Rooftop Access :: We Are never Too Close To Ghosts
Posted: February 29, 2012 Filed under: Acoustic, Aerial, Ambient, Instrumental Leave a comment »
Country: Australia
Release Date: 2011
Netlabel: laridae
“If you listen closely, you can hear the whispering of the ghosts. They tell stories of the past, of long forgotten memories, of love and loss. Rob Curulli seems to have listened quite a lot to what they have to say. And with his post rock project “Rooftop Access” he has now put these paranormal visions into a full length album, a floating, transcendental collection of guitar improvisations, with cautious but artful production. If you listen closely, you can hear the whispering of the ghosts.” [laridae]
- Ken And Gertie
- Nobody Knows How Far We’ll Travel Tonight
- Asleep In The Fountain
- The Art Of Drowning
- Elevator Dream
- Nobody Knows How Far We’ve Traveled Tonight
- We Smile And Wave…
- …As We Begin A New Life Cycle
- We Are Never Too Close To Ghosts
These Animals :: These Animals EP
Posted: February 4, 2012 Filed under: Dream pop, Indie, Shoegaze Leave a comment »
Country: USA
Release Date: 2012
Netlabel: aa-hh records
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
“These Animals are four wild and charming creatures from the urban jungle in the great city of New York. Their music is just as diverse as the jungle itself. Imagine dreamy guitar soundscapes crossed with a motown dancy rythm section. Sounds weird? Well, listen for yourself and discover a mix of dreamy pop and dance-able rock and roll that comes along with sixties-inspired harmonies, floating shoe-gaze guitar textures and toe-tapping rhythms. All sitting very comfortably next to each other.” [aa-hh]
- Side By Side
- Miles
- A Word At Sea
- Ebb And Flow
- Four To The Floor
The Black Atlantic :: Darkling, I Listen
Posted: January 18, 2012 Filed under: Acoustic, Folk, Indie Leave a comment »
Country: Nehterlands
Release Date: 13 January 2012
Netlabel: Beep! Beep! Back Up The Truck
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA
“From the near classical guitar intro of the opening, brooder-song “The Aftermath”, it is clear that ‘Darkling, I Listen’ is a much different sonic animal than the intimate, and mostly acoustic, affair of The Black Atlantic’s debut album ‘Reverence for Fallen Trees.’ Clocking in at 23 minutes and 23 seconds, ‘Darkling’ contains five fully sculpted songs with a wide array of elements and influences, from 70’s psychedelic folk–rock to Phil Spector-esque orchestrated chamber pop and 60’s Motown soul sensibilities. It also takes informed cues from current indie epitomes such as Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, and Bon Iver. The Black Atlantic wears these influences on its sleeve without sounding inauthentic. ‘Darkling I, Listen’ is an immersive listening experience, rustic and pastoral, but without the obvious pretty embellishments. It is impressionistic in its scope, full of wide-open vistas and cavernous sonic swells.” (bandcamp)
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T(h)ree :: One Point Five
Posted: June 15, 2011 Filed under: Electronic, Fusion, Instrumental Leave a comment »
Country: Portugal/Hong Kong/Macao
Release Date: 2011
Netlabel: Mimi
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Musicians from Portugal, Hong Kong and Macao return to draft a new release of T(H)REE, this time in digital format EP.
T(H)REE is a nonprofit musical project, which combines contemporary musicians from Portugal, and several Asian countries. The idea comes not only with the commitment to materialize this meeting of cultures but also the urgent desire to encourage local musical production, taking it away from its borders, reaching distant territories, forming contacts and initiate new musical and cultural that would otherwise never take place.
One Point Five brings us a new set of musicality that can be listened as a complement to the album T(H)REE vol 1, released in 2011. It’s a perfect soundtrack for a journey between nature and city, between the traditional music and the noisy bustle of the big metropolis. Between Asia and Portugal.
This compilation is a partnership between the T(h)ree project and MiMi Records. [mimi]
- Faye Choi + David Valentim – Suffering becomes honey
- Evade + Kubik – HPR (new version)
- Error Wrong + Erro! – Tree robot
- A Roller Control + Ch’os – The Wave (remodeled)
- Fragile + Rocky Marsiano – Second twelfth
- Dj Kawayama + Tiago Guillul – Lou Reed wants to be black
- (Outro) Temple street
Adam & Alma :: Back To The Sea
Posted: June 7, 2011 Filed under: Electronic, Experimental, Pop Leave a comment »
Country: Sweden
Release Date: 2010
Netlabel: 23 seconds
License: Creative Commons Licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
Adam & Alma is a young electro duo from Stockholm, Sweden, who now release their debut-EP Back To The Sea. The duo consists of Ellen Arkbro and Johan Graden.
With roots in jazz, and also strongly influenced by American indie pop and Swedish electro, they create their own musical universe. Electronic sounds, Johan’s piano and Ellen’s voice make a unique sonority that brings the electronic back to the organic.
Back To The Sea is a collection of the first songs they made together. [23 seconds]
- Things
- Smile For Me, Sun
- Naked
- Back To The Sea
- Bon
