Just had to play this back in our hotel, as we walked along 'that' beach this morning. I was hoping to hear Brazilian music, but incongrously the first live music we heard was a Brazillian girl trio singing Help, in English, in a country style! We did here some quite good jazz guitar later, though.
Name your price @ Bandcamp: - "Helicopter Quartet grew out of the ashes of Leeds-based band Catscans and the ruins of the concept that looking for a new drummer every six months was a good idea. Without a drummer, or even beats, we have been free to explore textures and minimalist structures in careful detail and have come up with something that is more than simply 'ambient'. We don't just fill the space,we take you to new ones and sometimes leave you there, blinking in confusion and often fear.
Once described as 'Post Everything', our music is carefully crafted to go from "gosh that is beautiful" to "Ow my ears hurt" via "I'm scared", taking you on a journey that's like Alton Towers built inside a ghost train.We have a violin that sounds like a banshee being tortured by an evil genius squid and a guitar that sounds like hell is about to engulf you with white-hot popcorn.
You might not come away from one of our gigs feeling in a dancing mood, but we hope you will have experienced strange and dark places that stimulate the imagination, and the ears." http://helicopterquartet.info/about.html
The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)
released 14 February 2012
- "The Caretaker returns with a long-in-the-making soundtrack to acclaimed filmmaker Grant Gee's documentary about German writer WG Sebald. 'Patience (After Sebald)' is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss - an exploration of the work and influence of German writer WG Sebald (1944-2001), told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book 'The Rings Of Saturn'. The source material for 'Patience' was sourced from Franz Schubert's 1827 piece 'Winterreise' and subjected to his perplexing processes, smudging and rubbing isolated fragments into a dust-caked haze of plangent keys, strangely resolved loops and de-pitched vocals which recede from view as eerily as they appear."
Posted by yours truely, back on Dec 30th 2011: Encomiast - Havens
- "This disc contains three exquisite driftworks from ENCOMIAST, entitled Havens. Formed from vaporous clouds of guitar, gamelan, shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), violin, vina, voice, flute, and field recordings, Ross Hagen and Megan Garland have stretched these sounds into infinite ribbons of metallic shimmer, twisting and swirling into gorgeous hum. The three tracks on this disc are extended works that range from eleven to twenty-five minutes in length, and drifts within the angelic regions between Andrew Chalk's minimalist explorations, the dream music of Troum (and their predecessor, Maeror Tri), and the bleary melodic smear of My Bloody Valentine. Havens distills the bliss of deep dreams and early morning haze into captured hymns, and is one of ENCOMIAST's finest drone offerings to date."
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The Mountain Goats - Zopilote Machine
from the album
Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa
(Dekorder 075)
Release date: May 12, 2014
My wife is out for the morning, so music is turned up LOUD.
Hans Feigenwinter ZINC - "Whim of Fate"
Just had to play this back in our hotel, as we walked along 'that' beach this morning. I was hoping to hear Brazilian music, but incongrously the first live music we heard was a Brazillian girl trio singing Help, in English, in a country style! We did here some quite good jazz guitar later, though.
- it is strange that this album doesn't show up on my Last.fm, they do have an artist page.
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ETA: similar to Reines d'Angleterre, according to Last.fm:
Iancu Dumitrescu - Pierres Sacr
Nice synthy stuff; NYOP
This is going to be fun tonight.
Craig
ETA: Another album that L.fm doesn't wanna "eat" . . . And it's not lack of albums: 1600 and something
Reminds me of early Oneohtrix Point Never. NYOP
I think I may have gotten this from Amie St., but I may not have listened to it ever if I hadn't seen the write-ups jze did on MiG, so thanks Kez!
- "Helicopter Quartet grew out of the ashes of Leeds-based band Catscans and the ruins of the concept that looking for a new drummer every six months was a good idea. Without a drummer, or even beats, we have been free to explore textures and minimalist structures in careful detail and have come up with something that is more than simply 'ambient'. We don't just fill the space,we take you to new ones and sometimes leave you there, blinking in confusion and often fear.
Once described as 'Post Everything', our music is carefully crafted to go from "gosh that is beautiful" to "Ow my ears hurt" via "I'm scared", taking you on a journey that's like Alton Towers built inside a ghost train.We have a violin that sounds like a banshee being tortured by an evil genius squid and a guitar that sounds like hell is about to engulf you with white-hot popcorn.
You might not come away from one of our gigs feeling in a dancing mood, but we hope you will have experienced strange and dark places that stimulate the imagination, and the ears."
http://helicopterquartet.info/about.html
L.A. Post Punk vol. 20 - I think two different people here pointed out this blog? But whoever thanks. This is pretty great.
The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)
released 14 February 2012
- "The Caretaker returns with a long-in-the-making soundtrack to acclaimed filmmaker Grant Gee's documentary about German writer WG Sebald. 'Patience (After Sebald)' is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss - an exploration of the work and influence of German writer WG Sebald (1944-2001), told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book 'The Rings Of Saturn'. The source material for 'Patience' was sourced from Franz Schubert's 1827 piece 'Winterreise' and subjected to his perplexing processes, smudging and rubbing isolated fragments into a dust-caked haze of plangent keys, strangely resolved loops and de-pitched vocals which recede from view as eerily as they appear."
I've been playing this a lot.
Encomiast - Havens
- "This disc contains three exquisite driftworks from ENCOMIAST, entitled Havens. Formed from vaporous clouds of guitar, gamelan, shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), violin, vina, voice, flute, and field recordings, Ross Hagen and Megan Garland have stretched these sounds into infinite ribbons of metallic shimmer, twisting and swirling into gorgeous hum. The three tracks on this disc are extended works that range from eleven to twenty-five minutes in length, and drifts within the angelic regions between Andrew Chalk's minimalist explorations, the dream music of Troum (and their predecessor, Maeror Tri), and the bleary melodic smear of My Bloody Valentine. Havens distills the bliss of deep dreams and early morning haze into captured hymns, and is one of ENCOMIAST's finest drone offerings to date."
Den Lilla Ekorren - Put sunshine into someone's day
- "rush through the day, coming home, go to bed, then start a new day
but who knows what you might stumble upon, with a slight change of direction?
a quick glance at the world reveals that sadness is a common situation
so let's be the ones that make a happy day for some who weren't expecting it
show a little kindness, and smile to one you'll meet today
try a little kindness, put sunshine into someone's day
what if kindness will save the world
what if kindness will save someone's day."
2 Chainz - B.O.A.T.S. II #Metime
Figured since I'm taking pictures of him on Sunday I should actually listen to something he's released.
Craig