Aereogramme, Sleep and Release

Scotland, 2003.

Aereogramme were an alternative/progressive/post-rock four-piece from Glasgow. Formed in 1998, Sleep and Release is their second album. They split up on May 11th, 2007.

Playlist:

1. Indiscretion #243
2. Black Path
3. A Simple Process of Elimination
4. Older
5. No Really, Everything Is Fine
6. Wood
7. Yes
8. In Gratitude
9. A Winter's Gratitude
10. Untitled

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The Doors, Self-titled

US, 1967

Everyone knows The Doors. This is their first album, released two years after the band's formation.

Playlist:

1 - Break on Through (to the Other Side)
2 - Soul Kitchen
3 - The Crystal Ship
4 - Twentieth Century Fox
5 - Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
6 - Light My Fire
7 - Back Door Man
8 - I Looked at You
9 - End of the Night
10 - Take It as It Comes
11 - The End

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Fen, The Malediction Fields

UK, 2009.

Malediction Fields is the first full-length by the black metal band Fen. Similarly to Alcest, Fen's music encompasses a diverse range of influences, from gentle, atmospheric post-rock to heavier avant-garde black metal.

Playlist:

1. Exile's Journey
2. A Witness to the Passing of Aeons
3. Colossal Voids
4. As Buried Spirits Stir
5. The Warren
6. Lashed by Storm
7. Bereft

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Buckethead, Crime Slunk Scene

U.S.A., 2006

Having consciously neglected Buckethead for years, now I finally gave his music a try and was all but disappointed to devote some time to it.
Let's just say that Buckethead is plain freakish, and of course he knows it; he goes Morello squared on experimentalism when playing with the whammy, the killswitch and the pitch-shifting pedals – just like toys.
Being his 18th studio all along his record sheet, Crime Slunk Scene goes through a variety of textures mainly made out of killer riffs, craze, and some well-weighed masturbation.


Playlist:

1. King James
2. Gory Head Stump 2006: The Pageant Of The Slunks
3. The Fairy And The Devil
4. Buddy Berkman's Ballad
5. Mad Monster Party
6. Soothsayer (dedicated to Aunt Suzie)
7. Col. Austin VS Col. Sanders AKA Red Track Suit
8. We Can Rebuild Them
9. Electronic Slight Of Hand
10. Mecha Gigan
11. Slunk Parade AKA Freaks In The Black


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Led Zeppelin, III

UK, 1970

Led Zeppelin don't need an introduction. This is their third album and my personal favourite.

Playlist:

1 - Immigrant Song
2 - Friends
3 - Celebration Day
4 - Since I've Been Loving You
5 - Out On The Tiles
6 - Gallows Pole
7 - Tangerine
8 - That's The Way
9 - Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
10 - Hats Off To (Roy) Harper

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Soft Machine, The Soft Machine

UK, 1968.

Soft Machine was an English rock band from Canterbury. They were one of the central bands in the so-called "Canterbury scene", and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre.

Playlist:

1 - Hope For Happiness
2 - Joy Of A Toy
3 - Hope For Happiness (Reprise)
4 - Why Am I So Short?
5 - So Boot If At All
6 - A Certain Kind
7 - Save Yourself
8 - Priscilla
9 - Lullabye Letter
10 - We Did It Again
11 - Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle
12 - Why Are We Sleeping?
13 - Box 25/4 Lid

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Té, まして、心と五感が一致するなら全て最上の『音楽』に変ずる。

Japan, 2005.

Japanese instrumental post-rock quartet, formed in Tokyo, in 2004.

Playlist:

1. 人間は自由なものとして生まれ、至る所で『鎖』に繋がれてゆく。
2. 他に寄せる信頼の大部分は、己の内に抱く自信から『生』まれる。
3. 夢とは現実という平凡なものに付ける美しさに似た『嘘』の俗称。
4. いつも好転する未来を望み、しかし時節の変化は『恐』れている。
5. 弱いというものは哀れな事だ、敢えて行うにしろ『忍』ぶにしろ。
6. 具眼の士に検閲されることは、最も正しい『価値』の決定である。
7. 詩はただ、病める魂の所有者と孤独者との寂しい『慰』めである。
8. 人は他人の不幸には充分耐えられるだけの強さを『持』っている。
9. 理は公平な判断を望み、怒りは判断が公平に見える事を『望』む。
10. 意味の在る巡り会いを求めず、出会いに『意味』を見つけて行く。
11. 歌を謡って眠らせてやりたい。誰かの傍に坐り『謡』っていたい。
12. 「無論做什麼都好」，用輕聲細語説出名為『自由』という『脅迫』

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Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill 4: The Room Soundtrack

Japan, 2004

Continuing the SH series saga of posts started purposedly in reverse; one of the heaviest-sounding, more depressive and gloomy music ever created to rightfully accompany a videogame. Akira Yamaoka unites the cast of two voices – to break the all-instrumental tradition of Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2 – of already resident Mary Elizabeth McGlyyn and deep resounding Joe Romersa.

Playlist:

1. Tender Sugar
2. Waverer
3. Fortunate Sleep
4. Melancholy Requiem
5. Confinement
6. Drops Of Shame
7. The Suicidal Clock Chime
8. Silent Circus
9. Traversing The Portals Of Reality
10. Into The Depths Of Self-Discovery
11. Cradle Of Forest
12. Resting Comfortably
13. Nightmarish Waltz
14. Pulsating Ambience
15. Your Rain
16. The Last Mariachi
17. Wounded Warsong
18. Underground Dawn – Never Come
19. Fever Chill
20. Remodeling
21. Room Of Angel
22. Waiting For You [Live at Heaven's Night]


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Magyar Posse, We Will Carry You Over The Mountains

Finland, 2002.

The first album by post-rock band, Magyar Posse.

Playlist:

1. Sleepwalker
2. Witchcraft
3. Single Sparks Are Spectral Fires
4. Pacific Ocean/Death in the Desert
5. Untitled
6. Enemy Within
7. The Endless Cycle of Violence
8. Lufthan

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Magyar Posse, Random Avenger

Finland, 2006.

Magyar Posse are post-rock/math-rock, but their sound doesn't resemble directly any other post-rock group. This album is refreshing, cinematic and incredibly beautiful.

Playlist:

1. Whirlpool of Terror and Tension
2. Sudden Death
3. Black Procession
4. European Lover/Random Avenger
5. Intercontinental Hustle
6. One by One
7. Popzag

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Exxasens, Polaris

Spain, 2008

Post/space rock from Mars.

Playlist:

1 - Polaris
2 - Mira Mama
3 - Your Dreams are My Dreams
4 - Spiders on the Moon
5 - Blue Space
6 - Milk Stars
7 - Faster Than Speed of Light
8 - Gamma Channel
9 - Storms
10 - Melancolie
11 - Exxasens

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Fifths of Seven, Spry From Bitter Anise Folds

U.S., 2005.

Fifths of Seven is an instrumental string/piano/accordion-based trio out of Montreal, Canada, composed of Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake, and Frog Eyes), Beckie Foon (A Silver Mt. Zion, Set Fire to Flames, and Esmerine), and Rachel Levine (Cakelk).

Playlist:

1. Rosa Centifolia
2. Sweet Grace for Devious
3. Out from Behind the Rigid Bellows
4. Waiting
5. Coeur, Arteries and Veins
6. Echoes from a Wandered Path
7. For You Alone in the Smoldering City
8. Bless Our Wandering Dreamers

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