that cray cray new new

My favorite recordings from American history

Americana

Strings & Things Plonking

Return to Monster Island

PDC SEXY CHRISTMAS MIXTAPE

2013

Instrumental: NOT DANCE

Cindy Woolf and Mark Bilyeu stopped by the 88.1 KDHX studio in Saint Louis on July 20,2013 for a live set on Backroads. Audio by Dan Kinney. Discover more great media at http://kdhx.org

Cindy Woolf and Mark Bilyeu "A Heart This Lonely" Live at KDHX 7/20/13

An acoustic solodeguitar version of Jimi's Wind cries Mary....

The Wind Cries Mary (Hendrix)

A Madagascan groove really fits with this melody...


Hey Joe ...Malagasy groove

Taken from Khruangbin's debut album 'The Universe Smiles Upon You'. Order now at:

LNT shop:  http://po.st/kbLNT 
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Taking influence from 1960's Thai funk - their name literally translates to "Engine Fly" in Thai - Khruangbin’s debut album ‘The Universe Smiles Upon You’ is steeped in the bass-heavy, psychedelic sound of their inspiration, Tarantino soundtracks, and surf-rock cool. The Texan trio is formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums.

‘The Universe Smiles Upon You’ was recorded at their spiritual home, a remote barn deep in the Texas countryside where their first rehearsals took place. The band listened to a lot of different types of music on the long drives out to the country but their favourites were the '60s and '70s Thai cassettes gleaned from the cult Monrakplengthai blog and compilations of southeast Asian pop, rock, and funk. This had a heavy impact on the direction of the band, the scales they used, and the inflection of the melodies; which coupled with the spaciousness of the Texan countryside culminated in Khruangbin forming their exotic, individual sound. 

“We feel like there is an ease that comes from being immersed in a space, away from the distractions of the city and everyday life. We make our music in a barn, in the Texas hill country, because it makes sense to us. Being there allows us to make music that comes naturally, and that’s what we wanted this album to be. We wanted to make a record that just let the music happen, and we hope that’s what you can hear.”

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Khruangbin - Two Fish and an Elephant

Author Richard Blanco reads "América" a poem from his first collection, "City of a Hundred Fires" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998).

Audio Recording "América"

A Glowing Light, A Promise

"Oil & Gold" from Sophie Madeleine's new album on Xtra Mile Recordings, The Rhythm You Started.

The Rhythm You Started

Sophie Madeleine - Oil & Gold

A tune from our CD "The Bridge: Musical Connections" by The Framework Trio, featuring Christian Kisala on vibes, Willy Ryan on bass, and Joe Frame on guitar (Carvin NS-1)

One Note Samba

John Lewis' beautiful classic tribute to the great Gypsy Django Rhienhardt.  Christian Kisala, vibes; Big Dave Wilson, clarinet; Willy Ryan,bass; Joe Frame, guitar.  Masterfully recorded by Gary Oleyar at his Sonoma Beach Studios.

Django

From the album JIAOLONG by Daphni, out October 16, 2012 on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=890

Jiaolong

Ye Ye

Daphni "Ye Ye"

The new track "Halls of the Summer" from Caspian's Triple Crown Records debut WAKING SEASON - available September 25th.

Caspian - "Halls of the Summer"

New single released September 17 digitally and October 23 on 7" vinyl via Chapter Music/Underwater Peoples.
www.chaptermusic.com.au
www.underwaterpeoples.com
Itunes Link: https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/work-it-out-single/id553014605?uo=4

Twerps - Work It Out

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http://sufjan.com

Video by Lee Hardcastle here:
http://youtu.be/fDDAybCe1uI

From Silver & Gold, Songs for Christmas Vol. 7: I Am Santa's Helper.
Available November 13th on 5xCD boxset and digital, and later in LP boxset.
Preorder here:
http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/album/silver-gold

It’s time to tango with the frisky frosty Frosty Man
He’s got a temperature of negative degrees again
He likes ice cream and Yo La Tango with the jammin’ pants 
You got to cool it with the hipster costly Frosty Man
He’s chillin’, illin’, thrillin’ with the Mr. Saucy Pants
He likes to keep it real; he likes to talk a little sense
He’s got a friend called Coolio, Vanilla Ice, and Ice-Cube Banana split and frozen pie and Mr. Frosty Pants

Mr. --- Frosty ---- Man
Frosty! Frosty! Frosty! Frosty! Etc. --- Frosty Man

Don’t get his goat he just might melt and then he gets all mean
When summer comes he sits beside the air conditioning But Mr. Frosty, don’t be bossy: winter’s coming soon And when it snows again--Frosty!

words & music by Sufjan Stevens (instant classic!) 
(©2012 Public Domain)

Sufjan Stevens, "Mr. Frosty Man"

LION BABE EP

Treat Me Like Fire

iTunes

Download: http://normanpalm.bandcamp.com

www.normanpalm.com 


Norman Palm with Odd Man Out - Magic Feather

A man rots from the head first. Miasma remains trapped in ears and annihilates clear hearing. The sound is needed that will break through the barriers. Self-knowledge is needed to catch this sound.

Improvisation is the only way to move downwards, to descend lower where the tones gain a physical dimension. “Zła krew” ("Evil Blood") is an expedition.

“Zła krew” ("Evil Blood") is the second album of the kIRk band. A shattered structure, derived from improvisation, where the 20th century music heritage reverberates. The echo of the present manifests in the electronic tones, the vinyl hum and the sound of a trumpet

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Człowiek psuje się od głowy. Miazma zalega między uszami, niwecząc czyste słyszenie. Potrzebny jest dźwięk, który przebije się przez bariery. Potrzebne jest samopoznanie, żeby schwycić ten dźwięk. 

Przez improwizację schodzi się w dół, coraz niżej, tam gdzie tony zyskują fizyczny wymiar. „Zła krew” to ekspedycja.

„Zła krew” to drugi album zespołu kIRk. Wywiedziona z improwizacji, rozklekotana struktura w której pobrzmiewa dźwiękowa spuścizna XX wieku. Realizujący się w elektronicznych tonach, winylowych szumach i wyziewach trąbki oddźwięk teraźniejszości.

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Label: InnerGuN / Oficyna Biedota
Release Date: 01.02.13
Link: www.innergun.com / www.biedota.com

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Tracklist:

1. Do rozpuku
2. Zła krew
3. Dżuma
4. Dzieci Boga
5. Pies zdechł
6. Poza zasięgiem

kIRk - Pies zdechł

Media inquiries: alyssa at teamclermont dot com

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"Where the Wild Things" premieres at Pitchfork: 
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14654-where-the-wild-things/

Video premieres at Vice: 
http://www.vice.com/read/vice-premiere-cy-dunes-where-the-wild-things-are-video
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To celebrate Cy Dune's upcoming No Recognize EP, cans of spray paint were shot over canvases with handguns in the Arizona desert south of Tucson by a group of local musicians, artists, poets, and pedal makers. Plumes of color exploded into the desert air, and onto the canvases. 

The day resulted in about 22 paintings.  These paintings will be for sale on the Family Tree Records website shortly. As a creative alternative to a limited edition 7", each painting will come with a download code for the EP's lead single, Where the Wild Things, as well as a limited track not available anywhere else. The 12" canvases will be $30, and two sets of large diptychs will be $100 each. (Photo: http://teamclermont.com/images/3151.png)

The No Recognize EP will be available digitally on February 4 and on vinyl March 5 on Family Tree Records. A full length is planned for later in the year. (EP Art: http://teamclermont.com/images/3150.png)

Cy Dune photo: http://teamclermont.com/images/3155.jpg

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The Cy Dune story starts with a songbook.  This particular book had a 100 songs written in 20th century American visionary long hand over five years after leaving home and traveling the world in what some might call the contemporary music scene of the early 21st century, recording and performing with his band Akron/Family and collaborating with Rhys Chatham, Michael Gira, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Keiji Haino and Tatsuya Nakatani. The songs were demoed all that same time with new and old friends in big city and small town apartments, parents' garages, horse barns, Maine basements, New Jersey Synagogues, old Pennsylvania factories, molding mid-century moderns, Brooklyn basement studios and across the bridge at the midtown Manhattan Sear studio with the old Abbey Road tape machine and the bass player from the Henry Rollins band.  

In 2010 the 100 songs were finished, written and demoed. In 2011, he moved to the Sonoran desert to record a primitivist American blues story; an old/new weird American anthology of these songs with only an old acoustic guitar and the very same rebuilt 1/4" tube Ampex reel to reel that Alan Lomax used to record field hollers out of his trunk. Months were spent fine tuning the 100 songs, researching tube and tape saturation, Fahey's discovery of Skip James and his mystical open D tuning, early Dylan cryptology,  the notes between the notes of Leadbelly recordings, Michael Hurley's Folkways First Songs and re-tuning all guitars to that self same slightly flat key. 

But the 100 songs wouldn't record. 

2011 ended and the spark of change finally came as a Christmas gift given by his mother. Patti Smith's Just Kids. Re-awed by the transformative powers of Rock 'n' Roll, frustrated, and fed up, he plugged in his guitar and the songs alived and ripped themselves into being, bursting out as sheets of guitar shredding sound like explosions written on the wall. Patti Smith's book begins the year Coltrane died. Cy Dune's story begins again with the simple act of plugging in his guitar, mimicking the thrust of the 20th century.  

The No Recognize EP is a soundtrack to this transformation. His electric guitar story-tellings tap in, steeped with all the mystery of  pre-war weird America holler, African pentatonic shamanism, be-bop underground, and Kerouac's road verse electrified and amplified.  The songs blaze like roads north to Chicago and Detroit, like amps falling off cars, the rattling tubes all saturated, sound color and broken speaker blues,  sounds of a whole century, like Wayne Coyne says,  "touched by the religiousness of Rock 'n' Roll".  No Recognize was recorded loud on a few old microphones in Tucson, AZ and in Brooklyn with the help of drummer Andrew Barker (William Parker, Gold Sparkle) and bassist Shazad Ismaily (Sam Amidon, Bonnie "Prince" Billy),  then doubled back and blasted through a friends broken PA high on a desert mountain. A Rock 'n' Roll Hymnal 100 songs behind and 1000 songs to go.




Cy Dune - "Where The Wild Things"

From the album Impossible Truth, out March 19, 2013 in North America and April 29, 2013 in the UK and Europe on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=898

Impossible Truth

Buy from Merge

William Tyler "Cadillac Desert"

Best Fit premiere of Icelandic musician Sin Fang's new track 'Young Boys', taken from his upcoming third record.

'Flowers' is out 1 February 2013 in Europe/ 19 February in the U.S.

Best Fit: http://www.thelineofbestfit.com
Sin Fang: https://www.facebook.com/sinfanggg

Sin Fang - Young Boys

taken from the Cake 12" split with Tellavision!
we're raising money for the production:
http://startnext.de/en/touchy-mob-and-tellavision

watch the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCsyjdnyIk

Stones

Free download available until Jan 2013

Written By Blanck Mass
Recorded and mixed by Blanck Mass
Mastered by The Haxan Cloak

blanckmass.bandcamp.com/
blanckmass@gmail.com

HELLION EARTH

Taken from the Morning Swim EP out February 5, 2013.
Buy:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/morning-swim-single/id596169442

More on Glenn Jackson:
soundcloud.com/glenn-jackson
twitter.com/glenntjackson

Contact: info@ceremonyrecordings.com

Glenn Jackson - Save

Release Date: March 18, 2013
www.jazzandmilk.com

Order Vinyl & Digital bundle here:
http://jazzandmilk.bandcamp.com/album/mood-matters-ep

Several years after his successful debut album „Keep It Raw,“ Dusty hits home with this ecelectic 4 track EP which represents a foretaste of his second album „Mood Matters“. The Jazz&Milk label founder consistantly straddles the line between tradition and modernity and proves that an album need not simply commit itself to a genre or two; and in the process ups the ante considerably by featuring a broad spectrum of musical styles, bringing together Dusty’s favourite leanings such as Jazz, Funk, Soul, Afrobeat, Latin, percussive Beats and Deep House rhythms, while seeking a natural balance between accoustic, electronic and traditional sounds through the prism of a club-music oriented approach. 

This fusion is brilliantly demonstrated on the title track „Mood Matters“ which meshes forward-driven house beats with organic instrumentation – a big Jazz banger for the dancefloor! „Danse Macabre“ features Dusty’s live band project „Bad Jazz Troupe“ taking you on a wild trip between massive horn sections, heavy beats and deep basslines. On the B-side you’ll find the strong Afro-Funk piece „Seventy Three“ with its sweeping horns, charming Afrobeat guitars and mighty drumbeats and let’s not forget the soulful beauty of „Longing Lingers“, featuring the heavenly voice of Carla Vallet ,as well as one of Munich’s most talented producers, Bartellow. 

Catch the video for the title track „Mood Matters“. Paper drum- and tape machines are brought to life through elaborately generated stop-motion sequences which can also be found on the cover artwork - handmade and directed by the artist himself. 


William Tyler "Cadillac Desert"

MergeRecords