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Caribou FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD FROM CARIBOUUp until recently known as Manitoba, electronic producerDan Snaith was forced to change his name tofor legal reasons unbeknownst to us. But if this new song,'Barnowl,' is any indication, his third full-lengthis going to be another great one. Set for release on April19, Caribou's new album, The Milk of Human Kindness,shows Snaith steering away from some of the psychedelicundertones of Up in Flames and tapping into the cosmicpulse of artists like Neu! And Silver Apples.
Strange Curses by Laura Paragano, released 17 September 2018 1. Out for a Surf 2. Can't Give 4. California Dreaming 7. Juliet, Romeo 9. I'm on Fire 10. Doom / Strange Curses 'Strange Curses' is the first full-length album by Laura Paragano. Indie singer-songwriter. A mouth from Jersey and a soul from California.
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Enter right away by e-mailing.Please leave a daytime phone number where you can be reached.Winners will be notified by 2:00 p.m. Monday, March 14.Wednesday, March 16116 Suffolk Street NY, NY $14.99 CD GOLDMUNDCorduroy Road(Type)'Ba'Door of Our Home'A suite of pastoral piano pieces that recall the spirit of ErikSatie as filtered through a Civil War era hymnbook. Goldmund isthe alias of Keith Kenniff, a young Berklee student who has previouslyreleased an album of electronic music on Merck.
Despite beingvery delicately played, and with only the barest accompaniment,Kenniff manages to create a compelling dramatic arc over the courseof the album's 13 songs. The sparseness of the playing is advantageousto the material he's tackling; the burnished Americana themesthat he investigates here could have easily been overcome withmelodrama. It's to his great credit that a record that is as vaguelycinematic as this one just doesn't end up sounding like the openingcredits to Dances With Wolves or something.
I personallycan never get enough of tastefully performed solo piano music,and Kenniff has created an invitingly hushed work that sits wellwith recent Other Music minimal hits like the Alva Noto and Sakamotoalbum or the Luciano Cilio reissue. Looking forward to futurereleases. MK $13.99 CD STARSSet Yourself on Fire(Arts & Crafts)'Ageless Beauty'What I'm Trying to Say'The third full-length from Montreal via NYC-ers Stars is anotherpop gem, and perhaps even more refined and meticulously executedthan their 2003 album, Heart. The band has a tight graspon that heady mix of joy, melancholy and pop sheen backed by sinceritythat elevates this music beyond the sum of its parts. The basicelements from their previous albums are all here - sweet male/femaleshared vocals, tight, simple arrangements and thin, crisp productionthat bounces like a quarter on a perfectly made bed. Set YourselfOn Fire also shows Stars utilizing tasteful drum programmingto augment the live playing, and has some vintage synth sounds bubblingup from the mix. Otherwise, their trademark sound of chiming guitars,snappy beats, light orchestration and shimmering vocal melodiesis firmly intact, and sounding vital as ever.
JM $15.99 CD$16.99 LP MASHA QRELLAUnsolved Remained(Morr Music)'Destination Vertical'Feels Like'Morr Music are taking the indie-tronic thing from all anglesthese days, even to the point of borrowing Monika label artistMasha Qrella to make an album for them. I guess it's not too surprisingthat there are vague similarities to other Morr Music artistslike Lali Puna, i.e.
Songwriting with laptop/click hop percussionand vaguely romantic atmosphere - but without the Stereolab leaningsand with more elements like jangling three-note, softly distortedelectric guitar accents thrown in. The basic group comparison:Donna Regina/female fronted German lounge pop, mixing hand playedinstruments (mainly electric guitar) with modern post-IDM electronicsarranged with a solid 'indie' flair, with almost lush, floatingmelodies reminiscent of Air's Moon Safari. (Seriously.I'm this close to calling this album the 'German Air,'but since it's being made by German artists it's just not as 'lush.' )Also, add the Monika-style, non-easy, sweetly experimental electronicpop style that's full of interesting textures, and the album justgets pushed into another category altogether.
SM $13.99 CD MINAMOShining(12K)'Raum'Tone'Japanese electro-acoustic minimalists Minamo have returned withthe much-anticipated follow-up to 2003's aptly titled Beautiful.Last year, band member Keiichi Sugimoto released two great soloalbums under the name Fourcolor. I was enthralled with his gorgeousprocessed guitar pieces, but upon popping the new Minamo albuminto my stereo I realized that I'd forgotten the wonderful intricaciesand dynamics of the full quartet's interplay.
As on their previousfour full-length releases, Minamo have built the album aroundlive recordings and improvisations, with lulling electronic texturesand ambient drones building and weaving amidst simple piano andacoustic guitar passages. This is a group that doesn't need tohide behind a massive and dense wall of sound, but instead workswith an incredibly light and precise touch. Shining isa fantastic album, quite possibly their greatest one yet. Of themany groups working with laptops today, very few have figuredout how to develop this level of organic interaction between themusicians. Minamo makes the process look deceptively easy.
RH $16.99 CD VARIOUS ARTISTSLove's a Real Thing Vol. 3 / World Psychedelic Classics(Luaka Bop)'Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Dahomey' - MinsatoLe, Mi Dayihome'Ifa' - Tunji Oyelan & the BendersAnd the psychedelic reissues keep on comin'. This time around,the folks at Luaka Bop are throwing their paisley parka in thering with this awesome collection of technicolor funk from motherAfrica.
But don't buy this comp expecting to hear Os Mutantes/ Sgt.Peppers' style mindbenders. The selections are a bit morefuzzy, driving and loose like Chambers Brothers, Equals or earlySly. Some of the standout tracks are Manu Dibango's instrumentalvibe chiller 'Keleya,' William Onyeabor's socio-politicalworkout 'You Better Change Your Mind,' and the heavyHendrix style funk of Ofo & the Black Co.' S 'Allah Wakburr.' There's some sick sh.t on this comp.
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DH $14.99 CD$16.99 LP BOOM BIPBlue Eyed in the Red Room(Lex)'Girl Toy'Eyelashings'From his collaboration with Dose One on the boundary bendingCircle album to his debut full-length, Seed to Sun,to his remixes for artists like Boards of Canada and Four Tet,Bryan Hollan (a/k/a Boom Bip) has been moving in forward motionever since, evolving and morphing his hip-hop foundation withmelodic elements and techniques not expected in DJ circles. BlueEyed in the Red Room is probably the Cincinnati producer'smost interesting transformation yet, and sure to help him shakeoff that experimental hip-hop tag which he's earned along theway. Whereas elements of turntablism and rap could be heard rubbingagainst the electronic melodies/production of 2002's Seed toSun, Boom Bip's new album was created from almost all analoginstruments. Not as experimental of a turn as he could have gone,most of the tracks are filled with pop melodies that crest abovegradual tempo shifts as well as shimmering electronics that seeminspired by purveyors like Eno.You can also hear some Kraut influence throughout the record- from the Popol Vuh-esque keyboard and gliding guitar atmospherein 'Girl Toy,' to the cosmic flute tones of 'Do's& Don'ts,' which sound sampled off of pre-robot era Kraftwerk's'Elektrisches Roulette.'
Acoustic, electric and bassguitar are also prominent instruments throughout. The dark, horrormovie ambience of 'Eyelashings' creeps above a basslinethat could have been borrowed from a Cure song before it unfoldsinto a haunting, airy refrain of Ebow-ed guitars a la Tones OnTail. Other highlights include the two vocal tracks that featureSuper Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys ('Do's & Don'ts')and Nina Nastasia ('The Matter'). GH $21.99 CDx2 JUDEE SILLDreams Come True(Water)'Apocalypse Express'The Living End'Dreams Come True fills in a hell of a lot of gaps in thelegend of the late Judee Sill, a songwriter whose talent matchedthe likes of Neil Young and Bob Dylan, and whose heavenly multi-trackedvocal harmonies often drew comparison to her contemporary, JoniMitchell. For those of you who might be unfamiliar with her work,Judee was the first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum recordlabel, for which she recorded two absolutely phenomenal albumsin the early 1970s. Reissues of both albums are readily availableand I couldn't possibly exaggerate how important they are to meand to many of my colleagues at OM.This two-disc collection includes the entirety of Judee's thirdalbum, recorded in a daylong session in 1974 and never completedor officially released. The album's eight songs have been properlymixed for the first time ever by Sonic Youth member and Wilcoproducer Jim O'Rourke.
'What could be more daunting,'he wonders in the liner notes, 'than mixing the music ofsomeone whose music means so much to you that it is part of yourvery existence?' The record sounds great, and credit is due to him for puttingso much respect and care into the project. It's not as polishedor orchestrated as her other recordings, but Dreams Come Truehas the songs, the heart, and the tremendous spirit that you wouldexpect. It isn't a let down, not even a tiny bit.
As such a hugeadmirer of her other work, it's difficult to express what a giftit is to have a brand new full-length from Judee Sill to listento over and over again. And that isn't even half of the package.The collection also sheds light on the earliest stages of Judee'smusical development, including her first recording ('EmeraldRiver Dance'), the first song she ever wrote ('DeadTime Bummer Blues') and a bunch of stripped-down traditionalfolk numbers recorded at a friend's house in 1968. There's alsoa 15 minute long live video clip that you can watch on your computer.Filmed at an outdoor USC performance in 1973, she plays 'TheKiss' as well as 'Jesus Was a Cross Maker' anda couple of other classics.
The 68-page book that comes with theseCDs tells the story of this tragic artist as well as anythingI've ever read. It includes excerpts from interviews with manyof her best friends, lovers, and relatives.Judee's brief career was bookended by a troubled childhood anddifficult family life and later by chronic health problems andan untimely death. She got into drugs as a teenager, experimentingheavily with LSD, mushrooms, and peyote, and eventually developinga heroin habit that would last for many years and ultimately endher life in 1979. She also got into spirituality: Catholic mysticism,theosophy, Astrology, Rosicrucianism.
At one point Pat Boone baptizedher in his backyard swimming pool. Her lyrics on all three albumsare deeply entrenched in this unique mixture of religious beliefs,with recurring themes of redemption, resurrection and eternity.After the release of her second album, Judee was rear-ended byDanny Kaye in a car accident that brought her career-ending backproblems and probably caused her lapse back into intense opiatedependency.
She lived an unbelievably sad life that no doubt hada profound influence on her art, but she still managed to instillincredible beauty, hope, faith and love in all of her work. DreamsCome True is an absolute godsend, completely essential foranyone who loves this singular and incomparable musician. RH $16.99 CD VARIOUS STUDIO ONE DISCOMIXESNice Up the Dance(Heartbeat)'Nice Up the Dance' Michigan & Smiley'Can I Change My Mind' Alton EllisThe Soul Jazz label definitely holds pole position when it comesto sexy packaging and well-placed advertisements, but Heartbeatis still your boy when it's time to get real. Collected here areeight classic discomixes, mostly from the rocksteady era, andin all cases, nothing short of legendary among the Studio Onecanon. For the uninitiated, the late-'60s/early-'70s discomixdid not involve drum machines or anything of that sort, makingit an unfortunate tag, given the American understanding of theword disco. Instead, they were 12-inch singles wherein a tuneoriginally pressed on 45 was followed by (and beat-matched with)its corresponding instrumental, only to be followed by (and againbeat-matched with) a dub version. Consequently, the shortest songon this compilation is still over the seven-minute mark.
But hey,that's more beer for us, right?Highlights include the haunting 'Queen of the Minstrels,'during which Cornell Campbell's silky delivery is augmented bya psychedelic and ghostly background chorus throughout, Ken Parker'sMotown influenced 'My Whole World is Falling Down,'and Delroy Wilson's 'Give Love a Try.' Each one a testamentto the U.S.
Soul influence on Jamaican singers of the day. Bestof all, however, is Alton Ellis' 'Can I Change My Mind,'a tune that undoubtedly ranks among the upper echelon of not onlythe Studio One catalog but Jamaican music en masse. I mean seriously,people. A nearly 11 minute, dubbed out version of 'Can IChange My Mind' alone justifies the purchase of this record,especially if you've got nice headphones. These extended mixesshed light not only on the art of engineering and postproduction,but also the roots of what would eventually become hip-hop, asthe listener is basically given a tour of the boards: from originalto instrumental to remix. All in one fell swoop.
Did I mentionthe music is amazing? BB $29.99 CDx2 ROKY ERICKSONI Have Always Been Here Before - Anthology(Shout Factory)'Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)'Bloody Hammer'A legend, a genius, a dark angel, a freak
Roky Ericksonis an elusive yet storied figure in underground music.
Drugs,passion, paranoia, violence, monsters, prison, mental institutions,and some of the most powerful, singular music and musical visionof our time. The simplest telling would read as both a cautionarytale and alluring come-on for the role of drugs in artistic inspiration.There is little doubt that LSD both created and destroyed Roky'smost famous group, the 13th Floor Elevators, and it is only aquestion of semantics as to whether during their brief tenurethe group presided over the creation of psychedelic music, andtheir influence is still felt today. The band's mission was toexpand the minds of the nation's restless youth, and with theirraw power, intensity, and lyrical explorations they did just thatuntil drug-fueled psychosis and the law made it impossible forthe band to function in even the most basic ways. 1966 and '67were tumultuous years to be a stoned, tripping and ragged counter-culturehero in Texas. After a brief but intense two years in the trenches,with many highs and lows, the band was finally stopped dead whenErickson was backed into a corner and pled not guilty by reasonof insanity to marijuana possession, and spent three years ata hospital for the criminally insane. Not surprisingly, ratherthan leveling Erickson's tumultuous personality, his time in 'rehabilitation'sent the singer on a tailspin from which he never fully recovered,but surely did not mark the end of his creativity.The next 30 or 40 years have seen Erickson's fates twist and turnlike smoke in the wind, but there have been points so high andclear that the depths of isolation that he also fell into seemjust that much deeper.
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This unbeatable 2-CD collection (put togetherby the talented archivists of Shout Factory, who you may knowfrom their great reissue work at Rhino and Rhino Handmade) gatherstracks spanning the singer's career. Much of Erickson's cataloghas been recorded and re-recorded by the singer over the years,and as many of the finest original versions have been in and outof print, well-meaning labels made available inferior live tracksand alternate line-ups that may have diluted some of the impactof Erickson's best work. This collection should set the recordstraight. It opens with a track from his pre-Elevators band theSpades, the great original single version of 'We Sell Soul,'and follows with a batch of 13th Floor Elevators tracks, severalof which were featured on their two proper full-lengths 'PsychedelicSounds Of
' and 'Easter Everywhere,' but manymore are rare and highly collectable Contact and InternationalArtists label singles released in the late-'60s, plus unreleasedsession outtakes. Next are both sides of the 1973 Mars Records'single that was Erickson's first post-incarceration release; thefierce original version of one of my all-time favorite rock songs,'Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)' backed the equallypowerful pop nugget 'Starry Eyes.' I can't really imaginehow fans could even have handled the impact of this double A-sideslab of fire.There are many more gems on the set's 40-plus tracks, but forme the real coup is the inclusion of many tracks from Roky Erickson& The Aliens late-'70s/early-'80s recordings, some of whichwere released originally on CBS Records UK, some on 415 recordsin the U.S., and long unavailable. For me, this is the artist'smost enduring work, even beyond the impact of the Elevators, althoughperhaps not as revolutionary at the time.
Managing to be bothraw and well-produced, heavy as a hammer-drop but melodic andpoppy, lyrically obsessed with monsters, devils and demons, yetsomehow grounded in earthly pursuits of loves and fears, thistimeless rock and roll has been only sporadically available formany years.
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