Taking their moniker from the Tibetan practice of leaving cadavers on the mountaintops exposed to predatory birds, I had no idea what to expect.
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Archive for February, 2012
Sky Burial, “Aegri Somnia”
The Janitors, “Worker Drone Queen” EP
This duo/group are the talk of the inter-webs just now and rightly so.
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Stoned Boys, “Burning Cities Forever” tape
While I don’t doubt that drugs were involved in the creation of this album, it doesn’t quite sound like what I was expecting from a band called Stoned Boys.
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Kammerflimmer Kollektief, “Teufelskamin”
There is very good music on this release, with very interesting ideas that are strongly developed, particularly in the band’s use of layered, jazz-based instrumentation, and ability to carry a song forward through interweaving structures and strong tones and sound imagery.
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Ben Frost To Score New “Rainbow Six” Game
Ben Frost will score the new Rainbow Six game, which is due out sometime in 2013. Details are scarce but the title of the game has been confirmed as Rainbow 6 Patriots and will be released by Ubisoft who say it will “revolve around a dynamic single-player storyline that captures the reality of modern-day...
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Alvars Orkester, “Profess” tape
This tape (another step in the decades-long collaboration of Swedish musicians Jan Svensson and Joachim Nordwall) is striking for many reasons, probably more so than most current releases.
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Sao Paulo Underground, “Tres Cabecas Loucuras”
Some new music resolves itself all too quickly, i.e., “been there, heard that,” some settles into the ears like the audio equivalent of a comfortable pair of old sneakers – but some keeps you off balance and guessing, even after multiple spins.
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Sex Hands, “Season 1″
This oddly Friends obsessed Manchester, UK band make some of the finest garage racket going.
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Unheard #5: What can we learn from the Billboard charts?
Every January, Billboard magazine compiles a list of the past year’s 100 most popular singles, based on sales, radio airplay and, increasingly, digital exposure. Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time listening to the songs on these lists. There is something fascinating about the way certain songs hit it big, and others don’t. A...
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Maninkari, “The Half Forgotten Relic Of A Dream”
In one way, French duo Maninkari is pretty economical, with a trio of albums stemming from a single session under their belt.
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