Altered Zones

You may have been aware of Railcars’ plan to cover Kate Bush’s legendary, incandescent Hounds of Love some time ago. Well, we have listened to the album, and it’s a thing which is strange, heartfelt, and weirdly beautiful in the way in which the original is, but at the same time is very different.

In this cover, we see Kate’s mighty African steed gallop through the grid of Motown-acid and jagged megalithic-pop that Aria has meshed, soaring up and burning Pegasus-phoenix-like into the sky. It breaks through and leaves us earthbound and cowering under a deluge of heavenly fragments, and closing the song with a gigantic drone. --20 Jazz Funk Greats

MP3: Railcars: "The Big Sky (Kate Bush cover)"

The album will be available from AZ contributing blog, Get Off The Coast's Crash Symbols and AMDiscs.

Railcars’ new 7, Said Sister reconfigures memores off the stunning Cathedral with no Eyes in that brutally bewitching fashion which we have come to expect from the very talented Aria Jalali.

Saints are waiting, the A-side, is the folk tale of a fair maiden with rosy cheeks lost in the wrong neck of the woods, where not even the fiercest wolves dare to hunt, and of the forces that she faces in a blasted clearing in the deepest midst of the self-same woods, and of how she marshals these ancient and perhaps malignant forces, with heirloom spells of coralline glamour, hand-stitched in the fold of her enchanted cloak.

Of how she never comes back, and of the pretty flowers that start blooming in the damned brocken after all of this has happened. --20 Jazz Funk Greats

MP3: Railcars: "Saints are waiting"

Get the 7’’ from Gold Robot

A while back I mentioned that Aria Jalali, (aka railcars) is covering all of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love. Aria has sent me various demos from the project, but last week he sent over a final mix of "Running Up That Hill" and it has since refused to stop playing over and over in my head. The added intensity he places into the song is what really drives it home, layering frantic, heartfelt vocals into intricate webs of sound that ensnare and sedate you.

MP3: railcars: "Running Up That Hill"