Make sure you`ll catch pianist Rachel Grimes on one of her European tour dates:

Sept 14 | Leeds – UK | Seven Artspace

Sept 15 | London – UK | Vortex

Sept 16 | Brussels – BE | Cellule 133A

Sept 18 | Utrecht – NL | Theater Kikker

Sept 19 | Ottersum – NL | Roepaen

Sept 20 | Nantes – FR | Violon Dingue

Sept 21 | Pau – FR | La Centrifugeuse

Sept 22 | Rodez – FR | La Chapelle Royale

Sept 23 | Dublin – IRE | Barry Room at National Concert Hall

Sept 24 | Sligo – IRE | The Model Arts Centre

Sept 25 | Hamburg – DE | Reeperbhanfestival (Nils Only)

Sept 27 | Dresden – DE | Dreikonigskirche

Sept 28 | Prag – CZ | Divaldo Dobeska

Sept 29 | Dusseldorf – DE | Approximation Festival (Rachel Only)

October 1 | Glasgow – SCO | October Platform

You got to go through the Chappo experience – garrage- psyche sound, guitars, noises, bleeps and beeps, lots of fun for party times. Listen to Alex & Chris Chappo, especially to my favorite track, Space shoes.

Check out these photos of the Hank & Cupcakes birthday party at the Union pool. ( H&C, Rad Pony & BTTW). Photos by our NY photographer Noa Ramone Grayevsky.

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Minimal composers Terry Riley and Steve Reich were the inspiring force behind Austin-based group The Octopus Project venture Hexadecagon, debuted as a live performance and soon to be released in album form October 26, 2010 on Peek-A-Boo Records.

Using custom electronics (The Bend Matrix) and pushing existing software (Ableton Live, VDMX, OSCulator) to its limits, they arranged eight speakers in a circle around the audience, with the audience surrounding the band at the center, accompanied by eight synchronized video projections, designed by Austin digital artist Wiley Wiggins.

The Octopus Project performed Hexadecagon live twice to over-capacity crowds during SXSW 2010to emphatically positive reception. USA Today ranked the performance one of its top five shows of SXSW.

The band spent the next two months recording in their Austin home studio and mixing in Dallas withJohn Congleton (St. Vincent, Explosions In the Sky, Clinic, The Walkmen). Listen to Toneloop

Starting making her own music around 2001, Silje Nes began by recording on 4-track demo software through a tiny inbuilt microphone on her laptop. Though she’d previously studied classical piano, when she started recording, she did so with guitars and instruments she had no previous experience of playing. In this she was simply guided by the sounds she loved, and the excitement of discovering new instruments and sounds without learned conventions. Starting out by working purely instrumentally, she made use of whatever equipment she could get hold of – guitars and an old synth, a cello, a drum kit, a laptop, as well as loop pedals to build layers of her own playing. Little by little she also found ways of including her own voice in the mix, both as texture and song, and her music has organically evolved from there.

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Jason Noble, a Louisville musician who was an member of math-punk crew Rodan, Shipping news & Rachel`s has a new project – a band called The Young Scamels. Young Scamels began in 2008 as part of a production of “The Tempest” at Actors Theatre in Louisville. The track is ‘Full fathom five’. Young Scamels are Noble on guitar, bass, drums, and keys along with two Rachel’s cohorts — Christian Frederickson on viola, piano, computer and Greg King doing vibes, percussion, and keys — with some guests.

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See Me Not, the second album from German trio, Saroos sees its release via Anticon in the States and Japan, and on the Notwist’s Alien Transistor elsewhere. Saroos are Florian Zimmer (Iso68,Jersey), Christoph Brandner (Lali Puna, Console) and Max Punktezahl (the Notwist, Contriva). Listen to ‘ Prisoner of single passion’.

This is the Lofiles beginning of the weekend anthem: Motorifik with ‘A vision’. Motorifik is a side project of Working For A Nuclear Free City producer/songwriter Phil Kay and French songwriter Idrisse Khelifi, the two having met in Manchester in 2006. During the writing and recording of the increasingly experimental second WFANFC album, Kay was taken by Khelifi’s direct style and pop aesthetic. Motorifik was borne out of a desire to create an album that could be both immediate and sonically arresting.

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We have discovered our artist of the month: Give a warm welcome to Nadine Khouri, A Lebanese born songwriter/ performer, making beautiful beautiful lofi laidback music. First time I have heard of her, I am almost ashamed to admit, and you got to listen to everything she does. The sounds, the atmosphere, the silence between, the songs, the voice – awesommmmme. I am attaching my first sonic experience with her and embedding her new video for the song ‘Rough’.

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The Lofiles org team had attended a triple event ( a part of the Heineken music conference in Tel Aviv ) last night: A concert of The Drums, LCD Soundsystem and PIL. We bring you those images taken by our one and only Orly Kottick. We promise to bring you HD and sounds in the near future.

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Iceland’s bluesiest chanteuse Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir – a.k.a. Lay Low – is ready with a new album. After seeting worlds ablaze and topping the Icelandic charts with her 2006 debut ‘Please Don’t Hate Me’, the unassuming starlet is back with a new record that continues her forays into traditional blues and country sounds. Recorded at Toe Rag Studios in London with producer Liam Watson (White Stripes & Pete Molinari), the new record is titled ‘Farewell Good Night’s Sleep’, and features musicians such as Carwyn Ellis, Ed Turner, Rupert Brown, Matt Radford, Jason Wilson and BJ Cole. listen to ‘I forget it`s there’ for the rougher tone liam Watson contributed to this project..

Originally conceived as a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration between composer Max Richter, choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie, Max Richter’s gorgeous score to ‘infra’ is released by FatCat Records.I first heard Max`s work on the Oscar nominee Israeli animated Waltz with Bashir soundtrack. Listen to Infra_2

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This is one hallucinatory journey, and if I got one good advice for you, is that you shouldn’t listen to this album high, cause it could mess you up big time. This band has been amongst my favorites for awhile, and it’s not the first time I mention ‘Cloudland canyon’, but every time I get into the mood, I put this album on and it carries me away. And while trying to listen to details while listening, you simply cant, cause it carries you away, and keeps you wondering. If you look at the photo, you could understand how this place can get you that inspired.

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Drums, Kalimba and vocal in a boxing gym. Vincent Moon with his excellent take away series presenting Wildbirds and peacedrums.

Tasseomancy is a continuation of what was a bare bones neo-gothic folk duo. Formerly known as Ghost Bees, Sari and Romy Lightman have begun to experiment with heavier, ambient sounds, influenced by death ritual, hebraic song, war drums, ancestry and myth. The sisters recorded their second full-length this winter with producer Taylor Kirk and accompanying band, Timber Timbre

This Estonian southern ancient folk music has been soothing me while I was feeling low this weekend – the artist and producer is Kago.

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We have just been listening to Supertoys of Transit transit, LA based Autolux latest and much anticipated release .

Autolux (Carla Azar: vocals/drums, Greg Edwards: vocals/guitar. and Eugene Goreshter: vocals/bass) produced Transit Transit themselves with Edwards serving as engineer. It was recorded in the band’s studio, Space 23, located near downtown Los Angeles. Check Supertoys out..

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His music speaks for itself. Gareth Dickson from Glasgow

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Clorinde was formed in the year 2005 in the city of Glasgow , Scotland by two Italian brothers Andrea Salvatici and Simone Salvatici.

Their musical roots lie around the town of Florence , Italy . Each one of them had formed a number of music projects in the late 90’s exploring a variety of music styles, from Punk and Experimental to Ambient/Noise and Electronica, with a particular interest in video art. Both Andrea and Simone have been developing their skills in a wide range of musical instruments since an early age.

Amongst the instruments used are electric, acoustic and classical guitars, bass guitars, 6 string banjo, mandolin, glockenspiels, accordion, kalimbas, concert zither, percussive woods, laptops, keyboards and electronic devices

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