Kuuleminen Asiat - Wires On Words (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2010)

1 Sharpenin Man
2 Artist Messages
3 Acetylene
4 Barren Lands
5 Dead Concrete
6 Pine Metal
7 Sankirtan (Vrndavan)
8 Sweet Lily
9 Tungsten Archive
10 Wires On Words

'hexer measured that fortunate flower dress den is not in or but loving out'
-undRess Béton

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The Wounded Violets - The Wounded Violets (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2010)

1 Sad Hill
2 Stone Bird
3 Hollow Core
4 Deora
5 Skeleton Key

'there’s your wish!'
-undRess Béton

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äNACRUSä - El Pastor De Ballenas (Amplified Music Pollution, 2010)

01 - Extraño pájaro -
02 - Dios en su cueva -
03 - La espalda que vibra -
04 - Bebiendo con mi hermano gemelo -
05 - Huma... no! -
06 - Balada del enterrador -
07 - Ella habló de enredaderas -
08 - Mujer al borde de un precipicio -
09 - Entierro en alta mar -
10 - Música de cuerdas negras -


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St. Atom HTR605 - Smiling Autumn Leaves (self release, 2010)

1 Near The Path 05:39
2 A Few Seconds After The Grief 04:03
3 A Fair End 02:50
4 As The Night Train reminded me of Ash Ra Tempel 11:09
5 Travelling 03:57
6 Alike 01:59
7 Across The River 06:46

1. Across The River
2. Alike
3. The Dawn
4. As The Night Train Reminded Me of Ash Ra Tempel
5. Near The Path
6. Weak Winter
7. Far Away (Still)

Reçu un mail de Stavros / Received a mail from Stavros:

Stavros lives in Greece and this is first double CDr. It was recorded at home and will be ready in a few days in 100 copies. He's involved in music over 20 years but never made something solo except a couple cassetes in the 80's. This is a small text could describe him:

""Love, hope, sorrow, joy, despair, awe ...
particles from the stellar dust which has created us.
A train started (....) years before and has traveled the most intense emotions to a world a little more personal through this "dust" which continously caresses our souls and our bodies.
and the journey continues
and probably will never end."

you can visit him here or here (this site will soon be launched but not yet ready)

the photographies were made by Stavros & Penny Ktena (you can visit her here, here or here)

take a listen here and download the album and if you like it, support by buying !

and for our greek readers:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117517471628311&ref=mf#!/event.php?eid=117517471628311&ref=nf

Ben Wildenhaus - Instrumental Quaalude (podcast)

Reçu un mail de Benjamin Wildenhaus / Received a mail from Benjamin Wildenhaus:

I had been composing the instrumental music and structures for the post-rock band Federation X when I started to explore improvisation and loose structure through country music, Arabic music, and other traditional and experimental musics.
I continue to record and perform in Brooklyn, NY using a variety of instruments: fretted string instruments, keyed instruments, pedal steel, etc.
These are the things that interest me as a performer/recorder:
0) the product of all instruments is some noise. It is always different.
1) creating 'folk' melodies that will be disbursed in various musical settings until the author is no longer known.
2) exploring the imagined realm of the musical Orient that the west has created. This music has no relation to music from asian or middle eastern regions, instead stemming from the French image, "Kradoudja, ma maitresse," and the American image from Ellingtonia, "Caravan."
3) playing quietly and creating useful music. Performance venue behavior is predictable and useless: audience watch the performer; performer perform. The expectation forces the performer to make choices maybe he or she should not. Allow room for gradual musical/sonic development or disintegration and for subtle physical encroachment of sound within the performance space.
4) intricate or deliberate compositions and recordings are for physical mediums such as vinyl, cd, cassette. Incidental recordings, improvisations, and composition fragments are for fluid, disposable mediums like the mp3 or podcast.
The podcast Instrumental Quaalude is an effort to capture such incidental recordings, improvisations, and composition fragments as they happen. There is too much music available on the internet for a listener to successfully collect and preserve. The mp3s delivered through this podcast are disposable, to be heard once, to be useful only in the moment of their capture and their release, their recording and playback. Then they recede into the annals of internet hell, alienated from virality by a lack of clicks.

Little selection of his works:

"Week Twenty-seven": Piano plays a 4/4 chordal backing. Destructed sine waves ruin accordion melody. Bass enters to compliment the piano while the sine waves attempt to ruin everything. For Johanne Fück. (4 minutes, 12 seconds).

"Week Nineteen": Week Nineteen first oscillates between Dbm/Ab and Abm/E. In the bridge the chords Ebm7/Db, Gm, Db/Gb repeat before returning to the previous two chords. There is also a melody. Performed by SG. (5 minutes, 10 seconds)

"Week One": The decaying tones of the SG provide the repetition for slipping pedal steel notes. Performed by showbud pedal steel and SG electric guitar. (5 minutes, 13 seconds).

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Alasdair Roberts - Ayrtime.org EP (Ayrtime, 2010)

Un petit interlude folk dans nos programmes, reçu un mail de Chris Dooks qui a produit un EP pour Alasdair Roberts / A little folk interlude in our programs, received a mail from Chris Dooks who just produced an EP for Alasdair Roberts....

Recorded on the 2nd of April 2010 in Alloway, close to Burn's Cottage, produced by Chris Dooks. Thanks to The University of The West of Scotland, Eleanor Dooks and Bar Libertine.

If you weren't at this gig then you missed a real treat. Alasdair gave us a cracking hour and twenty of his ghostly ballads, middle-age tunings and communication with the ancestors. It was completely beautiful. And not only that, Alasdair and Ayrtime recorded this wonderful EXCLUSIVE four track digital EP especially for us! This EP features an unreleased track and also a preview of Roberts new album 2010's 'Too Long In This Condition'. The Man was on the cover of The Wire magazine for goodness sakes!

The E.P. is free for all Ayrtime punters and beyond.
Ayrtime

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Natural Snow Buildings - The Centauri Agent (Vulpiano Records, 2010)

VULP-0013 is Natural Snow Buildings’ first release of 2010, the free-for-download double LP The Centauri Agent! On part one, the 41 minute “Our man from Centauri” sets the stage, a cosmic, sprawling opener with themes that continue on into “The accidental remote viewer”, before fizzling out into static. Part two is comprised of nine beautiful and intense tracks (particular stand-outs including “The Psychic Circle/Uchronia”, “The storm of resurrection”, and “Solar flares”). Lovely and intricately woven as ever, while frequently heading off into new and challenging sonic territory, Mehdi and Solange have created yet another very special work of musical art with The Centauri Agent!

Download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ntdmwuu2o5e

—-Tracklisting—-

Part One:
1-Our man from Centauri
2-The accidental remote viewer

Part Two:
1-The Psychic Circle/Uchronia
2-Black holes
3-The storm of resurrection
4-Moscow signal
5-Phantom twin
6-Stuttering probe
7-Solar flares
8-Emergency network farewell broadcast
9-Memories found in a bill from a small animal vet

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Sean McCann - Flutter Oasis (Digitalis, 2008)

1 Untitled
2 Untitled

by request

Another crazy limited cassette release. This one from a name we'd never heard before, Sean McCann, but judging from this tape, we'll definitely want to be hearing more.
The sound is super distorted and in-the-red, lo-fi and warbly, like it was recorded on some old thrift store tape on a busted up tape recorder, the guitar being the focal point, but rendered in numerous un-guitar-like sounds and setting, simple strums are distorted to the point of complete collapse, strange effects make the tape sound like it's skipping, vocals howl and croon, everything super washed out.
Some tracks are warm and whirring and warbly, almost old timey sounding, everything shimmery and dreamlike, circus like melodies, kitchen sink percussion, and a soft focus patina of fuzz and buzz and whir, the tape continually slowing to a crawl, or skipping and hiccupping like the stop and record buttons getting pushed, others are dense and chaotic, but with the same sort of sun dappled summer dreaminess, the distortion and the tape drop outs as much, if not more of, a part of the sound than the actual instruments.
Noisy, but that sort of soft noise, dreamy, but not sleepy, instead a sort of druggy bleary eyed drift, think lo-fi folk or pop, via Merzbow, filtered through Philip Jeck and Tim Hecker, recorded by Faxed Head, and played back on a Dictaphone with dying batteries plugged into a massive P.A. with blown speakers. So cool.
Aquarius Records

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Chris Rehm - Salivary Stones (Chinquapin Records, 2010)

1 Salivary Stones 02:19

2 Don't Leave Me Blue 05:14

3 Up Blazes the Hot Lust For Having 05:19

4 (Not Thinking About the Future) 05:29

5 Summer, Part II 04:50

6 Soggy 05:35

Reçu un mail de Chris pour présenter son nouvel album / Received a mail from Chris to present his new album...

Salivary Stones is Chris Rehm's latest album and it was released by Chinquapin Records on cassette on January 16th.
Chris experiments with elements of drone, ambient, noise, and on the last song, "Soggy" he sings on an ambient-turned-bedroom folk songs that explodes at the end.

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Pelt - Skullfuck / Bestio Tergum Degero (VHF Records, 2006)

1 Calais To Dover 20:34
2 Bestium Tergum Degero pt. 1 17:26
3 Bestium Tergum Degero pt. 2 5:10
4 Bestium Tergum Degero pt. 3 1:56

Limited edition live CD released for the band to sell on their 2006 European tour. Contrary to the Grateful Dead reference in the title, “Skullfuck” is a tight recording of a single, intense November 2005 performance from NYC’s Knitting Factory. The set begins with an epic group arrangement of Jack Rose’s “Calais To Dover,” (from his Kensington Blues LP) with Jack’s 12 string shadowed by Mike Gangloff’s fiddle, and the thick drone of Mikel Dimmick and Pat Best’s Harmonium and Sruti’s. The three part “Bestio” suite follows, with the group moving to Tibetan bowls and gongs, building up a huge sheet of sound which peaks in a brief “encore” of wild gong smashing.
VHF Records

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Pelt - Ayahuasca (VHF Records, 2001)

1-1 True Vine 16:42
1-2 Deer Head Apparition 26:57
1-3 The Cuckoo 6:06
1-4 Deep Sunny South 4:33
1-5 Raga Called John, Pt. I 12:10
2-6 The Dream of Leaping Sharks 21:06
2-7 Bear Head Apparition 10:48
2-8 Will You Pray For Me 3:29
2-9 Raga Called John, Pt. II 25:39
2-10 Raga Called John, Pt. III 6:12

A sprawling follow-up to 1999’s critical and commercially successful release Empty Bell Ringing In The Sky, Ayahuasca represents the most comprehensive survey of Pelt activities to date. Recorded over a period of more than two years at various live and studio sessions, the double CD shows the heavily-bearded trio broadcasting from some lesser-known and newly-discovered corners of the drone-omniverse. Most striking about the record is the inclusion of several traditional tunes, arranged for the group’s eclectic instrumentation. While the band has been performing some acoustic material for several years and let some sneak out on the limited edition For Michael Hannas CDR, Ayahuasca is the first release to fully explore this part of their repertoire. "The Cuckoo" and ‘Deep Sunny South" are traditional Appalachian numbers, played and sung with considerable skill and feeling. The sawing bowed acoustic guitar on "The Cuckoo" and the rolling banjo and Tibetan bowl accompaniment on "Deep Sunny South" draw a direct line between raw/folk music traditions and the deep, visceral drone music that Pelt have specialized in over the past several years. Combining the two styles neatly, "A Raga Called John" features Jack Rose’s very, very fine country-blues/Fahey-influenced fingerstyle guitar over a shifting backdrop of hurdy-gurdy and concertina, before giving way to tanpuras overrun by fretless banjo. Of course, on top of all of this easily comprehensible music there’s plenty of ear-cleansing ecstatic drone, from the two long flotation-inducing trios for bowed electrics and Esraj to the wall-shaking electric hurdy-gurdy mania of "Bear Head Apparition." Truly a record for our times, such as they are.
VHF Records

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Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice - Town On The Edge Of Darkness (Audiobot, 2006)

1 Red Night Red Night Red Night Red Night 4:45
2 Satya Sai Baba Conquers The River Rangers / Babylon The Great 11:34
3 Floating Pharmicist Encounters The Witches Of The Wood And Stunned, Heels Backward Into The Sea 3:49

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(VxPxC) - First of December Day (self release, 2005)

01. Mono Filament Blues - 5:21

02. The Reverend P - 1:15

03. Fake Organ March - 7:12

04. Mad Hatter's Waltz - 6:15

05. Clouds & Sea, Winds & Sails - 7:28

06. Mother of Pearl - 11:06

07. On the Island - 7:32

08. One Minute Interlude - 1:02

09. Once More, With Feeling - 3:26

10. On The Boiling Sea - 8:25

11. Riding the Waves - 3:05

12. May All Yr. Dreams - 8:01

13. Sea Shanty Interlude - 1:01

14. Second To Last Thing I Do - 2:07

15. As Yu Descend - 2:38

16. The Last Thing - 3:08

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(VxPxC) - Election Day (self release, 2005)

01. Early Mornings Budding Sickness - 4:05

02. Dressing Down The Drapery - 5:01

03. Broken Record Interlude - 2:15

04. Song To Ward Off Evangelicals - 7:35

05. Foggy Landings - 0:53

06. Wavering March - 4:23

07. Drunken Rhythms - 2:49

08. Music To Read Voting Guides To - 6:12

09. Dry Ice - 6:26

Side B

10. Apologetic Interlude - 1:08

11. Political Playing Points - 5:46

12. Everything's Going To Be Alright - 9:04

13. Real Time Slow Motion - 4:57

14. The Sleepytime Collection - 4:03

15. How Our Grasps Seem Fleeting - 6:33

16. An Old Familiar Tune For Drifting Away - 8:06

17. All Done - 0:06

Obviously quite concerned with the evil state of the American government, but still morbidly fascinated with the celebration of it in holidays, these purveyors of moody ambience return with a solid collection of improvised pieces. Ranging from the bluesy but drugged “Song to Ward Off Evangelicals” to the never-ending sonic waves of “grain” found on “Music to Read Voting Guides By”, Election Day is one release worth voting for again and again.

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(VxPxC) - Arroyo Mountain Day (self release, 2005)

1. TB Blues 2005 - 1:12

02. A Mechanized Sunset... - 0:45

03. Brings a Mechanized Night - 2:47

04. And a Cold Wind Blows - 2:09

05. Insect Fiddlers - 4:49

06. Banshees with Laryngitis - 3:51

07. They Came on Silver Boats - 3:50

08. The Aliens Brought Maize - 5:29

09. Acoustic? - 3:59

10. They Left on Corn Husks and PBR Cans - 4:05

11. Blisters on My Fingers - 4:43

12. The Hills Are Alive with Ghosts - 4:55

13. Voices Without Mouths - 4:30

14. Dawn Breaks - 8:46

15. "Hill" the Musical - 0:39

High atop this haunted mountain in old Los Angeles comes a sound both frightening and inviting.
Moving further away from the holiday themed titles, this seems to dedicate itself to a place AND a time.
Recorded outside, but definitely manipulated inside, this acoustic/electric affair is a truly cybernetic synthesis of our modern world. Acoustic guitars and banjos collide and juxtapose nicely with looped keyboards and feedbacking Jew’s Harps and harmonicas.
(VxPxC)

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Ghosts Brames of the Cerf's Magickal - For Ever Hang thy Dreamy Spell, Round Mountain Star and Heather Bell (Ruralfaune, 2006)

01 For Ever Hang thy Dreamy Spell, Round Mountain Star and Heather Bell 21:33

for me, this record is the soundtrack to many wonderful evenings since i first got hold of it. sitting and being lulled into places of your own imagination by the beautiful chord organ drones, and these two repeating guitar notes just pinning you there throughout till the pieces chaotic end. i urge you all to keep an eye out for more Ghost Brames releases. their static aero cd-r on leaf trail was one of my favourite records last year, and you can still buy it now.

"Having lifted the title of this majestic 3” CD-R from Anne Brontë’s poem “Memory,” this newly formed French duo aim to recreate the innocence of childhood as filtered through the human mind’s imperfect memory. Florian Tositti (The Reggaee) and Jacob Garet (undisputed master of the ‘Magick Skull of Noise,’ whatever that may be) have created the perfect 21-minute prescription for losing touch with the present and rediscovering the purity of unsullied youth. Multiple looped guitar patterns are interwoven and laid upon a blanket of drone, while a flute dances carelessly overhead. Frequent crescendos are followed by the development of new musical ideas, proving that GBCM (a fitting acronym, no?) are adept at creating engaging long form soundscapes. This is indeed another stunning release for the Ruralfaune label, an imprint that continues to explore fresh terrain in the global psychedelic underground. Cheers to them for discovering the spellbinding sounds of GBCM.
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The North Sea - Autumn Birch (PseudoArcana, 2004)

01 These Years Become Sand
02 English Ivy Climbs the Walls
03 Magenta Spray
04 Asleep in Caves

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The North Sea - Botanical Traces (Nokahoma, 2005)

*** sorry no cover art ***

01 Howling Pines
02 Breathing African Violets
03 Lime Green Fence Posts
04 The Consequence Of Being Divine
05 Secret Of The Seeds
06 Aborigine Death March
07 Lilypod
08 Eighth Gear

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(VxPxC) - The Last Days Of (VxPxC) (Foxglove, 2006)

1 Retablo
2 Churning Of Angels
3 Massive Squallor
4 The Heart's Lament
5 Out, Out Damn Moon

after their monster 3xCDR set from earlier this year, we just knew that one day the los angeles-based (VxPxC) would steal our little hearts. on this, their final session of 2005, these boy wonders extricate spacious, intricate compositions from the spiral galaxy drones of yesteryear. a vast array of instrumentation provide the perfect canvas for these majestic spells. this is music that grows from the roots, falling head-first into the icy tendrils of the new dawn. their voices pierce the organ murk and guitar expanses like lonesome souls begging to be freed. this is magical toward oblivion.
Foxglove

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Drona Parva - Salvia Door (Time-Lag Records, 2005)

A1 Salvia Door
A2 Pfefferminz
A3 Hollow Breath Pt. 1
B1 Fire From The Lions Mouth
B2 Lost Island
B3 Hollow Breath Pt. 2
B4 Hollow Breath Pt. 3

first proper full length outing since 1999's self-titled disc… while the vibrations still draws heavily on the mighty drone,this time around the sound is much more focused on the raw emotion of the moment… primitively executed & spontaneously recorded… a short, low-level series of late night tone poems & song fragments, played on acoustic & electric guitars, organ, moog, percussion & dying tape machines…
Time-Lag Records

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