Tuesday, October 17, 2006
kathleen baird
john henry calvinist
"David MacKinnon is best known for his work with Brisbane genre-benders the Lost Domain but he has over the years also released a few solo albums under the name of John Henry Calvinist. King Solomon Hill is his latest outing and maybe the least accessible yet, but also probably the one I like the most. What happens here is that we get a twisted, mostly instrumental version of back porch folk/blues from a guy who knows more about the genre than the rest of us do together. But don’t be fooled to believe that we just get an updated version of what once was; no this is so much more than that. The sum of the dusted past is clearly here but it’s placed in someone’s hands that treat history with such a respect that it’s mostly in terms of mood and atmosphere that the two fit together. This is raw and gorgeous, feedback-laced avant blues that feels like a future outsider classic." Broken Face
John Henry Calvinist hace del 'back porch acoustic blues' algo parecido a lo que hiciera Red hace unos años con Songs from a Room de Leonard Cohen o Greg Malcolm con Lonely Woman de Ornette Coleman, transformarlas y dejarlas prácticamente irreconocibles. como si Ben Reynolds le produjera un disco a Bill Fay y lo editase Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. King Solomon Hill es tan atemporal y puro, e impredecible, y atronador por momentos, que nunca te cansas de escucharlo, dura y dura y dura... me gustan sobre todo las dos canciones más emocionales, Lullaby (Sotto Voce) y la maravillosa Down on my bended (el esqueleto de John Fahey filtrado con blues del Delta al ralentí), pero también la intensa aridez de Yojimbo, la trepidante Jazz Airshot (August 86), algo así como el sueño dorado de Wolf Eyes, y la casi grindcoriana Keas. grillos robot encerrados en un sótano, bajos poderosos, seres de otro planeta... a veces da un poco de miedo pero en el fondo desprende buen feng shui
Monday, October 16, 2006
alela diane
alela diane - the pirate's gospel (holocene, 2006) 
jade emperor
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Friday, October 06, 2006
steven r. smith
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
silvester anfang
Monday, October 02, 2006
sandy bull
Friday, September 29, 2006
...y la luz se hizo
Oh bird
You must be starving
From your flight so long
The wind, the way it was blowing
I feel lonely not to have come
There the pounding of rain has flooded the dam
I can offer you my room you can sleep it off...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
hush arbors
Monday, September 25, 2006
spires that in the sunset rise

Sunday, September 24, 2006
hágase la luz
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
flying canyon
Monday, September 18, 2006
the north sea

Wednesday, September 13, 2006
portrait in the clouds
01. principium I - alumbrados02. pale dog - metallic falcons (con jana hunter)
03. winter's temper - voice of the seven woods
04. disciples of california - the skygreen leopards
05. the bleeder - wooden wand & the sky high band
06. the blue sun - think about life
07. the last tree - larkin grimm
08. katie cruel - bert jansch (con beth orton)
09. bird of cuzco - nina nastasia
10. apostacy - vapour theories
11. victorian machine music # 5 - plinth
12. the chambers of the hand - ov
13. only of bills - ws-burn
14. orchards - the juniper meadows
15. the end of this short road - antony milton
16. verkracht door demonen - silvester anfang
red favorite
file under: “A soundtrack for dreams, chemical endeavours, human afflictions and distant memories” (Jeremy Pisani)
''Jeremy Pisani recorded these 11 tracks between 1996 and 2003. As a resident of western Massachusetts, he shared stages with acts like Sunburned Hand of Man, P.G.Six, MV & EE Medicine Show, Flaherty & Corsano duo, Dredd Foole and Joshua Burkett but has maintained a curiously low profile.
The combinations of fingerpicking guitar meanderings with additional textures and some murmering voice (like on “First”) fits well with music like early Tower Recordings, Six Organs Of Admittance, Currituck Co., etc." Psychedelic Folk
Friday, September 08, 2006
valerie webb & paul labrecque
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
joshua burkett
"Beam of folkaways passing tenements with bygone studio apartments as the lofts of the future awash in a microsecond of urban Om and the sparkly vastness of country mistery - a dragged in ray of tone we begin on the azure stylus of remembering. Effervescing bubbles of a lamp lit moon under an animal spirit sky for a moment screaming in absolute quietude of still night and waking to stained synapses trapped in the oxide of rails, gardens and the solitude breathing in the run off grooves of mushroom wood staves burning slowly with the ringing of nuthatch gorgeous in the synchronicity. His kind a loving time trapped in the red light, perfect when on. Furnished with strings and beads and love and Cosimo in his language the starry loneliness is perennial and that is all life less lost ever be, sipping in the universal ocean and returning a mistery of inmortality in the rear view mirror of memory smiling on a wavy scene tripped on capsules of beautiful sonic doors open and whispering wildcards of flowers and illusory prisms through his hushed towny cry of consciousness intimate with leaves, creatures and muted dirt honed through the jibba white love of grass horns and offered from his hand a brow of clouds fizzing on earth hidden rim bright as starfields, it is a pleasure to live here." - Matt Valentine




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