Recorded in just six days at Brighton Electric in September 2010, As The Spirit Wanes will be released in the UK on January 31st, 2011. Whilst from the outside last year has looked rosy for Codes In The Clouds with a remix album release, successful tours and festival slots, it’s also been a difficult year behind the scenes. Yet personal loss has proven a collective driving force, bringing the band closer as a group and shaping their surprisingly optimistic second offering:

“It’s not that the album has a set concept or theme, it’s just that each member of the band went through similar experiences around the same sort of time. So naturally, this is reflected in the album. We all feel really close to it, and it’s definitely the music we want to make. It’s a very personal record to us and we feel it’s a big step forward from the first release. The songs are definitely a better reflection of us as a collective of people. Hopefully others will identify with the ideas within the record and can relate it to their own experiences.” 

Co-produced by Erased Tapes initiator Robert Raths and label mate Ryan West, then mastered by Nils Frahm at his studio in Berlin, As The Spirit Wanes could almost be described as a family affair. Even the artwork has been inspired by the band’s time in Iceland, performing as part of the Erased Tapes label night at Iceland Airwaves 2010. Most importantly, it’s all about songs with As The Spirit Wanes offering its listener stunning melodies and razor-sharp hooks. From the Beach Boys pop appeal of Look Back, Look Up to the euphoric Washington, down to the emotionally charged two-minute hymn If I’d Have Known This Was The Last, Codes In The Clouds embody their genre in its most rewarding form. 


‘Delicate guitar-focussed passages that bloom and explode with a primitive, dramatic beauty...with "Look Back, Look Up" as close as the genre gets to pop’ *** – UNCUT

As The Spirit Wanes

Codes In The Clouds - Washington

Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism or noctambulism, is a sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family.

Blupa Music ℗ © 2014

Sleepwalking

Cinematic instrumental post-rock band from Los Angeles, California, Whale Fall is preparing to release their sophomore album, The Madrean, in late 2014.  www.whalefall.com

Overpass LA

Bach: Lute Suite in G Minor. Played on a harpsichord after Philip Denis of 1674 with the buff stop on the front 8'. 

Pitch a'= 415 Hz
Tuning: Bach 1722

Bach Lute Suite G Minor: Prelude: Dominic Eckersley, Harpsichord

** Merganzer's first full length album, "Mirror Maze" is now available here: https://merganzer.bandcamp.com **
Wonderful German pianist Nils Frahm has declared March 29th, the 88th day of the year, world "Piano Day" so, in honour of this celebration, here's a sneak preview of a track from Merganzer's upcoming full-length record that makes use of this tender and timeless instrument. 
Merganzer is the new experimental pop project of Violinist Mika Posen (Timber Timbre, Agnes Obel). Most of her music is built around strings and keyboards, but "Ganz Großes Kino" was written and recorded on an old acoustic upright piano late one night in Berlin during the early winter of 2014. String sounds and tape delay were added later on back in Canada.


Ganz Großes Kino

A peaceful conclusion to the “Lost for Words” album, culminating in my repetition of the words “press rewind”, which I hope you will at the end of the album! 😊🎹🎶🧡

Return in Time

Hammock - I Could Hear The Water At The Edge Of All Things.

I Could Hear The Water At The Edge Of All Things

www.moleculestominds.com

from Ascent Into Insignificance
 
Music written by Steve Stankevicius 
Guitars and bass performed by Steve Stankevicius 
Drums performed by Hik Sugimoto 
Mixed by Matt Redlich 
Mastered by William Bowden 
Drums recorded by Liam Malby 
Drums recording assistant Cody McWaters

Full EP to be released later 2016
www.moleculestominds.com

Ascent Into Insignificance

We Belong In A Movie

Art by: https://www.instagram.com/p/BdhKDMhnR25/?taken-by=mais.habib

Squall(هيجان)

In It is a one-man Post-Rock/Metal project from Yunnan, China started in 2008. With influences from Shoegaze to Post-Metal, debut full-length "None Of That Matters" features both elegant melody and raw distortiom at the same time. Five sincere instrumental tracks filled with nostalgic sentiments may remind you of works from bands such as Agalloch, Alcest, EF or This Will Destroy You.

In it - We Don't Speak Anymore

04 - Four Lost Soldiers - Cecilia  Eyes

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