Brooklyn band Bing and Ruth is an 11-piece ensemble led by composer and pianist David Moore. Look Out For New LP “City Lake” Coming Soon. In the meantime, check out the brand new track of City lake titles ‘Rails‘. Brian Eno, watch out!!!
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We wrote about Mike Coykendall couple of months ago while listening to something he did with M. Ward. There is something about this guy and his music and attitude. I guess what impressed me the most was that it sounds so spontaneous and effortless. Maybe because the lofi end of it. So folks, there is a new album, ‘The unbearable being of likeness’, out on Field Hymns, and we love it. Mike Coykendall is an accomplished musician, player, engineer and producer. Very creative, and he keeps surprising you, with his unique songwriting, arrangements and instrumentation. It was impossible for me to listen to his record while doing something else. It required my attention constantly, and even now, after quite few times I have listened to the whole record, I still find it awesome. Cant decide what to share with you. Listen to the closing track ‘Wondeland’, maybe it doesn’t represent the sound of the whole album, but it`s still in my head. Enjoy, and buy the album
A new Gil Scott-Heron album is coming out, after 14 years of silence. On February 9th, XL Records will release ‘I’m New Here’, produced by XL’s owner, Richard Russell. I chose to play you ‘Me and my devil’, a Massive attack kinda track. Monotonic loop and deep rolling sub. Awesome!!! Watch the photos of the Clinton studios sessions in NY.
We went drinking the other night and my friend was mentioning a gig that we saw in the Marquee club in 1978. I think it was Steve Hillage that we saw there, and after few days we went and saw Ultravox with John Fox. For those of you who are either two young or never heard the name, this is one of the most important venues in Europe, and I believe the Marquee is a mirror of British rock and pop music development of over 4 decades. Since its first days in 165 Oxford street during the late 50`s when it started as a jazz and Rhythm & Blues venu, where legends like Sonny boy Williamson, Alexis Corner and Cyril Davies played there regularly, and during the 60`s when it hosted the new generation of British Rhythm & Blues bands such as The Stones, The Bluesbreakers, The Yardbirds, and The Animals. In 1964 it had moved to it`s most famous location in Soho`s 90 Wardour street and witnessed the birth and rise of most important artists such as Hendrix, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Cream, Manfred Mann, The Who,. The Nice, Genesis, Yes, Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, just to name a few, till it became the leading club of the punk movement that had turned to new wave hosting bands from The Sex Pistols, to The Stranglers, The Police, U2, The Pretenders, The Cure and many more. Here is a list of about 200 great bands that performed in the club in the 20 years span from the 60`s through the 80`s.
Just received a mail from my good friend AZ: “2 songs i’ve been liking lately: Octoberman – dancing with your ghost & Julian Plenti: fly as you might.” We like them too. As for Julian Plenti, Here is ‘No chance survival’ of his ‘Julian Plenti is Skyscraper’ album on Matador. And here is his short & interesting bio:” From 1998 to 2003, Julian Plenti performed in and around Manhattan as an acoustic solo artist. Venues that played host include Tobacco Road, Pete’s Candy Store, The Knitting Factory, The Living Room, and “Lach’s Antihoot” at Sidewalk Cafe. In 2006 Plenti began to demo a selection of his music using Logic Pro. That selection took shape as “Skyscraper.” In the Fall of 2008 Mr. Plenti took the demoed album to the Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn to be re-recorded with live instrumentation. He hired session performers to play the string and horn arrangements, and also enlisted some friends. Mike Stroud of Ratatat and Charles Burst of The Occasion guest on “Skyscraper;” Sam Fogarino of Interpol plays drums on “Games For Days;” and Striker Manley of Stiff Jesus appears on “No Chance Survival” and “Fun That We Have.” Plenti will be playing select shows in support of ‘Julian Plenti is Skyscraper’.
Josh McIntyre aka ‘Little Girls’ recently-released cover of Beach House’s “10 Mile Stereo.” He’s a big fan of the new album and wanted to pay tribute with his own version. Check it out…we love it!! for news about Little girls read our news section
Bela Fleck is America`s most famous Banjo player. He did what Ry Cooder did with the uncles from Cuba, but in Africa with his ‘Throw down your heart’ unique contemporary world music venture . This wonderful project is following the roots of the Banjo, all the way to the wild and fascinating land of Africa and to be more specific, Uganda, Tanzania, the Gambia and Mali. The views are wild and the music and collaboration is magical. As Bela tries to explain it, when you get to meet a new musician, discover a new instrument, and playing together is spontaneous, inspiring and exiting, it`s like being a kid in a toy store. Bela has received two Grammy awards for Best Contemporary World Music Album & Best Pop Instrumental Performance.The project is titled ‘Throw down your heart’ as you can visit the funky flash site and look at the photos, listen to sounds, and watch a trailer of the movie. For info about Part 2 that has just been released and his Amazing African musicians tour go to our news section. Listen to Afel_Bocoum
From Woxy.com about this monster genius musician: ..”Will Johnson is probably best known for his role as frontman of the band Centro-Matic, who have been putting out quality albums since the mid 1990’s. In the past year or so though, Will has had his hands full with several other really interesting projects. Among them was a role as a touring member of Monsters Of Folk, where Will played drums and travelled across the world with the super group.
Will also stayed busy working on solo recordings and putting together a great record with fellow musician and friend Jason Molina. The Molina and Johnson album was put together over a couple weeks by the two prolific artists and sees them collaborating and creating some incredible songs. In this solo set with Will, we are treated to two songs from that record, one unreleased tune from an upcoming solo album and another new song that was originally written by Woody Guthrie that will be a part of an upcoming project Will is involved in along with Jay Farrar, Anders Parker and Jim James“…
Listen to ‘Almost let you in’
Listen to ‘ Twenty cycles to the ground’
Listen to ‘ Blood can push’
There is one thing for sure: You can’t blame The Terror pigeon dance revolt for taking themselves too seriously, and it seems like all they wanna do is have great time and party. But fact of the matter is, that they are signed to Luaka bop, and you cant blame this wonderful full of world talent label for not taking care of business. This band sound is fresh, with all kinda instruments loops, cheesy toyish sounding keys and ill sounding beats.(For tour and album release dates, check out our news section)
Discovered this band cause they got an ad on GVSB. This if a fun, lofi psychedelic 70`s sounding like garage band called Planet Rye Co. Listen to Cemetery street.
Heard him with his band, Slow Six. Christopher Tignor is performing on violin and his own software instruments,. His post-rock / electro-acoustic troupe Slow Six performs regularly in the NYC area and beyond and has released records on the New Albion and Western Vinyl labels. Tignor has received acclaim from publications including Pitchfork, The Wire, The New York Times, and Time Out New York who declared his debut LP one of the 10 best Classical recordings of 2004. His latest solo release of intimate works for violin and piano side by side with live electronic remixes is entitled Core Memory Unwound and can be found at his site http://www.wiresundertension.com/where he also gives away his signature software instruments. His music ranges from string-heavy chamber music to laptop quintets using his own software to electro-acoustic music, dance, and video collaborations. He has performed with a wide array of musicians including Zeena Parkins, Todd Reynolds, John Butcher, and Richard Teitelbaum, his early mentor. You could watch a session recorded at WFMU studios with Chris demonstrating his software, which enables him to manipulate his band mate guitar parts simultaneously. If u dig it, download the FREE software HERE.
Watch Cathedral:
Watch the WFMU session demonstrating his software:
Listen to the sound, distorted, ragged, dirty, scratchy. That`s the type of s… we used to do in the East coast. The Get busy committee is in full effffect. And these guys have been around for awhile, Scoop Deville on the production tip(known for his recent work with Snoop. The album is being released on their very own record label, Tokyo Sex Whale Records. The other producer is Apathy, and he is influenced as you could hear on the first note by Easy E, BDP, BBD, to mention a few. This is Hip Hop. Check it out and buy it on the regular platforms ( Amazon, iTunes..) Now Get Busy Committee hit the studio with Da Beatminerz and come out with ‘Left Behind’… Check it out
Under Byen are making the same heavenly music Bjork was making on her first albums, Fresh, innovative, groundbreaking, sonically brilliant. Arrangements are wonderful. The use of acoustic and electronic instruments creates a unique soundscape. The first track I have heard was Plantage and from the very first notes you know you want to stay right here and listen to this band, preferably w equipped with decent pair of headphones. These days they release a Fourth album, Alt Er Tabt on April 10th on Paper Bag records.
I have received a copy of Slow Six new album, out now on Western Vinyl. The first track on this wonderful wonderful record, ‘The night you lest new york’ reminded me of Robert Fripp`s arpeggios on ‘League of gentlemen’. Experimental instrumental album, with the amazing Christopher Tignor as musical director and on violin and his own composition software and Ben Lively on Violin. This is my band of the week and one of this month greater discoveries. Their sound is real tight, with the talented and great sounding Theo Metz on drums. With Stephen Griesgraber on guitar and Rob Collins on Fender Rhodes.The whole album has a Fripp-Eno experimental ambient feel to it and can compete with the greatest classic albums of Gentle Giant, Gong, Go…. If you are a serious music lover and listener you got to BUY THIS RECORD
Listen to Cloud_Cover_(part 1)
On Friday, January 29th at 10:00 a.m. EST, a limited number of individual show tickets will go on sale for Vampire Weekend, the Dirty Projectors + Bang on a Can All-Stars, Joanna Newsom + special guests, St. Vincent + special guests, The National, Andrew WK performing with the Calder Quartet, Clogs with very special guests + My Brightest Diamond, Terry Riley performing solo and with his quartet, The xx + jj + Nosaj Thing, Eno’s Music for Airports performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars + the Books + special guests, and a collaborative performance of Riley’s celebrated piece, In C featuring Bang on a Can All-Stars and The Big Ears All-Stars. ( for additional info check our news section )
You can here all these wonderful touches of the talents that helped produce this awesome record: The Notwist, Yellow magic orchestra`s Yukihiro Takahashi & Tied & Tickled Trio. This is the first single titled Remember of the full lenth album, Our inventions’, out april 6th on Morr music (check our news section)
Watch those 2 cousins from Brooklyn, in the midst of a west coast tour, going out one afternoon for a cassette tape hunt, for inspiration and an endless source for their cut & paste collages.
Watch them in action:
Listen to the result HERE
And to Their The very best remix
And to one of the tracks of their latest EP`S Vibrationz
I have received this Josh Mease track via Soundcloud, such a great invention. I love this song – ‘You found me’..
His debut LP, Wilderness, out on Frog Stand records, was patched together from various recording sessions in Texas, Connecticut and his Brooklyn apartment.
Besides a trip down to Denton, Texas with bandmates Bill Campbell and Alan Hampton to pitch in basic drums and bass, Mease also took a trip to New Haven for a few weekends to record in a top floor (and possibly haunted) attic studio. Besides this out of town tracking, the songs “Days Like This,” “Neon Ghosts,” “Eleanor,” and “White Diamonds” were all bedroom recordings top to bottom. The result is layer after layer of quiet yet lush and poignant melodies that really make Wilderness the gem that it is.
Wilderness is a testament to Josh’s mind for fantasies. Each song evokes a scene from an imaginary world. The album takes us from the front porch summer swing sing-along “Days Like This” to the day-glo world of “White Diamonds” and ends with the ambient and beautifully strange “Tall Trees.” Mease also shows a talent for love songs. “I See You,” a duet featuring Jess Martins (Via Audio), is a lovely campfire stargazer about finding your other half – and “Eleanor” evokes silent movie imagery from the past. The topics of each song are diverse, but the theme remains that world of Mease’s mind where the music and listener are safe from the daily hustle.
Catch Josh Mease on tour with label mates Clare & the reasons ( go to our news section for further details and tour dates) and HEY, KEEP ON SENDING ME THESE GREAT TRACKS ON SOUNDCLOUD..
Check out the video of ‘Heaven can wait, the new Charlotte Gainsburg song. Her new album produced by Beck. This is the first video of the album. You could watch them performing together on ‘Morning becomes Eclectic’- the KCRW show hosted by Jason Bentley.
The KCRW session:
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