of The Fall, so we’ve enlisted Dave to be our Sherpa. Dave’s been a super fan since the 80s and guides us through The Fall’s mysterious landscape. This is not a band for the faint of heart and their prodigious output means there’s some work to be done to explore their universe, but we’ve found that the rewards are more than worth it. We’re quickly becoming super fans as well.
July 13, 2021
Les Sewing Sisters Live from their closet via Moment House Friday July 30 7PM (Pacific Coast Time)
Les Sewing Sisters are Lun*na Menoh and Saori Mitome. On their upcoming self-titled debut, you hear noise from sewing machines fine-tuned via computer and the human voice. There are no guitars, drums, synths - just voices and the beautiful sound of the sewing machine. Lun*na and Saori looked back to the industrial age when the sewing machine came into existence and looked onward to making the ‘now’ sound of Les Sewing Sisters. Lun*na first started using her sewing machines as an instrument when she did a version of Maurice Ravel’s Bolero performed and premiered at the sold out Valaslavasay Panorama in 2016. Les Sewing Sisters opened up for the band Sparks in 2017 and 2018. In 2019, they did the Les Sewing Sisters home tour, where they did 22 performances in people’s closet space. On Friday July 30, you can virtually experience the band LIVE from their closet via Moment House!Get tickets: https://www.momenthouse.com/co/lessewingsistershometourPhotos by Theo Rasmussen
July 11, 2021
July 10, 2021
Subscribe to The World of Tosh Berman
Subscribe either for free, or by a paid subscrition to the World of Tosh Berman on substack. It is here I post my critical as well as fictional writings. And some memoir writings as well. Here: https://tosh.substack.com
Photo still from Anna Biller's film VIVA. Tosh Berman and his wife Lun*na is in this scene.
July 9, 2021
The World of Tosh Berman, Friday, July 9, 2021 (This Is Paradise, part six)
Tosh Berman's "This Is Paradise (part six)" and the last episode. Read it here:
"Terminal Boredom: Stories" by Izumi Suzuki
One of the more interesting new authors, at least for me, is Izumi Suzuki. A science-fiction author but also an actor in the Japanese pink film industry and worked with the great Shūji Terayama. She is also a muse of sort for the photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. She commited suicide when she was 36-years old. A truly fascinating life. Her book, "Terminal Boredom: Stories (Verso) is a fascinating read.
