Western Skies Motel

Inspiring Sounds

Western - Deadlands

Mirage

my favorite sounds in a playlist...no special order..newest additions at the end.
a new volume every 101 titles. this is the volume 7.

cloud.selector

cloud.selector vol.07

Western

Soundcloud hits v2

"Navajo Trail" (Alt "Red River") -Native American Flute Western

Western Trilogy (live)

STORMY WEATHER (HC 2000)
Written by Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler      Recorded: Catford, 1987

Another track from the album "Half A Lifetime" which seemed appropriate to post given the state of the weather in the UK.  Featuring a great vocal by John Lancaster and some fine lead playing by Bri.  Hope you enjoy it.  (GR)

Brian Reeves: Guitars
John Lancaster: Keyboards/Vocals
Gary Reeves: Drum Programming

Stormy Weather (1987) by HC 2000

Steam (demo version)

originally released on the album 2000 Below Zero by Technogod in 1996
http://www.discogs.com/Technogod-2000-Below-Zero/master/124448

http://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/technogod-2000belowzero

Technogod : Technogod (1996)

Composición 16-03-14. Primera vez que grabo con microfonía guitarra rítmica,eléctrica y armónica. Guitarra solista Dipinto Galaxie IV, batería con Ezdrummer, trompetas con kontakt y bajo mediante software de emulación de amplificadores Ampeg.
Un tema western surf que narra la historia donde el sheriff muere y los malos campan a sus anchas. Vamos, parecido a los tiempos que nos toca vivir :-).

The Sheriff is dead

I have had the honor of being featured on Dumming Dum's (an Italian producer from the UK - here is his page....https://soundcloud.com/dummingdum) new EP - which comes out later this May 2014.  This is a collaboration of ours.  Their track, my words and vocal.  Hope you enjoy!

Last Day In Paradise DUMMING DUM Feat. Monica Dockery Original Mastered

Va t-elle danser ?-cph321

MAKE ME FEEL A FINGER MONK

My submission for the the Summer Home II : Datcha compilation on Summer Karma https://soundcloud.com/summer-karma. You can get your free copy of this gorgeous compilation here http://summerkarma.bandcamp.com/album/summer-home-volume-ii-datcha
The "think of your most beautiful experience.."etc..spoken-word  i found here https://soundcloud.com/kodambakkam and you can find more sounds from Ira here https://soundcloud.com/q-rico( thanks for letting me use it Ira!). Emile https://soundcloud.com/autumn-acid came up with the track title(many thanks for that Emile!)Hope you enjoy this track and don't forget to check out the comp. it's really gorgeous!! 

freedownload

Sand In My Star Juice (out now! Summer Home II : Datcha)

Duet with https://soundcloud.com/westernskiesmotel

Next Day It's All Gone (with Western Skies Motel)

Short track that I recorded in around 30 minutes. I was working on a bigger track but it did not work out well so I decided to jam out another western track. Only to find out Eli Wallach, the actor who played tuco had passed away 1 hour later. -R.I.P Eli Wallach-

"There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting. "


The Hanging

THE BOOGALOO BILL BAND
From Funnyrhythmtown:

Would you send me a postcard..?
maybe a bottle of wine.
This is the first of the last round;
"There´s a new kid from nowhere
playing chimes in town.."

8-)

Boogaloo Bill

Tracklist:

Cheshire - I Don't Mind
K-Theory - Good&Gone ( K Lab Remix)
Beat Fatigue - Ratakat
Ruth Brown - Be Good To Me Tonight (Morlack Edit)
Howla - Jivin'
Defunk - Knuckle Blaster Feat Willis Benjamin
Cheshire - Get Down ( Staunch Remix)
Gregory Porter - Work Song ( Beat Fatigue Refunk)
Sola Rosa Feat Olivier Daysoul - Wiggle ( K Lab Remix)
Cheshire - Get Away Feat Laysha

Power Blues Pt4 - Wearing Sunglasses With Dark

This is one from the vault and played 'live' with Erika Bach from lola demo https://soundcloud.com/lolademo
I don't think she will mind me pulling this one out from my dusty pile. 

So Tired (collab with lola demo/lolfi when she was just Erika)

By day, Elephant Micah’s Joseph O'Connell works as a folklorist, documenting the local culture of southern Indiana and other Midwest regions. Not surprisingly, his songs seem to emerge from habits of travel and observation. Their account of the phenomenal world is as vivid as it is mysterious, equal parts ethnographic fact and fable.

For the past 14 years, O'Connell has quietly self-released his work on CD-R and limited LP, sometimes collaborating with the psych-folk imprint Time-Lag Records or other very small labels. Despite the project’s almost secretive status, Elephant Micah has repeatedly caught the attention of NPR, and has been championed by an impressive cohort of like-minded artists, including Jason Molina, Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers), Hiss Golden Messenger, and Dark Dark Dark.

Over time, O’Connell’s songwriting has grown in confidence and intensity, while maintaining its signature restraint. Where in Our Woods, the 12th Elephant Micah album and the first for Western Vinyl, is the fruit of this long-term creative progress. It will see release on January 20th, 2015. 

A painstaking work of minimalism, Where in Our Woods is defined by its limited palette. The arrangements foreground nylon-string guitar and an antique portable pump organ. A stripped down-drum set (played by Matthew O’Connell, Joe’s brother), a baritone ukulele, a toy recorder, and harmony vocals (sung by Will Oldham, a friend of and key influence on O’Connell) round out the sound. This sparse ensemble leaves O’Connell’s voice room to breathe, while elevating and magnifying the poetry of his songs. Throughout the album, O'Connell deftly transforms the stuff of everyday American life into a series of entrancing meditations on culture, nature, religion, and modernity.

ELEPHANT MICAH TOUR DATES

Sat. Dec. 6 – Raleigh, NC @ King’s w/ Centro-Matic
Sun. Dec. 7 – Washington, DC @ DC9 w/ Centro-Matic
Tue. Dec. 9 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot and Saddle w/ Centro-Matic
Thu. Dec. 11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade w/ Centro-Matic

"This record might be his best yet. Beautiful and haunting. "
- Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers). 

"...unavoidable and real…these songs have a way of bringing one back down to earth and re-revealing what's always been there, what's old to be discovered, revisited, embraced."
– Angel Olsen

LP/CD PRE-ORDER: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/

Pre-Order on iTunes

Elephant Micah - "By the Canal"

"Comfort Me" is taken from "Prism", the forthcoming album on Preserved Sound by Western Skies Motel.

Comfort Me - Western Skies Motel

I've recently had the honour of remixing a track by the almighty  Everyday Dust from his masterful album The Principality of Dustland. 

Just released on Bandcamp, you can find this EP of remixes with contributions from Zenjugle, John Lemke and others. https://sparkwoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/combinatio-nova
I'm off to have a listen now :)

Everyday Dust - Waltz (Western Skies Motel Remix)

Buy Album:
Bandcamp: http://smarturl.it/wsmbandcamp
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/settlerspotify
Itunes: http://smarturl.it/settlersitunes

Follow WSM on Bandcamp: http://westernskiesmotel.bandcamp.com
Follow WSM on Facebook: http://smarturl.it/wsmfb
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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

Falling Leaves

Buy Album

Western Skies Motel - Falling Leaves (from Settlers)

Buy Settlers on Vinyl / CD / Digital:
Bandcamp: http://smarturl.it/wsmbandcamp
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/settlerspotify
Itunes: http://smarturl.it/settlersitunes
Darla: http://smarturl.it/settlersdarla
Norman Records: http://smarturl.it/settlersnorman
Experimedia: http://smarturl.it/settlersexp
Stashed Goods: http://smarturl.it/settlersstashed

Follow WSM on Bandcamp: http://westernskiesmotel.bandcamp.com
Follow WSM on Facebook: http://smarturl.it/wsmfb
Follow WSM on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/wsmspotify
 
'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).

Transformation

Western Skies Motel - Transformation (from Settlers)

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mw2PyCe7X4
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Nadishana - hang SpB (Kurd + C)
David Kuckhermann - cajon, udu, percussion, foot rattle
Armin Metz - 6-string fretless bass

According to the mythology of Kuzhebar people SHU KHUR - 
is the Guide which one could get in the process of the painful initiation. This guide directs the person towards strong, pure and purposeful life. 
In different sources SHU KHUR is also the spirit of groundwater and it's usually depicted as a water bird or a woman with the bird attributes.

filmed by Julia Surba,
produced by Nadishana at Sound Microsurgery Department, Berlin, may 2012

Shu-Khur (hang drum) - Nadishana-Kuckhermann-Metz

This is a Taksim with Ney in Realtime process with SuperCollider. 

TaksIn

1st experiment with the modcan touch sequencer, CV to Piston HOnda and DPO, passing thru polivoks vcf and echophon. also uses timetable to control tiptop 808 modules

Transgroovexpress 9-12-12 edit pt 1

Now on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/6Qq5VDuM9tG4yjlE4SJSU0
and Deezer http://www.deezer.com/track/80835302

One thousand nights, not one more. Don't waste it! :)

Many thanks to http://soundcloud.com/michael-knead for doing the mastering on this track.

Photo by the WikiMedia user Griffindor : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sadirvanli_Sofa_Harem_Topkapi_Istanbul_2007c.jpg

© 2013 lucky one. All rights reserved. Registered SABAM, March 2013.

lucky one - One Thousand Nights

A laboratory with an open bar and floating altar. Come on in! 

Here are various solo and collaborative projects - songs, soundscapes, live looped solo guitar improvisations. 

This project used to be called "imaginary friends", but it became too real for that name, as did many of you.

I hope you enjoy something you find here. Do feel free to be in touch, you never know what might happen.  

I also invite you to attend @hypnopompetus, a duo project with the illustrious Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley https://soundcloud.com/sel-sync, and Fictive Sisters, a transatlantic band with  the incomparable Wheelwright https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction.

Next Day It's All Gone (with Western Skies Motel)

Jonathan Beckenstein