tulasi

tulasi - huomen tuone (bumtapes 2009)

"Bumtapes is proud to give you another chance to hear this incredible album, plus another previously unreleased track from the same sessions, and with all new artwork. Originally released on vinyl in an edition of 118 copies by Troglosound in 2008 (now totally sold out) Finland’s Tulasi crafted an album drenched in Eastern drones and Finnish backroad folk meditations. The two musicians who make up the band have also featured in bands such as Vapaa, Keijo & Free Players, Aan, Uton, Kulkija and Kutomo. And have also previously released a cassette on Sloow tapes.

To quote the original write up for the LP...."One of the most harmonic expressions of spiritual freak-folk coming out from Finland, Tulasi spreads around warm and positive feelings, created through spontaneous junctions of flute, guitar, violin, percussions, tambura and voices. So, the perfect sound to bring our Souls peacefully inside the wintertime is coming directly from the North”. bumtapes

foto: neil krug

maravilloso de la pe a la pa y en especial untitled V

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hny

hny - mute in the dust (not not fun 2008)

"HNY is a member of sonic oddballs Social Junk and this is her first release solo. HNY traverses the same mystic forests as her witchy contemporaries (think Grouper, Inca Ore) but prefers to head out into those forests in the dead of night. "Mute In The Dust" is jammed full of darkly-looped synth and guitar lines which swirl like blackened smoke around her banshee wail. Occasionally her vocals are allowed to travel along on their own and end up in wind tunnel of mirrors."expressway to my skull

"Dudes can dispute it, but the feminine mystique is real, especially in the realms of haunted interior-psych voice musique. A lotta our favorite ladies (Inca ore, Grouper, Pocahaunted,..) have the “private dreamer” communion ritual down to a science, whether due to talent, vision, chromosomes or some combo of the 3. We wanna add another siren to the squad: HNY. When not buried in work as the sax/bass-playing half of Social Junk, she’s found time to drop a couple stellar solo joints over the past year-ish (here you can touch the sky). Nine song-stories of naked keyboards, 3 am spirit loops, and creaky attic narratives that blur the line between bedroom voodoo ceremony and otherworldly suicide note. Recorded entirely outdoors on a tiny side porch in West Oakland. Dive in. Pro-dubbed tapes in white cases with hallucinatory guitar-girl cover art (3 different color paper possibilities), and housed in hand-painted canvas pouches. Edition of 100" nnf

foto: andreyrubanov

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hope sandoval & the warm inventions

"new dark lullaby from the woman who’s been whispering us off to dreamtime for two decades now. from through the devil softly, out in late September from the good people at Nettwerk Records." arthur magazine

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im jahrtal

im jahrtal • reprisen und instrumentalstuecke [sloow tapes 2009]

"Post-Pilz folk instrumentals from the mountains of Tyrol. Jahrtal is the one-man project of Ewald Spiss, who has been involved in music and art since the early eighties. Tranquil melodies, exotic instrumentation and barking dogs echoing peaceful mountains and forests. 70 copies." sloow tapes

"Im Jahrtal is the magical musical world inhabited by Ewald Spiss of the Austrian Tyrol. It's a world of pastoral psych-folk instrumentals with backwards tapes, drifting flute, exotic instrumentation, guitar and pipe organ madrigals and a rudimentary charm in the way it's all put together. Lovely stuff." boa melody bar

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fotola: coquinete

se vale soñar :)

dreamcolour

dreamcolour - intermission for triangle theories (neon aztec 2009)

"Recorded at The Barn in Ojai, CA by Dreamcolour. Intermission for Triangle Theories is full of trip inducing sounds. Guests include: Natalie Alyse, Teodora Nikolova, Betsy Sue and Bryn (tapdancing!). Blood Quantum starts the album with a chugging tribal beat giving way to a wave of free-form sounds, fading directly into Zoned, a tap dance/sax duo fades into a free-improv session complete with multi-drum sensory overload. Cover design by Rita Sue" dreamcolour

fotola y portada: hoy joy

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bird country

01. shirtless ~ town and country
02. BRDDRMS ~ bird show
03. dim ~ the zoo wheel
04. lightning ghost ~ bird show
05. phoney fuckin' mountain ~ town and country
06. allways / never sleep pt#I ~ bird show
07. untitled ~ pillow
08. after ~ joshua abrams

"there is no concept to the music - I am just working and working and if I am happy while I am working then I think the music is good - it has to feed my life - I love to make music because it takes care of me and it connects me to my friends and family and reveals me to myself." ben vida

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dibu: smicksy

the free players

the free players - the free players (last visible dog, 2006)

The Free Players are a super-group of featuring members of Finnish free-jazz pawnpins Vapaa, Kheta Hotem, Kundalini Snakes and the venerable Keijo Virtanen. While previous documents of this band exist, this is apparently the more democratic version (no longer is it 'Keijo and the Free Players'), a shift documented by the more accessible sound here.

What we have here is an hour long set of jams that seems more reminiscent of Floyd and the Dead than what we've come to expect from Keijo's previous output. Wild guitar leads and wailing sax (nevermind the space-organ) reveals immediately what cloth this recording has been cut from -- which is to say that The Free Players is a true psychedelic album!" last visible dog

foto: coquinete

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mountainhood

mountainhood ~ thunderpaint the stone horse electric (time lag, 2009)

"the counterpart to "wings from a storm". acid-dripping lo-fi euphoric melancholy west coast folk beauty from Michael Curtis Hilde. this dude is seriously prolific, with a fine string of cdr only release under the Moontainhood and Almaden names, but this pair is a real apex of his still unfolding musical vision. "thunderpaint the stone horse electric" is a totally intimate & spontaneously vibed little gem. deeply felt, introverted, hallucinatory, and starry-eyed song stories delivered via fuzzy bedroom fourtrack gush. fevered vocals quiver, warble, double, and swoon around gentle or ragged acoustic guitar, foot-stomping tambourine thud & jingle, harmonium, breezy flute, warm tape hiss, and singing crystal cave atmospherics… we know the animals are dancing…" time-lag

photo: hoy joy

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high wolf

high wolf ~ gabon (winged sun 2009)

"Following debut tape released on Not Not Fun records, this cassette shows High Wolf looking at Africa from his native Amazonia...What's the difference between Amazonian and African jungles? When we live in the wild, with percussions and tribal singing, we're all the same..." winged sun

qué bien que Gabon nos sigue dando motivos para que nos guste tanto High Wolf. otro viaje hipnótico, intenso y tropical..."cuando vivimos en la selva, rodeados de percusiones y cantos tribales, todos somos iguales.."

foto: ben pearce

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tempera

tempera - live at tryst haunt + bonus tracks (l' animaux tryst (field) recordings 2008)

"...tempera buzzes its way through lo-fi live loops, beats backing aetherial vocals, a complete electro mindgroove. five drummers/droners on three-and-a-half drum kits, a cello, violin, flute, citara, moog prodigy, woodchimes, dilruba (bowed sitar), loopers, bells, bowls, pedal boards, and more...'more' being fantastic new temperans matt lajoie of cursillistas, chris l. of visitations, and ed knisely of a primitive and savage land! we will make a joyous noise" tryst haunt (field) recordings

foto: suruei

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six organs of admittance

six organs of admittance - luminous night (drag city 2009)

"...What is it about the man that buries his sound in the ground? He has faith in the earth, for one. When we think of Six Organs of Admittance, we think of a man with six-string ambitions, a rambler with mystic beliefs and dark electric visions. It’s a big universe and we’re only human, which basically means that we’ve got spirit and that were going to die. But until then, we live. Six Organs of Admittance has lived to tell about it on Luminous Night.
Six Organs of Admittance have been watching you listening to them for ten years now. Change is constant. Six Organs of Admittance is your secret friend. You will meet soon, in the glow of a night’s performance." drag city

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second family band

second family band ~ whose wave we ride (earjerk 2009)

"Second Family Band, had to happen... Let's take things to the Eye-Lands! Tropical breeze bass lines and a sunset vibe definitely rule this release. We know! We know! It's all the rage right. Well... we did what we did and now we gotta let you have it. Would it help if we let you know it just kinda happened? I mean, you can't plan these kinda jams right? Hey! I said Pina Colada not Ayuasca! Come aboard... we're expecting you..." earjerk

foto: litherland

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robedoor

robedoor ~ exorcist blues (monorail trespassing 2009)

"Seems like the LA based doooom dronelords Robedoor have slowed their endlessly prolific output lately, pretty sure these guys are in a bunch of other projects and are busy running record labels and stuff, but either way we're happy to have a few copies of their brand new cassette on Monorail Trespassing. Exorcism Blues delivers four brand new tracks of mind-melting, ground ripping heavy drone that falls somewhere between the synth sorcery of the recent secret abuse lps and the dark, doom drone stylings of earlier Robedoor recordings. Slow trudging glacial ambience that melts beneath the paralyzing summer heat. Super killer and super limited, we've only got a handful of these so act fast in you want one, they'll be gone before you know it!" aquarius

"Transitional release that sees the group expanding on their previous incarnation with more control and composition. a peak effort of scorched amps and raw hands, voices still wailing in a desert somewhere" tomentosa

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zukanican

zukanican - the stumbling block (pickled egg, 2009)

"The Stumbling Block is Zukanican’s second album and third release on Pickled Egg Records. Recorded in 2007-8 at The Kif in Liverpool the 8 track album mirrors the band’s live performances perhaps more than their other releases. The album was recorded and mixed by Zukanican and studio trickery has been kept to a minimum; what you hear ‘is was’".

Pickled Egg trae de nuevo a un cuarteto que, personalmente y gracias a ana, supuso uno de los grandes hallazgos del nuevo milenio. Zukanican continúa por la senda del electronic free-funk-jazz de su predecesor, hipnosis rítmica, furtivos en la noche, in crescendos explosivos... las nuevas grabaciones suenan igualmente expansivas pero descaradamente más groovies. Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Liquid Liquid, Kluster meets La Düsseldorf en la preferida 'koanish' y la fluctuante y nebulosa 'penny dance test'. Algo de canterbury debe haber ya que aún sigo creyendo que el bajo de Tom Sumnall continúa en la senda de '1984' de Hugh Hopper, hasta de Slapp Happy podríamos hablar aquí. Creo que volveré a decir aquello de: mi cabeza da vueltas, explosivo, catártico y sensual.

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guanaco & beggin' your pardon miss joan

"Thank you, my friend. My pages had been hacked but I hope to be back online soon. I am working on new songs in the peace and quiet though, and will keep in touch with all of my dear friends :) Below is a link for two new Guanaco ± songs, and if you want to post them feel free. These are my hymns to the Red Leaves. Love always, Lex" new site!

suena "avon", bien, en abril del año pasado descubro a beggin' your pardon miss joan en uno de esos de oca a oca y tiro porque me toca en myspace. año y poco después les hemos visto crecer tanto a ellos como al esqueje guanaco. me gustaría ser justo y hablar un poco de lo importante de esta música en un mundo como el de hoy en día, pero creo que para ser sincero conmigo y con Lex debería irme lejos de la música porque supongo que a esta altura de la película importan más otro tipo de cosas. muchas de ellas me llevan a pensar que sí es cierto que todos por aquí somos un poco amorfos y un mucho psiconautas a pesar de que algunos no necesitemos las drogas para llegar a ese estado de trance donde realidad y fantasía invierten papeles. supongo que ahora la gracia está en la luz que se cuela tras la rama de un árbol, en el cambio de tinta en las hojas alertando del fín de una estación, en todas las palabras que olvidamos rescatar cuando de verdad hacían falta, en el intento de controlar un yo que se derrumba al mínimo azote de viento.

a veces creo que somos rocas intentando que el oleaje no nos erosione antes de tiempo, otras, que nos cubre un manto que nos hace imperceptibles para una realidad desbocada, y la mayor parte del tiempo creo que somos extraterrestres intentando colonizar un planeta que consideramos nuestro porque lo sentimos como nadie aunque lo controlen y se muevan en él formas de vida que no reconocemos por mucho que frotemos los ojos. sigo sin saber muy bien por qué la inercia va hacia donde va, porque le cuesta tanto resistir. sin embargo, sí sé porque nos gusta tanto que el viento abofetee nuestras caras o el mar nos recuerde lo ridículos que somos. "serendipity (v2)" sigue en bucle desde hace un buen rato, los gatos y el perro siguen ahí fuera palpando la libertad, el azul de las hortensias, el amarillo de las margaritas, el blanco de las paredes, el sabor del domingo por la mañana, los ojos en el espejo, la cara amaneciendo, el olor a lavanda y menta abrazándose por el aire, el leve zumbido de "whispers", todo, absolutamente todo parece ponerse hoy de acuerdo para decirnos que la música que hace Lex debería ser reconocida como lo que en realidad es, ese susurro que siempre anhelamos recibir para cerrar los ojos, encoger los hombros y dibujar la mejor de nuestras sonrisas. amor, siempre.

serendipity(v2) & whispers (guanaco)

avon ep (beggin' your pardon miss joan)

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kabyzdoh obtruhamchi

kabyzdoh obtruhamchi • estcho - x2cdr [stunned records 2009]

"When Kabyzdoh Obtruhamchi’s self-titled c50 debuted late last year (Stunned no. 18), it sent a jolt through those of us who might have been unaware Russia had such a tempest brewing in its belly. Like some hyper-elastic one man jam-band oblivious to anything but perpetual motion, his sound simply shredded. And now after mere months, Sergey Kozlov is back to kick our butts permanently into the future. The trouble is doubled and so are the discs on this one-two ‘K.O.’ punch. As this is some of the most untethered sound being spun on either of the globe’s hemispheres right now, it goes without saying that ‘Estcho’ is a soundtrack of the yet-to-be. Like dropping by the year 4000 when a race of tattooed cyborgs throb in dionysian telepathy under guitar-guided biochemical tent party beats. Raveup til’ sundown and back again. Who knows where this celebration/liberation will take us? Hand numbered edition of 100 painted x2 cdr sets in oversized case w/ full color art." stunned

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fotola: andy goldsworthy

best coast

best coast ~ where the boys are (blackest rainbow 2009)

"OK, so there's been much talk about this tape. This is the debut solo release from Bethany Cosentino, who was formerly known as one half of Pocahaunted. Here Bethany heads solo style with some super sweet summertime lo-fi beach pop gems. There are some slight touches of Pocahaunted memories in there, with Bethany's total killer relaxed vocals and simplistic guitar jamming sounding as great as ever but in the new setting of late evening red sky beach bum bliss. 5 songs in just under 15 minutes to blast on the beach on your 80s ghetto blaster. Limited to 200 hand numbered copies, full colour covers, pro dubbed cassettes." animalpsi

photo: alison scarpulla

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yes i love you...

posy simmonds

¿¿es para tanto tamara drewe?? seguramente no, seguramente sí. sí sé que los personajes dibujados por la de las gafas de ahí arriba me han llegado hasta el fondo del fondo desde todas las esquinas. además, llamándote posy está claro que sólo podrías hacer cosas tan bonitas como stonefield.

harps of fuchsia kalmia with delphine dora

harps of fuchsia kalmia with delphine dora - pantomima terrestre (tired trails 2009)

"Harps of Fuchsia Kalmia is the new weird-folk,avant-folk forest-music project of Salvatore Borrelli ((etre), Wondrous Horse); the music is made in a direct way, without processing or any other disturbance. Here he is joined by Delphine Dora, the brilliant singer and musician, who adds her honey sweet voice and piano to this already captivating set of sounds. "Pantomima Terrestre" or "Pantomime of the earth" could not be a more fitting name, this is the earth's musical, a complete production with characters, story lines and dedications, a perfect collage of traditional folk, field recordings, organic drones and percussion. delphine's airy vocals mingle with the drum beats, space sounds and radio static. birds chirp, dogs bark, cars drive by, and records spin backwards. sluggish dulcimer & guitar plucks crescendo beneath the drone of the harmonium. uniquely improvisational and experimental without loosing its familiarity, there's only one way to discover this world. press play. if your into caethua, vapaa, nnck, donato epiro and any other trippy explorations of italy, finland and forest spirits everywhere, this tape will not disappoint." tired trails

foto: papalinky

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dos discos como dos soles que se se unen a la extensa e interesante discografía de salvatore borrelli. además de la presencia de delphine dora (me recuerda sin parecerse al mítico "2" de rawfrucht), valerio cosi añade minutos mágicos a una de las canciones de 'the angular accelleration...' : 'appuntamento ad hora insolita' a partir del segundo :46, y en especial ese saxo estratosférico que tanto me gusta a partir del minuto 4:04.

download harps of fuchsia kalmia ~ the angular accelleration of light in the mind of dead uncle in michigan (reverb worship 2009)
download harps of fuchsia kalmia - burning with your old joy in the terminal sun (ikuisuus 2009)

vishnu woods

vishnu woods - riley rile/shaman tapes etc (folkwaste, 2008)

"08 Unearthed recordings reconstructed from a suitcase mysteriously marked: "V.Woods". Trip through RileyRile's too long in the sun baked meditations and Shaman tapes etc collage of ritual based drones. Epic tracks of harmonium, accordian, baglama saz and singing bowls all fed through massive effects pedals, this Woods serves up expansive cosmic gateways in confined spaces. Persian surgeries, Alice's organ, and deep space listening. Curry stained folkwaste covers, braille numbering, & luggage tag" folkwaste

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tropical rain washed my brain

01. mornings after ~ jasper tx

02. tropical rain washed my brain ~ high wolf

03. let's receive love ~ christian family underground

04. dancing around the borders of senegambian carnival ~ harps of fuchsia kalmia & delphine dora

05. strange land ~ neokarma jooklo duo

06. mindanao ~ teepee

07. sun was high (so was i) ~ best coast

08. dream for your bathwater ~ terror bird
09. so bored (wavves cover) ~ his clancyness

10. the crowd of little men ~ dopo

11. untie the strings ~ christian family underground

12. säteet ~ kuupuu

13. tangier ~ blues control

14. grand cornoel ~ monks of the balhill

15. lessons ~ spirit spine

16. hollow new friend ~ lucky dragons

17. fire documents ~ the cosmic mandoliners

18. bind them ~ religious knives

19. will the circle be unbroken ~ the chesterfield gorgeous

foto: hui+

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silver bullets

silver bullets - free radical [stunned records 2009]

"William Giacchi of Magic Lantern and Super Minerals reports: 'While visiting family in southern Sicily last December, I caught up with an old friend who has shared a very similar trajectory with me in interests of psychedelic music both newer and vintage, local and global. Much to my elated surprise, he has been equally busy producing new sounds of his own, having lately assembled a mysterious psychedelic groove ensemble known as Silver Bullets. I sat in on a recording session and realized I was in the presence of psychic brethren, and that Stunned Records would be the perfect platform to introduce their brand of tonal gyration. Both the Silver Bullets and Phil & Myste were thrilled about the partnership, and thus we present "Free Radical" — two sides, eleven tracks of kraut-funk, coned-out drone rock, and assorted experiments with space and time. Wade through bluesy head-nodders, Italian fuzz contests, interplanetary bleeps and blips, and liberated dance songs for anti-environments. Taking spiritual cues from Don Cherry's Eternal Rhythm, "Free Radical" is a statement of unity through musical expression and an ecstatic celebration of existence. Play this tape at full moon and brace yourself for the unforeseen happenings.'" Limited & hand numbered edition of 100 pro-dubbed & imprinted clear green c48 tapes in oversized single-cassette vinyl album" stunned records

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foto: boxofcobras

‘Free Radical’ is a statement of unity through musical expression and an ecstatic celebration of existence. Play this tape at full moon and brace yourself for the unforeseen happenings' ... acertadas palabras... recomendado para lanzar las prendas al aire, para bañarse a soles, correr con amigos, para tumbarse en estrellas, caminatas solitarias, danzas alucinantes, despegues y aterrizajes o rituales lunares... si escuchan 'il punto', 'flight from babylon' o 'shiva' seguro se convencen de que pueden volar :)

the parasails

the parasails - skylife (el tule 2009)

"Get ready for the ride of your life. Live in the sky recordings featuring 'McGuire in the Ocean', 'Jump!' and 'Atlantic City" future sounds

"Come Join us 500 feet above the Atlantic Ocean for the 1982 Summer Season. Enjoy the views of your favorite Beaches and wave to your friends below as you check out schools of Sealife. Parasails is a new project from purveyor of feel-good tunes, Matt Mondanile (Ducktails, Real Estate). More of the lo-fi, tropical nostalgia his fans have come to expect, but this time instead of sitting on the beach sipping on margaritas, this tape takes you for a dream-like flight above the coastline" animal psi

foto: riquitan

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mount eerie

mount eerie - wind's poem (p.w. elverum & sun 2009)

"What if the sound of wind through trees could be translated into human words? What is it saying?

For WIND’S POEM by Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum spent almost two years out behind the house, at the edge of the woods, listening into the night and finding these words. Songs of impermanence, dark change, destruction, temporary blossoming, mortality, and an immense river of air tearing through the world make up the 3rd official album by Mount Eerie.

A hundred kinds of distortion, oceans of synth, and clouds of bass are the elements these twelve songs are built from, with moments of clarity occasionally revealing soft harmonies (featuring Nick Krgovich from Vancouver’s NO KIDS) reverently attempting to describe a dark mystery. The album holds a large debt to the music and world of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, as well as to some of the more innovative artists on the edges of ambient, colossal Black Metal. Like these influences, WIND’S POEM also drifts back and forth between a “dream world”, where the wind screams about fleeting existence, and reality, standing on the street, wide awake, looking at the hills outside town, remembering.

The album is well built, resting on the stone-solid production of Mount Eerie’s only actual member, Phil Elverum, recorded at various locations around his hometown of Anacortes, Washington. In large walls of warm noise you can hear the wind, or is it flames?, or cymbals?, voice-like through the fog. And then all at once the clouds part and a song hangs in the air, soft and clear" forcefieldpr

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best coast

"Thanks to Porch of the Mystics for the heads up on this new "lazy haze" beach blanket lo-fi pop from Bethany Cosentino of Pocahaunted. Bethany’s calling the group Best Coast, and she says we can expect "songs about summer and the sun and the ocean and being a lazy creep," with "drums, beach boys bass lines, and other amazing things" added by her friend Bobb Bruno. Look for a tape on Blackest Rainbow and a 7" on San Diego’s awesome Art Fag Recordings, which may or may not include this song, in the near future" noise loop

foto: ryan mcginley

sun was high (so was i)

in my room

up all night

black eagle child

black eagle child - seeds that sprout in summer (stunned 2009)

"This follow-up full length to editions on such labels as Blackest Rainbow and Housecraft finds Black Eagle Child rowing his boat ashore and sparking the campfire wide and bright. Let’s stretch out our legs, because we have a nearly hour long psychfolk excursion of delight on our hands here. Once Black Eagle Child’s Michael Jantz starts dronin’ and fingerpicking his acoustic around the flames, things chill way out and the ears get a good cleanse. Just crack a brew and mind you don’t get sick on the s’mores. This release happily marks Black Eagle Child having created a child of his own. Along with Mike & Celeste, we welcome Mary Jantz into the world, the newest and most special sprout of summer." stunned records

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drmwpn

drmwpn - bright blue galilee (apollolaan 2008)

"Drmwpn started as a Town and Country side-project in 2004 and has been growing ever since. It has always been understood that Drmwpn are playing a tune but that keeps getting more and more open as the group grows. The Brion Gyson Dreamachine has always been the focus onstage. The line up for Drmwpn on this recording is : Josh Abrams - Guimbri; Jim Dorling - Leslie Voice Electronics; Steve Krakow - Banjo; Mahjabeen - Kalimba; Dan Mohr - Voice Organ; Liz Payne - String Bass; Adam Vida - Cymbals; Ben Vida - Electric Guitar; Sam Wagster - Lap Steel Guitar & Michael Zerang - Drums" apollolaan

"...the sound is deep, slow-moving and beautifully brain-erasing, with aspects of Pelt and The No-Neck Blues Band as well as Spacemen 3, Velvet Underground & LaMonte Young..." volcanic tongue

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pocahaunted

 pocahaunted - live from the new age (not not fun 2009)

"What are the secret origins of Pocahaunted?...I guess there are no cool secret origins of the band. The name was in a dream of mine, and weirdly in that dream, I was in a band with Bethany. I barely knew her then, we’d never played music together and didn’t have any plan to start. I called her to hang out the next day and she was sitting on my couch, I just looked into her eyes and said ‘Your in this band with me now, it’s called Pocahaunted’. She laughed at me (obviously) but it worked." amanda brown

po ca haun ted ! sólo puedo reafirmar mi devoción por ellas (así da gusto despertarse por las mañanas, gracias dronea, dronea:)

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teeth mountain

teeth mountain ~ live on (not not fun 2009)

"A seven-piece jam crew comprised of 2-3 odd drum kits, sax, clarinet, mixer drones, electric guitar, a pile of pedals, various voices, and probably other unknown mystery junk, they straddle a fine, fucked up line between carefully orchestrated rhythmic psychedelia and total drum-circle-damaged freeform freak-sprawl...Two all-new sides of artfully interwoven live recordings encompassing all the band’s best moods: outsider world scorch, jittery horn ragas, basement attack trance, etc. Raw and real and alive as life." nnf

"...Baltimore collective Teeth Mountain weave a mighty tapestry of hypnotic tribal rhythms and experimental John Cale-esque violin scratches. 'Live On' is an onslaught of syncopated drum rhythms that dominate the mix that also includes plenty of guitar drone ambience, strange feedback episodes and some sounds I couldn't possibly identify..." normanrecords

cara a a partir del minuto 4:45, cara b de principio a fin y en especial lo que ocurre a partir del minuto 8:35...ay

foto: jon edwards Քΐˤվ's

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high wolf

high wolf ~ animal totem (not not fun 2009)

"For some reason unexpected pleasures are superior to the expected variety, at least 9 times outta 10. And so it was when we happened upon the dizzy/fizzy music of French loop enthusiast High Wolf for the first time, regarding whom we had zero preconceived notions. Cheers to open minds/ears then, cause the High Wolf audio worldview is weird and wobbly and one that should appeal to all lovers of tripped out, swelter-zone equatorial electronics. Animal Totem is High Wolf’s debut release, and it piles wavy, tranced keyboard melodies one on top of the other into a pulsing ritual heap of colored smoke. Elsewhere he slips in sunset fuzz-guitar lines and temple meditation tones and even dangles down some flanger-flecked synthetic percussion like a bunch of mellow yellow bananas. Take a look up/down/all-around. Overall it’s a rich, ripe rumble in the escapist-psych jungle." nnf

sun araw meets bird show meets pocahaunted

foto: harley v w

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ganglians

ganglians ~ s/t (woodsist 2009)

"Sacramento's Ganglians want an island somewhere where they can soak in the sun and prowl the canopy by night. It's not often that they do get out, but they can get down for that. Recording sometimes as one, sometimes as four it's a real game to figure out where the entity comes from and where it's going. First and foremost it's about uncertain pleasures. It's a bit like choose your own adventure. There's "codeine balladry"; a slightly upsetting tempo that is quickly flushed into an aural high, the next moment you're in the toy strewn abyss of the bedroom and then out to the tribal caves of the natives. The planets align and the sun beats down, palms tingling, and you are on the island they've built, the scenery constantly shifting for a better view, of you." woodsist

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dopo

dopo - blue lands (test tube 2009)

«Subterranean valleys and peaks, showcasing the duality of chaos and order, cobbled beats overlaid with environmental recordings and slightly arrhythmic acoustics. Personal yet ethereal, places where memories are made, only to decay or change, subtly but significantly, over time. A travel-friendly atmosphere, a little melancholy and homesick, but excited for different frontiers. (9/10)» foxy digitalis

«Tenho para mim, sinceramente, que cada novo disco dos Dopo deve ser seguido de forte comemoração; pela energia - interior e exterior; pelo espírito criativo; um pouco por tudo. Infelizmente, esta é também uma viagem que termina aqui. “Blue Lands” é o documento final de uma aventura sonora iniciada algures pelo ano de 2004. Mas para já, e depois de discos sempre surpreendentes como “Last Blues, To Be Read Someday”, “For the Entrance of the Sun” ou “Crossing Birds” os Dopo deixam-nos com este “Blue Lands”. Belíssimo. Como sempre, são momentos de interior diversão, criativos, são momentos de intensa exploração ambiental, de vivências. Às vezes triste, outras vezes não, sempre Dopo. É pena!» a trompa

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en not content me han dicho que ojalá supieses lo buena fotógrafa que eres, ¡¡enhorabuena!!

sun araw

sun araw - heavy deeds lp (not not fun 2009)
"*Blue Vinyl* Sun Araw - and the Not Not Fun label in general for that matter - are becoming ever more essential with each release. Heavy Deeds is the latest dubbed-out, tropical psych missive from this far-out collective, featuring an increasingly mature approach to experimental queasiness, which on this occasion is reminiscent of fellow solar travellers Sunburned Hand Of The Man knocking heads together with Sun Ra. There's some incredible wah-wah funk to be found here, jostling amongst a barrage of synapse-frazzling sound effects, clunking semi-tribal rhythms and gospel drone. And it's housed in another killer sleeve to boot..." boomkat

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roots #1

"suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely"
roots bloody roots

entrada número 666 (glups!) del blog, ocasión perfecta para recordar el de dónde venimos. aquí abajo un puñado de canciones de aquellas que tras oirlas en el walkman lo cambiaron todo. cualquiera diría que éstas son nuestras raíces cuando ahora mismo perdemos los papeles a golpe de cuenco tibetano. ¡¡¡pero cómo no iban a serlo!!!, tantos años después y siguen poniéndonos los pelos de punta, las manos como cuernos y la cabeza como una lavadora. sí, también fuimos jevis aunque no llevásemos melena, vaqueros ajustados, botines y caminásemos dando botes. además, una cosa está clara, pocas cosas en nuestra vida son más auténticas que un jevi nostálgico. pena de haberme deshecho de las camisetas, hoy necesitaría la de sepul para mover la leña con más brío, aúpa ahí!

01. dead embryonic cells ~ sepultura
02. new world order ~ ministry
03. blackened ~ metallica
04. antisocial ~ anthrax
05. wasted years ~ iron maiden
06. scum ~ napalm death
07. walk ~ pantera
08. rock the vote! ~ carcass
09. thunder kiss '65 ~ white zombie
10. anger ~ downset
11. one inch man ~ kyuss
12. sour grapes ~ descendents
13. turbo lover ~ judas priest
14. are you ready (for some darkness) ~ turbonegro
15. pretend that we're dead ~ L7
16. body count's in the house ~ body count & ice t
17. perdón por vivir ~ hamlet

wrugs

wrugs - braided gas ep (selfreleased 2009)

"After several name changes and a couple of musical rebirths, the dust has settled and Wrugs prevail. Kyle Poff, one of the founders, and old college peer of mine, sent me this teaser of an EP. Coming in at just over 8 minutes, I'm teleported for a very short time into a native land where the cannibals give you coffee and ask you about your favorite colors. They want to get to know you. I mean, really know you." test pilots

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pefkin

pefkin - zugunruhe [sound & fury 2009]

"We've been a fan of Pefkin's delicate dreamscapes for a long time, and as such we're immensely proud to be able to present Zugunruhe. With its combination of processed guitar, free-form percussion, haunting vocals and analogue electronics, Zugunruhe is a beautiful collection of tracks that walks that ever-narrowing path between pop songs and pure abstraction." sound & fury

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porque atrapa, mece, convence, susurra, hechiza e incluso asusta... special. gayle brogan aka pefkin es sin duda de las damas que hacen música preferidas... y lo mejor de 'zugunruhe' es que aún se puede comprar :)

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dreamcolour

dreamcolour - white light (cdr 2009)

"A blues/folk/soul inspired combination of improvised sessions. Natalie Alyse lends her lovely voice to assorted grooves, Robert Magill adds some death-folk and the rest weave a psychedelic soul."

"Dreamcolour reflects a collective of musicians from Ventura County, California. The concept is to heal and lift the spirits and souls of human beings from all walks of life, with the fiery expression of collective free improvisation. We aim to bring back the trance-inducing vibrations, frequencies and rhythms used by the ancient shamans and spiritual healers of the past, but also to experiment with and incorporate the scientific advances of the present and future, relating music as a direct pathway to the human spirit and as a healing force in the universe." dreamcolour

talento colorudo por dentro y por fuera: la mayoría de sus portadas son de hoy joy (caracoles, marlene, la mar...)

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black flowers

black flowers - i grew from a stone to a statue (bo'weavil 2009)

"The music references repeatedly the cyclical nature of life, in both the form and the lyrics. "I've seen them all rise and fall." With that, the inevitable break in the cycle. "For the Lord knows who must die." Another reminder to live in the now. And this is what it sounds like." bo'weavil

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tiny vipers

tiny vipers - life on earth (sub pop 2009)

"Isolate yourself, cover your head with a snug pair of headphones, turn off all the lights, and light a candle. It’s the best way to listen to Life on Earth, Tiny Vipers’ sophomore album. Jesy Fortino, the one-woman wonder behind Tiny Vipers, is an unassuming young songwriter. She huddles over her guitar and avoids eye contact with her audience, but her thoughts are revealed through song. The Seattle-based musician relishes in a certain simplicity in her old folk tunes, and the shimmering emptiness of her haunting voice and stark picking of guitar say a lot without overwhelming. Fortino recorded Life on Earth in an analog studio in Austin, Texas...Yet the album as a whole is sadly beautiful, a trap of ghostlike webs that carries you to a dark, timeless place." danielle

"Tiny Vipers is Jesy Fortino, a musician living in Seattle. Since her last and first album, 2007’s Hands Across the Void, she has been back and forth across Europe, on tours into and through the United States, transfixing audiences into a solemn hush. Transcending the mere folk tag, Fortino draws from disparate inspirational sources, from the avant-garde or from country musician Townes Van Zandt..." sub pop

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wand

wand - hard knox, or are you sure hank jr done it this way? (ecstatic peace 2009)

"To quickly address the elephant in the room - certainly, collections of demos, outtakes and home recordings are mostly bogus, but obviously you're reading this, so obviously I've somehow been coerced into releasing this batch of tunes, and you've bought it or stolen it or borrowed it or gotten a promo or whatever, so let's cut to the chase. In my defense, all of the cuts contained herein are 'songs' in the traditional western sense - my experiments in "surf harmonica" and "doom zydeco" will not be chronicled here, deep and plentiful as those archives may be...You've already pardoned the narcissism, now pardon the cliche: I stand behind these songs as snapshots" and enjoy them despite their many flaws. I hope you do, too." The Wand, Nashville

es tan bonito y perfecto que no puedo destacar nada, o sí... lady of situations ('it might be too late to smile and turn when she smiles on you, it might be too late to paint the bottom of your boat blue'), all these generous men (con la preciosa voz de su mujer, jexie lynn), trails (los coros de jexie...), urchins (los coros de Jexie...), saturday delivery (james corea mirando al cielo mientras rasca su pierna como si fuera una guitarra...)

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chamane

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