Big Sir's new album Before Gardens After Gardens occupies an unique headspace that in itself has been enough to promote repeated play. The album opens with "Regions", built on a vocal line and trafficking bass with other buzzes and whistles appearing by end. "Ready on the Line" arrives with the offsetting of beats and pulses setting the backdrop for vocal expressions and talk of radio. Elsewhere the mood travels from slightly eerie to more reflective slipstreams with implications of dance dispersed as well. Good show. Listen to a few tracks below to zero in on things. [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Big Sir, Liz Greene, Francis Harris, Mark Lanegan Band, Scott Matthew, of Montreal, A Place To Bury Strangers, the Plimsouls, Pretty Good Dance Moves, Chuck Prophet, Royal Baths, Silver Swans and Sharon Van Etten. Also, vote for your favorite of today's new releases.
One of the most fruitful weeks yet this year for new music releases. We're proud to feature Philadelphia's own Dr. Dog whose Be The Void is out today. We're quite excited about this album, not only because they're from Philly, but their last effort Shame Shame featured some great tracks such as "Jackie Wants A Black Eye" and "Where'd All The Time Go". Lots more to get to this week including The Twilight Sad with their creepy-titled No One Can [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 93 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by artists including Useless I.D., Copywrite, Cursive, Shigeto, Bonesetters, oOoOO, Real Estate, Escort and more! So much more! DATE: 02-01-12 WRITER: Don Loder Awright Junky, Yeahyeahyeah, I know whatcher thinkin'. My bag o' SWAG is a little lighta dis week right? Yeah, I heardja, but ya know what? What I missed out in quantity, I made up for in quality - le's get inta da SWAG Report. Once agin dis [...]
"The Kindest Hour" will appear right at the halfway mark on Big Sir's upcoming 11-track album, Before Gardens After Gardens , ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media /big-sir/the-kindest-hour-pref ix-premiere/61228/
Final post for this year, yes you read that right, for this year. We're taking an extended break until January 2nd 2012. It's the first one since 2003, the first one in eight years, the first time in 3.000 days exactly today! There's flights to be taken - I'm off to Europe in a couple of hours - rellies to visit, hopefully good times to be had and so on and so forth. We wish you all a very nice Christmas, and if you're not into all that Christmas stuff, just have yourself a nice time [...]
Big Sir , the Los Angeles-based project of vocalist Lisa Papineau (M83, Air) and The Mars Volta bassist Juan Alderete, will release their third album, Before Gardens, After Gardens, in February. The two composers' articulate, electronic-tinged blend of R&B, jazz, and hip-hop falls somewhere between Papineau's acoustic solo work and Alderete's forays into prog-rock as part of The Mars Volta. Before Gardens, After Gardens ' first single "Ready on the Line" spikes Papineau's exquisitely harmonized Bjorkian voice with whistles, chimes, and mechanical claps. The subtle background heartbeats, reminiscent of Timbaland's early work with Aaliyah, [...]
From Sargent House: In honor of all BBQ's across this great planet we bring you the Sargent House / Rodriguez Lopez Productions $5 or less for any file size you want download sale! This weekend through June 1st. All artists in our digital record shop will have full albums / tracks/ eps ranging anywhere from FREE to $5 and if you just want to hear their albums you can do that too, that is always Free. Also remember, if you want to kick down some extra you can always [...]
The highly-accomplished singer/composer Lisa Papineau releases her Sargent House debut, Red Trees this spring. The album is the second solo venture from the active collaborator known for her vocal contributions to Air and M83 , as well as writing with The Mars Volta bassist Juan Alderete de la Peña in Big Sir . Buy Music: Lisa Papineau on amazon.com [...]
It looks like it's going to be a big year for my kind of music. New albums are coming from Broken Social Scene, Frightened Rabbit, Miles Kurosky, Big Sir, Shout Out Louds, Sally Seltmann, Dosh, Owen Pallett, Blockhead--the list goes on and it's only February. Forget all that mushy Valentine's crap, this is the kind of sweet stuff that makes my heart beat faster. Aside from chocolates, of course. Here's an assortment of classics, if you will, a la the famous Whitman's sampler . [...]
I mentioned the other day that I "had" to make a mixtape because I lost a bet and I put up a few songs from it. After thinking about it (and asking a few friends), I decided to go ahead and post the whole thing. So here it is in its entirety. I call it "Snow Mix." How original is that? It's not got much to do with snow, actually, but I didn't know what else to call it! The Sweet Serenades -- "Mona Lee" [...]
Sargent House has treated its fans to another compilation .. this time in the form of a Holiday Sampler! CLICK HERE to listen/purchase the sampler .. the tracklist is below. Enjoy the 18 tracks from these amazing artists! 1. Fang Island - Daisy 03:18 2. Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Desarraigo 05:54 3. Lisa Papineau - White Leather Pants 03:41 4. Good Old War - Texas Blues 03:17 5. RX Bandits - Bring Our Children Home 06:18 6. This Town Needs Guns - Panda 03:25 7. Red [...]
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I'm having trouble moving on to new music as I'm still processing 2008. I suspect this is a metaphor for my life, but for the moment I'm just going to examine it at face value. I've been thinking about how my top-ten list didn't include any female artists. Mates of State is a male/female duo, this is true, but none of the others are fronted by women or were solo women artists. I know this shouldn't bother me just for that reason alone, and [...]
Download (Right-Click Save As): MP3: Bonnie Raitt - Angel From Montgomery MP3: Mazzy Star - Fade Into You (Live) MP3: Mendoza Line - Something Dark MP3: Big Sir - Blutrausch MP3: Beth Orton - Central Reservation (Ben Watt Remix) MP3: Thievery Corporation - Who Needs Forever? (Astrud Gilberto Remix) Rollo & Grady // Voices Of Angels Volume #2 (Click Here) [...]
John Mayer does an excellent cover of Radiohead's " Kid A ". Unfortunately, he joins the ranks of Santogold & M.I.A. of artists that I will not post about again. I love Susan Tedeschi's version of the Stones' " You Got The Silver ". Download (Right-Click Save As): MP3: Big Sir - Sarah Smile (Hall & Oates) MP3: Susan Tedeschi - You Got The Silver (The Rolling Stones) MP3: The Morning Benders - Lovefool (The Cardigans) [...]
yesterday, music is art officially became one year old. its amazing to go back inside the archives and see where it all began. from my crazy all over the place designs, ramblings of words to the chaotic uses of different playlists ... these multi -colored levels of my mind played out like my own personal music and art journal. my sincere apologies for the delay of new posts, as there are so many exciting things to come including a new domain, site revamp and especially designed merchandise. also [...]
Big Sir are Lisa Papineau (who has sung with Air and M83) and Juan Alderete, bassist for The Mars Volta. After five years they return with an new album that covers some spectacular musical ground, Und Die Scheibe Andert Sich Immer . It's a trippy, ambient experimental pop album that just burrows in and festers the musical genes of the mind and body. Nice stuff. Good grooves, celestial vocals, colorful vibes all around. The Freeways Of My Mind - Big Sir [...]
In case you didn't get the hint last week that Lisa Papineau is back for her semi-annual reunion with Los Angeles, we're here to resend the memo. As far as we're concerned, her move to Paris was one of the greatest losses of the decade and so these brief revisits must be savored. This of course meant being stagefront for Big Sir's first show in three years at The Airliner. Despite approaching
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