Notes from Left of the Dial: August 15

Valery Gore's album 'Idols In The Dark Heart', available now.
iTunes: http://bit.ly/1q8KYWx
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Taken from the Bug album 'Angels & Devils' released August 25 2014 on Ninja Tune.

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The Bug - 'Void' Feat. Liz Harris

Giant Claw is the sound project of visual artist and Orange Milk Records co-founder Keith Rankin. Orange Milk teams with the Noumenal Loom label to present his first original work of 2014, Dark Web.

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW:

http://giantclaw.bandcamp.com/
http://www.orangemilkrecords.com/
http://noumenalloom.com/

DARK WEB 002

Kayla Cohen, a.k.a. Itasca, is a folk guitarist and songwriter from New York State. She has released several small press CD-rs and cassettes over the past five years, and began recording as Itasca after a move to Los Angeles in 2012. She records at home, taking inspiration from the fringes of LA's open space and natural land.

On Itasca’s latest full-length, Unmoored By The Wind, Kayla Cohen achieves new levels of clarity and expansiveness. Where 2012’s Grace Riders on the Road reveled in homemade intimacy, Unmoored By The Wind  opens to the world, reaching a timeless, near-baroque yearning; each of these eleven tracks burns with a unique vision. At once soft-spoken and virtuosic, Cohen’s fingerpicking mesmerizes, laying gauzy groundwork for vocal work David Keenan rightfully cited as “courtly…dazzling.” It’s a spacious set of songs, one you can wander into, flowing seamlessly between wistful interludes a la Bob Desper and fully-fledged verses of powerful, often beguiling imagery. “Two male shapes are standing/ Shrouded in white cloth” sings Cohen on “Nature’s Gift,” with a plaintive candidness that echoes Sibylle Baier. “They’re looking at me/ Sort of smiling/ Seems as if I’ve called them here.” Cohen’s voice has a windburnt quality reminiscent of Lal Waterson or Collie Ryan, but it’s tempered with sweetness, and on songs like “Colt In Hiding” she realizes an angelic luster. More than ever before, though, Cohen’s confident singing is laid bare; vocals ride on top of arrangements, taking their rightful place in the forefront. The effect is arresting. Cohen has achieved new levels of clarity, while staying true to the seductive ghostliness that has come to characterize her sound.

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Itasca - Nature's Gift

"Good Advice" is taken from the forthcoming album "Chinese Fountain" which is released on September 29th on FatCat Records in the UK and  Europe, the 23rd of September on Everloving in the USA, and the 23rd September on Smack Face Records in Australia and New Zealand.
You can pre-order the album now and get this track instantly. 


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The Growlers - Good Advice

Taken from the <i>A Place To Stand</i> EP out 9/23/14 on Dais Records

Youth Code "Consuming Guilt"

Artist: Woodsman
Track: Further
SC003 - Side A

On perhaps their most realized work to date, ‘Further’ is the sound of Woodsman in the here and now. Fine-tuned while performing live, the track mirrors not only where the trio is at musically, but as human beings as well.  Brought into the studio exclusively for Singles Club, the track is testament to Trevor, Mark, and Dylan’s ability to adapt and listen to one another.  A nice companion to their self-titled LP released earlier this year, this cut goes deep into Woodsman’s past, all-the-while introducing us to a new era of their limitless potential.

This track is part of a series of 45rpm singles being released quarterly in 2014 called Singles Club. Get a full year for $55 including shipping at singlesclub.fm.

Single Issues also available for $8.

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Woodsman - SC003 - Further

First single, Upplyst, out August 12th. Taken from upcoming album "1998", out in October. Released through Luxury in Scandinavia, via Ceremony in the US. 

Bam Spacey - Upplyst

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Album due September 30, 2014

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Ritual Howls - The Taste Of You

Following up from the success of his emphatic PAN releases ‘Dutch Tvashar Plumes’ and ‘Diversions 1994-1996’ in 2012, we are excited to announce ‘KOCH’ (pronounced “cotch”), the new album from London’s Lee Gamble.

Sharing some stylistic affinity with his previous records, which excavated his deeply personal history with UK jungle and rave, and techno, this new work dives even deeper to reveal a singu- lar and intimate musical vantage point, shifting to approaching music as projection, state, hallucination, an other place. In ‘KOCH’, we experience an artist constructing a future after time spent deconstructing the past.

In the music we witness such dimensional abstraction, zooming between epic macro scenery and claustrophobically close detail, disorientation and absolute focus. Rhythms fuse together and phase apart, club tracks tunnel into an anxious wilderness, with themes and textures emerging as threads throughout the record, wormholing between each track.
There is a sense of the seen and the unseen, an honest tension between music as function (for this world) and as artistic exploration (for another world) as cracks in the surface appear to reveal the odd and alien minutiae within.
‘KOCH’ represents an intimate and revelatory new phase in Lee Gamble’s practice. Producing tracks that can live and grow on their own in a club or personal listening environment, the artist’s exploratory framework creates threads of consistency and tension between disparate spaces, locations, and mental states.

The LP is mastered and cut at D&M, with artwork by Bill Kouligas.

Format: 2xLP/DL 
Label: PAN 
Cat.No: PAN 59 
Release Date: September 12th

Notes from Left of the Dial: August 15

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