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Download: Danish Dynamite Live at Sono Festival 2008
Web: Last FM
27 Ocak 2009 Salı
The Spherical Minds
The band’s main influences are varied: Steve Reich for his simplicity, the mind-blowing rock of Pink Floyd or the experimentations of Radiohead…The band is always interested in discovering artists from different musical horizons.
Long and ethereal as well as dream-like atmospheres are characteristic of The Spherical Minds. Acoustic instruments such as cello, piano and guitar, are mixed with trip hop -sometimes dub- rhythms, bass and electric guitar.
Download: Fern
Web: Myspace Page , Website
Tortoise
Tortoise's almost entirely instrumental music defies easy categorization, and the group gained significant attention from their early career. The members have roots in Chicago's fertile music scene, playing in various indie rock and punk groups. Tortoise was among the first American indie rock bands to incorporate styles closer to Krautrock, dub, minimalism, electronica, and various jazz styles, rather than the standard rock and roll and punk that had dominated indie rock for years.
Some have cited Tortoise as being one of the prime forces behind the development and popularity of the so-called "post-rock" movement. Others, however, have characterised Tortoise's music as being heavily indebted to progressive rock
Download:
- It's All Around You
- Remixed
- Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters
- Tortoise
Web: Myspace Page , Website
22 Ocak 2009 Perşembe
Sans Arc
Sans Arc is an ever-evolving New Jersey-based project that creates dense, emotional soundscapes that envelope listeners in waves of texture. With an emphasis on background atmospherics, layers of guitars (both electric and acoustic), programmed beats and electronic flourishes, Sans Arc forges a unique sound that is difficult to categorize. It has been called shoegaze, post-rock, emo, indie-rock and ambient in various reviews.
Download:
- When Eye Meets Eyes (2007)
- Ghostlike (2006)
Web: Website
Dntel
Dntel is known for mixing glitch and cut-up electronic techniques with instruments like acoustic guitars, accordions, and symphonies.
Download:
- Life Is Full of Possibilities - 2001
- Early Works For Me If It Works For You - 1998
Web: Myspace Page , Website
Lady & Bird
Beguiling and mysterious, the self-titled eponymous debut album from Lady & Bird performed and recorded by French singer-songwriter Keren Ann and Bardi Johannsson of the Icelandic band Bang Gang exists in a unique universe wholly of its own creation. Subtitled “A Children’s Story For Adults,” the ten-song CD is certainly not aimed at the preschool set. Far from it. Lady & Bird tells the story of two curious, disembodied creatures who are stuck in the bodies of a pair of grownups. From selections like Lou Reed’s “Stephanie Says” or “Suicide Is Painless” (alias “The Theme from M*A*S*H”) to the eight delicately haunting original compositions you can catch a glimpse of these two peculiar innocents as their quiet melodies slip between the crack of night and day, and seep into our natural world.
Download: Lady & Bird
Web: Myspace Page
11 Ocak 2009 Pazar
8 Ocak 2009 Perşembe
Eluvium
Eluvium is an ambient project of Matthew Cooper. He is known for blending various genres of experimental music including shoegaze, electronic, minimalist and piano.
Download:
- Copia (2007)
- When I Live By The Garden And the Sea (2006)
- Talk Amongst the Trees (2005)
- An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death (2004)
- Lambent Material (2003)
Web: Myspace Page , Website
3 Ocak 2009 Cumartesi
2 Ocak 2009 Cuma
Stars of the Lid
Stars of the Lid is a band specializing in drone-based ambient music. They list among their influences minimalist and electronic composers such as Arvo Pärt , Zbigniew Preisner, Gavin Bryars, and Henryk Górecki, as well as post-rock artists Talk Talk and Labradford, and ambient innovator Brian Eno. Their music largely consists of beatless soundscapes, composed of droning, effects-treated guitars along with piano, strings, and horns; volume swells and feedback fill the gap of rhythmic instruments, providing dynamic movement within the songs.
Download:
2007: Carte-De-Visite (Live Tour release)
2007: Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline (Disc 1)
2007: Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline (Disc 2)
2001: The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
1999: Avec Laudenum
1998: Per Aspera Ad Astra
1997: The Ballasted Orchestra
1996: Gravitational Pull vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life
1995: Music for Nitrous Oxide
Web: Myspace Page , Website
Lali Puna
Lali Puna are Markus Acher (the Notwist) and Valerie Trebeljahr. They are from Munich, where they started to make music in 1998. A few years later, after they had created „Indietronics“ as a genre, they had become one of the most important Independent-acts in Germany. All of their albums have been released on Morr Music.
Download:
- I Thought I Was Over That - Rare, Remixed, and B-Sides (2005)
- Faking the Books (2004)
- Scary World Theory (2001)
- Tridecoder (1999)
Web: Myspace Page , Website
James Figurine
Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel and The Postal Service has released a solo album as James Figurine. Tamborello also plays in a synth-pop band called Figurine.
The record started out as an extra melodic, minimal techno record with some sparse vocals, but with Tamborello’s techno-pop tendencies and a handful of celebrity chums like Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis and Erlend Øye of Kings of Convenience helping out, you can expect some melodic, indie-rific electronica.
Download: Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake
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