One man band Brandon Bethancourt (Alaska in Winter) wrote his first album "in a tiny cabin out in the middle of nowhere Alaska," hence the moniker. His sophomore effort Holiday, released this past November, was recorded while Bethancourt was staying in Germany, hence song titles like "Berlin" and "Knorrpromenade" and the hausmusik influence. While he may wear his songwriting influences on h...
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Music is art. Music is a collective of sounds manipulated by an artist/s to portray or represent said artist/s vision. Exchange the instrument with a paint brush, the audio into visual, the music's message into paint and the CD into a canvas & easel and what you have is a painting.
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Alaska in Winter Dance Party in the Balkans (Regular Beat)Conceived during a lonely sojourn in a cabin for a month in Alaska one winter (hence the name of the project, ahem) by the apparently increasingly versatile Brandon Bethancourt, Dance Party in the Balkans (Regular Beat) depicts a very personal, mostly instrumental synth-meets-classical landscape that plays like the score to your life's m...
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Mogstars: The Perfect 10According to the website, _Alaska in Winter_ started out when art student Brendan Bethancourt spent two months writing songs in a log-cabin in America’s frozen north. Returning to New Mexico and adding collaborations from _Beirut's_ Zach Condon and a host of indie-pop helpers, the result was debut LP _Dance Party in the Balkans_ and it is hardly surprising this record ha.
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Bethancourt in a rare, low-tech moment It's clear that Alaska In Winter 's Brandon Bethancourt's new life in Berlin is agreeing with him. The one-man electronic band relocated there earlier this after securing a recording contract for his debut album A Dance Party In the Balkans , and he's been touring and performing all over Europe. He tells the tale that he woke up one morning and found ...
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First of all...great band name. I checked these guys out because they are opening up for Beirut here in Los Angeles on Thursdayand I wanted to see if I should get there early. The answer is an emphatic YES. Gorgeous vocals layered on top of a lush, almost orchestral sound scapeGreat, great sound....enjoy
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Mogstars: The Perfect 10According to the website, _Alaska in Winter_ started out when art student Brendan Bethancourt spent two months writing songs in a log-cabin in America’s frozen north. Returning to New Mexico and adding collaborations from _Beirut's_ Zach Condon and a host of indie-pop helpers, the result was debut LP _Dance Party in the Balkans_ and it is hardly surprising this record ha.
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The song features prominent vocal and ukulele, which gives it a Eastern-European-folk-meets-Final-Fantasy Beirut sound.
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One man band Brandon Bethancourt (Alaska in Winter) wrote his first album "in a tiny cabin out in the middle of nowhere Alaska," hence the moniker. His sophomore effort Holiday, released this past November, was recorded while Bethancourt was staying in Germany, hence song titles like "Berlin" and "Knorrpromenade" and the hausmusik influence. While he may wear his songwriting influences on h...
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| 1 We Are Blind and Riding the Merry-Go-Round |
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| 2 Berlin |
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| 3 Speed Boat to Heaven |
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| 4 Highlander, Pt. 1 |
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| 5 Highlander, Pt. 2 |
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