Plants And Hearts, Christopher Willits
Posted on | October 11, 2007 | No Comments
Room40 has recently released a 3″ CD single from San Francisco based drone-ist Christopher Willits titled Plants and Hearts. It’s a single track of 21 minutes and 30 seconds of droning guitars and etc. Really nice stuff and great value as an eMusic download, if you’re the kind of person who uses eMusic.
From the Room40 site:
Incorporating 4hz isochronic pulses and panning at the same frequency, this work encourages the formation of 4hz brainwave patterns associated with states of meditation, deep relaxation, enhanced creativity, light sleep and lucid dreaming.
Science! I don’t know about any of that, but I’m listening to it while writing this blog post and I feel pretty ok.
Related
Christopher Willits Profile at 12k records
New Slow Dancing Society Release Set for November
Posted on | October 3, 2007 | 3 Comments
Hidden Shoal Recordings has announced that Drew Sullivan, better known as Slow Dancing Society, is set to release a new record November 6, 2007. The title is The Slow and Steady Winter and apparently it’s the first half of a double album, the second half of which will arrive sometime in 2008.
There’s a preview track available via the Slow Dancing Society MySpace profile, and you can learn a bit more about the new record via the announcement at Hidden Shoal Recordings.
Free Concert Silence Tracks for Download
Posted on | October 2, 2007 | 3 Comments
Matthew Cooper, better known around here as Eluvium, has just released a set of tracks for free download. I don’t know much about it other than what the site says, which is that they’re “unedited improvised basement minidisc records.” Sounds good to me!
Go have a listen: www.concertsilence.net.
í gær Video Trailer, by Clare Langan
Posted on | September 15, 2007 | No Comments
Irish artist Clare Langan has created a video for the song “í gær,” which is to be included in the upcoming Sigur Ros record hvarf-heim.
Via the always lovely eighteen seconds before sunrise.
Free Efterklang mp3 Download: Cutting Ice to Snow
Posted on | September 13, 2007 | No Comments
In the growing downloads section of their Web site, Danish band Efterklang has just released a free mp3 download of “Cutting Ice to Snow” (.mp3) from their upcoming album Parades, set for release this October 15th. Have a listen, everyone likes free!
Parousia Fallacy, bpmf
Posted on | August 23, 2007 | 2 Comments
Jason Szostek produces electronic music as bpmf. I recently got a copy of bpmf’s Parousia Fallacy, and it’s an interesting mix of synthy washes and spaced-out techno sounds. The best way I can describe it is it sounds like what a movie in say, 1984, would depict what a computer would sound like if it produced sound and you could hear it while it worked. And the the computer is maybe evil, or at least kind of weird and brooding. And also it speaks Russian.
Stop by bpmf.us, where you can preview tracks from the record.
Related
bpmf MySpace Profile
New Efterklang Track
Posted on | August 2, 2007 | No Comments
Efterklang will release a new record, Parades, on October 15th, and you can listen to the last track “Cutting Ice to Snow” on their MySpace profile.
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premiere! Cutting Ice To Snow - new song from new album!
Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd
Posted on | July 13, 2007 | No Comments
On the recommendation of a reader, I recently picked up two new records by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd, Before The Day Breaks and After The Night Falls. I’m familiar with Budd’s work, specifically his collaboration with Brian Eno on Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror. I’ve also got Budd’s The White Arcades. I like both of those records, and had heard good things about Budd’s collaboration with Guthrie in the past, so I figured these would be right up my alley.
These two records have a similarity about them. And by that, I mean they sound like Harold Budd. Big, roomy, reverby sounding keys and guitar, but all muted and flattened a bit to sound like you’re listening to something just off in the distance. Or, maybe, what it would be like to listen to another record under water.
The two records are apparently meant each meant to be a counterpoint to the other, and you can see this in the titles of the tracks, i.e. track 1 on Before The Day Breaks is “How Close Your Soul” while track 1 on After The Night Falls is “How Distant Your Heart.” I created a playlist that positions the corresponding tracks from the two records together and you can hear the kind of call and response going on.
These are two very nice records, and if you have any interest in Budd’s work, or if you like his previous work, which many consider to be prototypically “ambient,” then you’d be wise to have a listen to these records.
Kurr, Amiina
Posted on | July 3, 2007 | No Comments
I finally got my hands on the new Amiina record Kurr via eMusic, and I have to say I really like it. There are a few holdout tracks from previous EP’s Seoul and AnimaminA, but on the whole the songs on this full-length record are more refined, a bit more pop-ish, some even with nice melodic hooks and bridges.
I hate to say it, but some of the tracks sound like they’re destined for Volkswagen commercials. If you’re into strange, but not to strange, Icelandic music like me, this is definitely a record to get. And if you’re a bit put off by some of the weirdness of their previous work, this Amiina release is certainly more accessible.
Related
Amiina MySpace Profile
Official Amiina Site
Amiina Wikipedia Entry
Autumn Magnets, Bury the Sound
Posted on | June 26, 2007 | 2 Comments
From Hidden Shoal Recordings, the label that brings you Ambient Music Blog favorites Wes Willenbring and Slow Dancing Society, comes a new record by Melbourne, Australia-based band Bury the Sound. Autmn Magnets is a 3 track EP of instrumental post-rock type stuff, and fairly intense at that. Nice tempo changes as well.
You can download the tracks from the Hidden Shoal Recordings online store (Hidden Shoal is all digital), or you can wait until July 3rd when it should be available widely in all the usual online places.
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