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Murcof - Una

Taken from the album 'Block Boundaries' out now on Village Green.

Watch the video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeeyCfv_I9g


Block Boundaries 

Last Known Position 

Ryan Teague - Last Known Position

"the open road" from "the open road and the smell of blood" by glen porter www.glenporter.org

The Open Road

Life Or Death

On the 21st of March 2014 we will be celebrating 5 years of Home Normal. It has been an incredible journey to get this far and we never could have reached it without the kind support of talented artists and all the wonderful people who have ever bought one of our releases or attended one of our shows.

In this modern digital age with its constant stream of information, we've sought to work as quietly as possible, firmly rooting our ethos that things can be released in a subtle, quiet way. 'Organic' has always been the key word, and we are so thankful that people seem to still appreciate the natural path we've chosen, ignoring all the noise that surrounds our chosen way.

To celebrate this great landmark for us, we will be releasing our 5th year compilation 'Elements'. With over 60 artists from our past, present and future involved, this five disc compilation will be raising money for 5 different charities which are close to our hearts. All profits from Elements Three (火) will be donated to ecoACTIVE which is an innovative environmental education charity with a reputation for using hands-on, practical and fun approaches to explore complex issues of sustainability.

Mixed and mastered by Ian Hawgood
Design by togoshi + mondü

http://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/elements-one-five

Landfall

West-coast psyche-folk artist Ora Cogan is set to release her latest album Shadowland, on Hidden City Records. The album is out May 6 both digitally and on cassette. A special vinyl release of the record with Portland label Beacon Sound will be in the hands of fans by summertime. Pre-orders for all formats will be available April 15. 

Co-produced by Trish Klein from acclaimed alt-folk band The Be Good Tanyas, Shadowland is a collection of haunting songs centered around Ora's voice and guitar that somehow manage to be both melancholic and radiant. The ensemble of some of Vancouver's finest musicians who support her on this album bring power, grace, and subtlety to the music without ever imposing. Folky, sinewy, dark, wisened, Shadowland is an album of superb and ethereal pop melodies, that will get under your skin and spin around in your head long after the stereo has been turned off. 



Ground And Grave - Ora Cogan

from 'Landscapes of the Unfinished' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den251
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/pianointerrupted]

Recorded partly in Senegal with local musicians playing traditional instruments, "Landscapes Of The Unfinished" is Piano Interrupted's 3rd album for German experimental label Denovali.

This album sees pianist Tom Hodge and “electronician” Franz Kirmann explore a more introspective approach to their sound. The sonorities and recordings the pair brought back from West Africa are deconstructed, mangled and texturised, turned into a pointillist landscape until only a faint and distant souvenir remains.

These beds of pulsating soundscapes and earthy textures serve as base for Hodge’s delicate piano phrases and intricate compositions, interlaced with long-time collaborator Tim Fairhall's fluid double bass playing.

Harsher territories are also visited during the 9 tracks that compose the LP; fuzzy Senegalese radio voices and the distant memory of African percussion collide with distorted bass and buzzing drones or screaming textures battle with screeching double bass sounds and tortured piano strings.

The overall tone of the album reflects the duo’s desire to musically translate the experience of the Dakar trip (where Franz Kirmann grew up), but also to break away from the first two albums' intricate programming and editing and instead go towards a writing and recording experience directly inspired by their live experience. Hodge’s clarinet, an important facet of the Piano Interrupted live show, is captured on record for the first time. 

This surge towards documenting a moment, leaving a trace or examining something concrete is further reflected in the choice of titles (all named after the musicians who took part in the recordings) and also the design, which is for the first time a photograph. Taken by filmmaker Cath Elliott, who travelled with the pair to Dakar to document the process, the album artwork captures one of the numerous half-built structures, infinite and abandoned, surrounding the studio in the suburbs of Dakar, and provides both an unfinished urban landscape and yet when viewed as a single moment in time, one of many compellingly complete landscapes of the unfinished.

Landscapes of the Unfinished

Piano Interrupted - Abdou Kadre

Taken from the album Next to the entire All, coming December 2017.

We like We is a Danish experimental sound quartet, consisting of Katrine Grarup Elbo (violin), Josefine Opsahl (cello), Sara Nigard Rosendal (percussion) and Katinka Fogh Vindelev (voice).

Next to the entire All

We like We - I´m not for More

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2013/01/re-modiac-rework

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Nils Frahm "Re (Modiac Rework)"

Hello everyone, I would like to show you my new album "Pereehali". This is my third album, it was written and recorded in the summer of 2012. After a long writer's block that was caused by a very pretentious and bombastic second album I decided to make a really intimate, solo-piano work. I lived in the countryside during the recording sessions, and every recording was done by me tête-à-tête with my lovely piano in the wooden house. It was a priceless experience working and writing while having a close contact with nature, it helped me a lot to understand the music I compose, to make it more organic, touching and moving.


playing & recording // dmitry evgrafov 
mixing & mastering // martyn heyne 
cover // vika bogorodskaya 
special thanks to nils frahm & dave howell

Apple Sunset

Takeshi Nishimoto - Tone Water

Hidden City is a boutique record label, music management and production company based in Vancouver, BC. Founded by Trish Klein from the acclaimed alt-folk band The Be Good Tanyas. Hidden City seeks to develop the careers of unique and innovative artists crossing over a range of genres including alternative, psychedelic, and experimental folk, post-rock, post-Americana, ambient and minimal. 

Ground And Grave - Ora Cogan

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