microphones in the trees!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

god damn, i hate the blues

"Fourth installment in our split 7” series, God Damn I Hate the Blues, presents splendid new work from Amen Dunes, Marisa Anderson, Ignatz, Nathan Bowles, Warm Climate and Bridget Hayden.
Damon McMahon comes up with a brilliant interpretation of an old Ethiopique traditional, blending his typical Amen Dunes style with a far-out etnic melody. Marisa Anderson’s contribution ‘Heat Lap’ is a rough and moving delta styled improvisation on lap steel. Our hero Ignatz keeps on surprizing. After his fourth album he started to focus on country music. ‘She Gets All She Wants’ is the result, one of his most melodic workouts to date. Also Bridget Hayden presents a new side of her work. No drilling drone-riffs here but a hazey folk song, putting the Robert Burns poem ‘Aye Fond Kiss’ to music, with her guitar and voice drenched in reverb. Nathan Bowles is one of the three Black Twig Pickers. He dreams about Alabama girls alot. Classic style banjo core. Warm Climate is Seth Kasselman and his band. ‘Tourmaline Witches’ appeared on the ‘Pigeon Brides Weigh In’ cassette on Stunned Records. Seth jams like Bobb Trimble on acid, or Marc Bolan on ketamine..." kraak
vaqueros, llanuras y montañas, folk, country y blues, radios mal sintonizadas, voces con eco, etiopía vs oklahoma soul, un clima tropical y polvoriento que lo envuelve todo, y esa canción perfecta y definitiva de músicos que ya me gustaban y otros que me gustaban menos pero ahora me encantan porque por fin suenan a lo que siempre había deseado... 'she gets all she wants', 'ethio song' y 'aye fond kiss' en bucle

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michael james tapscott with andrew kenower

"Michael James Tapscott is one half of internationally acclaimed fringe folk darlings, Odawas, but also an entire universe unto himself, and here it is his new solo record with field recordings by Andrew Kenower incorporated.
Taking psychotropic paths through forgotten exotic literature, extrapolating mysticism from the shag-toothed street peddlers, his is a world of wonder that seethes just below the surface of yer perspective skull jellies. Stitched together from an electric eclectic sonic palette where synthesizers sigh next to the jingle-jangle buzz of 12 steel strings and the plitter-patter purr of cybernetic drum circles.


And here is Michael, eyes wild and green, with his hand outstretched, some secret curling across his lips as they part, and he asks, "Would you to take a journey, old friend?" Assuming you didn't throw up, then hope that's ok. Be excited about where we can go together, regardless of where we might be." bookmaker

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

miaux

"warm thick tears force their ways out of droopy eyes, children cover their ears and peppep is rubbing his underbelly with sandpaper. the general gloom Miaux aka Mia Prce spreads on her sandwiches is darker than tatort and could easily replace any soundtrack of a fassbinder movie, the sad joy of a lady from sarajevo pushing her entire hands into a keyboard, don't ask her for a encore or you'll receive a grim reward!
it seems that a new breath of electronic music is blowing over antwerp, all in a sort of kubin/depressed pop/late wave/instrumental suicide kind of style who knows where the hell it came from, orphan fairytale's early antics, cassis and colombo, radio centraal...comes in a orange stencil printed cover design by dennis tearfus, your hands will be orange after holding it, limited to 150 copies. no reissues" ultra eczema
un teclado de juguete, suspiria, drácula, fassbinder, carnival of souls y mil y una referencias cinematográficas para un disco sencillo, breve y muy evocador. en rotación junto a mittland och leo, 'from the grave' de umberto y 'an empty bliss beyond this world' de the caretaker.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

michael tanner & sharron kraus

"As the title of their joint album suggest, this lp was recorded in the Rheidol Valley in Wales. Sharron and Michael took some instruments with them, went for a long walkin the valley, and did some recordings there. This results in a mix of improvisations, songs with a folk structure and some field recordings. The album has a very organic feel to it from start to finish." morc
"Michael and I have just released an album of field recordings  and improvisations we made here in Wales, in the valley behind my home. We sat by waterfalls and in fields with sheep in and played what we felt like playing. We ended up with about an hour of material, which Michael edited into In The Rheidol Valley." sharron kraus
"...a field recording can suggest very obvious geography, a sense of place in the world – a history, even – just with the merest of sounds; a fact which never fails to blow me away." michael tanner (plinth)
dibujo: seth neefus

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steven r. smith | ulaan khol

"...mostly the solo stuff is just music I did on my own that doesn't have any set parameters, like Hala Strana or Ulaan Khol, to define it. With those projects, I know going into it that it's going to be this specific thing, but other times I just make music and it doesn't have any specific aesthetic that I'm trying to do and it needs to go somewhere so it usually just winds up under my own name, for lack of anything else. But having said that, I suppose looking back, some records like Kohl, or the Anchorite, and Owl as well, are a bit more personal and are usually more modest and minimal and probably do actually sound like one person in a room playing music, so it's fitting that it's released under my own name. The other end of that would be Hala Strana or Ulaan Khol where I am going out of my way to try and make it sound more like a group of people playing at once." steven r.smith

"La Catacomb, purloined from a great abyss of uncertainty, is finally among us. The fourth album proper from Smith’s blisteringly psychedelic “power trio” guise, La Catacomb languished for a few years awaiting release from this label & that before landing at Soft Abuse HQ. La Catacomb is the perfect follow-up to Ulaan Khol’s Ceremony trilogy, offering more smoulder than flame, more rumination than provocation. Smith's meticulously-crafted heavy drones & drift have rarely sounded this harmonic and zoned. Once again, he's pushed further out. Edition of 200, with gratis download." soft abuse

cualquier cosa relacionada con jewelled antler y alguno de sus supervivientes es siempre una buena noticia

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Monday, January 09, 2012

lightning strike lightning

"L’animaux Tryst has put out a total of 3 releases by Lightning Strike Lightning. All three of these have been huge favorites here. The newest of which was put out recently in an edition of 33, now sold out at the label. Each copy includes a unique poloroid with hand-written tracklisting on it’s backside, all housed in a fabric sleeve. More great banjo/drum/vocal drone goodness with tasteful additions of electric guitars, a great follow up to “Turn Myself Into The Ocean”." broadcasts from poor farm

"...moments of breathless spectral visitation bloom alongside forest-folk recitations, bell loops drawn out to time-bending drone, heavy dirge remembrance, and general free-form folkery. While the murk of of the previous recordings has been dialed back a bit on Creepy Power, the gossamer echo chamber that remains—combined with the slightly-higher-fidelit—makes for a smoother ride and headier drift; this is one to get lost in. Special One-Time-Only Art Edition: Clear cassettes with in-house screen-printed labels, held in a case with double-sided reversible pro-printed j-card, each with a one-of-a-kind Land camera photograph taken by band member Sean Turley with tracklisting handwritten on back, held in a sewn fabric sleeve. Limited to 33." l'animaux tryst field recordings
sold out | free download 
(this is a gift from the beautiful broadcasts from poor farm)

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Sunday, January 08, 2012

ana cabaleiro

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Saturday, January 07, 2012

ocelote rojo

"Ocelote Rojo is Francisco Aravena from Santiago de Chile making amazing homemade recordings which you could describe as world lo-fi music with a tropical feel in them...it brings in mind a summer version of Hala Strana's sound without his droning part but with the same ability to capture beauty with an acoustic guitar." venus in leathers
"psychedelic-ritual-tropical-ambientalistic guitar noodlings with a bit of field recordings." bad panda

free download pacarina & nostalgia

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Friday, January 06, 2012

the aloha spirit

“This Is Water, the first release from The Aloha Spirit, examines the interplay between stasis and movement using delayed synthesizers, cassette tape loops, and field recordings. Inspired by the repeating, but constantly evolving, nature of tides and precipitation, the pieces on This Is Water come together as layers of intricate loops overlap and blur into slow-moving rivers of sound. As tones puddle and dissolve, they expose the growth and decay inherent in repetition.” a giant fern

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