Efterklang – Jojo (live), Nalen, Stockholm, Nov 2005
Posted on | May 31, 2007 | No Comments
Efterklang – Jojo (live), Nalen, Stockholm, Nov 2005
Last.fm Playlist Widget
Posted on | May 30, 2007 | No Comments
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I’m experimenting with the last.fm playlist player widget. I’m not convinced this is useful at all, and the code to create it is a disaster, so maybe this is just something to put up over on the Ambient Music Blog MySpace profile and forget about.
In order to get the thing to have any value whatsoever, I had to choose tracks from my charts that offer full track plays, rather than 30 second previews. Unfortunately, for obvious rights issues reasons, not many of the tracks I listen to often are licensed for full streaming. Luckily, some of my favorite artists have a few tracks available for full streaming, including Loscil and Wes Willenbring.
Mono, by Console
Posted on | May 30, 2007 | No Comments
Console is German electronic musician Martin Gretschmann, and another nice recent download is his 2006 release as Console, Mono. It’s 11 tracks of relatively short but sweet electronic ambient sounds.
Also worth checking out is his 1997 release, Pan Or Ama. Though a bit more “electronic” and substantially less “ambient,” it reminds me of the tech-house stuff you’d hear at warehouse parties from around that same time.
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Console Wikipedia Entry
Official Console Web site
Console MySpace profile
Mutek Festival, Loscil Webcast
Posted on | May 29, 2007 | No Comments
I can’t really suss out exactly when it will be, or how to listen, firstly because the Web sites are a bit obtuse, and secondly because my Francaise is un peu rough, but tomorrow at the Mutek Festival in Montreal Loscil is performing and there is an alleged webcast. Check out the links for more info, and if you can figure anything out, let me know!
Mutek Festival
BANDE À PART
Official Loscil site
Efterklang – Swarming (2004)
Posted on | May 29, 2007 | No Comments
Burning Off Impurities, Grails
Posted on | May 29, 2007 | No Comments
Temporary Residence Limited brings us another great record from another post-rock band in Burning Off Impurities, by Portland, Oregon’s Grails. The songs aren’t quite as melody focused and bombastic as maybe some other Temporary Residence artists we’re all familiar with, and I think the result is music that takes maybe a bit more listening to to get. The instrumentation and tempo of some of the tracks is even what a white guy like me might call a bit “Eastern.” It’s definitely a nice listen if you’re looking for something a bit different than the blips and blurps and droning type stuff that I usually talk about around here.
As usual, have a listen to samples on eMusic, or check out the Grails official site for a few downloads.
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Official Grails site
Grails MySpace Profile
Grails at Temporary Residence Limited
The Wordless Music Series
Posted on | May 28, 2007 | No Comments
Sadly, I remember hearing about the most recent of edition of The Wordless Music Series, “An Evening in Honor of the Kranky Label,” but I missed it anyway. Ambient Music Blog favorites Loscil and Brian McBride, along with The Caleb Burhans String Quartet performed.
I’ll definitely be paying attention next time around in the fall when the 2007-2008 series gets under way. In the meantime, Good Vibrato, the blog of The Wordless Music Series, has a nice selection of tracks for download.
myspace.com/ambientmusicblog.com
Posted on | May 28, 2007 | No Comments
Just a quick note to mention that Ambient Music Blog now has a MySpace profile. Let’s be friends!
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Tripper, Efterklang
Posted on | May 28, 2007 | No Comments
I’ve been enjoying Tripper from Danish post-rock outfit Efterklang quite a lot lately. It’s got a bit more vocals on it than I usually care for, but as is the case with Sigur Ros, they’re a bit whimsical and in a language that means nothing to me, so really the net result is they’re a bit more like a another instrument than anything.
From what I can tell from their blog, it looks like they’re recording a new record now. Definitely looking forward to that!
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Efterklang official site
Efterklang Wikipedia Entry
Efterklang at Flickr!
Tangled Wool, Xela
Posted on | May 27, 2007 | No Comments
I recently grabbed Tangled Wool from Xela, which is the project of Mancunian John Twells. The record is mostly guitar instrumentals, of the acoustic variety, with swirling and high-reverb background instrumentation. It played through a few times today while I was messing around with some web development work, and it really took the edge off things. I’m looking forward to finding more work from this artist.
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