A music blog, record label, video channel and podcast show based in Edinburgh.  With lots of gin and swearing.

If you want to submit music to the blog or the label, please don't send me a message on Soundcloud itself as I do not check them.  A Soundcloud link is great, but please email the link to toad at songbytoad.com.

Stray Light formed in late 1997, following an idiosyncratic and digressive musical path that has seen them release four diverse albums, and develop an ethos of collective composition and improvisation. The band's disparate and eclectic musical tastes and influences - from experimental noise to Russian folk music – have resulted in a highly original approach and sound. The band is based in and around Manchester, and have played with such bands as Bardo Pond, Do Make Say Think, Stars of the Lid and HEALTH. 

In 2000 the first CD - Mile 7 – was released, a disparate collection of songs, improvisations and soundscapes unified by a subtle melancholia, influenced by a millennial road trip across the open deserts of Nevada and Arizona. 

In contrast, the bulk of the second record, Careers, was conceived, finalised, or improvised in a single week of recording in the wilds of deepest Sussex in September 2002. Careers continued and expanded Stray Light's intuitive and distinctive approach to music - balanced between improvisation and composition, noise and melody. 

The third release in 2009, Waves Broken is a diverse collection of songs that branches out instrumentally with the addition of flute, viola, balalaika, and some slightly unorthodox piano - the loud bits are louder, the quiet bits quieter, and the weird bits are, well, weirder.

The latest Stray Light record, Bearing Feathers, is best described as the band's most accomplished and strangest record to date, densely packed with musical ideas. Taking inspiration from nature and a slightly different direction, a more playful side to the band's music is revealed. Another theme to emerge is that of chance patterns, produced by the interlocking of competing parts and ideas, as well as lyrics emerging from dreams and coincidences.

If you are interested in purchasing our music please visit our website http://www.stray-light.co.uk/StrayLightIndex.htm 

Stray Light are...
David Bennett - Guitar
Dan Chadderton - Drums
Kat Moor - Guitar, Vocals
Ellen Poliakoff - Bass, Violin, Piano, Vocals

"Stray Light are all about slowburning intertwined guitar melodies, bolstered by sweet violin drone and skittering drums ... cute and sinister" - Brainwashed

"A delectable female-led ensemble, whose guitar driven melancholy flirts around the borders of experimental English pop" – Fisheye

"Stray Light play a long game with each song slowly uncoiling...“Bearing Feathers” engages rather than re-arranges the cerebral cortex." - Folly of Youth

  feeling the force of the universe. Mystical Mexican Crew(collective)
MIKHI FREYRE

Poet,  pilgrim,  wanderer and Multidisciplinary Artist.
(b. 1969).
compiler & sound hunter. 

 

The voice has lost its way,
passes through the wet red,
scented with a few drops of water.
Eyes sigh before leaving
in them the last word of life.
The back trail becoming
suffers from vertigo ... mb onboard shooting

" The Lightning has the gravity of the sound,
 the transformation is, the rumor.    MIKHI FREYRE

 "... YES! ... Leave in the afternoon. TAKE SOMETHING ...
SEE! , That mystery of your eyes
  SPIRAL THAT WHERE THERE IS NO DOUBT ...
That sun that you have in HANDS
THE SIGH OF YOUR BODY WRAP MY ..

" El aroma de las cosas
es un susurro, un rumor atómico
que sin tocarte, se acerca
se aproxima, a cada espacio en ti..." 
MIKHI FREYRE "Tiempo de Ti " (excerpt)

Zona Aurea ( collective magazine ) -  " L E E  " Laboratorio de Experienciación Estética

ABstract (ZUPERFICIEZ ELEMENTALEZ ) - SOFTmeth  hardART & FutureCulture( magazine)
Viel Techno 
mYSTICAL mEXICAN cREW COLECTIVE
MIKHI FREYRE on facebook

 
 " The Phone "

...No esta sola..!!
están las cartas
las cartas y las velas
las velas y las puertas
las puertas y las sombras....
¡ quiero un teléfono ..!!
..Esta usted sola en casa ..?....MIKHI FREYRE

"Lack of time is empty without you"
"Tell me Facundo ..!. Because tears have stopped putting the smile of her laugh?
"I do in your voice"
""Leaning on the lips ...
15 minutes
! On the way ..! "

"Silent desperate
amorphous sound
pending cloudy
white and honey,
the brief notes of the feet
time contemplating weakness . MIKHI FREYRE
Primero se formaron la tierra, las montañas y los valles; se dividieron las corrientes de agua, los arroyos se fueron corriendo libremente entre los cerros, y las aguas quedaron separadas cuando aparecieron las altas montañas.




L.A.-based headphone rock
Nacosta is:
Brandon Graham- Vocals, Guitar
Shane Graham- Drums
Jace McPartland - Bass
Marc Agostini - Guitar, Vocals
Ian McLaughlin - Keys, Guitar, Vocals

Los Angeles based rock band Nacosta formed in 2011 by brothers, Brandon and Shane Graham. They are a band that embraces sounds of both the past and present. The group pulls from rock, folk and electronic music to create their own psychedelia. The band recently released their debut album, “Under the Half Moon”, and did a national tour in support of it. The band is currently prepping for their second album.

For more 
information visit nacosta.com and 
like them on facebook.com/nacostamusic

If you would prefer to download the tracks as mp3's or as one 
whole download visit: 
http://nacosta.bandcamp.com

contact: 
booknacosta@gmail.com

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