Jessica Bailiff, Old Things

US, 2007.

Jessica Bailiff is an American singer-songwriter from Toledo, Ohio. Her music is largely classified as slowcore, although it contains elements of post-rock. It is essentially a droning, experimental style of slow-tempo music which coalesces textured, blurry and surreal sounds with immersed vocals.

Playlist:

1. Your Sounds Make Patterns In My Eyes
2. Helpless
3. Warren
4. Shadow
5. Crush (Version 2)
6. Amethyst Depression
7. Maybe Tomorrow
8. Let Time Breathe
9. Nicholson Square 2
10. For April

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Hanne Hukkelberg, Blood From a Stone

Norway, 2010

"For her third full-length, Hukkelberg decided to head north instead of south. A lot farther north, in fact, on the tiny Norwegian island of Senja, located some 180 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Living in such isolation would have one assuming the resulting album would be one of stark intimacy,(…) the songs themselves turn out to be some of Hukkelberg's most extroverted work to date."


Playlist:
1. Midnight Sun Dream
2. Blood From a Stone
3. Bandy Riddles
4. No Mascara Tears
5. Seventeen
6. Salt Of The Earth
7. No One But Yourself
8. In Here / Out Here
9. Crack
10. Bygd Til By

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Cynic, Re-Traced

US, 2010.

Cynic's latest EP, Re-Traced, features four reinterpretations from their album Traced In Air as well as one original song. A very interesting retake on old material.


Playlist:

1. Space
2. Evolutionary
3. King
4. Integral
5. Wheels Within Wheels

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Eyvind Kang, Virginal Co-ordinates

US, 2004

«Kang’s work is difficult to classify, but can broadly be seen as a classical approach to jazz music with punk, ambient, and traditional folk influences. However, each of his solo efforts is almost in a different genre. Kang has also worked with musicians including Mike Patton, John Zorn, Trey Spruance, Tim Young, Marc Ribot and Beck, supporting the latter during a 2000 tour of Japan. In addition, he has been a guest musician on many albums, including Bill Frisell’s Quartet (1994), Secret Chiefs 3’s Book M and playing the viola on five of Laura Veirs’ albums.»

Playlist:

1. Go In a Good Way to a Better Place
2. I Am the Dead
3. Doorway to the Sun
4. Occultum Lapidem
5. Harbour of the Nade
6. Virginal Co-ordinates
7. Sidi Bou Said
8. Innocent Eye, Crystal See
9. Marriage of Days

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Portland Cello Project, The Thao & Justin Power Sessions

US, 2009.

The Portland Cello Project is an “indie cello orchestra”, that is to say the combination of a group of classically trained cellists with different musicians and vocalists of the Portland indie scene. This album is the collaboration of the band with Thao (from Thao with The Get Down Stay Down) and Justin Power.

Playlist:

1. The Lamb
2. Beat (Health, Life And Fire) (Featuring Thao)
3. Cut The Rope (Featuring Justin Power)
4. Mouth For War
5. Tallymarks (Featuring Thao)
6. Por Una Cabeza
7. Violet (Featuring Thao)
8. Hungry Liars (Featuring Justin Power)
9. Geography (Featuring Thao)
10. Seeds May Fall (Featuring Justin Power)
11. Turkish Wine
12. Travel (Featuring Justin Power)

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Bark Cat Bark, Á Lífi

France, 2009.

Bark Cat Bark is the music project of multi-instrumentalist Josh Todd from Paris, France. His music is recognized by its use of a large variety of instruments usually in minimalist compositions, often with a touch of either European classical music or French folk music but has also included in his music; Post-rock, Balkan, Drone, Tropicália, Electronica & Latin Jazz.

Playlist:

1. Verona
2. Lac Pavin
3. Galatia
4. Iceland
5. Hóp
6. Père Lachaise
7. Intervalle
8. Á Lífi
9. Palermo a Larino

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Electric Wizard, Witchcult Today

UK, 2007

Electric Wizard are a legendary stoner/doom metal band from Dorset, England. Witchcult Today is their sixth studio album.

Playlist:

1. Witchcult Today
2. Dunwich
3. Satanic Rites of Drugula
4. Raptus
5. The Chosen Few
6. Torquemada '71
7. Black Magic Rituals & Perversions
8. Saturnine

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Matryoshka, Zatracenie

Japan, 2007.

Matryoshka is a Tokyo, Japan based band consisting of the track maker Sen and the female vocalist Calu. Their music is a mix of post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, electronic and modern classical.

Playlist:

1. Sink Into The Sin
2. Slowsnow
3. Evening Gleam Between Cloud
4. Viridian
5. My Funeral Rehearsal
6. Tyrant's Miniature Garden
7. Anesthetic
8. Ezekiel
9. Beyond
10. February Lifesaver

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Bo Becker, Of Vistula

US, 2010.

I don't know much about Bo Becker, but fans of Eluvium and Jacaszek will surely enjoy this album.

Playlist:


1. Morning
2. Pylon
3. Dream of the Red Chamber
4. Ikon
5. Of Vistula
6. In Human Endeavors
7. Fourth of July
8. The Power of Atom

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Cecilia::Eyes, Here Dead We Lie

Belgium, 2010.

Founded in Autumn 2004, Cecilia::Eyes is a subtle mixture of instrumental and dark music, with a taste for slow and noisy tunes.

Playlist:

1. Like Wolves
2. For The Fallen
3. Anthem For Doomed Youth
4. Four Lost Soldiers
5. The Departure
6. Fifty Years Under The Tent
7. No Prayers, No Bells, No Homeland
8. Death For Treason

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Al Di Meola, Elegant Gypsy

U.S., 1977

Al Di Meola is one of the most acclaimed guitar virtuosos alive, and Elegant Gypsy is a fine essay on latin/flamenco's fusion with lots of jazz and rock seasoning. Feels somewhat refreshing, even in spite of its age.


Playlist:

1. Flight Over Rio
2. Midnight Tango
3. Mediterranean Sundance
4. Race With Devil On Spanish Highway
5. Lady Of Rome, Sister Of Brazil
6. Elegant Gypsy Suite

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Mono & World's End Girlfriend, Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain

Japan, 2006.

A collaboration between instrumental post-rock band Mono and fellow Tokyo native and modern electronic composer World’s End Girlfriend

In 2006 they released Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain, a five-part sojourn of neoclassical grace and luminescence that defies lazy categorization. As dark as the bottom of the ocean and nearly as otherworldly, “Palmless” finds Mono inhabiting a magical world previously only hinted at in their most orchestral compositions.

Playlist:

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3. [untitled 3]
4. [untitled 4]
5. [untitled 5]

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