150x Postrock

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

The Madrean

Post-Rock

Chill With W. G.

Just listen !

postrock thing.

'Dorian' is taken from Agnes Obel's second album 'Aventine'. Available here: http://www.agnesobel.com

Aventine

Dorian

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Agnes Obel - Fuel To Fire (Paul Gilmore Remix)

The Danish-born Berlin-based singer-songwriter Agnes Obel landed a pan-European hit with her disarmingly beautiful debut album ‘Philharmonics’. After seven weeks at #1 in Denmark and hitting the Top 10 in both France and the Netherlands, the deluxe double CD version of the album will be released in the UK on May 2nd on Play It Again Sam.

Entirely self-produced and performed, ‘Philharmonics’ opens with the instrumental piano piece ‘Falling, Catching’ which sets the tone for Obel’s classically inspired songwriting. The next track, ‘Riverside’, flows with a depth of emotion embedded with further character by Obel’s love of combining her sweet melodies with carefully considered lyrics that evoke the song’s innate sound. ‘Just So’ works a similar trick, its blend of melancholy and optimism perfectly encapsulated into the opening line ‘Black turns beat me bright.’ Elsewhere, with ‘On Powdered Ground’, ‘Brother Sparrow’ or her interpretation of John Cale’s ‘Close Watch’, she melds different moods and atmospheres, all indelibly linked by the brittle majesty of her music.

The deluxe edition of the album adds a second CD featuring six tracks recorded at Obel’s recent acclaimed residency of sold-out shows in Copenhagen and five instrumental piano performances.

As a child, Obel was subconsciously guided into music by the influence of her mother and father, who would play and listen to a blend of the classical greats, folk music like Jan Johansson and the timeless sounds of Roy Orbison. After discovering the likes of Portishead and Elliott Smith as a teenager, she began writing her own piano-based songs, but it wasn’t until she moved to Berlin in 2006 that she began recording an album.

Many of the songs on ‘Philharmonics’ have subconsciously found an audience through their use in film and television. ‘Just So’ soundtracked a Deutsch Telekom advert, which gave Obel the unusual combination of having a song that everyone knew while having almost no profile as an artist herself. But soon opportunities presented themselves and continue to do so. One of Obel’s earliest breaks came when three of her demos featured in cult director Thomas Vinterberg’s film Submarino – ‘Riverside’ earned her a Robert Award (Denmark’s equivalent of the Oscars) for Best Song of the Year. Her music also reached a bigger North American and international audience when ‘Riverside’ was used in Grey’s Anatomy.

iTunes extended Obel’s profile further by requesting an exclusive release of ‘Philharmonics’ and highlighting Obel on the home page of their North American website. The attention of the press has been consistently positive with Vogue and culture magazine Telerama producing in-depth features in France, while Obel will also feature in both the North American and European issues of TIME.

Official website – www.agnesobel.com
Official facebook – www.facebook.com/agnesobelofficial
Official twitter - www.twitter.com/agnesobel
Official youtube - http://www.youtube.com/agnesobel


Agnes Obel - Riverside (Lulu Rouge Remix)

Greenhill

Sleep For Health

Heart Space

Overpass LA

I Shall Sail No More (No More Shall I Sail)

The Dawn Thief

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Blessings.

- LLusion

Memories

"There can be no true beauty without decay."

I haven't posted new music since a while now, although I never stopped composing. I guess this track is the most personal thing I could share with you.
It's about a woman who means a lot to me. She always encouraged me in my darkest hours. Even if I was close to deleting all of my recordings and burning all of the albums I made. She took me to Bonn to study filmmusic-composition this year and was proud of me doing what I do. She plays the violin in this song and was sitting next to me most of the time I was composing it for her and with her.

On December the 8th 2014 she passed away. I am trying to accept it and that's why I am sharing her beauty with you. May her playing move you the way it moves me and may she never be forgotten.

I love you.
I miss you.
And I will never forget what you have done for me.
Thank you for everything.

Eva's Clock

God Is An Astronaut - The End Of The Beginning

God Is an Astronaut - When Everything Dies

In the run-up to the release of our retrospective 'Central Belters' next week (23 Oct), we are choosing a track of ours to feature, one per day.

This, and 33 tracks spanning our 20 year career will be available to buy on 6LP / 3 CD / Digital download from http://mogwai.co.uk and all good record stores.

'Mogwai Fear Satan' originally appeared on 'Young Team' and is also available to buy in stores now for £6 or £4.99 at iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/young-team/id120982151

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The Only Moment We Were Alone

Track 3 from "The Madrean"
Performed by Whale Fall
recorded at The Hobby Shop, Highland Park 2014

Tahquitz

God Is An Astronaut - Forever Lost

Under the big bright yellow sun - happiness between us

God is an Astronaut-Fire flies empty skies

Created in 2012, Alice in the Cities is a Berlin-based project playing instrumental compositions for imaginary film scores. This song was included in an EP recorded in early 2013 (more on www.aliceinthecities.net)

Zagreb

The Battle To Heaven

From our self-titled debut epic. Now available as a double-gatefold LP on 180gm vinyl at http://whalefall.bandcamp.com.

Whale Fall - Kodiak

Whale Fall - The Apartment

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