serfs

serfs ~ sha la la ~ la later on (cabin floor esoterica 2011)

"...'Sha La La - La Later On' presents two distinct sides of the Serfs spectrum. The first, a glossy sparse web of clean ringing guitar reminiscent of Loren Connors. Emotional without ever becoming melodramatic. It closes out with a wonderful cover of Jerry Garcia's 'Love Scene' from the Zabriskie Point soundtrack. The flip side is the grittier side of things - pure burned-out live works. The guitar has more growl, the recording more hiss. This side closes with another cover, this time as a duo with Beach Fuzz's Tom Settle, ringing out a ten minute all-over-the-place version of Curtis Mayfield's 'People Get Ready'. In an edition of 50 tapes in cardstock sleeves with an insert." cabin floor esoterica

"Despite its sunny sing-along title and the fact that it features covers of songs by Jerry Garcia and Curtis Mayfield, Jon Collin’s latest album of ambient-guitar music under the name Surfs is a pretty lonely and lackadaisical affair. Rather than using significant atmospherics or looping, Collin relies on a completely clean electric guitar and an empty room to create a beautiful and singular work... Great end of summer transitioning tunes. Purchase this, and the rest of Cabin Floor Esoterica’s gorgeously packaged new batch, direct from the label." zen effects

fotos: anna verlet shelton  / alison scarpulla

buy / download 

(thanks to static encounters)

ralph white

ralph white ~ the hanged man (sloow tapes 2011)

"Ralph White’s home-made Americana internalizes old folk, proto-blues and country music into meditative, psychedelic textures transcended by a high-lonesome drawl. Drone-like banjo, reminiscent of Dock Bogg’s, fiddle, button accordion and African kalimba. Edition of 100 copies." sloow tapes

photo via magpie magazine

buy / download

(thanks to the radiant now for the rip & upload)

keijo

keijo ~ along the stream (cabin floor esoterica 2011)

"Finnish legend Keijo Virtanen (the voice behind the Rambling Boys, The Free Players, etc.) returns to Cabin Floor with nearly an hour of fried blues. He rolls effortlessly from the sparse disjointed riffing and freakouts of '15 Days' into the solid locked coasting-blues groove of songs like 'With White Woman' and the almost Valentine-like dream of the instrumental title-track. Every song is developed and full. Beautiful howling harmonica wails, dancing clear guitars and the snapping drums keep things exactly where he wants them to be. Edition of 50 tapes in cardstock sleeves with two inserts, one featuring a photo from Keijo." cabin floor esoterica

foto: connor novotny

otro mejor disco de mi vaquero finlandés favorito. six months on exile, folk minimalista y melancólico susurrado ante un micrófono imaginario qu no parece de este mundo

buy / download

tusk

'Tusk', a new publication of my work
by Atem Books & Ubicuo Studio

Photobook for iPad available on the App Store.
more info: ubicuostudio.com

"...Ana Cabaleiro & Atem Books publishing house joined forces in order to present a contemporary way of understanding photography, a photo book application for iPad, which allows us to travel over the albums, flow amongst expandable photographs of idyllic and hidden landscapes and of Ana’s most nocturnal and intimate side.

The enchanting quality of these strictly film images teletransports you into a magical place, where you can feel the texture and smell the perfume of the fresh air and where you can also download some of this feelings as wallpapers. As if you were a passenger of this adventure." Lara Costafreda

so happy to be a part of this. thank you maría & emma!
the lovely song for the book is "♥" by Moths.
click here for the presentation video

reedbeds

reedbeds ~ swells on high (hooker vision 2011)

"Longtime fans of Reedbeds’ particular brand of hazy good vibes will instantly recognize this subtle masterpiece as a perfect wintry addition to an already extensive discography. New listeners will be equally rewarded as they sit back and allow the soft washes of guitar to smooth out any worries of the day." hooker vision

foto: carmen marchena

buy / download

(thanks to static encounters & weed temple for the rip, the upload and the discography)

ilyas ahmed & liz harris

ilyas ahmed & liz harris ~ live at aquarius records (cdr 2010)

foto: alison scarpulla

buy / download

cabinet of natural curiosities

cabinet of natural curiosities ~ blue highways (for arbors/for satellites 2011)

"After roaming the alleys of Brooklyn and the mountains of Montana, songwriter Jasmine Dreame Wagner retreated to her home in the woods to record chilling lo-fi lullabies and dark country dream songs with slide guitarist and percussionist Alex Reed Wilson."

uno de esos discos especiales y bonitos que sabes que te van a gustar, como tender buttons, asa irons & swann miller o castlemusic

foto: jula mint

listen / buy / download

glowstone

glowstone • todo está bien, todo va a estar bien [self release, 2011]

listen | download

*
las grabaciones caseras molan. son cercanas y reales. como el viento en la cara, como el pío de las aves o la mirada de tu gato o gata preferida ^.^

fotola: el nejo

mazzy star

mazzy star ~ common burn/lay myself down (rhymes of an hour, 2011)

la sirena de sirenas aparece de nuevo, imposible no sentirse conejo tentado con una zanahoria. pasarán los años, los estilos, pero a su voz siempre iremos corriendo, en bata y zapatillas si hace falta.

 

foto: laura appleyard

following the sun

va ~ following the sun (november 2011)

01. kentucky moonshiner ~ bill staines
02. cantina crawl ~ toby burke
03. baby where you are ~ ted lucas
04. lady with the braid ~ dory previn
05. lady blue ~ trevor swadling
06. the road is hard ~ graham davies
07. south someday ~ edgar wappenhalter
08. sunny california theme ~ michael james tapscott
09. how to collect branches ~ je suis le petit chevalier
10. prizewinning ~ julianna barwick
11. alpine valley shelter point ~ food pyramid
12. sea bed meditation ~ jürgen müller
13. crickets sing for ana maría ~ walter wanderly
14. siberian girls ~ monster rally
15. long time before this ~ jim guthrie, sarah harmer & bry webb
16. voice of god ~ castlemusic & wyrd visions
17. hey moon ~ john maus
18. violet ~ moonshine moonshine
19. stagnant water ~ shipwrecks
20. gardenfull ~ theo angell
21. under the sun ~ mia doi todd
22. wendy bird ~ haley bonar
23. fly eye ~ wizard oz
24. sa sa samoa ~ korallreven with julianna barwick
25. nature is a song ~ sister irene o'connor
26. guaglione ~ marino marini

otro año más, happy birthday maicropóns!

download

high wolf

high wolf ~ atlas nation (holy mountain 2011)

France’s High Wolf possesses a natural-born ability to zero in on the tones most conducive to inducing transcendental states. High Wolf’s tracks carry the uncanny sense of sounding as if they’ve been sluicing since the beginning of time, and that he had the graciousness to siphon them for teasingly brief absorption before they shimmer off to the vanishing point. This elite droneur is one of the few musicians who could title a release A Guide To Healing without it coming off as an ironic gesture or a laughable boast.

Atlas Nation, recorded in 2010 after a long trip to India and Nepal, deepens High Wolf’s penetration into the mystic. He evokes an uneasy peace with a new breed of tribal psychedelia shorn of all hokey signifiers. “Fuji Descent” starts the album with what could be a languid, paradisiacal soundtrack to a scrapped Alejandro Jodorowsky film. “The Dawn of Man” is a stark, stoned processional burrowing into malarial climes where guitars squawk in ominous tongues and congas cave in chests and clear brush with a vengeance. “Raagni” magnifies and psychedelicizes Rapoon’s mantric, ritualistic hand-drum patter and tropical-forest drones while hinting at Don Cherry’s jazz-raga peregrinations. High Wolf claims that “Haiti” was “recorded in a couple of hours on the day of the big earthquake in Haiti, so it's the darkest, saddest High Wolf track ever.” It’s a fittingly miasmic, climactic threnody.

Think of Atlas Nation as a surreal aural travelogue that takes a giant step beyond Jon Hassell’s Fourth World music, a humid milieu teeming with alien tonalities and oracular currents. It’s as welcome as a new, improved entheogen on the streets." holy mountain

buy / download

transcending

va ~ transcending (october, 2011)

01. gkfoes vjgoaf ~ a ritual
02. gkfoes vjgoaf ~ healing dream
03. wyld wyzrdz ~ in wonder
04. ashan ~ peace of joy
05. town & country ~ sleeping in the midday sun
06. wyld wyzrdz ~ through water through time
07. wyld wyzrdz ~ touching stars

download

foto: posartry

wind in willows

wind in willows ~ overall aura (6thplanet 2011)

"Wind in Willows is a solo project of Anton Filatov, from Republic of Karelia losted in swamps and forest in Russia, just near by the Finnish border. Childish synths, cutting your ear walls of guitar drones, and peacefull psychedely sometimes turning into new age. Overall Aura is an intimate work, free jams with friends, synth loops, and simple ambient passages"

dolphin synts, free jams...may clouds fly away!

buy / listen/free download

riviere amur

riviere amur ~ bois flotté (i had an accident 2011)

"riviere amur is inez lightfoot + je suis le petit chevalier = jackie mc dowell + félicia atkinson = two wandering foxes running wild together towards invisible lands"

"Bois Flotté is like discovering something unfamiliar through the familiar. An alternate perspective on reality. Side A begins with the familiar sound of the ocean, as meditative chants and slow tonal changes emerge from beneath. Crashing waves decrease in force as if Rivière Amur could calm the most violent of seas. Bells chime in the background, like a hypnotist signaling you in and out of consciousness. Don’t fight it. Forget everything you know and accept this new reality. Approach the world with a naïve eye, as if just born. All knowledge is now a priori. Disassociate objects around you from the names given to them. Focus on the aesthetics: shapes, color, and movement. What do you see? What do you hear? Whispered voices and chirping birds in the background have become nebulous and have fused with the droning soundscape. Familiar sounds have transformed into something new. Something radiant. Don’t fight it. You’re now ready for Side B." half hour handshake

qué ilusión formar parte de un disco tan bonito ^^

buy | listen

gkfoes vjgoaf

gkfoes vjgoaf ~ healings (inner islands 2011)

"I'm writing to let you know that today I've released my last gkfoes vjgoaf album, Healings. It's a c30 cassette, pro-dubbed, beautiful glossy artwork. New Zealand forest images. I just want you all to know how special this release is to me. It's magick is straight from my heart and my desire to share love and good vibes with all. If you don't have a tape player, you can also download a digital version or stream it from the Inner Islands bandcamp page." sean conrad

"holding space for peace, light, and love."

to purchase physical releases visit inner islands and the gentle ways store, to listen to and purchase all tracks and albums digitally visit gkfoes vjgoaf bandcamp

healing dream (mp3)

secret birds

secret birds ~ moon clouds infinite (sonoptik 2011)

"We’ve been loosing ourselves here on the west-coast recently basking in the sweet fall sunshine and Secret Bird’s new jam, Moon Clouds Infinite. This new release marks a radical departure from earlier incarnations of the band. Having consisted of almost 30-band members in the past working on a revolving door basis, Secret Birds has and always will be the brain-child of one man, D.Black.

Across Moon Clouds Infinite we hear bollywood, hypnagogic, doom, pop, kraut and a host of other tags you could lay on this album, a thinking-man’s ambience, provocative but not distracting with the right amount of subtle shifts, abrupt changes and lulling melodies, we have a hunch at Sonoptik that D.Black is on the cusp of something big..." sonoptik

foto: robin mellway

buy

easy feelings

easy feelings ~ s/t (sicsic tapes 2011)

"Like the name suggests, Easy Feelings is intuitive & ethereal psychedelic ambient music to make love to or dream an autumnal afternoon away. It’s a collaboration of Love Cult & Bedroom Bear (Sergei Dmitriev, Anya Kuts & Ivan Afanasyev) from the Republic of Karelia, Russia. The mellow synthwaves, the dreamy voices & the trippy guitarplay of this trippy three piece channel your innermost emotional states of peace & balance." sicsic tapes

buy / download

breaking bad

"...I believe that actors love to act and sometimes what we miss is what is in between the words and what is in the silence. I chose to create this character in a minimalist way. I chose to give him a quiet, deadly calm. He really allows himself to be present and really it's like a self-study, in a way. He is a very, very good listener. For an actor, it can be more effective to work on one thing, not two or three things and do that one thing well, and then sometimes the flower opens in a very different way.

For me, it was to cultivate stillness and calm. It's hard for me also to use the word villain, because I think he is a real human being who really does care, but it was a really wonderful and a great challenge to drop myself to a point where I wasn't forcing anything. Everything came out of an organic place. It has been not only a wonderful exercise, but I think the fruits of my labor have shown because people have gotten him and are enjoying this character in a monumental way." giancarlo esposito aka gustavo 'gus' fring

*

fennel

fennel ~ resuming the trail (pocket fields, 2011)

"Hours are leaves of life.

And I am their gardener.

Each hour falls down slow."

susan morrison

"Fennel is Franciscus Alex Rebro combining raw field recordings with partially improvised, partially composed music. This ongoing project began in the early part of 2010, with the debut album "A Leap Across A Chasm" released on Bandcamp in June of that year. This was followed up by the EP "Relics" in March 2011 and full-album "Resuming the Trail" in October 2011"

crecí en una habitación con una ventana que daba a un patio interior de paredes grises, recuerdo que tenía que alzar el cuello por la ventana para poder ver un poquito del cielo y hacerme una vaga idea del día que haría. los sábados por la mañana solían despertarme las notas de un piano que se colaban por ese patio interior, por la ventana, hasta llegar a la almohada. recuerdo que solía quedarme en cama soñando que esa música salía de mis dedos, imaginándome en conciertos rodeado de grandes filarmónicas, fracs, anteojos, vestidos imposibles y telones rojos. siempre he querido tocar el piano, soy de esos que se cuelan de vez en cuando en las tiendas de música para sentir las teclas aunque no tenga ni la menor idea de cómo hacerlas sonar con sentido.

esta mañana al abrir el correo me topé con un correo de franciscus rebro (aka fennel) invitándonos, a los que escribimos en el blog, a descubrir su música. al escuchar los sonidos anónimos de la ciudad salpicados con las notas del piano me acordé del piano de mi infancia y todo lo demás os lo podréis imaginar. la música como regresión y catarsis, reafirmando, una vez más, que la vida es un piano.

listen / buy

foto: swimmel_

emily lacy

emily lacy ~ country singer (self~released 2010)

"I grew up in the forest. I started drawing at a young age to entertain myself. around age 16 I began to focus heavily on the visual arts, particularly painting and film. I started playing guitar and writing songs at the age of 22. I believe in making committed and active performance environments where sound and vision are joined into a wild trance of human exchange.  Together, in our parade, we can make a way forward." emily lacy

"Country Singer is a brilliant record full of vibrant and dusty folk songs, following in the foot steps of the great country artists of our past. Eerily beautiful. recorded by Ezra Buchla (of Gowns)." folktale

foto: heiner luepke

buy / download