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Choices Of The Grasshopper April 2021

Indie-Alternative Rock April 2021

April 2021

Songs of April 2021

We Were Promised Jetpacks

Already, Always

Time Comes in Roses

Higher Love

Waves

Drown

Crowded Heart

Rien que toi et moi

Rien que toi et moi (feat. Oscar Anton)

James

If It Happens

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Absolute Midnight

One More Time

Original piece of music composed in 1981 by the band Hotel du Globe. Revisited in early 2021 by some members of the original band; the inspiration is new wave/cold wave.  Energetic and melodic rock piece that sounds contemporary.

Eyes Of The Shadow (demo version)

‘Welcome to the 20's’ is taken from Laddermen’s debut album Special Kind of Violence out 2021 on Waterfall of Colours.

bombers cross the sky yet you’re still mine
welcome to the 20’s 
she hung the moon 
five chambered heart
luckily Dresden doll 
in the 20's

scream into your pillow
it makes me wanna leave
don’t be what they made you  
it makes me wanna leave
 
special kind of violence
where’d your feathers go
its better than nothing
its better than nothing
to go alright

you are an angel beware of hunters
feathers they’re useful to undo lovers 
body like a violin 
body like a violin

Welcome to the 20's

Not Me Anymore

Official Tone of Arc Remix of 'Blackbird Blackbird - Rare Candy' 

from Architects & Waves compilation(Out 10/7 on https://soundcloud.com/omrecords)

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World premiere of the amazing remix of Blackbird Blackbird by fellow indie dance San Franciscans Tone of Arc.  Their take on the track leaves the pop behind and takes a plunge into a darker domain complete with backing vocals and lush instrumentation.

Rare Candy (Tone Of Arc Remix)

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A cover of a track originally written by the hero Townes Van Zandt.

Nothin'

Froggie is the first song on my upcoming album, Hilo. Hilo is the soundtrack to a story of dying while being alive, transforming, and becoming reborn while trying to hold dearly to whom one has been. 

3 years ago, my life changed when I learned I had been adopted. In an instant, nothing seemed real. What I knew about my background was based on a fabrication. In a way, my life had been an illusion. 

I began to distrust reality itself, at the very time I would be forced to recreate an identity. I needed to throw away everything I thought I knew and start over. It was necessary not only to forge a new identity, but also to survive psychologically. In turn, I emerged with a new life perspective and, essentially, a new life. 

From moments of levity over the absurdity of the situation, to deep despair and emotional prolapse, as an artist, I was inspired to work on new music. But toward what end I didn't then know. Without consciously realizing it at the time, I began working on this album.

Hilo is a dialogue of dichotomies: anxiety and adventure, ecstasy and terror, free fall and uplift. Each low answered by a high. The album is informed by the holy trinity of house, techno, and disco, speaking to fans of each, but not beholden to a single genre. Equal parts rave and sofa, dance tracks and indie songs; music to take drugs to, music to fall in love to, music to exercise to, music to exhale to, music to rage to, music to chill to. Music about birth and destruction and the ways we hurt ourselves and others. Songs about yearning and satiation, loss and wealth of spirit. About loving someone more than oneself. The graceful way a simple gesture can save someone's life. The ways we can burn every ounce of energy we have yet keep going. Forever. 

Froggie is named for the raining frogs in the book of Exodus, one of the plagues visited upon Egypt by God to compel Pharaoh to release the Israelites from enslavement. The Hilo story begins with me learning the truth--my truth--a truth so strange and unexpected it was like frogs raining from the sky. Afterward, nothing would be the same. 

This is my story, but it is also a narrative--as old as Greek mythology--of anyone or group who has faced crisis and survived, emerging galvanized and more spiritually complete. 

Allow me to take you on a ride.


iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/froggie-single/id1171913350
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/track/froggie-original-mix/8569168
Juno: http://www.junodownload.com/products/will-eastman-froggie/3256709-02/
Traxsource: http://www.traxsource.com/track/3825591/froggie

Froggie

Download

These Four Walls

An Almighty Thud

In the Pit of the Stomach

Sore Thumb

Act on Impulse

Unravelling

Disconnecting

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Gold Dayzz (Maribou State remix)

There are few artists making seriously great music while not taking themselves too seriously; that difficult feat is one rarely attempted and even less often successfully carried out. Benoit & Sergio have seemingly effortlessly managed to pull off that contradictory trick, producing songs that sometimes seem like musical open letters: editorials narrated in the voices of unidentified, yet totally recognizable colorful characters, read aloud against a backdrop of beautifully lush, warm and sensuous electronic pop music. The unexpected juxtaposition of such pristine production and playful lyricism -- first exhibited on 2009's highly praised <i>What I've Lost</i> EP, which included the brilliantly sardonic single "Full Grown Man"  -- exemplifies why Benoit & Sergio are one of the most unique and interesting outfits in dance music. It's good news, then, that the Washington, D.C./Berlin-based outfit's eagerly expected DFA debut maintains both the charm and expert craftsmanship of its predecessors. 

Single "Boy Trouble" (the titular counterpoint to "Full Grown Man") launches the EP with all manner of reasons to take to the dancefloor: An exigent beat, a beckoning synthline, a bassline of understated funk. Sergio lethargically sings about girls, making note of both their ups and the downsides, without the hindrance of subtlety. "I love girls/With legs like a Ferrari" he states before noting (bemoaning?) the fact that "You need poetry to turn these girls on." It's a song for the best part of the night, full of compulsive rhythms and a climax that builds on sparkly synths. The accompanying remix from Visionquest -- the Detroit-bred, Berlin-based label led by producers Seth Troxler, Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss and Shaun Reeves -- amps things up, making the beat a more prominent, driving and club banging force. The flipside features "Full Grown Man" and "What I've Lost," which reveal themselves to be worth more than a few revisits. 

Benoit and Sergio Giorgini -- originally from Paris and Chicago, respectively -- have previously released music on producer Bruno Pronsato's thesongsays label and Ghostly International's Spectral Sound. Sergio also makes music as one half of both Birds & Souls and NDF.

- Kali Holloway


Benoit & Sergio - What I've Lost

Redfern Station

Helpless

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Written and Recorded by Rare Monk
Engineered and Mixed by Victor Nash at Destination Universe!
Produced by Victor Nash and Rare Monk
Mastered by Gus Elg @ Sky Onion Studios
Artwork by Madeleine Tonzi