Recent blog posts tagged with "northernspy" from music blog aggregator, Elbo.ws http://elbo.ws/tag/northernspy/ 2013-05-20T02:36:10+01:00 text/html 2012-12-18T14:12:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4678867/morning-mail-18-dec-12/


Jake Bugg -"Taste It" from Jake Bugg released 15 October 2012 Eighteen year old phenom draws comparisons to Dylan and the Beatles, as his songs blend elements of American Folk with Brit Pop. Crisp songwriting that evolves from the sounds The La's made so popular decades ago. BBC 6 is all over this guy, and with good reason. They even enlisted Billy Bragg to discuss the meteoric rise of young Jake in the UK . Like his Facebook page to get a free download [...]]]> text/html 2012-10-12T16:30:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4562482/agitated-atmosphere-chris-forsyth-kenzo-deluxe/


As major labels continue to exist behind the times, artists and labels with little capital and lesser reputations are producing some of the most innovative, interesting, and inspiring music. Whether its creating a new niche in digital technology or looking to once obsolete formats, Agitated Atmosphere hopes to pull back the curtain on a wealth of sights and sound from luminaries such as Chris Forsyth . On last years Paranoid Cat , Peeesseyes Chris Forsyth evoked Rhys Chathams guitar armies with repetitive but infinitely pleasing rhythms. It stuck [...]]]> text/html 2012-09-24T11:34:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4529408/un-estratto-da-the-backward-path-il-nuovo-album-di/
un estratto da The Backward Path , il nuovo album di Dan Melchior uscito l11 Settembre per Northern Spy Records.]]> text/html 2012-08-22T17:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4463227/diamond-terrifier-kill-the-self-that-wants-to-kill/


Diamond Terrifier is het soloproject van saxofonist Sam Hillmer, bekend door zijn werk bij Zs . Diamond Terrifier is ook de Engelse vertaling van de meedogenloze boeddhistische god Vajrabhairava , uitgerust met 9 gezichten, 34 handen en 16 benen. Het is een treffend alias voor de muziek van de uit noisescene van New York afkomstige Hillmer. Op zijn debuutalbum Kill The Self That Wants To Kill Yourself is hij namelijk als een ongeleid projectiel die de sax vervormd tot onheilspellende soundscapes, ondersteund door al even kriebelige elektronica. Het cheesy synthesizerintro zet je nog [...]]]> text/html 2012-05-07T11:10:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4261958/tornano-gli-extra-life-puntuali-allappuntamento-con-un/


tornano gli Extra Life , puntuali allappuntamento con un nuovo disco ogni due anni, dopo lesordio con Secular Works nel 2008, seguito da Made Flesh nel 2010 - il nuovo album, Dream Seeds, uscito un mese fa per Northern Spy (Nord America), e ora pubblicato anche in Europa da Africantape , si presenta essenzialmente come un more of the same, del tutto legittimo dal momento che il loro the same in sostanza un unicum: lart-rock del trio di Brooklyn coniuga passaggi distensivi a intricate strutture math, accompagnate da un cantato che riscopre lo stile delle [...]]]> text/html 2012-05-05T06:11:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4245714/charles-gayle-trio-streets/


Streets van het Charles Gayle Trio is in vele opzichten een bijzonder album. Het is een terugkeer naar het instrument - de tenorsax - dat de inmiddels 73-jarige Amerikaan naam en faam bracht. Het is ook een reflectie op zijn leven, en dan vooral de tijd dat hij dakloos over straat zwierf. Streets is een hommage aan de gelijknamige clown, een alter ego waarmee hij vandaag de dag zijn sociaal-culturele en religieuze opvattingen kracht bijzet, al dan niet bij optredens. Bovenal is Streets een waanzinnige demonstratie van wat ooit revolutionaire jazz was. [...]]]> text/html 2012-03-02T16:54:11+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4102501/agitated-atmosphere-chicago-underground-duo-age-of-energy/


As major labels continue to exist behind the times, artists and labels with little capital and lesser reputations are producing some of the most innovative, interesting, and inspiring music. Whether its creating a new niche in digital technology or looking to once obsolete formats, Agitated Atmosphere hopes to pull back the curtain on a wealth of sights and sound from luminaries such as Chicago Underground Duo . For 15 years, the output of Chad Taylor and Rob Mazurek has come to represent the underground of Chicago from which the [now] duo [...]]]> text/html 2012-02-03T18:10:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4048121/tornano-gli-extra-life-e-il-loro-math-rock-medioevale-con/


tornano gli Extra Life e il loro math-rock medioevale con un terzo album, Dream Seeds , in uscita il 10 Aprile per Northern Spy Records:]]> text/html 2012-01-27T18:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4021709/sar-la-loro-sesta-pubblicazione-come-duo-e-lundicesima/


sar la loro sesta pubblicazione come duo, e lundicesima in totale: tornano i Chicago Underground in formazione a due con Chad Taylor e Rob Mazurek - questultimo impegnato lo scorso anno dallaltro progetto #Sao Paulo Underground - con il nuovo album Age of Energy in uscita il 13 Marzo per Northern Spy Records:]]> text/html 2011-11-02T13:11:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3833245/hubble-hubble-drums/


(Northern Spy, 2011) Ben Greenberg, guitar-man for the mighty Zs (also Pygmy Shrews), is Hubble. And Hubble, ridiculously (ridiculously awesomely), is Greenberg's solo guitar project that is officially sanctioned by NASA as the soundtrack to a video of Hubble Telescope-captured space imagery. I find that hilarious, and, since listening to the album, appropriate, and the elementary student in me that used to love (still does?) Bill Nye the Science Guy is ecstatic about that world colliding with my love of experimental music. And Hubble Drums delivers: cosmic guitar swirls patiently creating, expanding and [...]]]> text/html 2011-10-06T21:52:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3772504/zs-33-out-onnorthern-spy/
Zs - 33, Out on Northern Spy . If Mark Rothko were in Tinariwen when ZS were all growing up in DC as high school students in the early nineties, they might have made this record, and opened for Nation of Ulysses. If Ellsworth Kelly had taken up the banjo instead of painting, if Barnet Newman was a gangster rapper, they may have come up with aural musing such as these]]> text/html 2011-08-26T04:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3680900/just-heard-northern-spy-announces-first-annual-spy-music-festival/


Brooklyn-based label Northern Spy is throwing itself a giant party in honor of its first birthday. The first annual Spy Music Festival will take place in Brooklyn (duh), beginning at the Bushwick venue Shea Stadium on Saturday October 1 and continuing on to Zebulon Cafe in Williamsburg the following day. It will feature performances from 12 bands on the roster, including Haunted House, Dan Melchoir, and Zs, as well as a pop-up record fair—the whole thing promises to be forward-thinking and...]]> text/html 2011-08-26T04:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3688701/northern-spy-announces-first-annual-spy-music-festival/


Brooklyn-based label Northern Spy is throwing itself a giant party in honor of its first birthday. The first annual Spy Music Festival will take place in Brooklyn (duh), beginning at the Bushwick venue Shea Stadium on Saturday October 1 and continuing on to Zebulon Cafe in Williamsburg the following day. It will feature performances from 12 bands on the roster, including Haunted House, Dan Melchoir, and Zs, as well as a pop-up record fair—the whole thing promises to be forward-thinking and...]]> text/html 2011-04-01T17:15:10+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3330512/bird-names-metabolism-a-salute-to-the-energy-of/


RIYL: Pumice, Times New Viking, Deerhoof Pop music, childrens toys, hair, bread crumbs, loose thread, door hinges without doors attached, small animals, medium-sized animals, animal mediums, wax, tin, broken combs, stray comb teeth, marble pouches, marbles, shingles in the front yard, matted grass, attic space, old speeches with folds in them, cursive handwriting, calculators, picture books about foliage, empty jewel cases, chair legs independent of chairs, stray mouth-teeth, plastic, baseball cards, small rocks, mice bones, wood, bubble gum, black dirt, rust, light fixtures, nets made of shoe laces, the inside of a baseball, cardboard, wet paint, garbage trucks, [...]]]> text/html 2011-02-23T21:46:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3229730/northern-spy-releases-first-rare-cassette-compilation/
Messages - IndianLandmark Our good friends at Northern-Spy Records sent us over this droned out atmospheric gem teaser of super limited cassette compilation, Clandestine Series Cassette # One featuring NSR mates Messages, Tom Carter, Zaimph, Loren Conners and Margarida Garcia. Limited to 150 copies, pro dubbed on chrome tape cassettes, this piece drops four soundsreminiscence [...]]]>