microphones in the trees: dying for bad music
Showing posts with label dying for bad music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dying for bad music. Show all posts

Sunday, May 12, 2013

mount elephant


"Mount Elephant might befolk music fromanother world or from a backyard in your neighborhood. It sounds familiar and yet enigmatic. Primitive, pure, organic and meditative.  Recorded back in the mid-nineties, the music of this obscure release haunted me for years and I am happy to have the chance to save this from oblivion." dfbm

~ A story of lost and found audio and video recordings ~

"A friend once made a mixtape for me with tracks from tapes he had in his distribution list. This was in the mid-nineties. More than 10 years later I rediscovered the mixtape and started searching for the two Mount Elephant tracks he included, because they always stuck in my mind over the years. But I ended up with nothing. Even asking tape activists from back then, didn’t yield a result. Finally, Lutz Pruditsch of Trümmer Tapes (who recorded the mixtape once) came up with a name and after he dug through some boxes, he finally sent me a recording of the tapes. I was also able to contact Diet Schütte the artist, who’s still recording music for movies, for kids and for his own enjoyment. Mount Elephant III will be a compilation of the two tapes and includes a download code to all tracks (two hours of music) of Mount Elephant 1 + 2." Marcus Obst

me gustaría escribir algo realmente bonito sobre este disco pero una vez más sólo puedo dar las gracias. esta mañana recibía en mi correo esta maravilla, un regalo de Marcus de dfbm para el que difícilmente tengo palabras. al leer que tal vez podría pensar que es 'otro disco indie con la palabra Mount en el nombre.', no pude evitar esbozar una sonrisa de felicidad porque, muy al contrario, Mount es una palabra que me encanta y me predispone a que me guste, como field recordings, pastures o river. nada más escuchar la primera canción pensé en Head Of Wantastiquet,  Bronze Horse o The Dove Azima, por la desnudez, por el halo de disco especial y atemporal. también en Golden Brown en la canción I-VII. es totalmente instrumental y hay field recordings, ladridos de perro, banjos, kalimbas, guitarras. como dice Marcus, es contemplativo, primitivo, puro, orgánico. pienso también en Cap'n Jack, discos que tienes que escuchar varias veces para ver si son reales, discos cuya historia con recopilatorios de hace diez años que casi caen en el olvido de por medio, los hace aún más especiales. es una suerte que el destino y Marcus hayan decidido recuperarlo al fin para nosotros.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

daniel bachman


"You can usually find Daniel Bachman at the local coffee shop wearing a plaid, flannel shirt and smoking a cigarette, or sitting on a porch drinkin’ a beer and playing this song on guitar. He is more of a mint tea man than a coffee person, but we don’t fault him for that. Daniel is single, turning 21 next week and you should buy him a drink. Those aren’t coke nails, they are for finger pickin’." chillwave


siguiendo la estela de aldea f aka adrianus: "llevaba tiempo este año queriendo tropezar con un disco así. cuando uno vuelve a reencontrarse y una y otra vez con fingerpickings como peter walker, robbie basho, richard bishop... las sensanciones lejos de diluirse se intensifican y sientes que se llena ese vacío interior y disfrutas con plenitud de principio a fin."

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

the goner

 the goner ~ bitemarks ep (dying for bad music 2010)

"This is a re-release of the orphaned Bitemarks EP by The Goner from Sweden. Five different pieces showing the band’s mastery from crafting simple acoustic folk songs to the construction of walls of sound. Psychedelic folk tales from the dark age, mystic and natural without being retro-visionary or overdramatic. The center piece of this EP, "Lost Summer", starts with a shimmering organ drone chord and shifts into a moving tribal theme. The theme of traveling is picked up again in Oakmulgee Creek which leads to the end of this wonderful EP. The Goner leave you alone with a peaceful field recording of lonely bird calls." dying for bad music