Saturday, February 28, 2009

Sleepless Before You. And Then Again After

Photo by Allen

From left to right: Jyun-Ao Lin, Hsin-Lan Yu, Shih-Yao Lin, Kang-Chi Lin. Many many thanks to our best friend Allen, who took many pictures of us. But this is the only band picture we currently have.

News from the front: our journey will start in the loving arms of Austin, where strangers and bands around the world gather to see us off, or more likely, we hope they will. The show will start at 10:00 PM on 18th March 2009 at The Parish Downstairs. But the journey will cost a lot. We all can't fall asleep these days.

A week after SXSW, we will come back here and do a show with our friends HOMA at 典藏咖啡館MOCA店. And possibly, we will go to Springscream but not 100% sure because we have only 34 votes now. Also we're not sure these votes are important or not. We can't fall asleep these days.

However, those are some trivial matters. The only thing we are really concerned about is our debut album "Animal Experimentation" ,which will be quietly released on 8th March 2009. We are afraid of the orange Fuji mountain stands in our room. We can't fall asleep these days!

AECDcover

Thanks so much to Chris Goodwin who designed such a surprisingly fascinating album cover for us. One can find more his artworks here.

And if you still hestitate or curious about the inside-stuffs, here is a recommendation of Hyakkei:

音が飛び跳ねて たのしそうに 遊んでいるようだ。
澄んだ声が おもちゃ箱のような音の世界へ 私を導いてくれる。
なんだか とても ドキドキ・ワクワクする!
とても素晴らしい作品だと思います。Sloth Scamper おめでとう!

百景-hyakkei-

By the way, our cd release show is uncertain. We will be very grateful if you would be so kind as giving us some ideas.

It is mysterious that a sloth can't fall asleep, isn't it?


We really wanna to sleep well,
J-A Lin

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Coming Soon......Animal Experimentation

AECDcover

Debut mini album Animal Experimentation will be available by the end of February, 2009.


Thursday, January 22, 2009

2009 吵年獸

晚安!

我們將在一年一度的吵年獸表演。今年的吵年獸是1/31與2/1在西門紅樓,除了樂團與DJ表演屆時還會有創意市集,還有DMC大賽!大家來玩吧!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Recording Diary 1

slothjupo,上完班馬上從基隆趕回來錄音,累斃了,鼓聲這麼大都可以睡得很安穩,不愧是sloth!

slothjupo作了很好的示範什麼才是真正的sloth!

一面錄音一面享受meijoy送的七見櫻堂,抹茶口味非常香!

就連睡著的樹懶也經不起誘惑!

吃完非常有力氣!

slothwing說:厲害吧!(sloth42:鼓點非常精準呢!)

地獄頭盔!

今天mix了一整天,就當作在睡覺吧。

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Thanks and Loves

Birds' Atlas




Whack




Peacock




Bonju




Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love

Friday, December 12, 2008

8:00 PM, 14 Dec. 2008 at The Wall Live House



Please give us your money for the sake of our performance in SXSW 2009!

Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love


Saturday, November 08, 2008

【Mammoth Returns】


Sloth Scamper, the Survival Kit and Slow Burning Machine
Dec. 14, 2008 (Sun.) 8:00PM @ The Wall Live House
tickets:NT$300 (drinks included)


Abstract

我印象中的大象,是來自一張唱片封面。牠在森林裡用鼻子噴著水,滅掉人類離開後所留下的,危險的營火餘燼。牠拱著背,用比例錯誤的四腿,姿態奇異的將自己塞進方正的,不由分說的CD殼裡。

這個封面錯植在心中的形象,對我造成的影響可能比音樂本身還大。

我總認為我們正在創造的聲音,像是要讓所有人聽到這張封面般,四處留下我們的缺陷與痕跡,總是聲線扭曲的想要傳達,那些人們在深夜某個角落留下的危險餘燼,是多麼炙熱而令人困惑。

我們不停自問,是要熄滅這些聲音,還是讓它們緩慢而堅定的燃盡。

不過這個當下,我只想看到這該死的火焰再竄起一次,越大越好。

小帕(Slow Burning Machine、the Survival Kit)

Artists:


有次我們在寵物當家這個節目,發現樹懶實在是太從容了,就把牠拿來當做團名。樹懶做什麼事情都非常緩慢,從一本童書叫做【好慢、好慢、好慢的樹懶】就可了解,連說三次好慢表示牠們真的讓人很不耐煩。不過,再三強調我們不是慢活團;聽我們的音樂邊冥想或做瑜珈一定會中風的。為了妳/你的健康,請一定要來聽聽看!


The Survival Kit

只因為Woody Allen在Anything Else裡說過“Everyone should have a survival kit“,就半開玩笑的取了The Survival Kit這個團名。
沒想到在非常的日常生活中,每一次練團都變的像是從船難中死裡逃生,可以暫時安穩的上藥,繃帶,點著火柴確認自己還活著。 唯一希望的是讓其他人聽到我們喊出的聲音,即便大家都落難在不同的島上,即便每個人都用不同的辦法,在困頓的生活中倖存。



「這台慢燒機從來也沒生產過任何有實質用途的事物,」

他脫下早已和黑黃刺鼻的油污融為一體的手套,對著電話那端抱怨著。

「你說過這台機器就像是有生命一樣,每次啟動它就會有不同的驚喜。可是怎麼到今天早上,我還是只聽到馬達的聲音,什麼都沒有發生阿?好吧,也許它每次發出的頻率都不怎麼一樣,那最多也就是轉速不穩啊,而且聽起來連六十轉都不到。」

邊唸著,他邊斜眼看著自己汗溼的背心被電扇鼓鼓吹起。

「電風扇都比慢燒機還行阿!」

「那就你就回家聽電風扇阿,」

電話另一頭冷冷的說道,

「不要等到心跳要停止的那天,還在抱怨它跳太慢喔。」


「嗶。」


「嘟。」


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For further information please contact:


小帕(Slow Burning Machine, the Survival Kit)
pillof@gmail.com

酪啃(Sloth Scamper, Slow Burning Machine)
jyalin@gmail.com

THE WALL Live House 這牆音樂藝文展演空間
臺北市11677文山區羅斯福路四段200號B1
電話:02-2930-0162(office hour:15:00-23:00)
http://www.thewall.com.tw/