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These bands will play at the Match&Fuse Festival in London, 2-4 October 2014.
Keep your eyes and ears open!
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Match&Fuse Festival London 2014

BEN SEE

Room Music

And now for something completely ......

something else

Inspired by "At World's Edge" (Winter) by Digital Blasphemy. http://digitalblasphemy.com/preview.shtml?i=worldsedgewinter1

Finding Eternity

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We Are All Small Pixels – yes, that describes us all in this post-atomic digital age – but some bands pack a big sonic wallop. In the case of Norway’s prodigious indie jazz combo Pixel, the little elements cohere into a singularly arresting sound, combining the improvisational imperative and acoustic instrumentation of a free bop quartet with the impassioned vocals and incisive lyrics of indie rock. 

Following up on its acclaimed 2012 debut Reminder (Cuneiform), which established the quartet as a bold new voice on the international jazz scene, the young Oslo-based band delivers a stellar second album that makes a mighty big musical statement. Led by double bassist, vocalist, and songwriter Ellen Andrea Wang, the combo further refines its fervently creative vision with We Are All Small Pixels, a genre-smashing manifesto that translates ancient spiritual insight into the digital age. 

For Wang, the fundamental building block of billions of photos and graphics that are the communications currency of her insistently connected generation represents “being a small but important part of the big picture. Whether human beings in the universe, or a simple chord in a big symphony, every pixel is unique and important.” In Pixel’s music, every perfectly placed note and wantonly propulsive beat paints a vivid 21st century picture, a seductive sound that embraces jazz’s harmonic sophistication, minimalism’s incantatory power, rock’s primal thrust, and pop’s lyrical concision.  

Featuring Wang on bass and lead vocals, drummer Jon Audun Baar, trumpeter Jonas Kilmork Vemøy and saxophonist Harald Lassen (with everyone contributing backup vocals), Pixels features the instrumentation inextricably linked to Ornette Coleman’s epochal “free jazz” quartet of the late 1950s and early ‘60s. The band takes advantage of the harmonic space created by the absence of a chordal instrument, but Pixel favors tightly orchestrated tunes and intricately constructed arrangements. Which isn’t to say that quartet is in any way predictable. With sudden metrical shifts, starkly contrasting textures and Wang’s vocals delivered in unison with the horns, the resulting sound is transfixing and unlike anything else on the scene. 

The album opens with the inviting, almost calypsonian bounce of “Be Mine,” a surging tune showcasing Wang’s crystalline vocals and a melody so brightly enticing it could easily find a home on an adventurous rock radio station. She follows that forthright lover’s plea with the jagged “Space,” an equally emphatic call for solitude, revealing in song the delicious push-me pull-me tensions, the contrasting and contradictory forces that animate so much of Pixel’s music. 

Part of what makes Pixel’s music so effective is that even when a tune is dissonant or abrasive it never wears out its welcome, with the majority of the album’s 11 tracks clocking in under four minutes. The album’s centerpiece and longest track is the instrumental “Night Dreamer,” an episodic journey that moves from the pummeling opening section to Vemøy’s beatific trumpet to a triumphant closing fanfare powered by more muscular Baar drum work. As if emerging from unquiet slumbers, the following piece “Easter Song” is the album’s shortest track, at barely over a minute, with a luminous wordless vocal that emerges from an undulating tenor sax line generated by Lassen’s circular breathing. 

With an insistently buzzy tenor line setting up Wang’s ethereal vocals, “Dreaming” is a gorgeous song defined by its contrasting textures. Wang turns fierce and feisty on “Daylight,” with the horns emphasizing her need and urgency. The album closes with the mysterious “Time,” a strikingly lovely song with a gently lamenting vocal refrain. Whether she’s wailing, belting or murmuring, Wang is an uncommonly expressive singer who knows how to mix it up with the horns. 

On a scene rife with exceptional young female players, Wang stands out as a particularly accomplished artist. As a composer, player, and perhaps most importantly as a bandleader who has melded like-minded players into a capaciously inventive ensemble, she stands at the forefront of a rising generation that’s remaking jazz in their own image. Her notoriety is quickly spreading via captivating performances and appreciative critics, resulting in a stream of impressive awards in Norway and on the international stage. In October 2012, the magazine Japan Jazz named Wang their “New Star of the Month”.  The 2012 Oslo Jazz Festival presented her with that year’s prestigious and lucrative Statkraft Young Star award, and the next year, she won the 2013 TONO prize, category «Årets Utfordrer» [Innovator], for the song “Call Me” from her Reminder debut album. 

Now 26, Ellen Andrea Wang founded Pixel in early 2010, which proved to be her breakout year. Featured on the album Norwegian Song 3, the project showcased her bass prowess in the company of storied Nordic masters such as Dag Arnesen, Pål Thowsen, and Palle Mikkelborg. Mentored by bassist Bjørn Kjellemyr at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Wang has been in wide demand among her peers, appearing on more than a dozen albums with top-flight artists including Jon Balke, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Jon Eberson Group and Ketil Bjørnstad.

Before he took up the saxophone at 13, Harald Lassen studied the piano and sang gospel in church. A respected bandleader in his own right since 2008, he’s collaborated with American heavyweights like Andrew D’Angelo and Ralph Alessi. But Lassen, 26, has recently cemented his status as an essential new voice through his work with his own band Play Tell, which features internationally renowned bassist Mats Eilertsen and legendary drummer Jon Christensen (who powered Keith Jarrett’s great 1970s European quartet). Last year he received the prestigious JazzIntro Award and was named the Young Jazz Musician of the Year with his quintet Mopti (which recently released a debut album on Jazzland Recordings). Beside Mopti and Pixel, Lassen appears on four other albums released in 2013, including sessions by Duplex, and Dr. Kay And His Inter Steller Tone Scientists.  

Jonas Kilmork Vemøy, 27, graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2011. One of the most expressive trumpeters on the Scandinavian scene, he’s been sought out by a wide array of acts, including prog rock band Blokk 5, the Balkan brass-inflected The Captain and Me, and the pop/rock band Lama, created by former Jaga Jazzist keyboardist Nils Martin Larsen. In addition to Pixel’s second album, he plays on new albums by pop artist and songwriter Kristin Minde, and jazz pianist Jens Andreas Kleiven. 

Like Vemøy, Jon Audun Baar, 26, is a conservatory-trained musician who studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music with teachers like Jon Christensen and Rune Martinsen. A prolific sideman, he’s performed at major festivals with numerous bands and artists over the past four years. Outside of Pixel, Baar has been most visible in an acclaimed trio with the well-traveled guitar master Jon Eberson, a pillar of the Scandinavian jazz scene since the early 1970s.

Together in Pixel, these 4 talented musicians form one of the fastest rising and most innovative ensembles in Scandinavia’s flourishing jazz scene.  Performing at Scandinavia’s jazz festivals and clubs before ever-increasing numbers of fans, recording albums that garner international critical acclaim, winning numerous awards, the young Pixels are poised to take the international jazz stage by storm.

For more information on Pixel, see:
www.pixelband.no - www.facebook.com/pixelnorway - www.cuneiformrecords.com

Pixel, "Space" from 'We Are All Small Pixels' (Cuneiform Records)

SNORKEL
STOP MACHINE
 
Format – Limited Edition LP/DL album
Label - Slowfoot Records
 
 "...a vital flow of angular energy and unpretentious swagger" [The Wire]

"There are dark, playful combinations right through Stop Machine" [Mojo]

"Possibly the best intellectually deconstructed funk record you'll hear this year" [Rock A Rolla]

"Rest assured if you're prepared to open your mind and let Snorkel in then this could well be a 10 out of 10 album" [The 405]

"Experimental but funky fusions of Krautrock, Dub and Jazz from Slowfoot's dextrously versatile in-house band... ... Locked in, they continue to shapeshift from minimalist electro-acoustic rock reminding of Ike Yard on 'Edgar's Hoover' to Drumfunk-like rhythmic technicality of 'Driller', the swaggering skronk of 'Loophole' and the submerged electronics of 'Jellyfish'. Highly impressive stuff." [Boomkat]

"Stop Machine is a very convincing hybrid, bringing disparate influences together to form a lopsided fourth-world funk of the highest order." [Cyclic Defrost]

"This is not my usual bag, but in my head this is kinda what i want Tortoise to sound like. A Lee Perry / Can / Barry Adamson society-esque shunt of sweaty chimeric propulsion" [Cowsarejustfood]

Snorkel - Stop Machine

Yaman in A on Guitar and Veenar - rhythm 7/8 (rupak) 2013

Sample: "Quero te dar" by Gaiola Das Popozudas

<a href="https://sango.bandcamp.com/album/da-rocinha-2">Da Rocinha 2 Out Now!</a>

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Me dê Amor

SHE DRIED VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQv2bjkPWAE

Taken from the EP, 'Blue Break' out on House Anxiety / Marathon Artists March 24th
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She Dried

First track recorded acoustic for a coming up album. Open Arms.

Open Arms

I am happy to announce my newest full length album "All That Is Left Is Right" out FEB 20th. Over a year since my last release "Elsewhere", I am even more excited to share this project with you than the last. 
-Matthew

Moth Mother

Rumors

these little beats im making will most likely become available part of Beat Tape 2..

quite mysterious dark vibe to this one

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In The Middle Of The Night

A relaxing piano piece in F major.  Developed in August and September of 2014. Recorded 2014-09-20.

2014 - 09 - 20 F Major - Smiling Eyes

This track is from the album Wind Between the Horse's Ears and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/aidashahghasemi

Sa'di

~so let's take on the night~
taking a little break from our chill stuff to unleash this monster. super excited about this one and hope you guys love it as much as we do <3
n&e

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The Night

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Milo & Otis - Pigeons (VIP Mix) FREE DOWNLOAD

Produced by Brenton Duvall
Outro by Antonio Mendez
Photographs by Jasmine Safaeian
Artwork by Quentin Deronzier

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Mark Johns - BTFU (Mommy Issues)

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Hailing from Casablanca, Morocco, we present mix no. 186 in the DHA series, from the hands of budding DJ Abdes Alaoui aka Daox.

Born in the city of Casablanca, Daox set his sights on a career in music at an early age after getting hooked on classic old school hip hop and electronic acts such as Aphex Twin, Amon Tobin, Model 500 and Ken Ishii.

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Daox - Deep House Amsterdam Mixtape #186

Please People

a blur of lights, glass on glass 
a distant flicker through a prism of panes 
a single beam in a blinding sea of colour 
pale and broken, slower now we've started moving 

overload 

the sound of glass, piece by piece 
a distant shatter breaks through layers of lines 
a single shard like a splinter in the silence 
cold and empty, slower now we've started moving 

overload 

don't blink or you'll miss it. 
don't blink or you'll miss it. 
take a breath. 
don't blink or you'll miss it. 
here it comes again. 

overload 

the moment's gone, frame by frame 
a distant second in the passing of time 
a single strike and the hands of time are falling 
lost and fleeting, slower now we've started moving 

overload

BEN SEE - Moment.Sound.Blur.

Balloon tree
Meet me under the balloon tree
If you ever believe in me.

BEN SEE - Balloon Tree

I Like To Sleep is the last track on the album, “Løv og lette vimpler”(meaning leaves and small flags). The album is the debut album of the norwegian improvising trio Monkey Plot and was recorded in the living room to free jazz pioneer Frode Gjerstad in Stavanger and released on the norwegian record label Gigafon May 10th 2013 both as a 12'' vinyl, CD and digitally. 

Recorded and mixed by Frode Gjerstad.
Mastered by Guiseppe Ielasi.

All music by Monkey Plot.

Christian Winther – acoustic guitar
Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard – double bass
Jan Martin Gismervik – drums and percussion

www.monkeyplot.com

I Like to Sleep

Taken from the forthcoming EP 'I Will Be Cold Soon'.

Released 24th June on House Anxiety Records.

Softly Draining Seas

This is another piano piece taken live from the streaming concert I made on April 22nd for celebrating the release of my new album "Now". 
It's a free download - enjoy and share!

Darkness is not the opposite of light (live)

Another track taken from the "Live @ Digitube Studio" session. Once again, free track! 

Behind the sky (live)

Fall, fall stories from everywhere
And I will catch those falling words

BEN SEE - Scribble Book

Ben See is a singer and composer from London