For all the gentiles who enjoyed their fancy holiday dinners this evening, I ask that you please enjoy this hollow chocolate Easter bunny of songs. Consider it penance for my people killing your savior all those years ago. What do you say...Truce? RULES for uninitiated noobs : With 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just throw songs at [...]
The solo project of Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Full Bloom is a journey into tribal spacerock. Combining terse rhythms with the blissed out shimmer of guitar drone, Soft Circle is at once spiritual and experimental. Though Bharoocha has his roots with such famous noisemakers at Black Dice and Lightning Bolt, this project seems to have more to do with eastern raga, tribal percussion and transcendental release than the destruction of eardrums or torturing of senses. Bharoocha's voice floats in indistinguishable chants above the tranquil vibration of guitar as songs build into hypnotic planes of rhythm. The mechanic precision of [...]
So it seems like Pitchfork just did a nice little write up on the new Soft Circle record. As some of you remember, I posted a song in my BEST OF 2006 , well, know, this Brooklyn based band made it to the best new music realm. I figured I would post the other track on the FADER 7 inch I have from them. Members feature people from Lightning Bolt and Black Dice. Soft Circle - Sundrenched GET MORE OF [...]
Here's today's tunes, from Soft Circle, who Pitchfork raved about today. I know little about Soft Circle -- I'm a lazy researcher, so shoot me -- but I found these two trippy-dippy songs to be good "work music," i.e. music to listen to at work while working. Soft Circle – "Moon Oar Sunrise" Soft Circle – "Shimmer"
Soft Circle - Moon Oar Sunrise (Eastern Developments 2007) Soft Circle - Full Bloom / Eastern Developments If I had a million dollars I would comission Hisham Bharoocha (aka Soft Circle) to come work magic on my house, and like some post-postmodern Michaelangelo, he would transform the place into an acid-tripping Sistine Chapel of bright, kinetic shapes. After instructing me in Vipassana meditation, Hisham would board his plane and I would say to him, very gratiously, "Nah, man, take it all because you've opened my eyes to the [...]
OK just one more of these postings and then I am done. whew..! FROM THE RED STRIPE / FADER 7INCH SERIES : Soft Circles - Sundazed FROM THE SAGE FRENCHKISS 7INCH : Sage Francis - Mermaids are Seasluts (Spoken Word Live) FROM THE ALONE, TOGETHER FAN CLUB 7INCH : The Strokes - Elephant Song (Demo) FROM THE DIVISION DAY 7INCH : Elliott Smith - No Name [...]
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