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Taken from debut album "Engravings" out now through Tri Angle Records. 

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The Weight Of Gold

The first track off Devendra Banhart's Nonesuch Records debut album, MALA, remixed by Hauschka. Order the original at http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/mala.

Devendra Banhart: Golden Girls (Hauschka Remix)

Excerpt of Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno, from composer/pianist Timo Andres's 2013 Nonesuch album, Home Stretch. On the album, Andres pairs this reinvention with his Mozart "Coronation" Concerto Re-Composition, described by The New Yorker's Alex Ross as "mesmerizing," as well as the title piece. Metropolis Ensemble chamber orchestra performs with the composer on piano. The album, says NPR, offers "thought-provoking glimpses into how the past and the present merge in classical music today." The Chicago Reader says it "bursts with creativity." The Guardian and the Independent give it four stars.

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Home Stretch

Timo Andres - Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno (Excerpt)

James Blackshaw - Mirror Speaks

a summer 2011 compilation by adam wills from bear in heaven for loomstate

10 James Blackshaw-Skylark Heralds Dawn

From the limited 12" 'Holly' EP, released September 2011 on Important Records.

Boo, Forever

SSG Music premieres James Blackshaw's "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" off 'Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death' due out April 24th on Important Records

James Blackshaw - "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" (SSG Music Premiere)

James Blackshaw - Live [edit]

Written, mixed and produced at 'The Zoo'.

Boddika, Joy Orbison & Pearson Sound - Faint

Throwing Snow
‘Aspera’
December 3rd 2012
Snowfall

Having minted his Snowfall imprint with the acclaimed ‘Clamor’ EP earlier this year, Ross Tones aka Throwing Snow returns on December 3rd for his second EP of 2012, the eagerly awaited ‘Aspera’. As with its predecessor, the title comes laced with Latin rhetoric: “Aspera” translating as “to make rough”, providing an apt description for the aesthetic of the four original tracks on offer. 

From the title track Tones' creative direction is clearly displayed. Hinging round a warming bass, coarse stripped back drums accompany frosty arpeggios and washed out synths atop a bed of hidden strings, whilst on ‘Melum’ flickering percussion, ethereal guitars and throbbing melodic jabs combine with Throwing Snow’s trademark distortion, culminating in an unexpected segment of footwork punctuating the track’s expansive growth.

‘Lingerwell’ sees four knackered piano chords wrapped in warm crackles and hypnotic atmospherics blooming into life with a burst of pulsating stabs, before ‘Behest’ closes the EP with a climactic slugging match of drowned drums, throbbing bass and ecclesiastical synths, and a drop to make even the most atheistic of us think again.

Snowfall is now two releases strong, and having set out with an honest mission statement we are left highly anticipating what will surface next.

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Aspera

[p*dis] distribution sampler for November 2012

James Blackshaw - Love Is the Plan, The Plan Is Death - Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (important records)

Devendra Banhart performs "Für Hildegard Von Bingen," from "Mala," his eighth studio album and his Nonesuch debut, due out March 12, 2013. The album took shape in Los Angeles, where he and longtime cohort Noah Georgeson produced the album together, playing most of the instruments themselves, using borrowed equipment and a recorder they’d found in a pawn shop. 

Download this track now when you pre-order "Mala" at http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/mala

Mala

Devendra Banhart: "Für Hildegard Von Bingen"

Devendra Banhart performs "Never Seen Such Good Things," from "Mala," his eighth studio album and his Nonesuch debut, due out March 12, 2013. The album took shape in Los Angeles, where he and longtime cohort Noah Georgeson produced the album together, playing most of the instruments themselves, using borrowed equipment and a recorder they’d found in a pawn shop.

Pre-order "Mala" now at www.nonesuch.com/albums/mala

Devendra Banhart: "Never Seen Such Good Things"

Devendra Banhart performs "Mi Negrita," from "Mala," his eighth studio album and his Nonesuch debut, due out March 12, 2013. The album took shape in Los Angeles, where he and longtime cohort Noah Georgeson produced the album together, playing most of the instruments themselves, using borrowed equipment and a recorder they’d found in a pawn shop.

Pre-order "Mala" now at www.nonesuch.com/albums/mala

Devendra Banhart: "Mi Negrita"

live recording of a performance at Issue Projects with James

James blackshaw and tianna

James Blackshaw -  Spiralling Skeleton Memorial

Buy and listen here:

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From the album "The Conformist" (HWY-023)
Learn more about "The Conformist": http://brassland.org/album.php?catno=023

Doveman is 25-year old Thomas Bartlett and a select group of collaborators. Most often, the band includes banjo player Sam Amidon, a folk singer and old childhood friend; drummer Dougie Bowne, sideman to Iggy Pop, the Lounge Lizards, and Cassandra Wilson; guitarist and conjurer Shahzad Ismaily, who has previously appeared with that magical trifecta -- Marc Ribot, the Master Musicians of Joujouka, and Rage Against the Machine; and trumpeter Peter Ecklund, an expert in genres like swing and dixieland jazz. At various times there are various others. Doveman does not rehearse, but they sure can play.

Doveman - "Breathing Out"

This latest mix from Joe Acheson (aka Hidden Orchestra) is to celebrate the release of the second Hidden album, 'Archipelago', which came out on Tru Thoughts Records in October 2012, and the second single to be lifted from the album, 'Fourth Wall / The Revival', which came out on February 25th 2013.

'Archipelago' is available at all good record stores including
iTunes http://bit.ly/buyarchipelago_itunes / Amazon http://bit.ly/buyarchipelago_amazon / Direct from us http://bit.ly/archipelago_etch

'Fourth Wall / The Revival' is also available at all good record stores including
iTunes http://bit.ly/fourthwall_itunes / Amazon http://bit.ly/fourthwall_amazon / Direct from us http://bit.ly/fourthwall_etch

Tracklist
00:00 Spoken - Hidden Orchestra
00:01 The Great Animal Orchestra (Audiobook read by Nigel Lindsay) - Bernie Krause
00:22 Reminder (drums only version) - Hidden Orchestra
04:08 Unconscious Motivation (film excerpt) - Prelinger Archives
05:06 Reminder - Hidden Orchestra 
05:25 Paivi's Favourite Sound - (Interview with Joe)
06:19 Fourth Wall - Hidden Orchestra 
06:55 Fourth Wall (drums only version) - Hidden Orchestra
07:04 Forgetmenot - Floex
07:13 Kimmo's Favourite Sound - (Interview with Joe)
12:25 Insomnia (film excerpt) - Prelinger Film Archives
12:52 Music For 18 Musicians (Section VI) (Joe Acheson Many Musicians Remix) - Steve Reich
13:25 A Day in the Life (acapella) - The Beatles
17:25 Feel the High pt. 2 (acapella) - Finsta Bundy
19:54 Shipwreck Glue - Kelpe
19:58 Staring Out of the Window (Short Story) - Alan Bennett
20:06 Black Swan - Thom Yorke
24:36 Stop Parching Yourself - Kelpe
24:56 The Blankout Agreement - Kelpe
25:10 Up Up and Away (spoken introduction) - Sammy Davis Jr.
25:15 Nightbreed (acapella) - Klashnekoff feat. Jehst
27:52 Storrington Birds Spooked (field recording) - Joe Acheson
27:53 The Great Animal Orchestra (Audiobook read by Nigel Lindsay) - Bernie Krause
27:55 Sounds of Harris: Lullaby of a Lapwing - Kuljit Bhamra, Jacqueline Shave & John Parricelli
29:07 Tarbert Nightwalk (field recordings from Isle of Harris) - Joe Acheson
30:06 Sounds of Harris: Song of the Shiants - Kuljit Bhamra, Jacqueline Shave & John Parricelli
31:12 Ursa Major - Floex
31:24 Patrick Moore in interview - (prod. Journeyman Pictures)
31:51 Insomnia (acapella) - Maxi Jazz
35:13 Topkapi Park (Istanbul field recording) - Joe Acheson
35:15 Dave Brubeck in interview - BBC Radio 4
35:24 Ping (Joe Acheson refix) - Haushka
38:51 Tenere Taqqim Tossam (Joe Acheson refix) - Tinariwen
40:12 Conflict (acapella) - Guru
41:48 Keep - Nils Frahm
41:55 The Great Animal Orchestra (Audiobook read by Nigel Lindsay) - Bernie Krause
43:40 Crunky - Crunch
45:24 Half Broken Harp - Kelpe
45:31 I've Gotta Be Me (Spoken Introduction) - Sammy Davis Jr.
47:51 Visa Fran Utanmyra (Joe Acheson remix) - Jan Johansson
47:53 I Like Sitting - Ivor Cutler
48:38 Hurt (acapella) - Johnny Cash
49:52 Darkness - Ivor Cutler
52:32 If Everybody - Ivor Cutler
53:03 After The Goldrush - King's Singers
53:50 Atoms for Peace - Thom Yorke
54:33 Rooster Was a Witness - Neil Cowley Trio
54:54 Atoms for Peace (Four Tet Remix) - Thom Yorke
56:47 Disquiet (drums only version) - Hidden Orchestra
61:25 Disquiet - Hidden Orchestra
61:26 Unconscious Motivation (film excerpts) - Prelinger Archives
66:29 Dave Brubeck in interview - BBC Radio 4
66:38 Radar - Hauschka
67:10 Is This Love (acapella) - Bob Marley
70:07 Edit 2 - Crunch
70:17 And Dream of Sheep (acapella) - Kate Bush
72:00 The Great Animal Orchestra (Audiobook read by Nigel Lindsay) - Bernie Krause
72:18 Whistman's Wood (Joe Acheson remix) - John Surman

Joe Acheson (Hidden Orchestra) - Archipelago Mixtape

JAMES BLACKSHAW & LUBOMYR MELNYK
THE WATCHERS

IMPREC375

The Watchers is a historic collaboration between Lubomyr Melnyk and James Blackshaw. Both artists are well known as composers but here it is their impovisational skills that are on display.  First 200 copies of the LP will ship on blue vinyl.  CD version is packaged in a heavy duty digipak.

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