I've been listening to Taiwanese music non-stop for the last few weeks. There is more to come, but last night I landed in Portland and bussed out to see Old Time Relijun play all the classics. The first time I heard this band, I thought the music was sample based. I thought the guitar was actually a church bell. I thought the bass line was from a jazz record and the drumming from a soul 45 played at 33 rpm. However, the first time I saw them I realized that I was looking [...]
Mother Mother revin cu al doilea lor album, "O My Heart"...oh mama, mama...nu stiu sa fi vazut vreodata o diferenta atat de mare intre albumu de debut(care e mai mult un studiu indie belicos) si albumu de maturitate(care e atat de tanar si vibrant). (mp3) Spangle call Lilli line e una dintre formatiile japoneze care depaseste mult [...]
I'm beginning to think there are two kinds of heartache in this world. The first, a kind of terror. Twisting anguish that is hot and unrelenting. (The kind that often accompanies a sudden, absolute loss.) And then there is a more menacing kind. The death by a thousand cuts kind. Slow, steady, sometimes even evading detection. When two adults want to be together but cannot be, because it doesn't work, how do you pry your heart away? For the heart is not a practical instrument. It is impetuous and determined. How do collect your belongings and depart [...]
EAR FARM's Three for Free: three EF approved, free and legal MP3s posted whenever the mood strikes us. This time: three from Jagjaguwar Records, selected from their impressive spate of upcoming and current autumn releases. Click on the song name to listen to the song. Nagisa Ni Te - "Premonition" from "Yosuga" , out now Women - "Black Rice" from S/T album out 10/7/08 Parts & Labor - "Nowheres Nigh" [...]
Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I've collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their "song obsessions of the week." Quite often it's easy to explain why the song is good; it's much hard to explain why we're obsessed. Maybe you'll become obsessed with one of these. - Adrian ( me ): Johnny Flynn - Ghost of O'Donahue (mp3) [...]
I'm a week late with this post. I get so absorbed with trying to listen to everything that's sent my way..... Noteworthy Albums Released on 9/23/08: Records I've Heard: Brightblack Morning Light : Motion to Rejoin (Matador) – They don't seem to play LA ever since his meltdown at the Troubadour a couple of years ago. No loss, the music's average, neo-hippie stuff that we have our fair share of. MP3: Oppressions Each [...]
This month seems to just improve significantly from week to week in terms of new releases, as once again we're overwhelmed with some great albums. Many of which come from some well known names including TV on the Radio's latest, Dear Science ; Jenny Lewis' second solo effort, Acid Tongue ; Mogwai's The Hawk is Howling , and Blitzen Trapper's Furr . There are also a couple of albums from some lesser known bands that have piqued my interest after hearing a couple of songs [...]
Every Friday we bring you our weekly batch of uploads. Download all the songs that went up the week of 9/8-9/12 right here, right now. [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] Bomb the Bass - So Special [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] The Rosebuds - Life Like [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] Brightblack Morning Light - Hologram Buffalo [ play ] | [ download mp3 [...]
A lot of excellent mp3s showed up in our inbox this week so we couldn't pass up doing yet another edition of our Friday Mixtape. As always, below you'll find a mix of quality new singles, fancy covers, and songs from artists from acts you might be hearing more about in the very near future. Be sure to let us know who you like! Also be sure to stay tuned to Consequence of Sound all weekend long for live, on site coverage from the inaugural edition of the Pemberton Music Festival . Oh, and be [...]
This Is The Good Stuff Nagisa Ni Te to release Yosuga - Free preview Mp3 here H70s/White Hot Knife at Bottom Lounge with others New Impossible Shapes video released Shameless Hours Fest W/ Smoking Popes this weekend Mandra Rin announces...
Sunday, July 6, 2008 The significant lady presence in my life has, for the past month or so, been staying in Japan. Needless to say, I'm extremely jealous. Not to be culturally outdone, I've been leaning more about all things Japanese lately, including a band called Nagisa Ni Te. Now, the savvier music snobs out there have probably heard of Nagisa Ni Te already, and to save some face, I have heard the name before (I think it was Jens Lekman who covered one of their songs on an EP some time ago), but [...]
After a four year break, Nagisa Ni Te's seventh album Yosuga will be released on September 23rd. The Japanese duo of Shinji Shibayama and Masako Takeda deliver subtle instrumental variations ranging from folky acoustic strumming to psychedelic guitar riffs, resulting in a cross between progressive and folk rock. In the early 1980s, Shinji Shibayama performed "hyped up dada-psych" as part of Idiot O'Clock and then the more toned-down Hallelujahs. He also founded and still runs Org Records, the label responsible for bringing Eastern psych powers Maher Shalal Hash Baz to the world. With Maher Shalal Hash [...]
Japanische Musik ist à priori nichts für westliche Ohren. Und wenn ich (neben Lullatone) auch nur eine einzige Ausnahme machen sollte, dann hat das bei Nagisa Ni Te (jap. „am Strand") gleich drei handfeste Gründe: Fast schon provokativ trällern Shinji Shibayama und Masako Takeda naive Melodien, verschleppen dabei gekonnt das Tempo und wenn sie hier und dort auf die Orgel drücken, hüllen sie die ganze trügerische Unbekümmertheit urplötzlich in zarte Melancholie. Schönheit kann so brüchig sein... [mp3:] Nagisa ni te / Premonition [...]
Seriously, just how awesome is Jens Lekman. He made the second best album of 2007. He gives away tons of mp3s from his self-releases on his site. He has a cool, witty blog, which he calls 'Smalltalk' instead. And he covers obscure songs I never heard of. 'Me On The Beach' was on his 2005 US tour EP, and though it's a fairly simple recording, just him and a piano, Jens really made it his own. And he sang in Japanese! Despite not understanding a word, the melodies are just way too beautiful to resist, it [...]
This is not a list. This is not comprehensive. Just some of the music I enjoyed the most over the last month. albums released in January Black Mountain, In the Future www.myspace.com/blackmountain The Magnetic Fields, Distortion www.myspace.com/themagneticfie lds Times New Viking, Rip It [...]
Baptist Disciple Singers - "Awurade Yesu" If you're not partying like this then you're not partying in Ghana, though you may be partying in Ghana's opposite, Japan. To test, check to see whether you're partying like the following. Nagisa Ni Te - "Yesterday's Story" If neither, spraypaint "Killjoy was here" on the wall closest to you and come to terms with the statement's very veracity, for you are a killjoy and you are here, where, evidently, the properest parties are not. [Buy Baptist Disciple Singers, Nagisa Ni Te ]
Angelblood : Aztec Flag (Mambo Mangue, 2007) Nagisa Ni Te : Anxiety (Dream Sounds, 2005) Nedelle : I Hate a Mountain (The Locksmith Cometh, 2007) Nicole Atkins : Party's Over (Neptune City, 2007) Thao with The Get Down Stay Down : Beat (We Brave Bee Stings, 2008)
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