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James Devane

Tim Boyd — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:45:51 +0000

Recently received a disc of a net release from James Devane. It’s a series of “nine live performance excerpts featuring continuously accumulating loops filtered through different processes.”

It’s really well done. There’s a physical release scheduled for May, 2009. In the meantime, you can download the entire set of .mp3′s as a .zip. Stream the tracks below to get a taste.

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East Forest

Tim Boyd — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:25:14 +0000

Some interesting work here from New York based artist Trevor Oswalt. A record of found sound and such titled “The Education Of The Individual Soul” is available for download or streaming.

The email says it’s a “forty-five minute uninterrupted sonic voyage down a rabbit hole of jungle monkeys, vintage piano, entheogenic messages, and pulse like beats.”

Don’t know what all that means, but some of it sounds quite nice. Have a listen!

The Lanthanide Series, Kalte

Tim Boyd — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:44:23 +0000

A nice set of tracks from Canadian duo Kalte available for free download. From the label’s site:

“The harsh Canadian winter served as the backdrop for the creation of these tracks, and while there may be a certain oppressiveness to its roots, the resulting sounds progress from darkness to light.”

Stream the tracks below or grap a .zip of everything.

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New Fennesz Track “Saffron Revolution” at Pitchfork

Tim Boyd — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:50:44 +0000

Fennesz has a new track available from his upcoming album Black Sea available for streaming and free download at Pitchfork.

In other news, stuff like this is why I don’t write about music, I just point to it:

Beginning with some of Fennesz’ trademark neo-industrial gurgles, it folds in bits of guitar and strings rather beautifully, creating a cluster of sound that trembles, seeming to wait for something. And that something moves in gradually in the form of a massive cloud of distortion, a fine white mist of harmonics mixed with a dark undercurrent of rumbling bass. The tension between these elements is so well balanced, each individual element remaining in the mix even as the sound field becomes impossibly dense, that it’s no surprise that it takes a while to get it just right.

Yow.

The Digital City, Christopher Knight

Tim Boyd — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:42:01 +0000

A nice record here from independent artist Christopher Knight. Stream a few tracks below or grab the entire thing as a free download.

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Stream the New Sigur Rós Album

Tim Boyd — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:26:32 +0000

The new Sigur Rós album með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust can be streamed in its entirety via last.fm.

Wordless Music Series Streaming from WNYC

Tim Boyd — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:30:32 +0000

Perhaps you’re growing tired of posts about shows local to New York City that you can’t attend because you don’t live anywhere near New York City? I understand. Lucky for you, WNYC has archived streams from the Wordless Music Series.

New Efterklang Track

Tim Boyd — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:47:55 +0000

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.

Epic Instrumental Night on Now Like Photographs

Tim Boyd — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:30:24 +0000

I mentioned them the other day, and so it’s appropriate to let you know that tonight, June 10th 2007 at 9pm CST, is the first installment in a live event that Now Like Photographs is calling “Epic Instrumental Night.” The music will be recorded live from St. Paul, MN and looks to feature the bands Empires, Dreamless, History, and Box Elder.

This is a good chance to listen to some bands and music you might not otherwise have heard of.

Streaming Music & Podcasts

Tim Boyd — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:30:33 +0000

I don’t tend to listen to streaming music all that often. The occasional serendipitous discovery of something worthwhile is almost always rendered irrelevant by the gigantic amount of new age or lounge or down-tempo or dub whatever else it may be masquerading as ambient music. Despite this, I have found a couple places to be a cut or two above the rest. In particular, the Now Like Photographs weekly podcast is a must listen.

Now Like Photographs
Limbik Frequencies
StillStream