Another awesome free release via bandcamp. The Tumbled Sea is beaaauuutiful, beautiful piano ambient music; minimal but highly melodic and hypnotic. Any one of us can easily find ourselves in an introspective mood in the fall season, and if you do, you should definitely throw this thing on for a few licks. And for those of you in the southern hemisphere experiencing spring and whatnot… go fuck yourselves
Just kidding; love you
This is old news but… lol, awesome.
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Really looking forward to the (delayed until 2012) release of ‘Revelation & Mystery’, but until then, we’ll have to make do with this fuzzy-psych gem.
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Thought it’s about time we had a little higher resolution audio, and this is a great place to start. If you’re not familiar with Nick Drake, don’t be put off by the ‘Folk’ tag (as I normally would be), but perhaps find some of his original studio albums as an introduction. Not that this isn’t an excellent collection with which to start, but the studio albums flow much more cohesively than the arrangement of this album.
For those concerned, here’s the ripping equipment and software process: NAD T585 SACD/DVDA Audio Player, QED Reference Audio 1 RCA Phono Interconnect Cable, M-Audio Delta66 24/96 Soundcard + breakout box, Cubase 4 (no editing – the FLAC is encoded from the original raw WAV), EAC (cue file), FLACFrontend, MP3Tag.
Just as a note for those unfamiliar with higher resolution audio than rebook CD, this will play fine via most audio applications (iTunes, foobar2000 etc) but you will not get the benefit of the higher resolution unless you have equipment capable of 96kHz/24-bit playback and setup your system appropriately.
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Chilled out dream pop perfect for the fall season. Highly listenable, soulful, and ethereal.
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Slow, melancholic, dark jazz. I can’t begin to imagine how bored beyond existence this artist must be with comparisons to Bohren und der Club of Gore, but they certainly came to mind on my first listen. Wonderful album, makes me wish it was thundering down outside…
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Shugo Tokumaru makes weird, warm japanese pop music using mainly acoustic instruments and a plethora of random objects like forks, children’s toys, bells, and whatnot. It’s like if instead of Mr. Sparkle, Homer found an ocean warped cassette tape of a Japanese Beatles cover band – but less unsettling and a little more awesome. Thanks to WLIL! for the upload.
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Salt Lake city garage rockers Albino Father are the best thing I’ve found on Bandcamp thus far. These are heavily groove based, greasy pop songs. You can preview their album or grab a FLAC/mp3/ALAC download for 0 dollars or more (name your own price).
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Thought that the following from their blog (which features imagery of “a horseman shitting a rainbow”) was an apt introduction.
We are mr. Gnome, a two-piece band from Cleveland, Ohio. We write music, make albums, and tour across the United States of America in a van named The Silver Bullet. We’ve been compared to everything from Massive Attack, PJ Harvey, Tool, Portishead, and Cat Power, to Pelican, Death From Above 1979, Bjork and Blonde Redhead. We were homeless in 2007. Now we have a 1 bedroom apartment.
I know I always go on about album art, but check it out…
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Just such a damn good album it needs to be here. This one with thanks to Chainsaw Fellatio. Definitely a band who has grown on me over time. I would love to hear their recordings sound a bit ‘fuller’, there’s so much going on through many of their songs that I think would benefit from a larger dynamic range. Haven’t seen them live, but I imagine an ASIWYFA gig would be the only way to really hear them.
Love that cover art and look forward to seeing them top it…
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Frisell has been my favourite jazz guitarist from the first time I heard him in junior high school. This guy was a guest musician on Earth’s Bees LP, belting out some brilliant licks on a couple tracks. Check this one out if want to hear some blues + country + jazz done in a beautiful, highly stylized manner. Very chilled out and pretty; great driving music too if you don’t mind getting in accidents.
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The album starts with sounds of kids playing and laughing – wind, water, an immediate evocation of early memories; you’ve heard it before, I’m sure. A string drone meanders in and then the piano, banjo, cello, and violin. As the ambient sounds continue underneath the folky instrumentation, a group vocal floats overhead. It’s a terrific, earthy thread of sound.
Rivers Arms is an elegant collection of folk driven ambient music which you’re sure to enjoy if artists like Eluvium, Mountains, and The Tumbled Sea are familiar and amicable to your tastes. It’s good.
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Here, why don’t you take this indie pop masterpiece and enjoy?
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Tamara Lindeman – my favourite Toronto folk artist since her debut LP in 2009. Her voice is wonderfully delicate; just as beautiful as the fingerpicked banjo/guitar that accompanies it and the intimate lyrics that carry it. Lovely folk music for when you want to bathe in nostalgia.
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I’m sure most of you are familiar with this. If not, now you can be. Belle And Sebastian, Grizzly Bear, Sonic Youth, Battles, Portishead, Daniel Johnston, Grinderman, Lightning Bolt, David Cross, Animal Collective, The Boredoms, Les Savy Fav, Mogwai, Octopus Project, Slint, The Dirty Three, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Gossip, GZA, Roscoe Mitchell, Seasick Steve, Iggy and the Stooges, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Fuck Buttons, Micah P Hinson, Two Gallants, The Mars Volta, Akron/Family, Jah Shaka, Saul Williams, Shellac, Patti Smith and John Cooper Clarke.
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For completists I suppose, 3 tracks including album version. Rather liked the video too.
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