Woods - Sunlit 7"

Woods - Sunlit 7": Two brand new songs" "Sunlight" b/w "The Dark." These guys are pretty unstoppable right now. Really nice.

"...we've watched [Woods] go from acoustic hush to full-bodied sunburned psych before becoming something that combines both ends of the spectrum into perfectly catchy lo-fi folk rock nuggets. In another time these guys would be living in Laurel Canyon with the Byrds and Frank Zappa and Graham Nash (whose "Military Madness" Woods cover below), but instead they live in New York, probably listen to A LOT of Grateful Dead bootlegs and make music we could drive forever to if we had cars.

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Devendra Banhart : Somkey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Sello: Beggars XL Recordings
Estilo: Freak Folk, Folk, Singer-Songwriter, New Weird America, Naturalismo
Para Fans de: Joanna Newsom, Vetiver, Akron/Family, Beirut, Grizzly Bear, Espers

Tracklist:

1. Cristobal

2. So Long Old Bean

3. Samba Vexillographica

4. Seahorse

5. Bad Girl

6. Seaside

7. Shabop Shalom

8. Tonada Yanomaminista

9. Rosa

10. Saved

11. Lover

12. Carmencita

13. Other Woman, The

14. Freely

15. I Remember

16. My Dearest Friend

Corre el minuto 2’21’’ de esa delicada y deliciosa “Samba Vexillographica” y se escucha un sonoro “coño, la cagué”. Ese es Devendra Banhart, un artista tan peculiar, impredecible y ácrata como inteligente y profundo conocedor de la herencia musical que atesora.

Un bagaje el suyo que bebe de un buen número de fuentes: bandas que ejemplificaron los años hippies con base en San Francisco como Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane o Grateful Dead; el folk de la otra costa (de Joan Baez a Paul Simon, pasando por el sacrosanto Dylan); bandas británicas como Moody Blues, The Beatles o T-Rex, pero también de toda la tradición latinoamericana de Joâo Gilberto, Caetano Veloso o Atahualpa Yupanqui. Y el genio de Devendra Banhart consiste precisamente en saber combinar toda esa tradición con tanta habilidad y pericia como por ejemplo Ry Cooder, imprimiéndole además ese sello tan particular que le otorga una voz tan dulce como hipnotizante a la que hay que añadir ese clásico finger picking de su acústica y los grandes músicos que le acompañan.

Si ya su anterior “Cripple Crow” era todo un alarde de collage estilístico, su nuevo trabajo no hace más que ahondar en ese camino, ampliando aún más la paleta de estilos, pero sin descuidar en ningún momento esas melodías que parecen salir del inconsciente colectivo de ese universo místico que como buen hippie le rodea. Por eso puedes encontrar esa preciosa balada soul con coros gospel que es “Saved”, el ritmo dub del espiritual “The Other Woman”, el funky festivo de “Lover”, la psicodelia folk-rock a lo Traffic de ese anti-single de más de ocho minutos que es “Seahorse”, la bossa más delicada de “Rosa” y, en definitiva, canciones enormes de una delicadeza y belleza tal que sitúan a su autor entre lo más sólido, interesante y capaz de los cantautores de la escena actual.

Tarentel - Ghetto Beats Under The Surface Of The Sun

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Sello: Music Fellowship/Temporary Residence
Estilo: Post-rock, Psych-rock, Experimental, Ambient, Drone
Para fans de: Labradford, GY!BE, Landing, Tim Hecker, The Dead Texan, Esmerine, Vibracathedral Orchestra...

Tracklist
DISC ONE:
1. Everybody Fucks With Somebody
2. All Things Vibrations
3. Dreamtigers
4. Ghost Trees
5. Le Trash Can
6. Ghetto Ghosts
7. Sun Place
8. Donkey-Bunny
9. Tied To A Tree In A Jungle Of Mystery
10. Cosmic Dust

DISC TWO:
1. Stellar Envelope
2. A Crystal The Size Of Our Moon In The Heart Of A Pulsating White Dwarf
3. Mirrors, Gardens
4. As Quiet As Silentifically Possible
5. Warm Glass
6. Fever Sleep
7. Sleep Map
8. Whistle In The Wires
9. Somebody Fucks With Everybody
10. Where Time Forgot
11. Isalais Delay
12. You Do This. I'll Do That.
13. Lake Light

Tarentel fueron a finales del siglo pasado uno de los principales grupos que dinamitaron la escena rock en lo que se dio por llamar post-rock (junto a Mogwai, GY!BE, DMST, EITS...). El calificativo ya había sido usado antes pero con la llegada de estas bandas su popularidad aumentó exponencialmente. Desde From Bone To Satellite (Temporary Residence, 1999) y a diferencia de otras bandas no han parado de evolucionar y experimentar. Las claves en la última etapa de su evolución han sido la incorporación de Jim Redd (Sonna, Lazarus) a la batería que ha cambiado por completo la forma de componer de la banda, se puede apreciar desde el sobresaliente We Move Through Weather (Temporary Residence, 2004) y la construcción de un estudio propio que les proporciona mayor libertad a la hora de componer y grabar. Si a esto unimos que Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (guitarra) dirige Root Strata no es de extrañar la evolución de la banda en los últimos años con un ritmo de ediciones imparable y una mayor tendencia hacia la experimentación y la improvisación.

Este descomunal Ghetto Beats Under The Surface Of The Sun con sus cuatro volumenes en vinilo ahora reeditados en un 2xCD por Temporary Residence, confirman la evolución. Aquí el principal protagonista es el ritmo, hipnótico, cortante, denso, demencial por momentos. Las capas de beats y baterías superpuestas son protagonistas de los mejores cortes: All Things Vibrations con su comienzo frenético es un buen ejemplo de lo que nos encontaremos, las trepidantes percusiones dan paso en los últimos minutos a un tranquilo paisaje ambiental construido por guitarras, violín y drones espectrales. En el siguinte LP Sun Place brilla con luz propia, una jam de percusiones hipnóticas casi infinita con guitarras intuitivas, sonidos y efectos espe(a)ciales que entran y salen y que se acaba delizando hacia un oscuro espacio de distorsión. Espeluznante! Al igual que la otra pieza larga del 2º LP Tied to tree in a jungle of mystery, dónde la electrónica -cercana a Tim Hecker- tiene una mayor presencia que se acentúa en los siguientes volúmenes. El festín sigue, la experimentación continúa, a medio camino de todo en una fusión imposible de Can, Neu!, This Heat y No Neck Blues Band pero con su propia personalidad, la banda de San Francisco vuelve a expandir las fronteras del rock con su mejor y más completo trabajo hasta la fecha. En noviembre podremos disfrutar de sus improvisaciones en el Tanned Tin.

Extraido de andtheworldsmileswithyou.

Immediately following the release of their acclaimed 2004 album, We Move Through Weather, Tarentel built on their forward momentum by recording another several hours worth of material, its fate to be determined at a later date. Tarentel don't follow up their albums so much as follow through them. To that end, Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun is more of an exploded view of the world the band has built and un-built for over a decade, each track acting as a map to an increasingly cosmic landscape. Originally released as a limited edition series of vinyl albums, Ghetto Beats is collected here on two CDs - a full two and a half hours of music. It is a sun-baked cluster of ragged rhythms, splintered sound and scorched shimmer. The production is a caustic mix of hi- and lo-fi, creating a strange sense of timelessness, like discovering a black and white photograph of the future. Available in a numbered, limited edition quadruple gatefold jacket, Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun is a widescreen projection of unspeakable charm and unlikely beauty. (Temporary Residence)

Sandro Perri - Tiny Mirrors

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Sello: Constellation
Estilo: Singer-songwritter, Experimental, Folk
Para fans de: Polmo Polpo, Molasses, Glissandro 70, Black Ox Orkestra, Eric Chenaux...

Tracklist
1. Family Tree
2. City Of Museums
3. Double Suicide
4. The Drums
5. Everybody's Talkin'
6. The Mime
7. You're The One
8. White Flag Blues
9. Love Is Real
10. Mirror Tree

This is the first full-length recording by Sandro Perri under his own name, following an E.P. on Constellation last year (on which Perri re-interpreted songs from his critically-acclaimed Polmo Polpo instrumental/electronic project). Working with some of Toronto's finest avant and improv players, Sandro has fully re-invented himself as a singer, lyricist and guitar player, and Tiny Mirrors is the culmination of this transformation - a highly personal collection of songs, shaped by an utterly original approach to composition, performance, and melodic and vocal phrasing.

Tiny Mirrors incorporates elements and sensibilities - albeit in subtle hues - as diverse as Vanguard-era Skip James (and his weary falsetto), post-tropicalia Caetano Veloso (the compositional twists), and the 60s-era axis of hybrid songwriters like Tim Buckley, Tim Hardin, Harry Nilsson and Fred Neil (whose "Everybody's Talkin'" is covered here, re-cast as a rumination on the 'epidemic' of second-hand experience). Perri's simultaneous guitar and kick drum playing is complemented by the cracked wah guitar of labelmate Eric Chenaux on several tracks, with brass, reeds, woodwinds, keys and percussion filling out the arrangements, courtesy of regular bandmates Ryan Driver, Marcus Quin and John Jowett. A handful of other Toronto players contribute on drums, trombone and cello.

Crucial to the album's sound is the fact that Perri gave up much control to the group dynamics, allowing some of the arrangements to develop out of the players' natural tendencies towards improvisation. "Love Is Real", for example, set to a fluid and amorphous backdrop of heavily phased 'neo-soul', was altered substantially by Chenaux's rhythmic re-configurations, while "Double Suicide" (of which the original version has not yet seen proper release) is presented here in an alternate form. Anchored entirely by drummer Blake Howard's in-studio restlessness, the original gets transformed from a brooding slow-burner into a strangely fractured bossa nova; a tricky polyrhythmic delight. Ending the record is a re-working of the lead-off track "Family Tree", here renamed "Mirror Tree" and consisting of only the core band, sans Perri altogether - a testament to the group's interpretive power.

Overall, Perri strikes the perfect balance of sophisticated writing (melodically and as a lyricist) and, with the help of his band, deceptively effortless, relaxed, unconstrained performance. These songs abound in subtle texture and flourish, and the burbling swirl of instrumental work is a through-line to his earlier recordings as Polmo Polpo, where a similarly simmering brew of interweaving melodies yielded such an original and seductive take on 'electronic' music. Perri brings the same originality, warmth, energy and intelligence to his eponymous singer-songwriter work; Tiny Mirrors pulses and froths and lounges and glides with inimitable ingenuity, genuineness, substance and style.

The album was beautifully recorded by Jeff McMurrich (Hidden Cameras, Constantines, Bruce Cockburn) at Hallamusic in Toronto. Two songs, and various overdubs, were recorded at Sandro's home studio, The Honey Pot.

The CD format of this recording comes in a felt-finish cardstock package with bronze foil-stamp printing. 180gLP comes in same paper, with a silkscreen print.

The Holy See - Fucking Physics

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Sello: Foxglove
Estilo: Drone, Noise, Experimental
Para fans de: Tarentel, Axolotl, Mouthus, Burning Star Core...

This is the second release we've listed from The Holy See, the ferocious Tarentel side project featuring two members of that ambient bliss rock ensemble. But you won't find any ambience here, or rock for that matter, but plenty of bliss, that is if your idea of bliss is blown out white hot slabs of coruscating feedback and dense squalls of shimmering guitar skree. Which if you're anything like us, most certainly is!
The opener is just that, a 25 minute ur-drone, massive and throbbing and pulsing, it's like 100 Skullflowers and 100 Sunroof!'s all playing at top volume through the same amplifier. Beautifully distorted and in the red, overblown melodies swallowed whole by thick sheets of metallic shimmer, everything cracking and crumbling before your very eyes, a soothing sonic shower, like dunking your head into a pool of molten sound.
The brief two minute blast of the second track is more of the same, a lightning bolt of grinding blown out electronic buzz, but it's the last track where everything changes.
The corrosive skree of the first track is dialed back a bit, so it's more of a low level sea of glitches and grinding malfunctioning electronics, but beneath, is a strangely serene soundscape, gentle melancholy melodies hover and drift, a warm and languorous shimmer wrapped in dense swirls of fuzzy sonic psychout, eventually building to a fever pitch, but managing to not become 'noisier' just more dense and intense.

Xeltrei - Litotes

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Sello: Symbolic Interaction
Estilo: Minimal, Electronica, Experimental
Para fans de: Library Tapes, Nancy Elizabeth, Early Songs, Yasushi Yoshida

Tracklist
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　01. letargi
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　02. frugal
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　03. litotes
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　04. korossion
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　05. trampolin
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　06. karuseller
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　07. porslin
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　08. sicksack
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　09. landfotografi
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　10. granser

Litotes are, as Webster’s states, “understatement[s] in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary.” In plain English, litotes are phrases, such as “not bad” or “not that wonderful,” where the opposite meanings of the adjectives (bad, wonderful) are put forward (not bad = good; not that wonderful = awful). Xeltrei’s “Litotes” is an incredible exercise in restraint which lives up to the aforementioned concept as an amazing piece of musical understatement that still bursts with memory and meaning. Not bad, indeed.

Xeltrei hails from Sweden and consists of Erica on piano and David (of Library Tapes) on piano, field recordings, and computer. Their short album is made up of ten tracks of delicate, muffled piano melodies mixed with an array of crumbling sounds. Xeltrei explains their collaboration as “lo-fi piano music made with love.” Indeed, each song is quite simple, but extremely heartfelt. The music sounds almost like a forgotten, homemade cassette where each melancholy note on the piano is allowed to resonate before it fades. Additionally, some of the shorter tracks play like small, salvaged fragments of song that fade or cut out quickly, adding to the lost and found quality of the music.

Piano is only half of the story, of course. The various found sounds and effects, add to the atmosphere. These manipulations enhance the feeling that this is a lo-fi recording affected by incidental noise. The real success of “Litotes” is that it draws the listener into this simulated space with its sonic quirks. It is extremely easy to become lost in thought listening to this album, placing yourself inside the sound and remembering your own versions of the personal moments reflected in the music.

Truly, it is rare that an album can say everything it needs to say so subtly. “Litotes” is the perfect compliment to memories of days past with its dual senses of history and melancholy. It’s a credit to the music that something so minimal and understated could brim with so much feeling and thought. Xeltrei has succeeded in creating an essential piece of mood music that is both achingly beautiful and timeless. 10/10

Astral Social Club - Neon Pibroch

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Sello: Important
Estilo: Drone, Psych-rock, Experimental
Para fans de: Burning Star Core, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Flower/Corsano Duo, Axolotl, Ashtray Navigations

Tracklist
Tripel Foment
Neon Pibroch
The Big Spree

Astral Social Club is the pseudonym of one Neil Campbell, a man whose involvement in the UK's experimental music scene has been well documented. Through his work with the Vibracathedral Orchestra and the Sunroof! guise he has consistently amazed and enthralled listeners, not only bringing together a huge legion of fans but also managing to influence countless young acts. This latest work sees the astral traveler moving into further realms and finally putting a capital 'c' on club, bringing in 4/4 beats into the psychedelic fold for a change. You think I'm kidding, I can tell, but I'm being deadly serious, pitted head-on against the shimmering beauty of Campbell's synthesized pads and patented drones are pounding warehouse beats, the sort of beats you'd expect to hear at some disused Birmingham lock-up, not in the recorded output a man best known for making jams that out-psych Sunburned Hand of the Man. It's no bad thing though, and as you can probably imagine this ain't your ordinary dance music as Campbell uses the teutonic beats to inform the path of the devastating drones and noise that grows around them. Elsewhere on the album we are treated to two long-form and more typical pieces of blissful dream-drone, but my money's on the first track. Excellent stuff.

Televise - Strings And Wires

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Sello: Drifting Falling
Estilo: Electronica, Experimental, Shoegaze, Dream pop
Para fans de: Slowdive, Mahogany, Port Royal, Ulrich Schnauss

Tracklist
Mezzo
Koto
Resonated
Perfect Sound
Fist
This Is Whatever (Mole Harness Remix)

Strings and Wires falls into that category of recordings that appear out of left field and instantly disarm for being so fully realized, prompting one to wonder how one could have been unaware of the composer and his material before. Simon Scott certainly brings a storied CV to the project. The Cambridge-born producer occupied the drum chair in The Charlottes and Slowdive (on the albums Just for a Day and Souvlaki), did session stints with Chapterhouse, Saint Etienne, and Jewel, and toured with bands like Ride, House of Love and Swervedriver. An encounter with original Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett prompted Scott to form Televise in 2003 and the debut, three years later, of Songs to sing in A&E (plans are underway to release mixes of the album's tracks by Isan, Port Royal , Mole Harness, Sebastien Roux, Ulrich Schnauss, and others).

Strings and Wires isn't shoegazing; instead, Scott shapes his material into warm, cloud-like masses at the center of which occasionally recognizable guitar sounds can be heard. Though there is unanimity, each of the album's six songs explores different stylistic terrain. “Koto” loops granular tones into machine-like rhythms before blossoming into rippling patterns. In the melancholic “Resonated,” the cry of electric and acoustic guitar melodies pierce the billowing haze while guitar lines gracefully unfurl like flower petals during the eleven-minute meditation “Fist.” A haunting melody forms the nucleus of “Perfect Sound” and, though a thick blanket of hiss muffles the sound, the guitar's ponderous theme and bell percussion are still able to declare themselves. It's entirely fitting that Mole Harness should be present as a contributor, given the superb caliber of James Brewster's own recordings (All Your Memories Return At Once, A Present From the Future). Brewster's Mole Harness remix of “This is Whatever” morphs stuttering loops into a drone of speaking voices and wavering tones that grows progressively denser over the course of its seven minutes. The album's most beautiful piece may be the opener “Mezzo” where two tonal surges see-saw, punctuated by starbursts of crackle; Scott manipulates his warm sonic fields so deftly here, one could miss the submerged cry that wails so softly within the oscillating mass. Kudos to Scott for bringing a unique voice to the electronic sound-sculpting genre. (textura.org)

Tarentel: Home Ruckus Double Sided Double Air

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Sello: Type
Estilo: Post-rock, Experimental, Psychedelic, Drone, Ambient
Para fans de: Landing, Labradford, Eluvium, The Dead Texan, Stars Of The Lid...

‘Home Ruckus : Double-Sided Air’ is the latest emission from San Francisco’s shape-shifting Post Post Rockers Tarentel and is one of their most thoughtful moments to date. With references to the clattering percussion of Chris Corsano, the droning ambience of Mirror or Stars of the Lid and the almost spiritual improv of Sunburned Hand of the Man the band have totally sidestepped their previous sound and found a fresh and desperately involving voice. Made up of two tracks, both part of one all-encompassing whole these are home-recorded gems, improvised without being directionless and experimental without losing sight of the fact that people might want to listen to the music. Strictly limited to 500 copies, this is the perfect follow-up to the band’s long-sold out Home Ruckus LP on the Root Strata label, and is sure to be snapped up by eager fans very quickly. Cosmic!

V/A - Bound With Skin

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Sello: Skulls Of Heaven
Estilo: Psych-Folk, Psych-Rock, Experimental, Drone

Tracklisting:

1-1	Tomutonttu	Samman Aikaan Toisaalla (9:58)
1-2	Skaters, The	.:-:-:. (10:56)
1-3	Ashtray Navigations	The Winking Halogen Devil/Lazy Screens/Bunnys With Bullets In Their Mouthes (13:26)
1-4	Zodiac Mountain	Hinge Hex (8:33)
1-5	Wooden Wand & Vanishing Voice, The	Djin Rummy: The Poetry Of Lunacy (7:35)
2-1	Pengo	Moats (9:22)
2-2	Maths Balance Volumes	Elegy For Breeze Von Goodyear/The Gravediggers Dance (8:20)
2-3	Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood	<<.!.>> (12:08)
2-4	White Dog (2)	Answers Never Questioned (9:20)
2-5	Armpit	Grunge King (9:25)
3-1	Fursaxa & Zaïmph	Sword Forest (11:54)
3-2	Axolotl	Anola (For ERA) (8:01)
3-3	Astral Social Club	Uroo Uroo Uroo (11:00)
3-4	Excepter	Cruel Sensation (5:41)
3-5	PW Best	Sundogs (13:33)
4-1	Uton	Universumista Soremenpaihin (8:07)
4-2	Watersports	Elemog (5:07)
4-3	Anla Courtis	A-642170/43 (8:09)
4-4	Pan To Scratch	The Southern Gate (10:04)
4-5	Taikuri Tali	Kello Rittui (7:09)
5-1	Wolfskull	Builder (9:33)
5-2	United Bible Studies	The Black Lighthouse (11:33)
5-3	Kyrgyz	Ghosts Of The Winter Run (12:14)
5-4	Navy Black	Kids Are The New Pets (5:20)
5-5	Clixcx	Ygrycsil (11:16)

(skull001) V/A - Bound with Skin ( 5 X CD compilation) {an experiment in social obfuscation and dynamic metaphysical acoustics} After three whole years of shifting plans and unusual exchanges, Skulls of Heaven is proud to finally present: Bound with Skin 5 X CD compilation. In the Summer of 2004 we started asking our favorite artists to send us some of their most challenging and unusual work, with the only guideline being that their piece had to be 6 - 13 minutes long. After all this time, we receivd many submissions, and here we have compiled the 25 best, most unsual and stimulating sounds. What results is 5 very unique and disturbing CDs, each in black slip (each with art by Shayde Sartin). Bound with cardstock obi strip and leather cord. With a balance of these humors and your good fortunes to feast here, witness our accumulation of great sonic dilemma... such as:: The spliced tribal frenzies of the Tomutonttu, raw and intimate portraits of the Skaters astral beginings, triptych portrayals of the Ashtray Navigations, a split journey backwards down the Zodiac Mountain, and fucked wwvv more than a non-horse could carry. and // Synth fried elegies from the sick as Pengo, a post apocalypse waltz with the Maths Balance Volumes, until the fried and breaking cast of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood bare down, to hear the first howling death of the White Dog, and the unhinged knighthood of the Armpit responds. while // reUniting the elemetal forces here called Zaimph and Fursaxa, Axolotl scribed sensations for era, a further triolgy from albion's Astral Social Club, the seer describes the tight rope lunacy of Exceptor, and the sounding of the great solar call by ghq and pelt veteran warrior master PW Best until // Uton opens a forth still universe, where Watersports lay bathing in soothing stasis, Anla Courtis plays a solar shaman's lullaby, courting the southern realm by the spirits of Pan to Scratch, and the earthbound mantras of Taikuri Tali where // now ends the great sonic architecture of the Wolfskull, with haunted lighthouse rituals and United Bible Studies, Kyrgyz buzzing meditations posted scripture to the silence, as silence captures Navy Black, and Clixcx revolts at their own analog prophecy. __._,_.___ Limited to 500