microphones in the trees

Sunday, July 24, 2011

sad souls

"songs of differing ages, all from differing phases"

"Sad Souls’ “Forest Loops” is an album of quiet guitar moments, loops, and subtle shifts of mood and ambiance. The eight tracks on this record slowly build through delicate reverb, echoed sounds, sad moods, and the occasional distant background vocal, like on the sublime “On the Strand”..." their bated breath

bitchin' bajas / faceplant

"Bitchin Bajas is the solo synthscapes of one Cooper Crain, maybe better known as a member of modern krautrock masters Cave. With Bitchin Bajas, Crain creates worlds of sound, crafted from analog synthesizer and organ tones, not entirely too far removed from certain elements of Harmonia, Edgar Froese, or Cluster. Crain is definitely bringing a vintage sound to the table here. Clean, distinct arppegiated tones floating and bouncing, drifting and forming zones of their own. This is real deal psychadelia at its finest.

Faceplant is the solo work of one Aaron Coyes, of Peaking Lights and Rahdunes fame. Peaking Lights have made a sturdy name for themselves playing homemade synth-driven psychedelic, dub-infused drone-pop. With Faceplant, described as Coyes' ''solo modular hessian noise trance project,'' he is mining a somewhat similar terrain. Driving percussive beats are slathered in dubby echo, while sweet synthesizers hover and chime; it's definitely a groovy affair..." bathetic

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

eternal dreamer


"opaque ruminations waver like dust clouds"
jewelled antler por fuera y por dentro

Monday, July 18, 2011

hear hums

"droned beginnings that soon become percussion led behind an organic setting filled with acoustics of every timbre, as Mitch’s ‘ohs’ & ‘ahs’ accentuate all around nature samples that seem to soak in and add a bit of a wilder Florida environment to it all.

Gainesville duo, Hear Hums, is about as atmosphere-driven as a project gets. I was lucky enough to be able to first come across these two at a show and experience the ethereal nature of their experimental work live. Now, Mitch Myers and Kenzie Cooke, the two behind Hear Hums, have prepared a wonderful third album, Opens, to follow the previous Psyche Cycles. After, several listens of the release, I can easily say it’s their most encompassing release of the three.

Though, the only track available on the internet right now is “Shrines”, but take it as a sampler of good things to come from the rest of Opens." awd castles

cualquier canción que me recuerde un poquito, o un mucho, a stag hare se convierte automáticamente en favorita

foto: hui

Sunday, July 17, 2011

james ferraro

"...Marble Surf is simply the most endlessly beautiful thing I've ever heard. In a post-post-Eno way, James Ferraro composed a slow-motion, ocean-sized waterfall of washed-out angelic choruses, watery steel drums, and dreamy synths that repeat the same basic structure for forty minutes (there are two tracks, but they're essentially the same piece of music)...

...It's a cloud-floating heroin-basted rimjob from jesus in a Terry Reilly calypso dream. It's J.S. Bach for the polaroid-transfer, new-age tapes set. It's weightless and epic and magnificent and ecstatic and transcendent all at once, and it's the best fucking thing I've ever heard." victorian squid

...a los nombres de brian eno, j.s. bach y terry reilly tan sólo añadiría uno más: julianna barwick. y algún pasaje de birthday of bless you de inca ore, aunque marble surf sea infinitamente más sobrecogedor 

l.r.j. martens & ada van hoorebeke

"L.R.J. Martens aka Dolphins Into The Future presents two 'Eternal Landscapes' inspired by the artwork of Ada Van Hoorbeke. These landscapes were recorded at the Cetacean Nation Studios in Antwerp, and at Wiels, Brussels, in 2010 and cover similarly tropical aquatic zones as Lievens is best known for. The first expanse is a trip through tropical mangroves soundtracked by chirruping bird calls, trickling polynesian rhythms and a nocturnal chorus of unidentified animalicula, maybe... The other side feels like we're on land, in a humid downpour listening to a novice gamelan orchestra zonked on the heat but compelled to keep playing beautifully out of time. Immersive." boomkat

tropical field recordings beneath the ocean como pequeños viajes bonitos por selvas y océanos donde suenan pájaros, búhos, delfines, metalófonos, xilófonos, tambores, gongs, cantos nocturnos de animales no identificados, agua...

Sunday, July 10, 2011

hertta lussu ässä

"Kuupuu (Jonna Karanka), Lau Nau (Laura Naukkarinen) and Islaja (Merja Kokkonen),  all together in one band - it's like the dreamiest Aquarius daydream come true! All three of these ladies have been responsible for some of the most mystical and beautiful recordings of the last few years, all of which have become permanent favorites with everyone here. Lau Nau, and Islaja's recent recordings have shown them moving toward a more direct approach in their songwriting, but this project really lets all of these ladies dig deep into their textured, experimental roots.
It's a bit like listening to a seance happening miles away. Distant and subtle rumblings, murmurs, and gently conjured spells. One of those records that you can't identify what instruments/electronics are being used, with many of the sound sources seeming to be drawn from nature. Hertta Lussu Ässä use their voices as another haunting instrument that glides in and out of these four long tracks. It has us thinking of the Jewelled Antler crew performing an Arvo Part piece, or Grouper and Hala Strana collaborating on the soundtrack to a pagan solstice ceremony. Completely breathtaking!" aquarius records

...y poco más puedo añadir a lo que nos cuenta aquarius. la emoción en estado puro. dicen que este nuevo disco de islaja, laura y jonna es como un sueño hecho realidad. jewelled antler interpretando una pieza de arvo part, o grouper y hala strana colaborando en la banda sonora de una ceremonia pagana. tan sólo añadiré que las risas, murmullos, susurros, palmas, flautas, maullidos y pianos, convierten a estas cuatro canciones nana en otro disco familiar y acogedor del que no quieres salir. y que jewelled antler y finlandia es lo mejor que le ha pasado a la música en los últimos diez años. alabados sean por siempre ^^

foto via jesse treece

deep magic

"Deep Magic is an ascent of vibrating dreams.  A reverence for the past.  Family as honor and narrative bliss.  Spun webs of high wet dew.  Deep Magic is archaic spirit hymns.  Healing music." goldtimers tapes


"...“Ocean Breaths 1″  by Deep Magic is one of the most aptly titled songs I’ve heard in a while. Its nine-and-a-half minute run takes us on a shoegazing journey colored by bells, shakers, and the sound of slow, deep breaths. If you’ve been running around town, and have somehow forgotten to breathe, this meditative track will remind you. The visuals, which Gray produced on his own, are the sort of ethereal psychedelic fare. We’re shown scenes of the African animals in the plains, layered over images of Ocean predators... the deep focus on nature here works perfectly for this cleansing, zen track." visitation rites

Thursday, July 07, 2011

michael james tapscott

"if i could only be serenaded by one person for the rest of my days, i'd choose michael tapscott in a heartbeat. the odawas vocalist's talent is something to die for. that voice... cannot be beat. but what tapscott brings on his debut solo release under his own name is far more than just that voice. this is the soundtrack to the short film of the same name by neil blakemore and follows in the ocean-drift steps of the last odawas record, "the blue depths." melodic synthesizer passages float lightly on simple, seductive drum machine beats and acoustic guitar lines. erratic, almost-harsh electronica even makes an appearance as tapscott uses all his tricks to crystalize the theme of the film. every turn finds a new path, all of which lead back to the central precipice.


"sunny california" is a place rife with beauty and sadness and as tapscott as our guide, we're bound to find something to treasure" digitalis
foto: tululumu

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

royal geography society

"Golden Man" is the debut lp by the Oakland duo Royal Geography Society. Equal parts lush orchestration and soaring 60s psych vocals, the lp lays its lilting melodies over a base of electrobeat percussion and ramshackle synths. These parts form the trails for the tale of two explorers in search of the mysterious Eldorado, deep in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest. While this tale is from the exotic regions of the world, its metaphors are very prevalent in modern society. Since the dawn of humanity, man has crossed the earth many times over, searched the depths of the sea, and rocketed into space all to uncover the unknown. This desire is the true incarnation of the Golden Man.

Aaron Deer and Michael Tapscott (Odawas) are Royal Geography Society... Hired to compose a soundtrack to a documentary film on mushroom cultivation, the duo was quickly fired when the producers heard the early recordings. Enamored with working together, the duo decided to start fresh - following the same creative path - and create an album for themselves. Inspired by a non-fiction account of British explorers searching for Eldorado around the turn of the 20th century, the duo wound a tale of adventure, desperation, and acceptance of the inevitable. The search is the discovery." ruralfaune
annapurna illusion vs neil young vs mercury rev!

best coast


dancing queen

Monday, July 04, 2011

stag hare

"Stag Hare creates sounds like sacred spirals. He weaves out tapestries of pure waves that swirl and sparkle with infinite overtones. Put this dublab “sprout session” on loop and leave your body behind. Stag Hare will take you where you never knew you needed to be but will want to stay forevermore." dublab

the amazing and beautiful collage art by jesse treece

mountainhood



'The Boat-Maker's Daughter is a record about transition and transformation. It is an expression of total breakage from all prior forms of thought and action--your parents, your government, your faith--and blazing a new path through doomsday to the other side. The songs range from the quiet, fragile, and distant "Geodesic Dome, Oregon" to the anthemic folk sing-along of "Jaine," one of the most accessible songs in the Mountainhood catalog. With The Boat-Maker’s Daughter, Mountainhood has transformed and shed much of the tape hiss that defined his earlier recordings, and let these very special songs of rapture shine through. This is not only a singular release for Hilde, but for the entire psych-folk genre. Poster designed by Hilde included. Edition of 500 copies'. Blackburn

foto: hoy joy

Friday, July 01, 2011

sister irene o´connor


sister irene o´connor - fire of god´s love / songs to ignite the spirit (alba house, 1976)

download

"among the sea of sound-a-like private-pressed catholic lps that came out in the 1960's and 1970's, sister irene o'connor's 1976 album stands out with its primitive drum machine and spooky, echo-laden vocals. released in 1976 on the 'alba house' label, the dual-titled fire of god's love/songs to ignite the spirit lp features several haunting and remarkable songs. in particular, the title track "fire of god's love" strikes me as so otherwordly and uniquely eerie that i wonder how far sister irene's o'connor's seeming solipsism extended beyond music." wfmu
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fotola: lauren treece

Thursday, June 30, 2011

the salvador cresta´s magic package


"todos mis problemas se van,
todos mis problemas se van,
cuando miro en tus ojos,
y nos damos cuenta,
que en el fondo no importa nada de lo que pasa,
mis problemas son solo canciones,
mis problemas son solo canciones,
camino por las sierras,
el aire huele a menta,
el viento me despeina y se lleva cualquier preocupación,
vivo en una nube,
vivo en un espiral,
donde todo es ruidoso, alocado y confuso,
pero encontré una belleza que no puedo negar,
cuando miro en tus ojos"
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MUSIC:

caballos y entusiasmo • hidromiel [mariano mermaid, 2011]
the red hot liquid papers • hidrofobia EP [mariano mermaid, 2011]
salvador cresta • salvador cresta´s live from fabito´s house [mariano mermaid, 2011]

VIDEOS:

- Caballos y Entusiasmo: "PupaPupaPupa" del album hidropony
- the red hot liquid papers: "live perfomance", "making covers for our records" & "recording"
-the salvador cresta´s home videos vol. 5: old japanese ghosts inside my face
- salvador cresta: " i made this one on the fabito's wall"

REVISTA/ MAGAZINE:

- "señor del compra-venta"
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de cuando la palabra abracadabra se cubre de sorpresas y genialidad... la magia existe, aquí la prueba .
gracialas, salvador ^.^

fotola: arbore

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

thy veils

"The blue mountain is the father of the white cloud. The white cloud is the son of the blue mountain. All day long they depend on each other, without being dependent on each other. The white cloud is always the white cloud. The blue mountain is always the blue mountain." Tozan

foto: ben mauzé

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

deekie


"I fell in love with the music of London-based Deekie in late February when I first heard their gorgeous Trifles ep. Now the duo are back with four more of their typical hypnogogic, drone-laden songs." radiated songs

Mr L & Neets aka Deekie of London are lo-fi dreamers chill out to their heartfelt pop drones" lo-fi music blog

disco-refugio igual de bonito que Trefles, folk de naturaleza casi ambient y sedosas programaciones electrónicas. the dead texan (adictiva y maravillosa the wedding song) meets donna regina (dark house).

foto: silja magg

Friday, June 24, 2011

gkfoes vjgoaf

"while i was in new zealand i recorded this short album/excursion that loosely tells a story of traveling from a glacier across a suspended path of ice to the realm of the kyrin. the kyrin is like this auspicious deer/dragon/lion-like creature who is out to gently bring peace to all. kinda like the deer god. kinda not really. but feel free to go there. the album is called 'glacial ways'...it's about getting in touch with the nature of ice and the slow vibrations of cold weather." sean conrad

"you can buy the physical copy available at any show on the tour or purchase the digital version to help support the tour from afar" gentle ways

la música no lo es todo, pero ayuda...canciones como 'kyrin' te hacen pensar que todo puede ir bien. para nuestro arbolindo. wassembaum!^^

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

matt valentine

"...elements of deep forest psychedelia brush against Crazy Horse guitar / vocal flourishes that explode to reveal volk-based form mayhem at its hickiest. My particular fave here is PK Dick, a paean to nth dimensional logic in the form of a Swedish psych-folk readymade. My son prefers the haunted-Harvest-vibe (his words) of  Ave. B. My wife goes for the Seventh Sons approach offered by Sweet Little Indian Girl (always a fave with the ladies). And my daughter nods in the direction of Continuing the Good Life for reasons she will not explain. All this just goes to show that What I Became is a fun album for the whole family. It will soothe your savage breasts. It will turn your evil mother-in-law into a porpoise. It will wash your dishes and darn your socks. Darn them! Motherfucker, who else would do that? Nobody, Jack, except Matt Valentine. This guy has the magic touch. And it has never been displayed better than here..." woodsist
otro disco para seguir en modo floating...ease my eyes, por decir alguna, es maravillosa. neil young vs wooden wand, hush arbors & satya sai, sin ecstatic peace. 'this guy has the magic touch', mil veces sí!
 buy / download (gracias, davide)

Sunday, June 19, 2011

silver antlers

"Silver Antlers reigns in and compresses some of the most exciting swelling guitar drones and soaring solos meets tribal meditations meets the Algerian Desert Desert blues of Terakaft at a Qawalli festival, and straddles a line between Western blues and the contemplative percussion and spiritualism of Eastern musical traditions." tome to the weathermachine

si este año por fin hacemos una lista de las canciones más bonitas seguro que nos acordamos de 'stargaze drifter', amazónica, tribal, puro stag hare (que spirit canoes llegue pronto a nuestros oídos).

Saturday, June 18, 2011

tulasi

"new ethereal recordings by the finnish duo of Kulkija (Uton, Keijo & The Free Players, Vapaa…) and Kutomo. Waves of flutes, voices and bubbling ambience drifting away on a soft whispered breeze blowing it out into thin cool air." sloow tapes

"this is gorgeous haunting music, easily at atmospheric as the Free Players stuff but with a totally different character. it sounds ancient and ghostly, like forest spirits floating in dense air. Lovely stuff." boa melody bar

collage: fugga

olo olemattomuudessa (mp3 sample)
uusi aika (mp3 sample)
para ir haciendo boca dos discos como dos soles: 

Friday, June 17, 2011

inez lightfoot

"Inez Lightfoot is homemade music from the mountaintop barrows and the deciduous forests and many spaces in-between. She uses nature-derived inspiration to conjure analog soundscapes ranging from fierce and uncanny to gentle and ritual."

"Some sounds I've made recently, inspired by nature. I think that Biological Radio will release Nature Songs on cassette this fall!" inez lightfoot

si las canciones fueran viajes: recall what you saw in the eye

sold out | name your price

Thursday, June 16, 2011

breatherholes



recorded in an RV in a driveway in austin, tx in the third month of the 11th year of the 21st century. noothingdotorggggggggggg

download | buy: noothhing@gmail.com

hay ciertas voces que no pueden mentir, la de lew es una de ellas… más cuando parece que está a punto de quebrarse de tan personal y real. así me parece su música, que se derrumba y sale a flote mientras más escuchas. tiene razón, "everything is all ok"... tal vez sí.

fotola: joecooke

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

edibles

"A natty sidestep into phased sunshine and reggae abstractions from pdx posi preacher Dewey Mahood (Eternal Tapestry, Plankton Wat, Bloodbiker, etc). Super Space/Mind Peace is Mahood’s debut release under the Edibles banner and it captures seven of his most colorful and casual cruises into high-flying space junkadelica. Chilled guitar echoes, dub percussion details, vapor trail melodies, and basement bongos bop along like the slowest brokest car along an island dirt road at dusk. All instrumentals except for the wordless fog chant on “Inna Groove.” More from this champ is on the way courtesy of fellow west coasters Stunned and DNT. Peace out properly the first time around."

sun araw, peaking lights, king tubby, parasails, cankun... sólo hay que cerrar los ojos y escuchar 'zones', y 'lazers', y 'cruiser',...un disco breve y perfecto, bucle infinito de relajación y felicidad. de regalo 'mind fry' (cortesía de raven sing the blues), adelanto de su disco en dnt 'Other Minds Meet Inner Space'.

collage: jesse treece

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

árbore / smokey feather


me pasa siempre, cuando tengo tantas cosas y sensaciones que decir de personas muy especiales y cercanas no sé cómo hilvanarlas. y más aún cuando los protagonistas explican tan bien y bonito cómo surgió moon jam, olelbes y take action, fight for animal rights. Rafa (también conocido como árbore o arbolindo, el genuino field recordist y sweet Oklahoma soul, con o sin apenino, con o sin mónica vacas: 'pachocas' y 'petula'!), una caracola llamada La Mar ('Juniper' de caracoles era tan extremadamente bonita y mágica que podría estar en cualquier recopilatorio al lado de todos esos grupos que nos hacen flotar tocando psych folk tribal drone y ser nuestra favorinda entre favorindas) y Nico aka el Nejo (‘if you don’t mind i’m going home' de equinox, the peacekeeper es una de mis canciones favoritas de este año y de todos los años). tres amigos unidos en la distancia por una noche de luna llena y una forma romántica y maravillosa de entender la música...sé que todo lo que pueda decir de este encuentro de grillos, pajarindos, flautas, ladridos lejanos de perros que parecen lobos, sonidos inclasificables que dan ganas de llorar, mensajes, creencias, méxico, mojave y peitieiros, microphones y luzzzalig...se queda muy corto, pero si lo de 'discos espaciales y especiales' tiene sentido es por reuniones como ésta.


durante el año 2009 formé parte de una investigación encubierta en granjas de visones. saltamos los muros de la mayoría de granjas de visones de España con la intención de retratar el horror que sufren los visones hacinados en jaulas hasta que son asfixiados con dióxido de carbón en un cajón cerrado para ser posteriormente despellejados y poder así vender su piel al cruel mundo de la peletería. cuando terminó la investigación le prometí a los visones, que vi crecer hasta morir, que les dedicaría una canción para que su muerte no fuese en vano. así, en mayo de 2009 grabé “take action, fight for animal rights!” un homenaje a esos visones y a todos los animales que son explotados para servir de vestimenta, de comida, de entretenimiento o los utilizados en vivisección. los animales, como tú y como yo, quieren vivir. ¡ayúdalos!
en julio de 2010 mar & nico (smokey feather) cruzaron el charco para venir a mi casa a pasar unos días. les comenté que podían grabar una canción y publicar un split conjunto incluyendo “take action, fight for animal rights!”. la idea les gustó pero no tomó forma hasta este año, concretamente hasta la luna llena de abril. a ellos (smokey feather) les parecía muy significativo grabar una canción la noche de luna llena al mismo tiempo en diferentes continentes. de ahí surgió mi aportación “moon jam”, el epílogo a una colaboración astral entre hermanos.” rafa

"a veces hay que contar historias... tuvo que pasar un considerable lapso de tiempo para que 'smokey feather' viese la luz. para ello se tuvieron que cruzar charcos atlánticos, visitar playas del mediterráneo o quebrarse un hueso para zambullirse en el ser y estar. también tuvieron que suceder diversos reencuentros bajo cielos de tierras sagradas del desierto; andar cerros quemados, ir a selvas mayas, ver los atardeceres desde la roca en lo alto para volver a montarse en la nube lejana y pisar así, patrias donde el cielo se moja continuamente. el túnel del viaje, que en una de sus muchas salidas hizo escala en tierras gallegas. entre paisajes de ensueño tuvimos la fortuna de compartir con rafa (arbore) la calidez de su hogar, sitio/ situación donde la comenzón por creer y crear incremento el rascar.
sin embargo, con el meneo del tiempo la música seguía pendiente. afortunadamente se nos atravesó ca-li-for-nia. siguiendo la vena de ancestros yaquis del norte de méxico, hubo que cruzar una tormenta de nieve entre árboles gigantes de la sierra nevada para después sucumbir ante las dunas de la reserva mojave. ahí, en ese desierto tan vasto se vibra fuerza a la vez que el exterminio de sus tribus, entre ellas la 'wintu' quienes nombran al creador del mundo como 'olelbes' (he who is above). gracialas a las tierras que alguna vez pertenecieron a los indios del norte de américa, aunado a conexiones lunares es que la ofrenda del 'viaje' finalmente se ofreció. 'olelbes' es el resultado de todas esas conexiones posibles que logra que los hermanos se encuentren en una coordenada infinita atemporal... una historia que tiene de raíz el amor por la música, no puede más que florecer en sonidos. la prueba está aquí." la mar

"it is above that you and i shall go;
along the milky way you and i shall go;
it is above that you and i shall go;
along the milky way you and i shall go;
it is above that you and i shall go;
along the flower trail you and i shall go;
picking flowers on our way you and i shall go." -harry marsh, wintu.


fotola by hoy.nejoy.árbore

Sunday, June 05, 2011

delphic vapours

"Owen Tromans and Seb Hunter have been spinning their web of improvised intrigue as Delphic Vapours for several years now. The duo meld their guitars into a miasma of drone and melody where the six strings are just as likely to spew forth ancient synth gurgle or catastrophic waves of fuzz as divinely clipped arpeggios.
"Singing, Ringing Tree" envelops the listener in a liquid atmosphere heavy with foreboding, as cyclopean tusks of noise leer up through the foggy drone. When melody enters it is forlorn and broken. A sailor's song from some unknown depth.

"Pythian Cleft" is a different beast entirely. Recorded at a live show in Winchester, it builds through a desert wasteland of clean, echoed guitars to a heat haze of hum and rumble. Finally the piece levitates from the sands like some forgotten starcraft as boosted tremolos kick forth toward the stratosphere.
"Another Sunset" is so long we couldn't get it on the cd. So you, dear listeners, get a download bonus. A defiantly lo-fi exercise in tone manipulation; we'll leave you to imagine Les Rallizes and Cluster in a lift shaft." critical heights


hay muchos discos por descubrir en critical heights (y muchas fotolas de árbore y mar para escoger sólo una), pero hoy es el día perfecto para disfrutar de los sonidos ultra-etéreos e improvisados del dúo de Hampshire Delphic Vapours (Owen Tromans- que hace poco ha publicado un split con Wooden Wand versionándose mutuamente- y Seb Hunter, músico y escritor). gracias Owen, mr "Steely acoustic guitar with lashings of romantic sentiment".

fotos: marlenoide & árbore

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

cankun


"French haze aesthete Vincent Caylet has been active on the marginal music frontlines in various capacities for several years at this point but Jaguar Dance is his debut outing under the Cankun parasol, and it’s a even brighter-lit hideaway of mirages to pass out in. Choppy, chiming guitars balance-beam above looping heatwaved keyboards while skittery beats glitter like a glare on the skin of the sea....Escapist, joyous, and psychedelically sunburned in equal measure..." nnf

si tuviera que elegir entre todas las transformaciones de Vincent Caylet: Monks of the Balhill, The Pistil Cosmos, "V"Archers by the Sea, ahora mismo me quedaría con la exótica brisa tropical de Cankun (con permiso de 'Grand Cornoel' de los monjes de Balhill).  'Jaguar Dance' es simplemente perfecta....relajante, fluida, agradable, envolvente, seductora, bonita. me tranquiliza saber que siempre puedo volver a ella, o a 'o mountain o', o a 'Lichens Beat'. y aunque no venga al caso pero hablando de títulos de la vida, nadie como Vicent cuida y mima todo lo que rodea a su música: 'sometimes we should dance', o 'they were floating over the mountain, they were kings', son algunos de los títulos de Archers by the Sea. en breve... 'Ethiopian Dreams'.

filed under: easy psychedelic piña colada listening

foto: via onyx earth

elodie

"...the record opens with a layered piece of various wind instruments and as such may count as a drone piece, but other pieces are more of an open spaced improvised nature of rattling bells, small metallic sounds, Van Luijk’s curious collection of small acoustic objects and wind instruments and Chalk's watery electric guitar, along with charming field recordings...Throughout a fine record of shimmering, small melodies, rusty percussion, bird calls and a gentle mood. The perfect early spring record: open your windows, let outdoor sounds in and simply enjoy the good life." vital weekly
"...Van Luijk plays the Nick Drake to Chalk’s Joe Boyd, re-imagining “Way To Blue” as a psycho-spatial investigation of the endless hues on the way to dawn with heavenly choirs of bird song over rolling acoustic guitar that could almost be taken straight from the legendary Hawaiian 1973 acid folk masterpiece, These Trails, or even the music of Harry Partch. There are shorter tracks that feel like snippets of eternal music, sudden streams but the overall feel is wide-open, pastoral. This is folk-based drone that succeeds in joining the dots between traditional rural forms and future-visioned kosmische with a gentle, celebratory aspect that is pure Chalk..." volcanic tongue

Monday, May 30, 2011

mpala garoo / sunbells fenimore / kon tiki gemini

"Mpala Garoo is Ivan from Moscow who also plays in a duo Kon Tiki Gemini and Sunbells Fenimore. Ivan plays a similar kind of summery tropical heat-haze as Ducktails." not for resale
"Music crafted for the sunny and tropical paradises of our minds. Seasonal temperament is shared via magnetic vibes; we can all exist in the same balmy and tropical headstate no matter what our physical locale may be. Pure vibrations that ebb and flow on the appeal of tidal moons." sweat lodge guru

"Ivan from Mpala Garoo also plays in Sunbells Fenimore; a project that features the same island guitar tone and pace from Mpala, but deeper oceanic;...things gets pretty turbulent in Paradising, but no less hypnotic as the chaotic crashing and fizzing carries the metaphor of the sea, blistering heat, salty spray and boiling breakers into sonic realisation, recalling the fiery return to Earth of Oneohtrix Point Never or the tranquility of Dolphins Into The Future, a lucid sky-gazing treatise on sun-soaked mystical spirituality. Go to his bandcamp for three tracks of meditational serenity." not for resale


"Pairing the side-projects of luminaries like Mpala Garoo, Magic Beach, Hobo Cubes, and Bedroom Bear, this split from Kon Tiki Gemini and Cavernes begins with a roiling hot mudbath of crackling drones and claustrophobic melodies on the a-side. The kind that cakes to your hide and doesn’t slough off until your skin does. Cavernes softens the dried glaze with a gauze of shimmering notes on the flip, then peels your face off with sheer will to expose the beautiful, porcelain bones beneath..." sweat lodge guru

Saturday, May 28, 2011

silver louise

"Silver Louise learned to play guitar and banjo at the foot of the black mountains in North Carolina. Dark, modal banjo tunes and the blues of the rural south inspired her early work, which evolved as she discovered John Fahey, Robbie Basho and composers such as Steve Reich, Lubomyr Melnyk, and Meredith Monk. Her lush, hypnotic guitar compositions recall rhododendron thickets and countless hours playing by her crackling woodstove, and her voice reflects the soul of the field recordings she has absorbed over the years. Now based in San Francisco, her music has evolved into a mature and original sound that pushes the boundaries of folk and experimental music."

takoma, banjo, canciones a capella y una voz que 'refleja el alma de las grabaciones de campo que Louise ha ido absorbiendo a lo largo de los años'. lo más nuestro

foto: sara gossett

Friday, May 27, 2011

svetlana the anthropologist • ethereal doom cosmonaut

"Svetlana The Anthropologist is Dasha Bulatova, formerly a member of Railcars. She has recently embarked upon a solo project that combines elements of folk and drone music. She seeks to use sound to show reverence to everything inside and outside, both to the blood booming through our bodies and the sky thundering overhead.
Ethereal Doom Cosmonaut is Sebastian Dionisio, formerly of Campfire fame. His music is what happens when you want to sit in the forest listening to dub and kompakt records all day but instead you have to go to the city for work and school. Some of the songs are all digital, some have guitar." steak au zoo
estratosféricos. dionisio y dasha, dasha y dionisio!

Thursday, May 26, 2011

the caretaker


"...Leading medical research explains how Alzheimer's patients who endure increasing memory loss can still recall songs from their distant past. The prefrontal cortex is among the last brain regions to atrophy. With this in mind, The Caretaker once again recalls fifteen occasions where memories were locked in a timeless and haunting loop. The Caretaker is the work of James Leyland Kirby, also sometimes known as Leyland Kirby and The Stranger" experimedia
"...His new material is marvellous. Timeless. A collision of Past and Future Tense. The metaphysical Clock of History has began ticking again. We can now re-embrace the Future." kid shirt

'all you are going to want to do is get back there' es lo más bonito y atemporal que he escuchado desde if i never touch you de cap n' jack...'todo lo que querrás hacer es volver allí una y otra vez'. 'libet's delay' es la elegancia absoluta, fragmentos que nos trasladan al hotel overlook de kubrik y nos llena de nostalgia entre crujidos de vinilo y viejas canciones de los años veinte.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

ben vida

"Originally composed in 2008 as a soundtrack to a 5-Channel synchronized video projection 'The Soft Epic or: Savages of the Pacific West' by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib. Two long tracks of classic environmental ambiance. Get lost on a lunar safari." root strata

"...the label describes it as some kind of sonic safari, and it really does sound like it, maybe like some synth/flute performance, taking place in some remote forest glade, the entire thing recorded onto a four track with dying batteries, the results, a dreamily druggy, atmospheric ambience, a warped ritualistic Jewelled Antler styled new age, and a seriously divine soft epic." aquarius

ben vida, synthesizers of the atlantic east, pajarindos!