Sorry to leave you hanging all this time...

Several people sent me material to check out over the last 2 - 3 months and I am not proud to say I am just catching up on it all now...can we agree that late is better than never..?

1. One of the more interesting submissions came my way from and artist named Muhmood, who was himself responding to one of my posts about Muslimgauze. "Experimental ambient", similar in style to some of Muslimgauze's stuff, well worth a listen. Check out his new release here.
2. Cagey House is another electronic band. Here's the overview they gave me: "Just wanted to let you know that Cagey House has just released a new EP called Model City on Nishi, Canada's super-finest net-label. (http://www.archive.org/details/nsh117) It's our third release on Nisih-and our seventh altogether-and we think it's the strangest one yet. The whole thing has kind of a noir vibe with lots of deep reverb and fuzzy tones. But there's lots of strange, colorful noise and clangy percussion too. Truth be told, it kind of sounds like the attack of the mechanical private eyes. At any rate, it's nice semi-sardonic fun. And all the tracks are free to stream or download from the clean, speedy, user-friendly servers at Nishi."I dig it, though its a little snarky that their MySpace profile lists "comedy" as one of their genres. Can't someone call an end to unsophisticated irony? Worth a listen, though, and their distribution model's great...click here.
3. Lowstar describes themselves as, "a 4-piece band based in London who make an atmospheric, energetic, big noise". They have several tunes up for streaming on their MySpace.
4. For those of you who made my Pentangle post one of my most-viewed and downloaded there is No Fixed Abode. From their CD Baby page: "folk rock with a great irish female voice... fronted by Una Walsh singing in her own lilting Irish accent and Tony Dean supporting on acoustic guitar. Based in Derbyshire No Fixed Abode have traveled all across the UK over the last three years building up a solid reputation performing at festivals and acoustic clubs...features a number of local musicians including Ashley Hutchins of Fairport Convention fame on bass and the violin virtuoso Patrick Walker from Sheffield. To define a musical style for No Fixed Abode is as difficult as getting a politician to give a straight answer to a question...". Samples on their MySpace.

Thanks to everyone who likes what I do enough to actually ask me to listen to their music. It is endlessly flattering.