I should probably be out at the Northside Festival right now brining you more coverage of the weekend's festivities. I am, however, a little too festivitied out. Nevertheless, I saw some great music this weekend at Brooklyn's mini music fest. Here's a brief recap. Friday night brought me to Studio B for the first time, a very cool venue nestled on an out-of-the-way street in Williamsburg. The first band I caught was an extremely cool, extremely different three piece called Elfin Saddle . Their music is definitely inspired by Asian scales and instruments, and the amount of [...]
There are just a ton of new releases out today so we've highlighted a few of them below. What releases are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments! Note: Album streams and MP3s may only be available for a limited time. Andy Shauf - Darker Days Listen: Full Album Stream Buy It: Amazon | iTunes ** RECOMMENDED RELEASE [...]
May 14, 2009, 10:59am
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Der Hybrid-Folk von Elfin Saddle treibt seltsame Blüten. "Ringing For The Begin Again" ist ein knorriges, eigenwilliges und faszinierendes Gewächs. Lange Zeit lag der Pazifische Ozean zwischen ihnen. Bis sie Ende der 90er den Süden Japans verliess und nach Vancouver übersiedelte. Seit drei Jahren teilen sich Emi Honda und Jordan McKenzie in Montreal ihr Leben und ihre Kunst. Gemeinsam machen sie eine Art Weltmusik, die sich weder dies- noch jenseits des Pazifiks verorten lässt. Eine geheime Musik, die seit Jahrtausenden an einem unberührten Fleck Natur unter Moos und Pilzen begraben lag. [...]
DOWNLOAD: Elfin Saddle - Temple Daughter (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Swan Lake - Spanish Gold 2044 (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Swan Lake - A Hand At Dusk (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Swan Lake - Spider (MP3) Swan Lake Have Swan Lake (the supergroup composed of Spencer Krug, Dan Bejar and Carey Mercer) ever played a live show? I don't think so. While we wait for that to happen , we at [...]
Remember when we mentioned that Sunset Rubdown tour ? Well, we now know another small detail about those dates: the opener! Fellow Canadians Elfin Saddle will be opening for Sunset Rubdown on their upcoming tour and will be releasing their own album, Ringing For The Begin Again, May 19 on Constellation Records. Just in case you forgot those tour dates, we've posted them again below. Elfin Saddle/Sunset Rubdown tour dates: 6/11/09 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs 6/12/09 Brooklyn, NY - Studio B 6/13/09 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's [...]
The Montreal-based Elfin Saddle is prepping to release the follow-up to last year's Gigantic Mother/Wounded Child in May, and will be following up the record release with a North American tour with Sunset Rubdown . The nine-track album entitled Ringing For The Begin Again will be released on May 19, and is bound to showcase a fusion of sounds ranging from the bands numerous influences, including band member Emi Honda's homeland of Japan. Last year Elfin Saddle released Gigantic Mother/Wounded Child [...]
Apr 16, 2009, 10:22am
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Patrick Watson - "Fireweed" Patrick Watson's Wooden Arms is leaps & bounds better than his debut and it is an album full of leaps and bounds. He is a pretty singer, and his lyrics lilt, yet it's the instrumental landscape that thrums, hums, brings the record shuddering to life. Tracks like "Big Bird in a Small Cage" are as lovely as bowls full of fruit, but the bounding-er, leaping-er tracks - "Tracy's Waters," "Beijing," "Where the Wild Things Are" - are the ones that carry this across a ravine from Cibelle, Tom Waits, Andrew Bird. [...]
Patrick Watson - "Fireweed" . Patrick Watson's Wooden Arms is leaps & bounds better than his debut and it is an album full of leaps and bounds. He is a pretty singer, and his lyrics lilt, yet it's the instrumental landscape that thrums, hums, brings the record shuddering to life. Tracks like "Big Bird in a Small Cage" are as lovely as bowls full of fruit, but the bounding-er, leaping-er tracks - "Tracy's Waters", "Beijing", "Where the Wild Things Are" - are the ones that carry this across a ravine from Cibelle, Tom Waits, Andrew Bird. I like [...]
Per scaricare la compilation di marzo cliccate qui. 1. Elfin Saddle - Temple Daughter 2. Holy Oak - My Baby With Her Castanets 3. Southerly - Close To The Crime 4. Lee Memorial - Berlin 5. Clues - Perfect Fit 6. Spiritual Mansions - The Sweeter Side 7. Beads - Evil 8. The Curse Of Company [...]
Lui, Jordan McKenzie, originario di Vancouver. Lei, Emi Honda, proveniente dal Giappone. Non si tratterà di dimensioni parallele come quelle descritte da Murakami Haruki, ma la distanza fra i due non era poca roba. Tuttavia la coppia si accoppia: in vita ed in musica. Scegliendo la miscela degli opposti, fra sperimentalismo ed originalità. [...]
concert review : Tindersticks , Elfin Saddle @ The Opera House (Toronto, Ontario) - March 10, 2009 Tindersticks' Stuart Staples: photo by Michael Ligon It was probably for the best that if I were to be attending any shows just prior to the three days of Canadian Musicfest shows I plan to attend that it would be the Tindersticks and Elfin Saddle at The Opera House this past Tuesday night. Succintly, it's the kind of show that hardly [...]
Mar 12, 2009, 2:00pm MBV
Frank Yang Even before setting foot in Toronto's Opera House on Tuesday night, you knew it wasn't going to be a typical evening - security wasn't bothering to check anyone's ID, as the odds of someone underage wanting to sneak into a Tindersticks were pretty much slim to none. The audience for the veteran Brits, on their first North American tour in half a decade in support of their first album in just as long - last year's The Hungry Saw - skewed older to say the least. [...]
Frank Yang Even before setting foot in the Opera House on Tuesday night, you knew it wasn't going to be a typical evening - security wasn't bothering to check anyone's ID, as the odds of someone underage wanting to sneak into a Tindersticks were pretty much slim to none. The audience for the veteran Brits, on their first North American tour in half a decade in support of their first album in just as long - last year's The Hungry Saw - skewed older to say the least. [...]
Tick Tick presents Montreal (and BTV) goodness: CLUES (Montreal, featuring Alden Penner of the Unicorns and Brendan Reed of Arcade Fire) ELFIN SADDLE (Montreal) NOSEBLEED ISLAND (local) At 143 North Avenue, 8pm, $6-$10 suggested donation Thursday, November 6th Elfin Saddle has come in the past, and also played a memorable show in Stannard on a very smoky december evening as the church's woodstove backdrafted crazily. They have a really creative approach to being a two person band. Clues | Perfect [...]
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<img src=" http://www.saidthegramophone.c om/images/bhs_big.jpg" border="1" October 3rd to 7th, this city will host Pop Montreal , one of the finest music, art, craft and film festivals that the world has ever known. Yes! The mountain, the plateau, the Mile End - all of it will be aswirl and ashake with sounds, sights, high-fiving artists and poutines galore. Everyone's comin' down and you should too. C'mon! As part of Pop Montreal, Said the Gramophone's teamed up with Canadian megablogs Chromewaves and i (heart) music to present five nights of concerts [...]
photo by Ken-ichi Ueda of Oakland. loveliest discovery of Pop Montreal. the very-last-moment replacement for Ohbijou. A mysterious record of Sound Stories when they were an art project in Victoria. Now they are a band in Montreal. I am unsure of titles. I am awaiting further instruction. For now: [MP3] Elfin Saddle - The Voyage (?) also: they are performing at an art show on Oct. 14th in
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