following the sun

va ~ following the sun (november 2011)

01. kentucky moonshiner ~ bill staines
02. cantina crawl ~ toby burke
03. baby where you are ~ ted lucas
04. lady with the braid ~ dory previn
05. lady blue ~ trevor swadling
06. the road is hard ~ graham davies
07. south someday ~ edgar wappenhalter
08. sunny california theme ~ michael james tapscott
09. how to collect branches ~ je suis le petit chevalier
10. prizewinning ~ julianna barwick
11. alpine valley shelter point ~ food pyramid
12. sea bed meditation ~ jürgen müller
13. crickets sing for ana maría ~ walter wanderly
14. siberian girls ~ monster rally
15. long time before this ~ jim guthrie, sarah harmer & bry webb
16. voice of god ~ castlemusic & wyrd visions
17. hey moon ~ john maus
18. violet ~ moonshine moonshine
19. stagnant water ~ shipwrecks
20. gardenfull ~ theo angell
21. under the sun ~ mia doi todd
22. wendy bird ~ haley bonar
23. fly eye ~ wizard oz
24. sa sa samoa ~ korallreven with julianna barwick
25. nature is a song ~ sister irene o'connor
26. guaglione ~ marino marini

otro año más, happy birthday maicropóns!

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high wolf

high wolf ~ atlas nation (holy mountain 2011)

France’s High Wolf possesses a natural-born ability to zero in on the tones most conducive to inducing transcendental states. High Wolf’s tracks carry the uncanny sense of sounding as if they’ve been sluicing since the beginning of time, and that he had the graciousness to siphon them for teasingly brief absorption before they shimmer off to the vanishing point. This elite droneur is one of the few musicians who could title a release A Guide To Healing without it coming off as an ironic gesture or a laughable boast.

Atlas Nation, recorded in 2010 after a long trip to India and Nepal, deepens High Wolf’s penetration into the mystic. He evokes an uneasy peace with a new breed of tribal psychedelia shorn of all hokey signifiers. “Fuji Descent” starts the album with what could be a languid, paradisiacal soundtrack to a scrapped Alejandro Jodorowsky film. “The Dawn of Man” is a stark, stoned processional burrowing into malarial climes where guitars squawk in ominous tongues and congas cave in chests and clear brush with a vengeance. “Raagni” magnifies and psychedelicizes Rapoon’s mantric, ritualistic hand-drum patter and tropical-forest drones while hinting at Don Cherry’s jazz-raga peregrinations. High Wolf claims that “Haiti” was “recorded in a couple of hours on the day of the big earthquake in Haiti, so it's the darkest, saddest High Wolf track ever.” It’s a fittingly miasmic, climactic threnody.

Think of Atlas Nation as a surreal aural travelogue that takes a giant step beyond Jon Hassell’s Fourth World music, a humid milieu teeming with alien tonalities and oracular currents. It’s as welcome as a new, improved entheogen on the streets." holy mountain

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transcending

va ~ transcending (october, 2011)

01. gkfoes vjgoaf ~ a ritual
02. gkfoes vjgoaf ~ healing dream
03. wyld wyzrdz ~ in wonder
04. ashan ~ peace of joy
05. town & country ~ sleeping in the midday sun
06. wyld wyzrdz ~ through water through time
07. wyld wyzrdz ~ touching stars

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wind in willows

wind in willows ~ overall aura (6thplanet 2011)

"Wind in Willows is a solo project of Anton Filatov, from Republic of Karelia losted in swamps and forest in Russia, just near by the Finnish border. Childish synths, cutting your ear walls of guitar drones, and peacefull psychedely sometimes turning into new age. Overall Aura is an intimate work, free jams with friends, synth loops, and simple ambient passages"

dolphin synts, free jams...may clouds fly away!

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riviere amur

riviere amur ~ bois flotté (i had an accident 2011)

"riviere amur is inez lightfoot + je suis le petit chevalier = jackie mc dowell + félicia atkinson = two wandering foxes running wild together towards invisible lands"

"Bois Flotté is like discovering something unfamiliar through the familiar. An alternate perspective on reality. Side A begins with the familiar sound of the ocean, as meditative chants and slow tonal changes emerge from beneath. Crashing waves decrease in force as if Rivière Amur could calm the most violent of seas. Bells chime in the background, like a hypnotist signaling you in and out of consciousness. Don’t fight it. Forget everything you know and accept this new reality. Approach the world with a naïve eye, as if just born. All knowledge is now a priori. Disassociate objects around you from the names given to them. Focus on the aesthetics: shapes, color, and movement. What do you see? What do you hear? Whispered voices and chirping birds in the background have become nebulous and have fused with the droning soundscape. Familiar sounds have transformed into something new. Something radiant. Don’t fight it. You’re now ready for Side B." half hour handshake

qué ilusión formar parte de un disco tan bonito ^^

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gkfoes vjgoaf

gkfoes vjgoaf ~ healings (inner islands 2011)

"I'm writing to let you know that today I've released my last gkfoes vjgoaf album, Healings. It's a c30 cassette, pro-dubbed, beautiful glossy artwork. New Zealand forest images. I just want you all to know how special this release is to me. It's magick is straight from my heart and my desire to share love and good vibes with all. If you don't have a tape player, you can also download a digital version or stream it from the Inner Islands bandcamp page." sean conrad

"holding space for peace, light, and love."

to purchase physical releases visit inner islands and the gentle ways store, to listen to and purchase all tracks and albums digitally visit gkfoes vjgoaf bandcamp

healing dream (mp3)

secret birds

secret birds ~ moon clouds infinite (sonoptik 2011)

"We’ve been loosing ourselves here on the west-coast recently basking in the sweet fall sunshine and Secret Bird’s new jam, Moon Clouds Infinite. This new release marks a radical departure from earlier incarnations of the band. Having consisted of almost 30-band members in the past working on a revolving door basis, Secret Birds has and always will be the brain-child of one man, D.Black.

Across Moon Clouds Infinite we hear bollywood, hypnagogic, doom, pop, kraut and a host of other tags you could lay on this album, a thinking-man’s ambience, provocative but not distracting with the right amount of subtle shifts, abrupt changes and lulling melodies, we have a hunch at Sonoptik that D.Black is on the cusp of something big..." sonoptik

foto: robin mellway

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easy feelings

easy feelings ~ s/t (sicsic tapes 2011)

"Like the name suggests, Easy Feelings is intuitive & ethereal psychedelic ambient music to make love to or dream an autumnal afternoon away. It’s a collaboration of Love Cult & Bedroom Bear (Sergei Dmitriev, Anya Kuts & Ivan Afanasyev) from the Republic of Karelia, Russia. The mellow synthwaves, the dreamy voices & the trippy guitarplay of this trippy three piece channel your innermost emotional states of peace & balance." sicsic tapes

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breaking bad

"...I believe that actors love to act and sometimes what we miss is what is in between the words and what is in the silence. I chose to create this character in a minimalist way. I chose to give him a quiet, deadly calm. He really allows himself to be present and really it's like a self-study, in a way. He is a very, very good listener. For an actor, it can be more effective to work on one thing, not two or three things and do that one thing well, and then sometimes the flower opens in a very different way.

For me, it was to cultivate stillness and calm. It's hard for me also to use the word villain, because I think he is a real human being who really does care, but it was a really wonderful and a great challenge to drop myself to a point where I wasn't forcing anything. Everything came out of an organic place. It has been not only a wonderful exercise, but I think the fruits of my labor have shown because people have gotten him and are enjoying this character in a monumental way." giancarlo esposito aka gustavo 'gus' fring

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fennel

fennel ~ resuming the trail (pocket fields, 2011)

"Hours are leaves of life.

And I am their gardener.

Each hour falls down slow."

susan morrison

"Fennel is Franciscus Alex Rebro combining raw field recordings with partially improvised, partially composed music. This ongoing project began in the early part of 2010, with the debut album "A Leap Across A Chasm" released on Bandcamp in June of that year. This was followed up by the EP "Relics" in March 2011 and full-album "Resuming the Trail" in October 2011"

crecí en una habitación con una ventana que daba a un patio interior de paredes grises, recuerdo que tenía que alzar el cuello por la ventana para poder ver un poquito del cielo y hacerme una vaga idea del día que haría. los sábados por la mañana solían despertarme las notas de un piano que se colaban por ese patio interior, por la ventana, hasta llegar a la almohada. recuerdo que solía quedarme en cama soñando que esa música salía de mis dedos, imaginándome en conciertos rodeado de grandes filarmónicas, fracs, anteojos, vestidos imposibles y telones rojos. siempre he querido tocar el piano, soy de esos que se cuelan de vez en cuando en las tiendas de música para sentir las teclas aunque no tenga ni la menor idea de cómo hacerlas sonar con sentido.

esta mañana al abrir el correo me topé con un correo de franciscus rebro (aka fennel) invitándonos, a los que escribimos en el blog, a descubrir su música. al escuchar los sonidos anónimos de la ciudad salpicados con las notas del piano me acordé del piano de mi infancia y todo lo demás os lo podréis imaginar. la música como regresión y catarsis, reafirmando, una vez más, que la vida es un piano.

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emily lacy

emily lacy ~ country singer (self~released 2010)

"I grew up in the forest. I started drawing at a young age to entertain myself. around age 16 I began to focus heavily on the visual arts, particularly painting and film. I started playing guitar and writing songs at the age of 22. I believe in making committed and active performance environments where sound and vision are joined into a wild trance of human exchange.  Together, in our parade, we can make a way forward." emily lacy

"Country Singer is a brilliant record full of vibrant and dusty folk songs, following in the foot steps of the great country artists of our past. Eerily beautiful. recorded by Ezra Buchla (of Gowns)." folktale

foto: heiner luepke

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sandro perri

sandro perri - impossible spaces [constellation, 2011]

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"it is both a pleasure and a frustration to be at a loss of words when trying to express properly the wonderful, magical turns of a nearly perfect album. a pleasure for hearing, for being a lover of music, for having unequivocally a new master work with which to sink into. a displeasure for the ways in which the music magnifies your inadequacies as a writer. sandro perri's impossible spaces is performing this bitter-sweetness on me.

of course, for those operating outside of the hype machine, impossible spaces is simply a reprieve. an actual island where a listener can rest its ears and suck in the sweet goodness, relieved from the exhaustion of an industry clambering for the next big thing.

sandro perri likely is not the next big thing (not that he doesn't deserve to be). he's simply not young enough, for one. he's also not burrowed into the singularity of a strike-while-it's-hot genre explosion. perri's been around for awhile now, operating in various capacities for a decade's time. nope, they do not award 'next big thing' to individual's with perri's cv.

that decade-length experience is well exhibited on impossible spaces as perri's fluid, multi-layered songs cover a variety of sonic territory while maintaining a personality all its own. impossible spaces is soul music. flush with breezy, muscle relaxing jams and more introspective, tenderly rapturous moments, the album feels to me like a more successful version of the dirty projector's bitte orca, or a more focused version of skeleton's money. comparisons though do perri's work a disservice. this is a singular record that demands its own space. here's hoping perri finally gets his due." forest gospel

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meg baird

meg baird ~ seasons on earth (drag city 2011)

"...on “Friends” Baird sings “One day maybe I’ll buy myself an island and there with my friends you know I’d stay.” This may illustrate the best way to enjoy “Seasons on Earth.” You have to go away with it for a little bit."

otra dimensión

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salvador cresta & fabito andrade

M. M. Peres • Edu, The Trumpeter [self release, 2011]

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:: Recorded live during an afternoon at the home of Edu Gurdjieff, Mountains of Dhórcovah ::

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fotola: elliot michael fairhurst

corazón del tiempo

corazón del tiempo ::: by alerto cortés ::: 2008

“la película Corazón del Tiempo es una ventana que se asoma a ese mundo….para dejarse mirar como son, en una película campesina e indígena que se mete al corazón de un pueblo autónomo y nos muestra que los tiempos en las montañas del sureste mexicano están siendo ya muy otros.” corazón del tiempo

es complicado describir qué esperar de esta peli... por eso no pude evitar poner el trailer, dice más que yo. porque además de ser mexicana y de haber tenido la fortuna de haber estado en un caracol zapatista; hablar de los colores, los paisajes, la fotografía tan natural, tan de chiapas... todo esto emociona de más!... verle es sumergirse en el surrealismo que es méxico. es mirar por un cachito el día a día de una comunidad autónoma zapatista. es admirarse de la resistencia tan productiva que han tenido... otro mundo es posible, dicen... así son las historias de amor.



de la música... todavía traigo erizada la piel al escuchar las letras o al escuchar a niños zapatistas cantar, suena a selva, suena a tierra, suena a un sueño. recuerdo que después del primer viaje que hice a chiapas a una comunidad autónoma en compañía de una gran amiga. no volví a ser la misma. de eso estoy segura. lo mejor de ese viaje fue darme cuenta -gracias a los zapatistas- que aún hay esperanza. si existe gente tan real como ellos o los indígenas en general, hay esperanza. aún la hay me aferro a creer... ahí es donde méxico -tan sólo mencionar la palabra hace que arda la hérida- es el contraste puro. suceden hechos terribles a la vez que magia pura... la peli, los actores, el guión, la música y los sentimientos que emana el verla, hablan de esa otra realidad de otros que comparten este diverso mundo con nosotros... suspiro... la música se grabó en las comunidades zapatistas y los actores son también zapatistas rebeldes... se me salen las lágrimas.

corazón de tiempo ::: descemer bueno / kevis ochoa [zafra, 2008]

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p.s.
- el director de fotografía marc bellver merece un clap clap de esos lindos
- file under: i'm in love

lucky luke

lucky luke ~ simon of the desert (wee black skelf 7 inch vinyl 2003)

"Lucky Luke is the brainchild of folk overlord Simon Shaw and Morag Wilson, Falkirk's hottest librarian. As a two piece they contributed to many compilations with their dreamy folk inspired songs. Now they've grown into a mysterious and constantly evolving sixteen legged beast, with more wood, string, drone and funny noises than should be legally allowed. Their debut, Simon of The Desert, was described as 'enchanting'... They have also recorded a 7" featuring two Shirley Collins covers."

foto: neil krug

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nite lite

nite lite ~ marlene (stunned 2011)

"The boys are cut loose and Myste takes up the solo Nite Lite reins on her new peripatetic audio-tour ‘Marlene’. A tribeswoman from the black time of innocence discovers interdimensional gates within Nature. The sounds of forest animals, machines, and people mingle with subtler sounds welling up from the earth’s very core. All vibrations become indiscriminately suspended in her ear, their energies funneled from hidden brain glands into the alchemical chamber of her heart. It is from this activated place of love that ‘Marlene’ is captured, held for a while, then released back into the wild again. Keep your nite lite burning. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c36 tapes with double-sided jcard and insert." stunned

Phil & Myste, creadores del sello Stunned, también hacen maravillas como 'Marlene', field recordings que te transportan a lugares parecidos a los de stephen molyneux y sus grabaciones de campo camboyanas. húmedo, festivo y puro calm in trees que para colmo se llama marlene ^^

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(thanks to the radiant now for the 320kbps rip and the upload)

a winged victory for the sullen

a winged victory for the sullen ~ s/t (erased tapes/kranky 2011)

"A Winged Victory For the Sullen is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars of the Lid and The Dead Texan member Adam Wiltzie and composer Dustin OʼHalloran. The duo agreed to leave their normal home studio comfort zone and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, and to hunt down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies.

...The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic replicating ingemination. In “Requiem for the Static King Part 1″ they have taken the age old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of mellow bliss. Of the 13 minute track “Symphony Pathétique,” Wiltzie says “after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing”.

Guest musicians include Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir and violinist Peter Broderick. A Winged Victory is not a side project. This is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of." brainwashed/kranky

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larry sunshine rice

larry sunshine rice ~ here's sunshine (time lag lp 2011)

"Top quality official reissue of this wonderful album. This project is a bit different from other Time-Lag reissues, as the original isn't exactly a mega-rarity. That's not to say that they're easy to find, but our motives for the reissue have more to do with the fact that this great LP has been seriously overlooked by so many, and feels very ripe to reach some new ears. This one's got a pretty wild backstory too..." time~lag records

“Sunshine”…a name you will remember, especially if your bag in music is communication. It’s always refreshing to listen to an entertainer these days who does really have summat to say…and this guy Larry “Sunshine” Rice has a lot to talk about. He dabbled in various occupations such as landscaping, house painting and social work. Rice was also instrumental in founding the Satori House, a church mission sponsored by the Presbyterians of north east Texas. “Here’s Sunshine” presents his thoughts and ideas that have come from this well rounded background, like an artist completing his masterpiece.. There is no cluttered background interfering with his messages, no weird soundscapes to pass for talent. Just good old rootsy American folk/country songs. Here is an album you can take home and listen to, over and over again and each time you hear it you hear the simplicity of the songs that I guess is what “Sunshine” does best. Open your mind and let the “Sunshine” in" norman records

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caethua

 

caethua ~ the summer is over before it's begun (turned word 2011)

"Caethua is the project of Maine residents Clare Hubbard, now collaborating with Andy Neubauer.  As Caethua walks deeper and deeper into the fogged up landscape, they bring with them a Walter Carlos take on baroque tinged psyche folk, and post industrial tinted lenses for which to look through.   With a handful of releases under her belt on a variety of labels, The Summer Is Over is one of Hubbard's most realized works. Eight sonically perfect songs filled with heart-melting vocal melodies, and dream provoking lyrics. Tastefully accompanied by her piano, guitar, saxaphone and well placed soundscapes. She is joined on this record by the multi-instrumentalism of Andy Neubauer (Village of Spaces) who compliments this masterpiece with bass clarinet and cello." turned world

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wyld wyzrdz

wyld wyzrdz ~ from a stone (inner islands 2011)

"Braden J. Mckenna is also known as Wyld Wyzrdz and he is definitely some sort of sonic wizard. His sounds are so peaceful and soft and on his cassette “From A Stone” he guides you through places known and unknown. A blissful soundscape leads up to a flowing river, the stars emerge in the sky and you are left to contemplate." suave citation

alegría. excelso, glorioso, tela marinera, de la vida...y todos los adjetivos y expresiones que se nos ocurran. otro de los discos favoritos de este año, otra maravilla de Braden. touching stars!

foto: lukasz wierzbowski

"it will be for sale on cassette and digital download via Inner Islands on 9/26/2011", mientras:

mushroom river ceremony & touching stars

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jonnie common

jonnie common ~ master of none (red deer club 2011)

"He’s an affiliate of Inspector Tapehead, a former member of Down the Tiny Steps, and the sorcerer behind the recent Deskjob compilation, but Glasgow’s Jonnie Common finally takes to the spotlight with Master of None, his debut album – and what a lo-fi electro-folk wonder it is.
From existential casio-pop opener ‘Heir to the Throne’ to kung-fu cantata ‘Hand-Hand’, Master of None showcases Common’s vivid songwriting and production chops. The skewed-pop amble and harmonica swell of ‘Summer Is For Going Places’ is glorious; as is the sci-fi glow of ‘Photosynth’. You’ll forgive us for remarking, then, that Common is unique indeed." The List

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monster rally

monster rally ~ crystal ball (self~released 2011)

"This is potentially the most leisurely release of the year...Monster Rally is the brainchild of Cleveland, Ohio’s Ted Feighan. Piecing together vinyl samples of yesteryear’s chillest as if recalling a story, Monster Rally is all about loopy, fun collages that come to life as their own entities. As a nostalgic past glistens through each jam, you cannot shake the feeling that there is a full band playing; you can feel the spirit of long-lost souls letting their internal light shine through each carefree note. It is a testament to avid sample-collectors and space is the place-ers alike..." zen tapes

"Monster Rally sent over Crystal Ball, a collection of loop-based material that was recorded “in an unbelievably hot attic” during the Palm Reader sessions of July 2010. It’s intriguing to hear him work with more vocal-heavy samples with this record, which almost serves as a primer for the rest of his catalog. You can pick your price for these tropics on his bandcamp for a limited time only" dipped in dollars

"...Ted Feighan creates an atmosphere that’s light, fun, sand between the toes fresh. It’s hip-hop, stylistically lo-fi, and Beach Boy madness. Really takes the mind off of nonverbal postures that elicit dominant interviewing techniques and puts me on the beach hoping to catch a sunset." 

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je suis le petit chevalier

je suis le petit chevalier ~ discovering mathematics 2 (no kings 2011)

"This prolific triple-threat talent (artist, writer and musician) from Belgium has graciously allowed No Kings to handle 42 minutes of her chance operation / intuitive sound collage work, after a myriad of releases on such underground institutions as Digitalis, Stunned, and Kaugummi. “Discovering Mathematics II” is warm, spacious, and immersive, and is treated with the same emphasis on process, openness and relationships between elements as her visual art..." no kings

"Je Suis le Petit Chevalier a.k.a. Félicia Atkinson is in your dreams. Her latest output lies peaceably at rest, with long willowy swathes of synth feedback, barely discernable utterances, saturated synth strings, pan-fried electric guitar treatments, diaphonous kitchen sink clatter--all flooding the long hall of consciousness with a tank of vicks vabor rub and a barrel of absinthe. Be at peace and try not to move too much and you may just start to float up into the ether yourself." impose magazine

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guanaco ±

guanaco ± ‘ardea cinerea’ (sweat lodge guru 2011)

 "A new Guanaco ± tape has surfaced on Sweat Lodge Guru Records. ‘Ardea Cinerea’ is a 4 track e.p put together in the early stages of the year." lex panayi

"An absolutely stunning set of songs, shades and threads of color arranged in an impeccable and dense tapestry of sound. Bedroom psych for those who travel while sitting stationary between four walls. Limited to 100 pro-dubbed cassettes with vellum inserts." sweat lodge guru

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moonwood

moonwood ~ river ghosts (arachnidiscs 2011)

"Subtitled Music For Water Borne Disease, these instrumental tracks wind like a river through far eastern modes and southwestern reverb. Multi-instrumentalist Jakob Rehlinger layers bowed strings, Romanian lap harp and gourd flute over fuzzy psyche-guitar and ethnic percussion, bells and gongs vaguely woven together by Taoist mysticism and modern day beards... ritual chants and soft-spoken tales about death and small woodland animals." arachnidiscs

foto: nicolette polek

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cankun

cankun ~ ethiopian dreams (hands in the dark 2011)

"Cankun will honour Hands in the Dark Records of its very first album release with its "Ethiopian Dreams" full length. The beach, idle, psychedelic melodies, piña coladas, burning hot sand, exotic rhythms, a blazing sun, an enchanting voice..." hands in the dark

"Here's a side-wack to the head from Archers by the Sea and Monks of the Balhill guru Vincent Caylet, called Cankun. Think of Ethiopian Dreams as a chorus of guitars that specialize in sparkly hi-end fragments and tell tale elements of drug music: shimmering psych texture, odd harmonic sense, gently lilting beats looping ad infinitum...Cankun will get you high off the glitter" impose

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cannibal movie

cannibal movie ~ avorio (sound of cobra 2011)

"Cannibal Movie is a sub genre of exploitation films made mostly by Italian filmmakers through the 1970s and 1980s. This sub genre is a collection of graphically gory movies that usually depict cannibalism by primitive, Stone-age natives deep inside the Asian or South American rain forests.

Cannibal Movie is also a duo from south of Italy, exponents of new rising Italian avant-garde music scene.

They play drums and a old italian organ and their sound is a mix of obscure psychedelia, hypnotic tribalism and ecstatic magic tunes." sound of cobra

"Incredibly promising debut release from Italian organ and drums duo, Cannibal Movie, whose membership includes super-continental soundmaker, and Sturmundrugs honch, Donato Epiro and Gaspare Microwave With Marge / Lemming Records. This also marks a fine start for the brand new, Berlin-based Sound of Cobra label.

Cannibal Movie deal in heavy hypno-psych pound, with plenty of ability to conjure suspense and swing no less. It’s as if Religious Knives went batshit crazy, ate their guitarist, and continued on as a band..." foxy digitalis

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imposible resistirse al hechizo de avorio, y es que tiene demasiadas cosas que nos gustan..

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laughing eye weeping eye

laughing eye weeping eye • where snakes & seers go
[hairy spider legs, 2011]

"Laughing Eye Weeping Eye performances are akin to watching a vaudevillian story-teller in a medieval church gospel singers, gnomes, and goats. Bandmates in this lifetime and gurus in another, Chicagoans Rebecca Schoenecker and Patrick Holbrook create a multi-faceted experience that incorporates harmonium, looped vocals, toy instruments, visuals, and effects. Inspired by folk music and spiritual singing, LEWE creates songbooks for audience members so that they may sing along. On occasion, the bliss of this act has held to singing in tongues." laughing eye weeping eye

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ya está. he encontrado la solución perfecta para ser un personaje de un cuento. en una historia donde las palabras celebración, comunidad, juego, encanto, pócima y paseo dan color a los sonidos que hace que lo irreal sea realidad... es que así suena esto, y mientras más escucho siento que ya me crece una cola, unos lindos cuernos, me comienzo a retorcer, a aplaudir pero sobretodo qué ganas de maullar. miau!

fotola: ana noble

smokey feather

smokey feather • arbore en la cresta

[luzzzalig, microphones in the trees, 2011]

spacey improvisations dedicated to spacey ones:
rafa aka arbore & salvador cresta
recorded the nights of july 16 & 17, 2011.
san miguel de allende, méxico.

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::: a volar, cual pluma en el humo :::
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wyld wyzrdz

wyld wyzrdz ~ positive texture (moondial 2011)

"When I started recording as Wyld Wyzrdz I was in a much different place than I am now. The albums between 2008-2009 were made quickly and represent an exploration of sound, an era of figuring things out. In late 2009 my life began to shift rather drastically, and by early 2010 I was a new human. As a result the world of the wizard evolved with me. My intention for making these recordings changed and Wyld Wyzrdz became more of a reflective practice, a space for sharing my inner journey. The beginnings of these changes can be heard with the Antelope Island 7” and Positive Texture c45, while Free Magick is the full embodiment of my newness. After further exploration with From a Stone and Acceptance I found myself at a place of peace with Wyld Wyzrdz and a feeling of letting go has come to me. After these albums are released I will continue my journey as Coyote Dreamer." braden j mckenna

"...all of McKenna's work reflects the quiet passion and sincerity that can easily be overlooked by his enigmatic creative process. It doesn't matter how the music was made. Wyld Wyzrdz and all of the other channels McKenna inhabits exhibit experimentalism and artistic expression in a very digestible form. Relax, meditate, cleanse your nostrils..." inyourspeakers

me gusta su expresión de absoluta felicidad. gracias, braden

owl photo: ramona flume

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paavoharju

paavoharju ~ ikkunat näkevät (fonal 2011)

"...Ikkunat näkevät EP is a collection of rare and unreleased tracks with a first appetizer - its title track. Ikkunat näkevät belongs to their slower, more dreamy tracks, but still, more accessible in the way Laulu was. It features grieving, lamenting vocal with roots in Finland’s rural folklore. Its clear structure and slow build are nicely interconnected with Paavoharju’s usage of classical instruments - piano and violin - which make this more a classical folk ballad than band’s typical electro-acoustic experiment. Ikkunat näkevät is a nice introduction to Paavoharju’s calmer and more romantic soul." tomas slaninka

foto: Joanna Pallaris

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gkfoes vjgoaf

gkfoes vjgoaf ~ nature eternal striving (inner islands 2011)

"This album is a reflection of my new-found intimacy with the water on our planet and within us. Previously I never felt a deep connection with water. I had a fear of drowning as a child. And I never really resonated with the color blue. All of this pretty much changed after Rosa and I moved rooms in a cooperative house. Our new room had only light blue, teal-ish walls. I thought I wanted to repaint at first, but after living in there a couple days it really grew on me. A lot of new songs and textures came out of living in that room. Very soon after, though, we traveled to New Zealand to do Wwoofing. New Zealand is one of the wettest countries and is home to the second wettest landscape (Fiordland) on Earth.

I worked on the rest of the album there and I very consciously felt like I’d never been so in love with the water. I swam in the ocean naked, after not having swum at all for years. I even got a blue hat to work in. My body is mostly water. It is pretty much the essence of thriving life on this planet. I also started thinking about how water works and moves. It is always moving, if it can… effortlessly though. It has no aversion. And it has no point of arrival. For me the songs on this record all resonate with particular forms that water takes. And, of course, whatever you perceive is equally valid. That’s where I’m coming from." sean conrad

suenan teclados y se intuyen, lejanos, efectos de murmullos y agua. es 'wholeyness', un nuevo viaje de sean conrad aka gkfoes vjgoaf, la inspiración infinita

foto: ruhnay ackerman

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river friends (mp3)

clouds glide through me (mp3)

stag hare

stag hare ~ spirit canoes (hands in the dark 2011)

"Strange crossroad towns on top of the world rolled by, with shawled Indians watching us from under hatbrims and rebozos. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the backmountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it. " J. Kerouac

"Following her very noteworthy first album (Black Medecine Music, 2008), Stag Hare has joined us at the dawn of her second opus, Spirit Canoes. 4 titles make up 40 minutes of folk, drone, psyche played in a slow motion by this barefoot uninhibited free-spirit..." hands in the dark

"stag hare was raised mostly by wolves in the northern woods many hundreds of years ago, she has been traveling the path for many of the years since with frequent and extended stops along the way for food and tea. her favorite color is purple. she enjoys lavender, dancing, and decadent celebratory feasts. as the princess of her forest you may find her patrolling amongst the chattering ferns or perhaps sleeping away lifetimes lost in a mossy dream."

"Stag Hare seemingly lives that bohemian way on her own quest for truth (follow his beautiful travelin’ photos on Tumblr) and writes the soundtrack from her barefoot heart, a true traveling troubadour.  Get this among four songs on cd or wait for it on vinyl from Inner Islands in August." yvynyl

filed under: criaturas celestiales

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asha moon canoes (mp3)
to coyoto to hop (mp3)