May 2016

my baby has a swollen face
long stiff limbs
them eyes are black pits
of a place where I've been
her hair is long
still smells like mud
she answered to my kiss
with a rotten tongue

no death can
tear us apart

her body is cold
well it's gonna get colder
but my love will ignite
what was left to smoulder
I move my hips
in her I am home
I'll keep on loving
'till the marrow dries from her bones

no death can
tear us apart

taken from her selftitled debut, all music and words by Mirel Wagner
(p) 2011 Mirel Wagner, Kioski (Finland)
(c) 2011 Bone Voyage Recordings

http://www.BoneVoyageRecordings.com
album out now in Europe through Bone Voyage Recordings.
US release through Friendly Fire Recordings, March 27.2012

summer 2014 will see the release of her sophomore album, worldwide via Sub Pop Records 

Mirel Wagner

Mirel Wagner - No Death

Jet Stream

Sound of Ceres - My Spiral Arm

Order your copy of Midnight Render/Nausea Rebuild on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/nausearebuild

Out now on 2MR: http://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/craft-spells-whatever-whatever-and-mike-simonetti-remixes

Craft Spells // Changing Faces (aimai Remix)

John Dieterich & Jeremy Barnes began ’The Coral Casino’ as an attempt to understand one another. They met one day and the next they were in a blank room with unfamiliar instruments in their hands and zero expectations, each agreeing to do his utmost to ignore the other. Yes, their first forays into musical collaboration began with the stipulation that each had to improvise in a rhythmic manner while not listening to what the other was doing. This idiosyncratic process proved to be the unlikely genesis of songs like “Special Questions,” “Sandwild,” and “The Frost Pocket.” Their shared love of melody and pop provided the anchor for wild performances and deep, rich textures, laying the groundwork for many more moods: the euphoric “Out & About;” the stirring tribute to the satellite Philae (“Philae lands on comet 67p_churyumov-gerasimenko”), the first satellite to land on a comet, and so on.

Expansive, unafraid of complexity yet wide-eyed with elation, their sound embodies risk that genuinely rewards. While flirtations with danger and darkness occasionally appear, in the end everything becomes a laughing pile on the floor. An optimistic homage to a possible future, ‘The Coral Casino’ is both childish and sophisticated, seemingly tossed off yet at the same time exhibiting a depth that reveals itself on each subsequent listen; an exploration of friendship and the pure joy of ecstatic communication.

Take a trip to ‘The Coral Casino’: the perfect destination, where everything is topsy-turvy, no one is in control and yet all are mysteriously spirited to their beds before dawn.

Dieterich & Barnes "Out And About"

Baby

Written and performed by Dawg Yawp. Recorded and mixed by Rob Fetters. Mastered by Richard Dodd. Cover photo and handwriting by Michael Wilson. Album artwork by Sarah Schaefer. © Dawg Yawp LLC 2016. Released via Old Flame Records.

Can't Think

Parabola

Look at where the line was drawn: I drew it
And you didn’t do it

SELAH
I was up in the tropo’
Hundred heart beating bravado
Cloud cover over vesper summer

Hungry Heaven no vacancy
Who’s gonna rapture me?
Can I dismantle the moment-
Okay I’m finally focused
I dreamt this sound 30,000 feet off the ground when Heaven felt its closest

And I believe that a fraction of my actions the other night were loaded
I thought my love was an omen the moment I kicked the bedroom door open
No limit
I resent it- ain’t having fun until someone leaves offended
One life is lovely ’til suddenly I ain’t thrilled until I’m living doubly

What am I doing here?
“Oh my god!”, I vociferate 
Through the algorithms of myriad universes
Do I want love or just heart pollution?
I gravitate toward lust crusader in solution

Please promise me omneity, I want you all
My fountain is accounting for the waterfall
I get high and levitate above the minute
I forego the low, create the limit

What am I doing here?
“Oh my god!”, I vociferate 
Through the algorithms of myriad universes
Do I want love or just heart pollution?
I gravitate toward lust crusader in solution
Or do I want love?

What are we doing here?


Ocelot

Vocelot

The first single from the upcoming full length entitled 'Ultimate Oceans', out June 17th.

FAWNN - Galaxies

Produced by Sunni Colón 
Mixed by Dillon Pace



Feel4U

LEISURE - Nobody (feat. @goldlink) (2016)

Spotify | http://tinyurl.com/hedpvbe

Buy on iTunes

Nobody (feat. GoldLink)

Limited 12": smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckVinyl
Spotify: smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckSpotify
Apple: smarturl.it/AmparoApple
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Maria Usbeck's solo debut, Amparo, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, Florida, L.A. and her home in Brooklyn. Though the songs were composed electronically, Amparo called for an acoustic treatment, so Usbeck spent a winter in the studio recording the arrangements live with producer Caroline Polachek and mixer & engineer Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Fleshed out in full sonic color on the marimba, xylophone, quena flute, piano, and harp, the album stretched into something hi-fi and expressive, meditative but not meandering.

Amparo stems from Usbeck's desire to compose in Spanish, her native language. Growing up in Quito, Usbeck was immersed in salsa, merengue, bachata, and Andean music, but was more attracted to German and American culture than to her own, and moved to America by herself at 17. After five years of fronting new wave outfit Selebrities and writing songs in English, Usbeck experienced a delayed-onset homesickness and knew it was time to "let the mother tongue speak." The impulse manifested itself directly: Amparo takes its title from Usbeck's middle name and her mother's name, and translates roughly as "to guide, protect, and embrace." Usbeck wields her Spanish lyrics cleverly while folding in snippets of several other far-flung tongues: Rapa Nui from Easter Island, Quichua from Ecuador, Bribri from Costa Rica, and Catalan. Because these lyrics were composed while visiting the countries from which they originate, their usage is more impressionistic than literal, like a mockingbird imitating fragments of other bird calls. Similarly, Usbeck reinterprets the Ecuadorian music that she grew up with as a newcomer, returning home with fresh ears, and as such the sounds are very much her own.

The backbone of Amparo is percussion, vibrating throughout with timbales, tumbas, a talking drum, bongos, shakers, and an Indian flat drum, with the gaps filled in by her field recordings of birds, beaches, and jungles. The songs were written and recorded chronologically, with the exception of the closing track, a cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula” reimagined in Usbeck’s Spanish translation. Amparo is a reflection of the textures of Usbeck's childhood. It is also a distinctly grown-up pop record – a travel diary, music made by a visiting outsider to tap into a shared core of human expression. Emotively, Usbeck is her most powerful on piano ballads "Uno De Tus Ojos" and "Jungla Inquieta," but is a magnetic narrator throughout, moving between whispers, chants, and lullabies. Amparo pulses with many stories in many voices, but they flow together seamlessly like water, leaving behind a wordless hum.

Amparo is released May 27 via Cascine in North America, Labrador in Euope and Rallye in Japan.
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Maria Usbeck - Jungla Inquieta


Brisbane singer-songwriter BANFF (aka Benjamin Forbes) and Sydney subtronica artist Caitlin Park have teamed up to release their debut collaborative single ‘My Love, My Lover’, available now via Melbourne based independent record label We Are Golden. 

Incredible lyricism is the craft of both singer-songwriters, who together have shaped a heart-achingly beautiful, spacious, soul-drenched indie-pop song that is the stand alone single ‘My Love, My Lover’. 

www.facebook.com/banffmusic
https://www.facebook.com/caitlinparkmusic

www.wearegolden.com.au
www.create-control.com

BANFF x Caitlin Park - My Love, My Lover

Released 5h December on Luv Luv Luv Records
Spector.co.uk
Luvluvluvrecords.com

Spector - Grey Shirt & Tie

PARTYNEXTDOOR DRAKE RIRI REFIX. xo

Janelle Kroll
https://open.spotify.com/artist/50bLYJ4e3ZR2chodK8oMW9
https://www.facebook.com/janellekroll/
https://www.instagram.com/janellekroll/
https://twitter.com/janellekroll

Borneland
https://soundcloud.com/borneland
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4DtXc5JPujjyCFbAt8R7sC
https://www.facebook.com/borneland/
https://www.instagram.com/borneland/
https://twitter.com/borneland

Sebastian Sartor
https://soundcloud.com/sebastiansartor
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4pQoo0FhY2tw6PoEecajho
https://www.facebook.com/sebastian.xxvii
https://www.instagram.com/sebastiansartor/
https://twitter.com/sebastiansartor

Free Download

Janelle Kroll x Borneland x Sebastian Sartor - Come And See Me Work

Tennis - Dreaming

Wild Nothing are set to release a new 7" through Captured Tracks on February 21st , the
first new recordings from the band since 2010's critically acclaimed album 'Gemini'.

Where 'Gemini' was the product of 23-year-old Jack Tatum's home
recordings, "Nowhere" finds Tatum in a recording studio for the first time. With live
instrumentation and vocals from Andrea Estella of Twin Sister, "Nowhere" is a notable
departure for Wild Nothing and captures the sound of a maturing songwriter exploring
different moods.

The 7" is currently available through pre-order [LINK] on the Captured Tracks website
with a limited run of 500 on white vinyl.

Gemini and the follow-up EP, Golden Haze landed the band on numerous year-end lists
in 2010 including Pitchfork, Stereogum, Under The Radar, Rough Trade, Complex &
USA Today.

Wild Nothing // Nowhere

Taken from "The Kissing Machine E.P." www.facebook.com/swimwearmusic


Knocks

Multi-instrumentalist Emily Wells performs live at 88.1 KDHX in St. Louis. Recorded May 9. 2012. Hosted by Nick Acquisto for the Space Parlour. Sound by Emily Wells and Andy Coco. 

Discover more great music at http://kdhx.org

May 2016

Benjamin Parslow