Archive for August, 2009

Aug
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The Black Atlantic – Reverence for Fallen Trees

The Black Atlantic

GENRE: Rock, indie, alternative, popIt worth a try!

Label: Beep! Beep! Back Up The Truck
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 0:34:50
The Black Atlantic is an acoustic indie pop band based out of Groningen, Holland.
The Black Atlantic’s music is in introspective and intimate affair of melancholy, folk influenced acoustic pop, relying heavily on vocal harmonies and melody on soft strummed guitars, piano and minimal percussion.
The band often uses nature imagery to express their stories on love, death and family.

TRACKLIST
01 – Baiulus
02 – Fragile Meadow
03 – Heirloom
04 – An Ocean and Peril
05 – Old, Dim Light
06 – Walked-On Wood
07 – Dandelion
08 – Madagascar
09 – Reverence for Fallen Trees
10 – I Shall Cross This River

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Aug
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Wacky Southern Current – Ageless Calm in Times of War

Wacky Southern Current

GENRE: Rock, post rock, progressive rock, ambientIt worth a try!

Label: Petcord
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 0:22:13
Ageless Calm in Times of War, named after a phrase Marco picked up somewhere and that stuck in his mind immediately, summarises thoughts and musical aspects occupying him during the time the songs were created and recorded. Meant as a break from a restless time and a restless age, a melancholic lyricism is prevailing throughout the entire release, portraying a snapshot of one’s current state of mind, rather than utilising narrative song structures. And thus the observation of the cloud’s amorphous ever changing shapes, colourful spots washing out from a distance, the mulberry tree nearby and sparkling reflections of sunlight on a riverbank become personal metaphors for a specific moment. Apart from descriptive titles, however, Wacky Southern Current tries to avoid any sort of instructions about how to interpret the music and instead focusses on the sound itself, with all the freedom it leaves to interested minds.

TRACKLIST
01 – Clouds Shifting
02 – Watercolour
03 – Nostalgia Of The Mulberry Tree
04 – Waves
05 – Clouds Shifting (reprise)

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Aug
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Madstyle – Mystic Beauty

Madstyle

GENRE: Electronic, ambient, IDM

Label: Phonocake
Release date: 2007
Total running time: 0:29:58
Dreamy huge keyboards let appear big signs and symbols trough myriads of fog. Somebody has blown into the pollen. The ep gets sweeter and sweeter, at the latest with ‘floranta’, to go phat beated and happy as well as polyphonic chirping, more and more drifting in the direction of ‘Gedankenwelt’. Who still is upstanding at this point, can take a seat at the ‘Wackelsofa’(wobble couch), having the grande finale, well-adjusted and smooth, saying good bye to the ep.

TRACKLIST
01 – Fast Liquid
02 – Intelectric
03 – Mystic Beauty
04 – Floranta
05 – Gammelam
06 – Gedankenwelt
07 – Wackelsofa

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Aug
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pandoras.box – Barriers

pandoras.box

GENRE: Rock, indie, alternative

Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 0:75:44
pandoras.box is made up of five like-minded, old friends from the sticks of Lower Bavaria. The close ties between the eclectic personalities in this group have given rise to a totally different musical slant – a sound in perpetual search of the perfect equilibrium between a collective consciousness, personal gratification and the expression of higher emotions and ineffable common ideals.

TRACKLIST
01 – A Moderate Breeze
02 – This Tenderness
03 – Golden Spoon
04 – Arrows and Bows
05 – Next To Mine
06 – Dolphins and Seaquakes
07 – Sight Unseen
08 – I Don’t Care
09 – City Cultures
10 – Chaos Back
11 – You
12 – Interlude
13 – Virtual Sun
14 – Minerals
15 – Arrows & Bows (Rampue remix)

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Aug
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Bluedark – Explorations far below

Bluedark

GENRE: Electronic, ambient, dark ambient

Label: Miralkelmusic
Release date: 2005
Total running time: 0:27:58
Explorations far below is an ambient journey which takes you down beneath the surface and into the depths of the oceans. For almost thirty minutes Bluedark gives us dark ambient with whispered vocals and sparse samples mixed together with the dense textures and deep drones.

TRACKLIST
01 – Fragment of things beyound the waking world
02 – The old ship under the ground
03 – Tree propeller
04 – Hidden words

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Aug
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A Western Addition – Lullabyes for the Sleepless

A Western Addition

GENRE: Electronic, ambient

Label: Resting Bell
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 0:24:07
I’m writing these words from Qingdao, China where this collection of songs sound like they’re from outer space compared to the syrupy love songs that blast out of the speakers here. These pieces take me back to my years in my studio apartment off McAllister Street in San Francisco. Often, as I’d watch the evening fog roll by pass Twin Peaks out of my kitchen window, I’d play my guitar; and sometimes on those special nights angels would visit, allowing my fingers to miraculously play themselves.

TRACKLIST
01 – Untitled
02 – Permanent
03 – Happy Again
04 – Hold On
05 – Dancing Devils/Sad Angels
06 – Rever
07 – Sagano
05 – Wales

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Aug
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Until Death Overtakes Me – Prelude To Monolith

Until Death Overtakes Me

GENRE: Electronic, ambient

Label: NULL Records
Release date: 2002
Total running time: 0:67:57
Until Death Overtakes Me’s 3rd full-length, released in 2003 by Firebox and sold out in 2007.
Recorded and mixed at Templa Libitina during April and December 2002, all music and lyrics written and performed by Stijn Van Cauter, between june 2001 and november 2002, except ‘Marche Funèbre’: written by Frederic Chopin.

TRACKLIST
01 – Prelude To Monolith
02 – Missing
03 – Absence Of Life
04 – Slip Away
05 – Marche Funebre

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Aug
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Fist Of Kong – Does Stuff

FIST OF KONG

GENRE: Jazz, free jazz, improvisation

Label: Insubordinations
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 0:51:35
In 2003, alto and tenor saxophonist Charlie Naked, bassist Danny McMahon, and drummer Vaughan Boone joined forces to become Fist of Kong, a free jazz trio playing spontaneously improvised music, free of preconceptions and premeditation.
The members of Fist of Kong do not discuss the music before it’s played, making each rehearsal, recording session, and performance a unique moment of collective self-expression.

TRACKLIST
01 – The Corum Plaza
02 – Dancing in Sand
03 – ElectroFOK
04 – Eternity Chimes
05 – Burning Bridges
06 – NoDrone
07 – Mike’s Complaint
08 – A Pirates Prophecy

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Aug
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Magical Unicellular Music – Inconceivable

Magical Unicellular Music

GENRE: Rock, experimental, psychedelicIt worth a try!

Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 0:40:19
The latest Opus Magnum of Magical Unicellular Music was recorded on 08.08.08 (day of Russia-Georgia-Osetian war started) at “Snegiri” studio in Moscow. It implements not a regular groove only but a big architectural form of dynamic development created together with noise wizard Lampi from Minsk, famous Bimka from St-Petersburg, playing with his fingers on the naked electronics boards and Bad Seed on sax. A finest event in a Magical Unicellular Music so far.

TRACKLIST
01 – Inconceivable

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Aug
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Cloud Mouth – Afterlife

Cloud Mouth

GENRE: Experimental, rock, indie, alternative, electronic

Label: Headphonica
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 0:40:02
robots plugging into the breeze while the trees and their leafs stand in bewildered disbelief,….. a blaze of electric copulation, like a pebble falling from a mountain down into the ocean. a sad laugh or a happy sob…up to interpretation.

TRACKLIST
01 – Seed
02 – Bedtime
03 – A Leaf’s Lament
04 – A Bird Named Bob
05 – Crow Berry
06 – Moon II
07 – The Whirlwinds Grandmother

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