braden j mckenna

braden j mckenna ~ surfs down smile up (moondial, 2012)

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mientras, un botón de muestra, otra delicatessen luminosa y cristalina con inconfundible sabor inner islands...kaliska goes to the beach, o a la isla del antílope, y al encuentro se unen stag hare, gkfoes y beach boys. supongo que aquí es donde se acaban las palabras, lo mejor es bajar y tararear la preciosa guider, pero preciosa de verdad, que braden nos deja en su página de soundcloud

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"Guider will you guide me?
There's is no trail to see,
And I just wanna go somewhere.

The guider told me
There is no path to see
And your going nowhere.

Healer will you heal me?
There's someone I need to be
But I"m not sure who.

The Healer told me
There's no one you should be
Listen to your heart."

willie lane

willie lane ~ guitar army of one, lp (cord-art, 2012)

"...Willie Lane remains one of the most unique string thinkers, forging links with mv & ee, Joshua Burkett, Steve Gunn and Grant Acker from Un, with whom he shares the Slurp Dogs duo. Lane has an odd, skewered vision of the potential for endlessly over-dubbed steel strings to open up new vectors of sound and thought, and here he lays down weird, repeat chord sequences and then bisects them with screaming lead guitar and odd, melancholy night-time movements that will have you pulling out Neil Young’s Dead Man soundtrack and Misato Minami’s 1971 side The Tropics. as with all of Lane’s material there’s a subtle humour in the titles, “Imaginary Labelmate”, “Spaghetti Eastern”, “Rare Psych For Wayne” but the overall atmosphere is lugubrious, haunted, seemingly bled straight to four-track in the early hours. indeed, the set almost feels like a Japanese cousin of Matthew Valentine’s experiments in Spectrasound, with a tone that matches the raging iconoclasm of Masayuki Takayanagi and Takashi Mizutani while wrapping the whole thing up in a form of supremely lonesome blues and hermetic tone poetry that has little parallel outside of some of the foggier Loren Connors material...." volcanic tongue

instrumentales desde el otro lado de la luna, un viajero del tiempo sumergido en las raíces profundas de los trovadores de campos de algodón, spectradsound, rural psych, amaneceres anaranjados... willie lane ha vuelto a ganar mi corazón. hasta los silbidos suenan lunares e ingrávidos, de un mundo paralelo, el del niño de los microtonos o del inolvidable yogur caducado de plexiglas. si le añadiéramos la voz de keith wood tal vez sería ese disco de hush arbors con el que me gustaría reencontrarme, lo que fueron, lo que nunca deberían haber dejado de ser

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Poliedro

Poliedro ~ La Manifestación (Self-Released, 1965? 2012?)

Me alegró mucho haber "Detectado" a Poliedro en la confusa Tela-de-Araña de la Inter-Red. En el momento en que escuché su álbum "La Manifestación" y descubrí su Trabajo Gráfico, supe que no me había encontrado con "Alguien", sino mas bien con "Un-Lugar" que es habitado por muchos espíritus y que se hace llamar Poliedro por una cuestión de practicidad. Conversamos, y refiriéndonos a esto, Poliedro me dijo:  

No soy músico, no soy artista, no soy ingeniero ni científico. Soy “Una Capacidad”, igual que todos, como cualquiera.

El cuerpo de Poliedro se desliza por entre los pasillos y las aberturas de uno de esos conglomerados de ladrillos, cables, salchichas, automóviles y pelo que las personas convinieron en llamar “Ciudades”; mas precisamente en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile. Me cuenta que pasa la mayor parte del tiempo en su departamento, y que cuando sale es para pasear en bicicleta siempre por el mismo lugar. La canción que abre el disco, Trasladación, la grabó allí, entre algunas otras:

A la izquierda vive un loco solo; una vez coincidimos abriendo las puertas al mismo tiempo; en esta conversación imprevista me pregunta qué es lo que siempre suena desde acá. Yo le dije que mi música, y lo invité a que viera el lugar y cómo se hacía. Después vino la señora de al lado, de unos 60 años. Me vino a decir que tocara todo lo que quisiera porque le gustaba. Siempre estoy improvisando. Mis amigos me dicen que toque en vivo y todo eso, pero no me interesa replicar algo que ya pasó para un público que lo que busca es “Distracción”.

Le pregunté qué opinión tenía acerca de los esqueletos de los colibríes, y me dijo que jamás había podido llegar a una conclusión. Creo que tendría que haber mas "Poliedros" y menos dentistas.

Me atrajo mucho "La Manifestación" de Poliedro. Pueden descargar su disco gratuitamente y, de paso, enviarle un correo electrónico de agradecimiento que lo incentive a seguir haciendo lo que hace, ¿No les parece? Un Poliedro jamás podría ser Un Policía, de modo que cada Poliedro en este Planeta representa un NO-Policía, y ese es el Mayor Milagro Terrestre Posible. Hagamos Música Inspiradora. Bebamos disfrazados de pájaros, junto al fuego, en las montañas, en las playas.

¡Sweet Home Everywhere!

Photo by Poliedro

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calypso borealis /carter mullin / banana pill / bandicoot trail

calypso borealis & carter mullin ~ xelim/parotia mold (house of sun, 2011)

"Calypso Borealis provides some more mysterious synth/field recording mixes that provide a further enhancing to the projects small yet encapsulating discography that includes stellar offerings on Housecraft, and Cloud Valley. Carter Mullin (Reedbeds, Calypso Hum) handed me some beautifully thoughtful and personal recordings in Parotia Mold. a glimpse of Carter's warm guitar tone float that strengthens his young, fresh ideas in the ever-flowing self released underground ocean." house of sun

foto: shannon sheezy

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bandicoot trail ~ hocus focus (fadeaway tapes, 2012)

"long-distance collaboration between scott johnson (thoughts on air, organ of species) and carter mullin (reedbeds). the details emerge as the controls of the audio filtration system are set to “submerge.” pro-printed, pro-duplicated, edition of 60." fadeaway tapes

foto: luke byrne

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banana pill ~ s/t (full of nothing, 2012)

"Banana Pill’s compositions may seem fragile but in fact each is a fortress of calm. this is herbal music. for everyone looking for the sweetest drones and peaceful vibes here’s the self-titled statement from the duo. made of toys, guitar, synths, violin and voice. float easy." full of nothing

foto via vintage printable

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golden donna

golden donna ~ pour resnais (signal dreams, 2012)

golden donna me hace recurrir a adjetivos siempre repetitivos y aburridos, pero es que los primeros minutos de 'resnais' y 'healer cells', con ese sintetizador etéreo y planeador acercándose poco a poco en un crescendo sostenido, son tan....¡bonitos! consiguen transmitir esa melancolía indescriptible muy parecida a  'many moons' de former selves (siempre ellos, es inevitable) o 'blue orange' de j. hanson (siempre él, también es inevitable). empieza y acaba sin que te des cuenta, apenas dieciocho minutos de viaje, pero el resultado desprende una luz tan suave, cálida y mágica que incluso diría que, si hiciéramos por fin una lista con lo mejor del año, joel shanahan sería uno de los primeros en asomar el patuco

foto: lauren treece

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mark mcguire

mark mcguire ~ another dead end ep (self-released, 2011)

"my unreleased "another dead end" ep contains the first incantation of the song "another dead end" off of my new record, "Get Lost", at that time known as "the body in question", as well as five other unreleased tracks mainly using guitar with no delay effects or loops, save the guitar~synth drifter "absolutely". calm mornings receiving terrible news, saying goodbye to dear friends, and other summer colors dedicated to the late great G Unit: Grady and Geordie" mark mcguire

miniatura de seis canciones inéditas que tal vez no vean nunca la luz de forma oficial. 'another dead end' es un disco personal, inacabado, en el que mark macguire escribe casi para sí mismo, habla de terribles noticias que llegan de forma inesperada una mañana cualquiera, de despedirse para siempre de pequeños amigos que nunca olvidará, grady y geordie, que ya tienen su homenaje en forma de canciones imborrables como 'pond of two frogs' o 'so gradie said to geordie (ey, old pal)'. cosas tan bonitas, y especiales, no aparecen cada día. sin parecerse, me hacen pensar en los instrumentales sin principio ni fin de 'person pitch' de reedbeds o los loops que transmuteo ofrecen de vez en cuando en su página de soundcloud

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brother ong

brother ong ~  mysteries of the shahi baaja volumes 1 & 2 ~ ong sweet ong & the perfumed dragon (self~released, 2012)

"...my wife, in her infinite understanding of me and my inner workings, gifted me a shahi baaja for my 34th birthday and permitted me to forget all I had done before and to recreate myself. her words surged through me like an electrical current and immediately opened up a new path of creativity for me. I had no notions about the shahi baaja. It was a mystery to me. I returned once again to a space of experimentation, deep listening, focus, pure sound and pure creativity. I was practicing a daily bowing meditation during this recording session. I would bow in reverence to creation for half an hour and then pick up my instrument and the sound and creation just flowed through." mike tamburo~brother ong

cuerdas con magia...las canciones no suenan, flotan ~

filed under: ambient american raga drone earth music psych Pittsburgh

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cubs

cubs ~ the whispering woods (rusted rail, 2011)

"Cubs are a Irish avant garde little mini supergroup, drawn from Englands homebrew underground. Featuring members of United Bible Studies and Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon among others, and guest slots from Cwk Joynes and Plinth's Michael Tanner, The Whispering Woods drinks heavily from English folk tradition, albeit steered in a bucolic atmosphere that recalls British outsiders Movietone. Here, fragile, hesitantly plucked guitars, rough-riding vocal incantations, delicate skeins of Ebow drone, and raspy accordion gather under a Northern Sky. A splendid album of pastoral folk with a late night dreamlike ambience and some intriguing spoken word samples." uncut

todo lo bueno se hace esperar, ¿os acordáis del tacto rugoso de stonewater? 'the whispering woods' sigue siendo igual de bonito, alternando canciones que fluyen naturales como agua del río con breves interludios de inconfundible aroma irlandés, british folk bucólico de la pradera, cielos lluviosos y montañas de verdes aterciopelados, una de las muchas joyas de rusted rail. la última canción, muy hala strana, es un bonus track de veintitrés deliciosos minutos. ñam!

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monster rally & rumtum

monster rally & rumtum ~ sunbay hotel/walter's jam 7'' (self~released, 2012)

"just months off the heels of its collaborative debut, mr&rt, the duo of Monster Rally & Rumtum (a.k.a. Ted Feighan and John Hastings) is back with a new offering. on their new digital single, "Sunbay Hotel," the cross-continental producers assimilate genres like tropicalia and lounge into their beat-heavy production, opening with jangly and warm instrumentation that slowly gives way to vibes straight out of an old James Bond flick. but don't get it twisted~the rhythms at the core of Monster Rally & Rumtum's new tune are still unabashedly hip-hop." xlr8r

de cabeza, siempre. aunque sólo sean dos canciones (que crecen y revelan nuevos e infinitos matices en sucesivas escuchas, james bond! en 'sunbay hotel', silbidos deslizándose por tu imaginación y cascada de campanillas que se parecen a las de 'you & i part I & II' de fleetwood mac en 'walter's jam'), un verano sin monster rally, con o sin rumtum,  no es un verano. pocos discos nos gustan tanto en microphones como los de ted feighan, cuya estela, clima, vibraciones, texturas y buen gusto pueden rastrearse en tantos y tantos discos que han aparecido desde aquel exuberante y simpático stop motion con frutas tropicales propulsadas al aire desde lugares inverosímiles. la guinda sería acompañarlas con el último disco de peaking lights, ¿son 'live love' y 'walter's jam' las canciones más bonitas y refrescantes del mundo?  

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hoot owl

hoot owl ~ untitled cassette (azriel, 2011)

"treetop moon hollers and american primitive star gobbling, bedroom gagaku and cold hardy foole-jazz techniques. folk music for wherever arthur doyle or little howlin wolf were the ‘new’ pete seeger. bongos, voice, wood flute, triangle. screen printed nightime covers with hand lettered text, numbered edition of 112… new solo project from rafi bookstaber of death chants & aswara." time~ lag

"beautifully zonked collection of contemporary primitive folk song with a stoned cultic aspect that would realign the kinda communal ugh of the original Amon Duul collective with the kosmische Americana of Tower Recordings and the lucid Wildman-isms of Sir Arthur Doyle." volcanic tongue

foto: kelli eileen

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raajmahal

raajmahal ~ raajmahal (kelippah, 2012)

"It's a mournful processional as guitar notes and gentle echo match the timbre of weeping voices. this is cast-your-body-on-the-casket shades of slobbery meditation, though the Eastern influence finds Raajmahal resembling the overcrowded Ganges rather than a stuff funeral plot. you'll bathe in it alongside floating bodies, as they wade in centuries of bones, flesh and sacrifice. I want to turn to ash with Raajmahal guiding me to eternal light. Raajmahal is Carla Baker (Baba Yaga, Flower Orgy), Pat Murano (nnck, Decimus) and Santa Wolanczyk (Flower Orgy)." tiny mix tapes

si echas de menos a bethany y amanda tanto como yo, raajmahal comparte con ellas esa ambientación opaca que cubría bajo una niebla espesa todas sus canciones, voces atmosféricas y narcóticas, una producción bajo mínimos y su amor por fleetwood mac. como hicieron best coast en su último disco, carla, pat y santa rinden homenaje a stevie, lindsey, christine, mick y john con una irreconocible versión de 'dreams', hit de hits, que cala muy hondo y se convierte en la canción más triste del mundo. tan triste y bonita como 'unknown metals', tan envolvente como siempre lo fue 'silk folk traveler'. ...y he mencionado que además hacen una versión de 'some things just stick in your mind' de vashti bunyan?

foto: luke byrne

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lester brown

 lester brown ~ hauntology (self~released, 2011)

"you like this voice for its honest tone. the highs and lows, the sad jazz, lo fi, some whispers in your ear just like sneaking into rooms and hunting for someone’s hidden journal. you slip into the haunting familiar world of Lester Brown, where nighttime bike rides blend into rainy days by the lake and someone breathes sweet cigarette smoke nearby. how did it get to midnight already? you ask yourself. forget the time. slide open your bedroom window, feel the breeze blow in, and let the golden sounds of Lester Brown wash over you once again."

qué alegría volver a saber de lester brown...'hauntology' conserva parte del encanto tropical y el halo parasails que desprendía el pequeño gran 'islomania'. escucharlo es como reencontrarse con una vieja amiga a la que hace tiempo que no ves, y con tan sólo cruzar un par de palabras sabes que todo sigue igual. y donde digo palabras quiero decir un par de canciones: 'i forget a lot' y 'chloe carbonate'. sigue habiendo ese clima ensoñador y despreocupado, canciones cortitas e idílicas, sintetizadores de baja fidelidad, siempre combinados con la facilidad melódica de lester brown para transformarlo todo en pop luminoso de andar por casa. esa chispa destartalada de los primeros discos de pavement y las playas soleadas de matt mondanile. lester exprime al máximo la ventaja de ser pequeño, se conforma con poder autopublicarse via bandcamp bajo el nombre de lester brown o proyectos paralelos tan deliciosos como 'soundtrack to a bike ride' de ua. no pide más.

foto: kyle scully

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sun cycles

sun cycles ~ home (bilogical radio, 2012)

"in honor of the four~year anniversary of our very first date, we've decided to put up a free download for friends and fellow music lovers. Sun Cycles is our own new family collaboration, and our very first tape, Home, was a secret Biological Radio release that we sent to a handful of friends in January 2012, a release that is no longer secret nor available in its original cassette format. the album is made up of seven tracks that we wrote together in a new territory where modal forest jams meet electrical currents at sunrise. all songs recorded by Matt & Jackie around the hearth.

Sun Cycles is Matt McDowell (lap steel, guitar, bass, piano, percussion) and Jackie McDowell aka Inez Lightfoot (mountain dulcimer, voice, keyboard, tapes, guitar, percussion).

click here to download Sun Cycles ~ Home. cheers!"

aquí, la entrevista de rachel evans a jackie (que además de inez lighfoot, sun cycles y waterfinder es la otra mitad de rivière amur junto a félicia atkinson aka je suis le petit chevalier)

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x.y.r.

x.y.r. ~ robinson crusoe (lost soundtrack) (singapore sling tapes, 2012)

released 07 July 2012

analog synth formanta-mini

~~except synthbass for track #10~~

pedal effects, loop station, mic, field rec

la banda sonora perdida de robinson crusoe...estoy soñando, o un astronauta ruso ha leído nuestros pensamientos. roy orb d.mt, buchikamashi, panabrite, j.d. emmanuel, ken seeno, jürgen müller, joel vandroogenbroeck, robert rich, 2muchachos, miaux ('rescue of prisoners from cannibals')! uf...la mejor de las sorpresas es recibir en nuestro correo como por arte de magia  ese disco de belleza ilimitada, hecho a medida, al que le das diez mil estrellas antes de escucharlo y veinte mil después. gracias vladimir karpov. unas siglas misteriosas, la música, las etiquetas, nubes de teclados vaporosos y el mar lleno de corales, una portada que promete como lo hacía la de komodo haunts, la paz tropical que transmite, el título, los títulos que funcionan como una especie de cuaderno de bitácora, envolviendo y diciéndonos lo fácil y agradable que sería sobrevivir en una isla desierta si tuviéramos este disco a mano. ¿declaramos inaugurado el verano?

filed under: ambient analog synth beach calm chill drift glo-fi minimal synth relaxation soundtrack sunny tropical wave

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árbore

 entrevista a rafa~árbore y un agradable paseo por su discografía en el programa de radio intangible 23. la voz detrás del nombre :)  razón, aquí

y aquí una selección de sus chansons favorindas para un periódico de canarias. chin chin, pequeño indisoluble

y...tal vez no viene a cuento, o sí, pero hace tiempo que quería dejar esto aquí. como homenaje, recuerdo, triste, alegre, bonito,...a ti, a ella, a él...el perro más bueno y más feliz del mundo, yanyido yanyi

mattia coletti

 mattia coletti ~ land (wallace/towntone, 2012)

"The Land is Mattia Coletti’s new album, after the first solo album Zeno, Zeno Submarine and Pantagruele. Recently, even a 7 “shared with Comaneci and Japan’s Muffin, published in 2010 by the american North Pole Records. 

Produced by Wallace in collaboration with Bloody Sound Fucktory and Towntone, The Land is a mature record that comes after years of concerts around the world. The Land sums up a basic primitive blues, elegant and simple, with a refined taste for details, a constant game of mirrors between the guitars. Avant folk or ritual blues, or more simply: never ostentatious melody which merges with a psychedelic background. The Land is a distant land, timeless." wallace

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mattia coletti ~ zeno submarine (towntone, 2007)

"After his first visit to Japan in Fall '06 as a member of the experimental noise duo, Polvere, Mattia Colleti returned to Japan in Fall '07 for his own solo tour. Making his way across Japan, he played shows in Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Nagano, Kobe, Yamagata, and Kamakura among others. TownTone is proud to offer what could be called the culmination of Mattia's musical genius, his newest album "Zeno Submarine". Don't miss the chance to experience this primitive, folksy yet freaky masterpiece." towntone

 

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fotos: alicia petgrave & joe skilton

muffin

 muffin ~ last apple (cgcg publishing, 2011)

"A lovely collection of bedroom-recorded folk-pop from Japan's Muffin. Gossamer fragile and tinged with melancholy, this is just gorgeous ~ gentle harmonies, acoustic guitar, melodica and keyboard. her favorite songwriters: Syd Barrett, Judee Sill, Elliott Smith, Sibylle Baier." boa melody bar

amor eterno, larga vida, alabada sea...seguro que no soy la única que esperaba como agua de mayo nuevas canciones de nuestra japonesa con alma brasileña, y corazón italiano y finés, favorita. un disco bonito siempre es un disco bonito, y last apple lo es como ninguno. sencillo y bonito. especialmente si recuerdas con cariño tane, folklore y grapes, y si te gustan ruth garbus, jennifer castle, tender buttons, lau nau, cabinet of natural curiosities, pantaleimon, sibylle baier y las canciones de stan getz & astrud gilberto. le acompaña mattia coletti y casi puedo imaginarlos sentados uno frente al otro, sonriéndose y arropándose mientras tocan sus guitarras...y nosotros dejándonos envolver por ellos. nada de lo que pueda decir haría justicia a nanas, que no canciones, como 'soft sounds' o 'late winter'

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de regalo tres 'samples' de tres versiones como tres soles:

all i ever wanted ~ meg baird

the new sane scramble ~ jana hunter

on the low ~ hope sandoval & the warm inventions

harpoon pole vault / orbless

harpoon pole vault ~ bipolar adjustment procedure (house of sun, 2010)

"Jason E Anderson of Gift Tapes, Brother Raven, Spare Death Icon and more lays out some killer vibes on the Micromoog, recorded direct to cassette for distinct elk fidelity." house of sun

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 orbless ~ ruin machine (beach house, 2010)

"Ruin Machine is the third release from Orbless, the solo sonic explorations of Collin McKelvey. created entirely with modular synthesizers and analog delay and rhythm machine, Colin takes the listener on a slow journey through deep space. two side-long tracks usher the listener into a contemplative space where their imagination can bring up a multitude of scenarios. Ruin Machine was created with the idea of the man made objects  slowly decaying in orbit around the solar system." beach house

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beru / adam beckley

beru & adam beckley ~ split tape (armed within movement, 2012)

Fledgling label Armed Within Movement modestly launches with this split of ethereal drone. Jessica Collins’ Beru project haunts the first side of this tape with disembodied vocals, spaced out textures, and lighter-than-air harp loops. Collins opens the 10-minute suite with her isolated voice calling directly for angels to sing over her. After only a brief minute, atmospheric tones are picked out of nowhere and channel through her soft harp playing. Melodies reverberate without gravity, much like Noah Lennox and Scott Mou’s defunct Jane project. It’s a hypnotic lull that rushes by all too quickly.

Adam Beckley’s “The Day You Heal” oddly compliments Beru’s otherworldly transcendence with barely any vocals and without any immediately recognizable instrumentation. It’s pure, oceanic drone that doesn’t confuse the issue with unnecessary frill or distractions. The piece builds at a slow and headstrong pace with only the most necessary washes of noise and power. As the cloud of noise recedes to let in Beckley’s vocals, a melancholic dirge similar to Growing’s sublime “Freedom Towards Death.” You succumb to the fate. Beckley doesn’t seem to have much out yet so far, so hopefully he keeps this up." foxy digitalis

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lichen gumbo

lichen gumbo ~ zoom zoom ohm umpha (full of nothing, 2012)

"Lichen Gumbo is a rock’n'roll duo from unmapped rural Finland, where mystical muddy swamps and aurora borealis lit skylines mix with low signal sitcoms from overseas. no time for mumbo jumbo, just straight forward shredding here. these songs are about existential longing for god forsaken roadhouses and weird bohemian parties. Lichen Gumbo is the sound of blasting through the dusty roads of Savo with Pappa-Tunturi. recorded with dictaphones, tape decks, a reel to reel machine and an mp3 player bought from Lidl. from the damaged minds of Olli Aarni (Nuojuva, Ous Mal) and Ville Oinonen (Vo Motars, Tanec Hrac). Blue see-through tapes with full-colour J-cards designed by Anya Kuts. Edition of 100." fon

recuerdo aquel post, tiempo ha, en el que adrián nos descubría el snow-folk de ous mal, y desde entonces y de forma recurrente no puedo evitar escuchar y seguir los pasos de olli aarni. lo que hace a lichen gumbo tan especial como nuojuva, aún siendo tan distintos, es su belleza inexplicable, ese clima indescriptible, el toque mágico, la sensación de atemporalidad.

zoom zoom ohm umpha suena a clásico sin serlo, y me recuerda a the fall y the lyres versión crepuscular. hay desvaríos psicodélicos, wow wows, guitarras anti-folk, canciones cortas y pequeñitas que se mezclan de forma caprichosa con el universo ducktails vs gorky's zygotic mynci y con sonidos más orgánicos y bucólicos: el trino de los pájaros, el kikirikí de gallos vespertinos y  el eco celestial de unas voces que viven y juegan en el mismo bosque encantado de matthew himes. pero sobre todo me recuerda a los discos de wild gunmen y the cherry blossoms (the hank tapes!), ése es el espíritu, naif, crujiente, nashville, casi infantil. 'orange myrtle' me hace sonreir de felicidad, tan bonita, lisérgica, radiante. 'goggles' es absolutamente keijo virtanen y unos rambling boys entusiasmados y acelerados. 'bertha', de temperatura cálida y acogedora, es danzarina, optimista y tropical, aunque mi corazón pertenece a 'swampaye', bonita con mayúsculas, única e irrepetible. pero ojo a las guitarras macguire~julian lynch de 'typical dreamer'. zoom zoom es como un cuento para niños, dibuja paisajes tropicales pero con ruidos de fondo, es cavernoso y al mismo tiempo ensoñador, es travieso e inmediato como el primer disco de ganglians. es jangle pop, es jangle folk, garage atmosférico, lo-fi, surf, new wave...pero ante todo es exaltación y felicidad

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sundrips

sundrips ~ dream studies (koppklys, 2012)

"for the first Sundrips release of twenty twelve, Montréalais Ryan Connolly and Nick Maturo offer a set of six tracks cut during the same era that gave us last year's very excellent Just A Glimpse cd. Dream Studies is essentially split right down the middle in terms of tone, with the A side offering huge waves of almost punishing synth drones, and the B side acting as its counterpart, calming things down with long, drawn-out waves of calm ambience, eventually climaxing on the utterly blissful final track." koppklys

foto: lightfairy

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planets around the sun / herbcraft / sacred basil

planets around the sun ~ ram of heart and the earthen chariot (sloow tapes, 2012) 

"Planets Around The Sun have been exploring many inner and outer spaces inebriated with fluid acid folk/drone/psych improvisations. prior to this indefinite tour, they collected these recordings made in various barns, on boats and in bedrooms. an epic collection by these traveling wizards who are also part of the extended Cursillistas, Herbcraft, Tempera, White Light etc. family. 70 copies." sloow tapes

"...fantastic repeating gamelan-tone hypnotics and zoned female vocalese giving way to Godz-play-Jandek downer guitar blues. some of the guitar playing is as out as Matthew Valentine’s post-Takayanagi navigations of folk/blues but when the rest of the commune start hunching like Amon Duul it’ll have you reaching for your Siloah albums to make sense of the levels of brain-erasing boo that these heads bring to the table." volcanic tongue

buy / listen / 'sunshooter'

herbcraft ~ flowering (julia dream, 2012)

"Portland, Maine’s Matthew Lajoie is a man of many projects, and lately he has kept himself busy releasing and touring with Planets Around the Sun and his latest venture Brainshadows. ever since the dissolution of his principal group Cursillistas however, Lajoie’s main creative focus has been Herbcraft. this year Lajoie returns with two new releases of his signature psych-induced outsider folk. before the third proper Herbcraft record arrives this fall, a new limited edition tape comes next week to bridge the gap. Flowering contains ten fresh transmissions of opaque and somber yet delightfully ambitious and sprawling explorations. Flowering will be out July 9 on Julia Dream Recordings in an edition of 99 tapes. The new imprint has no website yet, but distribution will happen via Volcanic Tongue." nfop

listen 'journey to the center of your hive' & 'california poppy'

sacred basil ~ tuvan annex (digitalis ltd., 2010)

"sacred basil is the trio of nicholas barker (tempera), matt lajoie (cursillistas) and jordan spencer (gorman) and their collective talents are lighting up the skies. "tuvan annex" starts of shimmering and peaceful but it's a total ruse. guitar lines get washed into an oscillating oblivion and everything gets bathed in a heavy dose of noise swash. it's like being stuck in a tornado, desperately searching for a way out. the shimmer returns but with full-on density and triumph. each shift feels in the zone. blissed guitars and electronics join together, siamese twins moving in perfect harmony. contemplative, sparsely used notes flicker like a lightbulb about to give up hoping to make one final impression before crossing the great divide. there's something almost heartbreaking about it all.

but those aren't the only paths being crossed ~ not at all. rickety, looping acoustic guitars thrum their way forward with barely-audible background beats and electronic backwash. it's like being lost when nobody wants to admit their mistake. it's unsettling but worthwhile as it finally comes together and everything gets sucked to the bottom in a massive, exquisite whirlpool of sound. love those collaborations." digitalis

sold out ~ download

carter mullin

carter mullin ~ prism entrance cs (leftist nautical antique/calypso hum, 2010)

"if you’re currently enmeshed in a spacey music phase, ambient musician Carter Mullin got to go to the top of your “listen” pile, with the spare and delicate idm of Prism Entrance cassette" the stranger

me rindo, completamente enamorada de todo lo que hace carter mullin aka reedbeds, ¿hay algo tan mínimo y a la vez tan emotivo y transportil como su música?. 'prism entrance' son treinta minutos de nostalgia, de melancolía, una sensación a veces tan difícil de describir y que sólo lograba transmitirme, no sé muy bien por qué, 'many moons' de former selves. loops, delicadas reverberaciones, guitarras que parecen teclados, teclados que parecen guitarras

out of print ~ download

golden cup

 golden cup ~ vagabond (blackest rainbow, 2012)

"brand new full length from Golden Cup featuring a new expanded 4 piece. Vagabond features three tracks, the opening 15 minute tracks takes up the full A side with wild psychedelic percussion and floating riffs, it's one hell of a jam. the B side features two shorter pieces, the first which are totally tranced out tribal percussive pieces, it sound nuts. the closing tracks is the perfect blend of the previous two tracks, crazy percussions, hazy guitars, far out flutes. the new expanded line up has pushed Golden Cup to a new level of other-worldly psychedelia. edition of 250 copies. cut at 45 rpm for maximum fidelity!" blackest rainbow

quisiera describirlo como se merece pero la palabra es: tremebundo. fluye, hipnotiza, engancha como los discos de sun araw, neokarma jooklo duo, second family band o cannibal movie. bongos, flautas, sítares, ritmos vertiginosos, kraut,....percusiones, percusiones, percusiones

bandcamp ~ download

cankun

 cankun ~ idle (constellation tatsu, 2012)

"Vincent Caylet, Cankun moniker coming from France. time for moving with electronic breezes blended with ethnic psychodelic samples...modern sounded rituals, a delicate noisey proposal." egyptian maraccas

"bouncy guitar riffs with splintering synth hits, Vincent Caylet of Archers by the Sea infinitely delays your thoughts. Don’t let pollution make your mouth dry" constellation tatsu

hay lugares en el mundo a los que es imposible llegar si no es con la imaginación, no hay barcos o aviones que viajen hasta allí. pero sí es posible con Vincent Caylet y su extraño universo cósmico-tropical, o con el de mpala garoo, monster rally o panabrite. es como si se pasasen el día tumbados al sol viendo las nubes pasar...y nosotros con ellos. me gusta saber que de un momento a otro aparecerá un nuevo disco de cankun, uno de esos nombres que con sólo leerlos se me hace la boca agua. idle es una recopilación de canciones antiguas que Vincent Caylet ha querido compartir con nosotros. empieza con where's zion? y pienso al instante en unos sun araw mecidos por la brisa del caribe, sigue con la preciosa sneakers y sus cambios, el ir y venir de sus múltiples capas sonoras, como olas que entran y salen de aquel mar cristalino que ilustraba la portada imaginaria de jaguar dance. fake mirror, i know you love to dance...todas las canciones son siempre ese bucle eterno que nos invita a guarecernos dentro de su mundo azul turquesa, sin grises, y a quedarnos allí para siempre

listen ~ buy ~ download