Alaska In Winter's Dance Party In The Balkans is an album of Eastern European folktronic sounds, led by Brandon Bethancourt and featuring musicianship from members of Beirut and A Hawk and a Hacksaw . From the label site , "Alaska In Winter came about when art student, Brandon Bethancourt spent a semester recording music in an isolated cabin on the south coast of Alaska. Upon arrival back in New Mexico, he teamed up with Zach Condon of Beirut, Heather Trost of A Hack And A Hacksaw (a Neutral Milk Hotel side-project), and Rosina [...]
I owe one of this year's best musical discoveries to Jonathan at Mocking Music for his August post on Alaska In Winter . If you have not read the story of Brendan Bethancourt and Alaska In Winter , click here and read how Brendan spent the winter of 2004 snowbound in a cabin in Alaska with his computer and returned to his hometown of Albuquerque with the raw materials for some amazing songs. It didn't hurt that he has some extremely talented friends to help him craft those materials into [...]
This must be my lucky week. I've discovered yet another amazing band through MySpace. Albuquerque, New Mexico's Alaska in Winter creates lush electronic soundscapes that are as beautiful as they are haunting. The story of the band's modest beginnings is quite amazing. Brandon Bethancourt, who also plays with Alburqueque's great post-rock outfit Opion Somnium , needed to escape his hometown to ground himself. During the winter of 2004 he stayed in a small cabin in Alaska. There, he brought a laptop, a keyboard and some modest [...]
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