Yeti 5

by Mike McGonigal (Editor)

Featuring musical contributions from and/or interviews with: Jeff Mangum (who not only contributes visual art but also supplies us with 4 of his favorite, never anthologized sides from old 78s for the CD), Iron & Wine, Akron/Family, Will Oldham, Dean and Britta (covering Galaxie 500 on the CD), Deerhoof, D+, Mt. Eerie, Anglin Brothers, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, the Spiritualaires, Cooper Moore, and more. Also: Awesome travel journals from the Western Sahara by Sublime Frequencies co-founder Hisham Mayet; Erik Davis on P.G. Six; Mike McGonigal going off about Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night, Cold was the Ground"; Scott Seward on "the marriage made in hell between folk music, dead cultures, myth & highly technical modern extreme metal"; drawings by German Surrealist Unica Zürn; an excerpt from Meredith Brosnan's new novel; an interview with Nicola Bowery about iconoclastic '80s fashion icon Leigh Bowery; fiction by Kevin Sampsell; dirty AIM conversations courtesy of BloodNinja; visual art from the likes of Saul Chernick, Kevin Arrow and Kyle Field (from Little Wings).

Genres: Music

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 17, 2008

Reviews

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really excited about this Issue #5 of a really great 'zine.

This book smells like a paperback textbook I had freshmen year of college. The textbook concerned Latin American poverty. I am confident that this book will be at least 10 times as entertaining as that one was.

Best part was the transcribed cyber-sex insitgated by a goofy man intent on totally flipping cyber-sex types' world upside down. Hilarious conversations.

Most of the music reviewed and essayed concerns very obscure old folk music, the artists' names almost always including some sort of variation on "blind insert name". A rather abstruse essay on Akron/Family (which i really do love but don't know enough about, hence, my opinion of the essay being kind of hard to grasp), and a jealousy-inducing account of one musical ethnographer's quest to capture the musical essence of the western sahara.

[Jesse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. Can't recommend this highly enough, at least as a repository for work from various art/music undergrounds. At times, it felt like reading a Best American Non-Required Reading collection. Cool hodge-podge of essays, graphics, and music crit. Loved Luc Sante's photos and blurbs, Hisham Mayet's Sublime Frequencies travelogue, Justin Taylor's Will Oldham interview, and many other pieces. Also, amazing compilation CD with it (one of my fave discs of the year, as it turns out). Gonna pre-order the new issue right now.

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got my contributor copy this week and read it quick. It opens with a great essay on different kinds of folk/myth/dark-metal and then an interview with Will Oldham. It also includes--wouldn't you know it!--an illustrated short story by me about older women, working in a warehouse, merry-go-rounds, Internet porn, and foot rubs.
My contribution is an oddity as it's mostly a bunch of really smart writing on art and music.
Oh--and there's a CD full of weird blues, gospel, and rock.

[Chris Estey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best issue yet! The CD alone is worth twelve bones. But with Mike's piece on gospel and some sweet Luc Sante blogging reprints, this is irresistible.

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just the interview with Will Oldham makes this worth checking out. But there's also a CD with songs picked by Jeff Mangum and some cool art work.

[Tal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Scraps, doodles, and shenanigans!