July 2017 二十七

My Tree

Holy Data (self-titled)

Release Date: May 19, 2017 (independent)

Recorded at the Pines, Digital Bird, Le Pantoum and the Hive

Engineered by Martin Horn, Patrick McDowall, Tyler Crawford, Jean-Etienne Colin-Marcoux and Holy Data

Mixed by Matthew Lederman
Mastered by Ryan Morey

Artwork by Matt Shane

I Want It All

come see us on tour!
http://smarturl.it/slenderbodiestour

lyrics~

down below
my thoughts can wander and i
let go
i don’t need much in my life
i know
i like it better underwater

ive been drowning in anemone
here you’ll never get the best of me
ive been drowning in anemone
breathing deep 
breathing deep

down below
sandy like the ocean floor
quiet like i like it
here ill never be alone

i pause my life
i spend my time
its always right
its never wrong to try

it’s been alright
ive been alright

but here its better
i heal better

i like it better underwater
send me underwater


feeling little pulls
wont get the best of me so 
la la la lets go
a little destiny 
to tell you what you know
a fatal recipe of life

dreaming ‘bout a place 
where i can be by myself

anemone

The Hundred In The Hands return with their third album Love In The Black Stack; a swoony late-night soundtrack to the catastrophic present. 

Eleanore Everdell and Jason Friedman began working on these intimate new songs and ambient tracks using cassettes recorded in the late ‘90’s, demos, voice-memos, field recordings and other half-forgotten ephemera collected over the years. They then went back into the studio with producers Vito Roccoforte and Gabriel Andruzzi (The Rapture, Vito and Druzzi) -- who both add their indelible stylistic synth and percussion work -- and together helped re-work the material for an album conceived as the score to a larger art installation/performance piece. 

The final 11 songs yo-yo from the insular romance of “I Follow”, “Pale Moon Out” and “Felt A Love” to the jagged pulse of “Proof of Love”, “Red Eyes Rising” and cascading drive of “Wade Up”; alternately grounded in the deep searching harmonies of Eleanore’s layered vocals and the purposeful silences and slipped rhythms of the off-kilter production. 

With lyrical through-lines moving from satellites and constellations “high above the earth,” through “telephones ringing in empty rooms” and unwinding under rising tides — and with themes loosely touching on gentrification, environmental collapse, and occult technological faiths — Love in the Black Stack is an attempt to find the gaps still ungoverned by these global forces and to create sense and connection from incomprehension and dislocation. 

An accompanying virtual album-cover layered with lyrics, credits, crypto/mystic-diagrams and extraneous texts is online at: LoveInTheBlackStack.com. 

This is the first release since 2012’s Red Night (Warp) and the first for their label New Ancestors: a journal/label focusing on artist-to-artist relationships and patient journalism examining, supporting and challenging vital culture
credits
releases June 16, 2017
(c) & (p) 2017 Eleanore Everdell & Jason Friedman 
EEE Music ASCAP, Weare Boggs Music ASCAP.

Love In The Black Stack

I Follow

Abstractions

Sea Of Thought

'Rolrolrol (feat. Niels Broos)' Out Now -
Brainfeeder / Stream / Download: https://jameszoo.lnk.to/flake

Taken from 'Flake EP' released 7th July 2017 via Brainfeeder.

The Debut Album 'Fool' Out Now - 
Brainfeeder / Stream / Download: https://jameszoo.lnk.to/fool

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Flake EP

Jameszoo - 'Rolrolrol (feat. Niels Broos)'

Taken from 'Several Shades Of The Same Color' LP by Patricia, out July 14, 2017.

Order Links:
The Ghostly Store: https://goo.gl/8ipkci
The Ghostly Store (UK/EU): https://goo.gl/KL4mJj
Retailer of your choice: https://lnk.to/patricia

Several Shades Of The Same Color

Patricia - Speed Wagon Night Bride

Change Your Mind

Garbage Bin

Music & Lyrics by Dakota
Produced by David Hoogerheide

(c) Manimal Vinyl

Dakota - Wanderlust

The Places We've Been features the voice of Karen Peris, and is taken from Lost Horizons' debut album Ojalá, due for release 3rd November via Bella Union. Pre-order now:

http://smarturl.it/LH-ojala

Lost Horizons - The Places We've Been

From Moon King's new album "Hamtramck '16"
Order here: http://smarturl.it/aeu582

Hamtramck '16

In & Out

Moon King - In & Out

Buy the Album: raremonk.bandcamp.com/
Written and Recorded by Rare Monk 
Engineered and Mixed by Skyler Norwood at Miracle Lake Studios 
Produced by Skyler Norwood and Rare Monk 
Mastered by Gus Elg @ Sky Onion Studios 
Artwork by Chris Bigalke (Showdeer)

Make Like A Tree And Murder

From the album The Kid out October 6, 2017 on Western Vinyl

Pre-Order The Kid
BLEEP https://bleep.com/release/86790-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-the-kid
Norman Records https://www.normanrecords.com/records/166212
Bandcamp https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-kid
iTunes hyperurl.co/8n4qa5
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv170

In 2017, the musical term “electronic” is nearly obsolete given the ubiquity of computerized processes in producing music.  Even so, the prevailing assumption is that musicians working under this broad umbrella must be inspired by concepts equally as electrified as their equipment.  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has demonstrated in her still-blooming discography that this notion couldn’t be further from the truth, and that more often than not, rich worlds of synthesized sound are born from deep reverence of the natural world.  Smith (who by no coincidence, cites naturalist David Attenborough as a contemporary muse) has embodied such an appreciation on The Kid in as direct and sincere a way as possible by sonically charting the phases of life itself.  The album, which punctually follows up her 2016 breakthrough EARS, chronicles four defining cognitive and emotional stages of the human lifespan across four sides of a double LP.

The first side takes us through the confused astonishment of a newborn, unaware of itself, existing in an unwitting nirvana.  Smith’s music has always woven a youthful thread befitting of the aforementioned subject. Here she articulates it in signature fashion on the track “An Intention,” which serves not only as a soaring spire on The Kid, but on her entire output.  There is playfulness here, but it's elevated by an undertone of gravity into something compelling and majestic that is fast becoming Smith’s watermark.  The emotional focus of side two is the vital but underreported moment in early youth when we cross the threshold into self awareness.  The subject is profound enough to fill an entire album, but rarely makes its way into a single track, indicating Smith’s ambition to broach subtler and deeper subjects than the average composer.  This side offers up another highlight in the form of “In The World But Not Of The World” which serves its subject well with epiphanic, climbing strings and decidedly noisy textures over a near-Bollywood low end pulse.

Side three emphasizes a feeling of being confirmed enough in one’s own identity to begin giving back to the formative forces of one’s upbringing, which is arguably the duty that all great artists aim to fulfill.  This side ends with the exploratory album cut “Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am” recorded in a single take without overdubs on the rare EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer. This humble piece of sound design serves as a contrast to side four’s verdant orchestral moments, all written and arranged for the EU-based Stargaze quartet by Smith herself.  This final side represents a return to pure being, the kind of wisdom and peace that eludes most of us until the autumn of life.  On “To Feel Your Best” this concept is voiced in the bittersweet refrain “one day I’ll wake up and you won’t be there” which Smith intended to be a grateful acknowledgement of life rather than a melancholy resentment of loss. The song has both effects depending on the mood of the listener, and both interpretations are equally moving.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith belongs to an ilk of modern musicians who are defined by their commitment to creating experiential albums despite the singles-oriented habits of modern listeners, and here she represents her kind proudly.  The subjects on The Kid are not simple to convey, and yet through both emotional tone and lyrical content, Smith does just that. There is a similar gravity to both birth and death, and rarely is that correlation as accurately and enthusiastically mapped as it is here.  As Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith explores her existence through music, she guides us in gleefully contemplating our own.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "An Intention"

Poppy Ackroyd turned heads in the neo-classical world with her previous works Escapement and Feathers, as well as her involvement in Hidden Orchestra (Tru Thoughts). Advocated by giants of the genre, Hauschka and Nils Frahm, the unique musician has returned, freshly signed to Bjork’s label One Little Indian Records, with a mini-album, Sketches, to be released on 4th August 2017.

Sketches

Time

"Kid Kreative" is taken from Melkbelly's forthcoming LP, "Nothing Valley," out October 13th on Wax Nine Records.

PRE-ORDERS
wax nine - http://smarturl.it/nothingvalley_wax9
itunes - http://smarturl.it/nothingvalley_itunes

TOUR
September 6th - Pittsburgh, PA - Cattivo*
September 7th - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery*
September 8th - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival
September 9th - Asheville, NC - The Mothlight*
September 10th - Cincinnati, OH - Northside Yacht Club*
October 13th - Chicago, IL - The Hideout
* w/ Protomartyr

Melkbelly - Kid Kreative

stream/download: hwtrs.co/mmunicating
on tour: hwtrs.co/tour

shame on you 
shame on me 
i blindly blame you 
when truly 

you're my blanket 
you're my skin 
you're everything within 
you're my guardian 
i'm your sail 
a boat in your harbor 
gone under 
capsized 
and sinking  
blanket me
blanket me 

so i try to shed you 
it's not that easy 

cause you're my blanket 
you're my skin 
you're everything within 
you're my guardian
i'm your sail 
a boat in your harbor 
gone under 
capsized
and sinking
 
blanket me 
blanket me

July 2017 二十七

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