LMYE's Under the Radar Label of the Year exerted an ever-increasing influence on these ears as 2011 ground on. So much so that by the end of the year Dekorder 's often thrilling, usually genre-defying output would come to claim large chunks of the imminent 'Festive 50+50' of releases that mattered most to us this year... Even with label chief Marc Richter's outstanding Coldplay, Elvis & John Cage surfacing elsewhere ( En/Of ), the highlights [...]
Out now via Type , here is a set of drones from what's supposed to be the final Xela record. There soundscapes on here range from calming and heavenly to dark and brooding. Some moments like the end of the 2nd track or the middle of the 3rd are strikingly beautiful, too. Stream the whole thing via the widget above.
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 ... [...]
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Le Revelateur Metal Rouge Grasslung Date Palms [...]
Xela : black lazer echos in rusty warehouse, harmonic ghosts haunt drippy caves, tectonic plate shift, mouth of hell opens wide, crumbling apocalypse Taylor Deupree : yellow leaf drone, gauzy uphill water, muffled papers shuffle, forest heartbeat, distant birds, suspended dust in a sunset lit attic Lawrence English : eye of the tornado, glass bottles & cellar doors bash your skull, visceral static bliss, squawking puffins, waves crash, fucking loud as fuck Xela Taylor Deupree [...]
Xela , the project by regular TLOBF Columnist and Type Records leader John Twells , has unveiled a new website. Called the rather wonderful Learnwithxela , it features information on his latest works, and is an effort to finally ditch Myspace... Which, lets be honest, is a dead dog of a platform. As a bit of a treat, he's put up the entire Side B of his recent release on vinyl, The Devine, for you to stream in full. http://learnwithxela.wordpress .com/ Related posts [...]
Brendan Murray & Noell Dorsey : whales, monkeys, & ghosts singing in an occasionally treacherous river of echoes & footsteps Brendan Murray: hummingbird heartbeat pulse blast, murky sonar blip feedback, laser tag in space haze Perispirit : I really don't remember, my mind kinda melted, there were birds & water sounds, CRAZY volume cuts, the end was bordering on black metal, and it seemed to last foooorevverrrrrr Xela : Jim Siegel ( Ning Nong ) on drums, synthy sci-fi arpeggio/tremolo tape weirdness, fallen angel choir harmonizes with itself, [...]
Hey folks. Been a little while... My apologies, most likely unaccepted, but what can ya do.. I've got some great stuff for you here though so here goes: First on the list, my new favorite by far, Bonobo . He is AMAZING. Recently releasing his new album, Black Sands, on Ninja Tune Records . GO BUY THIS RECORD, you won't regret it if you're a smoothie fan. Here's a sneak peak of how it sounds, a highly recomended without a doubt. [...]
Return Of The Ankou (Xela Remix) Boomkat : " Xela has also turned up for a friable remix, contributing 'Return Of The Ankou' and in doing so topping off an already affecting record with a batch of oven-fresh drones and couched harp. " New Rameses III interview with Headphone Commute here , by the way... [...]
I Arab Strap - Screaming in the Trees The Red Thread (Matador, 2001) Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - The Librarian (feat. David Sylvian) Out in the Sticks (Nonplace, 2005) Joanna Newsom - The Book of Right-On The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City, 2004) Winter Family - Garden Winter Family (Sub Rosa, [...]
Work was not fun today. Not even "Subway Sunday" could brighten my mood. Oh well, it happens, I guess. I have a busy week ahead of me. I think. Right now I'm looking forward to my days off. I'm very tired. Of course, I have to take my car to be serviced early Wednesday morning, so I won't have an opportunity to sleep in on that day. Curses! Hey, how about a mix tape? RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be [...]
All is wild, all is silent heet de nieuwe plaat van Balmorhea die eerder dit jaar verscheen op Western Vinyl . Een prachtige plaat vol met overwegend instrumentale folky post-rock muziek. Sinds kort is er ook een remix album verschenen met daarop remixen van een flink aantal groten der ambient en modern klassieke muziek. Peter Broderick, Jacaszek, Machinefabriek en Eluvium om er maar een paar te noemen. Het resulteert in een prachtige collectie die meteen een staalkaart vormt van wat deze scene momenteel te bieden heeft. Verstilde pianoklanken, uitdeiende drones en golvende loops. [...]
I've been moaning for so long that Erik Skodvin (aka Svarte Greiner, one half of Deaf Center, and head of the superlative Miasmah label), never plays these shores that even when it was announced, I still somehow didn't expect it to happen. In so many ways, this was to prove to be a night of [...]
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I'm in the middle of a very heated Wii Sports Tennis tournament, waiting to learn the identity of my opponent. My Mii, named Ev. Ev., will be battling either Eat Me Out or Baby Eat for the...uh...championship. Of something. I haven't lost a single game in my two preliminary matches, so I'm pretty sure I'm the favorite to win. I think the current Vegas line on Ev. Ev. vs. Baby Eat is -220, and the line on Ev. Ev. vs. Eat Me Out is -150. After this paragraph, I'll tell you who won... I bet Baby Eat 3-1. [...]
Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's virtual milk crate contains No Neck Blues Band , Xela , and Yellow Tears . Last installment I got nostalgic about Harry Pussy . Posting an MP3 from No Neck Blues Band could come off as digging into the back of the record collection and reminiscing, but "Ministry Of Voices" is [...]
To be honest, I've never been into horror films; the idea of watching something in order to make myself scared is as far away from my idea of pleasure as it is possible to get. And besides, if I wanted to be truly horrified, all I'd have to do would be to proof-read one [...]
I've realized, over the last twelve months, that Saturdays and Sundays are pretty much useless as far as content is concerned, because my readership drops over 100 visitors per day on the weekends. That's what Saturdays are (and always will be unless something amazing happens following Friday's post) world news stories, and Sundays are (for now) going to remain Sunday Mix Tape day. If you want to curate a Mix Tape, all you have to do is put one together, archive the files (.zip or .rar) and use MediaFire to upload it to the Internet. Send me a link to [...]
When he's not busy co-running the UK's superb Type record label, John Twells records densely layered and somewhat hallucinatory sound pieces as Xela. His release, "The Dead Sea" received a fair amount of airplay in these parts when it came out last year and was called "absolutely stunning" by the folks over at Other Music. John stopped by the WFMU studios a few weeks ago while on break from his tour with Zelienople and Helios to record a brief set that saw him shun the laptop based set-up often employed by similar artists [...]
Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's eclectic virtual milk crate contains Lucky Dragons , The Julie Mittens , MGR , and Xela . I wanted to start with Lucky Dragons, probably the widest known of this installment's artists. They (Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and friends) are part of the current Whitney Biennial and are playing a [...]
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