Yo La Tengo

Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band based in Hoboken, New Jersey. With more than 15 albums released since 1984, they have demonstrated unusual longevity for the indie-rock scene. They are frequently regarded as one of the definitive indie rock groups of the 1990s. Though Yo La Tengo has achieved limited mainstream success, the band has become a critical favorite with a devoted fan base.

The band's name comes from a baseball anecdote.

During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn and Venezuelan shortstop Elio Chacón found themselves colliding in the outfield. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, "I got it! I got it!" only to run into the 160-pound Chacón, who spoke only Spanish.

Ashburn learned to yell, "¡Yo la tengo! ¡Yo la tengo!" which is "I have it" in Spanish. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón backing off. He relaxed, positioned himself to catch the ball, and was instead run over by 200-pound (90.7 kilograms) left fielder Frank Thomas, who understood no Spanish and had missed a team meeting that proposed using the words "¡Yo la tengo! as a way to avoid outfield collisions.

After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn, "What the heck is a Yellow Tango?".

The band wanted a name that sounded foreign in order to avoid any connotations in English. Kaplan is also a devoted baseball fan. However, it still irks the band when they are asked the origin of the name. The band once performed a cover of the Mets theme song "Meet the Mets" during a benefit appearance on radio station WFMU's pledge drive. A track on I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass is called "The Story of Yo La Tango" in apparent reference to an all-too-frequent misspelling of the band's name.

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Album Dicography :

01 - Ride the Tiger [1986]
02 - President Yo La Tengo_New Wave Hot Dogs [1987_1989]
03 - Fakebook [1990]
04 - May I Sing With Me [1992] (part1/part2)
05 - Painful [1993]
06 - Electr-o-Pura [1995]
07 - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One [1997]
08 - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out [2000] (part1/part2)
09 - The Sounds of the Sounds of Science [2002] (part1/part2)
10 - Summer Sun [2003]
11 - Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics [2006] (part1/part2)
12 - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass [2006]
13 - They Shoot, We Score [2008] (part1/part2)

EPs :

01 - Here Comes My Baby [1990]
02 - That Is Yo La Tengo [1991]
03 - Upside-Down [1992]
04 - Camp Yo La Tengo [1995]
05 - Little Honda [1997]
06 - Some Other Dimensions in Yo La Tengo [2000]
07 - Danelectro [2000]
08 - Merry Christmas From Yo La Tengo [2002]
09 - Nuclear War [2002]
10 - Today Is the Day! [2003]
11 - Live Session EP [2007]

Splits / Collaboration :

01 - 1995 - Stereolab & Yo La Tengo - Genius + Love Split
02 - 1998 - Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo - Strange But True
03 - 2004 - Chris Stamey & Yo La Tengo - V.O.T.E.

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Megapuss - Surfing [2008]

Devendra Banhart brings us a new musical project with Gregory Rogove (Priestbird/Devendra’s live band) and Fab Moretti (drummer of The Strokes) as well as Noah and the usual suspects in Devendra’s live ensemble called Megapuss. We have to question the naming of the bad and the reason to include Banhart and Rogove naked on the cover — but the music goes from jazz inflicted folk to garage rock to psychedelic, all with spacey vocals a la DB, leaving for a throughly enjoyable affair on Surfing.

Surfing opens up with Crop Circle Jerk ‘94 — a sure sign that there is going to be a lot of goofy elements to this album. After all, the liner notes are covered with Devendra/Gregory’s penises, drawings of them naked, a dude with a penis nose, etc. The song opens up with horns, before falling into a very infectious opening that sounds a bit reminiscent to Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon’s Lover. Luckily, it gets better quick.

To The Love Within sounds like a lost track from Nino Rojo — minimalistic acoustic handclaps and percussion make this a perfect camp fire song. Adam & Steve is a psychedelic gem, with eclectic vocals that match the guitars, weird little time changes, and a Santana-esque lead guitar line in the middle of the song. Theme From Hollywood sounds like another perfect single for the album — it’s hard not to sing along to the jangly chorus: “Too much fun in Hollywood, were havin too much fun.” Elsewhere, Hamman is Mega’s attempt at The Doors, Chicken Titz (goofy again) plays with ’60s-inspired soul beats, and Sayulita is a seven minute piano led piece with Banhart’s extraordinary lyrics and vocals.

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Surfing [2008]

"Crop Circle Jerk 94" Hammer Museum - UCLA

The Spinto Band - Moonwink [2008]

The Spinto Band aren’t a difficult band to want to love. Since they formed in 1996, they’ve consistently delivered a contagious celebration that is playfully puckish and totally bereft of pretension. Moonwink, remarkably the band’s sixth album proper, is their latest 11-track collection of sugary, woozy, cutesy three-minute pop ditties.

First single “Summer Grof” (in the band’s words “a vague tribute to the great comedienne Janeane Garofalo") captures this exuberance perfectly. Jaunty hand-claps give birth to saccharine keyboards and jangly guitars. Add an addictive chorus of “I won’t lie, I won’t lie, I won’t lie, I won’t lie, I won’t lie” and you’ve got a superb indie anthem. It’s a shame that it arrived in October and not July, because “Summer Grof” could truly have ruled the summer.

Since their days as Free Beer, the Spinto Band have made music that is at once outlandish, kinetic, and luminous, and this latest record is no different. Often there are flashes of brilliance (notably “Summer Grof”, “The Carnival”, and album closer “The Black Flag"), but vocalist Nick Krill, keyboard player Sam Hughes, and guitarists Jon Easton and Joey Hobson are so keen on repeating themselves that much of their work, and a lot of this album, often frustrates.

The two opening tracks, “Later On” and “Vivian, Don’t”, offer the same rich, textured guitars, unconventional orchestration, and multiple-part vocal harmonies that made 2006’s Nice and Nicely Done such a critically acclaimed and (comparatively) commercially successful album. The familiar hyperactivity continues through “Pumpkins and Paisley”, an irresistible, relentless, flat-out indie-pop tune that ramps up the keyboards and the “la la las” to become the most morish, adorable song on the album.

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Moonwink [2008]

The Spinto Band / Oh Mandy (Live @ Night & Day Manchester)

Euros Childs - Cheer Gone [2008]

While Childs' former band, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, managed to balance a debt to Canterbury scene legends like Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt (Childs appeared on Ayer's 2007 comeback album, Unfairground) with what some might call 'twee' folky cuteness, his solo work has shown a greater leaning towards to the USA. Last album, The Miracle Inn was filled with Beach Boys sunshine, and on this, album number six - he wheels in a hefty slice of pedal steel Americana. Mind you, the core of Cheer Gone still contains the mildly fey, winsome vocals and rather childlike worldview that all adds appeal.

As the title i mplies, some of this material is a little sad, Autumn Leaves (with the aforementioned pedal steel shining out) drips melancholy while My Love Is Gone is predictably maudlin too. But Childs' Welsh tones, a little like fellow countryman, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, always hold some positivity.

It's a minor pleasure maybe, but a pleasure nonetheless, and fans of his last release will be satified.

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Cheer Gone [2008]

Euros Childs - Y Mwnci Drwg

Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed [2008]

It's perhaps testament to the rich creative vein of form Los Campesinos! find themselves in. Bolstered by a growing army of devoted fans and a barrage of successful gigs, they're back - barely eight months since the release of the goosebump-donator of a debut, ...Hold On Now, Youngster.

For those yet unfamiliar with Los Campesinos!, the Cardiff-based seven-piece's cocktail of synths, violins and itchy guitars leap from the speakers to create indie jubilance, and near-perfect pop songs. No refined coyness here - these rascals are face-slappingly brazen.

Ways To Make It Through The Wall gets WAB, WAD out of the blocks with typical breakneck speed, with a tsunami of instruments, voices and melodies vying for position.

The opening plaudits however all belong to Miserabilia, which features beautiful, addictive guitar melodies, driven by an unrelenting, pounding synth line. The songs centrepiece is built around the most spine-tinglingly amazing violin outburst since before violins were even cool. Fact.

It's a fact almost upended by the arrival of the title track, where piercing, scything, racing strings punctuate gritty guitars and glittering glockenspiels. And while we're on the subject of violins, in a recent interview, Tom Campesinos! remarked "I think my favourite [song] is You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing because it's got a great violin part" - he's not wrong; it's heart-warmingly beautiful.

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We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed [2008]

'Knee Deep at ATP' by Los Campesinos! on QTV

Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping + Id Engager EP [2008]

Kevin Barnes is a married white man whose alter ego is a black transsexual named Georgie Fruit. Transformations come easily to the Of Montreal frontman: Over the past 11 years, he's seamlessly morphed from low-fi indie rocker to quirky prog-pop star, and now on Skeletal Lamping he's a glam-funk warrior, drenched in the sounds and sexuality of Prince, Freddie Mercury and Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie. ("We can do it soft-core if you want/But you should know that I go both ways," he trills on "For Our Elegant Caste.") A soulful romp through psychedelic melodies and sprawling noise-scapes, Skeletal is also a whimsical, Girl Talk-style pastiche, with 15 tracks that consist of a multitude of song fragments. The nine-part "Beware Our Nubile Miscreants" opens with peaceful strings before jolting into a tuneless vamp, then snapping into an echo-soaked wail. And Barnes' lyrics are just as seductively schizophrenic: "I want to ... make you paranoid and say the sweetest things," he sings on "Gallery Piece." And somewhere in the glorious friction between these contradictions, he's in ecstasy.

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Skeletal Lamping [2008]

Id Engager EP [2008]

of Montreal - "Suffer for Fashion" Polyvinyl Records

Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power, The Amorphous Strums - Dark Developments [2008]

Vic Chesnutt is somewhat of a dark horse. One of those that races like beer bubbles beneath the radar. The Southern-fried songwriter has released competent material for over a decade, despite few people noticing. Last year, Chesnutt released a beast of an album with post-rock legends A Silver Mt. Zion titled North Star Deserter and no one noticed; same goes with his influences on scores of artists, including Michael Stipe. But throughout his career, a few simple syllogisms have carried through each album, regardless of its context. Despair is one, usually coerced by drugs or alcohol of some sort, and another is political disenchantment. But few are better than Chesnutt at coiling stories together from these black muses, and Dark Developments is no different. Yes, we have fellow Athens, Georgia/Elephant Six members Elf Power and sometimes accompanying band The Amorphous Strums contributing here, but start-to-finish this is a Vic Chesnutt sonic dystopia. And if you’re familiar with the man at the helm, this collaboration will excite. If this Georgian songwriter is foreign territory, best not start with Dark Developments (suggestions where to start are welcomed in the comments below).

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Dark Developments [2008]

Vic Chesnutt with Elf Power "Everything i say"

Deerhunter - Microcastle [2008]

Deerhunter began in 2001 with the ambition of fusing the lulling hypnotic states induced by ambient and minimalist music with the klang and propulsion of garage rock. The band has weathered chaotic line-up changes, the death of a member, and much discouragement. Their live performances almost always leave audiences polarized. They are a five-piece based in Atlanta.

Atlanta-based Deerhunter are set to release Microcastle, the follow-up to 2007's Cryptograms on October 31, 2008. Microcastle will be released simultaneously on CD and LP via Kranky in North America and 4AD in Europe.

Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver, and Moses Archuleta.

"Saved by Old Times" features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips. The album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Lockett Pundt: "Agoraphobia," and "Neither of Us, Uncertainly."

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Microcastle [2008]

deerhunter, "hazel st"

Juana Molina - Un Día [2008]

Imagine if Tina Fey quit comedy and sang electronics-based folk songs. That's the path Juana Molina took more than 10 years ago in her native Argentina, leaving her job as a TV comedian to pursue experimental folk. Her fifth disc is her most adventurous, combining avant-garde vocals with the atmospherics of Portishead and My Bloody Valentine. With looped guitar, hypnotic percussion and a bit of feedback, the title track sounds like two songs playing at once. The centerpiece is a trio that includes "Los Hongos de Marosa," built on lopsided harmonies, coiling keyboards and Middle Eastern textures. But like Brian Wilson or Kevin Shields, Molina pulls off the most out-there material with melodies nearly as accessible as conventional pop.

Review : Rolling Stone

Un Día [2008]

No es tan cierto : álbum "3 Cosas"

Silver Apples - Silver Apples & Contact [1994]

Contrasting the flowery psychedelic rock music of the late-1960s, the new york city-based Silver Apples created an avant-garde sound based on little more than a homemade synthesizer (named the Simeon after their lead singer - Simeon) and an extensive drumkit, originally played by Dan Taylor. They reformed in the 1990s, making new records and playing live again.

Silver Apples were one of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively within a rock idiom, and their minimalistic style, with its pulsing, driving beat and frequently discordant modality, anticipated not only the experimental electronic music and krautrock of the 1970s, but underground dance music and indie rock of the 1990s as well.

Grupo formado en Nueva York en 1967 y compuesto por el percusionista Danny Taylor y primera voz Simeón , una extraña figura que desempeñó también un instrumento denominado el Simeón, presente en su primer trabajo homónimo en el año 1968. Este instrumento consistió en «nueve osciladores de audio y ochenta y seis controles manuales… Los bajos y los ritmos osciladores se tocan con las manos, los codos y las rodillas y los osciladores están bajo tocado con los pies «. A pesar de ser un registro totalmente novedoso - un ingenioso cacofonía de pitidos, zumbidos y tiempos - no tiene buena crítica y con muy malas ventas.

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Silver Apples & Contact [1994] (part1/part2)

Silver Apples - Oscillations

Suki Ewers - Kind of Hazy [2008]

Suki Ewers has spent her career perfecting a glorious, countrified strand of dream-pop as part of bands Mazzy Star, Opal and Anemone, and this new Kramer-produced solo outing is comparable with the slowcore loveliness of Low, the stargazing Nashville sounds of Cortney Tidwell, and most obviously, the opiated balladry of former bandmate Hope Sandoval, particularly on the brilliant opener 'Time After Time'. The songwriting and production are in perfect harmony, sounding like a pedal steel-toting Velvet Underground on 'All Day Long', whilst spouting blasts of echoing guitar distortion and searing synthesizer on 'This Must Be Heaven'. Sidestepping the dream-pop pitfalls, Ewers never hides her songs - or for that matter her vocals - behind the array of studio techniques and effects that help shape this album, and Kind Of Hazy resounds far more clearly than its title might have you believe.

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Kind of Hazy [2008]

"Know What You're Saying" Suki Ewers

Thurston Moore - Built for Lovin' / Sensitive/Lethal [2008]

Tras la ruidosa cadena de interfaces eléctricas el cerebro Moore también guitarra de Sonic Youth se manifiesta, para el presente año 2008, con la entrega de dos fabulosos discos experimentos que sobre estimulan la fuerza del Feedback al alcance de nuestro deleite total de atraccion gravitatoria entre los climas del cuerpo femenino, detalles de cuerdas que cambian nuevos límites, sigue el extremo en tu tolelancia para que desbordes la esencia del rock creado al ritmo marcapaso siglo XXI, disfruten!.

Sensitive/Lethal CD

After last year's amazing 'Trees Outside The Academy' - his second album of solo songwriting - Thurston Moore takes a major look back into the noise arena with Sensitive/Lethal, an incredible three-part study in raw sound matter, utilising electronics and both electric and acoustic guitars. It's Thurston's unplugged activities that probably prompted the otherwise entirely ironic title 'Sensitive' for the first piece: buried under a maelstrom of extravagant feedback and yelping oscillator modulations a mantra-like open dreadnought chord lays down a foundation of clean, crisp steel string sounds, jangling excitedly like the beginnings of some unholy raga. After twenty-two minutes of this oddly beguiling punishment, the tone changes for 'Lonesome', a magnificent four-minute blast of stereo feedback cycles, sounding not unlike certain interpretations of Steve Reich's swinging mic piece 'Penduluum' - Sonic Youth's own version on Goodbye 20th Century springing most obviously to mind. Finally, 'Lethal' is a markedly less easily digested production, spewing forth analogue noise in all its myriad colours, with pure voltage controlled carnage in one ear and lacerating guitar in the other. There's still plenty of detail spread across the stereo field to make the piece an immersive listen though; after all, this isn't authored by just any old bedroom-bound tape jockey, but rather one of the founding fathers of noise rock and the modern American underground, so frankly it'd be surprising if this wasn't one of the very best noise albums of the year so far. Which it is, by the way.

Built for Lovin' CD

**STRICTLY LIMITED PICTURE DISC** Thurston teams up with fellow indie heroes Mark Ibold (one-time bassist in Pavement and former Free Kitten associate) Sunburned Hand Of The Man drummer John Moloney and his ever-reliable Sonic Youth sparring partner Steve Shelley. Supposedly, somewhere on here is a rough demo of a soundtrack to an HSBC advert (which presumably never aired?) but you really wouldn't want to take out a mortgage with a finance house that'd endorse this kind of filth. It's not all noisy abrasion - you'll find acoustic sketches and other odds and ends of instrumental pieces that would fit in with some quarter of Sonic Youth's discography, or even some of Thurston's solo output - but it's full on abrasive noise that makes up a good 80% or so of this MIGHTY picturedisc. As ever, this is a man who proves himself to be equally adept with a fried bank of oscillators as he is an acoustic guitar, so there's no worry that these sonic misshapes are going to be lacking quality and thoroughness, but be warned that this is closer in spirit to Thurston's hurts-so-good Sensitive/Lethal album than it is to the songwriter stylings of Trees Outside The Academy. Don't forget though: this is limited to just 500 copies worldwide! No dawdling.

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Sensitive/Lethal [2008]

Built for Lovin' [2008]

Thurston Moore @ New Haven People's Center 5/31/08

Mojave 3

Mojave 3 are a British band, consisting of Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, Simon Rowe, Alan Forrester, and Ian McCutcheon. Goswell, Halstead and McCutcheon previously played in Thames Valley shoegazer band Slowdive.

The band initially existed as a trio consisting of Halstead, Goswell, and McCutcheon. After Slowdive were dropped by Creation Records, the trio decided to change musical direction to a dream pop/country rock or folk music style, and were signed by 4AD Records. They took on the new name "Mojave", but upon the discovery of another band already using the name, the "3" was added due to the group's three members. Rowe (formerly of Chapterhouse) and Forrester joined shortly after the release of their first album.

Both Halstead (the main songwriter for the band) and Goswell have released solo albums, also for 4AD. McCutcheon founded and is currently playing with his band called The Loose SaluteHeavenly Records. who are signed to Heavenly Records.

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Album Discography :

1. Ask me tomorrow [1995]
2. Out of Tune [1998]
3. Excuses for travellers [2000]
4. Spoon and Rafter [2003]
5. Puzzles Like You [2006]

Eps :

1. Who Do You Love Ep [1998]
2. Some Kinda Angel Ep [1998]
3. In Love With a View Ep [2000]
4. Any Day Will Be Fine Ep [2000]
5. Return to sender Ep [2000]
6. Bluebird of Happiness Ep [2003]
7. Breaking the Ice Ep [2006]

Mojave 3 - Love Songs On The Radio

Rhys Chatham

Rhys Chatham (born September 19, 1952, New York City) is an American composer, guitarist, and trumpet player, primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. He is best known for his "guitar orchestra" compositions. He has lived in France since 1987.

Early Years

Chatham began his musical career as a piano tuner for avant-garde pioneers La Monte Young and Glenn Gould. He soon studied under electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick and minimalist icon Tony Conrad; Chatham and Conrad played together in an early ensemble. In 1971, while still in his teens, Chatham became the first music director at the experimental art space The Kitchen in lower Manhattan. His early works, such as Two Gongs (1971) owed a significant debt to Young and other minimalists.

His concert productions included experimenters Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, and early alternative rockers such as Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, John Lurie, and Fred Frith. He has worked closely with visual artist/musician Robert Longo, particularly in the 1980s, and on an experimental opera called XS: The Opera Opus (1984) with the visual artist Joseph Nechvatal.

Compositions from the late 1970s and early 1980s

By 1977, Chatham's music was heavily influenced by punk rock, having seen an early Ramones concert. He was particularly intrigued by and influential upon the group of artists music critics would label No Wave in 1978. That year, he began performing Guitar Trio around downtown Manhattan with an ensemble that included Branca, as well as Nina Canal of Ut. Some of this work parallels multi tracked and unison tuned guitar directions developed by Lou Reed and Chuck Hammer. During this period, he wrote several works for large guitar ensembles, including Drastic Classicism, a collaboration with dancer Karole Armitage. Drastic Classicism was first released in 1982 on the compilation New Music from Antarctica, put together by Kit Fitzgerald, John Sanborn and Peter Laurence Gordon. It was also included on the 1987 album that also included his 1982 composition Die Donnergötter (German for "The Thundergods").

Members of the New York City noise rock band Band of Susans began their careers in Chatham's ensembles; they later performed a cover of Chatham's "Guitar Trio" on their 1991 album, The Word And The Flesh. (This parallels the way that members of fellow NYC noise rockers Sonic Youth began their careers in Branca's ensembles; Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth did play with Chatham as well.)

Chatham began playing trumpet in 1983, and his more recent works explore improvisatory trumpet solos; these are performed by Chatham himself, employing much of the same amplification and effects that he acquired with the guitar, over synthesized dance rhythms by the composer Martin Wheeler. His 1990s recordings in this style saw release on Ninja Tune Records as the compilation Neon.

Recent activity

In 2002, he enjoyed a resurgence following the release of a limited-edition 3 CD retrospective box set on the record label Table of the Elements, An Angel Moves Too Fast To See: Selected Works 1971-1989, complete with 130-page booklet. The An Angel Moves Too Fast To See part of the title comes from Chatham's 1989 composition for 100 guitars. He has been since touring with his 100-guitar orchestra in Europe.

In 2005, he was commissioned by the city of Paris, in his adopted homeland, to write a composition for 400 electric guitars entitled A Crimson Grail, as part of the Nuit Blanche Festival. Approximately 10,000 people were present at the performance, and 100,000 more watched it on live television. A CD of excerpts from this concert was released in January 2007 by Table Of The Elements.

Rhys Chatham is currently touring the original 30 minute version of Guitar Trio in the USA and Europe, renamed G3 because the instrumentation has been increased to between six and ten electric guitars, electric bass and drums. In February 2007 he completed a twelve-city tour called the Guitar Trio (G3) Is My Life North America Tour, which was accompanied by the original film by Robert Longo that was projected behind the performance, entitled Pictures for Music (1979). The sets consisted of local musicians from each city of the performances, including members of Sonic Youth, Tortoise, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Husker Du, Brokeback, Lichens, Town & Country, Die Kreuzen, Bird Show and others. A three-CD box set of these performances was released by Table of the Elements in March 2008.

Chatham has continued to tour the original version of Guitar Trio in Europe throughout 2007 and 2008, including performances at:

* Festival Desgressions - 7 March 2007, Barcelona, Spain
* L'Ecole Régionale de Beaux Arts - 25, 26 April 2007, Valence, France
* Kosmische Club - 10 August 2007, Oslo, Norway
* ZXZW Independent Culture Festival - 22, 23 September, Tilburg, the Netherlands
* Festival Soy - 29 October 2007, Nantes, France
* Galleria Toledo - 26 March 2008, Naples, Italy

Rhys Chatham made his first American presentation of a composition for a one-hundred guitar orchestra in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on May 23, 2008, with an orchestra comprised of local students and teachers, as well as many professional guitarists. This performance was the premiere of a new composition entitled Les 100 Guitares: G100.

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Discography:

01 - Factor X [1983]
02 - Echo Solo [1989]
03 - Septile [1997]
04 - Hard Edge [1999]
05 - Three Aspects of the Name [2004]
06 - An Angel Moves Too Fast to See: Selected Works 1971-1989 [2006] (part1/part2/part3/part4)

• 1987 Die Donnergötter (The Thundergods)
• 1997 An Angel Moves Too Fast to See
• 2006 Two Gongs (1971)

07 - A Crimson Grail: For 400 Electric Guitars (part1/part2)
08 - "Guitar Trio Is My Life!"[2008] (part1/part2/part3/part4)


An Angel Moves Too Fast to See - Part 4

L o w

Low is an American indie rock group from Duluth, Minnesota. The group was formed in 1993, by Alan Sparhawk (guitar and vocals), Mimi Parker (drums and vocals) and original bassist John Nichols (bass guitar). Zak Sally replaced Nichols after Low's first album and tour. In 2005, Sally quit the band; Matt Livingston replaced him shortly thereafter. Livingston has since left the band and has been replaced by Steve Garrington, creating the current lineup of Sparhawk, Parker and Garrington.

Their music is commonly described as "slowcore," a subgenre characterised by slow tempos and minimalist arrangements. They are one of the earlier bands to adopt and popularize the style, making them considerable contributors to the slowcore movement. (It is worth noting that the band dislikes this tag. In an interview, Alan Sparhawk says of descriptions of their music: "What's the cheesiest? Slow-core. I hate that word. The most appropriate is anything that uses the word minimal in it, but I don't think anybody's made one up for that." In another interview, Sparhawk claimed that a friend of his coined the term: "this friend of ours in a record store was always joking around...and he said, 'I got it! You should call it "slowcore"!'...It was a total joke, and I think I mentioned it at one of our interviews." ) Parker and Sparhawk's striking vocal harmonies represent perhaps the group's most distinctive element; critic Denise Sullivan writes that their shared vocals are "as chilling as anything Gram and Emmylou ever conspired on -- though that's not to say it's country-tinged, just straight from the heart."

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Album Discography:

01 - I Could Live in Hope [1994]
02 - Long Division [1995]
03 - The Curtain Hits the Cast [1996] (part1/part2)
04 - One More Reason to Forget [1998]
05 - Secret Name [1999]
06 - Things We Lost in the Fire [2001]
07 - Paris '99: "Anthony, Are You Around?" [2001]
08 - Trust [2002]
09 - The Great Destroyer [2005]
10 - Drums and Guns [2007]

Eps:

01 - EP 01 - 1995 Transmission
02 - EP 02 - 1997_1999 Songs for a Dead Pilot & Christmas
03 - Ep 03 - 2000 Travels in Constants Volume 9
04 - EP 04 - 2001 Appears on = Those Girls [K. Low]
05 - EP 05 - 2003 Murderer
06 - EP 06 - 2005 Tonight the Monkeys Die - Low Remixed

And Dirty Three:

01 - No Need / Obvious Is Obvious [1997]
02 - In the Fishtank 7 [2001]



low - dragonfly

Sufjan Stevens: Illinois [2005]

Like the self-proclaimed "Spiderman" who climbed Chicago's Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, "ILLINOIS", a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State.

An engrossing musical road trip, "Illinois" takes you through ghost towns, grain mills, hospital rooms, and the City of Broad Shoulders, with guest appearances by a poet, a president, a serial murderer, UFOs, Superman, the goat that cursed the Cubs, and Decatur's famous Chickenmobile. Sufjan weaves variegated musical styles (jazz, funk, pop, folk, and Rodgers and Hammerstein-like flourishes) and the textures of 25 instruments into a tapestry of persons and places famous, infamous, iconic and anonymous. Invoking the muse of poet Carl Sandburg, "Illinois" ushers in trumpets on parade, string quartets, female choruses and ambient piano scales arranged around Stevens' emerging falsetto.

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Illinois [2005] (part1/part2)

Sufjan Stevens- Chicago

Carla Bozulich: Evangelista [2006]

"Evangelista is a sound that you can open your chest with, pull out what's inside and make it change shapes. Make it open more times and, even more... til the sound inside has finally sealed the hole where your vile/beautiful heart belongs... loved and safe even when you think you're totally alone. Even if you believe in nothing. good or bad, I must report: there's really no such thing as empty space. Even inside this void there is sound. You will hear it. You will see. You will be cradled and near deafened by love and mercy sounds and the sound of your own pulsing blood which used to drive me mad as a child when I would try to go to sleep..." - Carla

Carla Bozulich needs no introduction. Her work with Ethyl Meatplow, The Geraldine Fibbers, Scarnella, The Red-Headed Stranger (with Willie Nelson) and many others spans over twenty years of uncompromising sound, driven by a voice and vision that consistently delivers spine-tingling beauty, originality and directness. Carla's new album (her first on Constellation, and the label's first release by a non-regional artist) is a devastating, elegiac, brutally honest song cycle that finds her voice unleashed with unprecedented emotive depth and determination. Evangelista is heartrending and gutwrenching, with isolation and desperation redeemed by incantatory sonics and out-reaching, soul-saving words. One damn compelling exorcism of a record, churning and channeling out of loneliness to heal and rebuild connective tissue through sound.

Carla came to Montreal to record the album with Efrim at the Hotel2Tango in coldest wintertime, with multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Shahzad Ismaily at her side, and a pocketful of beautiful noises and loops prepared back home in L.A. Various guest players add strings, guitars, drums, organ, piano, hums and other sounds.

Tracklist

1. Evangelista I
2. Steal Away
3. How To Survive Being Hit By LIghtning
4. Inside Sleeps
5. Baby, That’s The Creeps
6. Pissing
7. Prince Of The World
8. Nels’ Box
9. Evangelista II

Personnel

Carla Bozulich: guitar, samples, loops, sounds, drum, voice
Shahzad Ismaily: guitar, drums, casio, voice

Guests

Jessica Moss: violin on TRACKS 1 + 6; singing on TRACK 7
Gen Heistek: viola on TRACK 1
Beckie Foon: cello on TRACK 1
Nadia Moss: organ on TRACKS 1,2, 5 + 6
Thierry Amar: contrabass on TRACKS 1, 2 + 6
Ian Ilavsky: bass on TRACK 6
Erika Anderson: guitar on TRACK 6
Ezra Buchla: sound patches on TRACK 5; viola on TRACK 6 + 8, mandolin on TRACK 7
Corey Fogel: drums on TRACK 6
Efrim: piano on TRACK 2, rain on TRACK 3, guitar on TRACK 9
Jessica, Sophie, Gen, Shahzad, Efrim and Jon Claude: hums on TRACK 3
Tuffy: sneezes, purrs, meowings on TRACK 4

Recording

Tape recordered at thee Hotel2Tango in Montreal by Efrim, winter 2005-2006.
Additional tweaking by Carla at home. Co-produced by Carla and Shahzad Ismaily.
Mastered at Greymarket in Montreal by Harris Newman.

Evangelista [2006]

CARLA BOZULICH - EVANGELISTA @ TERMINAL