Cone - 2008 - Massimo

Genre: Psych Folk, Instrumental, Field Recording
Label: fieldmuzick (DE)

If you like Six Organs of Admittance...

Second EP by the dutch artist Cone / Hermann Blaupunkt. A guy who is running Casa Cassetta an analogue recording studio as well.

This EP mixes field recordings (on portable tape recorders) from Sicily with psychy folk guitar meanders. Very nice soundtrack like a surreal trip on the beach in the evening.

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Repetitive sounds played on the six strings, while adding nice field recordings from a theatre, a train and the beach. The field recordings play a small role here, but they certainly add a nice element to the bittersweet guitar melodies. (Vital Weekly)

Tracklisting

1. Bus Stop Wake Up
2. Fire On The Mountain
3. Massimo's Secret Room
4. On the Beach
5. Summer Storm (Bonus)

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Physics - 1998 - Physics 1, 1999 - Physics 2

Genre: Post Rock, Space Rock, Electronic, Math Rock
Label: Flapping Jet Records/Gravity records

Similar Artists: AshRaTemple, Tortoise, Trans Am

I think Epitonic.com introduced me to this band nearly 10 years ago.

Well, this Band doesn't exist anymore, but reincarnated into Aspects of Physics, a more electronic, but still outer space project.

Physics 1 is a compilation of live tracks and singles. They play a very spacey Post-Rock in vein of Krautrock groups like AshRaTemple or Can. Lot of synthie-swirrls, that special groovey drums, echoed guitars and endless space rock jams.

Oh and if you wanna see a website from 10 years ago and need more infos about the project, visit the old Bandwebsite

Tracklisting - Physics 1

1. Second 7 - Side 1
   
2. Second 7 - Side 2
   
3. Delayed Drone 
   
4. First 7 - Side 1
   
5. First 7 - Side 2
   
6. Song From Video
   
7. Live At The Casbah
   

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Tracklisting - Physics 2

1. Positive Heterodyne
   
2. Delayed Drone
   
3. Wave File 3 
   
4. Level 2 Part A
   
5. Level 2 Part B
   
6. +⇄−
   
7. Proper
   
8. Neutralogue
   
9. Negative Heterodyne
   

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Teeth Mountain - 2008 - s/t

Genre: LoFi, Drumming, Psych
Label: SHDWPLY Records (US)

7 piece band from Baltimore (yes Dan Deacon, Video Hippos, Future Islands ...) with a great blend of fuzzy drones on cello and electronix and polyphonic tribal drumming. Psych-Drone-Ritual of Joy!

"I don't know what god or gods you all are praying to but you're praying too fucking loud" Boston Police Department

Tracklisting

1. Introduct
   
2. Black Jerusalem
   
3. Keinsein 
   
4. Spirals
   
5. Ghost Science
   
6. Soft Beast
   
7. 13
   
8. Harsh Tanz 
   
9. Malamut
   

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Wizardzz - 2006 - Hidden City Of Taurmond

Genre: Space Rock
Label: Load Records (US)

Synth + Drum Duo, related to Lightning Bolt and Bug Sized Mind. Sailship got a great synthie lead. check this!

...a smooth, dreamy, synth driven album that keeps the listener interested in exploring further...

Tracklisting

1. Disembark 
   
2. Sailship 
   
3. Whispers From Wallface 
   
4. Glimpse Of The Hidden City 
   
5. Jelipper-Lilly Field 
   
6. Do Come In (Tea And Chullwigs) 
   
7. Sea Battle At Orkusk 
   
8. Diamond Mirror 
   
9. Chasing Our Shadows 
   
10. Ambused By Time Quagga 
    
11. The Bubiliad Woods Of Taurmond 
    
12. Ladydragons 
    
13. Rest At The Gate 
    
14. Mimi Vivian Sunrise - (Live) 
    

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The Balustrade Ensemble - 2007 - Capsules

Genre: Steampunk Ambient, Neo Folk, Electronica
Label: Dynamophone (US)

Very nice soundscapes, some kind of victorian ambient. The Soundtrack for Good Friday. Enjoy!

An otherworldy collection of adroitly-crafted pieces of dense, acoustic guitar pickings, mellotron, orchestron, claviola, cello, piano, pedal steel, and voice (Wendy Allen). Delicate and sometimes spooky, Capsules is like the lost soundtrack to a Brothers Quay film, a collection of lovely, brittle compositions viewed through a hazy, antique looking-glass.

Tracklisting

1. Glorianders
   
2. The Drowning Calm 
   
3. Tangle In Delirium 
   
4. Synnøve Skeie
   
5. Incarnadine
   
6. Fall Away Into Darkness
   
7. A Long Fetch Over
   
8. The Museums Of Sleep
   
9. Crushed Pears
   
10. Szól A Zene
    

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Mirza - 1997 - Anadromous

Genre: Free Form Psych Rock, Space Rock
Label: Darla Records (US)

Similar Artists: Hochenkeit, Ash Ra Temple

Mirza is a Free-Form-Psych Rock group with members of Thuja and Skygreen Leopards (Glenn Donaldson).

Trippy Improvisations reminds on german Krautrock stuff like Ash Ra Temple and similar, check it out! More Information

Mirza, which means "royalty" in Persian, are a San Francisco quartet who play ghostly instrumental psychedelic sounds. This is their debut. It's like Magic Hour or Bardo Pond, if either of the aforementioned were from India. Perhaps they are the paisley side Rodan never had. The music is like lying on the grass in Golden Gate Park & watching the sun filter through the big evergreens while Jefferson Airplane blast away at an electric love raga with Ravi Shankar.

Tracklisting

1. Dream of the Fosil Sea 
   
2. Aphasia 
   
3. Bless This Gathering 
   
4. These Are Our Last Days 

(sorry MP3 Tags are Mizra but must be Mirza! ;-))

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Hochenkeit - omu4h 4aholab / 400 boys (2000)

Genre: Space Rock, Psychedelic, Experimental
Label: Road Cone (US) 

After the first, more acoustic release I love you (to be found here), this is more rock music in the widest sense. Krautrock jams, drones and space rock by this obscure project.

Tracklisting

1. Seen 
   
2. Two Fish Kissing 
   
3. To Be Born Drunk And Die Dreaming 
   
4. Give Them To The Ants 
   
5. 400 Boys 
   
6. Please Turn Out The Sun 

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un automne à Lob-Nor - 41°N;90°E (1999)

First record of this wonderful french Post-Rock outfit.

Slow developing Post-Rock tracks beautified with digital sounds.

Sebastien Roux (guitar) is now performing in his own project.
Vincent Nicolas (samples/guitar/visuals) is now performing in his own project bidibop.
Jean Nicolas Heillouis (drums) and Alexandre Gouy (bass/guitar) are now playing in Pan European. More of Lobnor and related will come soon.

Label: les disques Serpentine - PIAS

Genre: Post Rock, Electronic, Instrumental

Tracklisting:

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including one Compilation Track from v.a. - Esprit III Aspic Project

Try it - Buy it (last copies from bandwebsite!!)