31 October, 2009

more pocahaunted & relations


a continuation of this post.

Siren

Best Coast

Tovahaunted

Pocahaunted
2007 - Haunted Gathering (part 1/part 2)
2007 - Heavy Sets: Live at Echo Park (with Robedoor and Sasqrotch)

27 October, 2009

sin fang bous - clangour


Welcome to the Wunderkammer. Pop music with a bow, a present from Reykjavik and from Sindri Mar Sigfusson. A present that he gave to us and especially to himself. A surprise album, a search game in terms of pop music. At the beginning there was an atmosphere of breaking up. Whereas on the one hand face and body of his band Seabear (whose debut was released on Morr Music in August 2007) gained their outlines more clearly, there remained a deliberately left open game with the sounds on the other hand. The name for this game was soon found: Sin Fang Bous.


Sin Fang Bous - Clangour and Flutes from Toolshed Media on Vimeo.




http://www.myspace.com/sinfangbous

26 October, 2009

Norfolk & Western - Dinero Sivero


Norfolk and Western are from Portland, Oregon and play folk music that includes, as part of its stage set-up and sound ensemble, a turn-of the-century Victrola Grammaphone. The band consists of core members and couple Adam Selzer (band founder, guitar, lead vocals) and Rachel Blumberg (drums, keyboards, backing vocals) with rotating cast members Tony Moreno (guitar, banjo, accordion, found sounds), Amanda Lawrence (viola), Dave Depper (bass, vocals, piano), Cory Gray (trumpet, piano), and Peter Broderick (violin, banjo, saw, mandolin, theramin, and accordion).Norfolk and Western began as the recording project of Adam with friends playing various instruments, and evolved over time to become the fully orchestrated band it is today. In the early days Norfolk and Western’s sound was whispery, intimate, elegant folk music laced with creaky old instruments and atmospheric sound collages. The band still retains glimmers of this original form, but with their latest release, A Gilded Age, they defy their usual descriptors and comparisons. The songs on A Gilded Age cascade dynamically and unrelentingly, beginning with the Victrola and string swell opening of “Porch Destruction” to the overdriven guitar and banjo attack of the title track. Each song serves the whole, adding layers of depth, drama, and subtlety to an undeniable tapestry of music. The interplay between light and dark, loud and soft—is expertly realized by Norfolk and Western both on this record and during their enthralling live show, which features band members frequently switching instruments and film accompaniment.


25 October, 2009

Gowns



gowns are an experimental group formed by EMA (my robo bedroom) and Ezra Buchla in late 2004. At the time, Ezra was playing in the Mae Shi (5rc, Join or Die) and EMA was playing in Amps for Christ (5rc, Vermiform, Shrimper, etc). In the summer of 2005 they released an EP on folktale records called ‘Dangers of Intimacy’. This is a noisy folk record featuring a collaborative track with Carla Bozulich (Geraldine Fibbers, Scarnella). The music is raw, hushed, and sweetly nostalgic. After playing shows around the country the Gowns ended up in South Dakota where they recorded the album ‘Red State,’ released in March 2007 after two years of “compulsive re-tracking and re-mixing.”

The group recently relocated to Berkeley, CA, and is playing full time with drummer
corey fogel, also from the Mae Shi.

22 October, 2009

The Beautiful Babes in Springtime Brainwave Band Featuring Earl Monster - After You Men Explode the World We Women Will Sing It to Sleep


Holding on to the thick rain smelling black and white striped hairs of a wild cat these psychedelic prayer songs ride you all the way down a shadowy world of haunted forests and deep ice-cold lakes in which powerful otherworldly voices seduce you with some sweet melodies.

19 October, 2009

akira rabelais - spellewauerynsherde

akira rabelais - spellewauerynsherde


Akira Rebalais is an artist cloaked in mystery, try unlocking the secrets on his magical website, an Irdialesque warren of coded messages, revelatory software programs, cryptic poems and serious essays. Musically he's never failed to make us take notice of his growing stature initially via his lost classic debut for Mille Plateuax's much missed Ritornell offshoot 'Eisotrophobia', then onto Faalt and then Orthlorng Musork. Undertaking a project to transfer from tape to digital some old tape recordings of Icelandic vocal lament songs presumed to have been recording in the 1960's Akira claims to have been completely obsessed by them to an extent where he wished to incorporate the vocals into his own music. '1382 Wyclif Gen. ii. 7' - the single voice swept up into an echoic overlapping framework, subtely falling apart until a strong wind blows across a group of microphones - astonishing. '1390 Glower Conf. II.20' is a more melancholic song, one which would lie perfectly within context in one of Ingmar Bergman's stark films like 'Winter Light' and 'Shame'. '1440 Promp Parv. 518/20' finds Akira hightening the ghostly quality of this vocal through reverb, echo and subdued time stretch that would make a Chris Morris disturbathon sketch even more effective. '1483 Caxton Golden Leg, 208b/2' stretches out for over twenty minutes feeling like a floating fogbound rework of Gyorgy Ligeti's 'Lux Aeterna'. To round up 'Spellewauerynsherde' brings to myself memories of loved one's passed, favourite films that haunt your consciousness for weeks after viewing and make you want to revisit your favourite spiritually enhancing CD's. Not many album's will move you in quite the way that this album does. Believe. - boomcat


http://www.akirarabelais.com/

dead man's bones


When Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields met in Toronto in 2005 they wanted to hate each other. The two were dating sisters and resented the forced time they were expected to spend with one another, until a conversation stumbled upon their mutual obsession with the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. Zach was so preoccupied with ghosts as a kid that he was put into therapy, and Ryan parents moved out of his childhood home because they believed it was haunted. Neither of them had really outgrown their fascination with ghosts, monsters, graveyards, zombies or anything deathly. Once they realized their shared affinity for the eerie, they started trying to write a theatrical monster ghost love story for the stage. They decided that this story should have music so they began learning how to play various instruments. By the time they had written their first few songs they realized how difficult it would be and how much money it would cost to create the show. They decided to continue with the music and put the play aside. Dead Man's Bones began recording, and quickly decided that the songs needed the special creepiness and longing of massed children s voices to complete the sound L.A.'s Silverlake Conservatory Children's Choir was brought in to the studio, and Dead Man's Bones, the album, was born. Some of their songs reflect the music they listened to a little bit of doo-wop, and artists such as the Shangri-Las, The Shags, Company Flow, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Bobby Vinton, Joy Division, The Andrew Sisters and Daniel Johnston, to name a few. In addition, the artistic aesthetic of old Universal horror films, vaudeville music-hall numbers, and silent-screen melodramas infest the music.


18 October, 2009

e.p. hall



e.p. hall makes thinky, creepy, guitar-and-electrobuzz folksongs from the lonely midwestern united states. The project’s influences include various diy, freak-folk, and new/weird mini-movements. The most well known of the e.p. hall recordings is the 2006 ep ‘The edge the middle’ . ‘Mommy Crow’ is scheduled for release in 2009. Other releases include ‘this is a demo’ from 2003. e.p. hall songs have appeared on two of the Live from Bloomington charity compilation projects (2007 and 2009).

The project has been described as having a “haunting vocal style and unique finger-picked guitar combined with…warm and engaging keyboards and effects to create beautifully mournful songs”.

e.p. hall’s only constant member is a female human named e.p. (though, confusingly, not named e.p. hall). Former contributors include
Lone Logician and Joshua Radicke. Current collaborators include Andy Goheen of Sticky and the Bees.


i ask everyone to please support independent artists. elise was kind enough to let us post these releases here, if anything, send her a couple dollars just for being nice. she also has a new album being released next month, so go ahead and buy that as well.

16 October, 2009

Woods


Woods is an acid/strange/psych folk rock band based out of Brooklyn, New York. Members include Jeremy Earl, Jarvis Taveniere, and G. Lucas Crane. The band is known for strange and upbeat folk rock hymns. Decaying before taking off and dancing before dying, the songs range from vocal-harmony jams to meandering and noisy tinges of noise.

07 October, 2009

candy claws - in the dream of the sea life


Kay and Ryan love the world so it would probably be a much nicer place if they ended up ruling it. Until that happens though we’ll have to settle for basking in the warm glow that they create. Despite being indebted to technology their music is shaped by beautiful natural forces.

05 October, 2009

"V"



Vincent Caylet is an experimental artist from Pierrefiche, southern France. He currently records solo as Archers by the Sea and The Pistil Cosmos and used the moniker ”V” in the past. He’s also a member of Monks of the Balhill which is a duo with Vincent Fribault of The Cosmic Mandoliners.

03 October, 2009

Wrugs