Label: KNW-YR-OWN (US)
Samstag, 28. Februar 2009
Khaela Maricich - Look For It In The Sky, It Will Always Be There (2001)
Label: KNW-YR-OWN (US)
Freitag, 27. Februar 2009
Curse Ov Dialect - Wooden Tongues (2006)
Label: Mush Records
- Renegades
- Saturday Night
- Word Up Forever
- Forget
- Jokes On Me
- Take Me To The Arab World
- The Potato Master
- Bird Cage Alert
- Bury Me Slowly
- Broken Feathers
- Mr. Miscellaneous
- Sticks And Stones
- Ropungan
- Strawberries
- Stop Sarisis
- Letter To Athens
- Previous Desicion
Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009
Kranioclast - Can I Talk Or S..., 7" (1997); Cranioclast - Rats Can Coil Cats Can Roil (1990) 12" EP
Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2009
Hochenkeit - omu4h 4aholab / 400 boys (2000)
Label: Road Cone (US)
Tracklisting
- Seen
- Two Fish Kissing
- To Be Born Drunk And Die Dreaming
- Give Them To The Ants
- 400 Boys
- Please Turn Out The Sun
The 63 Crayons - Spoils For Survivors (2007)
Dienstag, 24. Februar 2009
Meneguar - Bury a Flower 7" (2006)
Label: troubleman unlimited (US)
Montag, 23. Februar 2009
Prewar Yardsale - Lowdown (2000)
Label: Oliver Juice Music (US)
Tracklisting
Samstag, 21. Februar 2009
The Black And White Years - Real! In Color" (2006) + Demos
Label: Self Release, MySpace, Demos
Try it - Buy the new Album - MicePays
and here a nice home recorded video of a living roomset.
Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009
Kallabris - A Smile For Brandon, Tape (1990) + Considération Sur / Sous Le Café, 7" (2001)
Label: Jazztone (GER), Genesungswerk (GER)
- Movement III
- Nous Nous Faisons, Bichette?
- Flutes Of Jericho
- The Night Mood
- Nine To Six
- Movement IV
- Something More
- Season Of Fire
- Mme. Edwarda
- Movement V
- Kill Me!
- Autumn
- So What?
- Raindrops
- Salty Water
- My Garden
- Party It Up!
- Too Deep To Be Named
- The 3rd Way
- Considération Sur Le Café
- Considération Sous Le Café
Le Loup - The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millennium General Assembly (2007)
Label: Talitres Records (FR)
Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009
Birdengine - I Fed Thee Rabbit Water (2007)
Label: Drift Records (UK)
Lawry Joseph Tilbury plays a nylon string guitar and accompanies himself singing the horrors in his mind. Killing dogs, sticks for arms, black snow, giant birds, dancing bears and kings trapped in jars all get a mention in Lawrys’ frightening but beautiful music.Tracklisting
Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009
Future Islands - Wave Like Home (2008)
Label: Upset the Rhythm
Tracklisting
Tacks, The Boy Disaster - Oh, Beatrice (2006)
Label: Ark Recordings (UK)
Similar Artists: Grizzly Bear
Austin, Texas Indie pop outift with a member of The Polyphonic Spree. Really good arranged songs. Unfortunatly there are no new recordings till now. Hope there will come more.
Tracklisting - Oh, Beatrice
- Frozen Feet
- Paris
- Forget-Me-Not
- Man With A Plan
- Last Stand
- Queen of the Fishermen
- Matilda
- Dying to Know
- Man with a Plan
- Frozen Feet
- Matilda
Try it - MicePays
Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2009
Giddle & Boyd - Going Steady With Peggy Moffitt EP (2008)
Label: Discriminate Audio
Boyd Rice and Giddle Partridge, two of the most creative and respected artists of the 21st century have decided to team up and make beautiful music together. Drawing from a variety of influences including 60’s French Pop, Spy Films, Psychedelic & electro pop...Tracklisting
Tarwater - Silur (1998)
Label: Kitty-Yo! (GER)
Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009
Meric Long - Dodo Bird (2006)
Label: Not on Label
My Teenage Stride - Lesser Demons (2008)
Label: ?! itunes only?
“Theme From Teenage Suicide” may be the best song the band has ever written: it’s bracing and breathless and sarcastic and has the kind of hook that you remember after only one go-round. All five of these songs are winners, from the haunted mansion rattle of “The Loud Confessor” to the hyper-pop of “Skin Lieutenant.” I have a tendency to get very “rah! rah! rah!” about bands I love, but My Teenage Stride is clearly a band that is going somewhere. Lesser Demons finds them speeding along even faster. Pure pop bliss! Seriosuly: try “Theme From Teenage Suicide.” SOLID GOLD. ~ Joe Keyes, 17 Dots
Donovan Quinn - October Lanterns (2007)
Label: Label: Soft Abuse (Puissant Series)(US)
Donovan Quinn recorded October Lanterns late in the evenings of 2002 and 2003, while living on a horse ranch in Walnut Creek, California. It's a home recorded DIY affair of the bedroom school, a bit off-key and folky, and calls to mind the recorded works of Treacy and Kusworth at their most dour. The mood is dark, maybe even morbid, but has a sweetness to it that betrays both a sense of humor and nostalgia beneath the surface.Tracklisting
Giant Skyflower Band - Blood Of The Sunworm (2007)
Label: Soft Abuse (US)
...Giant Skyflower Band, an exotic, flowery and crumbling new recording project with nods to fruity new age, psych, prog, folk, and pop songwriting. Donaldson quickly invited multi-instrumentalist Shayde Sartin to “smoke marijuana & make up strange pop songs, ” and thus the band was born. With Gong's seminal Magick Brother as a starting point and a sitar close at hand, the duo created a dark, peregrine pop transmission from their shoddy analog recording studio in San Francisco. Blood of the Sunworm is the duo’s debut offering.Tracklisting
Giant Skyflower’s purpose is to examine in detail the idiom of Bummer Psych; the strain of damaged Anglo-pop music pioneered by Syd Barrett that arguably reached its apex with The Television Personalities’ Painted Word LP in the mid-80’s, but found new life in Japan via the genius of Tori Kudo and like-minded acts such as Nagisa Ni te and Tenniscoats. Indeed, Blood of the Sunworm consists of depressing pop songs and damaged instrumentals - teeth bared and falling apart as they are cobbled together – on a hazy, cryptic journey through a busted kaleidoscope, behind a dusty mirror & up through the rafters.
Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009
The Skygreen Leopards - Jehovah Surrender (2005)
Label: jagjaguwar (US)
Electric guitar howl like a farmers hound, fuzz bass stampedes, and drums trot and gallop like the finest of wild horses. Donovan & Glenn write: "Not long ago the band was visiting a friend in Port Costa, CA. After sharing a bottle of wine and enjoying the moonlight dances of his two daughters--the friend wanted to share a secret. He pulled an oversized key out of his overalls pocket and lead them out back to his shed. In the shed was an ancient drumset and a cobwebby electric guitar. The man said he knew Arlo Guthrie and that he was once in a band called "Hobo Splendor". Well thats all it took for the Skygreen's to lose their hearts and heads to a new muse. We played "All the Young Dudes" and "Hobo Jesus Blues" all night long and the daughters danced ballroom. This e.p. is inspired by the man from Hobo Splendor--get better my friend!"Tracklisting
Montag, 9. Februar 2009
Pumice - Yeahnahvienna (2006) + Pebbles (2007)
Label: Soft Abuse (US)
...the eccentric, flummoxing and oft-gloomy one-man band helmed by Stefan Geoffrey Neville, a resident of the cultural hamlet of Auckland, New Zealand. Though Pumice’s skewed take on experimental folk and pop songwriting is firmly rooted in the outsider vibes of downunder stalwarts like Pip Proud and Alastair Galbraith...
Yeahnahvienna was conceived and recorded during an artist residency in Vienna in 2004. Neville's precariously arranged arsenal of cassettes, chord organ, vocals, drums and guitar has yielded a fragile and fractured masterwork. A stark and melancholic affair, calling to mind Alastair Galbraith, Sun City Girls and Supreme Dicks. Through Neville's layers of hiss and murk lie beautifully stirring & shambolic downer hymns.
- Abominable
- King Korny Remains
- Worsted
- Wild Dogs
- Brawl
- Worsted
- Tears Tasting Fair
- Darkpark
- Worsted
- Worsted
- Eyebath
- Bold/old
- Brownbrownbrown
- Stopover
- Greenock
- Northland
- Spike/spear
- Both Beasts
- The Only Doosh Worth Giving
- Onion Union
- Pipi
Sonntag, 8. Februar 2009
The Old Haunts - Fuel On Fire (2006)
Label: Kill Rock Stars (US)
Tracklisting
- Civil Savage
- Death Of The Sickbead
- Culture Of Prey
- Paradise
- Wasted Day
- Into A New Room
- Filled In
- Fuel On Fire
- Unveil A Key
- Salvage Purity
- Scarlet Hall
Samstag, 7. Februar 2009
Sinebag - Près De La Lisière (2005)
Label: Ahornfelder (GER)
On the second album "près de la lisière" sinebag focusses even more on the approach of a continous soundfield which was already part of the concept for "milchwolken in teein". on this record all fieldrecordings and compositions form one long track without interuptions. songs and soundrecordings are present in the same amount. this interweaving, an adaption of the surrounding everyday soundscape, is the aim of the field creation.
The compositions feature mostly acoustic instruments - guitars, pino and organs form the basis of the material. these elements are processed and enriched by electronic synthesis.
The title "près de la lisière" (close to the border) reflects in several ways the contant of the record. it points at the nearness of the music to sound and the closeness of this album to no music at all.
Tracklisting
- Rien
- Garten Am Abend
- Petit Crr. #7
- Deux Avions
- Pergola Paul Singerstraße
- Près De La Lisière .2b
- Découper Et Insérer Unités D'Un Chanson, Rhododendronpark
- Klavier Cutup n1, Fruehstück
- Fruehstücksreste. Dekonstruiert
- Pinienwald Auf Dem Sofabezug
- Rasen Bilden Boden Für Muster
- Collection D'électroniques Vétustees
- Stromgenerator August-Bebel-Strasse
- Ajouter Nouveau Electroniques
- À La Lisière
- Rien Rev.
Gowns - Red State (2007)
Label: Cardboard Records
Red State, though, is an album with a particular sound, like the sun-bleached Polaroids of one’s family, documenting personal exercises in communal cultural contexts. Melodies lie obscured under a matte of cracked electronics, trains of thought dissipate before reaching a resolution, and thick streams of static and noise disturb states of ghostly beauty. Imperfections are purposeful and frequent, and the music derails from its predetermined path with consistency.
Oral Constitution - Bibelpreik (1993)
Label: Artware Production (GER)
Similar Artists: Current 93
Seriously though, I am concerned about this and I'm particularly concerned about the little girls who you see on the cover of this Oral Constitution record. They look sweet there, but their parents make them participate in fucked up music. And I mean fucked up even by Norwegian standards! Eerily sexual, nightmarishly mystical, gloomy, pounding, angry, demented and hypnotic folk music: sure to produce psychosis in high doses, especially for the young and impressionable - aren't you worried about the future of these little ones now?
Still, mature songwriters were clearly behind the record; you'll find more than enough good ideas to entertain you throughout this twenty minute EP. Threatening male vocals, darkly seductive female vocals, creepy reverbified little girl's vocals, simple but metaphysically resonant acoustic guitar, ripping distorted electric guitar, mournful cello, spectral birdsong: comparisons to Current 93 and Diamanda Galas make a lot of sense. (Nat Roe WFMU Blog)
Freitag, 6. Februar 2009
Domotic - Ask For Tiger (2005)
Label: Active Suspension
Similar Artists: Bidibop, Köhn
It is definitely a songwriter’s record, also. It is full of stupid melodies to get all emotional. Full of guitars to knock your head off. Full of noise for exultation. It is also tinted with an urge to create new forms, new means, to fulfill envies, methods of work. There are, eventually, stories to be heard, whether in the form of cryptic lyrics or barenaked melodies.
- Meanwhile, In The Woods (A Boyscout's Day Out)
- I Hate You For Ever (If You Think I'm So Nice, Why Am I Alone All The Time ?)
- Tonsil
- Hugs And Kisses
- Turquoise / Trotzdem
- Self-Service And Robots
- Not The Movie You Expected
- Captain Forest's Word Of Advice
- Nyeps Club
- There May Be A Tiger
- Animals Are Ugly And So Am I
Donnerstag, 5. Februar 2009
Aavikko - History Of Muysic (2003)
Label: Solnze Records
A truly awesome compilation including material from their very beginnings, rare singles, remixes, sold-out releases (like their first single, the "Oriental Baby"-ep and the "Kabar"-single). Definitely recommended.
- Siperian Rata
- Alas Volgaa
- Samojedien Keskuudessa
- Krakovan Niityt
- Viiden Asteen Pakkanen
- Aavikko
- Tyttöystävä
- Sibiri
- Oblomovin Henki
- Cafe Panama
- Seikkailu Villi
- Holiday Inn
- Oriental Baby
- Oaxaca
- Kova Lääkitys
- Boa
- Pelihelvetti
- Entinen Mies
- Superlake Beat
- Antarktis Slow Rock
- Kumman Kaa
- Of Stomping Men
- Kova Lääkitys
- My Yamaha
- Eye Of The Leopard
Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009
Bidibop - Snapshot (2005)
Label: Carte Postale
Old synths sounds to earlies glitches, guitar and sound treatments, are part of the bidibop's textures glittering music which only aim is pop.Tracklisting
Apparat Organ Quartet - s/t (2002)
Label: TMT Entertainment
In the past various AOQ members have worked with the likes of Marc Almond, Hafler Trio, Sigur Ros, Barry Adamson, Stillupsteypa, Mum, Pan Sonic and even Hermann Nitsch! But you won't find any blood soaked cacophony here. Nope, this is all warm and warbly, dreamy and bouncy, fun and fuzzy.Tracklisting
Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009
The Old Haunts - Fallow Field (2005)
Label: Kill Rock Stars (US)
Fallow Field features 60's influenced production with enough of that basement-party sound to leave the energy intact.Tracklisting
- By The Bay
- Walk Through The Woods
- Deflect It
- Poison Control
- Boots As Clubs
- It's So Scandalous
- The Old World
- Gold Light
- Cult Baby
- You Could Never Know
- Out Of Sight
- Vandal Hymn
Montag, 2. Februar 2009
Vertonen - The Ocean Is Gone, The Ship Is Next (2003)
Label: Ground Fault Recordings
Vertonen is Chicago experimental music veteran Blake Edwards and this CD continues an ongoing exploration of turntable-fueled drones. The opening track's title is self-explanatory: "untitled for air organ and turntable motor". Recorded live on the radio in Chicago, this piece is a fourteen minute long deep and dense mix of beautiful bass tones and thick breathy hums playing endless phase games with each other. On the second piece, a very heavy speaker-rattling bass tone loops through the beginning as metal-percussion sounds slowly cycle in the background. Scratchy vinyl sounds and dense ambient tones continue throughout as some recognizable vinyl-sourced sounds emerge- like a looped horn-line perhaps. the regular sound of the loop disturbs the drone atmosphere a little, adding some humor to a track that doesn't seem to need any. The next piece, "Four chambers plus their various fluids" kicks out the noise from the get go- fast and loud cycling noise whirring and flanging endlessly. Hissy field recorded sounds predominate as the track fades out to silence. "Soma Trio Study (2)" is the shortest cut one here at 5 minutes and could have used a little more time to develop. The sounds at play are delicate and melodic slowly evolving loops drifting in and out of phase- a bit like Philip Jeck, perhaps and much more romantic than the claustrophobic sounds on the previous pieces. Final track begins with warbly locked groove piano sounds eventually overtaken by a darker, machine loop that slowly fades in as the piano plays on. The mix of endless drone frequencies and more loopish vinyl sounds works wonderfully throughout this disc. -- Angbase
Sonntag, 1. Februar 2009
The North Sea - Underneath The Jesus Tree (2006)
Label: Barl Fire Recordings
I can only have respect for the man; he's made the record he wanted to make, without stopping to care that he'll be vilified, if anyone notices, for his hippy sincerity. Unfortunately, it's a boring record. There are no hooks and there's no real structure, just messy, jam-style soundscapes. The shortest track, Windmills is the high point of the album, a simply pretty guitar noodle thankfully sans the nature sounds. But this is undermined by a tune which fails to arouse interest, and by some incongruous rough string overdubs which take more from the song than they add. (Halo 17 review)Uhm, maybe the reviewer is right, but I love this record anyway.
Mudboy - This Is Folk Music (2005)
Label: Last Visible Dog