STEREOINDIE -  semanal (STereoindie)

a selection of (mostly) instrumental music from incredibly talented musicians that i've discovered through SoundCloud.   this series if solely dedicated to stringed instruments:  guitars, bass, banjo, sitar, etc.  i hope their music takes you somewhere better...  and please, show them some love....

SHARK FINS & GOSSAMER

Mellow folkish 4

Music by Daniel Gómez & Val Akey.
All guitars (leads, rhythms, bass) played by Daniel Gómez. @danielgoram
Drums and keyboards programming / mixing and mastering by Val Akey. @valakey
Release date: 23 March 2021

The Call Of The Priests

LYRICS

Woke up to an unnerving sound
The children outside where all gone 
and the ground was neglected and I was ashamed to have been at the scene
I'm watching these people just wander around
Their eyes in a glaze, their heads to the ground
Avoiding the contact that we as the human might need

But I'm awake, I'm in love, I've got silver in my blood
I can't live forever but I'm sure as hell gonna try
and when this sun sets over my head, thats as real as it can get
I'm not dragging a life of regret to my grave

Void of the truth and some old world style
We've lost all our swagger and never get high
and wait for the moment that last breath caresses our lips

Singularity will come one day
Won't think for ourselves and the records won't play
I'll be screaming in silence just look up and look around

Cause I'm awake, I'm in love
I've got silver in my blood
I can't live forever, but I'm sure as hell gonna try
and this sun sets over my head
That's as real as it can get 
not dragging a life of regret to my grave
I'm awake, I'm in love
I've got music in my blood
I can't live forever but I'm sure as hell gonna try
and the sun sets over my head
that's as real as it can get
I'm not dragging a life of regret to my grave

I'm awake, I'm in love, I've got silver in my blood


I'm Awake

Taken from the album Diversions Volume 3 - Songs From The Shipyards

Buy it

A Great Northern River

Outlander

Loved Owed (aka Love Ode)

Here is a (relatively) new collection of original songs by Danny Oxenberg (one of the lead vocalists, guitarists of Supreme Dicks) and Bear Galvin.

Of this album, Sing Sing writes: This record is one more riddle, a new hieroglyph to be discovered under the glimmer of a deaf lantern, one more reason to believe that ghosts are among us and that they can’t stop dying of love.

Artwork by Hippolyte Hentgen.
Album produced by Maxime Guitton.

DANNY OXENBERG & BEAR GALVIN (PILLOW MT. CONSPIRACY)
LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS
available on LP, CD and digital
http://www.three-four.net/releases/TFR032
http://threefour.bigcartel.com/


Text by Sing Sing

In the last three decades, no other band has surpassed The Supreme Dicks in mystery. No one has, at this moment, penetrated into their irradiant secret. All answers have yet to be found to the questions aroused by their work for the listener (What is its centre? Its driving force? Its aim?) A few contradictory accounts, some dots hard to connect, a story that seems to be constantly falsified and a small bunch of rare records so impossible to shed light on that they become all the more mesmerizing. The collection of original songs presented to us today by Danny Oxenberg – one of the lead vocalists for the band – along with Bear Galvin will not illuminate us much further. What we will find, at the very most, is the confirmation of his majestic talent as a songwriter; a wrecked heir of American popular music’s most skilled of wordsmiths; a survivor, nonetheless, from a bath of boiling oil, terrified, drained of his spirit, neglected by God no less than by the Devil and singing the sore, croaked, enamoured laments of a lonely machine, laying some weird, solar, glacial arpeggios on a weeping electric guitar. His time-honoured herd is not with him; he is nevertheless not completely on his own, since this new festoon of burnt fairy lights was woven along with his precious alter ego, who goes by the name of Bear Galvin. As far as we know, the compositions were patiently hunted down, in the wake of improvisations that one would like to imagine as free – and convulsive – beyond the limits of reason; that is, when they were not the fruit of telepathic brainstorming during which one picked up on the other’s idea, against the noise of a detonation in slow motion, which we leave it to you to dream about. This hazy duet brings back from such peregrinations what sounds like the burnt map of an authentically savage territory, where radiant melodies and more or less agreed upon dissonances, lymphatic noise and hoarse lyricism, indelible melancholy and profuse epiphanies cross, substitute and rekindle each other, setting in motion something that could be grace. A grace unfussedly invited into the very heart of a vituperative and atonic world, without measurable duration, each and every of whose bits of unfolding landscape hits the eye like a traffic accident. This record is one more riddle, a new hieroglyph to be discovered under the glimmer of a deaf lantern, one more reason to believe that ghosts are among us and that they can’t stop dying of love.

Buy LP

Danny Oxenberg & Bear Galvin - Less Than Nothing  A)  As I Was Eating An Ice Cream Cone

Imaginational Anthem Vol. 8 : The Private Press
Out September 16th on 2LP vinyl (ltd, 500) / CD / DL

8th volume of Tompkins Square label's acclaimed acoustic guitar series focuses on impossibly rare private press recordings 1968-1995.

Tompkins Square label presents the 8th volume of Imaginational Anthem, the acclaimed series focusing on acoustic guitar, particularly in the American Primitive vein.

Since 2005, the series has revived interest in old masters of the genre while also giving many folks their very first taste of artists like William Tyler, Steve Gunn, Cian Nugent or Daniel Bachman.

Volume 8, compiled by hardcore record collectors Michael Klausman (former used LP buyer for NYC's recently shuttered Other Music) and Brooks Rice, features some of the best and most obscure private press guitar records virtually no one has heard. In fact, so-called guitar soli expert, Tompkins Square owner Josh Rosenthal, had never heard of a single artist on the comp (except for Perry Lederman, whose track was Josh's sole contribution to the collection). "Just goes to show what a bottomless pit music discovery from the past continues to be. There's just no end to all the riches from past decades."

Amidst the obscure entries are bits of rock-star lore; Joe Bethancourt was supposedly given a sitar by an admiring Jimi Hendrix, and Perry Lederman was reportedly responsible for teaching Bob Dylan how to fingerpick. But the true joy of this collection is derived from discovering incredible acoustic guitar performances completely lost to time. Until now.

Explore the series : http://www.tompkinssquare.com/releases.html


Imaginational Anthem vol. 8 : The Private Press

The Secret Forces Of Nature by Gary Salzman ('68) from IA vol. 8 : The Private Press

North African trancerock
instrumentation: sintir, saz, sitar, elec.guitar, drums

Mirage

Night Blooming

Isla Cameron - O Willow Waly

Sacred Weapon (reloaded version)

A song written for my daughter to hold me to account to all the promises I've made her no matter what life distraction may be. Released with Babywoman Records.

Stars shine over you now while you sleeping,
we'll try to do almost everything 
 To make it all sound for you, but

Words can't put you to bed at night 
and words they won't feed you and hold you tight
A saying can’t,
 fill up the cracks in the wall

So call me out on all the things
I promised
 I said I would do,
Tell me straight if there are things 
I swore
I'd make for you

All I want is the best for you
All of my love is yours 

Your laugh can light up the mood in a dark room,
Inspired your father to write a tune,
To tell how he feels about , but

Words they can't put you to bed at night 
and words they won't feed you and hold you tight
A saying can't fill up the cracks in the wall

So call me out on all the things
I promised
 I said I would do,
Tell me straight if there are things 
I swore
I'd make for you

The Wendy house, the bike repairs, the paint on your walls 
All of my love is yours

Call Me Out

Tompkins Square has released a new compilation by legendary guitarist Duck Baker !

Duck Baker is an internationally acclaimed American acoustic finger-style guitarist who plays in a variety of styles: jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk, and Irish and Scottish music. He has written many instruction books for guitar, famously released several albums on Stefan Grossman's Kicking Mule label in the 70's, and later recorded for Windham Hill and Shanachie among others. 

http://www.tompkinssquare.com/duck-baker.html

https://amzn.to/2Xt24oU

Plymouth Rock : Unreleased & Rare Recordings, 1973-1979

Sheebeg And Sheemore

Written, recorded, mixed, erased, re-recorded, remixed, worried over and finally finished via video link during the 2020 Melbourne Covid lockdown... Submarine is a song about the end of the world.

Sheebeg And Sheemore

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