When The Clouds, The Longed-For Season

Italy, 2009.

When the Clouds is the recording project of artist and producer Francesco Galano. In 2007 he began working on several songs blending electronic elements with acoustic instruments creating a sound with extraordinary emotional impact. The songs are characterised by the use of acoustic instruments such as rhodes piano guitar, bass guitar, strings, mellotron, glockespiel and diamonic fluctuating along with a complicated structure of concrete sounds, glitch and noises that make up the rhythmic/percussive structure of the music. In 2009 he signed a deal with Drifting Falling for his debut EP “The Longed-For Season” a six track tapestry that reveals more and more of itself with each listen. Equal parts restraint, masterfully crafted tension and euphoric release that will leave listeners lost in thought.

Playlist:

1. The Dawn and the Embrace
2. Rise On
3. Flooding River
4. November Song
5. The Place Where This Path Leads
6. The House of Sleep

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Mike Patton, Mondo Cane

US, 2010.

"2010 release from the Faith No More vocalist, an Italian language rock-meets orchestra hybrid. Recorded at a series of European performances including an outdoor concert in a Northern Italian piazza, this album features traditional Italian Pop songs as well as a rendition of Ennio Morricone’s ‘Deep Down’. Patton worked with a 30-piece orchestra and choir to create the uniquely new Mondo Cane sound."

So goddamn awesome.

Playlist:

1. Il Cielo In Una Stanza
2. Che Notte!
3. Ore d'Amore
4. Deep Down
5. Quello Che Conta
6. Urlo Negro
7. Scalinatella
8. L'Uomo Che Non Sapeva Amare
9. 20 Km Al Giorno
10. Ti Offro Da Bere
11. Senza Fine

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Okabe / Ishihama / Hoashi / Nishimura, NieR Gestalt & RepliCant Soundtrack

Japan, 2010

I got recommended this soundtrack from a friend of mine and even though I felt reticent about this one, the choral works and orchestration had me convinced immediately. Apart from that, the songs are sung in a variety of languages, such as French, Japanese, English and Gaelic, though some people speculate a few of them are sung in a fictional language. It is a predominantly vocal soundtrack and even though it's not the most superb thing I've had the opportunity to listen it is, quite fairly, very good and beautiful.


Playlist:

Disc One
1. Snow in Summer
2. Hills of Radiant Wind
3. The Incomplete Stone
4. Blu-bird
5. Cold Steel Coffin
6. Grandma
7. Song of the Ancients / Devola
8. The Wretched Automatons
9. City of Commerce
10. Song of the Ancients / Popola
11. The Prestigious Mask
12. Temple of Drifting Sands
13. Gods Bound by Rules
14. The Ultimate Weapon
15. Deep Crimson Foe
16. Dispossession / Piano Ver.
17. Dispossession / Strings Ver.
18. Dispossession / Pluck Ver.
19. Dispossession / Music Box Ver.
20. Yonah / Piano Ver.
21. Yonah / Strings Ver.
22. Yonah / Pluck Ver. 1
23. Yonah / Pluck Ver. 2

Disc Two
1. The Dark Colossus Destroys All
2. Song of the Ancients / Hollow Dreams
3. Kaine / Salvation
4. Kaine / Escape
5. His Dream
6. This Dream
7. Repose
8. The Lost Forest
9. Song of the Ancients / Fate
10. Shadowlord's Castle / Memory
11. Dance of the Evanescent
12. Shadowlord's Castle / Roar
13. Emil / Karma
14. Emil / Sacrifice
15. Shadowlord
16. Ashes of Dreams / New
17. Ashes of Dreams / Nouveau
18. Ashes of Dreams / Nuadhaich
19. Ashes of Dreams / Aratanaru
20. Shadowlord - White-note remix

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Rosetta, A Determinism Of Morality

US, 2010.

"Philadelphia quartet Rosetta push the boundaries between metal, progressive rock, post-rock, space rock, and hardcore punk, employing an experimental songwriting technique filled with chaos and atmospherics. Their sounds range from Pink Floydian progressive rock sonic layering to walls of pure static ambience to crushing, sweeping sludgey riffage."

Playlist:

1. Ayil
2. Je N'en Connais Pas la Fin
3. Blue Day for Croatoa
4. Release
5. Revolve
6. Renew
7. A Determinism of Morality

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Toundra, II

Spain, 2010.

"Toundra is a band from Madrid, Spain emerged in 2007, as phoenix, from disappeared ones Nacen De Las Cenizas, who left a great (good) taste in mouth among national hardcore followers, despite the brief of his career. In this case, the new creature has decided to dispense vocals and provides us with an entirely instrumental sound where guitars, bass and drums take on the entire role."

Playlist:

1. Tchod
2. Magreb
3. Zanzíbar
4. Völand
5. Danubio / Danube
6. Koschei
7. Bizancio / Byzantium

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Glowworm, The Coachlight Woods

US, 2008.

Glowworm is a chamber rock/electronica band from Portland started by Kevin Davis with the help of Jesse Robert W. in 2006. The Coachlight Woods is Glowworm’s first full length LP.

Playlist:

1. Periphescence
2. Contrails
3. The Captive
4. Lux
5. Nightshores
6. Cracks in the Desert Sea of St. George
7. Lith
8. Into the Woods
9. Glow Scraped From the Earth

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Kira Kira, Our Map To The Monster Olympics

Iceland, 2008.

"Our Map to the Monster Olympics is a twisting, sometimes terrifying, often glorious and touching kaleidoscope of a record. Swarms of fragmented voices mouth melodies through home made microphones while contact-miced Kalimbas fight for breath in seas of beautifully damaged technicolour, granulated shotgun beats fire from sniper positions in foreboding atmospheres- AND YET armies of glockenspiels, brass and casios remind us that everything will, in fact, be ok."

Playlist:

1. Sjarmaland Intro
2. Melur Sjarmur
3. Ágústskot
4. Gremlin Holiday
5. Happahrolfur Salhsu
6. Bless
7. Langti Burtu Bua Vinir
8. One Eyed Waltz
9. Beach Box Disasters
10. Hjartafanturrin Skrajafur

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French Teen Idol, Enlightened False Consciousness

Italy, 2007.

French Teen Idol is an instrumental solo-project run by the Roman artist Andrea Di Carlo. An elegant mix of post-rock and electronic influences, French Teen Idol’s music provides the listener with cinematic landscapes, dramatic crescendos and striking vocal samples.

Playlist:

1. The Following Takes Place Between 0’00” And 57’30”
2. The Longest Night
3. Memento
4. Departure
5. The Fleeting Beauty Of A Butterfly
6. Compromise Your (He)Art
7. Ode To A Departing Friend
8. Enlightened False Consciousness
9. Stay
10. Rebirth

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C!ties, Self-titled EP

Ireland, 2008.

Cities is an instrumental band from Ennis, Ireland, formed in 2007. In November 2008, they released their first EP, which was entirely self-produced, and can be downloaded for free at their website.

Playlist:

1. 4+1=5
2. 15728
3. Dive Dive Dive!
4. !
5. Satellites
6. SuperMassiveBlckHls.rmx

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God Is An Astronaut, Age Of The Fifth Sun

Ireland, 2010.

Age Of The Fifth Sun, the fifth studio album by Irish post-rock band God Is an Astronaut, was released on May this year.

Playlist:

1. Worlds in Collision
2. In the Distance Fading
3. Lost Kingdom
4. Golden Sky
5. Dark Rift
6. Parallel Highway
7. Shining Through
8. Age of the Fifth Sun
9. Paradise Remains

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Lis Er Stille, The Collibro

Denmark, 2010.

Words cannot describe how amazing and powerful this album is.


Playlist:

1. All The Blood
2. Send In The Scouts
3. Recalling The Color
4. Like A Common Wave
5. Shards Of The Ending
6. Through The Quest Of Your Designs
7. Break Or Seal
8. The Real Children
9. The Painted
10. Behold The Remnant Parts Of Me
11. In The Seed
12. Beneath The Broken Country

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Souvenir's Young America, The Name Of The Snake

US, 2010.

Souvenir’s Young America is a three piece instrumental band from Richmond, VA. They create a very unique and interesting sounding - reminds you of the cinematic American desert - instrumental post-rock/post-metal.

Playlist:

1. Water (Forgetting The Past)
2. Vanishing (Remaining)
3. Dust (Erasing The Future)
4. Amnesia (A Victor's History)
5. 6:38
6. 3:17
7. 9:18

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