That was brilliant - dark / gothic / driving beat / macabre delivery - great subtleties with the music / guitar dropping in and out

love it. on the surface it's such a simple song, but the production is spot on - the sounds are very carefully layered resulting in energy/drive delivered in an almost hushed voice. excellent.

great track, love the mellow smokey groove!

Lovin your music Ellis Swan heard you the world service today... Wow thanks

A track left off of 'I'll Be Around'.

https://ellisswan.bandcamp.com/album/ill-be-around

"I listen to Swan and imagine Screamin’ Jay Hawkins trying to sing a lullaby to his granddaughter. "
- nofearofpop.net

"...exercises of arcane obscurity, occasionally flecked with poetic brilliance; Swan’s I’ll Be Around is a cohesive piece of work, one large tale composed of disparate strands."
- bucketfullofnails.com

"...Ellis Swan, creates music that is beautiful in its haunting quality and alluring capability."
- rightchordmusic.co.uk 

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"Dhoodan" off of 'Cannots' by Ryley Walker & Charles Rumback, out on Dead Oceans on Record Store Day, April 16th, 2016

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Dhoodan

Ryley Walker & Charles Rumback - Dhoodan

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'Settlers' is the new album from Western Skies Motel, out April 22nd, 2016 in a limited edition of 170 gatefold 180gram vinyl, CD and digital formats.  'Settlers' was mastered for vinyl and digital by Taylor Deupree, with master lacquers cut by Roger Siebel at SAE.  The first 50 Vinyl & CD's ordered come with a bonus EP, 'Generations' mastered by Kirk Marrison of Kiln.

In the dry desert of Arizona that Lost Tribe Sound calls home, a letter is received from guitarist René Gonzàlez Schelbeck who’s eager to share a collection of intimately composed songs, titled 'Settlers'. Upon listening, we are immediately enthralled. There’s a timeworn, arid, and almost badlands quality to Schelbeck’s hypnotic, cyclical guitar style. It seems to perfectly capture the lonely, barren landscape of the American West. 

Yet, there are curious dynamics at play here as Schelbeck, who makes music under the alias Western Skies Motel, is from Denmark and far removed from any upbringing in the rough-hewn Americana style of folk guitar. Conceivably, his music has more in common with the lonesome, calculated tone of Berlin's modern classical scene or the rainy day folk of the UK. Those are intriguing parallels, since the collective mood of Western Skies Motel's music would adapt so well to either environment. 

Words hardly do justice to the rich, immersive experience of 'Settlers'; yet a few may help to set the stage. Schelbeck is a remarkably well rounded instrumentalist, who spent his early days losing his hearing in local punk rock bands. This youthful love for walls of sound and discordant guitar squalls survives in his modern sound palette. However, a more mature approach to these techniques brings moments of palpable tension, adding in uneasy waves of guitar feedback and droning harmonium. 

But ultimately, the truth of what Schelbeck hopes to convey through his music may rest rmly in his subconscious. In hindsight, 'Settlers' is about moving between worlds: not in the dimensional sense, but more as a constant change in form. Each influence and sound Schelbeck incorporates into his music feels native to the delicate ecosystem of these songs and each turn feels as organic and nuanced as that of the natural world. Just as a tree’s leaves wither and fall; a fire sparks and expands only to expend its last bit of fuel, extinguished and left for ash. So true are the parallels we find in our own existence, the complex ritual of growing old and returning to dirt. Decay is inevitable for all life, yet through this it becomes the rich soil for all things proceeding. Western Skies Motel's weighty instrumental mantras may root in this and other meanings yet to be culled. One thing is clear, this music contains signicant power, and, regardless of our conceived themes or geographic locations, it tells a story that is lasting and instantly familiar. 

'Settlers' sees a 180-gram heavy weight gatefold release very similar to the recent Mute Forest debut, 'Deforestation'. The acetate and test pressings were scrutinized for anomalies on world-class vinyl setups at Arizona’s esteemed audio dealer, Arizona Hi-Fi.

Western Skies Motel is building upon a busy year in 2015, having released two very different full-length albums 'Prism' (Preserved Sound) and 'Buried and Resurrected' (Twice Removed).

Settlers

Transformation

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Western Skies Motel - Transformation (from Settlers)

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Alex Cameron - She's Mine

From the album Dust Bowl.
Out now via on Already Dead Tapes:  https://alreadydeadtapes.bandcamp.com/album/ad201-rodeo-dust-bowl

Rodeo on Facebook: www.facebook.com/rodeomusic/

Rodeo is the instrumental playground of Danes Jacob Westergaard Madsen, Jesper Bugge Kold,
René Thorny and René Gonzalez Schelbeck. A rock historian, a fiction writer, a magician and a
former chef forms the collective and together they tell a tale of dust, of eyes filled with dirt and the
withering of a dream.
A faded chest of drawers led to the resurrection of Rodeo when it revealed a hidden treasure in the
form of old tapes from an incomplete recording session that had sunk into oblivion by the merciless
passing of the years.
Dust Bowl evokes the imagery of a lonely landscape that has crumbled to dust, a place that is still
haunted by memories and eroded dreams and where ghostly spirits roam the abandoned widths.
A world of men lost to civilization, where ancient wisdom has been forgotten and the land has
become the fenced in property of Man.
Armed with a plethora of instruments from twangy guitars and unstable tape recorders to
harmonium and hand percussion Rodeo plays a cinematic spacy kind of spaghetti western music
fueled by hallucinogenic desert plants and forgotten brews. The influences range from the works of
maestroes such as Morricone and Santaolalla over ambient tape manipulations to exotic psychedelia
and surf.
The members of Rodeo have been involved in a variety of Danish bands and projects from past to
present including names such as Western Skies Motel, Naked, Twinkle, and Biff Baxter Band.

Dust Bowl

Rodeo - Raised On These Barren Fields

From the album Selfless by Joni Void

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Selfless
180gLP/CD/DL
CST125

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Selfless

Joni Void • "Empathy (Ayuko's Song)"

From Joan Shelley's self-titled album out now!

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Joan Shelley "I Got What I Wanted"

From Cannonball! (out 5/18/18 on Sooper Records & 88rising). Pre-Order Cannonball! on Vinyl / CD / Cassette / Digital on Bandcamp and Sooper Records.
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People Watching

Live at the Cobalt, Vancouver BC, April 25, 2018.
Stephen Lyons, Shanto Acharia, Skye Brooks, Paul Rigby.

www.offseasonrecords.com
https://limbsofthestars.bandcamp.com

Live sound by Swann Barrat. Mastered by Rob Malowany.

Photo by Craig Sinclair http://craigsinclairphotography.blogspot.com

Limbs of the Stars - Falling for Falling's Sake (live)

Purchase 'I'll Be Around'
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"Ellis Swan's other worldly reworked folk tales and murder ballads are unsettling, but incredibly seductive."
- BBC Global Beats
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03ktr9j
3/5/16

"...Swan’s LP is a decaying southern gothic world plucked straight from the mind of a displaced soul, a self-reflective odyssey that transports us into a long forgotten era. And it’s unlike anything else you’ll experience in music this year. "
- No Fear Of Pop
www.nofearofpop.net/blog/ellis-swan-ill-be-around
9/24/14

"...exercises of arcane obscurity, occasionally flecked with poetic brilliance; Swan’s I’ll Be Around is a cohesive piece of work, one large tale composed of disparate strands."
- http://bucketfullofnails.com/2015/02/backtracks-ellis-swan-ill-be-around/
2/13/15

<i>"Swan’s songs have patient movement: bass lines that crawl around in circles and fractured washes of texture. His weary, almost exhausted-sounding voice scrapes out a listener’s soul."</i>&#13;
- <a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/C-Notes/January-2013/Lets-Talk-About-Ellis-Swan-Chicagos-Most-Elusive-Musician/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chicagomag.com</a>&#13;
1/15/13&#13;

<i>"...a Canadian artist living in Chicago, and gained some attention last year with his warped, nightmarish ballad Frankie and Charlie. In the bleary-eyed track ‘Evan Williams’, the twisted folk artist takes a more naturalistic route, but keeps that looming, leering edge to his music that makes it so striking."</i>&#13;
- <a href="http://www.dummymag.com/new-music/2012/01/29/ellis-swan-evan-williams/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dummymag.com</a>&#13;
01/29/12&#13;
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if interested, see <a href="http://soundcloud.com/dead-bandit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dead Bandit</a>.

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