10/07/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Le Grand Wazoo
02. Ichtriol
03. Rhodamine
04. Sixplusone
05. Expellant
06. Lyrics Are Never More Important Than The Music
07. Route 27
08. Hymen
INFO
"Oh, good," you're saying to yourself. "Weird instrumental rock from the Czech Republic." Even better (sigh), it's music that its makers call "compost rock," which turns out to be a pretty apt term: imagine a large pile of musical influences that includes everything from electronica to psychedelia to hardcore to prog, and that slowly collapses in on itself, producing a warm, fragrant, unified whole. Frankly, it's probably a good thing that this music is instrumental, since it's hard to imagine what kinds of words or sung melodies could go along felicitously with the strange, faintly dubwise "Le Grand Wazoo" or with "Sixplusone," which features synthesized marimba and ends up sounding like a cross between Dinosaur Jr. and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. "Ichtriol" doesn't go much of anywhere and doesn't offer much fun along the way, but "Rhodamine" cooks nicely and "Hymen" features both a fun 5/4 time signature and spooky, Pere Ubu-flavored synthesizer noises -- and if there's one thing today's world could use more of, it's spooky, Pere Ubu-flavored synthesizer noises (though whether it needs more songs titled "Hymen" is open to debate). Not bad at all.
Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
LISTEN: Le Grand Wazoo
Etiquetas: C, dub, Indie, instrumental, math rock, Post-rock
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(0) comments10/01/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Bring me back my ball before I start crying and go tell my mom
02. Do you remember that dream you told me about last spring
03. I always knew it was gonna happen to you before this summer
04. Much better when you smile and wink an eye before you leave
05. This is not my cup of tea, but I'll get along with it. Just trust me
06. The seal and the ball ain't always the same, don't you understand?
07. I love it when you take me to the beach on your brand new motorbike
08. Please let me get you a new turntable. You are spoiling all my records
09. Melting ice all over the place. This is the warming age and I'm not ready
10. There's no time, here it is: the onion's rebellion
11. Happy birthday Aaron. This is your present. Put your shoes and dance
12. Walking the dog by the pool I realized that I'd missed something
INFO
The Rebel Orthodontics are Llovio y Yael. Father and daughter. Guitar and drummer. They are in Ibio (Cantabria). They give micro-songs and micro-shows.
Birra y Perdiz
LISTEN: Much better when you smile and wink an eye before you leave
Etiquetas: Alternativa, instrumental, microrock, The rebel orthodontics
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(0) comments7/30/2008
TRACKLIST
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V
6. VI
INFO
Tesa are coming back with a brand new album. For me this album is the best they ever down. Epic like hell, Dark as hell, Heavy as hell, and the vocals are still amazing so does the drums parts! The guitar is like 20 times heavier than in the other album, and the bass is psykadelic has always! No they are not from the USA, but from Latvia, and YES they are amazing!
Desertion Records
LISTEN: IV
Etiquetas: ambiental., instrumental, Post-rock, postmetal, tesa
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(0) comments7/25/2008
TRACKLIST
1. From Oceans -1:14
2. I, Alone -8:45
3. Slow & Weight -7:22
4. Let The Tide Carry You -9:55
5. Drifting In Silence -6:05
6. On My Way Home -13:58
7. To Autumn -6:24
INFO
From Oceans To Autumn (ex-Bled For Days, Autumn Is Forever and Beneath Shattered Skies) was formed in early 2006. Releasing their first full length "Calmed By The Tide" in Oct. 2007 and a split ep with Fire On The Horizon (UK) in April 2008. From slow paced riffs to bone crushing rhythms, ambient interludes and beautiful melodies, From Oceans To Autumn combines experimental metal and psychedelic rock with a spaced out feeling of weightlessness and droned-out atmospheres.
All Music Guide
Etiquetas: ambiental., From Oceans To Autumn, instrumental, metal, Post-rock
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(0) comments7/05/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Té - That It Makes Nonexistent Intelligence Even Although It Calls It With A Powerful Mind And Power How To 'none' Equa' [2:45]
02. Té - Without Having The Word That Even, A Beautiful Melody Tells Sound '留' め Does た To Heart That It Does It [5:19]
03. Té - It It 'be Done And Maintain' Only With The Modest Religious Service Of From Day To Day Just As Even The Faith Is Same Even The Love [5:02]
04. Té - One, That Does Not Require Tomorrow Most Stands In Tomorrow Most Gladly And Buy 'direction' [3:04]
05. Té - The Boldness Is The Child Of Ignorance And Meanness And '劣' る Considerably Than Other Qualifications [5:53]
06. Té - Person Who It Plays By Using A/The Word Not To A Plain Memory '過' ぎ, Without Existing In A/The Talent [3:31]
07. Té - Moderation And Justice Are 'the Name' That The Only Superior Can Use Selfishly Merely [6:00]
08. Té - Heart Be 'the Made' る Of Outlet In The Direction Of A/The Lie When It Has Lacked A Correct Goal [5:33]
09. Té - It It Not And Do A/The Foam To Any Pain And Happiness Be 'a/The Call' ぶな He How Many People [5:14]
10. Té - Human Being Is Doing The Ability That Destroys Self Oneself By Reason '有' [5:15]
INFO
If music were a sport where statistics were kept, this Japanese group's debut would lead the league in "longest album name over shortest band name" ratio. I can't help but find it odd that an album with such a strange and verbose title would consist entirely of instrumental music, but that's exactly what this is. te's (yes, the band's name is lowercase) atmospheric web of sound could be considered post-rock and maybe even math-rock, but they play it with such an unbridled energy and enthusiasm that they transcend the egg-headed (aka "boring") tendencies that come with such tags; instead coming off something like Mogwai covering Jawbox (or perhaps it's the other way around). While certainly not for all tastes, I think those with a penchant for challenging instrumental rock will dig this.
Losing Today.
Etiquetas: instrumental, Japan, Post-rock, Te'
Rakel_HxC at 6:03 p. m.
(0) comments6/27/2008
TRACKLIST
1. Answer
2. Smoke
3. Arab
4. Herman
5. Paseo
6. Ipuina
INFO
MIZTURA, bases it elegance on the combination of epic constructions dilated with skilful playing, a jazzy wind section and a voice that, when employed, flows parsimoniously among the rest of the instruments: guitar, bass, drums and trumpet. The electric crescendos and sharpened guitar riffs are two hints at the masterful universe of near-dark musicals that this young band inhabits.
Bcore
LISTEN: Fresh.Sound.Records
Etiquetas: ambiental., Indie, instrumental, miztura, Post-rock
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(0) comments6/04/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Mirarse Caer
02. La Comedia Húngara
03. Baila Así
04. Las Gracias De Nada
05. A Rivererci Ambigú
06. Plantas Histéricas
07. La Música De Moda
Info
En su ya quinto trabajo se han
dedicado a trabajar el espacio del
silencio, la resonancia de los
instrumentos, las trenzas que forman
las melodías de sus tres guitarras y
la narrativa rítmica de lo progresivo.
Sin artificios ni obsesiones tecnológicas,
Pupille han sabido dar forma a un
discurso tan auténtico y tan poco para
la galería que merecen todo el respeto que
se han sabido ganar a golpe de genio y
compromiso.
Bcore
LISTEN: La Comedia Húngara
Etiquetas: instrumental, pupille, Rock
kRIXx at 12:21 a. m.
(0) comments5/26/2008
INFO
Southern Lord reports that Earth is back in the studio this month recording tracks for their forthcoming album entitled The Bee Made Honey in the Lions Skull. Now if that ain't an awesome title. The album is due later in the year on Southern Lord. Earth's latest Hibernaculam is still baking in the oven as we speak and will be made available on March 20th in a special CD and DVD packaged release.
The DVD will contain an Earth documentary called Within The Drone. A special screening will be happening in NYC(Brooklyn) on April 8th. It will also be shown at the Domino festival in Brussels on April 17th (the night of the Melvins!) at club AB.
This is what the flyers say: "Special screening of the new Seldon Hunt documentary about legendary drone innovator Dylan Carlson's triumphant return in Europe.
Bcore
Etiquetas: ambiental., drone, earth, instrumental, Rock
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(2) comments5/19/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Bajamar
02. Pleamar
03. Medusa
04. Órbita
05. Jauría
06. Tesalía
INFO
Apocalíptico y paisajístico metal progresivo instrumental, que te dejará con la boca abierta si te gustan bandas cómo: Isis, Neurosis, Mogwai, Mono, Godspeed You! Black Emperor o Russian Circles.
parade.records
LISTEN: Medusa
Etiquetas: ambiental., instrumental, metal, Post-rock, toundra
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(1) comments4/18/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Lights In The Distance
02. Hindsight
03. Oceans Apart
04. Summer Fades
05. Storm Warning
INFO
Post rock/metal is a label despised by some who can't handle the "post" prefix of it. Putting sociological and/or metaphysical discussions aside for a second, I never really understood it either but it seems to me a label as fitting as any to lump together all the bands that sound like Neurosis, Isis or Pelican. For me, however, most post rock/metal is actually very progressive and Irish act Parhelia certainly is no exception.
Given the characteristic of their sound, along with the fact that there's no vocals at all, it's inevitable to draw heavy comparisons to Pelican. They really sound alike but there's something else in Parhelia's music that makes me forgive that strong resemblance, maybe a sense of going places, a certain feeling of epic their music instills. "Oceans Apart" clocks in at a mere 30:58 and at first I had a hard time believing this was self-produced and that we're talking about an unsigned band. Every instrument is perfectly clear in the mix and there's a warmness that really enhances the dreamlike texture of these songs. This is band that comes across as ultra cohesive, everyone sounding like they're on the very same page.
And speaking of the songs, there's no use in talking about each one separately. In fact, I'd argue there's no use in listening to any isolated track, as "Oceans Apart" blends all five cuts so well that the half hour is over before you know it. The band's choice of artwork - of which you can only get a glimpse from the above cover image, as it's much more intricate than just the cover - gives the clue to what's inside: a crimson sunset in some faraway idyllic place between rocks, trees and water. It's just thirty minutes, but just hit play again when it's over, it will expose something different every time around.
This is merely Parhelia's debut album, after 2006's "First Light". "Oceans Apart" is already, hands down, one of the best post rock/metal albums I've heard in a long time and if they can manage to stray a little from the obvious Pelican resemblance while maintaining this spirit in their music, they certainly have the potential to be a future reference in this genre.
Progscape
LISTEN: Lights In The Distance
Etiquetas: instrumental, parhelia, Post-rock
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(0) comments2/19/2008
Tracklist
1. Redheaded Manual Festival
2. Red Bug
3. Four Sores & Seven Beers Ago Part I
4. Hiroshi's Ebay Bike
5. Four Sores & Seven Beers Ago Part II
6. Frau Schmidt
7. 28 & 7/8
8. W.S. Burns's Sweater
9. Four Sores & Seven Beers Ago Part III
10. Untitled
11. Coax the Goat
Info
The Snake Trap is a really cool instrumental rock band. The name describes their long convoluting, extremely pumping songs perfectly! I can't help but smile at their whacky and maybe silly song titles like "Redheaded Manual Festival", "Four Sores And Seven Beers Ago" (parts I, II and III) and "Untitled". Though I'd rather not label them as this genre or that, I'd suggest this band to people who are into post-rock/stoner-rock, especially bands like Pelican and Isis and to anyone who likes long pointless jams. You'd do good to check them out. I can't find even one decent review of their 2006 album "At Home in a Hostile World". They don't even seem to have a homepage! How lazy can a band get? So listen to these guys and spread the word. Their songs also have a loaded bass sound which can crush you to pulp, so go fucking get hold of the bloody album.
Communication.Breakdown
Listen: Hiroshi's Ebay Bike
Etiquetas: instrumental, posthc, Punk, Rock, the snake trap
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(0) comments5/09/2007
Tracklist
01. Dpt.1 [3:53]
02. La Fille Qui En Savait Trop [5:20]
03. Tout L'univers [6:41]
04. Death Race 68 [5:53]
05. Johnny And Barbara [5:30]
06. The Night Of J&B [3:01]
07. Abc Crime [11:27]
Info
MICROFILM is a french band created in 2003 by musicians coming from various musical backgrounds and bands such as Gum, Seven Hate and Myra Lee.
The result of their meeting is an instrumental music including movie dialogues’ samples and is often described as Post Rock in the vein of Mogwai, Explosions in the sky, From monuments to masses…
But the guys never planned to play such or another music style since they only listen to their feelings and music is their way to express their emotions. Concerning their influences it’s pretty wide: Sonic Youth, Jawbox, Foxy Brown, My Bloody Valentine, The Neptunes, Queens Of The Stone Age, Bernard Hermann, Trs 80, Black Sabbath, Envy……
And the musicians of MICROFILM were rather glad to play with bands such as Playdoh, Explosions in the sky, M83, Jeffrey Lewis, Sayag Jazz Machine, Millionaire, The Black Heart Procession, Dalek, Subtitle, Houston Swing Engine…in France, Switzerland and Spain. The addition of moving pictures sampled from movies and then graphically re-done creates a real link between the music and the dialogues on stage.
MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/microfilmband
DD
http://www.mediafire.com/?byqq2hzom5t
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Etiquetas: instrumental, microfilm, Post-rock
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(3) comments5/05/2007
Tracklist
1. Dietiss [1:58]
2. Green stick [4:44]
3. Lame gull [5:12]
4. Tinkerbell [4:09]
5. Drive it like you stole it [3:06]
6. Ironic [4:50]
7. Jungle thing [2:15]
8. Noggin [1:51]
9. Brillo pad [4:23]
Info
Cyril Blandino called it quits with Superstatic Revolution back in 2001and remained on the US ground with the will to form a band capable of quenching his thirst to 'do something more personal' in music and to receive his talentuous guitar work. After jumping from bands to bands he finally joined the Cleveland-based band And Say We Did in 2004. While he took the bass duties in Superstatic Revolution, he is back as guitar player in this new project this new position will give him the room that he always looked forward to compose himself surrounded by musicians always breaking boundaries. The Cleveland rock clubs' walls won't never forget the sweat and big audience gathered each time the band plays. 'Final demonstration' saw the light of day in the summer of 2005. It is composed of instrumental tracks, very rock-oriented and developing structures following each other, crossing each other, with no frequent turning back to riffs. In some ways, this is the compilation of all titles the band ever created before they disbanded marking this way the end of a period meanwhile it is the starting point to a new one because both Cyril and Billy (bass) remained together to start Endagenda with the help of a new drummer. Endagenda is a brand new creature emerging from both major heads and capable of welcoming their experimentations.
BasementApesIndustries
MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/andsaywedid
DD
http://www.mediafire.com/?a4onniom4zz
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Etiquetas: and say we did, Experimental., instrumental, metal, Rock
