Bandcamp: "Born and raised in NYC, I am of Afro-Cuban, Spanish and Chachi-Cayapa Ecuadorian descent. All My Blessings includes the Native American flute, Andean panflute, conga, and acoustic guitar. My music reflects my pride in my Amerindian heritage and connection with Indigenous cultures. I believe that playing music is like reciting poetry, made from my heart."
Lowlife - yes we are beginning to feel at home.broadband comes next Thursday along with landline, as BT insist on a one week quarantine for non BT customers, funny they can do it straight way for their own customers!
Miasmah / Soundcloud: Gabriel Saloman - Adhere
- - "When legendary noise duo Yellow Swans dissolved just prior to releasing Going Places, it left in its wake two musicians with very distinct but very different voices. Pete Swansons post-YS technoid experimentations have been well documented, but that still leaves Gabriel Saloman, who after leaving the group buried himself headfirst in sounds and images that were possibly even further away from his comfort zone. Adhere is Salomans first proper album, and finds him stripping away the blood, sweat and tears of his old band and revealing a rich seam of ominous restraint. Delicately picked strings, piano and hocking woodblock percussion are drowned in reverb and drawn out in cold anguish giving a cracked, minimalist mirror to the work of fellow Miasmah alums Kreng or Elegi. A softly spoken record, while Adhere pushes away Salomans noise history, none of his well-documented intensity is discarded and lost. Instead the blistering punk nihilism is allowed to simmer and boil over in different ways, and the occasional moments of post-Cocteau Twins shimmering bliss we could just about make out on Going Places are now given a chance to shine in all their glory. Adhere is a surprising, challenging and perfectly paced album, and fits into its very own niche, ushering in a new generation of listeners to Salomans distorted, hazy vision."
. . ."On record, VTB offer stark and stunning absurdities in the most bizarrely beautiful way. Recycling and re-contextualizing their material is an innate habit, and the variety of recording options they might choose (be it a highly-equipped professional studio or a second-hand dictaphone) allows their craft to be formed in a myriad of different ways" . . . Experimedia / Soundcloud
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This band won the BBC Folk Award for Best Band in 2013 ahead of Bellowhead
Greg, glad the move went well, hope your internet is on soon
One of those records you play once a year and discover all you love about it
Thanks, kargatron.
Craig
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Guvera.
Craig
"Born and raised in NYC, I am of Afro-Cuban, Spanish and Chachi-Cayapa Ecuadorian descent. All My Blessings includes the Native American flute, Andean panflute, conga, and acoustic guitar. My music reflects my pride in my Amerindian heritage and connection with Indigenous cultures. I believe that playing music is like reciting poetry, made from my heart."
Lowlife - yes we are beginning to feel at home.broadband comes next Thursday along with landline, as BT insist on a one week quarantine for non BT customers, funny they can do it straight way for their own customers!
G.
Gabriel Saloman - Adhere
- - "When legendary noise duo Yellow Swans dissolved just prior to releasing Going Places, it left in its wake two musicians with very distinct but very different voices. Pete Swansons post-YS technoid experimentations have been well documented, but that still leaves Gabriel Saloman, who after leaving the group buried himself headfirst in sounds and images that were possibly even further away from his comfort zone. Adhere is Salomans first proper album, and finds him stripping away the blood, sweat and tears of his old band and revealing a rich seam of ominous restraint. Delicately picked strings, piano and hocking woodblock percussion are drowned in reverb and drawn out in cold anguish giving a cracked, minimalist mirror to the work of fellow Miasmah alums Kreng or Elegi. A softly spoken record, while Adhere pushes away Salomans noise history, none of his well-documented intensity is discarded and lost. Instead the blistering punk nihilism is allowed to simmer and boil over in different ways, and the occasional moments of post-Cocteau Twins shimmering bliss we could just about make out on Going Places are now given a chance to shine in all their glory. Adhere is a surprising, challenging and perfectly paced album, and fits into its very own niche, ushering in a new generation of listeners to Salomans distorted, hazy vision."
Craig
Rec'd by someone (elwoodicious?) some time ago - track-priced at eMu
Oceanos by Binney and Simon -- Excellent.
Gu!
. . ."On record, VTB offer stark and stunning absurdities in the most bizarrely beautiful way. Recycling and re-contextualizing their material is an innate habit, and the variety of recording options they might choose (be it a highly-equipped professional studio or a second-hand dictaphone) allows their craft to be formed in a myriad of different ways" . . .
Experimedia / Soundcloud
Gu!
Charles Lloyd, from Guvera. Really enjoying this one on a snowy Saturday morning.
Genre > Country > All Songs. Another example of an 'Auto-Rip' CD that's cheaper than the mp3 version
Air Review's Low Wishes
Still rolling through the Country albums....