Steamcrunk

SESCORXADOR1

2015

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If you're in Boston on 3/23 - you should come to our local CD release for Soft Time Traveler INFO HERE -> http://www.facebook.com/events/323144954456550/

Soft Time Traveler Preview

Fusing elements of Balkan folk, French chanson, and American indie, principle songwriter and singer Zach Condon fills out classically structured pop songs with charming ukulele, flugelhorn, and accordion. Condon's exotic takes on music are strongly influenced by the beauty and sounds of places he's traveled to, evoking memories, warmth, longing, and inevitably, joy.

More:
http://eng.exitfest.org/line-up-2011/beirut

Beirut is the perfect band for those craving something completely different. Fusing elements of Balkan folk, French chanson, and American indie, principle songwriter and singer Zach Condon fills out classically structured pop songs with charming ukulele, flugelhorn, and accordion. Condon's exotic takes on music are strongly influenced by the beauty and sounds of places he's traveled to, evoking memories, warmth, longing, and inevitably, joy. His first album 'Gulag Orkestar' was made single-handedly and to critical acclaim, followed by the massively successful Flying Club Cup, and most recently the double EP 'March of the Zapotec/Holland'. The band's live sets are equally as breathtaking to watch as they are to listen to, and it's the Fusion stage that has the pleasure of hosting them. 

http://www.beirutband.com
http://www.myspace.com/beruit
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Beirut/108019329221281

Lyrics:
If I was young, I'd flee this town
I'd bury my dreams underground
As did I, we drink to die, we drink tonight

Far from home, elephant gun
Let's take them down one by one
We'll lay it down, it's not been found, it's not around

Let the seasons begin - it rolls right on
Let the seasons begin - take the big king down

Let the seasons begin - it rolls right on
Let the seasons begin - take the big king down

And it rips through the silence of our camp at night
And it rips through the night

And it rips through the silence of our camp at night
And it rips through the silence, all that is left is all that i hide

Beirut - Elephant Gun

Released on April 1, 2014. 

Digital: http://apple.co/1faFMrn
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/salad-days

Mac DeMarco // Passing Out Pieces

First single from the debut album 'Built On Glass', out April 11 on Future Classic / Downtown Records. Pre-order and get 'Talk Is Cheap' http://smarturl.it/BuiltOnGlass

Talk Is Cheap

The new album 'Whispers' available early June 2014. To pre-order the album head to www.passengermusic.com. 

Whispers

Rolling Stone

How It Ends - Devotchka

http://chrisboonemusic.bandcamp.com/album/whiskey-truth-lies

In The Valley Below  (Whiskey Truth & Lies available now on BandCamp)

Mash-up of Beirut's "Postcards from Italy" and Florence + the Machine's cover.

Beirut and Florence + the Machine - Postcards From Italy

Performed live on March 26th, 2015 with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Kent Nagano

LIVE in SWEDEN: Sibelius Violin Concerto 3rd Movement

christina vantzou 'shadow sun'

Maraqopa (Deluxe Edition)

Museum of Flight

Damien Jurado - "Museum of Flight"

This is a library of tracks written specifically for film and television written by Keith Kenniff.  Nothing contained herein constitutes any agreement or license between Keith Kenniff and any third party users. Third parties must obtain proper licenses prior to any usage of the musical works contained herein which are considered to be protected musical works.

Please contact Keith at unseen@unseen-music to obtain a license.

[Indie / Folk / Thoughtful] - "Wilderness"

The Rip Tide, el último disco de Beirut, es un viaje espectacular de sólo 30 minutos y 9 canciones compuestas por trompetas, ukulele, violines, acordeones y la singular y profunda voz de Zach Condon. Mantiene una melancolía épica que ha distinguido a la banda en trabajos anteriores, pero está vez Zach Condon se muestra más optimista. En el disco podemos encontrar un sonido electro como “Santa Fe”, canción escrita por Condon a los 15 años. En “East Harlem”, Beirut nos entrega una exquisita composición con trompetas. Mientras que “Goshen” es una semi-balada que al inicio nos recuerda a un sonido clásico del pop británico de principios de los noventa. Una delicia de disco de principio a fin, ideal para el viajero intrépido que llevamos dentro. 

Beirut - The Rip Tide

Beirut - Vagabond

A preview track off of Walter Sickert & the ARmy of BRoken TOy's new album Soft Time Traveler which is out 4/16/13

If you're in Boston on 3/23 - you should come to our local CD release for Soft Time Traveler INFO HERE -> http://www.facebook.com/events/323144954456550/

Droog And Devotchka

A track off our new album the Soft Time Traveler - due out 4/16/13

If you're in Boston on 3/23 - you should come to our local CD release for Soft Time Traveler INFO HERE -> http://www.facebook.com/events/323144954456550/

Devils In The Details

Pluto Jonze - Eject

Off the album Soft Time Traveler - out 4/16/13

If you're in Boston on 3/23 - you should come to our local CD release for Soft Time Traveler INFO HERE -> http://www.facebook.com/events/323144954456550/

Survive Song Bird

"We turn reality inside out."

Walter Sickert & The ARmy of BRoken TOys are the spinners of a charming, demented fairy tale that gathers new characters all the time. At the heart of the colorful fantasy is Walter Sickert, the writer, ringleader and conjurer.

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"This is a dense listening experience, with 18 songs fanning out over one relentless hour. As expected with such a diverse cast, the record is all over the musical map. There are moments of distorted beauty and bluesy swagger on par with Jack White. Ballads bleed into rockers; acoustic love songs give way to psychedelic fever dreams. Nearly the only constant on this kamikaze collection of songs is the band's firm belief that there's no other way to make music." [3/21/2013]
" James Reed - The Boston Globe 

 "On "Droog and Devotchka": “The romantic drunkenness of Walter Sickert's voice pushes against the meter, and moreover, I love this tasty arrangement from the Army, which includes the sweetest little fiddle/mandolin hooks I ever did hear.” [11/20/2012]
" Jonathan Donaldson - Boston.com - Inbound Sounds 




Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys - Soft Time Traveler - 01 Devil's In The Details

Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys - Soft Time Traveler - 04 Pornival

Since i'm working on a *new* remix for Psyche Corporation, i thought it was time to put the full version of the original Steamcrunk groove up on Soundcloud... check out the remix Kickstarter here : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1097332101/wonderland-dance-remix-by-dj-addam-bombb

Get the CD single here! : www.addamidiom.com/djaddambombb.com/releases.html

"Oh hello!

Yes, it's been quite a while, but you look well!

Me? I have been manufacturing dreams for the Psyche Corporation.

Oh yes, it *sounds* like a choice gig, but instead of being in the lofty mists among the Shadow Court, or in the future-modern offices of the surrealist image-makers, or breeding nanobots with the geeks on Psi-Net, i have been deep down in the hot, sooty, greasy sub-basement buried far beneath the gleaming spires; where rats gnaw the toes off of the past; where forgotten dreamers babble their fuse-blown inanities; where the coal fired steam furnaces have left the walls black and shiny.

Yes, i know i'm making it sound like a Bosch-ian Hell, it really is that bad. Worse, actually, it's hotter than you think you think it is, and the risk of tetanus alone is off the charts! Ok, laugh, but that wasn't a joke, i'm not trying to be funny here.

Well i can't say too much, even to a trusted friend like yourself - special clearance and all, you'll forgive me - but i can say that this was to fulfill a special commission. No fancy dreams of gold paved streets, no sex or triumphs for this client. This is one is for justice, to bring nightmares to the fractured mind of someone who has brought nightmares to innocent minds.

Ha, ok, yes i see your point. "Called in a criminal", criminal indeed. I'm a bit of a specialist, you know. You might think of me as a "found object" artist, or maybe worse since i don't object to making do with absconded objects either… but I'm the sort that gets called in for the uncomfortable work, when a situation is so badly broken it can only be fixed by someone who is willing to break it worse, first.

So, the best Psi-naut in the biz to date (and according to the psychics, the best ever), the primo ballerina of the Dream Spinners, the Psyche Chimère herself wrote the script. Clearance or no, you know of her, she's the worst kept secret in the world. None among the Shadow Court can match her grace, or her skill as a dream weaver - their minds simply do not have her integrity. She Herself has sung the lullaby, it is her voice that will call forth the demons to burn out this poisonous mind - and it is my engine that will drive them there.

Oh yes, the package is nearly complete, the nightmare nearly ready for delivery. My toil is largely over, but this is really just the beginning. How do i mean? Well, my invention, it's finished, it works, well, most of the time it works, but it's all analog you know, sort of held together by wire and prayer, haHa, clangs right along but but but it does what it needs to do, and does it bloody nicely when it's doing it, if i don't say so myself. No, i'm perfectly alright, why do you ask?

Anyway, i'll be there to make adjustments if anything goes wrong, you know, lever here, valve there sort of things. Once it's wound up it'll just keep going 'til it finds a head to chop off, i think. I mean, you can't really do a test run on this sort of thing, can you? That's why i'm on this one, i make the prototypes, every unit that's made after it will be a swanked up copy of my machine, made by some slicker who'll take the credit at the corporate level, you know, haHa, they've said it for generations, "There's no business like Dream business".

Well that's just it you see, the physics of it are all quite simple really, the whole transference of energy thing, a little Newton, a little Goldberg, a little Munchausen… but the art of the thing, really, it will be marvelous, when it's all in action - but i must be off, please pardon pardon me. You really ought to try to catch the playback, it should be quite entertaining. In the future it will probably be all beeps and bloops, but to power this creep's nightmare - why i've built a Steamcrunk Contraption!!!"

-- dj addambombb
(from sometime in the brilliant future, and the abysmal past)

have more, try some :

www.psychecorporation.com
www.djaddambombb.com

Help me keep making music : http://www.addamidiom.com/Starvingartistfund.html

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Psyche Corporation "OH!" (dj addambombb's Steamcrunk Contraption remix) *FULL*

"We turn reality inside out."

Walter Sickert & The ARmy of BRoken TOys are the spinners of a charming, demented fairy tale that gathers new characters all the time. At the heart of the colorful fantasy is Walter Sickert, the writer, ringleader and conjurer.

The name of the band came to Walter in a dream.  He had been living in a haunted barn in the woods of New Hampshire and would often record very late at night. During one of these sessions on a mid-winter’s eve, he fell asleep curled under a pile of broken porcelain dolls. The dolls kept him warm and infiltrated his dream, marching as a musical army and finishing the recording he was working on, much like the elves in the tale of the shoemaker. Upon waking Walter realized that the song he had been working on was indeed finished and embarked on a journey to find real life broken toys to join him in his musical alchemy.

The first to join The ARmy of BRoken TOys was Edrie, an accordionist from a North Dakota farm. The two, brought together initially by sadness were soon making music so powerful that more broken toys flocked to them. They brought talent of all shapes and sizes:  Rachel Jayson, a conservatory-trained violist who conducts several orchestras; Meff, a playwright and mandolin player,  is always mentally writing the next play; jojo, the Burlesque Poetess, writes poetry and teaches ukulele at the Passim School of music; TJ, the gravel-voiced punk and hardcore drummer; and Mike Leggio whose upright bass has taken him all over the world. Add to this a troop of thirty-six performance artists who bring contortion, burlesque, and aerial performance to The ARmy of BRoken TOys’ arsenal.

Walter lives as a conduit for art of any kind. Music, illustration, video - his ideas are like Jack's magic beans - fast-growing and irresistible. “Walter is one of the most prolific and easily flowing artists that I’ve ever worked with,” Rachel Jayson says of his astounding output. “Songs just kind of pour out of his face and his body.” The ARmy of BRoken TOys takes Walter’s handiwork and filters it, developing music that is influenced by everyone. The results have been described as a “Dada-esque circus carnival run amuck,” by Boston Survival Guide.

While Walter Sickert & the ARmy of BRoken TOys can create mayhem anywhere, they’ve found the perfect workplace to hone their craft. The WIREFOREST sits atop a steep hill overlooking the city and the ocean. “The studio where Walter makes his art, is painted entirely black and when the lights are off the room seems to expand outwards as if you were in the middle of a black hole,” says Edrie of the space. The band has recorded countless hours of music in the WIREFOREST’s upstairs studio.

It was therefore important, when the band chose to record their latest album, Soft Time Traveler (due out April 16) outside their home studio, to find a place with a similar spirit. Enter Watch City Studios in Waltham, MA, where Walter and the rest of the BRoken TOys found a homey collection of odd antiques including a functioning wax cylinder player and vintage victorian embalming paraphernalia. “It was exactly like walking into a museum of the inside of Walter’s head,” says Edrie. “With the added benefit of the same soundboard that Thriller was recorded on.” The album is frenetic yet melodic, and sounds like an exorcism by Lewis Carroll.

Whether live or in album form, Walter Sickert & the ARmy of BRoken TOys will transport you to a realm where imagination rules, and sound is alive.  You may not sleep tight, but your dreams will be like none you've ever experienced.

Droog And Devotchka

ArmyOfToys