Where's Neko?

(Post Ambient Acousmatic and Live Music inspired by Nature) 
part of the project and release:  In Nomine Cetus
Music /vocals/ mixing/ mastering : Annemarie Borg Antara
Whale songs recorded in Australia by iWhales
This track will be the focus of my talk and performance 28 June 2014 at the Ambient Music Conference in Helsinki 
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http://songlinesofthewhales.org/
http://antara-project.com/

Closer in the Distance

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You

Night Still Comes

Neko Case- Night Still Comes

Samantha is on tour throughout the summer - tickets available now: http://samanthacrain.com/tour-dates

Santa Fe is taken from the Full Time Hobby re-issue of Samantha Crain's second album "Santa Fe", out now.

All three re-issues are available to buy from the Full Time Hobby Store: 
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iTunes - 
You (Understood) bit.ly/1gaQ9m9
Songs in the Night bit.ly/1gHcqrY
The Confiscation EP bit.ly/1rnEDZN

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Samantha Crain - Santa Fe

The legendary band's first album in 13 years, available on Joyful Noise Recordings.

Pre-order now on ITunes    http://bit.ly/1suFFjj
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One of the most influential bands in rock history, Half Japanese was founded in the bedroom of brothers Jad and David Fair in 1974. Ignoring musical conventions like chords, rhythms, melody, and song structure, the brothers pioneered DIY and Lo-Fi punk aesthetics simply by being themselves. Passionate, fearless, and relentlessly unique, they self-recorded and self-released by mailing out cassettes with handmade packaging, pressing their own vinyl, and brazenly marketing their music with bizarre magazine ads. This unbridled enthusiasm for the act of creating rock music led them to record dozens of amazing records (including the classic albums "1/2 Gentleman/Not Beasts" and "Charmed Life"), and to inevitably influence countless artists such as Sonic Youth, Neutral Milk Hotel, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Cobain, and many many more.

Their first album in 13 years, "Overjoyed", shows the band's aggressiveness as well as its friendly charisma. Produced by John Dieterich of Deerhoof, the 12 songs on "Overjoyed" are unlike anything in the bands catalog, each unapologetically positive and surprisingly accessible. "Overjoyed" contains a deep purity, exceptionally rare amongst "reunion albums". They neither attempt to recreate their old sound, nor are they aware of current musical trends and conventions.  As a result they sidestep common pitfalls and create something new, interesting, and needed.

The first single and opening track is "In Its Pull". The song struts with confidence and exemplifies the magical in-the-moment glee that Half Japanese exudes. It pumps out a straightforward yet enticingly erratic rock pulse that paves the way for the rest of the album.   


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Half Japanese - In Its Pull

Greylag "Another" from the forthcoming self-titled album 'Greylag' out 10/14/14 on CD/LP/Digital from Dead Oceans.

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Greylag
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Greylag "Another" from the forthcoming self-titled album 'Greylag' out 10/14/14 on CD/LP/Digital from Dead Oceans.

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Greylag - "Another"

Damien Jurado "Silver Katherine" off 'Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son' out now on Secretly Canadian.

Get the album:
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Damien Jurado
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Website damienjurado.com/
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Twitter twitter.com/damienjurado

Damien Jurado "Silver Katherine" from 'Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son' out now on Secretly Canadian.

Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son

Silver Katherine (feat. Sisters of the Eternal Son)

Damien Jurado - "Silver Katherine"

Recorded at Blue Barn Studios
Produced by Ben Lemi & Brooke Singer
Recorded and Engineered by Ben Lemi
Mastered by Mike Gibson 

Voice, piano, guitar: Brooke Singer
Guitar: John Fitzgerald
Drums: Hikurangi Schaverien-Kaa
Bass, voice: Ben Lemi

Released on Home Alone Music (NZ) & Lefse Records(World)
Publishers: Native Tongue

LYRICS

I watched in horror as the bird went up in flames, 
Couldn't beat his wings fast enough to up, and fly away. 
So feathers into dust, dreams into dust. 
Feathers into dust, dreams into dust, 
For this small one, this one of many birds. 

I closed my eyes to see, delicate wings in smoke. 
Heard the last cry of courage, heard the last sweet note, 
And feathers into dust, dreams into dust, 
Feathers into dust, dreams into dust. 

Helpful hands won't reach where they will only burn, 
These are lessons only if they are heard. 
Don't turn away, honour them by seeing them 
Don't turn away, honour them by seeing them 
Don't turn away, honour them by seeing their pain.

Feathers And Dreams

Each Other

From the album 'Jettison the Valley' out March 4th, 2016 on Western Vinyl

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Bandcamp: https://cartertanton.bandcamp.com/album/jettison-the-valley
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv119

Carter Tanton:
Artist page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/carter-tanton
Twitter https://twitter.com/cartertanton
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cartertanton/

By the time he was 15, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Carter Tanton was already playing bar shows in his hometown of Baltimore.  Two years later, he caught the attention of Gary E. Smith, best known for discovering and producing The Pixies.  After working together for a year, they parted ways, but Tanton never slowed down.  In the mid-2000's he released a couple of EPs with his band Tulsa, prompting Rolling Stone's David Fricke to claim "…his indie-seraphim voice is not of this world…", and after a particularly impressive live set KEXP's John Richards said "…he's one of the best singer-songwriters in the country today."  Beyond his critical acclaim, Tanton's early work was cited as an inspiration by his old friend Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs.  As Granduciel recalled in an interview with Pitchfork, "He was sleeping in someone's basement, playing every instrument, going through this breakup,...That was the first time I saw someone make music obsessively. I’d never seen anyone living inside of something, to that level."  

Over the years, Tanton has toured and recorded with numerous artists including Marissa Nadler, Strand of Oaks, Lower Dens, and The War on Drugs. In 2012, he assembled Freeclouds, his first collection of songs for Western Vinyl.  A couple of years later, Tanton moved to England where he wrote all of the songs on his new album Jettison the Valley. The change of environment, and his rediscovery of early British influences including Richard Thompson, Nick Drake and John Cale sparked a powerful shift in perspective, which led him to write his most cohesive and personal work to date.  Other than the pedal steel featured on two songs, Tanton engineers and plays every instrument on the album.  His old friend and collaborator Marisa Nadler contributes lead vocals to "Jettison the Valley", and Sharon Van Etten sings on "Twenty-Nine Palms" and "Through the Garden Gates".   

More about Jettison the Valley in his own words: 
"Jettison the Valley began in a little dot of a town outside Bristol called Hambrook in the Fall of 2013. I had just moved to England with my girlfriend where we lived in a caravan on her family's plot of land with the M5 motorway on one side, and a horse farm on the other.  To get away from the incessant low rumbling of cars, I often walked along the area's ancient public footpaths that carve strange ways through the countryside. On those walks, my previous 30 years in America billowed and collapsed in front of me. As I stood there in the blowback, the constant push of time seemed to finally relent, and I found enough distance from it to see my past in clear broad strokes.  After a few months we moved to Oxford and lived in a little attic apartment up on a hill. I spent most days watching the weather roll through the valley and writing these songs about my relationship ending.  Eventually, I felt I had to come back to the states to record them.  I consider this my first solo record. The other two releases I've put out under my own name since 2005 were simply collections of scattered recordings, mixtapes essentially. Jettison was written in one long sitting, each song feeding the next."  

Carter Tanton - "Twentynine Palms ft. Sharon Van Etten"

Wake in Fright

The band's debut single, taken from 'The Sleeper'.

The Last of the Melting Snow

Arrivals & Departures

God Has Taken A Vacation

©Annemarie Borg Antara (part of a live Mass for choir and electronic music)
Album AMB In Nomine Cetus 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-4jCG-Z-6U

Miserere

a not terribly old collage of tracks that needed to see the light of day!

Blow.up

Real artists creating records on their own terms.

Neko Case- Night Still Comes

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