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1/06/2011
[Old but important] e.p hall the edge the middle (CLLCT)
e.p hall has been one of the queens on the Bloomington-based CLLCT alongside with iron like nylon (Meghan Lamb) and Shelby Sifers. By avoiding to be a target by possible feminist attacks, however, I don`t feel myself internally hindered for to get name her as one the excellencers on the New Weird America scene as well. Moreover, she has been active since the first half of 00`s (the first demo was recorded in 2003), relatively long before the starting point of CLLCT. Listening to her home recorded 6-track album (2006) again after a while, after being on a year-long interval away from it I shall have to admit her conception works previously very good out. She is a musician who loves driving on acoustic guitars, mingling its mellow chords together with emotive, sometimes dream-alike voice and some synth currents and gurgling electronics. Indeed, at times e.p hall is used to be changed herself into an acutely flaming fur by putting acoustic guitars down or throwing them to the background and letting machine-inflected and electricity-filled sounds overlap and conquer the record`s backbone. For instance, That Letters and Numbers make is an epic maelstrom having lots of turnings up and down, getting quite close to the noise/shoegaze ensembles at times. A classic touch indeed.
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Crouching_World Wasted Time (Bandcamp)
A Chicagoean quartet consisting of Jober, SNuffy, Paragus, Sabez, Kevin K, is ready to give out a follow-up (of 3 tracks) to their great debut issue Passed Out, which offered a refreshing touch to a kind of open-ended experimental music compiled of the burden of drone, noise, psychedelic, electro/psychoacoustic lines, effect-loaded voice and electronics (reminding of the early, academical music-based sonic experiments), altogether having brought forth a resonating, DIY-soaked blast. Surely the kind of overtly psychedelic, lo-fi-esque approach has always been pointed out in a fine way. This is an example by the post-psychedelic electronica-relied tradition, indeed. By beavering away on KORG Electribe MX, KORG microKORG, Manipulated Thumb Drum, MacBook, Guitar, mad pedals, microphone + vox, however, the sophomore release continues partly with the similar desires, on the other side, in the title named track its sound seems to be more clear, even blissful, channelized into a gazing, even trance rock-ish spot. Yet, such sorts of tendencies will be abandoned at Killing Time Pt. 2 which is played out with a more improvisatory outlook, fringed by abrasive, even nihilistic synth pulsatings and rough blasts. This album is obligatory for everyone who is involved in cutting edge-touched, improvisational music.
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9.2
1/04/2011
Power und Beauty The Gnome EP (Peppermill)
Behind the Spokane-based, Washington, US-quartet Power und Beauty are four women (Anna Collins-Wakeman, Sarah Moyer, Karli Fairbanks, and Caroline Fowler) playing up an interesting, New Weird America-esque folk conception on 4 tracks by using more or less conventional musical instruments (a battery sustained second hand keyboard, tambourine, vegetable steamer(!), glockenspiel, accordion, guitars, tambourine, shakers), yet basically being actualized via at times magnificently glee vocal harmonies, conjuring sublime overtones as well, for instance at Author Of The Spring, the strongest notch on the issue, accompanied only by some sparse guitar fingerpickings. The opening track Beggars and Felons, on the other side, is a whimsical, accordion-backboned groove outlook, and the following one, Lavender, is a light run of fast-paced progression on the accordion, having made out the impression with the help of barely heardable yet affectively touching shaker shuffle on the backdrop. Peaches is a (more) synth-chorded, half-droned folk occurence. A fine workout indeed.
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8.7
Helado Negro Pasajero (Asthmatic Kitty)
Helado Negro is Roberto Carlos Lange, a musician from Florida being part of the famous Asthmatic Kitty roster. Those 8 tracks, only 2 of them are the kind of original songs, represented here are up to a mesmerizing mix of contemporary indie music influences and Lange`s Latin (Ecuadorian) roots. In addition to the Latin-based rhythms and catchy melodies he sings in Spanish at times being assisted by Isaac Lekach (voice, guitar), Julianna Barwick (voice), Jason Ajemian (banjo), Jacob Champagne Wick (Trumpet), Jamie Reeder (violin), Shannon Fields (clarinet, accordion). By filled in to be astonishingly suggestive, sometimes even down to heartbreaking, longing-infected baroque pop tunes which initially were intended to be a gift for Lange`s parents. In fact, all the set of minutiae do make the full range sense, particularly because of austere yet sublime electronic undercurrents. Besides covering the songs of Los Iracundos, Eduardo Mateo, Roberto Carlos, and Leo Dan, he gives a new and modern touch for Pink Floyd`s Goodbye Cruel World. All in all, this set is a great example of how sexy could the Latin music be played out actually. My heart is gone indeed.
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10.0
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