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Rwake
2008-11-08 13:02:00 Rwake-- pronounced most commonly as "wake"-- are a quickly ascending, badass modern doom crew from Little Rock, Arkansas. "Modern" being the operative word: They may be warmly relaxing in chthonic, sludgy sounds but what wrestles in the plastic grooves of their fourth full-length, Voices of Omens, is nothing less than ingenious, forward-thinking metal.It'd be lazy to call them doom; that they are, but their nimble-fingered heaviness reveals something far from one-dimensional-- definitely not your typical "tune down to B, drone 'til you're free" doom conformists. The attack is three-pronged: One part south of the Mason-Dixon sludge ŕ la bands like EyeHateGod and Crowbar; one part bleak and epic soundscaping in line with mid-period Neurosis and Mastodon's arching fretboard calisthenics; and one part classic funereal doom in homage to the mighty Sabbath-revisionists Trouble and the underground snail crawl brutality of Grief. To assist the ominousness of the adroit dual guitars, hau... More About: Music
The Glasspack
2008-11-08 12:37:00 The Glasspack are Brett Holsclaw - Drums, Zach Dorsett - Bass, Andy Garrett - Guitar, and Dave Johnson - Vocals & Guitar and Murphy - Security. Their place of habitation is Louisville KY; their music is hard & fast, loud & powerful. It is created and performed with passion and is filled with a raw energy that makes them stand out just as much as other bands who are ranked in this genre of music.I can hear an influence that sways towards early 70's Heavy Metal like Uriah Heap & Judas Priest, maybe Black Sabbath in certain songs, and I also can hear slight hints of later era bands such as Motorhead possibly, and in a way Monster Magnet could be mentioned. However after all these possibilities the bottom line is 'The Glasspack have a sound and style all of their own'. A sound that enfolds around you as you listen to it making you realise that there are still bands out there that can actually play Shit Kicking Heavy Rock and do it justice. The Glasspack to me are one of these bands.T... More About: Music
The Sword
2008-11-07 13:10:00 Hell to the Fuckin? to the Yeah: Two years on from the blistering Age Of Winters, Austin?s finest riff merchants return, hoisting a bejeweled goblet in salute to the fighting mastery of a long-lost race. (Since I can?t find any reference to Hyperzephyrians in my Oxford Encyclopedia Of Archaeology, we?re gonna assume they?ve only ever existed in singer/guitarist JD Cronise?s fevered brain. They sound like they were utterly badass, just the same.) People love to compare these cats to Black Sabbath, but ?Fire Lances? is more like early Metallica, what with the barked vocals, the choppy-yet-precise rhythm guitars and an impeccably lean song arrangement that somehow squeezes seven minutes? worth of full metal jack-off into a mere three and a half. Throw in some Maiden-style harmony leads, a gong, and at least one lyrical reference to wizards, and you?ve basically got yerself the feel-good hit of the week. Raise your fist and yell.Info stolen from; Paper Thin Walls Links;The Sword - Fire ... More About: Music
Negura Bunget
2008-11-06 17:33:00 Negură Bunget's fourth full-length album is one I've awaited with a certain degree of apprehension. Having brought their unique brand of raw yet complex, melodic and spritual black metal to its zenith in the year 2000 with _Maiastru Sfetnic_, they then started to pull in several directions, integrating progressive and neo-folk touches with varying degrees of success. While 2003's _'n Crugu Bradului_ maintained the band's level of excellence, it did contain seemingly interminable ambient passages in its last movement. The _Inarborat Kosmos_ EP released last year went even further down that path, with some pretty awful vocal experimentation to boot.Although some evolution is necessary in all bands (except Darkthrone, where it is most unwelcome), I did find myself wishing the band would play to its strengths a little more. In Negură Bunget's case I'm referring to the galloping blasts, the multilinear guitar fuzz and the howling vocals that mesh perfectly into grand crescendos ot... More About: Music
James Siena
2008-11-05 18:10:00 James Siena (b. 1957, California) received his BFA from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1979. Siena's work has been featured in of over 55 group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial. The recipient of multiple honors and awards, James Siena has been awarded The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (1994), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award (1999), and an award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2000). Siena lectures and teaches at numerous institutions throughout the United States, including the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (1999, 2002); Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2000); School of Visual Arts, New York (2003); San Francisco Art Institute (2003); and the Cleveland Institute of Art, OH (2004.)Siena's work can be found in several public collections including: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Museum of Fine Art, Bo... More About: James
The Winchester Club
2008-11-05 17:37:00 Like a record store bulk-buying Napalm Death?s ?You Suffer? single (the shortest ?song? ever, clocking in at 1.36 seconds) the intitial reaction upon entering into The Winchester Club ?s ?Brittania Triumphant? may be one of feeling slightly short changed.Fear not though, for though it may consist of merely three tracks (Segments, for post-rock purists), luckily this album clocks in at around an hour long. A sprawling, instrumental, post-rock skyscraper that took seven years to make (the length of most scenester bands? careers), it saw The Club take in field recordings and sonic wig-out?s which could make most Shoegazer?s tremble. Laced with eerie, spoken-word snapshots they also partake in rolling out the sly trickery of making difficult structures and layers sound completely effortless. Low-slung riffs and relentless, downbeat drums soon pervade into trance-enducing, anti-pop territory . Think Godspeed You! Black Emperor and early Sonic Youth filming Mogwai in a dimly lit tower bloc... More About: Music
Greg Weeks
2008-11-04 17:01:00 Greg Weeks is the producer of (and co-songwriter and musician in) Philadelphia psych folk outfit Espers, and is due to release his brand new solo album "The Hive" on Wichita Recordings.In Greg's words"Frustrated with new methods and mindset in recording technology I threw up my hands and built my own analog recording studio. My last album, Blood Is Trouble (as well as the first Espers record) was recorded on a 1?2" 8 track machine. Eventually I was able to upgrade to an MCI 2" machine and professional recording console which have allowed for better sound quality and greater experimentation. Having a home studio has allowed me to record and produce albums at a comfortable pace consistent with my own levels of inspiration.Key to the album's sound was the acquisition of a vintage Mellotron keyboard. The Mellotron is doubtless my spirit animal in instrument form and is certainly one of the main inspirations behind The Hive. No other instrument conveys the characteristics of hive insec... More About: Music , Greg
Methadrone
2008-11-03 16:59:00 Methadrone is New Jersey-based Craig Pillard, and Sterility is his third album recorded under that name. Sterility brings us eight exquisite examples of the grungy and oppressive bass-heavy dronescapes, augmented by acoustic guitar and vocal elements, that Pillard has made the trademark of Methadrone. Never has doom and darkess been encapsulated so appealingly.Foreshadow ProductionsThe name Methadrone has been lurking around the periphery of my awareness for quite some while now, but this is the first time I have encountered their music. Being naturally attracted to the darker, dronier, ambient end of the spectrum, this shoehorns itself quite easily into that category, and appeals to me on so many levels. The music is anything but sterile. For starters, there?s the inherent simplicity: it?s not complex music when broken down into its constituent parts, but in combination equals something deep and shiver-inducing. Indeed, I would even go so far as to characterize this as symphonic, ... More About: Music
La Otracina
2008-11-02 09:30:00 La Otricina are a Brooklyn three piece who formed in 2003 and in the short time since have released an amazing number of CD-R discs on drummer/vocalist Adam Kriney?s own Colour Sound Recordings. Their full-length debut, 2007?s ?Total Eclipse Of The One?, appeared on the Holy Mountain label, while this year?s model, ?The Risk Of Gravitation?, is a return to the CD-R/CSR format. Part Comets On Fire, part early Hawkwind, and part Guru Guru-style krautrock, this limited edition disc is 32 minutes of spaced out psychedelic fuzz-rock.Opening track ?Walking With The Wild Walkers? is a suitably noisy way of setting the scene, sounding like a UFO landing on your corrugated iron roof. The alien gatecrashers inside are ready to party all night, mess with you head, and raid your beer fridge, while belting out tracks with titles like ?Incendiary Mind Delay ? and ?Behind The Ocular Curtain?. Evan Sobel?s humungous bass consistently refuses to take a back seat on ?Raze The Sky?, which features occ... More About: Music
Sabazius
2008-11-02 09:25:00 Sabazius formed in June 2006, with the intention of writing and recording Doom music. We released our self-titled debut album on 23/3/08 as a free download. Links to download the album are in our blog. The album is around 2 ˝ hours in length, and consists of four tracks: Occult, Death's Eternal Sleep, Terror Is Thy Name, and XXIII. Our latest release is a song entitled ?The Song of Los?, which was exclusively recorded for the free Droning Earth XIII compilation. The links for this free download can be found in our blog too. We have other releases due out later on in 2008 through HeadToAvoid Recordings and Dead Pilot Records, and we are currently writing material for our second album. Sabazius was described on www.lastfm.de as: ?A really sick sounding act from the UK. Dirty production, no songs under 20 minutes in length, they sound like Electric Wizard on valium at times, they also succeed in making most Funeral Doom bands sound like Pig Destroyer in comparison. One of the penultim... More About: Music
Frank Lobdell
2008-10-31 19:17:00 Frank Lobdell is widely recognized as one of the premier post-war American abstract painters and a major player in American Abstract Expressionism. Despite considerable recognition in San Francisco and New York, Lobdell remains something of an enigma. He is known for working with a "monastic commitment" to the principles of creative intuition. Lobdell has always sought privacy, telling an interviewer in 1960, "being anonymous is really the best condition to be able to create."In more than 50 years of gallery and museum exhibits in San Francisco and New York, Lobdell has continually pushed his work, reinventing and recycling the ideas behind his imagery, keeping to his tenet that "the purpose of painting is always to go beyond what can be said in words".Lobdell has also long been admired by other artists for his figure drawings. In quality and freshness, Lobdell's drawings are considered by curators and critics to be the equal of those by his illustrious drawing companion, Richard D... More About: Frank
Sun Araw
2008-10-31 16:51:00 The Phynx is an album that revels in a sense of mystery and imagination, from the cover picture of a blindfolded person sitting in a library ? what good are books if you can?t see? ? to the deliberately sparse information provided with the CD-R. Nothing more than the four song titles is offered to go on, but thankfully there are other sources of information that tell us that this is the debut solo outing of Cameron Stallones, guitarist for Magic Lantern.That band?s hypnotic repetition is echoed to some extent here. But where the full band has an approach, not surprisingly, rooted in some form of rock, Sun Araw takes on the goal of mesmerism in a more free-form way. More like drone?n?roll, these four songs bring to mind Total and Skullflower, with an obscurantist ritualism driving them all.Two 16-minute pieces bookend the set, with the shorter, more fully-formed songs sandwiched in-between. Like swampy rituals played out on a scuzzy factory floor, there?s a determined combination of ... More About: Music
Sons of Otis
2008-10-30 19:33:00 Formed in 1992 in Toronto, Canada, by Detroit expatriate Ken Bluke, Sons of Otis have pounded out some of the lowest, slowest space rock on record. The band originally consisted of just Bluke and was called Otis (after a character in the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer). Otis self-released a debut EP, Paid to Suffer, under that one-word moniker in 1994 after bassist Frank Sargeant joined up to aid Bluke in his search for the perfect stoner tonality. The group slowly built a solid underground following and in 1996, they were signed to Hypnotic/MCA. This brief partnership produced the band's first full-length disc, SpaceJumboFudge, as the "Sons of" was added to their name to avoid legal problems with another act with which they were unwittingly sharing "Otis." Bluke and Sargeant had extreme difficulty finding a drummer and after going through a legion of them, they simply used a drum machine on SpaceJumboFudge. This was quite a development considering Bluke's die-hard passio... More About: Music
Los Natas
2008-10-29 17:13:00 Los Natas celebrated their 12th. Anniversary, the shows in Argentina have been non stop and growing year after year. They have the recognition of many important bands from the country, no matter their music stile. Natas have been invited to play with many bands such as: Babasonicos, Pez, Carca, Cienfuegos, ANIMAL, Massacre. Also DJs make special sets with los natas performing simoultaneusly: Bussola, Romina Cohn, Dr Trincado & more. They have also performed as special guests of international bands as: Queens of the Stone Age, Nebula, Motorhead when they visited Aregentina. Los Natas are playing all the time: they have been on tour to USA, Europe, South America, where they shared stage with many important bands of each country. They also have been in many festivals developed in Argentina. They made the second tour to Europe (in less then a year) in 2004 that took them to: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, Chzech Republic, Austria, Greece and finally Spain. They... More About: Music
Hush Arbors
2008-10-28 17:25:00 Core Hush Arbors member Keith Wood has got a certain pedigree in the indie-folk scene, even though he?d likely balk at such a tag being attached to his music. He?s released a handful of homemade CD-Rs, played with Current 93 and Six Organs of Admittance, and now finds his Hush Arbors project signed to Thurston Moore?s Ecstatic Peace! label.This self-titled album begins in processed oblivion, as Wood and longtime collaborator Leon Dufficy deliver short, prickly bursts of FX-laden guitar on the instrumental track ?Water.? Imagine a two-minute mash-up that synergizes the indulgent soloing of Crazy Horse and the robot guitars of Polvo. It?s scarcely a sign of what?s to come, but it acts as a wake-up call for anyone settling in for a quiet night of amiable acoustic meandering.Once Wood and Dufficy have gotten your attention, their music percolates into some gently tractable forms. The guitars on second song ?Follow Closer? sound like they?ve been ripped straight from Gene Clark?s hands o... More About: Music
Robt. Williams
2008-10-27 20:39:00 A painting student first at Los Angeles City College and later at the Chouinard Art Institute, Williams got his first break when he became the art director for legendary hot rod hero Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. With the rise of the counterculture in the late 1960's. Williams found a growing audience in the underground comic milieu that nurtured such figures as Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso and S. Clay Wilson. One of the originators of Zap Comix, Williams continues tradition of no-holds barred creative exploration. In 1994 Williams founded Juxtapoz magazine with a group of artists and collectors. The publication's mission statement was to present art that is provocative, technically adept and worthy of exposure. Williams has produced a number of publications such as Malicious Resplendence, Zombie Mystery Painting, Visual Addiction and Views from a Tortured Libido. We have published an article by Robert Williams on Lowbrow Art Links;RobertWilliams
Helios
2008-10-27 16:51:00 The devastating full-length follow-up to 'Eingya', and a triumphant return to Keith Kenniff's patented instrumental electronics.Keith Kenniff has been with Type from the very beginning, and now as Type is well into its fifth year he offers us his fifth gorgeous release. In five years Keith?s style has evolved constantly, with his drifting piano compositions taking the Goldmund label and the Helios sound moving out from undreneath the clipped beat-heavy electronics of ?Unomia? and into a more unique place, even incorporating vocals on the ?Ayres? mini album. ?Caesura? however is his ?proper? follow-up to the acclaimed ?Eingya?, and sees Keith return to the instrumental sound he knows so well. In fact in many ways ?Caesura? is a more electronic work than its predecessors, blending layer upon layer of synthesizer and adding his assured drumming to come up with the perfect meeting of indie-pop and ambient music. The haunting cinematic element is still present of course, but these son... More About: Music
Hey Colossus
2008-10-26 10:36:00 Hey colossus it?s a five year existence band from the south of London with three previously acclaimed albums released, the latest one on the famous Sludge rock label Shifty Records. With the release of ?Happy birthday? they complete a sequence of headlong transmutation ranging from power rock muscle along with Krautrock craziness on their first album and then jumping to pure sludge rock momentum and strange bits of Jazz, more Krautrock instrumental weirdness on their subsequent release and finally their previous album ?Project: Death? comes with an amalgamation of Death metal riffs and powerful double bass discharge with extreme sequences of guitar noise and more sludge metal swampy landscapes. As you can see Hey Colossus is a band compromised with a series of investigations on specific matter, making an specialization out of it. They are certainly creating a name for the genre with the quality of their work.?Happy birthday? continues the way of dense Sludge rock and a heavy infusio... More About: Music
Superheavygoatass
2008-10-25 11:19:00 Choosing their name on a lark, following a show promoter's misprinting (and quite a bit of alcohol), stoner rockers Super Heavy Goat Ass (originally NO2) were formed in 1999, first residing in Lubbock before relocating to Austin, TX. There vocalist/guitarist Russell Abbott, guitarist Derek Halfmann, and drummer Tim Hurt spent some time getting their proverbial sh*t together, and briefly worked with Dixie Witch bassist Curt Christenson. Following his permanent replacement by Brent Boepple, Super Heavy Goat Ass recorded a self-titled debut in 2002, a split LP with fellow Texans Southern Gun Culture in 2003 (even borrowing their drummer Trent Parker for the occasion), and then a second full-length entitled 60,000 Years for local Arclight Records in 2005.And now 2008 with their new album Nemesis they bring you 100% rock rooted southern blues. This is a awesome a straightforward rock album without bullshit.Links;Superheavygoatass - NemesisSuperheavygoatass @ MySpaceArclight Records More About: Music
Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat
2008-10-25 10:29:00 After an initial wave of entangled, bowed-string dissonance, you'll soon find yourself struck by how closely this album orbits the Current 93 sonic globe, with Stef Irritant's vocals all-but imitating David Tibet's devilish delivery. There's less of an obvious folk influence at work here though, and 'Between Skylla And Charybdis' is a more of a diabolic avant-rock incantation than doom-folk prophecy. Next comes the medieval organ tones and ceremonial repetitions of 'Dyptich', whose title, in conjunction with those contrivedly silly vocals invites some sort of joke involving the word 'dipstick'. Finally, 'Miserere' arrives at the sinister, pagan folk recipe Nebulous Dreams has been hinting at all along, installing some bells, fingerpicked acoustic guitar and (more likely than not) a Maypole.Info stolen from; Boomkat Links;Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat - The Nebulous DreamsKiss The Anus Of A Black Cat @ MySpace Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat Public Guilt & Implied SoundKRAAK... More About: Music
Jarboe
2008-10-24 12:57:00 Mahakali is an Indian goddess, the feminized version of Mahakala or Death. Often considered a destroyer goddess in the Hindu tradition and a greater form of the goddess K?l?, Mahakali is often depicted as a sort of warrior mother fighting against hostile forces. She is the Mother Divine.Perhaps post-punk vocalist Jarboe is another sort of destroyer goddess. After 14 years in front of musical pioneers Swans, her solo career has twisted and turned down darkened hallways and attractive mountaintops with little consideration given to how things appear or how things seem. Instead, Jarboe?s consideration was entirely focused on The Real.From a milieu of diversity, including snake-handling rituals in the Mississippi delta as a little one and parents who served in the FBI, Jarboe sprang out with a folklore all her own. As she grew into an artist, her ideals of connectivity and united experience never wavered.Coming after the release of her intense collaboration with Jesu?s Justin K. Broadri... More About: Music
Facundo Argańaraz
2008-10-24 12:56:00 Facundo Argańaraz is an artist currently living in SanFrancisco, California. Originally from Argentina, Facundo studied Illustration and Painting since a very young age; later he pursued the study of Law and Politic Science at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.After traveling worldwide for more than three years without pause, Facundo arrived in California to pursue his career as a painter and visual artist. Currently, his work consists primarily of large format paintings and installations that ?accentuate, without ideological references or subjectivities, the magnetism of monolithic presence as perennial mediators of dualism and consciousness.?Links;Facundo Argańaraz More About: Facundo
Pombagira
2008-10-22 19:38:00 London?s Pombagira have unleashed a monster. This is a double CD, over 90mins of slow, heavy, crushing doom with some intense stories to tell. A bit like France?s Monarch but without the female vocals. Only 4 tracks are presented here and it is best to be wickedly stoned and/or patient otherwise you will not understand or enjoy this musical art form. I like the way the band has cool unique intros and endings to their songs. No real guitar solos are presented here but some pretty dirty, nasty twisted guitar at times lies underneath the corpse of the DOOM riff? Doom on!.Info stolen from; Lowcut.dk For most, announcing your arrival on the scene with a double CD would be an act of arrogance akin to striding into a job interview wearing a crown and cape, scoffingly rapping your prospective employers across the knuckles with a jewel-encrusted sceptre. Just as well, then, that London?s Pombagira are actually pretty good, combining the slothful, drawn-out gait of early Corrupted with the l... More About: Music
The Alps
2008-10-22 17:12:00 Already available as a super limited lp (we may still have a few left), now finally available on cd, the latest from Bay Area new-kraut-folk-age combo Alps , which finds the band sounding more high fidelity than ever, and more kraut than folk, which in both cases suits them big time. For those new to Alps, a rundown of several members should help give you an idea of where their sound is coming from: our very own Scott Hewicker (Troll), Alexis Georgopoulos (Arp, formerly of Tussle) and Jefre Cantu (Tarentel, Colophon, J.C. Ledesma). But Alps is definitely more than the sum of its parts, their sound is quite varied, expansive, even epic at times, but simultaneously, they manage to craft a sound simple and solid, based as much on rhythm and texture as on song and melody. On past releases, Alps were a much more ramshackle concern, which at the time was definitely a big part of their sound, and thus set them firmly amongst the lo-fi cd-r drone folks scene, their sound a sort of ghostly Ap... More About: Music , The Alps
Adam Gottlieb
2008-10-21 21:08:00 This is the classic book 'The Art and Science of Cooking with Cannabis' by Adam Gottlieb. It features the main points of the book concerning the cooking of cannabis, some funny quotations and almost all the recipes converted to European measurement units....This is one of the funniest/educational books I've read recently. And damn all this cooking and stuff is awesome, if your not nibble the candy you are making to much.....The effects here will be less pronounced during the initial stages than those from smoking. But as the minutes progress, the "hash eater's" high may become far more overwhelming than anything that the smoker has ever experienced. This may be furthered by the fact that the eater does not get the same immediate signals which tell the smoker that he has had enough. So when he finally comes on, he may really come on-and still keep coming on." "For any and all the above reasons, ingested cannabis is often more hallucinogenic than the smoke." "One may eat ...
Black Noise Cannon
2008-10-21 18:31:00 With a running time of just short of an hour for just 3 songs, and definitely a very dark outlook in the lyrics and general titles/artwork combination, I was expecting, nay hoping for a full on doom spree.In fact, this is more of a minimal ambient spree as the first 8 minutes of "A descriptive introduction to the silent war" is beatless, and all just based on beautifully swarming, floating atmospheres, before the introduction of marching band style snare rolls add to the drama, hypnosis and all round brilliance of this opening piece. Finally, at the 10 minute mark, the rest of the band drops in the thoroughly evil, plodding, sinister doom notes that brings to mind Esoteric mostly, and Bethlehem (the slower parts of the Dark Metal album). BLACK NOISE CANNON manage to convey their mood amazingly well with very simplistic notation, and the intensity of the middle, calmer section, with single chiming guitar notes and deep, eerie piano hits almost freezes time.Vocals arrive after just ov... More About: Music , Black , Cannon , Noise
Campbell & Lanegan
2008-10-20 16:53:00 It was another surprising detour in a career composed almost exclusively of detours: Isobel Campbell , former Belle & Sebastian member and sometime solo act, teamed with Mark Lanegan, taciturn former Screaming Trees singer and serial collaborator. With the release of their Ballad of the Broken Seas, the "Beauty and the Beast" lines came fast and furious. So did the Nancy and Lee comparisons, which were probably welcome. The pairing of Lanegan and Campbell may have come as a shock to fans of the latter (and maybe even the former) but the music itself was less than revelatory. Indeed, the Lee Hazelwood/Nancy Sinatra template is iconic for a reason, and to borrow it means to risk imitating them. It also means treading closely to Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker, or any other somber, late-1960s orchestral pop act.Still, the results were beautiful and brooding, with Campbell's songwriting significantly enhanced by this very specific setting. Sequels, however, are inherently built on familiari... More About: Music
Eden Express
2008-10-19 11:17:00 Que Amour Que (Holy Mountain) While just about everything Holy Mountain puts out is awesome they also tend to focus on the heavier side of the underground musical landscape. With this debut by Eden Express they're showing their softer side, while managing to keep the awesomeness on full throttle! There would be no other time for this record to get released then smack dab in the midst of summer as this is some sun-soaked-tripped-out-bake-at-the-beach- psych-pop that we can't get enough of. Featuring one member of Cloudland Canyon, this is a group who understand how to evoke colorful and vivid sensations. Mixing Eastern tinged psychedelia with delicious hints of washed out samba with such an effortless and breezy delivery. This is a timeless sounding record that could just as easily be some lost early '70s South American psychedelic gem (which the cover design suggests) as much as a much more drugged out Antena or Brightblack Morning Light jamming on the beach with some Finnish folk... More About: Music
Leather Nun
2008-10-18 22:50:00 Comprised of solid tracks of beefy girth, rotund melodies, confident playing, glutonic volume, swift dynamics, majestic vocals, a lot of this material is directly derived and even somewhat lifted from seminal bands like Pentagram, Saint Vitus and The Obsessed.Info stolen from; Stonrrock.com (Special thanks to r1ng0 from Stoned Forever for putting this one up!)Links;Leather Nun - Absence Of LightLeather Nun @ MySpaceTEKSTPsycheDOOMelic More About: Music
Sebastian Gögel
More articles from this author:2008-10-18 16:37:00 Sebastian Gögel uses painting to depict the world of his imagination. In contrast to the heroic, romantic images created by Richter, Gögel tends to paint nightmarish scenes peopled by monstrous beings, suggestive of some unknown subterranean world. In doing so, he follows in the tradition of Jörg Immendorff and, a generation earlier, Georg Grosz...One senses clearly that Gögel is concerned, not only with a commentary and interpretation with regard to supposed reality, but also with painting and drawing a private world whose events are determined by its own laws. Thus not only are the pictures focal points of cognition and criticism, but in like measure they function as perspectival points for the feelings and thoughts of the artist...Gögel follows simple and concrete tracks here and pursues the path from outside to inside. Many of his figures stuff some loathsome food or other into themselves, sit at a table and fill their mouths and stomachs with strings of sausages, scoop food fro... More About: Sebastian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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