Madison’s Corcovado fills new album with ghostly vocals and plenty of melodica
Corcovado
Our music scene is a busy place with lots happening. If you don’t obsessively visit the local blogs, alt-weeklies, and other outlets, you could miss something important! That’s okay—we’re here to help with a weekly roundup of some of the more enticing news happening around town.
• The Madison guitar wizards of Corcovado have completed a full-length, filled with ghostly vocal harmonies sprinkled with melodica. Heliotrope is available for free on the group’s Bandcamp site, but we’d pay for standouts like the lightly tropical “Veena” and “Carrion.” Listen to it now.
• DLO The Iceman has a new batch of instrumentals, Pempstrumentals Vol. II Prelude, up for grabs on his website. The album is a free download, with donations accepted, but he says all of the beats are for sale. In the meantime, he’s encouraging people to “burn one down, freestyle, [and] feed your vice.” So get at it already.
• Corey Murphy, of Fambly Fun! and Pushmi-Pullyu, has a new video for his side project K. Wilhelm’s “It Haunts Me Part I.” It’s seriously spooky, particularly during the piano breakdown near the end. But don’t let that stop you from downloading Wilhelm’s split with El-Tin Fun, which features all five parts of “It Haunts Me.”
• Half-man, half-insect, all-awesome producer Man Mantis is building the anticipation for his upcoming Cities Without Houses to pants-wetting extremes with the new video for the excellent “Red Dragonfly.”
Man Mantis - Red Dragonfly (Official Music Video) from Joe Ramos on Vimeo.
• Wisconsin native Pezzettino and JC Poppe are coming after Scott Walker, giving the governor a verbal beatdown with the new track “Princess Palace” and its accompanying artful stop-motion video. Featuring good measures of Walker deep-throating pillars and eery vocal echoes in the background, it’s a suitably nightmarish vision of Wisconsin’s red-state of peril. Pezzettino be performing at the Project Lodge on April 14, so talk to her about it then.
