The dance floor can be a ripe space to work through your shit. Those who know the healing power of body motion can attest to this, and will often preach it as gospel. Alex Gray ( Heat Wave , Deep Magic , Dreamcolour , Sun Araw ) and Cameron Stallones (Sun Araw, Magic Lantern , WHERES YR CHILD ) clearly fall somewhere within this camp. Their hour long disco mix, "Open", which was originally concocted for dublab, will cover your toast in extended, buttery grooves. Perhaps Stallones and Gray aim to raise awareness about the [...]
Por quinta ocasión se llevará al cabo el Austin Psych Fest , del 27 al 29 de abril en Texas. Este festival, fundado en el 2008 para homenajear el legado musical de la ciudad de Austin como cuna del rock psicodélico, reúne a los mejores actos (desde vintage, pasando por lo moderno, hasta llegar a las nuevas propuestas) que continuamente expanden la posibilidades musicales. Uno de los principales propósitos del Austin Psych Fest es promover y crear un campo fértil para la expresión artística a través de la música y el arte visual, apoyando los comercios locales en Austin y [...]
Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, & The Congos – "Happy Song" The latest installment in RVNG Intl. 's so-far-so-brilliant FRKWYS series is one for the annals of weirdo music history: dub-pysch guru Sun Araw and likeminded astro-traveler M. Geddes Gengras (whose 2011 Stunned tape The Empty Space is still amazing , by the way) have joined forces with roots [...]
Hmm, I'll have to admit, this feels a bit awkward and wayward of me, my starting this list now, six weeks later than I really ought to have done. Even that notorious tortoise Karl appears to be putting his list to bed over on those geese (it's an excellent list by the way; you all should read it, but come back here won't yis). The path ahead looks lonely and punishing as fuck...and to think I started blogging because I thought it would be fun. THIS YEAR...IN A WORLD...ONE BRAVE MUSIC BLOGGER'S JOURNEY AGAINST THE [...]
1. How to Dress Well - Suicide Dream 1 (Orchestral Version) from Just Once EP ( Love Letters Ink ) I've kept coming back to this song again and again over the past few months and each time I'm still awestruck at how disarmingly beautiful and sincere it is. Stripping back the murky noises from the original, Tom Krell ramps up his angelic falsetto with soul-baring harmonies and an elegantly restrained string quartet - a perfect marriage of R n' B-informed tenderness and classical formalism. Feel like this [...]
(out now on Drag City ) Cameron Stallones, the Los Angeles-based beatmaker/sound wizard behind Sun Araw, isn't afraid to get heavy. 2010's On Patrol was a dizzyingly complex, room-filling psych-dub wonderland; with Ancient Romans, Stallones' fifth full-length under the Sun Araw moniker, the textures to the music have evolved (simplified, even) but that body-numbing heaviness remains as Stallones searches for new lenses through which to project his quasi-religious musical musings. Decidedly freeform in nature — most of Ancient Romans' tracks clock in around 10 minutes in length — there's still a tangible sense of structure and deliberate [...]
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Cropped Out Fest not only succeeded in coming back a second time, a feat not easily accomplished, the stridently fringe festival also returned in bigger and better fashion - in terms of attendance, community enthusiasm, facilities, and that intangible festival vibe that can make or break a multi-stage weekend event. Cropped Out 2011 certainly became the product of learning what worked and what didn't from the inaugural fest last year. Though the weather is beautiful in this part of the country during the fall, it can also act unpredictably, as we learned during Cropped Out 2010 - [...]
Sun Araw at Music Hall of Williamsburg ( more by Erez Avissar ) You have two chances to check out Sun Araw Band before the clock strikes 2012. The first is in Rio de Janeiro at the Novas Frequências Fest on December 7th. The next is two days later in Brooklyn at 285 Kent on 12/9 with Regal Degal , Heatwave , CSC Funk Band , and a Prince Rama DJ set. [...]
Here's the first from yet another new project from Cameron Stallones ( Sun Araw ) and M. Geddes Gengras, a collaboration with Dayone, a singer and fisherman from the Forum Village outside Portmore JA. Seems like this will be the first of a few (?) Jamaican collabs under the Duppy Gun Productions name. Sun Araw is playing live in Auckland and Wellington this coming February. Early bird tickets available from Under The Radar . site
DAYONE "MULTIPLY" from ASTRAL PROJECTS on Vimeo . The other Killa Cam, Sun Araw decamped to Babylon briefly early this year, and inevitably and burned enough bushes to keep the Bob Marley extended clan up in smoke. This is my best guess to explain the digital duppy gun dub wobble that is "Multiply." I don't know who Dayone is but I know now. I also want to know the state of Sun Araw's record with The Congos. If this keeps up, I'm just going to have to purchase some ultra strength blotter [...]
Hit us up with a number between 1 and 1000 for a chance to win tickets to see psych instrumental group Cave play at The Satellite tomorrow night, November 29th. Silverlake's premiere institution hosts the Chicago rockers who display methodical structures mixed in with killer solos, music with an inner peace much unlike da Bears' QB conundrum at the moment. Cave's 2011 LP, Neverendless , delivers with the same quality as 2009's Psychic Psymmer . So get in for free, buy a pint of Newcastle and play a game of dollar eight ball. Just give us [...]
I'm taking a 24-hour break from photo sharing because it's Sunday and I might be lynched by my readers if I don't offer a mix tape for download. I think there's only one (maybe two?) more days worth of photos to share, then I'll get back in the swing of regular updates about how "indie" [...]
Click image to download track Sounds like: T. Rex, Sun Araw "Smith Westerns - End of the Night (Peaking Lights Remix)" What's so good? Wisconsin-based psychedelic pop duo Peaking Lights released chilled out "Tiger Eyes (Laid Back)" earlier this year. Now we find the duo remixing Chicago indie rockers Smith Westerns, taking on Dye It Blonde track "End of the Night." [...]
New video for the Ancient Romans track "Impluvium", directed by Cameron Stallones and Abbe Findlay. We're about to unveil some super exciting news for New Zealand and as Australians will know, you can catch Sun Araw on a huge tour of Australia at the start of 2012. buy
MP3: Aristocrat P. Child - Gerry Another disco edit from Sun Araw's crate digging Aristocrat P. Child side interest. Again, not sure of the originator of this now-antiquated disco track but definitely thankful for this slight intervention on it. buy
Visitation Rites
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Boy Attractions
Asleep on the compost heap
The FADER
The Gumshoe Grove
rose quartz
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The Decibel Tolls
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The Passion of the Weiss
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Saltillo – Monocyte, soundtrack voor een donkere strip
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