Karl Blau is the type of musician guy who lives in the Pacific Northwest: Anacortes, Washington, to be exact. But if you have a “bottomless glass of wine” like I had for lunch, his name sorta kinda sounds like he could be the front dude of a forgotten post-punk band from, oh say, Belgium, whose "newly discovered" debut LP is getting a limited reissue and who is maybe playing, like, one show at
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Damnit! Usually, living in New York gives me a leg up when it comes to super-special events in the music world. But right now, I'm feeling pretty out of the loop: the great Karl Blau, K Records' multi-instrumentalist/producer extraordinaire, is set to school the unwashed masses in the fine art of home recording. The class is called "Quality Home Recording: Creative, Fun, and Sonically Rich emp...
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--- - |- A few months ago Justin from Fishboy sent me a video he recorded of a new Karl Blau song that he played in Texas. I liked it, but apparently forgot to post on it. Well GvB gave me a good reminder yesterday by posting the studio version that'll be on his new record Nature's Got [...] ~~- Karl Blau
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From the psychotic cover art on down, this is not an LP to be missed by fans of the K Records family.Karl Blau, based out of Washington state and a member of the Knw-Yr-Own collective of songwriters, is known as one of the more prolific folk and lo-fi artists currently on the scene. I first became aware of Blau -- most famously a member of D+ with Bret Lunsford (Beat Happening) and Phil Elvrum ...
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I snagged this track a while back from GVB and it has been growing on me ever since. At the time, they described the song as "formless" which seems pretty damn spot on to me. I almost always have to stop what I am doing when I listen to the song, it sort of seeps into your brain. That squealing sax part at 2:20 nearly cuts me in half every time when its up real loud.mp3:Karl Blau - Apology to t...
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News from the mailbox: About a month ago I posted a whole slew of songs by one Karl Blau , awesome electro-folkie, who is not to be confused with C arl Blau, the probably also awesome gastroenterologist . I say probably because I wouldn't know, having an intestinal fortitude as strong as a WWI cannon. But let's save those stories for another day.If you like the musical stylings of head Silver ...
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Karl Blau - "Before Telling Dragons" . Karl Blau's Nature's Got Away is a weird album, with teeth and feathers and amplifiers. Bits of Harry Nilsson, the Zombies, Spoon, Smog. "Before Telling Dragons" is a forest anthem, recorded in a basement. Girl-group drums buried six feet under. A conversation with an electric guitar, all blurry blues and bird-coos. It's words of wisdom from a man who has...
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--- - |- A few months ago Justin from Fishboy sent me a video he recorded of a new Karl Blau song that he played in Texas. I liked it, but apparently forgot to post on it. Well GvB gave me a good reminder yesterday by posting the studio version that'll be on his new record Nature's Got [...] ~~- Karl Blau
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Karl Blau - "Before Telling Dragons" . Karl Blau's Nature's Got Away is a weird album, with teeth and feathers and amplifiers. Bits of Harry Nilsson, the Zombies, Spoon, Smog. "Before Telling Dragons" is a forest anthem, recorded in a basement. Girl-group drums buried six feet under. A conversation with an electric guitar, all blurry blues and bird-coos. It's words of wisdom from a man who has...
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--- - |- Karl Blau is an extremely prolific guy, and yet, like many of my other favorite lo-fi singer-songwriters (see Cass McCombs and Chad VanGaalen), he remains somewhat unfathomably underrated. I was a fan of his psych-folk ode to Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne that dropped earlier this year, and he keeps the jams coming with his new LP, Nature's Got Away. Our friends at Said the Gramop...
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I haven't checked out the rest of Karl Blau's album, but this song is a good drinking beer, just chillin' kinda tune. Makes me want to lay out on the lawn or head to the beach.
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| 2 Into the Nada |
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| 3 My Johnny |
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| 4 Crashing Waves |
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| 5 The Dark, Magical Sea |
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