Completely ravished by the fragile and enchanted, pristine lo-fi pop by Irvine, California's Kristine Lirio aka Nima, who just released her debut cassette Demon + Wet Dream via our cherished Southern Californian imprint Bridgetown. The C25 is filled with slow, ethereal casiotones and hushed, reverberated piano melodies driven by simple rhythm patterns seemingly recorded on the cheapest drum machine available, a fact that gives the whole thing that kind of honest bedroom feel that so many young talents fail to fake nowadays. The most outstanding, almost devastating feature however is Lirio's frail yet assertive voice, evoking an intimate atmosphere that makes the listener feel virtually intrusive.
Listen to the b-side's title track below, and stream the whole recording over here. As usual, the pro-dubbed cassette is available directly via Bridgetown. Edition of 100.
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Completely ravished by the fragile and enchanted, pristine lo-fi pop by Irvine, California's Kristine Lirio aka Nima, who just released her debut cassette Demon + Wet Dream via our cherished Southern Californian imprint Bridgetown. The C25 is filled with slow, ethereal casiotones and hushed, reverberated piano melodies driven by simple rhythm patterns seemingly recorded on the cheapest drum machine available, a fact that gives the whole thing that kind of honest bedroom feel that so many young talents fail to fake nowadays. The most outstanding, almost devastating feature however is Lirio's frail yet assertive voice, evoking an intimate atmosphere that makes the listener feel virtually intrusive.
Listen to the b-side's title track below, and stream the whole recording over here. As usual, the pro-dubbed cassette is available directly via Bridgetown. Edition of 100.
Nima - Wet Dream
Crawling out of the dark like all the hell's demons, Mike Shiflet's Honeyed Crest is a terrifying piece of noise, a nightmare made of layers of drone and sheer guitar fuzz that nonetheless shows its marvelous core of gratifying dignity after a few minutes of subtle alterations in the ostensibly monolithic wall of sound, eventually revealing a work of purely sublime quality.
Mike Shiflet's Honeyed Crest C22 tape is out now via Burlington, Vermont imprint NNA Tapes.
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Crawling out of the dark like all the hell's demons, Mike Shiflet's Honeyed Crest is a terrifying piece of noise, a nightmare made of layers of drone and sheer guitar fuzz that nonetheless shows its marvelous core of gratifying dignity after a few minutes of subtle alterations in the ostensibly monolithic wall of sound, eventually revealing a work of purely sublime quality.
Mike Shiflet's Honeyed Crest C22 tape is out now via Burlington, Vermont imprint NNA Tapes.
Mike Shiflet - Honeyed Crest
Our dearest Greek haunted electro pop outfit du jour Keep Shelly In Athens has a cassette coming out in April via one of our favorite tape labels (as you should be aware of), the wonderful Sixteen Tambourines. The tape is limited to 150 and includes - among some other well-known and rightfully adored tunes like Running Out Of You or Hauntin' Me - the brand new track Yellow Man, which features just about everything we love so relentlessly about the music of KSIA. Pre-order the tape over here and help the label to help the Japanese victims of the earthquake and tsunami.
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Our dearest Greek haunted electro pop outfit du jour Keep Shelly In Athens has a cassette coming out in April via one of our favorite tape labels (as you should be aware of), the wonderful Sixteen Tambourines. The tape is limited to 150 and includes - among some other well-known and rightfully adored tunes like Running Out Of You or Hauntin' Me - the brand new track Yellow Man, which features just about everything we love so relentlessly about the music of KSIA. Pre-order the tape over here and help the label to help the Japanese victims of the earthquake and tsunami.
"Wo ist Behle?", Taranto native Fabio Orsi asks on the cover of his latest work, to be released April 6 (Orsi's birthday) via Italy's Boring Machines. Though we don't know where Behle is, either, let alone who that fella might be, we are sure that the record's German title is anything but incidental. Rather, Wo ist Behle? is the result of the artist's relocation to Berlin, from the perennial warmth of his hometown in southern Italy to the harshness of the eastern German winter. Accordingly, in the label's words, "the sound of the new record is made of pure and cristalline glacial sounds (like snow)". And indeed, unlike the rough, guitar-based noise on Orsi's last effort Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul! on Australia's Preservation that we had written about last month, the music on Wo ist Behle? focuses on clear, cool ambient sounds that evoke images of remote cityscapes covered in beautiful yet merciless snow.
Subdividing the record into five tracks ranging from three and a half to almost 15 minutes, each numbered and otherwise simply dubbed Loipe - which is the German expression for tracks primed for cross-country skiing - Orsi takes the listener on an imaginative trip through the wintry city made up of meandering synthesizer patterns and restrained rhythm sections, resulting in an extraordinary piece of avant-garde ambient that subtly borrows from kraut as well as more recent psychedelic experimentalism.
Below, watch the video and listen to Loipe 01, a track that slowly grows, unfolding its magic over the course of nearly 13 minutes, heavily relying on repetition to create a mesmerizing, engrossed vibe.
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If you are in Berlin, we recommend you catch Fabio Orsi live at Kreuzberg's Madame Claude tonight:
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"Wo ist Behle?", Taranto native Fabio Orsi asks on the cover of his latest work, to be released April 6 (Orsi's birthday) via Italy's Boring Machines. Though we don't know where Behle is, either, let alone who that fella might be, we are sure that the record's German title is anything but incidental. Rather, Wo ist Behle? is the result of the artist's relocation to Berlin, from the perennial warmth of his hometown in southern Italy to the harshness of the eastern German winter. Accordingly, in the label's words, "the sound of the new record is made of pure and cristalline glacial sounds (like snow)". And indeed, unlike the rough, guitar-based noise on Orsi's last effort Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul! on Australia's Preservation that we had written about last month, the music on Wo ist Behle? focuses on clear, cool ambient sounds that evoke images of remote cityscapes covered in beautiful yet merciless snow.
Subdividing the record into five tracks ranging from three and a half to almost 15 minutes, each numbered and otherwise simply dubbed Loipe - which is the German expression for tracks primed for cross-country skiing - Orsi takes the listener on an imaginative trip through the wintry city made up of meandering synthesizer patterns and restrained rhythm sections, resulting in an extraordinary piece of avant-garde ambient that subtly borrows from kraut as well as more recent psychedelic experimentalism.
Below, watch the video and listen to Loipe 01, a track that slowly grows, unfolding its magic over the course of nearly 13 minutes, heavily relying on repetition to create a mesmerizing, engrossed vibe.
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If you are in Berlin, we recommend you catch Fabio Orsi live at Kreuzberg's Madame Claude tonight:
The wonderful Colorado outfit Moon Tides that we had featured a while back with their first-ever single To Be returns with their second song - Swimming is yet another nice and easy summer tune that makes us long for those lush endless nights on the beach we can barely remember, and yes indeed we've used those words several times before but seriously, this music demands auch a description and we just won't stop until we've grown tired of listening, and we don't see how this could ever happen. Sweat Lodge Guru is gonna put out Moon Tides' debut cassette soon, and man we're just happy that they do.
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The wonderful Colorado outfit Moon Tides that we had featured a while back with their first-ever single To Be returns with their second song - Swimming is yet another nice and easy summer tune that makes us long for those lush endless nights on the beach we can barely remember, and yes indeed we've used those words several times before but seriously, this music demands auch a description and we just won't stop until we've grown tired of listening, and we don't see how this could ever happen. Sweat Lodge Guru is gonna put out Moon Tides' debut cassette soon, and man we're just happy that they do.
Completely devastated right now by this latest forlorn lullaby by Pensacola, Florida shoegaze devotee Jeremy Mullins aka Optimist Park, another fragile beauty to remind us of the finiteness of all things worth saving - "what was I to do?", Mullins asks humbly before the song bursts into a sea of noise and tears that eventually collapses, leaving only the distant hints of a fading heartbeat, but we cannot help him here, we never could, we can barely help ourselves. Spring has arrived today, by the way.
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Completely devastated right now by this latest forlorn lullaby by Pensacola, Florida shoegaze devotee Jeremy Mullins aka Optimist Park, another fragile beauty to remind us of the finiteness of all things worth saving - "what was I to do?", Mullins asks humbly before the song bursts into a sea of noise and tears that eventually collapses, leaving only the distant hints of a fading heartbeat, but we cannot help him here, we never could, we can barely help ourselves. Spring has arrived today, by the way.
Optimist Park - The Clouds and the Mountain
The friendly folks over at Minneapolis, Minnesota's Moon Glyph have sent over the latest raw gem on their delicious roster, the House of Mighty cassette by Chicago outfit Deep Earth - or, rather the Deep Earth Soundsystem Consciousness Network, "a rotating hub of ideas based on electronic synthesis, rhythmic maneuvering, and minimal excursions".
Running over the course of thirty minutes, the four track cassette House of Mighty is a thorough incursion into the realms of analog synth soundscaping, heavily drifting and dense pieces relying on pumping drums and basslines along with terrific walls of guitar noise, developing an irresistible maelstrom of psychedelic sounds as exemplified in the shortest yet also most unsettling track Speak My Language below.
Order the C30 tape over here.
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The friendly folks over at Minneapolis, Minnesota's Moon Glyph have sent over the latest raw gem on their delicious roster, the House of Mighty cassette by Chicago outfit Deep Earth - or, rather the Deep Earth Soundsystem Consciousness Network, "a rotating hub of ideas based on electronic synthesis, rhythmic maneuvering, and minimal excursions".
Running over the course of thirty minutes, the four track cassette House of Mighty is a thorough incursion into the realms of analog synth soundscaping, heavily drifting and dense pieces relying on pumping drums and basslines along with terrific walls of guitar noise, developing an irresistible maelstrom of psychedelic sounds as exemplified in the shortest yet also most unsettling track Speak My Language below.
Order the C30 tape over here.
Deep Earth - Speak My Language
Crawling out of the dark like all the hell's demons, Mike Shiflet's Honeyed Crest is a terrifying piece of noise, a nightmare made of layers of drone and sheer guitar fuzz that nonetheless shows its marvelous core of gratifying dignity after a few minutes of subtle alterations in the ostensibly monolithic wall of sound, eventually revealing a work of purely sublime quality.
Mike Shiflet's Honeyed Crest C22 tape is out now via Burlington, Vermont imprint NNA Tapes.
Mike Shiflet - Honeyed Crest
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