Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow

Promotional track from new EP Suffer http://vk.com/ontheturningaway

On The Turning Away - Point.

COLD CAVE - ''Glory''

fightin with xans

D/P/A/N

From the album Arthur King Presents Tim Rutili: (arroyo) Abstractions, out now on Dangerbird Records.

Buy / Stream → http://smarturl.it/AKP-Abstractions

“Arthur King Presents” is an ongoing experimental album series featuring an array of artists pushing personal boundaries and creating unique and unexpected genre-bending compositions.

Arthur King Presents Tim Rutili: (arroyo) Abstractions

a squid among peeling oaks

Tim Rutili - a squid among peeling oaks

coyote out of (lizard) sleep

Tim Rutili - coyote out of (lizard) sleep

Founded in 1990 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cold Front were what you'd call early adaptors, their music at the time of its inception an oddity. This fourpiece, consisting of spouses Ayanna and Cam Muata, Jon Jon Scott and Ron Clark, were far ahead of their time and faded just as rapidly as they entered the stage, only playing a handful of local shows in support of Nine Inch Nails, Meat Beat Manifesto and such, alongside several cameos during early house nights and techno events.

Though short-lived, their music nevertheless speaks volumes. It's intriguing stuff, a magical association of sound reminiscent of Ron Hardy and Klein MBO. New Beat-like drum parts, overdubbed by politically engaged raps, basslines that would make The Cure proud, held together by freakout speaking in tongues vocal experiments while also showing an obvious parallel to the rise of trip-hop at the other side of the ocean.
Out on June 28!
https://soundcloud.com/knekelhuis

PRÈMIÉRE: Cold Front - "Side By Side" (Rough Mix 1)[Knekelhuis]

To Forget Something Is A New Memory Itself

Film 2 - Boys Of Your Age

Film 2 - Your Fingers Inside Me

Film 2 - Tottenham Punks

Album page: www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-048
Artist page: www.paradiseofbachelors.com/mike-polizze
Buy/stream: https://lnk.to/PoB48

Mike Polizze
Long Lost Solace Find
PoB-048
LP/CD/digital
July 31, 2020

The debut solo album by Mike Polizze—and his first release for Paradise of Bachelors—finds the erstwhile Purling Hiss frontman and Birds of Maya shredder stepping out from behind the wall of guitar noise into the bright sunshine. Performed entirely by Polizze with longtime friend Kurt Vile (largely live and acoustic) and recorded by War on Drugs engineer Jeff Zeigler, this intimate Philadelphia affair clarifies the bittersweet earworm melodicism of Dizzy Polizzy’s songwriting, revealing bona fide folk-pop chops. Long Lost Solace Find finally harvests the wild local honey from the buzzing hive of Hiss.

“Beautifully melancholic… A craftsman whose easy mastery hides the years of work it took to get there. The hooks seem to never stop.” – Pitchfork

“Idiosyncratic and remarkable … unwashed, long-haired pop strum.” – NPR Music

Long Lost Solace Find

LP/Blue LP/CD/digital

Mike Polizze - "Revelation"

Forward, Children: A fundraiser for Durham Public Schools students

Call Him Daylight (Live)

Biloxi (Live)

New Song from Bern/Luzern based trio Film 2.
https://film2.bandcamp.com/track/f-nfzigtausend-sterne

Film 2 - Fünfzigtausend Sterne

I See You

Kyoto

White Whale, released 5th June, is the third studio album from Canadian multi-instumentalist and producer Caton Diab, aka C. Diab. 

A meditative sound exploration of bowed guitar, flute, trumpet, synthesizer and subtle tape manipulations, White Whale is a beautiful intersection between leftfield ambient music, film score, post-rock. Diab himself describes his music as “post-classical-grunge.”

Having received critical acclaim for his stunning 2018 release Exit Rumination (and 2016 debut No Perfect Wave), the writing of White Whale arose over several months in the latter half of 2019, expressing the thoughts at the forefront of the Vancouver-based musician’s mind: generational disenfranchisement, lack of economic security and spiritual disposition.

“The hope for security, for accountable humanitarian leadership, for affordable housing and fair income, for understanding, things which we learned were natural pieces of a progressive society, now seem like humanity’s great white whale in a darker, regressive world, once appearing on the horizon only to disappear again into the deep,” writes Caton. 

Diab created skeletal forms of White Whale’s music over the summer and fall of 2019, with much of the flesh of the work allowed to come to life spontaneously during the recording process. Using synthesizer along with the bowed guitar, flute and trumpet of previous records yields a mix of analogue and digital technology new to his music. This subtle, sympathetic widening of his usually focused palette accords White Whale a new identity amidst C. Diab’s work, yet retains the unique magic and the uncanny mysticism we have come to know.

Lead single ‘Street Scenes’ is deeply emotive in sound and balance, marrying soaring bowed melodies with layers of perpetual drones, conveying a distant world of melancholy and broken beauty. Later in the record, the heavenly, otherworldly transportation of ‘Utopia’ and the sonic textures and organic instrumentation of ‘100 Famous Views’ help push White Whale into an evocative, innocent purity. Interestingly, White Whale lands only momentarily on comparison points. Listeners of Colin Stetson, for example, will appreciate C. Diab’s virtuosic instrumental technique; fans of Tim Hecker and Richard Skelton will find interest in the glacial slow-motion textures; here is a soul-bearing and intimate tenderness in the same way as Arthur Russell, while John Fahey and Robbie Basho collectors will understand his nods to the dark underworld of North American folk music. But, as with the best records, the result is much greater than these parts. The truth more distinctive and mythical than the evocations.

Offering his music as an impetus for self-healing, Caton speaks of escape, understanding and compassion. “It’s my hope that White Whale, for what it’s worth, will lend a small hand to the listeners’ emancipation from inward fear and sadness and feelings of unworthiness,” he writes. “And help you realize what it is you need to do in order to have that conversation, or make that move, and two steps forward in crushing that which seeks to crush you.”

“Music for dark landscapes; like a modern, electronic scion of The Bothy Band and Boys of the Lough” Mojo

“Ambient music in the best sense, music for living that can be as non-invasive or immersive as you wish” The Wire 

“C. Diab works with a lush and organic eye for tenderness that goes beyond many of his contemporaries” The Quietus

“One of the most definitive yet unsung heroes of modern day ambient and eclecticism” The Ransom Note

“Patient, hauntingly beautiful music” XLR8R

C. Diab - Street Scenes

mouse on the keys - "Emergence"

mouse on the keys - "Room"

Brooklyn duo ‘Earth Boys’ bring chilled sexy vibes from dreamland on their 3rd LP titled Earth Tones LP, an easy listening, unpretentious, 90’s inspired house record all the way from New York City to the world via Shall Not Fade

Pre-order vinyl here: shallnotfade.co.uk/album/earth-tones-lp

Earth Boys aka Julian Duron and Michael Sherburn pay homage to the West coast on this LP starting in Northern California with thick, swirling opening track ‘Sonoma’ - a stripped back, sultry dubby number with just enough pace. Blending pool-side sax with steely percussion and vocals drenched in the day’s last golden moments. Sugary ‘I Just Love It With You’ is a loved-up house cut blooming with warmth - one to serenade your lover, friend, dog with. On the flip, ‘Mushroom Cloud’ takes the b-side into trippier, groovy territory. Float away on the cloud, through shimmery pads, exotic percussion and classic vox lines. Understated ‘Amazon Prime Jungle’ is a sleepy, dreamy jungle roller that delivers on all fronts. More sax laced, beach-front feels come courtesy of title track ‘Earth Tones’, an easy going, lush sundowner to soothe your soul. C2 ‘Battery Boys’ is a real beauty, keys tinkle against the amazonian backdrop in this nature inspired number. ‘On A Limb’ is a ‘softly, softly’ track - electronics tickle a 4/4 beat on this real nice cut - DJ tool tip! Rounding off the LP, ‘Los Angeles’ is a rich, smooth jazzy house number. Two digital only bonuses just make this thick honey house music long play even sweeter.

Earth Tones LP drops July 10th via Shall Not Fade.

EARTH TONES

BUY RELEASE

SNFLP004 // Earth Boys - Earth Tones LP

Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow

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