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Atrax Morgue

2009-03-31T01:46:00.010-03:00

It feels familiar to listen to italian Marco Corbelli, also known as Atrax Morgue. One can possibly rebuild its influences from 79 to 90: the most haunting of early Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, early Merzbow and Lustmord. Clearly reconstructing the ways of industrial, noise, dark ambient and power electronics, these early cassette pieces are musical documents of someone with complete control of his intentions and assumedly essaying over pervertion.
There is a sublime minimalistic subtlety in his music. Decrepit white noise signals turned into timid beats, sound processing of mechanical tools and field recordings, Boyd Rice like organ / synthetizer mantras, channelled into the perfect suiting range of frequencies of the cassette tape.

(1993) In Search of Death / V0
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(1993) Black Slaughter / V1
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(1994) Collection in Formaldeide / V1
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Mayhem

2009-03-23T23:48:00.008-03:00

During the course of more than two decades, Mayhem has built the reputation of one of the most notorious and influencial black metal bands of all time. Albeit a pillar of the so called second wave black metal - term referring to bands from the early nineties and forth - this demos record is an isolated masterpiece itself.
The paradoxal beauty of this record is that this teenage norwegian trio, while still adhering to satanic aesthetics, has its apparent radical standpoints neutralized by the unpretentiousness of a barely garage-band Venon tribute. This becomes evident in the second part of the album, a totally unmixed recorded studio rehearsal, showing the lads simply trying to acheive an unexampled level of heaviness much beyond the point their idols stopped, evidently having fun.
The first part of the album is especially delightful to lo-fi appreciators. Low-fidelity black metal production has seen its first steps on projects such as Bathory, debuting two years before Mayhem's demo. The latter, however, has taken the limits of lo-fi to another level: "Ghoul" and the title track make it virtually impossible to distinguish anything but a wave of reverberating fuzz and toy-like drums; Venon's "Black Metal"cover (coherently labeled as "total death version") is one of the rawest and heaviest recordings ever made. Here, and in recordings until the early nineties (specially in their Deathcrush EP), show much more of a punk attitude than anything.
Preceding all the controversy the band attracted during its twenty year plus carreer, this album, released before the second wave of black metal bands was consolidated as a specific style in the nineties, remains as a cult statement of unprecedented characteristics.

(1986) Pure Fucking Armageddon / V0
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Their 1987 follow-up, the Deathcrush EP, goes beyond attitude: it is a trash, punk, grindcore, death/black metal crossover album. The opening intro track sounds like a satire to martial music found in Death in June; following tracks are utter gore themed songs, ranging between the listed styles. Deathcrush's idiosyncratic amalgam of styles closed a period of Mayhem's discography before a seven year hiatus, after the suicide of Dead, the vocalist who entered the band after Deathcrush, and the assassination of Euronymous, the former guitar player (in 1991 and 1993, respectively). Eventually, the band released in 1994 "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas", an album that consolidated what is known today as norwegian black metal.

(1987) Deathcrush / V0
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Roy Smeck

2009-02-18T02:50:00.007-03:00

Roy Smeck is a virtuoso genious. His stunning technique, however, transcends itself, and together with improvised percussion onto the current instrument and incredibly good taste, one can't deny Smeck's avant garde approach, specially in his context.
The self descriptive "Plays Hawaiian Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele and Guitar" finds Smeck merging his Hawaiian, country,swing and blues influences in the period of 1926 to 1949, in a nearly perfect compilation.
The frenzy noticeable in the late 20s and 30s is not that evident in his later work. Albeit enjoyable and laid-back, these adjectives are not enough before the groundbreaking aggressiveness of his self described "nifty picking" seen once before.

(1992) Plays Hawaiian Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele and Guitar (1926-1949) / V0
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(1959) The Magic Ukulele of Roy Smeck / 192k
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(repost) Codeine

2009-02-08T18:09:00.004-02:00

check the main post for updated links and bitrates (by browsing the menu, or clicking here).

edit: demos link fixed.

Throat Singing: Huun-Huur-Tu and Yat-Kha

2009-01-16T18:34:00.012-02:00

Much of what is known from Tuva, with worldwide recognition, comes from their traditional throat singing technique. Deeply studied by musicians and musicologists, this technique, existent in several cultures in the world, involves the production of multiple harmonics simultaneously by a single person (see the differences between throat singing styles here).

One of the tuvan throat singing most notable ensembles are Huun-Huur-Tu. 1994's The Orphan's Lament is a true master work of tuvan folkloric songs.

(1994) Huun-Huur-Tu - The Orphan's Lament / 320k
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(1997) Huun-Huur-Tu - If I'd Been Born An Eagle / 320k
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Albert Kuvezin, from Huun-Huur-Tu, founded Yat-Kha in the mid-nineties intending to introduce new influences to his homeland traditional style. Albeit firstly focused on the insertion of electronic elements (by avant-garde musician, and also founding member, Ivan Sokolovsky - who left the band shortly after), Yenisei-Punk is a great example of rock music moderately conciliated with tuvan folk, and of the path which would the group follow afterwards.

(1995) Yat-Kha - Yenisei-Punk / V0
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(1999) Yat-Kha - Dalai Beldiri / V1
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(2000) Yat-Kha - Aldyn Dashka / V0
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(2006) Yat-Kha - Re-Covers / V2
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Zoviet France

2009-01-16T17:24:00.002-02:00

After several people asking me for reuploading, I managed to reobtain some rather difficult to find Zoviet France albums.

Browse to their page in the menu, or click HERE.

B Fachada

2009-01-12T14:31:00.004-02:00

Bernardo Fachada, teamed up with producer Tiago Pereira, recently released a documentary over oral tradition in Portugal, and its sense in the 21st century. "Tradição Oral Contemporânea" (Contemporary Oral Tradition) shows him absorbing ageless folkloric tunes and analysing their change over time. The 'lisboeta' Fachada has visited villages in Portugal and orally exchanged songs with the people, trying to prove the natural aspects of traditional music and giving life to it outside rural boundaries. In both Viola Braguesa and in the documentary,the sense of transmission and change can be understood as aspects of tradition itself - opposed to the idea of crystalization of popular (mostly rural) culture. Similar results can be seen in the work of the mythical António Variações in the early eighties, but with massive repercussion and lacking Fachada's conceptual and intellectual approach.

Musically, the album's broody atmosphere and slow paced tempos, its lovely lo-fi aesthetics composed of organ and viola braguesa (portuguese sort of guitar) and great vocals sung in portuguese, make this album not only conceptually, but sentimentally, a great achievement.

(2008) Viola Braguesa / V0
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Milton Nascimento

2008-11-24T11:10:00.027-02:00

The recognition of Milton Nascimento's work has been built in ambiguous ways, specially in his homeland Brazil. While kept as a cult marvel to foreign ears, his superstar status in Brazil as a lead singer paradoxically coexists with his more avantgarde approach as a musician - at least until the seventies - thus establising himself as the most prominent and inaccessible artist in the country.

His 1967 self-titled debut album - years later re-released as Travessia - is a roots samba / jazz crossover album, fully orchestrated by Luiz Eça (who also plays the Piano throughout the record), which propelled Nascimeno to worldwide recognition. In 1969, most of these songs were re-recorded under CTI's Creed Taylor guidance, resulting in Courage. Songs like "Três Pontas" and "Catavento" were emulated, new songs added ("Courage", "Vera Cruz", "October") and an english spoken version of "Travessia" (Bridges) - backed up by great names such as Herbie Hancock and Airto Moreira.

(1967) Travessia / V0
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(1969) Courage / 320k
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Some years later, Nascimento would veer towards what would become one the the most notorious records in decades of brazilian music - Clube da Esquina. While credited to Milton Nascimento (for obvious reasons) and Lô Borges (who earned compositional credits for several songs), the Clube da Esquina ensemble ("Corner Club", childishly named after what would their respective mothers call the gang) is also formed by Márcio Borges, Toninho Horta, Wagner Tiso, among others. The Clube da Esquina record, ranging from psychedelia, to Beatle-esque pop, samba and folk, thrusted all members to prolific solo carreers - except for the already established (and now bulked up) Nascimento's acclaim. "Os Povos" is unearthly.

(1972) Milton Nascimento e Lô Borges - Clube da Esquina / V2
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The following year, Milagre dos Peixes finds the musician still in the psychedelic field, but more british sounding and more progressive oriented, merging different root brazilian music influences with reverbful prog-like timbres. This sound orientation is due to the Som Imaginário backup band (formed originally to backup Nascimento, but continued to perform afterwards), also featuring Clube da Esquina's Toninho Horta and Wagner Tiso.

(1973) Milagre dos Peixes / 320 VBR
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In 1975 and 1976, Milton Nascimento released Minas and Geraes, respectively. Minas is the last breath of artsiness in his work, while Geraes may be seen as the bridge to his 80's carreer. The first still gathers jazz, samba and prog rock elements, consolidating one of his most gloomy and haunting releases (attention to "Beijo Partido" and "Ponta de Areia"). Geraes tends to baroque pop with strong brazilian elements, recreating the baroque aura typical of the Minas Gerais state.

(1975) Minas / V0
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(1976) Geraes / V0
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(1972) Lô Borges - Lô Borges / V0
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(repost) Erik Satie: Socrate; John Cage: Cheap Imitation

2008-09-19T00:46:00.002-03:00

There are two great articles in Wikipedia about both works:
Socrate
Cheap Imitation

(1991) Erik Satie: Socrate; John Cage: Cheap Imitation / 192k
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Will Oldham

2008-09-04T12:01:00.024-03:00

	Will Oldham + Bill Callahan (1993) The Sundowners - Goat Songs / 192k download Sea Note Records

	Will Oldham + Mick Turner (2000) Marquis de Tren & Bonny Billy - Get on Jolly / 192k download Palace Records

Will Oldham + Mick Turner
(2001) Marquis de Tren & Bonny Billy - Get the Fuck on Jolly Live / 192k
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Palace Records

Brian Eno & Gavin Bryars

2008-07-01T15:17:00.015-03:00

Conceptually inspired by Satie, Stockhausen, Cage and others, Brian Eno has reached the touchstone of what would become a pillar in experimental music with Discreet Music. The idea of ambience preceding music per se has been intensely explored by Satie, and taken to extreme with Cage: the concept of form has been perverted throughout his work in aspects such as length, source, harmony and reproductivity.
Eno, allied to Gavin Bryars (and spiritually assisted by Robert Fripp), released Discreet Music in 1975. The process of tapelooping was heavily explored by both Fripp and Eno in previous collaborations. This technique analogically scrutinized the possibilities of pitch and length variations in overdub, with discrete (separate) groups of patterns discreetly (restrainedly) intertwined. Eventually, the announced intention of achieving pictorical sensations was later baptized of Ambient Music.

Albeit being endlessly remembered by the thirty minute plus self-titled track, which effectively landmarked Eno's goals by the use of the referred techniques and concepts, the undervalued ageless second half of the album reached the acme of minimal placidity. While the former is inevitably dated through processes of semiotics, the latter, 3 variations of Pachelbel's Canon performed by Gavin Bryars' ensemble, remains undeniably influential as observed in several ambient and contemporary classical acts.

Bryars' first solo attempt was recorded in 75 and released the year after by Eno's Obscure label. It gathers much of what he's performed in Discreet Music, in an excellent debut release, disconsidered the exaggerated use of sampled voice in the closing track.

(1975) Brian Eno - Discreet Music / V0
EG Records
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(1976) Gavin Bryars - Sinking of the Titanic/Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet / 320k
Obscure Records
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(part 1 / part 2)

SYR

2008-06-05T13:04:00.015-03:00

SYR1 (1997) download	SYR2 (1997) download

SYR3 (1997) download	SYR4 (1999) download: part 1 / part 2

SYR5 (2000) download	SYR6 (2005) download: part 1 / part 2

SYR7 (2008) download

ps: ALL V0'S / The original post is now a year old; all the albums were 128k's with dead links.

John Cage

2008-06-04T17:32:00.020-03:00

John Cage (performers: Arditti Quartet)
The Complete String Quartets
(1989) Vol. 1, (1992) Vol. 2 / 320k
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download: part 1 / part 2 / part 3

John Cage (performers: Dennis Russell Davies and Margaret Leng Tan)
(2000) The Seasons / 320k
download: rapidshare.de / megaupload

John Cage (performer: Frances-Marie Uitti)
(2004) Works for Cello / Lecture on Nothing / V0
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ps: I wrongly tagged this album as "Works for Cello". Please correct with the additional title.

DNA

2008-06-02T19:43:00.006-03:00

"The title of this EP couldn't be more appropriate, clocking in at less than 10 minutes; ... For fans of ebullient and exciting noise rock, this release will show you where the contemporary Japanese noise bands (e.g., The Boredoms) got their inspiration." (AMG)

(1981) A Taste of DNA / 320k
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NON

2008-05-30T03:49:00.015-03:00

Boyd Rice's NON, in a superb dark-ambient album. Absurdly disruptive and unsettling - extreme drone-music.

(2002) Children of the Black Sun / V0
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Dagmar Krause

2008-05-15T23:29:00.002-03:00

Canterbury Scene's most notable voice, Dagmar Krause (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Art Bears), in her solo debut, sings early twentieth century german theathre music by icons Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hans Eisler. Although far from the rock scenario, Supply & Demand shows Krause's highest vocal qualities, in a no less joyful approach.

(1986) Supply & Demand / 160k
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Today is the Day (repost)

2008-05-15T20:05:00.002-03:00

Second album by Steve Austin and Today is the Day, Willpower (Amphetamine Reptile Records) gathers much of Zeni Geva and OLD in this noise-rock / post-hardcore / metal crossover album. The comparisson to K. K. Null and James Plotkin is pertinent since Austin has as well pushed further the boundaries of experimentalism in metal territory. TitD eventually trailed a straight metal path towards the 2000's, except for the amazing Relapse's Sadness will Prevail.

(1994) Willpower / 320k
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Charles Mingus

2008-05-14T21:34:00.007-03:00

Another masterpiece from Charles Mingus, this time in big-band format. It was considered by Mingus himself, by the time it was released, his best work to date.

(1972) Let My Children Hear Music
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Oneida

2008-05-07T04:42:00.003-03:00

Oneida's seventh full length album (sixth through Jagjaguwar) is a marvelous amalgam of complete different styles in a highly creative and harmonious recording. Baroque pop leads to postpunk, which precedes stoner rock, garage rock and psych-folk ('Run Through my Hair' starts at the point labelmate Richard Youngs stopped making good music).
The album may loose its stregth towards the end, but songs like 'The Eiger' and the album's peak 'Know' make The Wedding an incredibly strong and inevitably addicting work.

(2005) The Wedding / 224k
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Romulo Fróes

2008-05-06T22:09:00.008-03:00

"Calado", solo debut album from brazilian Romulo Fróes, takes the early to mid twentieth century's chorinho and samba styles reminiscent of Dorival Caymmi, Batatinha and Jards Macalé, combined with slowcore acts such as Low and The Red House Painters. Based in São Paulo, Fróes released his solo work through Bizarre Records.

(2004) Calado / 192k
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Current 93

2008-05-06T20:32:00.003-03:00

"Sleep Has His House was recorded in February 2000, a few months after the passing of David Michael Tibet's father. It is easily the most minimal and personal of all Current 93 recordings. Michael Cashmore played all the instruments except the harmonium, which is played by Tibet. Nurse with Wound's Steve Stapleton played "the world."
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Tibet's voice, Cashmore's playing, and Stapleton's treatments are what give this somber little album its air, water, and slow-burning fire. There are a few instrumentals here, such as "Love's Young Dream" and "Lullaby," that create a sense of constancy; there is a sense of repetition that gives it an almost liturgical feel. There are lengthy instrumental outros to both "The Magical Bird in the Magical Woods" and "Immortal Bird," filling out the elemental nature of these beautiful songs and lending the set texture, some color, and only a hint of drama." source

(2000) Sleep Has His House / 192k
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Slapp Happy / Henry Cow

2008-05-05T01:56:00.010-03:00

A great recording from two Canterbury Scene standouts joint together. A Prog/Art-Rock classic.

(1974) Slapp Happy / Henry Cow - Desperate Straights / 256k
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Kenny Vance

2008-04-29T22:02:00.009-03:00

Solo Kenny Vance debut album, Vance 32 became an extremely rare recording, maybe due to its anomalous reaction in the general music scenario of its time. It was clearly intented to be a commercial hit, but, starting from its nonsense cover, it didn't fit the industry in several aspects - and neither did it find a cult segment of appreciation.
Former Jay and the Americans member, it is clear that Vance is a doo-wop aficcionado; since the early 60's, his musical intents have never left this territory, although expressed in a slight different manner in this album.
Recently reissued in digital format for the first time by japanese label Vivid Sound, Vance 32 gathers harmony-vocal pop elements from the 40's, extremely mellow love songs in roots 50's rock & roll style, even resembling psychedelic in some moments; all of these influences processed in a neo doo-wop aesthetic.
This barely conceptual work had no similar release in Kenny Vance's carrer, virtually based in film soundtracks and in his latter work in Kenny Vance & The Platones.

(1975) Vance 32 / 214 VBR
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Siro Bercetche

2008-04-24T18:39:00.006-03:00

Musician, philosopher and video director Siro Bercetche, in 'Musica Simple para Gente Complicada' (Simple Music for Complicated People), produces, as suggested, simple music. This recording, which took aproximately 8 months of production, is a mixture of latin influences and american folk music (the chords do not sound folk at all, still it is hard not to consider it a folk recording), with subtle experimentations with field recordings and sampling. In this interview, Bercetche describes his music as "Tranquil, without many surprises and extremely repetitive. As if my guitar were a sampler. I like the idea that all my tunes are similar to each other, it amuses me". This is a very consistent work, in its lovely unpretentiousness.

This album is one of the first argentinean Estamos Felices Records releases.
His work as a video director can by seen here in his (probable) YouTube profile.

(2004) Musica Simple para Gente Complicada / 192k
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Beat Happening

2008-04-17T13:32:00.006-03:00

Historical Beat Happening debut album, this is a spit on the face of music itself. The totally lo-fi production seems like the first ever made disconsidering Daniel Johnston's barely unintentional style. The original vynil tracklisting is nearly perfect; pitifully people found a waste not to fulfill an entire CD in the early nineties, therefore its digital version contains an unfortunate overwhelming amount of b-sides.

(1985) Beat Happening - Beat Happening / 171 VBR
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Pumice

2008-04-16T18:05:00.022-03:00

"thanks for writing back and removing the downloads. i appreciate it alot. I also really appreciate your situation and desire to share my music with your homeland. Maybe its possible to listen to it on your site but not download? Or you could post just one song from those albums that are still available? Again I am happy you have the rare stuff available for people to listen. And im happy you are listening to my music and giving it such thought.

best
stefan."

The work of Stefan Neville as Pumice, throughout its ten year plus existence, remains as one of the most relevant and prolific in the New Zealand experimental music scene, and undeniably significant in the psych/outsider/free folk (or any other dull labeling) scenario. Altough abiding extreme lo-fi aesthetics and sonic noise explorations, his work has shifted into different sonorities and styles since the mid nineties to the present time.

Neville's work since the mid nineties until 2000 show him in more free improvisational moments, as seen on I'll Take No Chance Near a Volcano (Stabbies, etc, Cassete - Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, CDR), Poin and Ones. Still folk oriented, Pumice resembles much of Clayton Noone's CJA during that period: ultra-lo-fi rock'and'roll / punk soundscapes, dirty cacophonic acoustic outbursts and old samples manipulations. Sexual, released by Pseudoarcana, definitely gathers all these elements in a destructive no-wave noise-rock live presentation.

(1997) I'll Take No Chance Near A Volcano / 192k
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(1998) Sexual / 320k
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Most notably since 2002's White (Stabbies, etc), Stefan Neville reached a (hardly achievable) level of unpretentiousness in his music. Free improvisation decreased, while a broader pallette of musical styles enriched Pumice's sound without losing its identity - on the contrary. White is a dark, noisy and minimalistic record, souding a mixture of NZ-postpunk, psych-folk and ambient, sometimes souding what would be better explored two years later with Antony Milton in Sunken.

(2002) White / 192k
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Last Visible Dog's Raft, released two years later, is a true masterpiece. The opener 'Pumiceraft' is an ambient-surfmusic lullaby, followed by a minute-long acoustic pop-punk track. The next two songs could well be obscure recordings from the Mutantes that were too harsh to be released. 'Ridge' is an epic organ hymn, while 'Awe of Oar' could well be a drunken mantra. 'Pudding Stone' is the reflex of the interaction between him and the Jewelled Antler Collective (Society of Dogs split with Armpit), matching Glenn Donaldson's Birdtree/Ivytree songs. Raft is undoubtly one of the most creative albums in recent years, obviously underrated before its geniality.

(2004) Raft / 192k
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Yeahnahvienna is his most concise album, seemingly instrumentally conceptual: 'Abominable', 'King Korny Remains' and 'Brawl' seem compositionally connected , and the same is observed in the second group, 'Wild Dogs', 'Tears Tasting Fair' and 'Darkpark'. Finally, 'Worsted' has 4 variations over the same theme. This 2006 album was the first release by NY's Soft Abuse.

(2006) Yeahnahvienna / 230 VBR
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Pumice's last proper release was Pebbles, in 2007. As respectfully mentioned in the Kiwi Tapes blog about this album, "It's clear right from the start that he has spent a great deal of time internalizing all of the important aspects of kiwi rock, specifically the warm analog textural goodness of the Xpressway scene." 'Eyebath', 'Stopover' and 'Northland' are clearly 80's style New Zealand postpunk (specially from the referred local label); the leap to the 90's are much in the ways of Alastair Galbraith in songs like 'Bold/Old' and 'Brownbrownbrown'.

(2007) Pebbles / 192k
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Stefan Neville, as Pumice, crafts the idea of music in such idiosyncratic ways that it is impossible not to reconsider its standpoints. His radicalism towards music recalls the work of contempories such as (already mentioned) Glenn Donaldson and Richard Youngs: the first applying his unique aesthetical concepts of the limits of lofi recordings in countless musical projects; the latter, since the early nineties, puts in question the idea of good (or bad) taste and the limits of the unbearable in music.

Extras:

(1998) Poin / 160k
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(1998) Let's Treat The Pigshead As Dip / 192k
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(2000) Ones / 160k
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(2005) Spears / 128k
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(2005) Worldwide Skull / 192k
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(2006) Pewt'r Trust & Pumice Split - Radio Centraal / 192k
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(2008) Punches / 192k
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See also:

NZ Series #2: Antony Milton, Stefan Neville and Clayton Noone
NZ Series #1: Armpit / CJA

Labels (not before mentioned):

Rural Faune
Ultra Eczema

La Buena Vida & Le Mans

2008-03-25T19:42:00.014-03:00

La Buena Vida and Le Mans are musical pillars in Spain's alternative musical scene. In aproximately 15 years of releases, their influence in their local musical scenario is notably recognized in many newer bands (in respective Siesta and Elefant labels, for an instance).
Not as consistent as Le Mans', La Buena Vida's discography has not as much memorable albums, but with Soidemersol they surely stated a masterpiece. Their biography in Siesta's webpage described this album as being heavily influenced by the works of Serge Gainsbourg, Nick Drake, Burt Bacharach and others, as well as a standout in the spanish pop history.
Saudade, Le Mans' third album, albeit consisted of similar influences (specially Nick Drake and Love), it drastically differs from Soidemersol. The complex song structure found in Saudade puts it away from pop music and from their past releases; the extreme minimal pattern repetition slowly unveals each song as unorthodox combinations of chords, while beautifully sung (or hushed) by Jone Gabarain.
Both cover artworks were designed by Javier Aramburu, former Family member, another band labeled as 'Donosti Sound' from the Donostia region.

(1996) Le Mans - Saudade / 160k
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(1997) La Buena Vida - Soidemersol / 192k
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Back to server:

2008-01-07T21:07:00.000-02:00

Almost everything is back to the servers. I chose Sharebee as the official uploading service from now on. The few albums not recovered will be posted very soon.

Sorry, folks.

2008-01-05T23:40:00.000-02:00

I guess that poll was useless. Divshare deleted my account, with everything in it. I'll gradually reupload everything, so I ask you all to be patient.
And wait for the 2007 Top10 albums, it will be a huge post.

NZ Series #2: Antony Milton, Stefan Neville and Clayton Noone

2007-12-23T03:42:00.002-02:00

"Hi,
I wouldn't mind this all so much if maybe you could have an active link to my label webpage...
www.pseudoarcana.com
Some people still may be prepared to buy all these bloody cds I spend so much money and blood and sweat producing.
Haha.
Cheers bud,
-Antony Milton"

Antony,
These albums are all surely collector's items, and my intentions are to make all of them at least visible specially to latin americans (as I am) and to everyone else whose access to this great music is restricted in many means. I really appreciate your consideration. Keep up the great work!
obs: other labels included in this post are Last Visible Dog, Root Don Lonie for Cash and Pink Skulls.

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This selection is intended to be in some way a pre-Pumice post. Pumice is Stefan Neville's main musical vector, and it will posted here shortly.

1. STEFAN NEVILLE
2. ANTONY MILTON
3. STEFAN NEVILLE + ANTONY MILTON
4. STEFAN NEVILLE + CLAYTON NOONE
5. CLAYTON NOONE + ANTONY MILTON

1. Stefan Neville

Albeit Pumice's discography is virtually impossible to measure, this album enters Stefan Neville 's portfolio as an unique recording. Firstly, this was not released as an umpteenth Pumice record, but as Stefan Neville, no monikers at all. With guests Antony Milton and Clayton Noone (not coincidently the ones covered below) and others, Do Not Destroy justifies its odd authoring adoption as it is maybe the first time Neville is not bending the concept of pop music. Instead, this is abstractly challenging, more process oriented than Pumice's aesthetical endeavors.

(2006) Stefan Neville - Do Not Destroy / 208 VBR
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2. Antony Milton

All released by Milton's own Pseudoarcana label, these records show much of the work of this drone aficionado. Glory Fckn Sun is a superb free noise improv trio formed by Antony Milton, Ben Spiers and Simon O'Rorke. Vision Scorched gathers the abstraction of noise, the eerie slow paced layer morphing of dark ambient with psychedelic elements taken to extreme. Milton's guitar work in Vision Schorched and in solo attempts, specially in Guitar Has Strings, is much similar to Steven R. Smith and Loren Mazzacane Connors.

(2007) Glory Fckn Sun - Vision Scorched / 219 VBR (V0)
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(2006) Antony Milton - Guitar Has Strings / 128 VBR
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(2007) A.M. - Orla / 192k
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3. Stefan Neville + Antony Milton

This is Neville and Milton's ambient duo. Sunken is beautifully built by organ drones, analog feedback and homemade percussion. A marvelous debut album.

(2004) Sunken - Sunken / 256k
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4. Stefan Neville + Clayton Noone

(2003) Pumice & Armpit - Society of Dogs (Split) / 192k
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(Unknown) The Ideal Gus - All My Life I've Loved You / 192k
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(Unknown) The Ideal Gus - No Ballheads / 144 VBR
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5. Clayton Noone + Antony Milton

Both newzealanders entered the Jewelled Antler family with Claypipe. The label aesthetics of open air recording are adopted following the steps of fellows Glenn Donaldson, Loren Chasse and others. Live recorded minimal lofi folk with analog drones.

(originally posted in the Jewelled Antler Library section)

(2003) Claypipe - Wayside / 160k
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Hair Police

2007-12-21T03:46:00.000-02:00

(2007) Fear of Sleep / 244 VBR (V0)
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(2007) Strict / 192k
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NZ Series #1: Armpit / CJA

2007-12-17T23:28:00.002-02:00

Armpit and CJA are part of one of the most active experimental musician musical projects in New Zealand, Clayton Noone. His extreme lofi sonic explorations are hardly separable, considering all his different projects, varying from Dead C like feedback drone, to fellow Stefan Neville's outsider folk. CJA is mostly solo performed; other duo acts include Claypipe with Antony Milton, Thee Ideal Gus with Stefan Neville, Armpit with Sugar Jon, etc.

ARMPIT:

(2000) RUBY / 192k
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(2000) IRON JACK / 192k
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(2004) BUTTA DAZE / 192k
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(2004) WHISKEY DR. / 192k
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(2005) MANO O MANO / 192k
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(2006) UNLOVED &/OR USED / 192k
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CJA:

(2005) IRON CLAD / 134 VBR
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(2007) DOPEY / 125 VBR
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(2007) IMPACT WOUND / 320k
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(2007) PINK METAL / 197 VBR (V0)
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(2007) VINTERMÅNEDERNE / 170 VBR (V0) [ADDED 12/20]
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(UNKNOWN) METALWORK / 157 VBR (V0)* [ADDED 12/20]
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(UNKNOWN) CJA & LEE NOYES - THE DARK POOL / 269 VBR (V0)* [ADDED 12/20]
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*NOONE'S OWN 'ROOT DON LONIE FOR CASH' LABEL DOESN'T SEEMS TO WORRY ABOUT RELEASE DATES

Anthony Braxton

2007-12-16T13:05:00.001-02:00

(1974) Anthony Braxton & Derek Bailey - First Duo Concert / 192k
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(1981) Giorgio Gaslini / Anthony Braxton Duo - Four Pieces / 197 VBR
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(2006) Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton - Black Vomit / 192k
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Moondog

2007-12-12T21:10:00.000-02:00

"Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), a blind American composer, musician, cosmologist, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments. Although these achievements would have been considered extraordinary for any blind person, Moondog further removed himself from society through his decision to make his home on the streets of New York for approximately twenty of the thirty years he spent in the city. Only in the final decades of Moondog's life did the public begin to appreciate the extent of this man's talents, primarily because of his stubborn refusal to wear anything other than his own home-made clothes, all based on his own (sometimes too singular) interpretation of the Norse god Thor. Indeed, he was known for much of his life as 'The Viking of 6th Avenue'." source

(1956) Moondog / 191 VBR
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(1956) More Moondog / 210 VBR
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Oval

2007-12-11T23:31:00.000-02:00

"Although Oval are perhaps more well-known for how they make their music than for the music they actually make, the German experimental electronic trio have provided an intriguing update of some elements of avant-garde composition in combination with techniques of digital sound design, resulting in some of the most original, if somewhat challenging electronic music of the contemporary scene." source

"Like many other electronic projects, Oval is difficult to describe. Markus Popp has had a hand in loads of interesting projects, from the minimalist/experimental Microstoria to the Jim O'Rourke and David Grubbs combo Gastr del Sol." source

(1993) Wohnton / 192k
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(1994) Systemisch / 192k
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(1995) 94 Diskont / 188 VBR
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(1997) Iso Fabric / 192k
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(1998) Dok / 256k
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(1999) Szenariodisk / 192k
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(2000) Ovalprocess / 192k
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(2001) Ovalcommers / 192k
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Ekkehard Ehlers

2007-12-07T13:32:00.000-02:00

In 'A Life Without Fear', Ekkehard Ehlers' abtract audio (be it digital or analog) manipulations are totally based on the total deconstruction of the Delta Blues structure. His subtle sonic layering and tweaking, in many ways similar to the work of Akira Rebelais, act in consonance to analog interventions in guitar and piano. The source amalgam, consisted of old samples, pre studio or live recordings, lead to a somehow musicological and aesthetical experience. Impressive.

(2006) Ekkehard Ehlers - A Life Without Fear / 192k
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Alastair Galbraith

2007-12-06T12:34:00.001-02:00

Violinist Alastair Galbraith is probally one of the greatest figures in New Zeland's underground music scene in the last 20 years. Albeit worshiped by many (here - divided into parts 1, 2 and 3 - is a nice article written by Mats Gustafsson which illustrates an imense sense of admiration), his work remains relatively obscure. The depth of his impact in his homeland experimental music scenario is best characterized (by himself, in here) by the creation of the Xpressway label: a detachment of Flying Nun - NZ's biggest record label to date - to accomodate what the latter could not comprehend anymore. Its founder, Bruce Russell, was refered to in that given article as having had his crucial ideals from Galbraith's work per se, and obviously from his own sonic investigations in the mythical The Dead C.
In solo works, some of his most relevant releases are the beautiful avant folkish Mirrorwork, and the collected raw recordings of Seely Girn. His work is consistent throughout his solo career, and in many collaborations, most notably in the A Handful of Dust ensemble, a free noise improvisational group formed with Bruce Russell and others.

(1987) Hurry On Down / 192k
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(1993) Seely Girn / 224k
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(1994) Intro Version EP / 192k
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(1995) Talisman / 166 VBR
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(1996) Morse and Gaudylight / 228 VBR (V0)
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(1998) Mirrorwork / 192k
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(2000) Cry / 183 VBR (V0)
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(Unknown) 2nds (Cassette, Compilation) / 192k
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(1998) Alastair Galbraith & Matt De Gennaro - Wire Music / 192k
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(2006) Alastair Galbraith/Alex Neilson/Richard Youngs - Belsayer Time / 256 VBR (V0)
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(1994) A Handful of Dust - Music Humana / 192k
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(1998) A Handful of Dust - Jerusalem, Street of Graves / 192k
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Café Tacuba

2007-12-04T14:59:00.000-02:00

(1992) Café Tacuba / 238 VBR
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(1994) Re / 209 VBR
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(1996) Avalancha de Exitos / 229 VBR (V0)
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(1999) Revés / Yo Soy / 192k
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(2003) Cuatro Caminos / 233 VBR (V0)
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(2007) Sino / 195 VBR
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The Jewelled Antler Library

2007-12-04T01:27:00.003-02:00

Anonymous said...: "could you remove these for now? we are reissuing the library later this year on Porter Records.

thanks,
jewelled antler people"

"Jewelled Antler is a loose affiliation of musical artists centred around the releases made or affiliated with two people, Glenn Donaldson and Loren Chasse of the Bay Area, San Francisco, USA. The artists combine an interest in recording spontaneously in natural settings that helps bring about an inherent connection between the music and the surroundings. Their musical inspirations are varied and range beyond folk music to music from India, experimental punk, 60s pop and much more.
In style the music moves in a range between folk acoustic and processed field recordings/collected sounds. Although it is perhaps over simplistic to say so, Glenn seems to bring the more folky element to the music with Loren bringing an interest in exploration and capture of natural sounds. The artists that are directly associated with the Jewelled Antler name have often evolved spontaneously around Glenn and Loren as they travel, meeting friends and fellow musicians.
Music is often recorded live, out doors and direct to tape using instruments that can be carried or powered by batteries, from stringed instruments, mobile keyboards to hand percussion. The structure will often appear improvisational although there is a song writing craft at its heart. Afterwards the music will be processed, edited, overlaid and interwoven with found sounds, fragments of speech, weather, gongs, digital noise, glitches and the like into a cohesive tapestry.
This combination brings together a new sound palette that is unpredictable, evolving and in its simplicity and directness, seems to continue and revitalise the original folk tradition. Acoustic music is often processed to be sound part of the tapestry alongside the other elements. Field recordings are an important element alongside new sounds gained by rubbing and manipulating such as leaves, stones and other natural components.
Although tagged ‘The Jewelled Antler Collective’ this is merely a useful name for artists working in a similar field who are connected with or sympathetic to the intentions which sit behind the music. At it’s heart it derives from the music of Glenn and Loren but extends through their musical friends in such countries as Finland and New Zealand working in similar areas." source

vol 1:
(2003) Loren Chasse - Green Laughter /

vol 2:
(2003) Tomes - Dreadful Gift /

vol 3:
(2003) The Ivytree - The Sun is the Lamp /

vol 4:
(2003) Hala Strana - Karst /

vol 5:
(2002) Dead Raven Choir - Their Feet Are the Foraging Grounds of Wolves /

vol 6:
(2003) Famous Boating Party - Silvery Branches /

vol7:
(2003) Uton - Zwuij /

vol 8:
(2003) Claypipe - Wayside /

vol 9:
(2004) The Muons - The Well at Land's End /

vol 10:
(2003) Thuja - Fable /

vol 11:
(2003) Kemialliset Ystävät - Nuuhani Ni Haka /

vol 12:
(2004) Fursaxa - Harbinger of Spring /

Stars of the Lid

2007-12-01T00:05:00.000-02:00

This duo from Austin, Texas, is Kranky Records' alumni, and certainly an exponent of its kind in the 90's. Obviously, ambient music is not a new concept. SOTL is simply good at what they do - texture exploration, oscilating between the ambient music concept of repetition itself (also the impressionist sense of ambience) and the dark-ambient consequent mood variation.

The Ballasted Orchestra is a drone masterpiece; Avec Laudenun is a dark synth lullaby, and The Tired Sound is considered their best work to date, gathering chamber music samples and synth drones.

(2007) And Their Refinement of Decline / 192k
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(2007) Carte-de-Visite (self-released) / 276 VBR
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(2001) Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid / 320k
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(1999) Avec Laudenum / 192k
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(1998) Per Aspera Ad Astra / 192k
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(1997) Ballasted Orchestra / 190 VBR
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(1996) Gravitational Pull Vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life / 225 VBR (V0)
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(1995) Music for Nitrous Oxide / 192k
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Love

2007-11-30T19:04:00.000-02:00

(1966) Love / 239 VBR (V0)
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(1967) Da Capo / 256k
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(1967) Forever Changes / 256k
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Bert Jansch

2007-11-30T16:41:00.000-02:00

(1965) Bert Jansch / 192k
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(1965) It Don't Bother Me / 192 VBR
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(1969) Birthday Blues / 192k
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Van Dyke Parks

2007-11-30T00:16:00.000-02:00

(1968) Song Cycle / 221 VBR (V0)
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(1972) Discover America / 315 VBR
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Rapeman

2007-11-28T19:34:00.001-02:00

Rapeman is a short lived project of so well know Steve Albini. Clearly transitional, their only full length album overwhelms its historical crossover character: the desperate harshness-bears-insanity of Big Black versus the minimal cutting-edge trebly angularness of Shellac.

(1989) Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule / 256k
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(1989) Rapeman - Budd EP / 256k
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Nervous Cop

2007-11-28T19:31:00.000-02:00

An also (still) one album project, this is Hella's Zach Hill and Deerhoof's Greg Saunier drum recordings digitally manipulated, with tonal and atonal harpwork and keyboards by Joanna Newsom and ocasional synth noise by John Dietrich (from Deerhoof as well). Newsom seems misplaced here: with the harp, she misfits; with the keyboards, it sounds sampled from a bluesy old vynil (negatively speaking, since it discredits her amazing qualities as a musician). The end result is virtually (virtuosically at times) a chaotic - still complex and consistent - drum duo record.

(2003) Nervous Cop - Nervous Cop / 192k
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Zeni Geva

2007-11-28T19:29:00.000-02:00

The last album by Zeni Geva, released by Neurosis members Neurot Recordings, is an amazing math prog noiserock work. Leader K.K. Null reveals his more agressive side in Zeni Geva, and 10.000 Light Years, produced by Steve Albini, alternates jazz and metal riffs, much alike the cerebral metal and experimental approach of Neurot and Relapse labels.

(2001) Zeni Geva - 10.000 Light Years / 192k
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Hair Police

2007-11-28T19:25:00.000-02:00

"Working with traditional rock instrumentation as well as electronics, tape manipulation, and oscillators, Hair Police builds demonic walls of sound for a result reminiscent of Throbbing Gristle, early Black Dice, and Wolf Eyes." source

(2002) Hair Police - Blow Out Your Blood / 192k
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The Hafler Trio

2007-11-27T21:05:00.001-02:00

"The Hafler Trio is Andrew M. McKenzie (from Newcastle, England — currently residing in Tallinn, Estonia) working in the field of psychoacoustics and sonic research. Since 1982, The Hafler Trio has produced a prolific body of work involving art, science, sound, religion, comedy and philosophy — emphasizing a dynamic balance and interplay of 'body', 'mind' and 'spirit' over any one of these. McKenzie has previously worked with members of Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, Nurse With Wound, Psychic TV, Whitehouse and Zoviet France. Andrew has also collaborated with performance artists John Duncan and Annie Sprinkle, ex-Fluxus artist Willem De Ridder, artist/designer Neville Brody, and sound/poetry artist Z'EV. Recently, The Hafler Trio are concerned with the ramifications of technology and the creation of the most extreme, all inclusive experience as possible, that 'resonates' over a period of time lasting much longer than just the physical time it takes to apprehend it, and affects and engages all levels of being." source

(2005) The Hafler Trio with
Jónsi Birgisson (Sigur Rós) - Exactly As I Do / 187 VBR
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(2003) Autechre & The Hafler Trio - Ae3o & H3ae / 192 VBR
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(1991) The Hafler Trio - Kill The King / 320k
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Zoviet France, Jim O'Rourke and The Hafler Trio

2007-11-27T21:00:00.002-02:00

(1995) Zoviet France, Jim O'Rourke
and The Hafler Trio - Unentitled / V0
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Anthony Braxton

2007-11-26T22:49:00.000-02:00

(1968) For Alto (part 1 / part 2) / 195 VBR

(1968) 3 Compositions For New Jazz / 192k

reuploaded albums section

2007-11-16T13:58:00.000-02:00

The reuploading process of the blog will posted in the 'reuploaded' section in the bottom of the right menu. Once more, if there are any suggestions, please make it by comment or email.

Zoviet France

2007-11-14T19:58:00.006-02:00

":Zoviet*France: is an idiosyncratic collective of anonymous postindustrialists, dronologists, and pseudo-ethnomusicologists. Their investigations have taken them into fictional cultures where nothing is easily located and reality often slips into the hypnagogic. Having secluded themselves in Newcastle, England since their inception in 1982, :Zoviet*France: have developed a radical relationship with the cheap technologies of old-fashioned tape recorders, homemade acoustic instruments, primitive looping and sampling devices, and basic dub trickery. From these machines, the collective has crafted a distinctly unique vocabulary of postindustrial sonic hypnosis. Just as :Zoviet*France:'s sound was alchemic reconfigurations of inexpensive technologies, their vinyl packaging literally covered their sounds with aluminum, roofing shingles, and porcelain." source

(1982) Garista / 160k
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(1982) Hessian / 192k
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(1983) Mohnomishe / 160k
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(1983) Norsch / 192k
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(1984) Eostre / 178 VBR
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(1985) Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music / V2
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(1985) Gris / 192k
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(1986) Gesture Signal Threat / 192k
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(1986) Misfits, Loony Tunes and Squalid Criminals / 192k
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(1987) A Flock of Rotations / 192k
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(1987) Assault and Mirage / 192k
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(1990) Just an Illusion / 192k
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(1990) Look Into Me / 192k
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(1990) Shadow, Thief of the Sun / 256k
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(1993) What is Not True / 192k
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(1995) Collusion / 192k
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(1996) Digilogue / 320k
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(1998) Mort Aux Vaches: Feedback / 256k
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(1999) In.Version / V0
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(2000) The Decriminalization of Country Music / 192k
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(2005) Music for a Spaghetti Western / V0
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Einstürzende Neubauten

2007-11-12T14:39:00.000-02:00

(1987) Funf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterscala / 320k
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(1993) Interim / 192k
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(1993) Tabula Rasa / 226 VBR
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(1993) Verbrannte Erde (Early recordings 1981-1986) / 192k
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(2000) Silence is Sexy / 320k
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(2007) Alles Wieder Offen / 213 VBR
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Michael Cashmore

2007-11-11T14:43:00.001-02:00

Michael Cashmore is the british composer behind much of Current 93's guitar work for over 15 years. In solo intents, Nature and Organisation is refinedly song-oriented in the neofolk field, in counterpoint to the conceptual approach of the minimal apocalyptical folk found in Current 93.
His recent outputs credited straightly as himself find Cashmore outside the folk territory. Sleep England is a guitar and bass only record, with beautiful soft minimal patterns. The Snow Abides features vocals from Antony Hagerty (Antony and the Johnsons) in this short but incredible chamber music record.

(2007) The Snow Abides
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(2006) Sleep England
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Einstürzende Neubauten

2007-11-08T22:36:00.001-02:00

(1985) Halber Mensch / 192k
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(1989) Haus der Luege / 192k
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(1991) Strategies Against Architecture II / 192k
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(2004) Perpetuum Mobile / 192k
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reuploaded:

2007-11-08T13:48:00.000-02:00

I started the reuploading process of the entire blog with these albums:

http://cagedream.blogspot.com/2006/07/jewelled-antler-collective.html
The Blithe Sons, The Ivytree and Skygreen Leopards (higher bitrates this time)
http://cagedream.blogspot.com/2007/05/charles-mingus-black-saint-and-sinner.html
Charles Mingus' The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Any suggestions, make it as a comment.

Antony and the Johnsons

2007-11-08T00:33:00.002-02:00

(2000) Antony and the Johnsons / 320k
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(2001) I Fell in Love With a Dead Boy / 256k
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(2005) I Am a Bird Now / 192k
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(2005) The Lake / 256k
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(2005) You Are My Sister / 256k
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(2006) Hope There's Someone / 320k
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Es

2007-11-07T17:36:00.000-02:00

ES (Experimental Songcycles) is Sami Sänpäkkilä's solo work. Altough founder of one of the greatest underground finnish labels - Fonal Records - his work isn't much alike the freefolk phenomena observed in the works of Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät and so on. His minimalistic rendered loops in 'A Love Cycle' brings to mind Sub Rosa's Philip Jeck ans Saule, while Sateenkaarisuudelma's contemporary eruditism is best described as a droning Terry Riley.

(2006) A Love Cycle / 183 VBR
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(2005) Sateenkaarisuudelma / 224k
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(2004) Kaikkeuden Kauneus ja Käsittämättömyys / 192 VBR
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(2000) Flick / 192k
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Einstürzende Neubauten

2007-11-07T15:50:00.000-02:00

(1981) Kollaps / 320k
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(1983) Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. / 192k
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Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky

2007-11-07T14:35:00.000-02:00

(2007) Black Ships Ate the Sky / 320k
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1. (00:03:22) Current 93 - Idumea (Vocals: Marc Almond)
2. (00:03:19) Current 93 - Sunset (The Death of Thumbelina)
3. (00:03:38) Current 93 - Black Ships in the Sky
4. (00:03:58) Current 93 - Then Kill Caesar
5. (00:02:42) Current 93 - Idumea (Vocals: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)
6. (00:04:03) Current 93 - This Autistic Imperium is Nihil Reich
7. (00:03:57) Current 93 - The Dissolution of the Boat"Millions...
8. (00:04:19) Current 93 - Idumea (Vocals: Baby Dee)
9. (00:02:30) Current 93 - Bind your Tortoise Mouth
10. (00:02:02) Current 93 - Idumea (Vocals: Antony)
11. (00:04:08) Current 93 - Black Ships Seen Last Year South...
12. (00:03:20) Current 93 - Abba Amma (Babylon Destroyer)
13. (00:02:35) Current 93 - Idumea (Vocals: Clodagh Simonds)
14. (00:11:06) Current 93 - Black Ships Were Sinking / Idumea...
15. (00:00:58) Current 93 - The Beautiful... (Vocals: Antony)
16. (00:03:06) Current 93 - Idumea (Vocals: Pantaleimon)
17. (00:04:41) Current 93 - Vauvauvau (Black Ships in their Harbour)
18. (00:01:50) Current 93 - Idumea (Vocals: David Tibet)
19. (00:04:20) Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky
20. (00:02:49) Current 93 - Why Caesar is Burning Part II
21. (00:02:43) Current 93 - Idumea (Vocals: Shirley Collins)

Playing Time.........: 01:15:28
Total Size...........: 172,79 MB

Half Japanese - 1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts

2007-11-07T14:27:00.000-02:00

(1980) 1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts / 192k
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Badgerlore

2007-09-29T11:53:00.000-03:00

"Badgerlore is the great tribal council of the so-called "Freak Folk" movement. The supergroup features Rob Fisk (Deerhoof, 7-Year Rabbit Cycle) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire), with Tom Carter (Charalambides), Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans), Glenn Donaldson (Blithe Sons, Jeweled Antler) and Liz Harris (Grouper). Together they proceed with masterful nuance and inexorable tension; We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits is the sound of effigy mounds slowly rousing from prehistoric slumber." source

(2005) Stories for Owls / 192k
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(2007) We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits / 192k
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Drag City Records

2007-05-24T20:52:00.000-03:00

[Due to Drag City's staff request, links to all of their albums previously posted were removed]

Drag City,

I understand you as an incorporation, so I promptly removed all albums as kindly asked. Nevertheless, I cannot leave it without stating that, specially in foreign countries, sharing your music is, at worse, profitable; maybe the only option for actually getting to know your music - and that applies to mp3 sharing per se.

Music sharing is intended to be for purposes of acknowledging new music and eventually acquiring it, in a sense of collectionable items. I have several Dragcity albums myself, considering that in Brazil an import album costs, relatively, almost three times more to avarage costumers then in your USDollar based market.

This unfortunate inconvenience, specially considered my incredible admiration to Drag City, is obviously displeasing. All arguments lead to conclude the clear purpose of this blog on sincere music exchange between (your) music fans.

Best regards,
Eduardo

Jesu - Discography

2007-05-23T11:15:00.001-03:00

(2004) Heartache EP
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(2005) Jesu
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(2006) Silver EP
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(2007) Conqueror
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(2007) Sun Down / Sun Rise EP
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thanks to Amud

Edith Frost - Discography

2007-05-22T01:16:00.000-03:00

Another Drag City artist featuring in this blog, Edith Frost has much resemblance to the latter contemporary folk artists posted, such as Will Oldham and Jim O'Rourke. In Calling Over Time, Grubbs and O'Rourke from Gastr del Sol are included in her backup band in this astonishing debut album. Wonder Wonder is another Chicago based high quality backup banded album, with producer Steve Albini and members of The Sea and Cake.
Frost is sweet and somber in all her recordings; her distant voice ressonates in either overwhelmingly warm or foggy ambiences, carefuly dosing pop and/or traditional aspects to enrich her incredible musical palette.

(1997) Calling Over Time
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(1998) Telescopic
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(2001) Wonder Wonder
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(2005) It's a Game
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* links removed as requested by the artist

David Grubbs

2007-05-21T17:17:00.000-03:00

A legend in the Chicago underground music scene, David Grubbs is co-founder of heavily influential acts such as Squirrel Bait, Bastro and Gastr del Sol. Both Squirrel Bait and Bastro are among post-hardcore's initial breath (specially Bastro, some kind of artsier version of Big Black), while Gastr del Sol is some kind of subsequent canalized flow of artsiness from Bastro's members.

Since co-composing with genious music scientist Jim O'Rourke is surely ego demanding, parting ways was an expected step. The last Gastr del Sol's record, Camoufleur, is definitely mainly O'Rourke's, undoubtly different (better, as a matter of fact) from Upgrade and Afterlife. Not that the latter lacks of quality; it's their peak of conventional songwriting deconstruction - but obviously evolved from Mirror Repair and the first two, and obviously Grubbs' compositional trademark.

As a solo artist, Grubbs, at first, found himself as a lo-fi folk minimalist in 'Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange', analog to some future Richard Young's Jagjaguwar albums (Sapphie, Making Paper and May). Later albums gradually became more unpretentious, specially in The Spectrum Between, a great example of what would became almost all of his Drag City records afterwards; Rickets and Scurvy and A Guess at the Riddle fit well to the style mentioned, while Off-Road and Act Five, Scene One are mostly experimental acts.

*links removed

Shellac - Rare

2007-05-16T02:13:00.000-03:00

(1997) Shellac & Mule 7'' Split

(2000) Shellac & Caesar 7'' Split

(2005) Shellac - Billiardspielerlied

Thanks to Breno, once again.

Shellac - Early Singles

2007-05-15T00:46:00.000-03:00

(1993) The Rude Gesture (A Pictoral History) (fixed)

(1993) Uranus (fixed)

(1994) The Bird Is The Most Popular Finger (fixed)

Thanks to Carlos and Breno from the Experimental/ETC Downloads orkut community

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

2007-05-11T17:35:00.001-03:00

This 4 part ballet piece is an alltime avantgarde jazz classic. Mingus' whole compositional spree is schizophrenic, yet cheerful. As attributed in its allmusicguide review, this is probally the first jazz record featuring overdubbing technology, what makes this record heavily texturized and inevitably intense. Amazing.

(1963) Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady / V0
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Shellac - Discography

2007-05-10T17:52:00.000-03:00

Shellac is Steve Albini's most incisive facet; his trebly and cutting edge guitar work, insanely clear production and heavily sarcastic lyrics are Shellac's tradition, being a noisier and minimalistic possibility in the post hardcore spectrum.

(1994) At Action Park

(1997) The Futurist (fixed, check servers' progress)

(1998) Terraform

(2000) 1000 Hurts

Brazilian Hardcore

2006-12-29T21:33:00.002-02:00

Certainly, the brazilian hardcore scene is prolific in several styles in its genre. I have chosen to focus on these three bands, Are You God?, Carahter and Constrito, without ideological pretensions; these are simply great examples to ilustrate a panorama.

The "O Espelho de Carne" EP from São Paulo natives Are You God? is one of the best releases in the brazilian grindcore scene, by 2+2=5 Records. The self-proclaimed and self-explainable freestyle deathgrind genre perfectly reveals the band's good humor, proved with unusual concert performances, sarcastical interviews and the band's name itself (AyG > GAy) indicating a false homossexual tendency announced to the media. This record is surprisingly well recorded and executed comparing to similar brazilian bands; internationally, however, one may compare it to Nasum and Brutal Truth releases.

"O Intenso Desespero Sobre a Decadência Humana" is Carahter's impressive debut, from Liberation Records. With doom metal, death metal and grindcore influences, this Belo Horizonte band shows a strong record, alternating between slow paced and low pitched riffs and typical fast grindcore passages. The vocal layers, distorted bass and dissonance lead to a characteristical ambience in this short but concise album. Most probable band comparations are His Hero is Gone and Mörser.

Finally, Constrito's "Um Fio de Vida no Círculo da Morte", even five years after its release through Liberation, the São Paulo straight-edge band's record still is constantly acclaimed by critics and fans, which has had no official follow-up. The album goes through grind/crust and death metal influences; songs such as Umundií, Permissividade, Diáspora, Ciclo de Purificação and Amerikkka para Todos maketh this record strong and memorable. Nowadays, band members express sludge metal tastes through the L'Enfer project, with long, progressive, sometimes clean and effectful passages (differing from the original band's dried out sonority), besides some other oldschool hardcore and metal moments.

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A cena hardcore brasileira certamente é rica em diversos estilos dentro do gênero. Escolhi enfocar nestas três bandas, Are You God?, Carahter e Constrito, sem pretensão ideológica; são simplesmente grandes exemplos para ilustrar um panorama.

O EP "O Espelho de Carne" dos paulistas do Are You God? é um dos melhores lançamentos da cena grindcore brasileira, pela 2+2=5 Records. O seu auto proclamado e auto explicativo gênero freestyle deathgrind mostra muito do bom humor da banda, comprovado por shows performáticos, entrevistas sarcásticas, além do próprio nome (AyG > GAy) indicando a falsa tendência gay adotada pela banda anunciada na mídia. Esse disco é surpreendentemente bem gravado e executado comparado a bandas congêneres no país; internacionalmente, porém, pode-se compará-lo a lançamentos de bandas como Nasum e Brutal Truth.

"O Intenso Desespero Sobre a Decadência Humana" é o impressionante debut do Carahter, de Belo Horizonte, pela Liberation Records. As influências de doom metal, death metal e grindcore constituem um disco forte, alternando riffs graves e lentos e passagens rápidas típicas do grindcore. As camadas de vocal, baixo distorcido e dissonância dão uma ambiência característica ao curto porém conciso disco. Possíveis comparações a outras bandas podem ser com His Hero is Gone e Mörser.

Finalmente, "Um Fio de Vida no Círculo da Morte", mesmo após cinco anos de seu lançamento pela Liberation, o disco da banda straight-edge paulista Constrito ainda é constantemente aclamado por público e crítica, o qual não teve seqüência oficial. É um disco com influências que perpassam o grind/crust e o death metal: Umundií, Permissividade, Diáspora, Ciclo de Purificação, Amerikkka para Todos, enfim, quase todas as longas faixas fazem desse disco um trabalho forte e memorável. Atualmente, membros da banda expressam seus gostos por sludge metal no projeto L'Enfer, com passagens longas e progressivas, algumas vezes limpas e com camadas de efeitos (diferentemente do som seco da banda de origem) e outras com momentos de hardcore e metal oldschool.

(2002) Are You God? - O Espelho de Carne EP:

(2002) Carahter - O Intenso Desespero Sobre a Decadência Humana:

(2000) Constrito - Um Fio de Vida no Círculo da Morte:

Codeine

2006-12-25T20:05:00.010-02:00

Subpop's forgotten treasure, Codeine is a standout in its proto slowcore sonority. With their 1990 debut album, one would consider the band as its style predecessor; even the so called fathers of slowcore Galaxie 500 were not as innovative as Codeine, since they are one of the few bands not recreating a down tempo late-career Velvet Underground with a shoegazer attitude.

1990 Frigid Stars is their sludgy, slow-paced flow of dissonant guitar fuzz and sharp bass lines debut album: D, Gravel Bed, Second Chance and Cigarrete Machine are simply breath taking. Initially touring with David Grubbs' Bastro, the latter Gastr del Sol's frontman ended up playing piano and producing their 1992 album Barely Real, and playing guitar on the follow-up The White Birch - an undisputable masterpiece.

(1990) Frigid Stars / V0
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(1992) Barely Real / V0
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(1994) The White Birch / V0
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(1991) Bastro & Codeine - Music By / V0
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(1992) Demos / V0
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(Some explanation)

2006-12-14T14:36:00.000-02:00

These months off were due to my pc's dc-power plug complete dilaceration. I've still no proper internet connection, I'm receiving signal from some neighbour not demanding a password for his wi-fi connection. since it's unstable, full album uploading will be difficult; I'll try to figure out a way of solving this, but it's definitely an easier issue than earning money for repairing.

Fursaxa - Discography

2006-09-02T01:44:00.001-03:00

Fursaxa shows much of who is Tara Burke. It is evident in her relationship with music her sense of devotion, and of a reverie world probably within her since childhood. There is a relation to mythical figures, but Fursaxa's music transcends possible banalizations, since other artists using elements of the Nature can easily fall into cheesy considerations.

Philadelphia (USA) native, she is a long time friend of Bardo Pond members (hard to tell who has influenced who, but elements such as psychedelia, ambience and repetition are present in both). Her solo presentations have led her to great aliances: Thurston Moore has released her music through Ecstatic Peace; Makoto Kawabata has produced and engineered her Mandrake album; Glenn Donaldson has invited her to participate in the great Jewelled Antler Library.

Two standout albums are Madrigal in Duos and Lepidoptera. The first is more sparse and experimental - the unadorned use of organ and feedback are foundation to repetitive acoustic guitar patterns and remarkable voice melodies. The latter is her biggest production, the album which has effectively shown her to the world. Her voice in Lepidoptera is magnificent, and demonstrates the greatness Tara Burke has silently achieved.

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Fursaxa diz muito sobre quem é Tara Burke. Transparece na sua relação com a música um sentimento de devoção, e de um mundo de devaneio muito provavelmente trazido consigo desde a infância. Pode-se dizer que há uma relação com figuras míticas, porém sua música transcende banalizações a partir de gêneros que podem utilizar-se de elementos da Natureza assim como Tara o faz no Fursaxa.

Nativa da Philadelphia, EUA, Tara é amiga dos membros do Bardo Pond (impossível dizer quem influenciou quem, mas elementos em comum como psicodelia, ambiencia e repetição estão em ambos), com quem costuma tocar de tempo em tempo. Suas apresentações sozinha renderam-lhe a atenção de grandes nomes da música experimental, como Thurston Moore - quem a levou para a Ecstatic Peace - e Makoto Kawabata, conseqüente produtor do seu álbum Mandrake. Outra notável aliança foi com Glenn Donaldson do coletivo Jewelled Antler, quem a convidou a lançar um de seus trabalhos para a grandiosa Jewelled Antler Library.

Merecem destaque seus discos Madrigal in Duos e Lepidoptera. O primeiro é mais esparso e experimental; o uso simples de órgão e de microfonia dão base a padrões repetitivos de violão e melodias de voz marcantes. O último é a sua mais trabalhada produção até hoje, e é o disco que a fez entrar no mercado fonográfico de uma forma mais presente. Sua voz, em Lepidoptera, está mais trabalhada do que nunca, demonstrando a grandiosidade que Tara Burke já atingiu, mesmo que silenciosamente.

Lepidoptera / 2005

Madrigals in Duos / 2004

Amulet / 2004

Fursaxa & The Juniper Meadows Split / 2004

Harbinger of Spring (Jewelled Antler Library vol.12) / 2004

Ecstatic Peace LP CD A / 2002
Ecstatic Peace LP CD B / 2002

Trobairitz are from Venus / 2002

Mandrake / 2000

Gastr del Sol

2006-08-21T23:38:00.002-03:00

Unfortunely (or not) Gastr del Sol was kept restricted to a small number of fans. Probably, the band is nowadays referred to as Jim O'Rourke's main focus during the 90's; it is obvious, nevertheless, how present and influent the band was in its existence, from 93 to 98. As described afterwards, its formation gathers the best among Chicago's experimental scene, many of whom have their works released through labels such as Drag City and Thrill Jockey.

Originally named as Bastro, the band, formed by David Grubbs, Bundy K. Brown (Tortoise) and John McEntire (Tortoise, The Sea and Cake), has had its influences going through post hardcore and noise rock. The later name change has symbolized a veer to focus more prominently on timbre, sound, ambience and minimalism. Jim O'Rourke teamed up after the release of The Serpentine Similar, debuting on the EP 20 Songs Less and on the amazing Long Play Crookt, Crackt, or Fly, which continues where John Fahey has stopped, producing a predominantly acoustic album, irresistibly minimal and hermetic.

The compositional duo Grubbs & O'Rourke solidified its magnificence as their last two records, Upgrade & Afterlife and Camoufleur, were released in 96 and 98, respectively. The first passes over the eruditism of John Cage and Morton Feldman, folk (the last track is an amazing John Fahey cover), ambient and minimalism. The latter, more straight forward, is an amalgam of Burt Bacharach, Tom Jobim and the omnipresent John Fahey, obviously in a more experimental approach; it is a superb album, and it has determined where would both Jim and David go to in their respective solo carreers since then.

It is worth it to remember the fact that The Sea and Cake was named after a Gastr del Sol song, "The C in Cake", from Crookt, Crackt, or Fly.

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Para bem ou mal, o Gastr del Sol ficou restrito a um relativamente pequeno e felizardo contingente de fãs. Quem sabe o grupo seja mais conhecido, atualmente, como o foco principal de Jim O'Rourke na década de 90; porém é claro o quanto foi presente e influente em sua época ativa, de 93 a 98. Como será descrito a seguir, sua formação tem a nata da música experimental de Chicago, muitos dos quais encontram-se espalhados em bandas de selos como Drag City e Thrill Jockey.

A partir do extinto Bastro, de David Grubbs, Bundy K. Brown (Tortoise) e John McEntire (Tortoise, The Sea and Cake), originou-se o Gastr del Sol. Antes influenciada principalmente por pós hardcore e noise rock, a mudança de nome simbólica também foi uma tentativa de explorar mais o timbre, a sonoridade, a ambiência e o minimalismo. Jim O'Rourke, juntou-se ao projeto logo após The Serpentine Similar, estreando no EP 20 Songs Less e no impressionante Long Play Crookt, Crackt, or Fly, disco que leva a diante o trabalho de John Fahey, fazendo um disco predominantemente acústico, irresistivelmente minimalista e hermético.

O duo composicional Grubbs e O'Rourke consolidou a grandeza do Gastr del Sol nos dois últimos trabalhos, Upgrade & Afterlife e Camoufleur, de 96 e 98, respectivamente. O primeiro perpassa influências que vão do eruditismo de John Cage e Morton Feldman, folk (o disco termina com um incrível cover de John Fahey), ambient e minimalismo. O seguinte, mais acessível, é um amálgama de Burt Bacharach, Tom Jobim e o sempre relido John Fahey, obviamente numa abordagem mais experimental; é um disco sensacional, além de ser a raiz da sonoridade que tanto Jim quanto David aderiram em seus discos solo desde então.

Vale lembrar a curiosidade de que o The Sea and Cake foi batizado a partir de uma piada com o nome de uma das músicas do Gastr del Sol, "The C in Cake", do disco Crookt, Crackt, or Fly.

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Arto Lindsay

2006-08-17T22:59:00.001-03:00

It is known that Arto Lindsay is an icon of the No Wave movement, taken place in New York during the 80's, performing with his no longer existent DNA. Post-DNA Lindsay went to diffuse paths:

Aggregates 1-26 is an incredible ensemble of 26 small pieces of guitar noise, pent up, with the subtlety that characterizes his musical carrer. The basslines sound like something between jazz goove and post hardcore; Melvin Gibbs' background denounces it all, playing with artists such as Sonny Shamrock and the (Henry) Rollin's Band. The complex percussion performed by Dougie Bowne fits perfectly to what is proposed.

In the subsequent albums, we see his electro-bossanova-experimental phase. Subtle Body, from 1996, is sparse and subtle as the name suggests. Its arrangement is completely consisted by brazilian beats and styles, organic sounding samba and bossa nova. Invoke, released 6 years later, presents almost excessive electronic beats in a pop approach; what doesn't make it, nevertheless, uninteresting.

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É sabido que Arto Lindsay é um dos ícones do movimento No Wave, em Nova York dos anos 80, ao lado de sua finada banda DNA. Lindsay pós-DNA partiu para caminhos difusos:

Aggregates 1-26 é um incrível registro de 26 pequenas obras de noise em guitarra, contido, com a sutileza que marca sua carreira. As linhas de baixo soam como algo entre jazz groove e pós hardcore - o currículo de Melvin Gibbs já diz tudo, tocando com grandes nomes como Sonny Shamrock e (Henry) Rollin's Band - e a bateria quebrada de Dougie Bowne encaixa-se perfeitamente ao som da banda.

Nos álbuns subsequentes, ouvimos sua fase electro-bossanova-experimental. Subtle Body, de 1996, é esparso e sutil, como o nome sugere. Tem batidas e cordas voltadas para estilos brasileiros, samba e bossa nova, geralmente orgânicos, diferentemente do outro disco em questão, lançado 6 anos depois. Invoke tem batidas eletrônicas quase que excessivas, numa abordagem aproximando-se do pop; não deixando, no entanto, de ser interessante.

Download:
Arto Lindsay Trio - Aggregates 1-26 / 1995
43mb / 128k

Arto Lindsay - Subtle Body / 1996
35mb / 128k

Arto Lindsay - Invoke / 2002
61mb / 192k

Avey Tare & Panda Bear

2006-08-14T02:21:00.003-03:00

There's a thin line separating these records and Animal Collective. Panda Bear's Young Prayer is more intimistic than its collective, with strong feelings in it - an eulogy for his dead father; it's minimalistic folk patterns, with a common kind of experimentalism for AC fans. The valuable split by Avey Tare and David Grubbs (half Gastr del Sol) shows both exploring sound layers and ambiences in different ways. Danse Manatee and Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished, 2 albums by Avey Tare and Panda Bear , show a more experimental - still unpretensious - side of them, compared to works at complete formation.
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A distância entre esses discos e o som do Animal Collective é muito sutil. Young Prayer, do Panda Bear, é mais intimista que o coletivo, tem mais sentimento envolvido - mesmo porque esse disco é uma eulogia ao seu pai morto pouco antes. São padrões folk minimalistas, com um experimentalismo já de praxe na banda de origem. No valioso split de Avey Tare e David Grubbs (metade do Gastr del Sol), ambos exploram camadas de som e ambiências de modos diferentes. Danse Manatee e Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished, com Panda Bear e Avey Tare, são experimentalismo despretensioso bebendo muito do que fazem com a formação completa (mais como uma versão mais experimental dela).

Download:
Panda Bear - Young Prayer / 2004
41mb / VBR

Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished / 2000
54mb / 128k

Avey Tare, Panda Bear & Geologist - Danse Manatee / 2001
64mb / 192k

David Grubbs & Avey Tare - Split / 2003
30mb / 128k

Juana Molina

2006-08-10T00:55:00.002-03:00

Rara / 1991
36mb / 128k

Segundo / 2001
63mb / 128k

Tres Cosas / 2004
66mb / 160k

Son / 2006
61mb / 320k

2046 / In The Mood For Love / Waking Life

2006-08-07T01:10:00.001-03:00

(2001) Tosca Tango Orchestra - Waking Life (OST) - 192k
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(2004) 2046 (OST) / 192k
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(2000) In the Mood for Love (OST) / 192k
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Isis - Discografia

2006-08-07T00:33:00.000-03:00

Isis is an Aaron Turner - Hydrahead Records' owner - musical project. It consists on sludge metal, focused on its ambiences and minimalism. These characteristics do always show up on every record, but gradually leaving heaviness behind, therefore making it impossible to label the music as metal. Obvious infpriorizarluences are Godflesh and mainly Neurosis, a band that also put aside (some) heaviness and priorized experimentalism as well.

Prominent works on their discography are the experimental-ish Celestial, the placid Oceanic and the heaviness of The Red Sea.
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Isis é a banda do dono da Hydrahead Records, Aaron Turner. O som da banda é sludge metal voltado para ambiências e minimalismo. Essas características continuaram em todos seus dicos, porém foram gradativamente deixando de lado o peso, impossibilitando a rotulação metal. Influências claras são Godflesh e principalmente Neurosis, banda cujo abandono gradual do peso aconteceu paralelamente, assim como aumentaram as experimentaçôes.

Se destacam na discografia do Isis o experimental Celestial, o sereno Oceanic e o pesado The Red Sea.

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Panopticon / 2004
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Oceanic / 2002
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SGNL>05 / 2001
32,4mb / 128k

Celestial / 2000
39,6mb / 128k

The Red Sea / 1999
32,7mb / 128k

Mosquisto Control / 1998
26,6mb / 128k

Will Oldham

2006-08-01T14:23:00.000-03:00

Que fique claro que ainda posto a discografia inteira do Will Oldham. Por enquanto, fica aqui um disco que mandei pr'um blog vizinho e outro que vou roubar na cara dura - o autor foi devidamente advertido que seria roubado.

"Este é o primeiro disco lançado por Will Oldham, desde o princípio sob o nome - ou alter-ego - Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Will provavelmente foi o primeiro a ter uma abordagem minimamente indie na recente cena de bandas do respectivo gênero e a ter ganho, obviamente, o reconhecimento não só dos colegas indies, mas de um espectro abrangente de fãs.

Já em seu primeiro trabalho, Will lançou seus discos pela Drag City, gravadora que hoje aposta em vários artistas também de folk-com-influências: David Pajo (Papa M ou sob seu nome), Edith Frost, Silver Jews, Damon and Naomi, Jim O'Rourke, David Grubbs, etc. Me tomaria vários outros parágrafos analisando essa interessante passagem de vários artistas, uma vez ligados diretamente à cena alternativa, à simplicidade do folk; vejo o folk como a forma mais simples de expressão musical, mas isso já não cabe à essa resenha." texto meu roubado do projetosoudsystem

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Boris - Discografia

2006-07-23T00:50:00.000-03:00

Por enquanto posto só os links, depois resenho.
* (01) corrigidos os links de the thing wich salomon overlooked II e III, e adicionado o disco com Keiji Haino
**(02) adicionados dronevil part I e II

Boris - Pink
Boris - Feedbacker
Boris - Flood
Boris - Mabuta No Ura OST
Boris - Amplifier Worship
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Boris - The Thing Wich Salomon Overlooked
Boris - The Thing Wich Salomon Overlooked II
Boris - The Thing Wich Salomon Overlooked III
Boris - Dronevil Final Part I
Boris - Dronevil Final Part II

Boris & Keiji Haino - Black, Implication Flooding

Boris & Merzbow - Sun Baked Snow Cave
Boris & Merzbow - 04092001
Boris & Merzbow - Megatone

Boris & Choukoku_No_Niwa - S/T

La Buena Vida & Le Mans

2006-07-19T05:15:00.000-03:00

cagedream says:
http://www.elephant.com. olha o design do site dessa gravadora espanhola, mto bom.
gatopretopulando says:
adoro a sonoridade da palavra elefante sabia?
cagedream says:
boa mesmo
cagedream says:
parece um adjetivo. 'nossa, essa música é tão elefante, né?', uma pobre menina diria
gatopretopulando says:
hahahahahah
cagedream says:
voce vai pirar ouvindo le mans e la buena vida
cagedream says:
nada tem tanto a sua cara
cagedream says:
le mans é tipo um nick drake minimalista cantado em espanhol. o saudade é simplesmente perfeito. 'simplesmente' permeia o significado desse disco, desde o conteúdo até a idéia.
gatopretopulando says:
eu quero tanro conhecer o seu soidemersol, do la buena vida
gatopretopulando says:
deve ser ótimo mesmo o le mans
cagedream says:
é, o 'meu' soidemersol tem uma estrutura um pouco mais trabalhada, a produção é mais refinada. mas o espírito simplista tá lá. os arranjos de cordas são cama pra padrões simples de violão (não o contrario) e melodias de voz perfeitas.
cagedream says:
os dois são de uma sensibilidade incrível. as vozes femininas são sensacionais, tão sutis quanto a instrumentação. e o melhor: membros das duas bandas formaram um projeto chamado 'ama'. mto bom por sinal.
gatopretopulando says:
que lindo
cagedream says:
aliás, essa nossa conversa vai ser o conteúdo da resenha do blog

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La Buena Vida - Soidemersol (1997)
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Le Mans - Saudade (1996)
42,7mb / 160k

Richard Youngs

2006-07-17T04:38:00.000-03:00

Advent é, sem dúvida, uma pérola do minimalismo. O primeiro trabalho de Richard Youngs, de 1990, foi primeiramente uma gravação obscura de um desconhecido, que caiu nas mãos da Table of the Elements e tournou-se um mito. Em uma tiragem inicial de 300 copias, hoje em dia é incluído em muitas listas como um dos melhores álbuns minimalistas da história

O processo de gravação durou 4 dias, numa espécie de galpão; o resultado final foi posteriormente dividido em 3 partes. Em todas, Youngs insiste em somente uma frase de piano, tocada repetidamente, com sutis variações de expressão. Na primeira parte há somente voz e piano, enquanto na segunda encontra-se definitivamente o registro mais absurdo de improvisação em kazoo sobreposto às mesmas notas da secção anterior. Na terceira, camadas de microfonia e mutilações a cordas de guitarra finalizam o trabalho firmando Advent como um documento de verdadeiro conteúdo subversivo e transcendente.

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Advent (1990)
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Uma comparação interessante na carreira de Richard Youngs pode ser feita entre o grande Advent, álbum que explora um lado atordoante do minimalismo erudito, e Sapphie, desta vez buscando a repetição em acordes delicados em violão de náilon. Também com 3 faixas, esse disco é o ponto mais sensível que Youngs atingiu; a ambiência, mesmo somente executado com voz e violão, é impressionantemente densa, quase sufocante. Essa sensação é nítida na primeira faixa, Soon it will be Fire, a melhor do cd.

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Sapphie (1999)
50mb / 192k

Youngs é um artista de inúmeras facetas, manifestando sua loucura em composições que passam por gêneros tais como folk, space rock, noise, ambient e minimalismo. Seus trabalhos lançados pela Jagjaguwar Records são dos mais acessíveis da sua extensa discografia; alguns de mais difícil digestão foram lançados principalmente pela VHF Records. Seus discos por essas duas gravadoras, por mais que somem dezenas, não chegam perto da real quantidade de títulos lançados, número que chega perto dos 50.

Autumn Response (2007)
66mb / 224k

http://www.jagjaguwar.com
http://www.vhfrecords.com
http://www.thewire.co.uk/web/mp3.php#Y (álbum Garden of Roses completo para download, disponibilizado exclusivamente pela revista Wire)

Glenn Donaldson

2006-07-13T05:35:00.003-03:00

(2004) The Ivytree - Winged Leaves / V0
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(2003) Green Mansions / 214 VBR
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(2008) The Blithe Sons - The Great Orthochromatic Wheel / V2
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Julie Doiron

2006-07-12T14:54:00.001-03:00

Poderia falar do passado de Julie Doiron, de seus discos com o Eric's
Trip lançados pela Subpop, mas prefiro ter uma visão atemporal do
trabalho solo dessa canadense. Sua forma pessoal de melodias vocais e
seu estilo como violonista são marcantes ao longo dos seus 6 discos
oficiais, entre outros EPs e splits; o que varia é sua forma de
expressão, às vezes mais elétrica (com o auxílio dos conterrâneos do
Wooden Stars, tanto como banda suporte quanto na produção), em certas
outras maravilhosamente singela.

Cada disco seu tem um clima muito próprio. Julie Doiron and the Wooden
Stars é um grande disco, e é nítido o quanto ela é pessoalmente ligada
à banda. Foi um casamento perfeito entre as duas sonoridades, que se
completam sem destoar da simplicidade que Julie precisa para se
expressar. Goodnight Nobody quem sabe seja seu trabalho mais conciso.
É um disco com uma continuidade perfeita, e um sentimento de busca por um
sentimento que nem ela sabe bem o que é, que se mantêm em todas as
letras. Esse disco tem a capacidade de se ligar intimamente a quem o
ouve, de uma forma inexplicável. Os arpejos e dedilhados são delicados,
e a ótima produção não deixa o álbum perder seu charme lo-fi.

Grande parte dos seus discos foram lançados pela Jagjaguwar Records, um
dos melhores acervos folk-experimentais norte americanos; artistas
sensacionais como Richard Youngs, Skygreen Leopards, Okkervil River e
Simon Joyner foram lançados por lá, todos de certa forma ligados por
suas influências folk.

http://www.juliedoiron.com
http://www.jagjaguwar.com
http://www.subpop.com

Download:
Broken Girl (1996)
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Julie Doiron & The Wooden Stars (2000)
38,4mb / 128k

Goodnight Nobody (2004)
37,6mb / 128k