Chord sequence is fat, production is v. nice indeed, loving it

... once entitled a rehearsal session track: "War Machine Mongers" ... but you're probably right keeping it low/cool !

Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra
"Take Away These Early Graves Blues"

From the album Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
Out 21 January 2014 on Constellation

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Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra • "Take Away These Early Grave Blues"

Complete recording: http://tdk-c90.blogspot.dk/

Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo - 2014-03-01 - Come Up and See Me (live)

Early version of 'Come On Die Young' album track 'Ex-Cowboy'.  One of seventeen bonus tracks contained in the soon to be reissued deluxe edition of Mogwai's seminal second album from 1999.

Available to pre-order from Chemikal Underground from May 1st.

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Mogwai: "Ex-Cowboy" (CAVA Session)

Koyaanisqatsi Suite (Phillip Glass)

from 'Blossoms In Red' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den243
available in October on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ensembleeconomique]

Based in Californian Humboldt County, Brian Pyle wanders the world on his countless travels. Far from being restless, he has his very own Pylesque way of travelling. Much like a Lynchian version of Hemingway, he has an eye for the thin layer between restlessness and relaxation, gloom and serenity. Wherever he goes, he ardently absorbes these nuances, rarefies them and moulds them into a seamless array of glimmering styles, from drone and ambient to shoegaze and post-wave, giving birth to yet another creation of his prolific Ensemble Economique project.
On his by now eleventh album and fourth Denovali release "Blossoms In Red", Pyle combines and perfects elements of his previous output into a cohesive narrative. The opener "From The Train Window, Red Flowers On The Mountain" is a surprisingly scarce ambient piece, which feels like an almost infinitely stretched precious moment of time. Despite being austere, it is warm, sublime and incredibly captivating and after listening to its full 8 minutes, one cannot help but to rewind and replay. Having barely escaped this seductively infinite loop, one encounters the title track "Blossoms In Red" featuring Portland electronic duo Soft Metals. Starting off with a characteristic sluggish programmed beat, one is immediately overpowered by the onset of the towering combination of a warm bassline and a shimmering synth ambience. As the track flows, these elements writhe around each other in a delicately beautiful fashion, absorbing the materialising wailing guitar which almost sounds like an ethereal voice, as well as the occasional melodic and rhythmic accents. The next track sees this guitar return in a rather pure form. "On The Sand", featuring jack-of-all-trades Peter Broderick, is essentially just reduced analogue drums, electric guitar, a simple vibrating bassline and hoarse almost spoken vocals. Slowly and methodically, these constituents form a captivating erotic ritual, much like a beguiling and hypnotic mandala procession of imperturbable blissful individuals on the beach. As proven on numerous occasions, Pyle can easily lead all his trumps in the presence of female lead vocals, and "Blossoms In Red" makes no exception. Indeed, "You, By Candlelight" is easily the best Ensemble Economique track with female vox to date. Pyle manages to embed the vocals just in the right minimal amount of instrumental layers, making the track radiate an elusive tranquility. The fifth and closing track "Nothing Is Perfect" is a classically tinged piano piece with only very little processing and sparse field recording samples. With all pieces of the album, Pyle manages to create tracks which feel like being composed only of two or three layers of sound, that are nevertheless allowed to develop a life cycle which seems incredibly long - track lengths vary from 6:30 to 8:10 - but still feels just right. Thus "Blossoms In Red" is probably Ensemble Economique's most minimalistic album, but at the same time - or maybe just for this reason - his most skilled work.

Blossoms In Red

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Ensemble Economique - You, By Candlelight (feat. J Moon)

from 'S/t' [2xLP Reissue]
Denovali Records · den020
available at [http://denovali.com/daturah]

A one time only vinyl repress of this genre classic. Fantastic lengthy instrumental epics that tell not just stories, but tomes. DATURAH was an instrumental five-piece band from Germany being active between 2003 and 2011. This is their debut album (released in 2005), which consists of three incredibly tracks spanning the space of 40+ minutes. An essential release for fans of Explosions in the Sky, Mono, Mogwai, Caspian et al. 

Daturah - Warmachines

Rayon live at Radialsystem on 20 November, 2016.

Back in November 2016, we've had the great pleasure to celebrate 5 years of UM:LAUT with Markus Acher's project Rayon. With his numerous bands and collaborations (The Notwist, Lali Puna, Tied & Tickled Trio, 13 & God...) Markus Acher has contributed various relevant and exciting chapters to the recent history of music, thereby constantly re-exploring his sound universe and repeatedly widening the horizon of pop music. Within the series of UM:LAUT, Rayon presented the album "A Beat of Silence" (Morr Music) for the first time live and in one of the rare concerts with a full band and an extensive instrumentation.

Special thanks to Markus and the band for the great performance. And cheers to Carlo Grippa for the amazing sound, the recordings and the mastering.

Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

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Daturah - Warmachines

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