sunmoonstar / maia ibar / sapropelic pycnic

sunmoonstar ~ ibid (twin springs tapes, 2015)

"Twins Springs Tapes is proud to offer this, the debut album from Sunmoonstar (Natasha Home, Sydney, Australia). Panoramic frequencies and percussive surfaces weave satiny landscapes. Pastel planes reflect soft complexities of clouds." 

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maia ibar ~ when you close your eyes / and i see (perfect wave, 2015)

"Maia Ibar of Dual-Split is experimenting with restorative sound voyages. She is interested in assisting you, her, him, them, to come into natural states of balance and harmonies through tones, frequencies and sound. Mysterious but familiar senses of timelessness, traveling through space, or back in the womb... Seeing "when you close your eyes," and "I see." We can always see, we are awake, we are awake."

synths, bells, chimes, drums, tibetan bowls, vocals: Maia Ibar 

guitar, bass: Baptiste Ibar 

vocals: Jean-Pierre Ibar 

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sapropelic pycnic ~ see sun think shadow (perfect wave, 2015)

"Sapropelic Pycnic is the solo project of Kathleen Baird of long running avant psych project Spires That In The Sunset Rise. On her debut release as Sapropelic Pycnic, Baird releases a stunning 8 track record of piano improvisations performed on a Steinway Grand in December of 2011 in a church in her hometown of Decatur, Illinois recorded just days before her father’s passing on December 30, 2011. These improvisations have a raw focus that premiere Baird’s piano training as well as very own style of punctuation, spacing and repetition. Her approach brings to mind the playful, spacious qualities of Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, the unrestraint of Cecil Taylor, the rolling arpeggiations of Alice Coltrane, and the ghostliness of Arvo Part." 

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spires that in the sunset rise - curse the traced bird (secret eye 2008)

"The fourth album by Chicago avant rock trio Spires That in the Sunset Rise is the group's most musically direct and immediately accessible work yet. The album was recorded in Philadelphia in collaboration with the Philly acid folk veteran Greg Weeks at his own Hexham Head Studio; members of Weeks' band, Espers, contribute as well. Gone is the deliberately noisy "free folk" aesthetic, in favor of a more controlled blend of folk, psychedelia, and Sun City Girls-like world music explorations, like the dramatic "Equus Haar" which weaves influences that echo Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and North Africa at the same time. Even at the album's most chaotic points, such as the dissonant interludes of oddly tuned harmonies and gamelan-like percussion that recur throughout the nearly ten-minute epic "Party Favors" there is a sense of restraint that was rarely a factor in earlier Spires That in the Sunset Rise releases. One song, "Java Pop", is so direct and tuneful (with backing vocals by Weeks and a hypnotic central riff) that it's easily the closest the group has ever come to a straightforward pop song. Those who liked singer/guitarist Kathleen Baird's more measured solo work (under her own name and as Traveling Bell) but found earlier Spires That in the Sunset Rise forbiddingly impenetrable will certainly find Curse the Traced Bird more to their liking. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

es casi lo más bonito que han hecho nunca, tremendamente bonito. tengo mi primera favorita y es Pouring mind, un pastel rosa y suave que me recuerda a Pocahaunted. y Black earth, tan decadente, tan hipnótica, con esa voz casi monacal de Kathleen Baird. no sé qué más decir, sólo que como siempre me encanta

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kathleen baird - lullaby for strangers (secret eye, 2006)

sé que hay un duende en Aldea F. que espera el nuevo disco de Spires that in the Sunset Rise con impaciencia, por eso nada como el delicioso Lullaby for Strangers de una Spire, Kathleen Baird, para ir abriendo boca. antes conocida como Traveling Bell, Kathleen es una debilidad desde 'Calm in Trees', canción mágica y especial donde las haya y que nunca me cansaré de escuchar y recomendar. su sonido es envolvente, su voz arrulla y parece venida de otro plano, sus canciones son hipnóticas y levemente orientadas hacia el cabaret 'como si de una Pierrot femenina' se tratara, como una especie de ángel que susurra viejas canciones de Nico al oído, como unos Faun Fables adormecidos y perezosos. nanas para extraños de la magnitud de With which these waters swarm, melodías festivas, cortas y hechas con cariño como en el caso de Bury Deeper, violas dulces y chelos tensos, cajitas de música y pianos sollozantes, historias que hablan de romper tejados, de tormentas que tranquilizan, de sentarse en la orilla y escuchar el sonido del mar en una caracola. dicen que Morning Song #1 suena como si Kathleen tocase el órgano en el claro de un bosque. a David F le recuerda a Rosemary's Baby, canción compuesta por Krzysztof Komeda y cantada por Mia Farrow para la película La Semilla del Diablo...a mí me vuelve loca, como Spires That in the Sunset Rise, como Traveling Bell y como Kathleen Baird.

Breaking the Roofs

Morning Song #2

Solving, dissolving forces (de Traveling Bell)

Let You Go (de Traveling Bell)

The artist revealed is Taralie Dawn #7 (de Tar Pet aka Taralie Dawn)

canciones del 2005

También fue muy difícil decidir, pero...

1. Rock Bottom Riser - Smog / Neon Lights - Fursaxa / Here before - Vashti Bunyan
2. That Dragon is my Husband - Jana Hunter
3. Calm in Trees - Travelling Bell
4. My own face iside the trees - The Clientele
5. Boreal Forest Opper - Caribou
6. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
7. Egowar - Gang Gang Dance
8. Kuula - Lau Nau
9. Hemipode - Amina
10. It's You - Out Hud

11. Kiss me again and again - Polmo Polpo
12. Las dos en la nave - Jr
13. Toy Piano - Paul Duncan
14. White Goddess - James Blackshaw
15. Green Foliage Forever - The North Sea
16. Kule Kule - Konono nr 1
17. Comfy in Nautica - Panda Bear
18. Tracers - Bird Show
19. Future Myth - Akron/Family
20. You Are My Sister - Antony and The Johnsons

21. Beast for three - Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy
22. An Owl with knees - The Books
23. Gone Darker - Electrelane
24. Old Black Hat with a Dandelion Flower - Feathers
25. Une ville allongée sur le dos - Fraçoiz Breut
26. A nervous tic motion of the head to the left - Andrew Bird
27. Laivat saapuu - Islaja
28. Circles of Sorrow - Jennifer Gentle
29. Guilford - Nick Castro and the Poison Tree
30. Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez

31. Where there are trees - Josephine Foster
32. Jellyfish - Markus Guentner
33. What's wrong - Matt Elliott
34. The Owl - Peter and the Wolf
35. Putrefying Corp Song - Red
36. c + f - Sam Prekop
37. Kidnapped by Neptune - Scout Niblett
38. All You've Left - Six Organs of Admittance
39. Sort Sands - Spires that in the Sunset Rise
40. Over and over again (lost and found) - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

41. None But Shining Hours - The Books
42. No Spring - Theodore
43. Song of the Sea - Tunng
44. Robur the Conqueror - Urdog
45. Kala - Yann Tiersen
46. Harpie - Shalabi Effect
47. I'll be on the Water - Akron/ Family
48. Did you see the words - Animal Collective
49. Prospect Hummer - Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan
50. Heard somebody Say - Devendra Banhart

51. Afraid - Espers
52. Im diskodickicht - Jan Jelinek
53. Super Zero - Linda Draper
54. Andy - Mi and L'Au
55. Kuu lohduttaa huolestuneita - Paavoharju
56. Beartown - Polar Bear
57. Knulp - Songs of Green Pheasant
58. Lows at the Highland Game - The Big Huge
59. Trelawny - The Magickal Folk of the Faraway Tree
60. Confianza - Windsor for the Derby

61. I Am the One i am and he is the caretaker of my heart - Wooden Wand and The Vanishing Voice
62. Sea Finished - Christina Carter
63. Taking on the Rails - Davenport
64. La nuit on a toujours - Delaney
65. Sateenkaarisuudelma I (Hymni) - Es
66. Klisten - Guido Möbius
67. Good Morning Kaptain - Jackie-O Motherfucker
68. I Killed someone - Larkin Grimm
69. Mon amoureuse - Mansfield Tya
70. los quince últimos minutos de 'Hoarse Frenzy' - Renato Rinaldi

71. Odissey on fire - Remate
72. Emily - Lowlights
73. Orion - Samara Lubelsky
74. The First Rumours Of Spring - The Montgolfier Brothers
75. The Rejection Letter - The Strugglers
76. Blokflute - Woofcraft Folk
77. Bubbles which on the water swim - Colleen
78. Yellow leaves and white trees - Drowsy
79. The Land we all believe in - Cerberus Shoal
80. Beautiful Boyz - Cocorosie

spires that in the sunset rise

spires that in the sunset rise - four winds the walker (secret eye, 2005)

Spires that In The Sunset Rise, cuatro mujeres de Chicago : Kathleen Baird - Vocals, acoustic, electric and slide-guitar, drums, harmonium, Georgia Vallas - Vocals, mbira, bul bul tarang, zither, Turkish lap banjo, lap slide guitar, harmonium, Taralie Peterson - Vocals, cello, guitar, banjo, mbira, y Tracy Peterson - Percussion, bells, mbira, thumb piano, washboard, rattlers.

Four Winds the Walker es un disco impactante, de sonido barroco y teatral, que sugiere muchísimas imágenes. Me hacen pensar en Kim Gordon al frente de Free Kitten, desenchufadas y campestres, o Tara Burke en Fursaxa (Shining posee el mismo punto de locura que Neon Lights). O en la protagonista, última superviviente, de la Matanza de Texas...en esa huída a plena luz del día, rodeada de polvo y horror, color amarillo fuerte.

Destacan las personalidades de Kathleen Baird y Taralie Peterson, ambas con dos grupos paralelos, Travelling Bell y Tar Pet. Travelling Bell es la belleza en estado puro (Calm in Trees)

Little for a Lot, Shining, The May Ham