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Février 2014

Beautiful - Wishing on a Star

to no one for nothing

The Horrors' Tom Furse reinvents and reimagines Elephant Stone's "A Silent Moment" from their sophomore self-titled 2013 release.

thehorrors.co.uk | elephantstonemusic.com

A Silent Moment (The Tom Furse Remix)

Cem Yıldız, Barış K & Hogır

*poems by Kul Nesimi (Ben Melamet Hirkasini) and Pir Sultan Abdal (Otme Bulbul)

Kime Ne

Botany, otherwise known as Spencer Stephenson, never resorts to shallow MPC trickery or contrived mixtape clumsiness. Instead, his proto-new age textures float elegantly atop a primal boom-bap pulse to paint a detailed, rhythmic mural that has the scope of a ‘70s prog rock epic.

“On Lava Diviner, I wanted to conjure that same headspace that artists like Roger Dean, and even Zdzislaw Beksinski project in their iconic paintings,” says Stephenson. “I tried to evoke those grand, colourful, surreal landscapes that are mind-bending yet oddly comforting - sci-fi and epic and holy, all at the same time.”

Following 2010’s quietly applauded Feeling Today EP, Lava Diviner (Truestory) was created at various Texas locations using a jumble of equipment, from aging desktop computers, samplers, guitars, bells, flutes, tape recorders, turntables, violin playing room-mates and much more besides. Guest vocals from Brainfeeder artist RYAT were added to the mix and the final creation was mastered by Matthewdavid (Leaving Records / Stones Throw).

As the product of a lengthy gestation period, Lava Diviner (Truestory) follows Botany on an intensely personal journey as he makes his way home within himself, returning to his celestial centre.

Loosely a concept album documenting a religious sect that prays for a volcano to erupt, Stephenson set out to make a kind of instrumental storybook of an album, using only the emotional tone that his theme might evoke.

However, by the time the record was finished, it became clear that the emotional tone was really coming from own life, rather than any concept or allegory.

“As work on the record progressed, I began to realize that the musical journey was a direct reflection of my most hard-to-quantify life experiences.” he explains. “Lava Diviner is about very real transformations in my being, so it’s a true story in that sense… I always imagined my first album being like a volcano, with years of pent-up emotion and musical ideas bubbling up to a cathartic release. So, I always knew that symbolism would end up being a part of my first full-length.”

The volcanic sense of release is palpable. Lava Diviner (Truestory) easily moves past stale tropes of beat-based music, and brings to life a fully-realized, album-length outpouring of profound human emotion.

Botany- Quatic

Kurt Vile - Feel My Pain

The Underground Youth - Closer

Secret Colours - Lust(slow)

VIDEO HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6w_ZR1HXwg
Soundscape (rhythm guitars, keyboards, bass & drums)  by Jack Morefield @SoundCloud.com/jackwm 
Featuring the voice of Marty Lucas @SoundCloud.com/mlucas
 Words by the poet,  Tanisha Jackland @soundcloud.com/ladyofire 
Voice mix, clapping, creaking, scraping, scratching, uprooted Snaithilicious guitars by Barry Snaith 
 Production by The Inconsistent Jukebox @SoundCloud.com/barry_snaith
Sample taken from 'Yennathavam' (Carnatic classical composition in Tamil) https://soundcloud.com/stringofasymptotes/yennathavam featuring Karthika.
Image used on avatar by Adrian James Hill.
adrianjames.aminus3.com/portfolio/

Here are Tanisha's brilliant words:
THE TREES WERE HERE FIRST
She always felt 
Her wounds around the trees
They kept her 
imperceptibly alive.

Still her legs were like anvils
rooted into the earth
Big black roots, 
veins hugging the world.

I could see she was
A woman who understood.
She could move the sky to open
to come crashing down on the land
The envy of perpetrators.
 
There is this knowing
most all trees have
and it is a united front
a quiet front
that keeps our heads from imploding
 
They are the antidote 
the woman and the tree
bearing the colossal fruit
in the midst of these dying days.

Tanisha Jackland 2013

The Trees Were Here First (Morefield, Snaith & Lucas) - click pic for VIDEO link

Le Roi Des Fourmis (reprise Michel Polnareff) - Mustang

"I Wanna Be You" appears on the compilation Killed By Death Rock Vol. 1, Out now. 

LP/CD: http://bit.ly/1Uj0YQY
iTunes: http://apple.co/1r4pwp6





Your Funeral - I Wanna Be You

From 'Underneath the Rainbow' out 3/18/14 via VICE Records

Black Lips-Boys In The Wood

I'M DIGGING MY GRAVE
ON A COLD WINTER'S NIGHT
ALL MY SECRETS ARE SAFE
BENEATH MY FIRE PLACE
I'M DIGGING MY GRAVE
NO REASON TO BREATH 
ANYMORE


my grave

'The Psych Apocalypse' is a weekly live radio show, broadcasted live every Wednesday 7 till 9pm (uk time) around the globe at http://www.fabradiointernational.com

This Xmas / Saturnalia special see's Mike and co-host Craig zoom through space in a Tardis backwards and forth between the radio station and Mike's home studio [2 beer limit] It also features an exclusive announcement and interview with 'James Elvin' organiser of the upcoming Manchester Psychedelic Festival. 

Featuring the latest and greatest tracks from the Psychedelic Umbrella, including Rock, Electro, Shoegaze, Downtempo, Uptempo, Sidetempo, etc

The Psych Apocalypse Radio Show - XMAS / SATURNALIA Special 25th December

To download this track, visit itun.es/i66B3RR

Look for our upcoming album, out this summer on Kanine Records

"Honey Do" is also on the limited edition, vinyl-only Kanine Record Store Day Compilation, out April 19th

Beverly is Drew Citron & Frankie Rose

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Careers

Honey Do

The Magic Gang ~ Shallow

Notch is out on Jan 20 (cassette or digital) on Gang of Ducks

Notch

This is 3 or so years old but never came out so I thought I would share.
Straight Wes Coatsin

Wes Coats The Stepkids RMX Submarine Dream Mix

'Alta' and 'Waterfall', taken from the forthcoming debut album, 'Loom'.

Released by Kanine Records on the 21st April in the UK, 22nd in the US, on CD, Digital and Vinyl formats.

A limited deluxe two coloured vinyl edition will be released on Record Store Day, April 19th.

Pre order at FEAROFMEN.CO.UK

Alta/Waterfall

Elephant Stone puts our spin on the Doors' 70s classic LA Woman. Nothing will ever be the same again.
Out March 4th, 2014. Preorder NOW from itunes: http://georiot.co/cnH

Elephant Stone - L.A. Woman

Dream of Delia

this would be a track from our up and coming album "revelation" on a recordings ltd.

days,weeks and moths - brian jonestown massacre

06 Bertoia - upside down

Lazy Bones

Produced by Steve Musters and Mixed by Alan Moulder 

Cecilie

This weeks free single 'Laura Palmer is Dead' comes from Oxford types Poledo and is 3 minutes 42 of glorious indie rock. If it's not the Guided By Voices'esque licks that hook you in, the vocal melodies on the chorus are even more infectious. For the last couple of weeks, I have been known to randomly come out with "Laura Palmer is deaaaaaaad" much to the bemusement of friends and parents. This is of course because they've never heard Poledo and they've never seen Twin Peaks. If you get the reference give yourself a little pat on the back, you're about 60% cooler than me (I fell asleep during the pilot episode).

It would be blasphemous to write this post without mentioning the label Poledo is releasing his full EP with. Some of our favourite bands (Playlounge, Joanna Gruesome, Yrrs) have joined together to start Reeks of Effort records and what better way to announce your arrival to the world than putting out five great releases all at once. I strongly suggest you head here to listen/pick them up.

As always we got our artist friend Megan Bell to do us a little illustration. Unfortunately something got lost in translation between me, Rich and her. So we've ended up with more of a response piece, but it's great as always. You can see it in full on the Bandcamp, where you can also pick up the one physical pizza box copy of this release at 1pm.

Poledo - Laura Palmer is Dead

Smith & Mudd - The Surveyor

VICE Music has brought you amazing music throughout 2012, here is a sampling of some of it from OFF!, Vybz Kartel, Raveonettes, Black Lips, Action Bronson, WIN WIN and Team Spirit. 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM US TO YOU! 

Raveonettes - She Owns The Streets

We're thrilled to announce the release of Black Lizard's self titled debut album, which drops via Soliti on the 5th April 2013 (on cd, vinyl & digital). Recording sessions that have taken place between Helsinki and Berlin with the participation of amongst others, Anton Newcombe, Black Lizard's debut has got us very excited. To add the required final piece of the puzzle the self-produced album was mastered by Sonic Boom at New Atlantis Studios.  Get as excited as us, share the first single from the album Love Is A Lie.

Paltsa-Kai Salama: Vocals, Guitar 
Joni Seppänen: Guitar, synthesizer 
Lauri Lyytinen: Bass 
Onni Nieminen: Drums, percussions



buy the s/t album here

BLACK LIZARD : Love Is A Lie

Order on http://www.itunes.com/kidfrancescoli or http://www.kidfrancescoli.bandcamp.com

Watch the music video on www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAZbf5dr8V0

Taken from the forthcoming LP "With Julia"
© Microphone Recordings 2013

www.kidfrancescoli.com

Blow Up (Single Edit)

Bambus by Plex Auchta feat. Pretzels Malone

Idea that starts everything, Lyrics, Multiple Voices: Pretzels Malone (Andrew Salvner)
http://soundcloud.com/pretzelsmalone
Arrangement, Instruments, Production: Plex Auchta


Lyric (Andrew Salvner aka Pretzels Malone)

he lives at the tip of a mountain top
inside his cave, he's got the power of a tidal wave
he lives at the tip of a mountain top
inside his cave, he's got the power of a tidal wave

and that's them breaking the door, i keep my eyes towards the floor
it's never good enough for you

you make it so hard to try, you set the bar so unbelievably high
it's never good enough for you

BAMBUS feat. Pretzels Malone

LISTEN / BUY here - http://www.austinpsychfest.com/store/night-beats-sonic-bloom-lp-cd-mp3-cass/

The Reverberation Appreciation Society is proud to announce the release of the new Night Beats record, Sonic Bloom on September 24, 2013 on vinyl, cd, digital download and cassette (co-release with Burger Records!). In conjunction with the announcement, Night Beats are debuting their new track "Outta Mind" off Sonic Bloom, available for posting HERE.

Recorded in a Tacoma, Washington warehouse, Sonic Bloom is an explosion of reverb soaked rock and soul blended with sharp drone numbers and classic rhythm-and-blues founded tracks. From the haunting psychic groove of 'Seven Poison Wonders' to the sparse Zombies influenced 'Playing Dead' to the squealing ruckus of 'Rat King', Sonic Bloom harkens back to the outer corners of rock and roll radio of yore.

The Seattle-based band have spent past few years relentlessly touring, hitting over 20 countries. The trio -- featuring Danny Lee Blackwell on guitar/vocals, Tarek Wegner on bass/vocals, and James Traeger on drums/vocals -- will keep up this pace, touring this fall in support of Sonic Bloom.