Name: The AM: April 28 2025 by The AM on CJSW
Duration: 2 h 43 min 14 s
Description: The week is ramping up, April is winding down, and The AM is here to see you through another Monday morning. Enjoy new sounds from AM favourites like Salami Rose Joe Louis, Khotin, and Felb, a throwback to atmospheric Bristolers Movietone, fresh sounds from Blind Yeo, Rogê, and Immersion, and plenty more to make Monday more bearable.

DC Promo Tracks #1245: "Quiet Cake" by Paul Callens is part of the release "Where's Sister EP" on Special place  @special-place-rec @paulcallens

Buy Now: https://specialplacerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/spr06-wheres-sister-ep 

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DC Promo Tracks: Paul Callens "Quiet Cake"

Demo 08-2023.mp3

Garden Gate - Magic Lantern
Clay Pipe is pleased to introduce Garden Gate, the musical project of North Country, New York-based artist Timmi Meskers.
With a clutch of acclaimed releases on labels such as Sunstone and Library of the Occult, notably The Dark Harvest LP (which received a 5-star review in Shindig) and the 2021 LP Blood Mansion. Garden Gate takes inspiration from the countercultural energy of the mid-to-late 1960s and the new occult revival of the period.
Magic Lantern is a collection of melancholy yet hopeful neo-classical library pieces with analogue electronic elements that originally soundtracked Audible Originals’ Strange Company audiobook. 
Here, Timmi explains how the project came about:
“The first glimmer of Magic Lantern flickered over the kitchen sink, if memory serves. I was cleaning up with a dear friend, author Roan Parrish, and we were discussing how we could collaborate creatively. Our first idea was that she would share prose to inspire my themes, and inversely, I would share a few original themes to inspire her writing. Before we knew it, what started as a handful of stories and songs, damp with soap suds, ended up becoming a fully scored audiobook anthology for Audible Originals called Strange Company.
As a long-time fan of soundtracks and library music, I was thrilled by the opportunity to see just how much emotion I could compress into the brief connecting links that would augment a furtive kiss, a painful psychic vision, or a breeze across the bones of a scorched landscape.
Midway through the recording process, my long-term relationship broke down, and Roan let me set up a field studio in her home. I found myself grasping at any beauty I could find in the hope that it would spill into the music. Several themes from an unrealised Garden Gate album about the life of Dion Fortune also found their way in (notably, the title track), and the score became a bit more personal than initially charted. In the doomed outsiders of Roan’s gorgeously creeping prose, it was hard not to see aspects of my own life, and there was catharsis and healing in the creation of the music that soundtracked her characters' lives.”

Timmi Meskers 2024

07 Magic Lantern (Main Theme)

Phases

Out on 2LP/CD/digital April 26, Someone Like Me is a humanity-reminding suite of miracle moments that unites real people in the pursuit of a meaningful connection. Taping their lived experience in economic studios in quiet English counties, Pacific Northwest woodland retreats and the big city bustle of Sydney and Los Angeles, these kindred spirits rendered sheer beauty in the process. Custom pressed folk songs of love, loss and the lord saviour. 

Illuminating minor works from seasoned players such as former Syndicate Of Sound chart-topper Sharkey and late-era Canned Heat lynchpin James Thornbury, the collection simultaneously honours the fleeting amateurism of hobby musicians. With their one shot at tangible vinyl, freshman Lynne Ann Kingan realised her loose bubblegum rocker on campus time, while U.S. Navy recruit Fred Potts cut his unconditionally serene ballad remotely stationed on a Spanish naval base. Spartan production continues to reign with Jon Betmead’s hair-raising gospel, howling into infinite space, and Goldrust’s stripped back garden hymn.

Throughout the hour-long reflection, faith has an intermittent yet revelatory presence, most overtly with the divine choral soul of Seventh-day Adventist quartet Remnant. More subtly, Gary Ramey and Jim Kennedy both turned to song in their spiritual quests, offering their all to a universal power. An irrefutable compilation cornerstone, the National Office For Black Catholics showcased Charles Murphy’s lionhearted account of the Black experience at a 1971 concert. Five years earlier, high school seniors The Superwomen would use their hauntingly angelic harmonies to address racial inequity with a breathless take on ‘Lowlands’.

Reaching the furthest corners, Someone Like Me secures the inaugural licence of three homespun masterpieces. Discovered by fluke in the digital haystacks of Youtube and Soundcloud, Jim Huxley’s bedroom pop earworm melds peacefully into Charlie Webster’s synthesized reverie. Meanwhile, Hollywood’s John Agostino introduces us to the bizarre world of tax scam records, with the artist only now learning that his tender psych-folk demos were leaked via a 1977 bootleg.

Compiled and lovingly restored by armchair digger Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring/The Green Child), Someone Like Me pays due service to seventeen rarefied journals of truth and devotion. Adorned with visual artist Chris Fallon’s figure and flora dream extractions, the uniting songbook is further detailed by expansive track-by-track liner notes and a forward from San Franciscan poet Rod Roland.

Charles Murphy - The Foot That's Holding Me Down (ES031)

Pre-order: https://sui-zhen.lnk.to/sleepless

Australian alternative pop artist @sui-zhen returns with 'Sleepless', a meditation on grief and persevering through it. 

The track was first conceived in 2018 as a stream-of-consciousness response to her mother’s passing. The catharsis of musical improvisation served as a refuge, a way to navigate the fog of sleepless nights and immense pain.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Sui Zhen 'Sleepless'

Zodiac

Dear all, we're excited to announce that our Tundra EP (12" vinyl) will be released on April 26th, 2024 on Atomnation. Pre-orders are now available, and we've also shared the new single "The Fells" ahead of the release. It feels incredible to be back, and we're truly grateful for your continued support. Happy listening! <3

Gidge - The Fells

As artists, it is our responsibility to reflect our lived experience and the spaces we exist within, and then make stuff that's cool on drugs.

Oh My Gosh, Urban Living Induces Melancholy

The week is ramping up, April is winding down, and The AM is here to see you through another Monday morning. Enjoy new sounds from AM favourites like Salami Rose Joe Louis, Khotin, and Felb, a throwback to atmospheric Bristolers Movietone, fresh sounds from Blind Yeo, Rogê, and Immersion, and plenty more to make Monday more bearable.

The AM: April 28 2025

Stripping away excess layers, Dispossessed lives up to its title. The band went into Causa Sui's Jonas Munk's studio on the last day of February 2025. In an a priori session, the first note played together since 2023's Dens - the conclusion of a trilogy and a live album all in less than a year. Has something shifted during the silence? Added aggression? Faster tempo? Darker ambiance? The feeling of losing time? Or is it simply the listener who’s world has tilted? In a fast paced world, Edena Gardens shows us how to resist and tune to our own inner chord.

Edena Gardens deals in subtle shifts that can only be summoned from something played for the first time. From the sludgy blasts of opener Hiraeth to the droning ambience of 10-minute ender Aftenstjerne. As always, the band travels far yet stays in the same internal realm. The band's own Jakob Skøtt has made minor edits to cut a record from hours of free improvisation, and every dubbed ambience has been culled directly from the material recorded that day, bringing into play the band's gestalt in a way that shows their both outer and inner workings: Dispossessed.

Edena Gardens is:
Jakob Skøtt: Drums (Causa Sui)
Nicklas Sørensen: Guitar (Papir)
Martin Rude: Baritone guitar & Bass (London Odense Ensemble)


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The AM: April 28 2025

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