Colin Johnco - Neo-Love (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2011)

1 Comme les Étoiles
2 Faded heart feat Anton Mobin
3 Suzzula feat Arcan
4 Epic love
5 Hazy tights feat Frédéric D Oberland & Arno Zhorn
6 Becky Afternoon feat Zoologic

featuring: Frédéric D. Oberland, Arcan, Zoologic, Anton Mobin

"the cause had admirers parks
the gardens of your ideas leaving charm to have arrangements existing in past

sculptural light in cranes behavior seems like his architectural underwear
though used as any boat made of elastic architecture torpedo
possibly made of things stuck to her monument"
-undRess Béton

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The Franciscan Hobbies- At The World's End (PseudoArcana, 2002)

1 Omens From Birds (4:36)
2 Centaur Envy (3:46)
3 The Black Chimes (4:34)
4 Seekers In Darkness (3:31)
5 The Unicorn Murders (6:24)
6 False-Hearted Love (7:43)
7 Echippus (0:43)
8 Table Of Figures (2:53)
9 Secret Of The Rose Window (5:10)

Le collectif Jewelled Antler sous une des ses incarnations les plus free...

The Franciscan Hobbies are one of the more anarchistic manifestations of the Jewelled Antler 'collective', The Hobbies themselves being a free-form, free-wheeling group of variable membership that turns idyllic nature excursions into documents of magical, improv folk psych. At The World's End comes by way of New Zealand cd-r label PseudoArcana, and this time around The Hobbies include 3 of the 4 members of Thuja, plus a bunch of their friends, including Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards), Greg Bianchini (The Muons), and Cole Palme (Factrix). However, whoever's present on this recording isn't all that important, as they meld into a very relaxed communal music-making clan. Furthermore, discussion of instruments and techniques would seemingly convey less of a sense of what the Hobbies sound like than more poetic allusions to damp moss and dry leaves. Imagine napping in the undergrowth of a forest, dreaming drones and fractured melodies. Theirs is a drifting, indirect music, more hints and haunts than songs per se. And, we ask, how can you not love a record with a track entitled "The Unicorn Murders"??
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The Once & Future Herds - Lion-Colored Hills (Pseudo Arcana, 2005)

Locust Parade (0:52)
Ranch Rags (7:09)
Who Will Weep For The Sparrow? (1:41)
Wild Blue Air (4:42)
New Hills (3:38)

To feel the sun, you must leave your home. To taste the sun, you must leave your mind. The Once & Future Herds are another tree in the Jewelled Antler forest. Comprised of Glenn Donaldson, Donovan Quinn, and Loren Chasse, the Herds run rampant in fields of bluegrass while spelunking through golden caves. Organic acoustic instruments are strummed and plucked with branches and twigs while the merrymen dance around, praying for God to bring rain to their tongue. "Ranch Raga" is an appropriately titled hypnotic dirt affair. One can just see a group of gnomes sitting on a porch in Montana, playing music, whimsically singing as their horses graze the green fields. Chasse contributes some of his trademark percussion, using whatever natural elements could be found. He could be rattling a bag of bones for all I know, it's all a part of these ritualistic passages. Masked men serenade dancing women, arming them with hope for a new dawn on "Wild Blue Air." Donaldson's falsetto follows his bouzouki on this journey, while rustic violin scratches tow the line. The Once & Future Herds aren't dead or alive, they are feasting on the land like those that came before them. Another Jewelled Antler gem.

Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis

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