![]() ![]() Just check out the way the derangement of the music hall player piano vibe on "Chickity Black" so perfectly aligns with the lyrics' celebration of a "joys of uncensored leisure." Or the way that the music of "Lokomotiv" lurches and grinds to Sullivan's spoken-sung scat of debauchery and a life in "liquid ruins." (And the video for "Lokomotiv" is a delirious and wonderful bit of animated naughtiness. It's a record that never stoops to sentimentalize. The secret is the unflinching and uncompromising eye that Sullivan has for the ugliness and absurdities of the expat life - married to a powerful and percussive sound built on beats and loops. That Happy Clinic transforms this familiar territory into terrain that is strange and dangerous is the magic of Memory Mound. ![]() The duo's first record, Memory Mound, is a Baedeker to the dark underbelly of the expatriate life: the sex, the drugs, the alcohol, the hipsterish intellectual wisecracking and the deep loneliness. Perhaps that's why I'm so taken with his collaboration with veteran Berlin drummer and Tiger Lillies soundman, Claus Buehler in the ensemble Happy Clinic. Happy Clinic is a time management and hospital game where the greatest wealth is health In this game, players can join in-game communities with the new. "Writer musician and philosopher (Marx for a Post-Communist Era: On Poverty, Corruption and Banality) Stefan Sullivan has taken a few rooms in this palace over the years - from London to Paris to Moscow to Bangkok and on to Washington, D.C. Gregg Robins (Saxophone on Chickity Black) ![]() Scott Albert Johnson (harmonica on Belly) Keys & Guit + Sound-Engineering)Ĭecilia Arellano (Female Vocals on 64 Squares) Download Happy Clinic: Hospital Sim and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. ![]()
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