#Töôrnst Hülpft

[artmaenad]

Sexless meat here to bring de chunky tight jams

[midnight-log]

Arrivederci Despair

[laueana]

the hottest halloween costume of 2019

[servopedes]

Something You Can't See - The Desert Sessions Vol. 12

The Desert Sessions are a musical collective series, founded by Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age, Kyuss, Them Crooked Vultures, Eagles Of Death Metal).

It began in Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree, in August of 1997, and has included the collaboration of various artists and musicians (the list is way too big, so I'll just tag a few again).

"At Desert Sessions, you play for the sake of music. That's why it's good for musicians. If someday that's not enough anymore, or that's not the reason behind you doing it—that's not your raison d'être—then a quick reminder like Desert Sessions can do so much for you, it's amazing. It's easy to forget that this all starts from playing in your garage and loving it."

-Josh Homme

[yhancik]

With Matt Berry - and "his pulsating, ancient organ (Vox continental organ)" - and a mysterious “Töôrnst Hülpft”

[rollingstonemag]

Un nouvel article a été publié sur https://www.rollingstone.fr/desert-sessions-11-12-annonce/

Les nouvelles Desert Sessions débarquent cet automne

Josh Homme réunira une belle brochette d’invités sur les deux nouveaux volumes de ses Desert Sessions, enfin confirmées !

Les rumeurs allaient bon train ces derniers jours. Aujourd’hui, elles se confirment enfin : les Desert Sessions, toujours orchestrées par Josh Homme, reviennent, et plus tôt qu’on ne le croit !

Via une vidéo hilarante publiée sur les comptes sociaux de son projet phare (les Queens of the Stone Age, pour les deux du fond qui ne suivent pas), Josh Homme tente de faire écouter à son ami Liam Lynch les premiers extraits de ses nouvelles Desert Sessions, attendues depuis maintenant plus de quinze ans. Constatant que rien n’est joué, Lynch (qui faisait déjà passer Josh Homme au détecteur de mensonges dans le teaser de Villains, dernier album en date des Queens of the Stone Age) découvre alors que les participants ont demandé tour à tour au géant californien d’être retirés des morceaux. Dépité, Josh Homme révèle alors qu’il s’est lui-même laissé un message vocal, se demandant si tout ça a un sens…

Quel que soit le résultat (disséminé sporadiquement dans la vidéo), on veut bien se faire notre propre avis, tant la liste de collaborateurs donne envie. Jugez plutôt : Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Les Claypool (Primus), Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint), Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters), Mike Kerr (Royal Blood), Carla Azar (Autolux, Jack White), Matt Sweeney, le comédien Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows), Töôrnst Hülpft ou encore Libby Grace ! Ils figureront tous dans les volumes 11 et 12, respectivement intitulés Arrivederci Despair et Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels, disponibles tous les deux dès le 25 octobre prochain. Bien entendu, les précommandes sont d’ores et déjà ouvertes.

Ci-dessous, pochettes et tracklist des Desert Sessions Vol. 11 & 12 :

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Move Together (lead vocal: Billy F. Gibbons)

Noses in Roses Forever (lead vocal: Joshua Homme)

Far East for the Trees

If You Run (lead vocal: Libby Grace)

Crucifire (lead vocal: Mike Kerr)

Chic Tweetz (vocals: Töôrnst Hülpft, Matt Berry)

Something You Can’t See (lead vocal: Jake Shears)

Easier Said Than Done (lead vocal: Joshua Homme)

[cyclepony]

like to imagine Töôrnst Hülpft is just a weird little puppet of an indiscernible animal

[mondoholic]

Ending a 16-year hiatus since its last installment, the most mythical, longest running rock n roll mixtape odyssey in existence, Desert Sessions will return this October with the most ambitious entries yet in its expansive and elusive catalog: Vols. 11 & 12 (a/k/a respectively as ‘Arrivederci Despair’ and ‘Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels’) will be released October 25th. A limited edition first vinyl pressing will include a one of a kind custom mix & match body swap booklet. Exclusive merchandise bundles are available for pre-order now

Vols. 11 & 12 were recorded mostly in a six-day span in December 2018 at Rancho De La Luna studios in Joshua Tree, CA, with Queens of the Stone Age founder and Desert Sessions ringleader/producer Joshua Homme enlisting a cast of players including:

Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint) Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters) Mike Kerr (Royal Blood) Carla Azar (Autolux, Jack White) Les Claypool (Primus) Matt Sweeney Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows, Toast of London) Libby Grace Töôrnst Hülpft

The results are eight new songs that embody the legacy of freedom from expectations and inhibitions that stretches back to 1997, when Homme led a first retreat to the Joshua Tree desert. What began as a casual writing and recording session amongst friends—isolated from daily distractions and comforts—has since become a possibly infinite body of work. Now spanning 12 volumes over the course of two decades (and a total of two documented live performances), The Desert Sessions has featured some of music’s most cherished icons—past players have included Polly Harvey, Mark Lanegan, Josh Freese, Dean Ween, among many others—deliberately removing themselves from their comfort zones and working together to create some of their most relaxed yet challenging work.

The tracklist for Desert Sessions ‘Vols. 11 & 12’ (a/k/a ‘Arrivederci Despair’ and ‘Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels’) is:

Move Together (lead vocal: Billy F. Gibbons) Noses in Roses Forever (lead vocal: Joshua Homme) Far East for the Trees If You Run (lead vocal: Libby Grace) Crucifire (lead vocal: Mike Kerr) Chic Tweetz (vocals: Töôrnst Hülpft, Matt Berry) Something You Can’t See (lead vocal: Jake Shears) Easier Said Than Done (lead vocal: Joshua Homme)

Matador Records

[rastronomicals]

7:30 AM EDT May 9, 2020:

Steve Miller Band - "My Dark Hour" From the album The Best of 1968-1973 (September 24, 1990)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Best Fictional Aliases of Rock 'n' Roll Dudes

Töôrnst Hülpft - The wonderful nom de disc of some still-unidentified vocalist with an odd Northern European lilt to his voice on the funniest song contained in the most recent Desert Sessions LP

Paul Ramon - A pseudonym of Paul McCartney, most famously used when he played bass on The Steve Miller Band's "My Dark Hour," from the album Brave New World.

L'Angelo Misterioso - A name used to confuse the legal people by George Harrison, most notoriously on Cream's "Badge," and also on Jack Bruce's "Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune."

Bernard Shakey - is Neil Young, but when he's directing films, rather than singing and guitaring songs.

Nanker Phelge - is the name concocted by The Rolling Stones for songwriting attribution, especially early in their career, for songs which were a group composition.

[foldback]

Desert Sessions - “Chic Tweetz”

I’m listening to this record right now while I tidy up and this song kills me. I laugh every time. And as a bonus, the singer on this, Josh Homme Töôrnst Hülpft, from Lapland, has a draft entry on Discogs for an as-yet unreleased, album, Töôrnst Hülpft and Lapland's Grand Handstand Band, which I'm eagerly awaiting to finally be released. “Whisper Näkkäläjärvi Softly” sounds like a jam.

[griefshark]

REVIEW: The Desert Is Drying Up

I’ll start with this: I have very little to say about Desert Sessions’s Vols. 11 & 12. I have no quips or adages to try to justify the decisions that were made in the production of this iteration of a famously collective effort. I mention this because I honestly don’t know what I CAN say about it.

The idea of making music for the sake of music is a foreign mentality that many in the industry seemingly find antiquated. The fact that this is the case is, of course, disheartening. So, it’s a genuine breath of fresh air to see that perhaps the most infamous of desert rockers is still putting out fresh material from what has easily been the most ambitious project throughout his career.

Josh Homme, frontman of legendary rock band Queens of the Stone Age and primary organizer of Desert Sessions, is the name to know when discussing desert rock and weird, innovative music in general. The original Desert Sessions project was essentially a drug addled, three-day jam, spawning a series of collaborative masterpieces with a rotating cast of talent for years to come. Some might say that this is the way real, raw rock was intended to be made.

Given the product at its inception and the lineage to follow, it’s hard to disagree with Homme’s generally unorthodox methodology. This remains the case even now, 22 years after the initial debaucherous  sonic rampage. Desert Sessions Vols. 11 & 12 maintains that strong aversion to common production doctrines and with great effect.

On the surface, tracks like “Noses in Roses, Forever” and “Easier Said Than Done” sound like templates for Queens of the Stone Age tracks, the latter especially being a perfect pairing with the band’s 2017 release Villains. Such a crossover is not unheard of within the context of Homme’s production paradigm as he has often used Desert Sessions performances as starting points for his other projects’ future productions. Case in point, “Make It Wit Chu” off of QotSA’s 2007 album Era Vulgaris is just a rerecording of “I Wanna Make It Wit Chu” from the 2003’s Desert Sessions Volume 9 & 10 (with “In My Head” from QotSA’s 2005 release Lullabies to Paralyze also coming from the same Desert Sessions release).

Other tracks, however, present themselves as more original ideas with a Josh Homme spin. “Crucifire” and “Something You Can’t See” both stand out as solid rock tracks conceived out of love for the genre and sounding distinctly different than the album as a whole. The tethering thread here is Homme’s signature guitar tone intermingled within.

Still other tracks border on absurdity, with “Chic Tweetz” begging the question as to how this addition was conceived by the same group as the rest. Upon examination, the vocals appear to be sung by Homme, but pitched up and with a German accent indicative of a character he’s playing named Töôrnst Hülpft. At least as much is the current theory that the message board contributors seem to be more than happy believing.

Truly, as a unit produced with a ton of star power behind it (including Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Mike Kerr of Royal Blood and Les Claypool of Primus to name a few), the latest Desert Sessions release is impressive both in production and scope. That being the case, one couldn’t blame an audience for feeling such an album should have more substance. With eight total tracks and a runtime a little over 30 minutes, Vols. 11 & 12 struck me as effective, but underwhelming.

All of the parts are there to make it a good album, which it is, all things considered. Yet, with a fan base that has eagerly waited 16 years for a new installment, one has to wonder what more could have been done to flesh out the release. This question is further validated when considering the second most recent 2003 release had 14 tracks and a runtime approaching 50 minutes.

Ultimately, Desert Sessions Vols. 11 & 12 is great for what it is and inspiring as a conceptualization of musicians writing for the sake of art, but it had downfalls that were difficult to overlook. Some tracks sound as if they were ripped directly from Josh Homme’s personal playbook and others poorly utilize the talent that was available for such a production. Though the album ends with the challenging lyrical content of “Easier Said Than Done,” it comes off as anticlimactic when the rest of the release falls short of delivering on the hype that grandeur of its lineup suggests.

I’ll begrudgingly give Desert Sessions Vols. 11 & 12 a 6/10 underused, famous musicians because the meat of the release is solid. However, I don’t believe I will be met with any argument in saying there are a lot of unmet expectations here.

[laueana]

my name is joshua and this is my oc töôrnst hülpft

[mondoholic]

Desert Sessions Vols. 11 & 12 | New Messages

PERFORMED BY JOSHUA HOMME, CARLA AZAR, MATT BERRY, LES CLAYPOOL, BILLY F. GIBBONS, LIBBY GRACE HACKFORD, TÖÔRNST HÜLPFT, MIKE KERR, STELLA MOGZAWA, JAKE SHEARS, MATT SWEENEY...MAYBE 

 EMOTIONAL SUPPORT & DIRECTED BY LIAM LYNCH

[laueana]

my favorite parts of the desert sessions 11 & 12 credits

Homjo / Joshy

L side guitar

whale sounding guit things 

whiskey bottle dropper & Mr. walker offer

little tiny baby claps

loopit stupid box

Dave Catching

turned on & passed jho the loopit stupid box

Carla Azzaaaa

drum drone factory worker #1

4 hand boop boop synth

a child’s drum kit

percussionings

so sick drums

STELLA! 

room service trays

drums, toms & then, even more toms

Mattias Sveeney 

that 1st guitar lead thing

R side guitar

Bo Diddley lead harmony Guitar

Mike “Devil May” Kerr

spooky child choir vox

Jakey Shearsy /Jakelby Shearsenbuff

super hi end note

Töôrnst Hülpft (appears courtesy of the Lapland Hand to Hand Grandstand band)

[laueana]

i’m begging you, the next person who interviews matt berry for whatever project: please ask him about working with töôrnst hülpft

[rastronomicals]

4:46 AM EST February 22, 2020:

The Rolling Stones -   "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man\" From the album Out of Our Heads (September 24, 1965)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last\.fm

Appeared on both US and UK versions

Best Fictional Aliases of Rock 'n' Roll Dudes

Töôrnst Hülpft - The wonderful nom de disc of some still-unidentified vocalist with an odd Northern European lilt to his voice on the funniest song contained in the most recent Desert Sessions LP

Paul Ramon - A pseudonym of Paul McCartney, most famously used when he played bass on The Steve Miller Band's "My Dark Hour," from the album Brave New World.

L'Angelo Misterioso - A name used to confuse the legal people by George Harrison, most notoriously on Cream's "Badge," and also on Jack Bruce's "Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune."

Bernard Shakey - is Neil Young, but when he's directing films, rather than singing and guitaring songs.

Nanker Phelge - is the name concocted by The Rolling Stones for songwriting attribution, especially early in their career, for songs which were a group composition.

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