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Highlights from the last three months of reviews from Terrascope Online (June-Sept 2015) featuring Hills, The Oscillation, Trembling Bells, Dead Sea Apes, United Bible Studies and so much more besides. Titles etc should be fairly self-explanatory this time but drop us a line if anything needs clarifying.

Terrascope Playlist 7

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April is the cruellest month

Angel Olsen "Forgiven/Forgotten" from the forthcoming album Burn Your Fire For No Witness available on CD/ LP/ Digital on Jagjaguwar Feb. 18, 2014. 

Burn Your Fire For No Witness Now Available for Pre-Order: 
SCD / Jagjaguwar Mailorder: http://smarturl.it/angelolsen
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/angelolsen_amazon
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/angelolsen_itunes
Indie / your local record store: http://smarturl.it/angelolsen_indies

Angel Olsen:
http://angelolsen.com/
https://www.facebook.com/angelolsenmusic
https://twitter.com/AngelOlsen

Forgiven/Forgotten

SCD Mailorder

Angel Olsen - "Forgiven/Forgotten"

Help our souls

From the album Rips, out October 7, 2014 on Merge Records.
Vinyl / CD:  http://www.mergerecords.com/rips
iTunes:  http://smarturl.it/ExHexRips

Rips

Order from Merge

Ex Hex "Don't Wanna Lose"

piano instrumental i composed over a summer.. enjoy its nice and relaxing 

Last change

Watch the video: http://bit.ly/17CUxYf
Download here: http://bit.ly/WLxvcg

Artwork by Spencer Murphy, from his Traces series: http://bit.ly/X9so5E.

Precious Little

To celebrate Easy Star All Stars﻿ current European tour, we asked Dub Architect﻿ to curate an Easy Star Records﻿ Summer Mix.  Featuring artists from Easy Star past, present, and future such as Rebelution﻿, John Brown's Body﻿, Passafire﻿, Sugar Minott﻿, Luciano﻿, Ticklah / Victor Axelrod﻿, The Meditations﻿, Cas Haley﻿, The Black Seeds﻿, and more!

Track list:
00:00:00 - The Black Seeds - "Heavy Mono E" from Into the Dojo: http://smarturl.it/0345p1
00:00:17 - The Green - "Love is Strong" from Ways & Means: http://smarturl.it/vqvnzq
00:03:44 - John Brown's Body - "The Gold (Dubmatix Remix)" from Re-Amplify: http://smarturl.it/2jmcxm
00:08:19 - Sugar Minott - "Si Mi Ya" from Hidden Treasures
00:11:39 - Luciano - "Hopes on High" from Easy Star Volume 2: Dancehall Culture: http://smarturl.it/r7bm7d
00:14:19 - Ticklah - "Nine Years" from Ticklah vs Axelrod: http://smarturl.it/4os5qu
00:17:45 - Tommy T - "Tribute to a King" from The Prester John Sessions: http://smarturl.it/j2f5py
00:21:51 - The Meditations - "Great Tribulation" from Ghetto Knowledge: http://smarturl.it/fkn5t0
00:24:58 - Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad - "Love You More (Dub Architect Mix)" from Dub Volume 1: http://smarturl.it/dubvol1
00:28:37 - John Brown's Body - "Blazing Love" from Pressure Points: http://smarturl.it/3m50c5
00:32:32 - Rob Symenonn - "Anything for Jah" from Easy Star Vol 1: http://smarturl.it/mcsdvu
00:35:11 - Easy Star All-Stars - "Bed of Rose" from Until That Day EP: http://smarturl.it/fzqxbs
00:38:55 - The Green - "Forgive Me" from Hawai'i '13: http://smarturl.it/kssi0y
00:42:03 - The Black Seeds - "Strugglers" from Solid Ground: http://smarturl.it/fc7eds
00:45:55 - Michael G - "Cool Down Dub" from Easy Star Volume 2: Dancehall Culture: http://smarturl.it/kjlt9x
00:48:55 - Triston Palma - "Two Roads" from Can't Stop Us Now: http://smarturl.it/d5zpo0
00:51:40 - John Brown's Body - "Old John Brown" from Kings & Queens: http://smarturl.it/qhiyc1
00:56:51 - Passafire - "Right Thing" from Vines: http://smarturl.it/pp4u7q
00:59:35 - Cas Haley - "Better (Michael G Remix)" from Connection: http://smarturl.it/thy54m
01:04:17 - Rebelution - "Roots Reggae Music" from Count Me In: http://smarturl.it/xnufhv
01:08:36 - The Green - "Something About It" from Hawai'i '13: http://smarturl.it/2kjx5f
01:12:29 - Ticklah - "Pork Eater" from Ticklah vs Axelrod: http://smarturl.it/4os5qu
01:15:54 - Ranking Joe / Cassyman - "My Lady" from Hidden Treasures
01:18:59 - The Black Seeds - "Turn It Around" from On the Sun: http://smarturl.it/55ukij
01:23:08 - John Brown's Body - "Give Yourself Over" from Amplify: http://smarturl.it/fn4cos

Check out more from Easy Star Records: http://EasyStar.com
Dub Architect: http://DubArchitect.com

Easy Star Records Summer Mix - Curated by Dub Architect

It's been a long time, we shouldn't of left you, without a dope beat to step to

PS (2014)

Further Than We've Gone (2012)

Robbie Basho - Camelot II

Having released a dreamy album inspired by 60s sci-fi soundtracks, Swedish trio @death-and-vanilla were invited to live score cult horror Vampyr at a Scandi film festival and their slow, steady, swirling accent continued. 

Their new LP To Where The Wild Things Are,is a poppier affair; the warm analogue loops of their vintage instruments crying out for the sweet breathy vocals that Marleen delivers with a calm and enchanting ease. Named after the children’s book, the album celebrates imagination and the ability to delve into the less-explored areas of the mind. Exactly what we need to get us through today, we are pleased to present the premiere of album track, California Owls. Almost hypnotic, this is dream pop at its absolute best. Enjoy!

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Premiere: Death And Vanilla - California Owls

5.ZENERIK - Deliverance

Wooden House

Track number 2 from the album "All is Two"

Hymn 23

I Can See The Pines Are Dancing (AA Bondy)

First Light Of The Morning

From the album “Fatima’s Hand” (2015)

The 12" vinyl LP version of "Fatima's Hand" is available to buy at www.hoodfaire.co.uk.

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Smoke And Mirrors

"Stay On My Shore" by Joan Shelley

Sukirti (1min sample)

"Ode to Billy Joe" from the album Don't Just Sing: An Anthology 1963-1999 available at http://bit.ly/1HR7sUC.

Don't Just Sing: A Karin Krog

Karin Krog - "Ode to Billy Joe" feat. Dexter Gordon

The lead single from The Cairo Gang's forthcoming LP, Goes Missing, out June 23rd on God?

The Cairo Gang - Ice Fishing

Haphazard!

Remastered limited edition picture disc in a deluxe die cut sleeve 16 October 2015; CD 4 December 2015. 

'Moonshine' is released 4 December following an early limited edition picture disc release in October. 

Bert Jansch - Moonshine

Hills - Kollektiv

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS & NILS FRAHM - 'a2' from their forthcoming collaborative EP 'STARE'.

ORDER the Ltd. Edition 10" Vinyl/Download HERE and receive an Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary sticker with it:
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP042

'A hazy slow-builder that sits nicely equidistant between Arnalds’ solo work and his excellent Kiasmos project' – The Line Of Best Fit

CONTENT

Erased Tapes label mates Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm record and mix their first collaborative record between Reyjkjavík and Berlin as a surprise release for label founder Robert Raths.

The ambient/electronic work ‘Stare’ is a true family effort from Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm with Anne Müller joining in on cello and all graphics by close label-friend and now in-house designer Torsten Posselt of Feld Studios.

This release will be strictly limited and exclusively available on Record Store Day 2012, April 21st. Coinciding with the 5th Anniversary of Erased Tapes, it’s also available from the official Erased Tapes online store and sure to become a must-have for fans of the label and these two artists.


CONTEXT

Words by Nils Frahm: 
‘I heard ‘Eulogy For Evolution’ for the first time 6 years ago and I was totally captivated. Impossible to know back then that I was supposed to meet Ólafur many years later as my label mate. Later when he took me along a tour of his we also noted that we kind of like hanging out together, doing important things like cover versions of long forgotten songs or eating veggie pizza. Also he would join my live set for a jam and I would return the favour by playing along with his set. 

All in all, I fell for Óli and after one memorable jam session we had in Berlin at Roter Salon in 2011, he finally proposed the idea to visit me in my studio in Berlin to work on 'some music'. I was happy and delighted about that idea, so we got together in April 2011 and after having a big pizza, I plugged in some old analogue synths and we played for four days until late in the night. Also queen Anne Müller stopped by after a show with Agnes Obel to record some cello at 5 am in the morning for ‘b1’. Making music together with people is lovely! 
 
The time I spent with Óli in Berlin made me very happy and the music wasn't like anything I have heard before. It was all very reduced and minimal and I felt like I couldn't have done this alone. So we decided to do another 4-day jam at Óli´s E7 studio in Reykjavik. So I flew there in the end of October to repeat the trick and record some out of this world ambient music. It didn't take us too long to write ‘a1’ and ‘a2’.  I can’t wait for the follow up!’

Words by Olafur Arnalds:
 ‘After having toured together and having had many inspiring late night conversations, I decided to visit Nils in his Durton Studio in Berlin for a weekend. We didn't have anything specific in mind, we just wanted to hang out, jam and eat some falafel. That's what we did, but somehow we also made 25 minutes of ambient bliss that weekend. 

After that we quickly decided we had to do the same in my studio in Iceland. Just hang out for a weekend and possibly make some music. So the album became kind of an Iceland vs. Berlin thing. I think you can hear it very well in the sound (side a vs. side b) and that is the most interesting thing about this record for me: that subtle but significant different in the characteristics of the music two people made in Iceland against what the same two people made in Germany. 

I'm not sure why we decided to keep it secret, it just happened. But it sure was fun! I remember a party at Robert's (Erased Tapes founder) flat in Berlin, where me and Nils stood in the corner the whole night whispering about the project. We then delivered the fully mastered record with finished artwork to Robert around the 5th anniversary of the label. It would have been nice to be there to see his face…"

The live video of Nils and Ólafur’s spontaneous improv live set in Berlin last summer won them many fans since, including UK electronic music producer Max Cooper who is now remixing two of his “absolute favourite artists”. Nils and Ólafur will be touring together throughout Europe this spring.

You can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/28631568
 


LABEL: ERASED TAPES RECORDS    UK RELEASE DATE: APRIL 21, 2012
CAT.NO: ERATP042 EP/DL   EAN: 4050486068137

TRACK LISTING:  1. a1  2. a2  3. b1

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:   OLAFURARNALDS.COM   DURTONSTUDIO.COM   ERASEDTAPES.COM 

Stare

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - a2

Halls

"Canary Island" by Houndstooth. Ride Out The Dark is the Portland bands debut CD/LP and will be in stores 7/16. Pre-order now at noquarter.net