Category :
jane (famale vocalists)
tags :
tags :
Sweden
MySpace
official website here
ballade de johnny-jane Fever Ray here
The "deluxe" double-disc version of the Fever Ray album is still adorned with the wonderful artwork by Martin Ander.
Swedish designer Martin Ander produced these distinctive artworks for Karen Dreijer Andersson's Fever Ray project. The linocut-style illustrations give these images an unsettling, 'spooky' feel, which was a strong requirement from the original brief.
Fever Ray's Deluxe Edition was out 11/24
Keep The Streets Empty
jane
MySpace
official website here
ballade de johnny-jane Fever Ray here
The "deluxe" double-disc version of the Fever Ray album is still adorned with the wonderful artwork by Martin Ander.
Swedish designer Martin Ander produced these distinctive artworks for Karen Dreijer Andersson's Fever Ray project. The linocut-style illustrations give these images an unsettling, 'spooky' feel, which was a strong requirement from the original brief.
Fever Ray's Deluxe Edition was out 11/24
Keep The Streets Empty
jane
2009/11/23
El Guincho
Category :
johnny (rock,ambient etc...)
tags :
tags :
Spain
MySpace
El Guincho is the recording alias of Spanish musician Pablo Díaz-Reixa. Also a member of Coconot, Díaz-Reixa rose to prominence with his 2008 album, Alegranza!. His musical style, influenced by a broad range of artists like Animal Collective and Os Mutantes, relies heavily on the use of sampling and incorporates elements of Afrobeat, dub, Tropicália and rock and roll as Díaz-Reixa achieves what he's described as a kind of "space-age exotica". He utilizes a Roland SP-404. He is also known as El Guincho de Tortilla de pico de gallo. He is touring Australia in February as part of the St Jerome's Laneway Festival.(Wikipedia El Guincho)
Page here
NEW EL GUINCHO - "ANTILLAS (XXXCHANGE REMIX)"
When we first heard onetime BTW Pablo Díaz-Reixa, aka El Guincho, we were drawn in by "Antillas," a song we described as "a five-minute bundle of clattering loops and sunny harmonies." It was from the self-released Alegranza!, before he'd signed to XL, who reissued the collection. Almost two years after being hooked we have an "Antillas" remix by XXXchange. It shows up on one of two double 12"s that feature remixes of the track by the likes of Architecture In Helsinki, Prins Thomas, Banana Clipz, etc. (Mad Decent's releasing one, Young Turks the other.) It's nice being reintroduced to the song, especially as we inch closer to winter. In this take, you'll here the original's loops buried beneath, and weaving through, a slew of new sounds.
Antillas
johnny
洋楽
MySpace
El Guincho is the recording alias of Spanish musician Pablo Díaz-Reixa. Also a member of Coconot, Díaz-Reixa rose to prominence with his 2008 album, Alegranza!. His musical style, influenced by a broad range of artists like Animal Collective and Os Mutantes, relies heavily on the use of sampling and incorporates elements of Afrobeat, dub, Tropicália and rock and roll as Díaz-Reixa achieves what he's described as a kind of "space-age exotica". He utilizes a Roland SP-404. He is also known as El Guincho de Tortilla de pico de gallo. He is touring Australia in February as part of the St Jerome's Laneway Festival.(Wikipedia El Guincho)
Page here
NEW EL GUINCHO - "ANTILLAS (XXXCHANGE REMIX)"
When we first heard onetime BTW Pablo Díaz-Reixa, aka El Guincho, we were drawn in by "Antillas," a song we described as "a five-minute bundle of clattering loops and sunny harmonies." It was from the self-released Alegranza!, before he'd signed to XL, who reissued the collection. Almost two years after being hooked we have an "Antillas" remix by XXXchange. It shows up on one of two double 12"s that feature remixes of the track by the likes of Architecture In Helsinki, Prins Thomas, Banana Clipz, etc. (Mad Decent's releasing one, Young Turks the other.) It's nice being reintroduced to the song, especially as we inch closer to winter. In this take, you'll here the original's loops buried beneath, and weaving through, a slew of new sounds.
Antillas
johnny
洋楽
2009/11/21
Spoon New Album “Transference” in January
Category :
johnny (rock,ambient etc...)
tags :
tags :
US
MySpace
official website here
Merge Records here
New Spoon – “Transference” – in January!
10/30/09
Spoon’s seventh LP, Transference, on January 26th!
The band was formed in late 1993 by lead singer/guitarist Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno. The name Spoon was chosen to honor the 1970s German avant-garde band Can whose hit song "Spoon" was the theme song to the movie Das Messer. Eno describes Spoon's music as "rock 'n' roll."(Wikipedia Spoon)
Discography
Albums
Telephono (1996, Matador)
A Series of Sneaks (1998, Elektra)
Girls Can Tell (2001, Merge)
Kill the Moonlight (2002, Merge)
Gimme Fiction (2005, Merge)
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007, Merge)
Transference (2010, Merge)
Spoon give us a 44 second tease of their upcoming album Transference.
Jealousy
johnny
洋楽
MySpace
official website here
Merge Records here
New Spoon – “Transference” – in January!
10/30/09
Spoon’s seventh LP, Transference, on January 26th!
The band was formed in late 1993 by lead singer/guitarist Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno. The name Spoon was chosen to honor the 1970s German avant-garde band Can whose hit song "Spoon" was the theme song to the movie Das Messer. Eno describes Spoon's music as "rock 'n' roll."(Wikipedia Spoon)
Discography
Albums
Telephono (1996, Matador)
A Series of Sneaks (1998, Elektra)
Girls Can Tell (2001, Merge)
Kill the Moonlight (2002, Merge)
Gimme Fiction (2005, Merge)
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007, Merge)
Transference (2010, Merge)
Spoon give us a 44 second tease of their upcoming album Transference.
Jealousy
johnny
洋楽
2009/11/20
The Clonious
Category :
johnny (rock,ambient etc...)
tags :
tags :
Austria
MySpace
Ubiquity Records here
The beat generation scene is on fire worldwide, with artists smashing the boundaries of connections between electronic music and hip hop, taking what they know and creating something new. “With every record I have listened to I inhaled a piece of the world,” says Movahedi. “I come from a musical background that is heavily influenced by the jazz era of the late 1950s and 1960s. But a big part of my sound is sampling. Everything I record or produce eventually ends up in a sampler. As I see it the art of sampling comes close to a cloning process. So add my love for sampling with my love for old jazz records and the name The Clonious makes sense...I guess!” he adds.
Between the Dots
The Music Lobby here
The Clonious, Between the Dots(2009)
For my part, The Clonious came out of nowhere this year with his wonderful “Androit Adventures” EP including a collaboration with relatively newcomer, beatmaker/singer Muhsinah and producer/remixer Dorian Concept. “Between the Dots” is the answer to the “Androit Adventures” EP. From Vienna, Austria, home to like-minded producer Dorian Concept, The Clonious is making some serious moves with his two releases on Ubiquity. If I had to describe the sound, it fits somewhere between the futuristic soul of production trio Sa-Ra Creative Partners, the energetic, synth-noodling of Dorian Concept and the warm, layered, stuttering beats of Dimlite. The Clonious seems to be no stranger to the keys and horns, tracks like “If Joe Had The Power” bring out the musician over layered melodies and hip hop claps while a trumpet or sax ride out the beat creating some serious electronic funk. No joke. What’s really caught me off guard about many of the tracks on “Between the Dots” is not only the production but the live instrumentation. The fusing of jazz patterns over beats is nothing new. However, there seems to be some of that found throughout the release and it works out well. Both The Clonious and Dorian Concept work the keys on “Dataflow,” a jazz-influenced stepper, one of my favorites from the album. Other collaborations include Dudley Perkins and Georgia Anne Muldrow.
Leaving Belief
johnny
洋楽
MySpace
Ubiquity Records here
The beat generation scene is on fire worldwide, with artists smashing the boundaries of connections between electronic music and hip hop, taking what they know and creating something new. “With every record I have listened to I inhaled a piece of the world,” says Movahedi. “I come from a musical background that is heavily influenced by the jazz era of the late 1950s and 1960s. But a big part of my sound is sampling. Everything I record or produce eventually ends up in a sampler. As I see it the art of sampling comes close to a cloning process. So add my love for sampling with my love for old jazz records and the name The Clonious makes sense...I guess!” he adds.
Between the Dots
The Music Lobby here
The Clonious, Between the Dots(2009)
For my part, The Clonious came out of nowhere this year with his wonderful “Androit Adventures” EP including a collaboration with relatively newcomer, beatmaker/singer Muhsinah and producer/remixer Dorian Concept. “Between the Dots” is the answer to the “Androit Adventures” EP. From Vienna, Austria, home to like-minded producer Dorian Concept, The Clonious is making some serious moves with his two releases on Ubiquity. If I had to describe the sound, it fits somewhere between the futuristic soul of production trio Sa-Ra Creative Partners, the energetic, synth-noodling of Dorian Concept and the warm, layered, stuttering beats of Dimlite. The Clonious seems to be no stranger to the keys and horns, tracks like “If Joe Had The Power” bring out the musician over layered melodies and hip hop claps while a trumpet or sax ride out the beat creating some serious electronic funk. No joke. What’s really caught me off guard about many of the tracks on “Between the Dots” is not only the production but the live instrumentation. The fusing of jazz patterns over beats is nothing new. However, there seems to be some of that found throughout the release and it works out well. Both The Clonious and Dorian Concept work the keys on “Dataflow,” a jazz-influenced stepper, one of my favorites from the album. Other collaborations include Dudley Perkins and Georgia Anne Muldrow.
Leaving Belief
johnny
洋楽
2009/11/19
A Dancing Beggar
Category :
johnny (rock,ambient etc...)
tags :
tags :
UK
MySpace
About A Dancing Beggar
MySpace A Dancing Beggars The Story...
A Dancing Beggar is the musical project of 21-year-old musician, James Simmons. Having played a mixture of drums and guitar in previous bands, a solo project seemed the next step in achieving other creative goals. Using just a laptop, a couple of guitars and a cheap microphone, everything is written, recorded, mixed and produced in his bedroom.
Influenced by seminal post-rock artists like Maps, Sigur Ros, Amusement Parks On Fire, and Epic45, A Dancing Beggar began in summer 2007. After the purchase of some recording equipment a number of songs were written, recorded and distributed across MySpace. It wasn’t until early 2008 that a collection of songs seemed to link together for a possible release. These were recorded and subsequently turned into the 5 track EP 'How They Grow' which has been described by The Stool Pigeon as a 'post rock treat'. In late 2008 the entire EP was re-mixed, and on the 23rd February 2009 Grand Independent released ‘How They Grow’, as a 6 track EP on iTunes. ‘How They Grow’ takes elements of post-rock and shoegaze and has been compared to the sounds of Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Ulrich Schnauss and July Skies.
As of March 2009, work had begun on new songs for A Dancing Beggar’s eagerly anticipated full-length album, ‘What We Left Behind’. These songs are more acoustic based, less distorted and euphoric with emphasis on a more organic sound. Composed and mixed by James, all eleven tracks were recorded in James’ bedroom again using an acoustic and electric guitar, microphone and laptop, between November 2008 and June 2009. This time incorporating field recordings by artists Peter Caeldries, Adam Danz and Cynthia Lawson, samples of which can be heard on ‘Our Distant Memories’, ‘Skinny Trees’ and ‘Branches and Nettles’. Notably an extract of ‘Day 16 - Recall Your Favorite Childhood Memory’ by Cynthia Lawson, a story about how she nearly jumped into a swimming pool with no water in it when she was very young. Such samples only compliment the ethereal sounds of ‘What We Left Behind’, marking a turning point in the maturity of A Dancing Beggar’s music which in most parts navigates around the concept of nostalgia.
What We Left Behind
Label:Grand Independent
Format:CD, Album
Country:UK
Released:07 Sep 2009
Lo-Fi perfection of souring grandeur
Post-rock gets a bit of a hard deal sometimes. It is not all pony tails, smoke machines and eight minute songs. For those whom the genre is their bread and butter the intricacies of a ‘Mogwai’ movement compared to the exhausting exultations of an ‘Explosions in the Sky’ concoction make up the back drop of a genre that is experimental in its essence and a fully blown sonic war at its peak.
‘A Dancing Beggar’ can play devils advocate here as their style perfectly fits between both stylistics and plays along beautifully by bringing a different slant to the party. Their tone is rustic and simplistic but the production is lush and lavish enough to capture a band with some real quality. ‘Sand Between Our Toes’ plays on that fantasy with poise and perfectly captures feeling as well as sentiment. The albums soundscapes conquer over your senses and the sonic artistry on show is delightfully playful and consistently intricate and intriguing. ‘A Dancing Beggar’ is the one man product of the Brighton based musician James Simmons. Staggering, truly staggering. (Discogs Album Review here)
Daytrip to Glynde
johnny
洋楽
MySpace
About A Dancing Beggar
MySpace A Dancing Beggars The Story...
A Dancing Beggar is the musical project of 21-year-old musician, James Simmons. Having played a mixture of drums and guitar in previous bands, a solo project seemed the next step in achieving other creative goals. Using just a laptop, a couple of guitars and a cheap microphone, everything is written, recorded, mixed and produced in his bedroom.
Influenced by seminal post-rock artists like Maps, Sigur Ros, Amusement Parks On Fire, and Epic45, A Dancing Beggar began in summer 2007. After the purchase of some recording equipment a number of songs were written, recorded and distributed across MySpace. It wasn’t until early 2008 that a collection of songs seemed to link together for a possible release. These were recorded and subsequently turned into the 5 track EP 'How They Grow' which has been described by The Stool Pigeon as a 'post rock treat'. In late 2008 the entire EP was re-mixed, and on the 23rd February 2009 Grand Independent released ‘How They Grow’, as a 6 track EP on iTunes. ‘How They Grow’ takes elements of post-rock and shoegaze and has been compared to the sounds of Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Ulrich Schnauss and July Skies.
As of March 2009, work had begun on new songs for A Dancing Beggar’s eagerly anticipated full-length album, ‘What We Left Behind’. These songs are more acoustic based, less distorted and euphoric with emphasis on a more organic sound. Composed and mixed by James, all eleven tracks were recorded in James’ bedroom again using an acoustic and electric guitar, microphone and laptop, between November 2008 and June 2009. This time incorporating field recordings by artists Peter Caeldries, Adam Danz and Cynthia Lawson, samples of which can be heard on ‘Our Distant Memories’, ‘Skinny Trees’ and ‘Branches and Nettles’. Notably an extract of ‘Day 16 - Recall Your Favorite Childhood Memory’ by Cynthia Lawson, a story about how she nearly jumped into a swimming pool with no water in it when she was very young. Such samples only compliment the ethereal sounds of ‘What We Left Behind’, marking a turning point in the maturity of A Dancing Beggar’s music which in most parts navigates around the concept of nostalgia.
What We Left Behind
Label:Grand Independent
Format:CD, Album
Country:UK
Released:07 Sep 2009
Lo-Fi perfection of souring grandeur
Post-rock gets a bit of a hard deal sometimes. It is not all pony tails, smoke machines and eight minute songs. For those whom the genre is their bread and butter the intricacies of a ‘Mogwai’ movement compared to the exhausting exultations of an ‘Explosions in the Sky’ concoction make up the back drop of a genre that is experimental in its essence and a fully blown sonic war at its peak.
‘A Dancing Beggar’ can play devils advocate here as their style perfectly fits between both stylistics and plays along beautifully by bringing a different slant to the party. Their tone is rustic and simplistic but the production is lush and lavish enough to capture a band with some real quality. ‘Sand Between Our Toes’ plays on that fantasy with poise and perfectly captures feeling as well as sentiment. The albums soundscapes conquer over your senses and the sonic artistry on show is delightfully playful and consistently intricate and intriguing. ‘A Dancing Beggar’ is the one man product of the Brighton based musician James Simmons. Staggering, truly staggering. (Discogs Album Review here)
Daytrip to Glynde
johnny
洋楽
