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Description: "The long wait is over; ‘Small Town Lullabies’ is the 11th part of the series and it’s full of indie-folk songs from ten less known artists. If you are interested in gentle acoustic music with melancholic melodies, then don’t hesitate and download this sampler for free!
We used Jakeboxes (swedish environmentaly friendly design), and we silkscreened on them manually, by hand. All illustrations were done by the young talented artist Ward Zwart. When you buy our EP, you will also receive a button and a poster with artwork by the same artist. (for six euros + postal costs). Watch pictures of the packaging on our myspace or our website.
We used Jakeboxes (swedish environmentaly friendly design), and we silkscreened on them manually, by hand. All illustrations were done by the young talented artist Ward Zwart. When you buy our EP, you will also receive a button and a poster with artwork by the same artist. (for six euros + postal costs). Watch pictures of the packaging on our myspace or our website.
Unglaublich was unsere Freunde pandoras.box aus Bayern nicht nur musikalisch, sondern auch lyrisch und konzepttechnisch produzieren. Auch die zweite Singleauskopplung Golden Spoon zeigt, dass das sehr innovative und erfolgreiche freie Album Barriers keine Eintagsfliege ist und man sichtlich mehr von ihnen hören wird. pandoras.box verdeutlichen uns, was wahre Musiker ausmacht. Für mich die Entdeckung des Jahres '09. Im februar werden sie auch wieder das Studio besuchen um ein weiteres Album aufzunehmen. Mehr zum ersten Album "Barriers" und freier Download hier!Homepage
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Auch diese EP von Bella Watt ist die pure Abwechslung. Der Song "Monocular Dystrophy" könnte ein Song von A Perfect Circle sein. Generell erinnern mich die Gesangslinien sehr an einen MJK bei APC. Viel Spaß.
Bella Watt nannte sich eine sehr sympatische Band aus New York. Zur Zeit scheinen sie auch aufgelöst zu sein. Dennoch hat uns Jeff, der Bassist der Gruppe, gebeten ihre Alben Online zu stellen. Sie kreiieren eine ganz besondere Mischung aus den verschiedensten Stilrichtungen und überzeugen mit Abwechslung. Der Gesang passt fügtsich optimal in die Soundstrukturen ein und das Output kann sich wirklich hören lassen. Ein Werk, das nicht in einem Hördurchlauf bezwungen werden kann. Das Album entwickelt sich mit jedem Mal.
Dass Ungarn tolle PostRock-Künstler hat, haben erst vor Kurzem Képzelt Város unter Beweis gestellt. marionette ID aus Budapest kreiieren eine ganz besondere Mischung aus PostRock und IndieRock. Von der Atmosphäre der Songs her erinnern sie mich sehr stark an die italienischen Giardini Di Mirò, was so Einiges heißen mag. In fast 50 Minuten packen sie mit „Emptiness Will Change Your Mind“ 8 starke Songs, die zum mitsingen animieren. So „leer“ scheint die CD doch nicht zu sein. Und „leer“ wird sie auch bestimmt nicht ausgehen. Sie hat Beifall verdient!
Unsere Freunde von Anoroc haben endlich ihr neues Werk am Start, das erst morgen live präsentiert wird, aber schon heute hier digital erhältlich ist. Ich hatte schon einige Informationen im Vorfeld bekommen, welche Einflüsse das neue Output enthalten würde. Wie hier nachzulesen, tat ich mich damals sehr schwer das erste Album "AntiGONE" zu beschreiben und nachdem sie gesagt hatten, dass das nächste Album ein wenig Richtung Post-Rock gehen würde, war ich sehr gespannt darauf und konnte mir eigentlich eher wenig vorstellen wie es dann wohl fertiggestellt klingen würde. Gestern hab ich endlich das fertige Album bekommen und war positiv überrascht wie gut die Ideen vom Fünfergespann umgesetzt wurden.
Post-Rock, Screamo, Hardcore? Es ist wirklich schwer The Great Disappointment einzuordnen. Zu sehr springen sie auf ihrem gleichnamigen Album von einer Stilrichtung in die Andere, überspringen ein paar um dann doch noch auf sie zurückzugreifen. Das verblüffende dabei: Es gelingt ihnen sehr gut diesen Genre-Mix zu einem Ganzen zu verbinden. So facettenreich der Sound ist, so facettenreich präsentieren sich alle beteiligten Musiker. Vom Gesang der teils in Geschrei gipfelt, teils melodiös daher kommt bis hin zur die Gitarrenarbeit die von Post-Rock typischen Triolen bis hin zum gefrickelten Hardcore Riff scheinbar alles bietet.


pandoras.box sind ein 5-Mann Projekt aus Bayern. Die Jungs sind schon seit langer Zeit befreundet und haben mit pandoras.box eine Band entwickelt, die sich zwischen allen möglichen Kapiteln der experimentelleren Rockgeschichte zu bewegen scheint. Unmöglich alle Einflüsse aufzuzählen habe ich hier nur die allerwichtigsten erfasst, zu denen Indie, Post-Rock, Shoegaze, Folk, Alternative Rock und auch auch Progressive gehören. Die Büchse der Pandora ist eine Geschichte aus der griechischen Mythologie: Pandora öffnete die unheilvolle Büchse mit der neben allem Übel auch die Hoffnung die Welt ereilte. Und so hat auch pandoras.box zwei Seiten: Die poppige, ohrwurmige Seite, und dann diese experimentelle, post-rockige Seite.Homepage
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I SAW A NEW DAWN RISING, PULLED BACK INTO NIGHT.
I AGAIN SEE A BRIGHTER DAY COMING. OBAMA'S WIN; THE MUSIC OF WILL OLDHAM AND SCOUT NIBLETT, AMONG OTHERS, TELL ME THAT MAGIC IS BACK, THE "BLUE MEANIES" HAVE FLED, AND THAT SOMETHING WONDERFUL MAY BE HAPPENING AGAINI feel I have not liked music very much for a long time. Having been one who experienced the Beatles era -- beginning to the end -- and participated in the "magic" that only existed at that time, when early on, the music that said that we had all the power to make the world what it should be, made everyone I knew feel like they were important and had a role in an incredible time. That changed. And I haven't heard anything that came even close to having any kind of message like that, let alone impact, in the decades then.
Then last year, I came across the music of Scout Niblett, Will Oldham, Daniel Johnston, Songs: Ohia, and other's producing what is called "Indie" (from Independent") genre. Their music did so much for my life and giving me hope about our collective future. I am convinced that Will Oldham is as much a musical genius as Bob Dylan. And I think Scout Niblett is at least as provocative, and authentic; actually more so, in particular in the way she weaves those unique percussive elements into the mix, waking you, almost shaking into you, her message.
My take of Scout's main important sharing, her offering, her reminder to us (especially in a world of obsessive-compulsive everybodys and "Monk") is of the perfection and beauty that is found only in the authentically unpolished, unassuming, and unpretentious. Her work says to me that we are all beautiful in the same way as Nature's own unpolished beauty. She conveys that we are all truly geniuses, or perfect in our uniqueness, or essentially divine, or all of that. But only when we have the courage to give up trying to shape the outcomes of our actions, and to force our wills upon the world instead of flowing with it. She reminds me that we are so much more, and we border every moment the magical, when we dare let ourselves be our slightly worn and unraveled, imperfect but unique, essential selves, relying on the goodness of our divine intuition to direct our actions, foregoing and putting behind us the mental filters that act like so many nagging nannies or parental voices.
I am brought again to remember that being oneself is not only beautiful, but is what brings down the barriers between us all, and thereby helps us to realize our Unity. We see so much fake "beauty" – inhuman, unnatural productions of technicians – a "beauty" that relies on the precisely timed, measured, and symmetrical patterning of auditory elements, copied, as precisely as atoms, or files on a computer, from past creations, Now no longer "alive." Such "music" I've heard, it is astonishing in its familiarity, its sameness, its ability to NOT wake us up. It makes for good office, workshop, or supermarket music, for it soothes us like a familiar heartbeat to a baby. To its "credit," its guaranteed not to disrupt your driving either; and perhaps that's why there's so much of it: Folks living ever more busy and complex lives, how many choose music that might actually shake them up and cause them to lose their footing, in this rat race to a nowhere, disguising itself as survival and endlessly shape-shifting to mimic the meanderings of the victim's thinking, so as not to ever be seen ("Nowhere Man" – The Beatles). So, to busy to even want real music. Yes, that's one big diiference between my generation and what happened afterwards when others were forced to bear higher costs, lower wages, and all the rest, beginning with Reagan's "dawn" in America, the nightmare end of which we are witnessing now. So, this so-called music, may have its roots and its attractions; still, it is a technicians production, not an artist's, and can be produced just as well, and just as inhumanly, by computer programs.
Sadly, I've watched several generations of "musicians," more fearful than they would ever show and lacking true vision or (divine) inspiration, spew out, decade after decade, such melodic or even cacophonic, offerings. Like anything else, there are those who want to be artists (musicians, writers, singers, rock stars), and then there are those who have no choice and must do their art, exercise their unique talent, even if no reward is to be had (remember Mozart died penniless, cast into a pauper's grave). Like Mozart, true genius has no choice.
Scout and Will create perfection in their very insistence on following the razor's edge of the imperfect, the "not cool," even the "inappropriate." Scout, like Oldham, reawakens us to the sublime perfection of the spontaneous and raw tonal pathways, occurring only in the moment, those perfectly askance and glancing, slightly unraveled apparently random, somehow precisely tweaked, purely in the moment intuitive impulses and flashes and even unconscious elements; thus, I hear the channeling of a divine splendor that Scout, for one, could not shake if she tried.
Scout and Will create astonishing audio resting places for the mind, which border on the otherworldly. Quite different from each other are their productions, but equally adept are they in creating the trippy new worlds the lyrics and music weave out of the finer filaments of your mind. The genius of Scout Niblett and Will Oldham lies in their incredible bravery in being truly authentic (not fake authentic; you really see their many facets, which aren't always flattering). And that authenticity comes only out of an incredible willingness to throw oneself directly into the fires of their fears. I could go on, but just to say that that truth comes through like something so true that it partakes of whatever it is that holds us all up and keeps it all together. And that Truth, in which they express themselves, in my opinion is what makes their music more than good, easy on the ears, etc.; it is what takes it beyond music to something magical...
Indeed, like the Beatles did to an entire generation long ago, I came away changed by their music the first time I heard it. I couldn't stop listening all night long, and by the morning I felt I would never be the same again. And I haven't been. Like Barack Obama, Scout Niblett and Wild Oldham also give me the feeling that life is really worth living. That you really do want to hang around in this skin-encapsulated ego for a while. Even if just for the incredibly magical you encounter occasionally.
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
Der Weltraum unterliegt keiner gesicherten Abgrenzung zum Luftraum. Einigkeit besteht aber darüber, dass dieser spätestens ab einer Höhe von 80 Meilen beginnt. Ob wir hier auf den von den 4 Salzburger Jungs kreierten "indie space rock" treffen, scheint nach der neu gestarteten Karate Party Ep äußerst wahrscheinlich.