Every week, a different FADER editor compiles a playlist to highlight a new release and give you a guide to that artist’s web of influences and peers. These Staff Selects live in our Spotify app, ... read more

1. Franco Falsini - Cold Nose ( Spectrum Spools ) Het brein achter de Italiaanse progband Sensations’ Fix bracht in 1975 deze soundtrack uit, voor een film die nooit verscheen. Solo komen de spacy gitaren en synths nog duidelijker naar voren dan in de band, resulterend in een magische ambient trip die niet lang genoeg kan duren. Spectrum Spools heeft het allemaal in de gaten gehad en deze onderbelichte klassieker opnieuw uitgebracht. In april schreef ik al eens een korte recensie over de beste heruitgave van dit jaar. Die is hier terug te lezen. [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Perfume Genius, Balam Acab, Twin Shadow, Active Child Song: Robbie Basho - Blue Crystal Fire (How To Dress Well Cover) [download here ] [...]
This week's Key Studio Session featured Atlanta-born trio John the Conqueror, a powerful blues rock outfit that relocated to Philadelphia last year. The band will be releasing its debut record on October 16th through Alive Naturalsound Records (you can already download a free studio version of the track "Time to Go" on their Bandcamp). Below, listen ... Continue reading

How to Dress Well a/k/a Tom Krell very nice Total Loss LP features a bonus 73 that contains this stunning quiet cover of Robbie Basho's "Blue Crystal Fire". Built on a spare acoustic strum and Krell's floats-in-and-out-of-the-mix croon, this cover is a definite must listen. How to Dress Well - Blue Crystal Fire (Robbie Basho) How to Dress Well ( Soundcloud ) Rating 8.4

Tom Krell is better known as How To Dress Well, the name he records his original music under. Finding a home between indie and r&b, HTDW released his latest album Total Loss last month and we had the chance to talk with him in detail about the project. Krell released this cover of “Blue Crystal Fire,” from Robbie Basho in dedication to his younger brother. Download: How To Dress Well - Blue Crystal Fire (Robbie Basho cover)

Catch How To Dress Well on his North American tour. Total Loss is out now. Purchase How To Dress Well items via Insound. MP3: How To Dress Well - Blue Crystal Fire
Last month, suave and moody electronic artist Tom Krell released Total Loss, his second LP under the name How To Dress Well. It met with immediate critical acclaim from the tastemakers at Pitchfork and Spin, and a fall tour was announced that brings the innovative electronic pop / R&B project to Johnny Brenda's next Wednesday, ... Continue reading
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Por si acaso no habían tenido suficiente con los cortes que le dan vida al nuevo material de How To Dress Well , y obviamente no pudieron tener acceso a la edición especial de " Total Loss "; pues entonces puede que este inicio del fin de semana les sepa un poco mejor, ya que hace apenas unos cuantos momentos se dio a conocer uno de los bonus track que aparece en este material, el cual no aparece realmente dentro del tracklist original de esta producción de How To Dress Well , sino que este cover de "Blue [...]

Het is frappant dat de beste albums van de maand februari - afgezien van Jozef van Wissem en Jim Jarmusch - terug grijpen naar het verleden. Om te beginnen twee re-releases van essentiële albums, in twee uiteenlopende genres. Niente van Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (met helden als Ennio Morricone en Egisto Macchi in de gelederen) werd in 1971 opgenomen, maar krijgt nu pas een vinyl release. Het is een fantastisch document die de groep laat horen op top van hun kunnen; ongedwongen freejazz, ingewikkeld en spannend doch ook enorm [...]
American born Robbie Basho was one of the main pioneers of introducing the acoustic steel string guitar in America. His guitar style was quite remarkable, possessing a dexterous, finger-picked guitar technique, influenced heavily by Sarod playing and the studies he undertook with the Indian virtuoso Ali Akbar Khan. Basho had an interest in Indian music after hearing Ravi Shankar, whom he first came across in 1962. Basho brought out his debut LP "The Seal of the Blue Lotus" in 1965 on John Fahey's Takoma Records. Fahey was a very influential character, coining the genre ' American Primitivism [...]
Tweet Sorry for not writing too much lately. Things have been rather busy lately. Nevertheless, since Small Town Romance has a promise to its consumers, I thought it'll be nice to share with you the wonderful three bootlegs I'm listening ... Continue reading
live set from the robbie basho archives (link below). typically gorgeous string work but yr gonna have to cope with some singing... robbie basho Filed under: mp3 , music stuff Tagged: music , robbie basho
Sonar from December 15th. Download 1 XTC - Frivolous tonight 2 Secret Colours - Redemption 3 RIZ ORTOLANI - Traccia 12 4 Guano Padano - Guano Padano 5 Bert Jansch - Just a Dream 6 Ben Reynolds - All Gone Wrong Blues 7 Big Blood - Low Gravity Blues 8 the black heart procession - witching stone 9 Starflyer 59 - I Had A Song [...]
[Audio] STR Mixtape - Point Of Departure [Tracklist] Title Artist Start Time Fun Is Fun Starflyer 59 00:00 All Is Falling - Part 6 James Blackshaw 02:45 Blues From Lebanon Robbie Basho 05:20 Madre Jesus Figueroa 07:34 Moon Beam Bela Tarr 12:03 Vessel In Vein Smog 15:50 It's The New Dark Ages Dan Malchior Broke Revue 19:44 Camera'd Rollerball 22:50 Tomorrow Never Knows Secret Colors 27:09 Down Under Navajo Bixby 32:49 Jerry The Clientele [...]

The most exciting news of this morning just laid on my Facebook wall by Josh from Tompkins Square - A new documentary on the life, music and myth of John Fahey is being produced these days. For those who have no idea who I'm talking about (can that be? you're reading my blog, he's mentioned every second post), John Fahey was an American guitarist, owner of a small label called Takoma Records , and an [...]
Yeah, I know that the categories widget in the right side-bar says that there have already been 187 or 188 Sunday Mix Tapes, but this is number 185. I'm sure of it. Maybe the others weren't official SMTs, because maybe I didn't post them on a Sunday! Did you ever think about that, asshole? Well, think about it, then. I'm perfectly fine just sitting here and waiting for you to finish thinking. I don't have anywhere to be until tomorrow morning. Then I have to work. Ugh. I hate my life. RULES for uninitiated noobs : [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Jack Rose , a renowned Philadelphia-based acoustic guitarist, has died of a heart attack at 38, the Philadelphia Daily News reports . Rose was born in Virginia in 1971. His professional musical career began in the Richmond noise band Pelt, which formed in 1993. But Rose is best known for his solo work, which he began recording in the early 2000s, releasing numerous EPs and LPs on a number of different labels, most frequently VHF. Rose, who also went by the [...]
They, only set on sport and play, Unweetingly importuned Their own destruction to come speedy upon them. So fond are mortal men, Fallen into wrath divine, As their own ruin on themselves to invite. - J. Milton, Samson Agonistes [...]