Ambient Music Blog

Artist Scott Hansen, who produces some nice music as Tycho, has created a nice print for Barrack Obama’s 2008 campaign for President of the United States.

• eighteen seconds before sunrise - sigur rós news - new album details
  “sigur rós?s fifth lp is called ?með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust? (with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly). it will be released june 23rd worldwide (june 24th in north america) and will be available to pre-order on sigurros.com on june

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• Häpna downloads
  8 free full-length mp3 downloads from Swedish band Tape along with tracks from other Häpna artists.

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• tokafi - 15 Questions to Sawako
  “What I offer to my audiences in real time and in the same physical space tends toward no drama and no catharsis. Something empty.”

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Here’s a quick video I took of Stars of the Lid performing at the Good Shepherd Faith Church as part of the Wordless Music Series. Some photos and a bit of a review coming later this week.

The always brilliant 12k label has three new releases available, including work from Sawako, Taylor Duepree’s reissue of Northern, and a compilation of previous work from Richard Chartier.

“Sleep-Rocking: Stars of the Lid”

“I’m a really big sports fan,” says Wiltzie, causing the reporter to cough up Diet Coke from surprise. Wiltzie reels off his teams: the Cubs, the Spurs, the Dallas Stars (hockey = very macho). There’s tennis, which he played competitively. And English Premier League football — soccer to you. Wiltzie likes that “there’s a finality to it. We could always have two different opinions about music but in sports there’s a winner and a loser.”

What I want to know is, which EPL team does he support? If it’s Tottenham, I may have to boo him at the show tomorrow night.