What's happening with the wombnet website?

I've been a lot more musically active lately, and the wombnet website, which I originally consolidated to make less work for me, has become unwieldy, so I've split it into 3. This one, 'wombnet.com', will be just for the netlabel. My podcast, 'Eclectic Music For Mind And Bodhi', has moved to it's own blogspot, but as usual can easily be reached at the address 'www.peternelson.org'. My new reggae show 'Dandelion Roots' also has it's own blog here: http://dandelionradioroots.blogspot.co.uk. There will be no further posts at this blog about my podcasts. Label business only. Keep checking back, though, as there's quite a few things in the pipeline, including new albums from Jared C Balogh, Same Actor and Don Trust.

Snail Bob - Unshellfish

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Snail Bob makes music in his own terms. One might call this 'noise' or 'deconstructed punk', but as is so often the case with individual music, which I define as "could only have been made by this person, at this time", I struggle to give labels to this sound art. Actually, on second thoughts, this is a blues album.

Considering how sparse and sometimes aggressive the music, this is a surprisingly melodic and soulful collection. From the strangled rage of the Waitsian opener 'Angry People' to the amorphous soundscapes of the second half, this album expresses a wide range of musical and emotional states. S'Bob names Pink Floyd and The Residents as primary influences. Sounds about right.

Snail Bob has been doing this since 2007, and has a few CDs available from CDBaby www.cdbaby.com/Artist/SnailBob

DOWNLOAD MP3 (111mbs) DOWNLOAD FLAC (208mbs)
You can also listen or download at the Free Music Archive and Bandcamp.

01.Angry People mp3 flac
02.20 Somethings I Miss About Margaret mp3 flac
03.Doo Wah Doody mp3 flac
04.Saint Ed mp3 flac
05.Count Dickula mp3 flac
06.All You Want Is Blue mp3 flac
07.Lay Down Ya Soul mp3 flac
08.Not Far mp3 flac
09.Melodic Death mp3 flac

Tracks 5-9 were originally released on the album 'And Other Irrelevant Persons' on Jignarania Records 2010

I asked a few people what they thought about this album.

Syd Howells, musician and egyptologist said:
"Listeners to this recording are greeted by what appears to be Captain
Beefheart being tortured by the Residents as they make a ransom call to
his family.  Other tracks include what I perceive to be an attempt to
condense the whole of The Dark Side of the Moon into a single track of
several minutes.  I love this record."

Awaiting more reviews.

Unshellfish by Snail Bob is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.wombnet.com.

"Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted....he lived happily ever after"

March on Eclectic Music For Mind And Bodhi:
Just one hour this month...but read on.
Here's links for the free stuff:
Sounds from the Finnish Hardcore Techno Underground: Kovaydin Vastarinta Records
Dvorjak Remastered: Local Records
Black Sea Hotel live at the Golden Festival
Lovely Little Girls: Massive Vulva Cantaloupe
Jared C. Balogh: Revitalized Eyes
Kappah: Tribal Dances: Bedroom Research Records
Blue Ducks: Six: Records On Ribs
Chuck Bettis & Friends:Playfull Moaner

Paneye: Lost In A Dark Aquarium: New Weird Australia

Also notable is a delicious collection of Balkan electronica from Green Queen Music, 'Balknaica v2'.

The big news this month is that I've started a new all Reggae Show on Dandelion Radio, provisionally called 'Dandelion Roots'.
I buy and listen to lot's reggae these days, and I've been playing it live for 4 years with my mate Gaz as 'Dub In The Pub' in Brighton UK. George warms up, I play to open the heart, and Gaz follows with the heavy bass. Resistance is futile. We are regularly joined by I Lodica on vocals and melodica. We are a dance outfit. Between us, we have decades of experience making people boogie.

I hear so much good new reggae music and re-issues of hard to find classics, that I want another outlet to share it. Hence 'Dandelion Roots'. I'll be focusing on solid dance tunes, but also the unusual, the sort of thing I might be reluctant to play on a night out, but would suit the DR ethos.

I have a lifelong relationship with reggae. I was 18 in 1981. Punk was over. Reggae was the rebel music of my generation, and it was also our dance music.
I lived for most of my youth in urban mixed communities, in the UK, where it was ubiquitous. It was later in my life that I came to realise the spirituality within the music. It often sings of suffering, but it feels life affirming. It sings of injustice, but affirms our self determination and the freedom of the spirit. It also sings of our friend and ally Mary. Hallelujahgobble. Despite the mask of christian imagery, it is at heart animistic, and indeed the rhythms are connected to ancient African rituals for invoking deities. The roots of reggae are the roots of us all, not just Africans. It sings of the Natural Man, the upright and humble man. No wonder that reggae has spread all over the world; it speaks to a need within us all, to remember how connected we really are...to each other, yes, but also to nature.

We are at home, and never left the garden.


A statue of Kali in College Square, Arnab Dutta, Kolkata.
There are a few changes to the website.

The artist's bios are up. Thanks to everyone for answering my questions. I asked the kind of things I want to know. I hope it illuminates.

There are a few reviews for 23ID-Bird Flu.
Thanks to Maclej, Jason, Dellamorte and Louise.
I'm very happy that we reached 500 downloads in the first month.
I've admired Karol's music for many years and I'm gratified to play a part in getting it heard.

Next on wombnet:

Snail Bob: Unshellfish

.......coming soon....

Lastly, for my own purposes I wish to share this picture of my father, who died in 1976, but whose loving presence I have never felt so strongly as I do now.

I and I is misty in I roots.