"Sunhiilow is a solo project by Valérie Magisson, telling stories about echoes and odd imaginations from the lost cultures..exploring landscapes of tribal pulse and mythic lullabies."
Charles Rumback – “Two Kinds of Camouflage”
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Friday, April 29, 2011
sunhiilow
"Sunhiilow is a solo project by Valérie Magisson, telling stories about echoes and odd imaginations from the lost cultures..exploring landscapes of tribal pulse and mythic lullabies."
Thursday, April 28, 2011
ashan
"Ashan music is a new channel being explored by sean conrad, previous explorer of gkfoes vjgoaf. Ashan is to be a place for healing, loving, and openness. the music of Ashan is to be given and received with an open heart. it is teaching from 'the gentle way', the way of Ashan. i would love to share these sounds with you anywhere: in the forest, on the beach, in a house, in the street, wherever feels right... i am currently based in melbourne, australia. but i will be doing a gkfoes vjgoaf tour in america this july with Wyld Wyzrdz. feel free to get in touch. namaste." gentle ways
foto: sean conrad
veinte minutos de felicidad
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
tsembla
tsembla ~ fauna (ikuisuus 2011)
"The Turku-based Marja Johansson aka Tsembla use traditional acoustic and electric instrumentation to create oddly affecting folk miniatures that combine the scrabbly forest-folk sound of Kuupuu, Lau Nau, with nostalgic keyboards and variously displaced sonics." volcanic tongue
listen kätkeytynyt maan päälle / buy
"Decay and copulation rites flourish around a trash raft that fish take for a coral reef. The sun blinds your eyes, but you can see a figure there... And in the desert, wind, erosion and echoes work the surroundings of Poly Styrene’s ex-hang-out, an oasis filled with lively people and empty beer cans. Ornamental carpets and fresh water, too. There it is again! It’s Tsembla playing her modified samples, strings, reeds, percussion and the whole range of modern psych instruments to create fiestas with strong twists of pop music. Sounds old and new and like nothing you’ve ever heard before." n~m
"...this is perfect music for those staring at the sun" flow festival
Monday, April 25, 2011
nearone
"Our first collaborative creation. Peaceful, loving grooves. Recorded live on a few farms in New Zealand in November and December 2010. We’d love to share this with you." Sean & Rosa ~ Sean Conrad/Gkgoes Vjgoaf
album art by sean conrad
Sunday, April 24, 2011
wind in willows
"Republic of Karelia's very own Anton Filatov is presenting his debut release. This young man lives on the outskirts of Petrozavodsk, basically right in the forest. When he's not busy studying physics and astronomy he composes mellow soundscapes with synths and guitars. He utilizes quite a variety of other sources, too: birdsongs, tape loops, delay wobble. Filled with gentle chords and easy sinewaves this tape is a perfect soundtrack for relaxation. Come here and rest. Spray-painted cassettes, textured blue vellum J-cards. Edition of 50. " full of nothing
'come here and rest'
Sunday, April 17, 2011
hearing is believing
01. giving is receiving ~ gkfoes vjgoaf
02. thin thread ~ love cult
03. traume ~ emtidi
04. free your energy field ~ high wolf
05. like glass ~ charlatan
06. jackdaws ~ joshua abrams
07. at the top of bear hill ~ quinta
08. sun bum ~ monster rally
09. endless spring ~ houses
10. new birds ~ sky stadium
11. throw my ashes from this pier ~ sonny & the sandwitches
12. the festival ~ marmalade mountain & tasche de la rocha
13. seedling ~ sproatly smith
14. if i never touch you ~ cap'n jack
15. i'm sad and i'm lonely ~ derroll adams
16. she's an easy rider ~ tucker zimmerman
17. lips of a different kind ~ theo angell
18. holy man ~ wilcox, sullivan, wilcox
19. is there anything left to say ~ pawned pajamas
20. roll car roll ~ cap'n jack
21. edward gorey ~ mont smokey
22. h'ain ~ ocelote rojo
23. untitled ~ quicksails
24. with you, lord ~ bill quick
25. untitled #1 ~ ocelote rojo
26. sic corp marenc ~ monks of the balhill
27. let it be new ~ shelley burgon
28. yarn and milk ~ mont smokey
29. i couldn't believe it was true ~ willie nelson
30. i'm losing myself ~ robin pecknold & ed droste
Saturday, April 16, 2011
dead drums
"A slow motion trip into a flooded city for fun. Extended stay in the bubbles, the surges of white wash, the drowning neon gashes. We wanted to believe there would always be this white light. It faded and got more beautiful." bathetic records / dead drums
Thursday, April 14, 2011
stephen molyneux
"...last year Stephen Molyneux (Horsehair Everywhere) was living in Thailand. Riding around on motorbikes, running through the jungle, playing noise shows at Bangkok art spaces, going on visa-renewing border-crossing adventures, all while the Red Shirts were stirring up more and more intense political unrest. On one of his excursions through Battambang & Siem Reap provinces in Cambodia, Molyneux made these field recordings on cassette. Expect “distant ancient rites of dawn, village sounds recorded from bicycle baskets, ensemble street performances,and wedding party music echoing through the ballroom of an abandoned mansion”. Edition of 40 pro-dubbed / imprinted red tapes with a cover photo taken in Bospo Village, Battambang by the artist." no kings
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
secret birds
"Mind-altering drone and psychedelic noise journeys here by Brisbane, Queensland native D. Black aka Secret Birds, currently residing in Tokyo, who returns with his sophomore full-length Peace Forest later this month. The four-track cassette is a breathless exploration into meandering soundscapes made up of distorted guitar drones, heavy layers of synth and restless, tropical drum machine trances, somewhere between Sun Araw, High Wolf and Ducktails, according to the artist “inspired by night rides around Shibuya“. Hot and sultry these nights were, we assume. The tape is absolutely mesmerizing stuff from start to finish. Highly recommended." no fear of pop
tons of luck to dan with his label bon voyage, "the label specialises short-run limited editions, taking in psychedelia, lo-fi, noise, avant-pop and everything good that defies definition,
from Australia and across the sea"
check it out!
from Australia and across the sea"
check it out!
fotola: reuben wu
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
félicia atkinson
"felicia atkinson is a mysterious spirit who resides in brussels by way of paris, and conjures up a world of folk-sound from the depths of despair itself. or is it from the birth of essence itself? wonder and meditation warm your sense of self being." unread records
infant vampire y this impermanent gold, como christina carter, bruce langhorne y the dead texan en uno
infant vampire y this impermanent gold, como christina carter, bruce langhorne y the dead texan en uno
foto: xiaopeng yuan
Monday, March 28, 2011
joonatan elokuu
"The second album by Joonatan Elokuu reminds me even more of In Gowan Ring, singing minstrel-like songs in his own modest way, with a warm introspective expressive way of singing with two acoustic guitars and accordion, and with the addition of some second female voice (Helena Halla) here and there. Only after a few songs different arrangements occur, like some flute with echo on “Silk Road Sunrise”. Special to hear also is the “Born again with a hedgehog's heart” intro with a dialogue from a movie of someone seeking for birds/nature-like spiritual freedom. “Nancy” is expressed with more spoken word with warm ambient electric piano and synthesizer. More stretched in acoustic improvisation with harmonium, zither and sitar is “Like Christ and Osiris”. The last track concludes the album by adding whistling. Another good one from this new psych-folk artist. Released as a CDR in an envelope with some artwork". psychedelic-folk
Friday, March 25, 2011
cloud shepherd
"Great sounds from ex-Free Rein improv trio (Brian Lucas by the way is former Mirza participant). Guitar, winds, percussion and theremin. Three long trips, which described by the band as "soundtracks to the abyss" we have no zen
foto via cold splinters
flotando
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
rambling boys
"Keijo Virtanen, Jukka Nousiainen, Lauri Puttonen and Sami Virtanen join together to put a spin on the dust bowl ballads of Woody Guthrie. After two incredible lathe cuts, Rambling Boys finally throw down a full album of what were once simple road songs, now pulled apart at their roots and tossed into the basement to be jammed into something completely new and unstoppable. Heady rolling guitar licks, fuzzy harmonica wails and snapping drums drift in and out of each other, locking in perfectly only to split back into the mumbling open." cabin floor esoterica
ain't got no home, de los ilustrísimos rambling boys, ¡por fin!
higuma
"Over the past few years Higuma's Evan Caminiti (of Barn Owl) & Lisa McGee have slowly evolved their sound from shamanistic acoustic dirges into shimmering metallic blast-off hymns, hair raising eulogies to the cosmos. 'Pacific Fog Dreams' is a set of seven such songs, all beautifully distant and drenched in layers of earth toned echo, balanced in dream time between melodies and all out electric whitewash. Delayed strums hang in a beyond background, a ghost world of songs from some other place and time, channeled onto the hiss of a cassette tape to remind you. Caminiti's guitar is often on the verge of taking the whole thing down, sporadically billowing into colorful feedback, huge blocks of impenetrable sound. McGee's vocals are sometimes discovered, but just as distant smears, or riding the peaks, coaxing out phrases of hidden origin.. maybe singing of intimacy, memory, nature or magic." root strata
Sunday, March 20, 2011
hala strana
"New Hala Strana release Compendium is now available via download only. This is a compilation of unreleased, e.p., 7", and bonus tracks that were recorded between 2002 and 2007." steven r. smith
Thursday, March 17, 2011
moss
"Moss is a live recording from Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello. This was a midnight concert at the beautiful Trinity Cathedral in San Jose. ...As the set was entirely improvised, the billing really changed in our minds from being a duo with guests to becoming a quartet. The church itself was certainly inspiring, it’s dark wood and clean dry acoustics. There was a very small but dedicated audience.
“Moss” breathes like a living being lying down to sleep, a delicate wave of hushed field recordings, tape tracks and subtle electronics provides a bed for which Molly Berg’s clarinet and voice (joined at times by Steve Roden) ebb and sway, Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello provide lap steel guitar while Olivia Block manipulates the tapes, field recordings and electronics. A perfect example of how four like-minded friends and musicians can come together at a moment’s notice and create, unrehearsed, a captivating and beautiful sonic landscape. The connection between them as artists is completely evident while at the same time disappearing into the background to allow the piece move like a singular body." 12k
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
je suis le petit chevalier
Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier is collecting psych gems for your shrunken ears. Based in the north of Europe, the lonely knight uses woods, electrics, naked elbows and fire." félicia atkinson
Friday, March 11, 2011
gkfoes vjgoaf
"America's Sean Conrad has been able to channel quite a few very important vibes in Spirit Dance. Spirits obviously dance to this tape! Many slow raga-like grooves meet abstract sunny guitar and vocal rumble, when not intervened by ecstatic vocal bursts and ritual bells and cymbals. Moving back and forth, keeping things in balance Sean goes along a narrow path of calm self-reflection and observation, dancing to his own heartbeat, setting his mind at ease. "Every breath and every bow is a gesture of the soul". full of nothing
Thursday, March 10, 2011
a hawk and a hacksaw
"following a series of albums exploring eastern european folk music influence that have thrilled indie and world audiences alike, albuquerque, new mexico's a hawk and a hacksaw present 'cervantine', their first release on their own new label, lm dupli-cation, a record that gloriously connects their deep fascination with the folk and gypsy groups of former yugoslavia, greece and romania with their actual home in the desert plains of the american southwest. the group's natural blend of diverse global musical styles with their indie rock background lends them the kind of cross-audience appeal enjoyed by bands including fools gold, beirut and calexico, while their strong sense of musicality and cultural context draws more left-field listeners to them as well. recorded live at their studio in albuquerque between two us tours, 'cervantine' is the vibrant sound of an american band whose geographical and cultural travels bear on their already distinctive music. the 20th century brought the influence of spanish and mexican music to eastern european gypsy folk, and cervantine celebrates the reflected resonance of this influence in modern-day new mexico. alongside the core duo of jeremy barnes and heather trost, the album features key contributions from the immensely talented hladowski siblings - stephanie (vocals) and her brother chris (bouzouki) - from bradford, england, via poland, who can be heard on album standouts 'mana thelo enan andra,' 'cervantine' and the turkish classic 'uskudar.' the original composition 'espanola kolo' probably best represents the spanish / mexican impression on serbian brass music that a hawk and a hacksaw have embraced - an homage to the extraordinary new mexico town of espanola and a yugoslav kolo dance, designed for long nights of drinking and dancing." rough trade
Monday, March 07, 2011
deep magic
"sky haze was crafted to be the aural equivalent to laying on a grassy hill & staring up at the sky on a sunny day; letting the clouds, atmospheric artifacts & your eye begin to interact to create shapes & textures, both familiar and foreign. why is the sky blue? what is blue?" alex gray / deep magic
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