Stayed behind these walls too long...  ✨✨🌚❤️🔥☕️

Is this bagpipes? What is this sampled from?

"slowly wakin' up… I guess" • resonating with this song so much! in grey Vienna in winter times...

Tageslied. Song Of The Day. https://guteshoerenistwichtig.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/tageslied-sir-was-a-minor-life/

loved and blogged @ https://lesondesjours.wordpress.com/

Taken from the 'Lilac Lane' EP out on October 13th via Melodic Records.

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Gigs:
- Oct 13th: London, Shacklewell Arms
- Oct 16th: Bristol, The Louisiana

Brazillia

Acacian Alchemy - Fade Away (High Tech, Low Life Remix)

2º Dia

sir was "a Minor Life" https://sirwas.lnk.to/aMinorLife
Produced by Joel Wästberg
p & c City Slang 2016 

sir Was - A Minor Life

Vinyl: http://smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckVinyl
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/MoaiYYoSpotify
Apple: http://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 - Moai Y Yo

Grace Joyner, "Maybe Sometimes in C" 
out Friday 5/20 on Hearts & Plugs, H&P021

Pre-order on CD and Cassette here:
http://bit.ly/1S69fpS

Grace Joyner - Dreams

Off "Mystery Cove", Monster Rally's new album.  Out on 11/11/16, available as a limited edition 12" here:
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-mystery-cove-12

When the beach party film revival arrives, Ted Feighan (aka Monster Rally) will be the Ennio Morricone of its resurgence. Mystery Cove, the forthcoming Monster Rally album, is a soundtrack to an imaginary movie both fit for the vaults of TMC and primed for a grindhouse exploitation flick screening. Mystery Cove contains a narrative arc of young lovers on an island getaway. As the grooves spin, Monster Rally reveals a cabalistic presence in the jungle that leads them on an adventure of surf competitions (“The Big Surf”), voodoo terror (“Tourismo”), and plenty of slushy cocktails (“After Hours”). The occult meets the salt-rimmed rum mix on Mystery Cove.

Since his Coral LP, Monster Rally has been an analog to the exotica forefathers. His reinvention of cocktail music via luau-loops and tchotchke breaks evokes a mondo vision of the subgenre. With Mystery Cove, the quiet village is not what it seems, and every resort comes at the cost of indigenous displacement. Beyond the florals and brightly feathered fauna is inferno in paradise.

Mystery Cove

Pelicans

Monster Rally - Pelicans

Sleeping all of the day
Waking up in a haze

You don't know what its like to move on
She started dancing to that fine fine music, its true love
You don't know what its like to move on
From a name you despise, its true love

You will see me again
Don't you worry friend

You don't know what its like to move on
She started dancing to that fine fine music, it’s true love
You don't know what its like to move on
From a name you despise, its true love

Hey Mr. doctor don't let me die
cause I’ve got a feeling I cant describe
The Mona Lisa is driving me mad
I think all about the times we had

You don't know what its like to move on
She started dancing to that fine fine music, its true love
You don't know what its like to move on
From a name you despise, its true love


To Move On

Shake Off is taken from Wildhart´s debut album Shine that will be released 11th of November. Shake Off is released on all digital platforms the 14th of October. 

Wildhart Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/wildhartmusic/

Their album Shine can now be orderd on Vinyl or CD from:
https://gaphals.bandcamp.com/

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2do2Ha1
Deezer: http://bit.ly/2dOKN3R
TIDAL: http://bit.ly/2dBkpd8
iTunes: http://apple.co/2dWV8fC

'Shine'

Shake Off

Feat Dromes
soundcloud.com/dromesmusic

Also on Spotify, Apple music etc

Photo by Cameron Dutra
camerondutra.com

Dromes & Lulannie - "Glacial"

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