amen dunes

amen dunes - dia lp (locust 2009)

"A lot of crazy shit can happen to a man when he goes solitary in a ramshackle Catskill Mountain home for an extended stretch of time-especially for a city kind of guy. But if Amen Dunes's 12 tracker Dia is one possible outcome of the guy alone-in-a-cabin- story, then a little tape saturated brain frying is something we should all live comfortably with because this is a batch of seriously raw & inspired loner psych grit. That was 2006. These days the lone wolf behind Amen Dunes, Damon McMahon, calls a small two room apartment overlooking the Temple of Earth in North-Central Beijing home, where he watches old men fly kites and sing opera every morning. Who knows what'll come out of that." locust

hoy es un buen día para recordar a greg ashley, valerio sartori, cherry blossoms, kurt vile...a través de amen dunes. como ellos, dia transmite algo especial, atemporal (sobre todo a partir de 'patagonian domes'), algo absolutamente maravilloso

foto: rein formarly known as fotosynthese

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lau nau

lau nau - nukkuu (locust/fonal 2008)

"Nukkuu (Finnish for Sleeps) is the long awaited sophomore album by celebrated Finnish femme folk fave Lau Nau. Nukkuu is psychedelic, abstract & emotionally captivating. Nukkuu is an album of changes. In the years since her debut album Kuutarha, Laura became a mother, moved to the Finnish countryside and took valuable time to carve out a space for her enchanted art in the new found tranquility of her remote surroundings. Conceived in tight attics & vacant dens on off hours when her young son Nuutti was fast asleep, this is an intimately crafted 9 song collection that unfolds like dreamlike musical ribbons for the senses and delivers the listener to a place of unhurried contentedness." fonal

(el mejor regalo posible, de jorge de ...and the world smiles with you)

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nalle

nalle - the sirens wave (locust 2008)

Nalle is the Glasgow based avant folk trio of visual artist Hanna Tuulikki, Chris Hladowski and Aby Vulliamy, from The One Ensemble and Scatter. Hanna’s enthralling multioctave vocal range and singular delivery brought comparisons to other women vocalists who have explored the limits of the voice within traditional musical conventions but as the Wire noted, Nalle’s “clear individuality banishes lazy comparisons to others operative in this area of folk-inflected new music, like Lau Nau or Joanna Newsom.” Top this off with a fearless and accomplished integration of the musical traditions & instruments of the world’s people and you have the prescription for something that, in its very globally minded embrace , touches on the other worldly. Siren’s Wave is a dense & deliberate album of tightly woven song suites where few sounds and few silences, if any, are left unconsidered..." locust

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no-neck blues band

no-neck blues band - meets the clear people with mystery gypped live at ken's electric lake (locust 2007)

"...The journey is the point, and it is impossible to describe. How the second disc’s first track continues where disc one left off is amazing in itself, but the voyage to the East that comprises disc two might be one of the most satisfying statements this collective has made. As pulse fades and is supplanted by a droned ambiance, a very real sense of architecture brings completion.

This is essential listening, not only for the nnck and Sunburned enthusiasts that might have missed it the first time around, but for anyone wishing to explore the best of what was once new and weird in America." dusted magazine

new weird en estado puro y disco favorito de los muchos que ha editado No-Neck. desde la primera nota me ha hecho pensar en Pocahaunted, Silvester Anfang y, claro, Free Country de Davenport. "untitled cuatro" (saxo, flautas, palmas, tambores) es, junto a untitled ocho (percusiones, saxo e invocaciones) la canción-mantra definitiva.

filed under: "for anyone wishing to explore the best of what was once new and weird in America"

untitled 8 (mp3 sample)

lau nau

lau nau - kuutarha (locust, 2005)

una portada con sitares, tamburas o mandolinas garabateadas. una foto interior de Lauren Naukkarinen en un vergel, pretecnología naïve en la contraportada, un mandala plastidecor de corazones, pies, anclas y espirales. ¿el sonido? ay, el sonido. zumbidos que nacen de las tripas (jos minulla olisi), violines punzantes, percusiones hipnóticas (kivi murenee jolla kävelee), flautas de bambú, órganos templarios (hunnun), una infinidad de instrumentos recuperados de algún luthier fugado del consejo de Rivendell. en media del clima ensoñador sobresale el susurro orgásmico de Lauren Naukkarinen, que parece decirnos que las palabras viajan y cuando vuelven ya no se las entiende. un disco luminoso como una estrella en la noche (kulhen halki kuutarhan), ese agujero en cuyo fondo uno todavía se puede esconder.

kuula

puuportti rautaportilta

johdattaja-joleen

crítica rescatada del artículo "New Weird Finland" para el fanzine de fanzines Dead City Radio en su número #2.

sounds like: colorful juice glasses