microphones in the trees: lal lal lal
Showing posts with label lal lal lal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lal lal lal. Show all posts

Thursday, April 18, 2013

miaux


"a beautiful micro-release by Miaux ~ the master of beautiful micro-releases. Miaux is Mia Prce from Belgium, armed with a Casio and devastating song writing skills. her music is minimal, melancholic and timeless, somewhere between Roedelius, Ruth White and electronic realisations of Baroque music. one sided 7" single, a must for everyone into staring the world from outer space. lal-54 to be released on April 19th in edition of 50 copies." lal lal lal

foto via mika pérez

Sunday, March 16, 2008

the ray pacino ensemble

the ray pacino ensemble - be my lonely night/golden greats (lal lal lal 2008)

"And speaking of Lal Lal Lal and its documentation of some of the sicker sounds of new Sweden, they've also gone and released a gatefold double LP by the one and only Ray Pacino Ensemble. Their Be My Lonely Night cassette was one of the best things Lal Lal Lal put out in 2006, and that whole thing has been reissued here as the first record, with all new songs on the second slab. I'm not quite sure how to describe this band from the village of Järna except to say that they sound like 2000s post-punk weirdos possessed simultaneously by the spirits of a 1930s Scandinavian dancehall oompah band and some cracked 1960s folk troubadours. Ten listens later and I can't do any better than that, but no matter how strange it gets, The Ray pacino Ensemble is always there to play another song, and they're all surprising catchy and avant-garde and inexplicably effective. As is the hand-sewn gatefold sleeve, with its art by Jelle Crama and totally incomprehensible liner notes...." blastitude

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Monday, June 26, 2006

avarus

a veces es necesario dejar pasar el tiempo y volver a ciertos discos una vez pasada la resaca. el paso del poquito tiempo no le ha restado ni una de sus virtudes a Jättiläisrotta. el disco más negro y tribal de Avarus, el más incómodo. y el más tremendo
"Jättiläisrotta (Secret Eye) cycles between rumbling free jazz, airy tribalism, and spaced-out Day of Niagara sessions. They manage also to slip the lovely underwater, near-folk strum-a-long "Ahoistava Haisemisen Loordi" into the mix. "Prinssihalonen" kicks up a chiming psychedelic vortex as powerful as anything Avarus has done to date. The strings are skyrockets and the boom-crash chugga-chugga drums are a treat. Throughout, think Sunburned Hand of the Man, perhaps the collective's best, kindred analogue." - Brandon Stosuy for Pitchfork
"Avarus have reached new heights on "Jättiläisrotta." This is fun music. It's about sitting down with friends with a few drinks and having a good time. Now if only every such encounter would produce such fantastic aural results. Avarus are definitely one-of-a-kind." - Brad Rose for Foxy Digitalis
"The wide-eyed forest dwellers of Avarus come from the pool of Finnish musicians that spawned the magnificent Kemialliset Ystävät. They play a brand of music on the outer extremes of the free-folk movement. A spirit of drugged-out frenzy drives this relentlessly changing music, resulting in songs that evolve like a species: not on an obvious linear path, but in fits and starts-obeying a strange logic inaccessible to the players themselves. Avarus conjures a gorgeous and frightening musical object, and they capture the feeling of mystery of music on acid." - Bryan Berge from Stylus Magazine
"Avarus will melt your mind and free your soul. Wander into their dark forest and join the tribe"