Simon Waldram - The Space Between

Our good friend, Simon Waldram, has just released a new CD, The Space Between, available now for download, streaming, or as a CD (the link will take you to the bandcamp page where you can buy it.) It's a great, gloomy, mellow folk rock outing. I recommend listening to Broken Hill for a good taste. There's a great ethereal tug here, and plenty of atmosphere. Beautiful cello and violin parts accompany Simon's haunting vocal. Don't stop there - you'll find a lot to latch on to here.

We'll try for a longer review later. For now - this is highly recommended. And if you're an old DMusic fan like me, you'll find some nice guest appearances here too.

Simon Waldram

Simon is a really good dude. He plays a sort of distinctly British sounding version of psych/rock/folk/singer/songwriter type stuff. He has a pretty huge selection of tracks over on soundcloud which you should probably check out. He's also planning on release a split cassette with some band called Halaka. I'm not quite sure of all the details, but you may be able to buy it if you're in the UK.

Spinning Clouds

 

 Spinning Clouds - Moving Many Things & Shaking Windows With Strong Fingers is the type of weird lo-fi breathy pop music that owes a lot to groups like The Music Tapes, Neutral Milk Hotel, and The Olivia Tremor Control. The songs here are short, more like snippets of records from different tapes. If you're a fan of the above mentioned groups give this release a listen. Free Download on bandcamp or you can purchase one of a limited run of cd-rs. 

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New AYA

Hey all, go check out the new Appalachian Yard Art tape, Green Glass. I think it's probably the best thing he's done yet. Noisier and more involved than his earlier recordings. Go download it here: or listen to it right now:

Shakey Graves

Here's a nice little lo-fi folk doom country kinda thing from Shakey Graves. It's pay what you want on bandcamp. It's somewhat reminiscent of Bonny 'Prince' Billy or things of that ilk. Maybe a little more upbeat. There are those little lo-fi home recorded touches that I enjoy, things like hand claps and what could be banging on a desk or chair or box for percussion. The layered vocals make this thing sound better than just a guy pickin' and singin' into a tape recorder. Give it a chance.

Flux Fortuna

Flux Fortuna is the new project from former Coheed and Cambria bassist Mic Todd. Mic seems to be getting his life back together and is back to his first love, playing guitar. The guys have a few videos up on youtube and I am particularly fond of this one:


I've been a fan of Mic's bass style and it crosses over to the guitar nicely. I'd guess you'd call this progressive folk rock. Flux Fortuna doesn't have a record yet, but they've set up a kickstarter to fun an EP. They are about halfway to their goal, so if you like what you hear consider throwing a few dollars their way.

psychedelic milkman

"recorded in various dorm rooms, public bathrooms and basements from 2004-2006, mixes psychedelic guitar noise with neurotic bedroom folk rock using unusual instruments and lo-fi magic."

ian adcock- all vocals, guitars, electric mandolin, cardboard dulcimer, trombone, homemade percussion, tapes, recording

Anything that has a cardboard dulcimer is good in my book. Ian Adcock's first album is a noisy, lo-fi, folk record with lots of tape hiss, odd sounds, and vocals that sort of remind me of whispering Thom York, but from an alternate universe. This is something to listen to in your closet, late at night when you're not quite sure what is happening around you.

This seems to be the only record he's got on archive.org. Info says it was available in a limited run as a cd-r, bu there isn't any info about how to get a copy. 

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William Elliot Whitmore Live

In the same vein as that last bit of o'death, here's some live Elliot Whitmore. I also have a split seven inch with this guy and Murder By Death

sample: diggin' my grave

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stream:

Balalaika Experimentation

Inspired by the Balalaika showing up in the previous posts here is some stuff from David W. Pareis.

Ural Experiment d/l (VBR .ZIP)

Or Stream it below

music band of intuitive improvisation from Minsk, Belarus.

this features these people:

Leonid Naruszewicz: guitar
Victor Semashko: flute
Vladimir Kravchenko: drums

It has quite a few downloads on the archive. A crazy mix of something or other, free jazz maybe? There are flutes, an upright bass, an organ, samples, drum loops, etc, and that's just the first track. The second track has some guitar. Track four is 20+ minutes long. It begins along a road. There are thumps and jangles while a guitar walks dangerously down the center line. Flutes swarm in as the motorcade fades away. If you're up for an adventure d/l or stream below.

Ginny Beat, Beat, Beat, Blake

Here's a recording of something. Description from archive.org

"A reading by Allen Ginsberg performing William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

Allen Ginsberg: vocal, piano, harmoniun; Cyril Caster: guitar, trumpet, French horn; Hanet Zeitz: flute; Bob Dorough: harpsichord, organ; Don Cherry: finger cymbal, harpsichord, trumpet, wood flute, Sleigh bells, beaded gourd; Peter Orlovsky: vocal; Jon Sholle: guitar, bass, drums; Herman Wright: bass.

tracks

Songs of Innocence
1. a) Introduction b) The Shepherd - 2:10
2. The Ecchoing Green - 1:22
3. The Lamb - 1:10
4. The Little Black Boy - 3:00
5. The Blossom - 1:22
6. The Chimney-Sweeper - 2:20
7. The Little Boy Lost - 1:06
8. a) The Little Boy Found b) Laughing Song - 1:24
9. Holy Thursday - 1:15
10. Night - 3:57

Songs of Experience
1. Introduction - 2:06
2. Nurses Song - 2:07
3. The Sick Rose - 1:35
4. Ah! Sun-Flower - 1:12
5. The Garden of Love - 1:02
6. London - 1:55
7. The Human Abstract - 2:30
8. To Tirzah - 1:42
9. The Grey Monk - 4:06"

Stream:


d/l - vbr mp3, entire album in one track.

Transcriptionists

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We're going backwards here.

This is Transcriptionists - by Celesteville. Up until I verified that I thought it was Celesteville by Transcriptionists. Let's not cross hairs. It doesn't say much, and as of this writing it's been downloaded 7 times. Here's what it says:

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Celesteville - Transcriptionists. Recorded in the garage as part of NaSoAlMo 2006.
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That is all. What the hell is NaSoAlMo? National Solo Album Month? That'd be my guess. There are, at this point, enough of those things that anytime you get that creative bug you can probably go find one to start tomorrow.

First track is noise, and I was prepared to post some gibberish about noise. There's not really a lot to say about noise, right? But get to track two, "Samideano Blues", and it's mellow and has vocals. It's very good. Track three is upbeat and songy again. Basically this is well performed indi-pop-punk-stuff, lo-fi but not nearly as much as most of what I track down and call lo-fi. Track four, "Watering Tomatoes, Nov 1", has some toy piano, fluttery noises, and is really minimal (not in the technical, musical sense of the word.) Vocals with reverb sort of barely sung alongside this sparse arrangement of noises and that heavily effected toy piano. In the space where there isn't ambient drones and feedback, I'm kind of thinking there could be ambient drones and feedback, but I'm not actually anybody.

Track five, best title so far, "Bullet Points from Inspirational PowerPoint Presentation", is excellent. Too short. Dirty and mean.

So whatever/whoever this is, and whatever NaSoAlMo is, I'd say this is worth a listen. More than that. This is very good, and with every new track I am surprised at the variety. Still it's holding together well as a piece. I'll be adding this to something for further repeat listens.

Dan Tindall

Dan Tindall is a Northern Irish guy that sings songs. I don't know if this fits so much with what has been put here recently, but I'm currently liking it a lot. Reminds me a lot of an all acoustic Richard Thompson. Lot's of slide guitar. I can't really place the voice. It's in my head. It's around the corner. There's an accent. Breaking Point is an incredible song. Mostly acoustic folk. Did I mention the slide guitar?

The album is called Post Industrial Polka and appears to be a net release by Prosity Records.

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god|screaming|breathing

god|screaming|breathing - a new experimental life, originally released around 2001-2002 on mp3.com, then rereleased on halaka records with a slightly different track list. this is lo-fi no-fi acoustic experimental folk rock or something.

gsb-a new experimental life (mp3, 75 mb)

New Old Halaka

How to cope when mama loves the swedish...
Inside the Drowned Nothing is Nothing Drowned the Inside - vbr mp3 .zip

from 1995 Probably originally released on some handmade cassettes. Still trying to dig up the original artwork.

or if you like quality go to
http://www.archive.org/details/InsideTheDrownedNothingIsNothingDrownedTheInside

to download each track in flac