Maestro Vincent Moon ( of  the La Blogotheque fame) with ‘Views of Montreal’ and this great band – The Luyas

We love David Moore`s music, as a solo artist and with his collective (Bing and Ruth) and he is going to be featured on our first compilation. The 26-year-old composer and multi-instrumentalist`s musical background is in classical performance and experimental improvisation. In 2006 he has founded his own ensemble Bing and Ruth with which he has recorded two albums; 2006’s self-titled debut and 2007’s Kentile Floors. In the short time since its inception, the group has made appearances at 2007 and 2008 Wordless Music Series concerts, the 2008 WFMU Festival, and most recently a commission and performance for the 2009 MATA Festival. In addition to his writing for Bing and Ruth, David has released two albums of compositions for solo piano under his own name (2005’s Book of Days and 2007’s Neighborhood Shifts) and works tirelessly as a composer for film, stage, and installation. He founded and runs an independent record collective called ‘Happy Talk’, and recently completed work on a new Bing and Ruth album currently slated for release in 2010. He lives in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. This is the David Moore Lofiles interview

Watch out for a great compilation including many Lofiles favorite artists.

Check out this ultra extra fooooonky remix of ‘Baby‘. The phenomenal handclap band remixed by Architec.

Meklit Hadero is a singer/ songwriter born in Ethiopia, raised in US and lives in San Francisco for the last several years. I Should talk about her, just let you watch and listen to this extremely gifted artist.

For those of you that want to purchase her album, her entrancing debut full-length recording, “On a Day Like This…”, it will be released on the San Francisco-based Porto Franco Records on April 20, 2010.

Wild Palms have covered Bjork’s Human Behaviour

I got this mail from Extraneous Noise, a small music management and video production company based out of Boston. They say one of their goals is to capture great multi-camera live footage of indie artists that come through Boston. It seems they have worked with a large number of bands in the past few months, including Hanne Hukkelberg, Bad Veins, and Royal Bangs. I watched few of their live clips and loved what I have seen, especially The Bad veins one, full of raw energy. As for the quality, if you thought you`d try it at home, it would require you to purchase 3 Panasonic GH1`s guys, so there you are. Enjoy

From Greenland to the theatre near you. Check Nive Nielsen at SXSW

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Nive Nielsen on tour:

3/4/10 Montreal, QC @ Lambi

3/10/10 Toronto, ONT @ Central (Canadian Music Fest)

3/13/10 Toronto, ONT @ Global Village (Canadian Music Fest)

3/17/10 Austin, TX @ Gibson Room @ 4PM (Crossing Border Event/SXSW)

3/18/10 Austin, TX @ 18th Floor at Hilton Garden Inn @ 10PM (SXSW)

3/21/10 Austin, TX @ tbc

3/27/10 San Diego, TX @ San Diego Indiefest

From the composer of ‘Life in a suitcase’ (a film by Peter Greenway), Borut Kriznik, a brilliant and innovative musician.

The ultimate country folky lofi track you have ever heard – Emit Bloch. Recorded on a Dictaphone. Plays Rough Trade East In-store London – Tuesday 2nd March, 1.00 pm. Releases Dictaphones Vol. 1 on One little Indian on 5th April 2010.

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My wife came back from Hong Kong last week and brought me this disturbing evidence, a book by Vincent Yu. This is a cloth bounded book of  the photographed story of Shek Kip Mei,  Hong Kong`s oldest public housing estate with 50 years history, waiting to be demolished.

Vincent`s first and most important goal was to document what is about to vanish. I wanted to share few photos with you. Go to the Shek Kip Mei page

This recording venture by Justin Bennett titled Tanger, is a 20 minutes recording divided to 9 tracks (to be listened continuously) of the Mosques of Tanger at sunrise. Justin went up a rooftop in Tanger, and caught the North African muezzins at dawn through their lofi mosquetop cheesy PA systems. This is a beautiful document from this master of all trades.

To listen to a sample click   3_mosques_tanger

Available for free download here.

To read about this fascinating man click here

And for something different from this very gifted individual, here is his magic web. For instructions click here

From Ontario`s Memoryhouse, the beautiful Bonfire, out on Evident records.

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Tim Presley, frontman of Darker my love, and now with The Strange boys, with a solo psychedelic project, White Fence.

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Andrew Kenny, the singer/songwriter behind ‘The Wooden Birds’ and previously known as the inceptor of the ‘American Analog Set’, is teaming up with Insound to release a free exclusive digital EP, Montague Street. You can download the EP and enter to win here
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Check out this guitar maker, awesome musician, unbelievable, and its all taking place here, in the Holy land.This is Boaz Elkayam in his workshop in Ramat Hagolan, a wild place in northern Israel by the border.

This guy cracks me up. Just this stupid name and Godfather look. But Chilly Gonzales is about to give you the chills with his French film music of his. Watch out, cause he means business.

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Recorded these guys last week during a radio show, I love these guys, Swing De Gitanes, great Gypsy music. 2 Acoustic guitars and upright bass, 3 inexpensive mics did the job. Django reinhardt is the fuel to their existence and they say that if u dig what they do you should visit The Rosenbar trio site and you could listen to their great music and a special treat for Django`s 100 birthday.

Swingdegitanes a sample.

The Octopus project:…”We’re tremendously excited to announce the project we’re knee-deep in creating right now…

As you may have guessed from the title of this web page, it’s called HEXADECAGON. That’s the geometrical term for a sixteen-sided object, and we chose it because the show we’re working on is being written for an eight-channel sound and eight-channel video system: a sixteen-sided audiovisual panorama!

The eight speakers will be set up in a circle surrounding the audience, who will in turn be surrounding us (the band), set up in the middle of the whole shebang with eight images projected overhead. With this setup in mind, we can send all or part of the music spinning around in a circle or jumping from point to point across the space, or put completely different elements in each speaker, putting you and us in the middle of a crazy array of sounds. Add to that the video, which can run in tight synchronization with the sounds (following them around the circle) or behave completely differently, and the possibilities are endless! We’re having a blast inventing these songs, building the electronics (the Bend Matrix from 4MS Pedals pictured above) / working with the software (Ableton Live, VDMX, OSCulator) we need to make this happen, and shooting the video (our pal Wiley Wiggins is running the video department – thanks, Wiley!).

And maybe the best part is that the show will be FREE! We’re doing two performances on Friday, March 19 on the rooftop plaza of Whole Foods at 6th & Lamar. This is during SXSW, but you won’t need a badge or wristband or anything, and it will definitely be all ages. Capacity is very limited though (around 600), and admittance will be on a first-come, first-served basis, so we urge you to make plans accordingly. We’ll post more info on times and things you might need to know to attend as details develop. Watch this space!

There aren’t enough synonyms for ‘excited’ to describe how enthused, ecstatic and generally psyched we are to share this with you – hope it sounds like a good time to all y’all and that you can make plans to party with us!”…