Another duo from USA this time leaning more on good spirited rock music, is Luke and Mitch Meseke's Woozy Viper. The brothers apparently think that in an information-abundant society, there's never enough ego-boosting and self-identification, so they opted out of it completely. All we've got is a 12 song debut album for free download and a cover photo, which might increasingly be the trend for ...
Two prolific names from the experimental electro-acoustic scene Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek has just released Blank Grey Canvas Sky on the Swedish Fang Bomb label. Spanning 6 songs and 43 minutes Blank Grey Canvas Sky is a meticulous embroidery of pianos, instrumentation and drones.
Brooklyn guitar & drum duo Noxious Foxes has just self released their debut LP Lovestorm. Their music is a balanced combination of loud shapeshifting riffs and drumming, what you'd come to expect from a math rock band, with a little touch of Karate style sophistication. Gripping compositions, this band needs to be heard more.
Mains de Givre is the latest project by Eric Quach aka Thisquietarmy, who is responsible for some elegant drone pieces with Aidan Baker, apart from his solowork. Accompanying him on violins is Emilie livernois-desroches. Live footage from Casa del Popolo, Montreal on Nov 28th.
UK beatfreak Paul White has just released a free download beats EP on Bandcamp (can't say how much I love this site!). The second side coming next week will also be free download. Don't miss this one if you're into the UK psychbeats stuff like Bullion, Lukid, Lone etc. And somebody tell me which classical piece was Ultra Violet was sampled off.
Patchworks aka Bruno Hovart, the prolific French producer, who's given us the Metropolitan Jazz Affair and The Dynamics among others, issues a new mix right in time for the debut LP of his new alias, the Uptown Funk Empire.
Have to give it to Lawrence, he's one of the last remaining electronic & minimal house producers who can put out albums that are consistent as a full length, suitable for home listening and musically satisfying, and we've overlooked his newest album "Until then, goodbye".
I did the first Calm Dawn aiming to gather some tunes that I used to play at dawn in my place, let's say 'afterhours', while we chill after a long night out.. Music here is for the restful sleep again, as the tunes are blissful (bright in most parts) and peaceful enough not to distort the calmness of dawn.