sic alps: new videos!!!

Drag City has launched two new videos by Sic Alps for their forthcoming album Napa Asylum. Sic Alps from San Francisco is Mike Donovan, Matthew Hartman and now Noel Harmonson (who played with Comets of Fire). Their music is a great mix of psychedelic, noise and some kind of pop. I first discovered them few years ago through the Animal Disguise label (home of Mammal) who released "Pleasures & Treasures". Think about Syd Barrett, Velvet Underground but noisier and you'll almost get it.

rainforest

Zine by Peaking Lights.


Zine by Burial Hex.



Zine by Demons.



Zine by Gary War.


Zine by Stellar Om Source

Rainforest is a series of zines edited by RAWRAW in Italy. Each zine by bands who played in events named Rainforest in Rome. They look really great. You can buy them here. RAWRAW published also beautiful zines by various international artists.

RIP Trish Keenan

Official statement from Warp: "It is with great sadness we announce that Trish Keenan from Broadcast passed away at 9am this morning in hospital. She died from complications with pneumonia after battling the illness for two weeks in intensive care.

Our thoughts go out to James, Martin, her friends and her family and we request that the public respect their wishes for privacy at this time.
This is an untimely tragic loss and we will miss Trish dearly - a unique voice, an extraordinary talent and a beautiful human being. Rest in Peace."

the soft moon

The Soft Moon from San Francisco is the project of Luis Vasquez. A great mix of post-punk, noise and minimal music creating a dark and psychedelic vision. The first album is out now on Captured Tracks.

kemialliset ystävät

Extract from the album Ullakkopalo on Fonal records. If you don't know Kemialliset Ystävät yet, go for it! Since years, they maintain a weird, original and mesmerizing sound in their nordic country, Finland.

archers by the sea

Great french drone ambient music by Archers by the Sea. Vincent Caylet (behind ABTS) creates beautiful dark soundscapes. His last LP They were floating over the mountain, they were kings is out now on La Station Radar.

pillars of fire

Beautiful extract of The Pillars of Fire movie project, filmed by the artists Julien Langendorff and Jason Glasser with the help of Matteah Baim for the music.

arp

I can't stop listening to this record! Arp is Alexis Georgopoulos, who also plays in the Alps (see below in this blog). The Soft Wave is really great and mesmerizing. A mix of drone, synthesizers and cosmic music like Cluster, Harmonia and a bit of noise. You can listen to it here. It has been released by Smalltown Supersound.
Pastoral Symphony: I. Dominoes. II: Infinity.

smycken

Smycken is Rasmus Emanuel Svensson (a graphic designer and visual artist fron Sweden) and Hanna Nilsson. They create dark, electronic, psychedelic and haunting music. He also edits a great magazine PWR Paper with various contributors. Svensson's work is very original and one of the most inspiring today. It can be seen here (visual) and heard there (music).

sculpture: rotary signal emitter

Demonstration Reel from Sculpture on Vimeo.

Amazing picture disc by Sculpture, a duo from London. The music consists in collages of found sounds, beats, noises... It's a kind of audio video experience, but you have to forget about dvd. You have to film the record with a camera and enjoy the results. You can find it through Dekorder or via Mimaroglu Music Sales.

the alps

The Alps is a band from San Francisco and New York. They play psychedelic music inspired by french, italian 70's psychedelic bands and soundtracks, krautrock and english folk. The band is Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (Tarentel), Alexis Georgopoulos (ARP) and Scott Hewicker (Troll). One of their tracks reminds me a song the french singer Christophe wrote for a movie, "Sunny road to Salina". It's really good and unique!!! Their two albums are entitled "III" and "Le Voyage" on the excellent label Type.
Hallucinations

new peaking lights & wet hair lps.

Two new releases from the awesome label Night People. The first one by Peaking Lights (one of my favorite band/duo these days) "Space Primitive" and Wet Hair/Naked on the Vague "Split LP". The records' artworks are designed by Shawn Reed (the label's boss), who also plays in Wet Hair, whose records "Dream" and "Glass Fountain" are fresh psychedelic noise music.