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| Bob Dylan |
[01 Dec 2009|10:33pm] |
I don't want to incur anymore wraths, but I've made a fresh batch of Dylan icons..
Previews :
  
CLICK HERE to see all twenty-two!
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| Jack Kerouac fans... |
[29 Nov 2009|08:52pm] |
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I've made six icons of Jack Kerouac, just incase anyone's interested?
One is with Neal Cassady and one is with William Burroughs.
All are in black and white. Find them under the cut.
( find them under the cut )
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| The Threads of Grass, Sun Tunnels |
[17 Nov 2009|09:12pm] |
Here's the new record from the Detroit/Portland band The Threads of Grass. Features members of His Name is Alive, Outrageous Cherry, Nomo, IOA, Inside Voices and Nest Material. Recommended for fans of: Incredible String Band, Crazy Horse, The Band, Jack Nitzsche, Judee Sill, Nick Drake. Recorded on 1/2" 8 track tape, handmade letter-pressed cover with Jill Bliss artwork. Available only as a download and limited vinyl (300). Vinyl can be ordered from a link off the download page.
Here to download the full quality audio and cover art for free (or whatever you'd like to pay):
http://thethreadsofgrass.bandcamp.com/
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| Sam Amidon tour? |
[16 Nov 2009|10:10pm] |
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Anyone know is Sam is touring, especially in the Northeast?
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| Vic Chesnutt - Skitter On Take-Off 2009 |
[10 Nov 2009|08:41am] |
Vic Chesnutt is a pretty remarkable musician. His distinctive voice and folk guitar styling is par none, and he is often accompanied by the most notable of artists no matter what the genre. Chesnutt recently released just such an album called At The Cut which featured Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) and members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. While that record may have garnered him a bit of press, he slipped in a sleeper for the die-hard folk fans. Yes, he also released Skitter To Take-Off.
Produced by Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkin, Skitter To Take-Off is Chesnutt as his most soul-bearing. You can hear it in his voice on high points “Feast In The Time Of Plague”, “Rips In The Fabric” and “Society Sue”. The only accompaniment here is Richman (guitar, harmonium) and Larkin (drums), and their presence, too, is scarce. These somewhat minimal tunes were recorded as such, with no overdubs – yet the power behind them remains. If you thought Chesnutt was good with full accompaniment, just wait ’til you hear him on his own. It takes a true musician to captivate the listener in such an instance, and on Skitter On Take-Off Chesnutt more than succeeds at that.
http://rapidshare.com/files/304839904/vic_nutt.rar
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| ca329 - Viya - Greetings From The Land of Toys! |
[08 Nov 2009|08:33pm] |
Artist: Viya
Title: Greetings From The Land of Toys!
#ca329
Date: 2009-11-08
Keywords: folk; fusion; experimental; rock; other
(320 kbps)
Viya, the live performance band which frequently takes to the stage in clubs across Taksim / Istanbul and a lot of festivals in Turkey. Viya means 'body surfing' in the Laz language. Formed in june 2008 with Zeynep Türkmen on Violin; Özgür Çakır on Guitar and Sound effects; Barış Demirel on Bass Guitars, melodicas, vocals; Aydın Türkoğlu on Drums. The group is best known for its keenness for improvisation and utilizations with folk, jazz, rock sounds.
Contact:
http://wwww.myspace.com/viyaband
DL:
http://www.archive.org/details/ca329_v
http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com
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| The Joy of Nature / Novemthree - Auguries of Innocence / Meanderings in Streams of Reflection |
[28 Oct 2009|11:44pm] |
Fom Heathen Harvest's review: Small label Little Something Records has just issued a beautiful release with this Split Collaboration between The Joy of Nature and Novemthree, the package is so well crafted, comes with two buttons from each band and the two precious mini CDs inside a double folded mini cover (curiously each one representing a different natural polarity, Male vs Female or Animus Vs Anima) each side presenting their respective artwork. The whole set comes in a rustic envelope of linen tied with a delicate cord of wool. Awesome visual presentation!
Novemthree's myspace
The Joy of Nature's myspace
Enjoy!
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| ca325 - dmyra - Unpollution |
[29 Oct 2009|12:32am] |
Artist: dmyra
Title: Unpollution
#ca325
Date: 2009-10-28
Keywords: un folk; anti rock; alternative; rock; folk
(320 kbps)
Unpollution the connective [t]issue. Recurring themes include: Divine Apparition/Avatical Landings, Clean - Free Energy, the Mental source of apparent contradictions, conflict resolution analysis.
Well, with our world in a dire state, one hopes to add to the clarity of the subject without becoming a fascist too. And so we have a decided leaning towards personal transformation to achieve this end.
Contact:
http://www.metaforr.org
DL:
http://www.archive.org/details/ca325_d
http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com
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| Alasdair Roberts - The Wyrd Meme (2009) EP |
[26 Oct 2009|11:12am] |
Following hard on the heels of Spoils comes the second offering this year from Alasdair Roberts, an EP of four long tracks that brilliantly bears out the conjunction of ancient and modern, mythical and analytical, in the title The Wyrd Meme.
Set to guitar and mooning harmonium, and sung in Roberts' distinctive reedy brogue, "Coral And Tar" has the tainted fragility of a double-edged love song by Will Oldham, while "The Yarn Unraveller", with its imagery of "the ship unlaunchable, yet forever doomed to sailing", recalls The Incredible String Band's more elliptical myth songs – though they never paused a song midway for a passage of feedback whines. Mythic beasts appear in suitably serpentine rhymes in the apocalyptic account of "The Royal Road At The World's End", before being summarily dismissed
http://rapidshare.com/files/297941158/AlasWyrd_EP.rar
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| Vladimir Martynov-Night in Galicia 2000. |
[21 Oct 2009|05:04pm] |
This is perhaps one of the strangest albums I have in my collection.
An odd mixture of genres, (not quite classical, not quite folk, not quite avant-garde) Night in Galicia is an album which takes you deep into the Russian psyche and beyond. Alien upon the ears at first listen, the songs within demand your solitude and your attention and upon further examination, it seems there is something quite subliminal about it all, that the songs are merely an extension of Martynov's unconscious mind. There is very rarely a cantible melody, and most of the songs work on patterns, ostinati and poly-rhythms.
The vocal work is quite rough and raw, not what you would expect from something classed as classical. However, such singing gives the songs a more natural feel; that it's something anybody can readily associate with. Often the vocals bark and yell, or take on a more nasal quality. Suffice to say, I have never heard vocals quite like this before (except maybe on a Zappa record).
The first track is "A-A-A O-O-O EH-EH-EH EE-EE-EE OO-OO-OO" and probably the most out-there song on the album. The title states the songs only lyrics and is really an experiment into phonetic playfulness and rhythmic structuring. All other tracks are in Russian but don't let that put you off. There's always something about listening to music in a language you don't understand. The vocals move away from being a conduit of words and instead become a versatile and expressive instrument in their own right.
A folk ensemble supply the string work and is as raw and expressive as the singing. You don't have to be an expert on traditonal russian folk music to appreciate it relevancy. You can almost smell the earth and see the vast landscape of Mother Russia when listening to the string passages. Cellos grind and hack away percussively as the violins dance rudely on top.
Taking libretto from works by avant-garde poet Velimir Khlebnikov, it's a piece which will never be liked or understood upon first contact. And yes, there are moments when it feels it's being too clever for it's own good.
But for all it's cleverness and bizarre qualities, Night in Galicia is an interesting, musical island, just waiting to be explored by those who are prepared to push the boat out.
http://rapidshare.com/files/242558238/Vladimir_Martynov_-_Night_in_Galicia_K.rar
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| At Swim Two Birds - Before You Left |
[15 Oct 2009|11:25pm] |
It’s somewhat of a double-edged sword for anyone brave enough to be romantically entangled with Roger Quigley (who trades solo as At Swim Two Birds and also under a band umbrella as one of The Montgolfier Brothers). On the one hand, a Quigley relationship is pre-destined to end in an emotional cataclysm, to be deconstructed in painful detail just a few notches down from the indiscreetly lurid prose of Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat. On the other hand, the resultant navel-gazing will be dressed in the tailored-threads of old-fashioned chivalry and beatifically saturnine moodscapes. It’s a dichotomous quiddity that gives British bedsit balladeers a good name, as this third At Swim Two Birds long-player attests.
With the opening almost a cappella eeriness of “Intro,” Quigley enunciates the core recurring lyrical refrain of Before You Left, as if it were a self-deluding manifesto commitment; “Before you left I told myself this is a good thing/The time and space to sort myself out.” From thereon in, Quigley steers the record through waves of epic intimacy, like a broken man staring ruefully through the condensation of a Salford greasy-spoon café window, daydreaming vividly of lost love(s).
Lyrically, Quigley draws diligently from the same wells as seminal break-up concept albums like Lee Hazlewood’s Requiem For An Almost Lady, Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks, Smog’s The Doctor Came At Dawn and Elliott Smith’s XO; apportioning blame with a mixture of self-immolating regret and veiled-bitterness, as well as dwelling near-tearfully on the good times before the rot of irreversible bleakness set-in. Musically, Quigley glides his murmuring multi-tracked croon across a cohesively-fashioned surface that subtly cross-references a spectrum of those with similarly melancholic persuasions. Hence, the skeletal minimalism of “I Must Be Losing You” and the electronically-framed “Let Her Go” recall the cruelly-forgotten lush extremities of early lo-fi Baby Bird wares, such as I Was Born A Man and Bad Shave. The magisterial string-adorned “The March of The Kings” nods respectfully to both Scott Walker and Tindersticks, whereas the elegiac “No Fear” is painted with gentler shades of Piano Magic’s 4ADisms. Elsewhere, “Dead of Night” cops a sneaky-but-successful feel of Richard Hawley’s retro Sinatra-via-Sheffield evocations whilst the plaintive acoustics of “The Night We Ran Away” tip a hat to Leonard Cohen’s Songs From A Room.
Overall, Roger Quigley’s soul-baring may be a pain in the heart for him, but it’s a generous medicine to the ears for the rest of us. So although heavy with an omnipresent tristfulness, Before You Left is still a redemptive and uplifting affair for those looking to deeply drown their sorrows and then pick themselves up again, to find another person to fall in (and possibly out of) love with. Melancholia with healing powers in short then…
http://rapidshare.com/files/283158951/Plava_Budj.rar
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