Sunday is not a Sunday without Mr B's selection of downtempo loving. Here is an evening Chill Session to complete the weekend in a proper way. Enjoy! Kreng, Slaapliedje Download here (Right Click, Save As). Boards of Canada, Tears From The Compound Eye Download here (Right Click, Save As). Herb Albert, Rise - SL High [...]
( email | facebook | twitter ) We originally published this article on June 27. Kreng's recent release Grimoire is a thing of moods: fright and melancholy, insanity and old-school weirdness. There are sad marches through gray matter, delicious art-house cello refrains, strings real and virtual, catpaw reminders of the piano in the room. Beauty, clamor, menace, refinement, and every form of breathlessness. "Wrak" is an explosive little beast, where lighter-than-air strings and four-in-the-morning piano [...]
If you didn't like the mild spookiness of yesterday's track, you probably won't like this either. Unashamed and unabashed, Pepijn Caudron makes music for gothic film noir. Pover comes from the archive.org EP Zomer , and manages to commit one of the worst faux pas in all music, namly nicking a famous classical theme. In this case it's one of Chopin's preludes, which Caudron blankets with layers of muffled drums. When they lift to let the piano shine though it's like snowflakes caught in the moonlight. Lovely lovely [...]
( email | facebook | twitter ) Kreng's recent release Grimoire is a thing of moods: fright and melancholy, insanity and old-school weirdness. There are sad marches through gray matter, delicious art-house cello refrains, strings real and virtual, catpaw reminders of the piano in the room. Beauty, clamor, menace, refinement, and every form of breathlessness. "Wrak" is an explosive little beast, where lighter-than-air strings and four-in-the-morning piano swell into fits of processing, drum cacophany, and spaghetti noir saxophone. It winds [...]
A hopeful refry of LMYE's ultimately unsatisfying earlier attempts (also this ) at 'curatorial' posting: an aide-memoire compilation of 10 mostly new releases ( plus one for luck) that I've yet to hear but want & mean to, by artists I - &, in some cases, we - rate or am interested in hearing - fixed here against the relentless onward rush of time & tasks, preserved for chewing over later ... [...]
Grimoire , by composer/producer Kreng is a record that crawls under your skin and refuses to leave. Built up of mournful yet seductive strings, ambient and foreboding soundscapes, and perhaps most interestingly, otherworldly ripples and blemishes; the record stands as a cinematic ride for the senses. As Miasmah records state in their own press release, it would be very easy to pass of the LP as soundtrack music and little else, but there's a whole multi-faceted plot current that's explored, with little need for visual aids. It's confident in sonic expression. [...]
Out on Miasmah now, it's the sophomore LP from Belgium's Kreng: Grimoire . If a monthly shot of dissonant strings, ambient soundscapes, and noise keep your brain in functioning order, consider spending a few hours this June with this LP. It's basically the feel-scared hit of the summer. On "Wrak," Kreng builds some souring strings up against a mournful piano. It all comes to a head when drums and horns enter the mix and start fighting like a drunk couple in a dark, seedy bar on a Tuesday night-because they're definitely not [...]
Kreng — Wrak If you've ever wandered into an abandoned, decrepit morgue at 4 in the morning only to be chased by reanimated corpses until you collapse into an endless sea of cobwebs, you probably have a pretty decent idea of what Kreng 's Grimoire sounds like. Seriously: this is some eerie, unsettling shit. And while that might dissuade those in the market for some fun-in-the-sun, hammock-surfin' tunes with reverb galore, those seeking darker pastures should walk [...]
Photography: Roise Hardy You can download Body Language 's EP here , buy Benoît Pioulard 's album here , and also download Kreng's EP here . Have a nice Sunday. Body Language - You Can Benoit Pîoulard - Patter Kreng - Merope
This is rather tasty. Kreng make a dark and slightly spooky mood music, like the soundtrack to an arty '70s horror movie. Taygeta comes from their Pleiades EP, which is available for free download at archive.org . Being rather camp, it doesn't exactly pass the taste test, but it's a classic sound. Kreng - Taygeta (alternate download)
Oh come on, just look at that title: could this have been released on anything other than Miasmah? Certainly not with that cover, a wisp of green smoke picked out by the faintest beam of light, like moonlight sneaking in through the roof of an underground tomb. With the extraordinarily-titled, beautifully-packaged and exquisitely-realised L'Autopsie [...]
Fat Berri's
The Muse In Music
Doklands
Lend Me Your Ears
Crack In The Road
The Needle Drop
Boy Attractions
musigh
mapsadaisical
Gaggie x Bo Deal – Loose Lips [Prod. by Young Chop]
Sunday Ramblings & Considerations: 05.27.12
Antony and the Johnsons - "Rise"
