The Ascent of Everest, How Lonely Sits The City

US, 2006.

The Ascent of Everest formed in the spring of 2005 in the shadows of Music City USA (Nashville, Tennessee). Their debut is the 2006 release “How Lonely Sits the City” (the re-master of which was released June 30, 2008), which is their only album to date. Really interesting post-rock.

Playlist:

1. Alas, Alas! The Breath of Life!
2. As the City Burned, We Trembled For We Saw the Makings of Its Undoings in Our Own Hearts
3. Molotov
4. A Threnody (For the Victims of November Second)
5. If I Could Move Mountains (I) Majesty And Awe (II) Collapse Into Understanding (III) Gathered Hearts Rise And Sing At The First Breath of Dawn

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Steve Jansen & Richard Barbieri, Stone to Flesh

U.K., 2001

This is quite the beautiful, progressive & atmospheric album from the two ex-Japan members.
Expect no less than your usual 10+ (actually, 7+) minute epic.


Playlist:

1. Mother London
2. Sleeper's Awake
3. Ringing The Bell Backwards
4. Everything Ends In Darkness
5. Closer Than I
6. Swim There


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Mt., Teach Your Children How To Think Not What To Think

England, 2009.

Two years after the release of the debut album "Lethologica", post-rock band Mt. release new material in the form of this E.P. mastered by Aereogramme’s Iain Cook.

Playlist:

1. Pencil Drawings Of Animals
2. Yes, I Can Solve A Rubiks Cube, But I Can't Very Well Solve All Your Problems Now, Can I?
3. Brokeback Mt.
4. Lecture On Nothing
5. Remembered Differently (Bonus Track)
6. The Unbearable Lifeless Sean Bean (Bonus Track)

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Constants, The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension

US, 2009.

Caspian meets Russian Circles meets Pelican. Constants is a post-hardcore/post-rock/shoegaze band based in Boston, MA, and this is their second full-length album.

Playlist:

1. Genetics Like Chess Pieces
2. Damien
3. Those Who Came Before Pt. I
4. Those Who Came Before Pt. II
5. The Nameless
6. The Timeless
7. Identify The Indiscernibles
8. Eternal Reoccurrence
9. Abraxas Pt. I
10. Abraxas Pt. II
11. Ascension
12. ...Passage

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Immanu El, They'll Come, They Come

Sweden, 2007

Immanu El is a young Swedish band with a unique sound - dynamic guitar and keyboard soundscapes, captive singing and with somewhat of a moving Nordic mood. The music is focused at a wide spectrum of harmonic expressions and sounds that can move between presence and ambience in varying dynamics. Originally the band was inspired by early post rock and experimental bands, which combined with pop influences made Immanu El to find and create a sound of their own based on atmospheric soundscapes that became their fundament for their debut album "They'll Come, They Come".

Playlist:

1. Under Your Wings I'll Hide
2. Home
3. White Seraphs Wild
4. Astral Days
5. Panda
6. Kosmonaut
7. I Know You So Well...
8. ...In Valleys

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Can, Tago Mago

Germany, 1971

And we got a voyager. This release explored most of the trippiness that made up for the elements of psychedelic rock of the era.
Overcranked, sung in japanese mid-record, even tape backmasking features in it; no wonder Bowie had his Berlin years – and you still will find yourself tapping your foot to it.
Get to know what kind of weird water ran on their taps.


Playlist:

1. Paper House
2. Mushroom
3. Oh Yeah
4. Halleluhwah
5. Aumgn
6. Peking O
7. Bring Me Coffee or Tea


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Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start, Embers

England, 2008.

Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start are an instrumental post-rock band from Kent formed in early 2000.

Playlist:

1. Embers and Ashes
2. Get to the Chopper
3. Our Flowers
4. Murmurs pt. 2
5. New Chapters
6. McDoomish
7. Murmurs pt. 1
8. Cascades
9. Fireflies
10. The Creeping Fear

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GNR, Sob Escuta

Portugal, 1994

So I figured I'd do one of my freak posts.
GNR are a pop rock band from Portugal, alive since the 80s, and have this – pleasant to me at least – strange aura, being either widely hated/loved.

Sob Escuta is a good piece, and probably the most cohesively intense of their albums, being sentimental and poetic; jolly when needed, backed up by – if not just a little strange and quasi-psychedelic – surreal & cryptic lyrics.
The little catch is the whole album's sung in my beloved portuguese language, but once again I figured, if one can withstand Jónsi moaning in hopelandic throughout a whole album one shouldn't have a problem with that, right?


Playlist:

1. Las Vagas
2. Música de Ligeia
3. + Vale Nunca
4. Costa Atlântica Inevitável
5. Ciclones
6. O Costume
7. Dominó
8. Lovenita
9. Rádio Taciturno
10. Tema de Ligeia


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Strangers Family Band, Self-titled EP

US, 2009.

"With an intelligent blend of psychedelic rock music that can be appreciated by psychonauts and the sober alike, Strangers Family Band create timeless music to be enjoyed by all with an open mind."

Playlist:

1. Enochian
2. Girl I've Been Taken
3. Wooden Hands
4. No One Sees Her
5. Strange Transmission
6. Tangerine
7. Beware the Autumn People

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Shogun Kunitoki, Vinonaamakasio

Finland, 2009.

"A timeless kaleidoscope of sounds culled from five decades of electronic music, psychedelia and minimalism."

Playlist:

1. Vinonaamakasio
2. Mulberg
3. Riddarholmen
4. Fuzzabeth Crackleby
5. Holvikirkko
6. Corda
7. Svileto
8. Ratalintu
9. Nebulus

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Let Me Introduce You To The End, A Love of The Sea

US, 2006

Let Me Introduce You To The End is a fine art project dedicated to the dramatic combination of ambient rock music and modern photography. The group has been described as "a band which embodies the idea of beautiful darkness."
A Love of The Sea, melancholic music, featuring piano and velvet vocals and some quite arresting arrangements. Often drifting but never losing focus, this embodies the ideal of beautiful darkness.

Playlist:

1. Love of the Sea
2. Dust in My Eyes
3. Trail in the Dust
4. Upon Ending
5. Between the Sky and the Sea
6. Times of Growing Grimmer
7. Who Will Save Me
8. As You Sink
9. Sitting Alone
10. Love of the Sky

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The Cinematic Orchestra, Man With A Movie Camera

U.K., 2003

Definitely one of the most amazing albums I have listened to these days. Conceived as an invitation to a soundtrack for the homonymous Dziga Vertov's movie, this alone is sure to take you to a semi-transe of texture flying, or at the very least some amazing daydreaming.


Playlist:

1. The Projectionist
2. Melody
3. Dawn
4. The Awakening Of A Woman (Burnout)
5. Reel Life (Evolution II)
6. Postlude
7. Evolution (Versão Portuense)
8. Work It! (Man With A Movie Camera)
9. Voyage
10. Odessa
11. Theme de Yoyo
12. The Magician (Interlude II)
13. Theme Reprise
14. Yoyo Waltz
15. Drunken Tune
16. The Animated Tripod
17. All Things


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