March 31, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Hopefully where you are, the grey is starting to break, the skies are opening up, and the flowers are blooming. These songs should get your cold, dead pulse going. Get your feet moving! Snort some of nature’s cocaine, good old fashioned pollen! Goodbye, March! Hello picnics!
Bobby Conn - Winners
Ghosts and Vodka - Cowboys and Sailors
Phoenix - Long Distance Call
The Zombies - Time of the Season (Alt. mix) (the drums over the chorus rule on this one!)
The Aluminum Group - Two Lights
March 31, 2006 at 7:34 am
einige morgenlieder.
einige overlooked technopop.
einige underappreciated gems.
einige neu tunes.
einige spinoff projects.
einige minuten of bliss.
jetz mein kopf ist eine strasse.
ich denke motorways.
Roman, Saving Juno.
Ms. John Soda, Outlined View.
Barbara Morgenstern, The Operator.
Ellen Allien & Apparat, Way Out.
Console, 14 Zero Zero.
Sylvie Marks & HAL9000, Baby, I’m Electric.
Schneider TM, Cataractact.
Donna Regina, Lazy Heart.
Bergheim 34, Random Access Memory.
Arte: Ellen Allien by Steffi + Steffi.
March 30, 2006 at 4:21 pm
I wasn’t expecting that the normally bleak and brooding Constellation label (home of bands like godspeed you black emperor!, do make say think and fly pan am) would release a very enjoyable spring soundtrack with its cover art drenched in pink and yellow tones. But they did. And I couldn’t be happier.
Glissandro 70 is a project involving Craig Dunsmuir from Guitarkestra and Sando Perri from Polmo Polpo. Both enjoyable and experimental the disc plays most of the time with 5 or 6 second loops and it works by simply adding rich layers of sound into their mix.
Bolan Muppets is my favorite track from the record, starting with a delayed guitar very reminiscent of The Edge’s (U2) signature playing and then adding layers and layers of instrumentation that includes some vocals which remind me of Animal Collective’s tribalistic “sung tongs” before it transforms into a more standard pop song at the 4:30 mark. Quite something.
Glissandro 70 - something
Glissandro 70 - bolan muppets
Viva Voce are yet another one of those husband/wife bands that have been around the scene for a while now and create some really interesting pop music. They’ve recently signed with Barsuk and judging by the few songs I’ve heard they have a really bright future from here. I particullary love “alive with pleasure”, such a sucker for the claps and the oohs.
Viva voce - lesson no. 1
Viva voce - alive with pleasure
Recently Squashed pushed me to listen to this certain band called “Fuck-off Machete” and I’m really glad he did. Where the rough edges of the Yeah yeah yeah’s sound went, Fuck-off Machete takes it and makes it even rougher. Really nice. (thanks squashed)
Fuck-off machete - copper and lead flight
Fuck-off machete - what’s the signal?
Image by Cassandra Christensen.
March 28, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Paavoharju’s precise combination of broken chords, acoustic guitars, spiritual choral vocals and digital filters will always leave me in ceaseless wonder - in search of lost time. Describing their music is very hard, I use the term “music” loosely because they dont create music. They create memory archives. Understanding it requires living. It requires a listening pattern. Dazzling in wonder before the immense splendour of the world in front of your eyes-
It has been merely 7 months since they released one of the most beautiful and inspiring debuts I’ve ever heard: Yha Hamaraa, (out on the finnish fonal label) and now they’re back with a new Ep which is completely free and available through archive.org. Of course, Tuote-akatemia/Unien Savonlinna isn’t as impressive as Yha Hamaraa but it’s more good music from a group I admire and I for one am glad they’ve released new material so soon and completely free. Plus, it makes the wait until the next full-length a little easier to bear.
Paavoharju - pepe
Paavoharju - tavataan 12-7-2004
*Songs from Yha Hamaraa:
Paavoharju - Valo Tikhu Kaiken Lapi
Paavoharju - Kuu lohduta huolestuneita
Download the entire ep for free in here.
visit Paavoharju web
visit Miasmah web
*Update.
March 27, 2006 at 3:25 pm
que rendir tributo a
quien tributo merece
que reinventar lo inventado
que recuperar a vida nueva.
vamos a jugar a que
nos pertenecen.
i stole your words
intook your breath
and blew out all
the samesense
in my own and lesser way…
this is the only
way to
love you.
juego con tus palabras
tus alientos y razones
me escudo en ti
para exponerme.
alimentate de & spread the gospel.
Migala, Plainsong, (The Cure).
Elbow, Teardrop, (Massive Attack).
Suede, Shipbuilding, (Elvis Costello).
Tram, Once I Was, (Tim Buckley).
Sinéad O’Connor, All Apologies, (Nirvana).
Bobby Birdman, Unravel, (Björk).
Cat Power, Red Apples, (Smog).
My Bloody Valentine, We Have All The Time In The World, (Louis Armstrong).
Arte: Recollection Harvest by Djam Karet from the best album covers of 2005 at Tiny Mixtapes.
March 27, 2006 at 12:37 pm
