2014

The Crimson ProjeKCt - Frame By Frame. Taken from the album "Live In Tokyo". In stores and digital on March 3rd.

The Crimson ProjeKCt - Frame By Frame

Out May 13, 2014

[WATCH] The Official Music Video for "New Teles": 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rpqrTVQ7_k 

2014 sees Mercury Prize nominated rock-jazzers Led Bib celebrate their 10th Anniversary with the release of their fifth studio album, and third for American label Cunieform, 'The People in Your Neighbourhood'. On the same date the band also release a limited edition vinyl album of live music entitled 'The Good Egg,' recorded over two London shows last year. 

Led Bib retains its original line-up of 10 years ago, when the infamous five met at Middlesex University and formed the band for Mark Holub’s university project. The group are bandleader Mark Holub, drums; Pete Grogan, saxophone; Chris Williams, saxophone; Liran Donin, double bass and Toby McLaren keyboards/ piano. Looking back on a decade of music that takes in seven albums, hundreds of live shows and a string of accolades, Led Bib can feel content that they have punched through genre barriers to fly the flag for progressive music in the UK and that they forged a path where a host of new exciting bands would follow. 

Musically, the album is a coming of age of sorts – the pounding grooves are still very much in evidence, but there are more introspective moments too, showing a maturity that only ten years on the road can achieve. The album was recorded under the watchful eye of Grammy winning engineer Richard Woodcraft (Radiohead, Neil Young), with the band using monitors only (no headphones) and the result is more akin to a powerful live show than a studio album, and is perhaps the reason it has such a cinematic sound. 

The album’s title 'The People in Your Neighbourhood' is taken from Holub’s fondness for the Sesame Street sketches of the same name. The concept brought about a curious insight into Led Bib’s fans too, when the band asked ‘pledgers’ to their Kickstarter campaign (the crowd funding campaign which raised funds to make the album) what their occupations were. A fascinating array of jobs ensued and feature in the album’s artwork - from psychotherapist and roofer to philosopher and ad. executive, plus of course fellow musicians and artists.

Led Bib, "New Teles" from 'The People In Your Neighbourhood' (Cuneiform Records)

Paraboiled

Out december 8th, 2014 on www.elparaisorecords.com

3rd album from Causa Sui drummer Jakob Skøtt expands his one-man-band experiments into vast new territories. 

Taurus Rising is built from motoric synthesizer arpeggios and heavy duty live drumming. But rather than simply worshipping endless repetition, Skøtt reaches an impressive array of expressions on each of these five mini epics - each song is ALIVE - frequently whirling off track like the wind direction in a sand storm, leading to some mind-altering melodies and rhythms that’ll keep you on your toes. Washed currents of pulsating analogue synthesizer scores, pre-fusion jazz-sensibility and fuzz’ed out electronics all tied together by fevered rhythms.

Jakob Skøtt is the drummer in revered danish experimental psych act Causa Sui and has previously collaborated with artists from Tortoise and Sunburned Hand of the Man. In a number of different outfits he has also released thru esteemed labels such as Morr Music, Ghostly International, Darla Records. Furthermore Jakob has done exclusive live visuals and artworks for Amon Düül II, Earthless, Manual, cult actress Asia Argento as well as The Roadburn Festival.

Taurus Rising is released as a single LP as well as a 2xCD package also containing his previous album Amor Fati. All drums for each albums were improvised in a single afternoon.


Jakob Skøtt: Pleiades (Taurus Rising)

Single from the forthcoming album, Hexadic!

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Six Organs of Admittance- "Wax Chance"

"The brainchild of guitarist Dave Miller, Algernon walks a thin line between melodically driven post-rock and instrumental unconventionality. The quintet, based in Chicago, has drawn comparisons to hometown compatriots Tortoise — thanks to a vibraphone and a few jazz-inflected melodies — but it very much has established its own voice, particularly on Ghost Surveillance, its sophomore album. This album places greater emphasis on synthesizers and sprawling song structures, but at its core is the combination of accessibility and technicality that has defined Miller’s style. Noisy, circular rock riffs transform to tranquil, wandering passages. “Timekiller,” the album’s fourth track, is a beautiful, buoyant number — and one of the band’s best creations to date. As always, the vibraphone work of percussionist Katie Wiegman offers a warm, harmonic accompaniment, but the group’s best-supporting player may be drummer Cory Healey, whose wild fills and drum-and-bass moments imbue Ghost Surveillance with explosive bursts of energy." 
– ALARM (best albums of the week) 

"Algernon draw inspiration from the jazz-tinged post-rock machinations of Tortoise, Chicago's foremost group in the genre. The group's style, however, veers into the louder and noisier elements of rock music. Led by composer/guitarist Dave Miller, Algernon uses two guitars, bass, drums and a vibraphone to combine gorgeous melodies with psychedelic effects and rock beats." 
– Center Stage Chicago 

"Algernon is one of those bands...that is pushing the boundaries of rock...and more to the perimeters. They obviously don't care if it can be pegged to a genre, they only care if it's good, and it is!" 
– Jazz Chicago

Algernon are one of Chicago's fastest rising young bands. All instrumental, they feature a unique line-up of dual guitars, vibes, bass and drums. The band is led by guitarist and composer Dave Miller. The other members of Algernon are second guitarist Toby Summerfield (who also was a member of Larval for many years), vibes player Katie Wiegman, bassist Tom Perona, and drummer Cory Healey. Miller formed Agernon as a way to combine a large number of influences of various types of music he liked in a unique way, without any one of them being the dominant sound. These influences include experimental rock (60s psychedelic rock, Jimi Hendrix, 13th Floor Elevators), kraut-rock (Harmonia, Can and Neu!), post-rock (Tortoise, Isotope 217, Chicago Underground, Godspeed!, Talk Talk) the late 70s art-punk and no-wave scene (Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca) and avant-garde jazz. A very important point about Algernon's music is despite Dave having a strong jazz background, Algernon is not a improvising band. The music that Dave writes for the group is basically wholly scored; there is a very small amount of improvisation and what improvisation there is, is more about atmosphere(s) than about solos. 

Ghost Surveillance is Algernon's third album and is their first on a label able to reach a wider audience. Their music brings a lot of influences together in surprising and entertaining ways. A quick listen to the download sample will show you why we have such great enthusiasm for this band, as they manage to be quite accessible while pushing stylistic boundaries and exploring new paths.

Algernon, "Broken Lady" from 'Ghost Surveillance' (Cuneiform Records)

"Electric" appears on the album III, Out Now 

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 iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/III

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Gavin Harrison’s ‘Cheating the Polygraph’
Brand new solo album OUT NOW
Available on LP / CD+DVD-V / Download
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Legendary Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison reimagines the band's tracks in brilliant and surprising ways. Can you guess the tracks that have been reworked in the album montage below, leave your guesses below.

Boasting performances from some of the World’s best contemporary Jazz players, Porcupine Tree classics such as 'Heart Attack in a Layby' take on new life in striking arrangements by Laurence Cottle (ex Bill Bruford’s Earthworks, The Alan Parsons Project etc) and co-produced with Gavin Harrison.

A labour of love, recorded over a period of five years, 'Cheating The Polygraph' features long-term Gavin Harrison collaborators such as Dave Stewart and Gary Sanctuary and provides an ideal means of appreciating the both the flexibility and timelessness of Porcupine Tree’s legacy, as well as the full scope of Gavin Harrison’s immense talent.

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Gavin Harrison - Cheating the Polygraph (album sampler)

Opening track from Papirs forthcoming live record, recorded at last years Roadburn Festival in The Netherlands. The album will be out in March on 2LP/CD/DL. Preorder available from www.elparaisorecords.com soon!

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After 4 studio albums, Papir unleash their first live album. It’s surprising it took so long, since the band’s shows have long been revered amongst fans. The music-biz has also noticed Papir’s stellar live performances: like when Mojo Magazine singled them out from the hoards of bands at danish music-showcase Spot 2012 as THE show of the entire festival - as well as the holy rite of passage for any cosmic Stoner Rock band: The Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands, where Papir was asked not to perform no less than 3 times during the festival in 2014! It’s the first and finest of these shows in full that Papir havde chosen for this release, and it’s all here: Christoffer Brøchmann’s jaw-dropping drum chops, easing from delicate jazzy drumrolls one second into deranged math-psych explosions the next - creating a diving board for
Nicklas Sørensen’s vast array of guitar-styles, blending post-rock drones with majestic wah-drenched soloing. With Christian Becher keeping it all together with his bouncing and booming bass lines, as well as utilizing his groovemaker to make blistering ethereal soundscapes.

The album was mixed and mastered by Causa Sui’s Jonas Munk from a 24bit multitrack recording.

Papir: "Lykk Trep - R Hi - Losé (Live at Roadburn)"

Fire! - En Kvinna Kring 40-60

You can now stream "First Regret / 3 Years Older" taken from Steven Wilson​'s new album "Hand. Cannot. Erase."

"Hand. Cannot. Erase." will be released on 27th February in Germany, 2nd March for the UK & RoW and 3rd March for USA & Canada.

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Hand Cannot Erase (Deluxe Edition)

First Regret / 3 Years Older

Artist: Bonnie Stillwatter
Title: The Devil Is People 
Album: The Devil Is People
Release Date: April 28, 2015

Bonnie Stillwatter is a conceptual collaboration of artistry and friendship between Will Oldham (aka Bonnie 'Prince' Billy), experimental rock group Watter (featuring a member of Grails), and Stillwater Artisanal, a nomadic brewer that mixes equal parts art and alcohol. This collaboration is an inspired one, the roots of which are a mutual respect and love, and the fruits of which are two side-long trips into dark cinematic folk-rock determined to find the light at the end of the tunnel. "The Devil Is People" begins not unlike the east-meets-west melancholy of Watter and Grails. Oldham's penchant for weaving singer with song is particularly resonant here; his first- person storytelling has an uncanny way of sounding communal – almost hymnal – when wrapped in ever-unfolding layers of warm sound. On the b-side, mercurial multi-instrumentalist/producer Bundy K. Brown (Tortoise, Gastr del Sol) explodes "The Devil Is People", rearranging and reinterpreting its multitude of instruments and voices into something more sinister – less a remix, more like a vital new limb growing from the belly of the beast.

©2015 Temporary Residence Ltd.

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Bonnie Stillwatter – The Devil Is People

The first track to be released from Anekdoten's upcoming album Until All The Ghosts Are Gone. Out on the bands own label Virta on April 10th. 

Nicklas Barker: Guitars, Organ, Mellotron & Voice
Anna Sofi Dahlberg: Mellotron
Jan Erik Liljeström: Bass
Peter Nordins: Drums & Percussion

Music by Nicklas Barker
Lyrics by Jan Erik Liljeström
Arranged and produced by Anekdoten

Get Out Alive

From Within

Ricochet

Part of the CBP / Se Delan release  "Oh'Ech-oes" due July 2015 on Clearview Records

Crippled Black Phoenix & Se Delan - Childhoods End

Fire! Fire! from My Brother The Wind's new album I Wash My Soul In The Stream Of Infinity. Out on vinyl and cd  on Transubstans 2 November.

Fire! Fire!!

First song revealed from MY BROTHER THE WIND's second effort "I Wash My Soul In The Stream Of Infinity".

With a video from the original studio recording, MY BROTHER THE WIND's atmospheric sound let you find your way in the psychedelic labyrinth of these musicians mind. Since their first release, "Twilight In The Crystal Cabinet" they have progressed the complex sound scape that only occurs when people connect in harmonies. "Fire! Fire!!" is more than a proof of that.

MY BROTHER THE WIND Fire! Fire!!

JAGA JAZZIST
LIVE WITH BRITTEN SINFONIA

Produced by Lars Horntveth 
Recorded by Thomas Hukkelberg at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, September 2012 and The Barbican, London, June 2012
Mixed by Jørgen Træen, Duper 2012 
Live sound by Asle Karstad & Espen Høydalsvik 
Live monitoring and production managing by Einar Norberg 
Light design by Tord Eliassen 
Edited by Lars Horntveth 
Mastered by Morgan Nicolaysen in Propeller Mastering, 2012 
Design by Martin Kvamme 
Photos by Colin Eick, Elisabeth Høiberg, Andreas Frøland, Bjørn Magne Idland & John Kelman

Written by Lars Horntveth. Overture by Erik Johannessen and Lars Horntveth
Arranged and orchestrated by Lars Horntveth and Erik Johannessen

Jaga Jazzist
Marcus Forsgren: Electric guitar and FX
Andreas Mjøs: Vibraphone, guitar, Korg MS10 and percussion
Martin Horntveth: Drums Lars Horntveth: Guitars, Bb & bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, flute, Roland SH-2, piano and lap steel guitar
Line Horntveth: Tuba, flute, percussion, glockenspiel and vocals
Even Ormestad: Bass and keyboards
Erik Johannessen: Trombone, percussion and vocals
Mathias Eick: Trumpet, upright bass, keyboards, piano and vibraphone
Øystein Moen: Synthesizers and piano

Britten Sinfonia
Violin 1: Thomas Gould, Beatrix Lovejoy, Katherine Shave and Gillon Cameron
Violin 2: Alexandra Reid, Anna Bradley, Marcus Broome and Judith Kelly
Viola: Clare Finnimore, Bridget Carey and Tom Hankey
Cello: Caroline Dearnley, Ben Chappell and Joy Hawley
Double Bass: Roger Linley
Flute, Piccolo & Alto Flute: Emer McDonough
Oboe: Chris O’Neal
Clarinet & Bass Clarinet: Joy Farrall
Bassoon: Elizabeth Trigg
Horns: Pip Eastop and Ed Mills
Trombone: Jon Stokes
Bass Trombone: David Eaglestone
Tuba: David Powell
Percussion: Toby Kearney and Tony Bedewi

Conducted by Christian Eggen

Live With Britten Sinfonia

One-Armed Bandit

Recorded for the film "Before The Music Dies"

2014

Steve Hymer