Vinyl available on our Bandcamp: http://whalefall.bandcamp.com.

Hailing from Los Angeles, California, Whale Fall is an instrumental group featuring traditional rock instrumentation interfused with more pastoral strokes of piano, brass instruments, cello, and a touch of analog synth. 

The group's self-titled debut record was written across several years and line-up changes. Released in 2011, the first album eventually became a favorite of music directors at NPR, who featured many of the tracks as interstitial music on the nationally syndicated "Morning Edition" program. The independently produced, self-released record was an expansive and wide-ranging double LP which established the band's sound as well as their dedicated fanbase. Tracks from the record, as well as a newer exclusive track, were featured in the award-winning 2013 documentary Code Black.

Their second release, The Madrean (an extended homage to the American Southwest which the band calls home) was heralded as a more developed, cohesive, and dynamic set of thematically related compositions with profound emotional resonance. The Madrean landed on several year-end "Best of 2014" lists and further solidified the band's reputation as well as its small but ardent cult following. The double LP vinyl edition features a stunning 12-page booklet of manipulated landscape photography which merges with the eight often lengthy, interconnected tracks to evoke the story behind The Madrean.

For their latest self-produced release, Sondersongs, the band honed their focus down to ten tracks clocking in under 45 minutes — their first single LP. Although based in similar musical ground as the first two records, on Sondersongs the band is not afraid to bend the listener's ear more toward further genre references and nods to decades past, with individual tracks shifting seamlessly from plaintive piano pieces and chiming acoustic passages to shimmering dream pop guitar tones, more elaborate horn arrangements, and blaring rock anthems. 

The concept of "sonder" comes from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which defines it as: 

"The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own — populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness — an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk."

Sondersongs will soon be available on all relevant (and irrelevant) streaming services with the digital release slated for June 26, 2018. A striking (and limited) white vinyl edition and compact disc release will follow later in the year.

WHALE FALL PERSONNEL
Keyboards, Cornet, Glockenspiel, Melodica / J. Matt Greenberg
Electric & Acoustic Guitars / Ali Vazin
Electric & Acoustic Guitars / Dave Pomeranz
Drums & Percussion / Aaron Farinelli
Bass Guitar & Atmospherics / Erik Tokle

Arctic melancholy intertwines with the cold touch of Siberian longing, blending with the energy of drum machines and synthesizers reminiscent of the 80s. Raw, desperately howling guitars and the rhythmic pulsation of the bass, shrouded in the sound of VHS, immerse you in an atmosphere of nostalgic dreams. The lyrics include references to existentialist literature, beatniks, and Oberiu poetry.

Official Soundcloud of Japanese instrumental rock band MONO.

Spurv [Norwegian for sparrow] is a Norwegian instrumental post rock/metal band, founded in 2011. The band consists of Herman Otterlei (guitar), Gustav Jørgen Pedersen (guitar), Eirik Ørevik Aadland (guitar), Hans-Jakob Jeremiassen (bass), Simon Ljung (drums) and Simen Eifring (trombone).
 
The band has previously released two records, the EP Blader som faller til jorden og blir til nye trær (Doognad/Diger, 2012) and the debut album Skarntyde (No Forevers, 2015). The second album Myra is out on Fysisk Format 01.06.18!

postpunk/electronic/coldwave
contact: frownssb@gmail.com 
always down to collab hmu

Booking booking@theendoftheocean.com

The End Of The Ocean is an instrumental post-rock band from Columbus, Ohio. From their start in early 2009, The End Of The Ocean has had a penchant for crafting soundtrack-esque athems that move freely from beautiful to trippy to heart-tugging to fist clenching. Heavily influenced by mid 90’s emo and their post-rock contemporaries, The End Of The Ocean utilizes intricate drumming, subtle guitar arpeggios, and a vast range of effects to craft beautiful, nostalgic and refreshingly unique memorable songs.

The End Of The Ocean has been fortunate enough to share the stage with Alcest, The Appleseed Cast, Caspian, Mono, Year Of No Light, If These Trees Could Talk, Pianos Become The Teeth, Touche Amore, Code Orange, Gates, Mouth of The Architect, Title Fight, Defeater, O’Brother, and many more.

The band has released 3 albums which have all made tidal waves in the post-rock community and has been included in the prestigious list of top 100 albums of 2011 by The Silent Ballet.

With three albums and multiple tours under their belt, The End Of The Ocean is currently writing a new full length album set to be released in late 2016 and preparing for their second international tour.

The End Of The Ocean brings forth a wall of sound and an aggressive live show. Listeners can’t help to be caught up in the band’s maelstrom of nostalgia, hope, beauty, melancholy, chaos and tranquility. It’s how The End Of The Ocean creates this ebb and flow of emotions that makes this band a monumental experience.

We play without words to communicate without language.  

From the first notes, Lost in Kiev brings an epic and massive post rock, driven by the energy of rock mixed with some electronic sounds. The 4 members of Lost in Kiev like to tell stories with their music, they writes and records their own words proposing for samples and create their own visuals stuff, like video projections, to creating a consistency between the graphics and the emotions, giving the listeners a coherent experience.

They released their first album “Motions” (2012, Dunk! Records & Voice of the unheard records), about travelling and distance, a second album “Nuit Noire” (2016, Dunk! Records), an odes to nights of dreams and loneliness.
Well-received by the press and by the audiences at their live shows (more than 80’s throught EU), the group is now ready to reveal their new album: “Persona”, will release on April 2019 on Pelagic records. 
The words of Persona will raise the question of the human nature through the artificial intelligence mask.

BOOKING : adrien@voulezvousdanser.com

goth rock inspired by abandoned shopping malls, clown paintings and window blinds. 
new haven, ct // george moore // jayson munro
dm for booking

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