Various Artists – Absolutely Wino
Essential “craudrock,” oddball post-punk, and wagon dance music from the mysterious Ireland-based crew Wah Wah Wino… Absolutely Wino put the label on the map back in 2017 and featured all of the characters in the Wino universe including the massively talented producer Morgan Buckley, harmonica hero Davy Kehoe, and “The Bastard.” It’s hard to pin down the collective’s sound: dubby, psychedelic, experimental, motorik, boogie woogie, non-music, house? There’s a certain trance-inducing quality to it all, but nothing at all like the new age sort of “healing” aesthetics popular these days and more like the kind of trance you fall into after getting blasted with your closest friends in a tiny, smokey room all night, losing sense of the time…
Recommended – Full Listen
A1 Gombeen & Doygen– 7,000 Years
A2 OD*– Super Secret Office Party
A3 Dark Delight– Somniloquy
B1 Wino Wagon– Paco’s Ode
B2 Who’s The Technician?– Tractor Troubles (Part I)
B3 Little Movies– Gregory(an) Wah
C1 Morgan & Davy– Craudrock
C2 Lee Eel– A Message From Lee Eel
C3 Who’s The Technician?– Tractor Troubles (Part II)
D1 Plop– Sligo B
D2 OD Dingus– Stolen Valour (MB’s “Play It Out” Edit)
D3 Wino Wagon– Teen – Romp – Hoe – Down
TRASH SHOOT ON THE TENNIS COURT. BIN PICS BY DONAL. IN-HOUSE ARTS & CRAFTS BY WINO WAGON. OMID HAD A HEADACHE. REALITY MONITORING BY DAVY KEHOE. MIXDOWNS BY MORGAN. MASTERED BY ‘THE BASTARD’. A1 & B2 ALIENOID VOCALS BY ‘JAMES DA GERM’. A3 & D3 SING-A-LONG VOCALS BY DARK DELIGHT. B3 THROAT CHANTS BY BEN ‘SOFT SHOE’. A2 OFFICE SFX & B1 JAWHARP BY MB. MS-20 INDUCED BANJO SOLO ON “TEEN-ROMP” BY OLMO DEVIN. B1 AUSSIE VIOLIN BY OMID. DOUBLE CHEE 4EVER. SHOUT OUT TO THE EEL… ACROSS THE NORTH SEA.
Mastered By – The Bastard