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Hair Police
2008-10-18 12:40:00 Lexington, Kentucky/Ypsilanti, Michigan?s Hair Police make a brand of cheap and grisly noise music. Certainty of Swarms is the trio?s nth release and, by my count, its sixth ?proper? album. Trevor Tremain, Mike Connelly and Robert Beatty are not unusual amongst top-tier noise units for offsetting a mixed-format torrent of limited release, improvised music with loosely themed full-lengths. Other Dusted writers have done an admirable job of tracing the band?s development across its varied discography - such a good job, in fact, that I wonder if Certainty of Swarms is, as Mason Jones said of its predecessor The Empty Quarter, basically redundant. To its credit, the new album features a cautious move back to the in-the-red tantrums of Blow out Your Blood - though the move is a somewhat predictable one, considering the corner they painted themselves into with Constantly Terrified. But Certainty of Swarms doesn?t abandon the group?s still-growing fixation on dread-inducing creep that firs... More About: Music
Esbjörn Svensson Trio
2008-10-18 12:38:00 It's too easy to fall into the trap of calling the last recording by a recently deceased artist "his best ever" or "a fitting end to his recorded legacy," but in the case of the final release by Swedish jazz superstars e.s.t. before their titular leader, pianist Esbjörn Svensson, died in a tragic diving accident in June, 2008, it's the only way to describe it. Leucocyte is an album that's like nothing the trio has released before, yet it possesses the unmistakable personality that caused the group to rise from obscurity in the mid-1990s to rock star-like fame (at least, in relative jazz terms) in recent years with albums including Tuesday Wonderland (ACT, 2006) and the particularly noteworthy Live in Hamburg (ACT, 2007).Culled from two days of free improvisations recorded in an Australian studio in the middle of a tour, it's proof that, despite the production veneer that gave earlier albums like Viaticum (ACT, 2005) a pop-like sensibility, e.s.t. was, at its heart, an improvisin... More About: Music , Trio
Robedoor
2008-10-17 14:06:00 Major new LP from this consistently impressive ritual/Industrial west coast duo. Five tracks on this one, moving from a base of primal Amon Duul-styled thunder through almost impenetrably dense keyboard clusters and disembodied epiglottal visioning. Can?t think of anyone else outside of Double Leopards who can so perfectly position themselves right on the borderline between heavy cultic rock mass and subliminally beautiful soundfields. The final track here is simply gorgeous, a sparse keyboard melody seemingly broadcast from beyond the event horizon subsumed by interstellar chatter and luminous electronics but the whole thing is a stone trip from start to finish, a beautiful slice of mystery that would be worshipped on the psych scene if it hadda been recorded in a castle in Bavaria in 1973. As it is, they?re broadcasting now, so get the hell on board. Their best to date..Info stolen from; volcanic tongue Links;Robedoor - Shapeshifter SlaveRobedoor @ MySpaceNotNotFunOlde English Sp... More About: Music
The Mirimar Disaster
2008-10-16 17:29:00 As scenesters around the country collectively fail to realise that grindcore was a joke whose punchline gets less funny with each uninspired repetition, there are a few British bands pushing at the boundaries of metal - pushing hard enough to rupture its confines and set themselves free of clichés. One such band are The Miramar Disaster ; the mini-album Volumes (an EP by any other name) is their second release, and it is almost impossible to categorise conveniently.Foe example, Volumes draws heavily on metal tropes, especially for the chord-work, but the rhythms and grooves are more like something transplanted from post-hardcore. Throw in some Tool-esque progressive lead lines and quirky time signatures, and The Miramar Disaster become a very challenging and rewarding proposition to listen to - unless formulas make you feel comfortable, of course, in which case running away screaming with your fingers jammed in your ears would be a great plan.It?s a real sensory rollercoaster; everyt... More About: Music
Bongripper & Winters In Osaka
2008-10-15 20:22:00 Imagine what would happen if you took the gentle Canadian hippies behind Nadja's blissful ambient drone-pop, locked them in a room stocked with Merzbow records, three used copies of Streetcleaner, and a drum machine, pumped them full of angel dust, and then sat back to watch the fun.Sounds pretty interesting, right? Well, now imagine the aural equivalent, and you're pretty close to what Winter's in Osaka may sound like on any given day. That is, unless they've decided to indulge their powerviolent grindcore roots that morning, or gotten caught up in a swamp's worth of drone-heavy doom after their afternoon siesta; perhaps they're in the mood to worship the Sunn 0))) well into the night. No matter what genre these Chicagoan noiseniks choose to explore, it's safe to say that they're going to do it a hell of a lot of justice, and inject some fresh venom into any number of dead scenes.Meat Ditch, their recent collaboration with Bongripper, has yielded a potent crop of hypnotic, ... More About: Music , Winters
Expo '70
2008-10-14 18:48:00 As regular readers of the aQ list can no doubt attest to, we sure do love droning guitars. Whether downtuned and mostly motionless, or frenzied and buzzing, or blown out and shimmery, there's just something about the sound of those steel strings vibrating projected through massive walls of amplification. There's the primal primeval sound itself, the actual drone, a sound found everywhere in nature, then there's the power, the amplification, this transformed sound. The drone is most certainly linked to the machinations of life and the universe, we can only imagine, the Big Bang resulted in an aeons-long drone that hung over the nascent Earth, the sound of insects, the growls of beasts, the rumble of thunder, the white noise of the surf, all harnessed and sculpted into a more modern, more human experience of sound, into actual music. But the best drone music, with the most resonance, is the music that conflates the two. That creates a listening experience, wherein we find ourselves... More About: Music , Expo
SerpentCult
2008-10-13 16:53:00 Formed in the summer of 2006, Belgium's SerpentCult got together with just one common goal; to write the most unorthodox and heavy riffs of the last few decades! Starting of as a three piece, the band soon started writing the first tunes, and the first gigs were already booked before the whole live set was even finished or any vocal line was written. During the first months, Steven and Frederic made some horrible attempts to take the vocal duties, but soon made the wise decision that they should keep on doing what they were good at, and that didn't include singing. Oh Humbleness? By the time Michelle joined the ranks as a full time vocalist, the first EP was already completely written, but it just needed the finishing touch on vocals. So in January 2007, SerpentCult went to the studio to record their debut EP 'Trident Nor Fire', to be released by the Swedish I Hate Records. In no time, the band gathered quite a following, and the release of 'Trident Nor Fire' in April 2007 was... More About: Music
These Arms Are Snakes
2008-10-11 12:50:00 To say time's tied a lot of baggage to punk is no understatement. Between its tendency to recycle rather than innovate, shun new ideas, stick to the safe shelter of the scene and ineffectively juggling its history and ideology, it's a wonder it hasn't completely reverted to an old man's preservationist society by now.So how does a band stay true to punk's core values without finding itself bogged down with all that baggage? Simple: It simply cuts it all free. These Arms Are Snakes once again produce another effort that channels the best of punk's spirit as it avoid entanglement in all of the unsavory and restricting elements of its chosen style.Using post-hardcore as a springboard to launch itself, TAAS's follow-up to 2006's Easter (review) (Jade Tree) pushes the band further into uncharted territory. This time around, These Arms sever the final thread to their roots. Tail Swallower and Dove is as much the product of a rock act as any firebrand hardcore outfit, as the band t... More About: Music
Red Garland Quintet
2008-10-10 18:44:00 The distinctive pianist Red Garland , tenor saxophonist John Coltrane (then 31 and already breaking away from the pack), and trumpeter Donald Byrd, along with the supportive bassist George Joyner and drummer Art Taylor, perform five jazz standards on this CD reissue. Highlights include "Soft Winds," "Undecided," and an explosive version of "Two Bass Hit" that foreshadowed the rendition that Trane would record with Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley the following year. High-quality hard bop from some true "Young Lions.".Info stolen from; AMG Links;Red Garland Quintet - High PressureRed Garland @ WIKIConcord Music
Fujiya & Miyagi
2008-10-10 13:49:00 Imaginethat Fujiya & Miyagi are mask-wearing technicians dissecting music, keen to magnify particles of sound to create a pulsing antidote to the ordinary. They speak in tongues, using language as a rhythm, picking words that sound good, rhyming ?jigsaws? with ?carnivores?.Their songs are incisive snapshots of real lives that make household appliances sound threatening. They are steeped in vintage music from evocative krautrock to deep soul, with wafts of early Human League synth, Floydian Englishness and the throbbing groove of Tom Tom Club, all filtered for modern times.In total, Fujiya & Miyagi don?t really sound like anything. Instead, they sound like everything condensed into perfectly arranged three minute chunks of infectious pop music, a strange hybrid of James Brown on Valium and Wire gone pop. Or maybe Serge Gainsbourg with a PhD in electronics backed by David Byrne?s Eno-produced scratchy guitar mixed by MF Doom. It?s Darwinism gone mad.Formed in 2000 as an electronic duo... More About: Music
Bardo Pond
2008-10-09 17:35:00 Bardo Pond was the flagship band of Philly's "Psychedelphia" space rock movement, which also included the likes of Aspera, Asteroid No. 4, the Azusa Plane, and tangentially the Lilys. (check out drugmusic.com for some tastes of psychedelphia). Explicitly drug-inspired -- their titles were filled with obscure references to psychedelics -- they favored lengthy, deliberate sound explorations filled with all the hallmarks of modern-day space rock: droning guitars, thick distortion, feedback, reverb, and washes of white noise. Hints of blues structure often cropped up, but Bardo Pond's earliest roots lay with avant-garde noisemakers from the realm of free jazz and from New York's no wave movement and downtown Knitting Factory scene. As their musicianship improved, the band gradually incorporated more traditional influences, but maintained their affinity for the outer fringes of music. Thus, their brand of space rock echoed not just genre staples like Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, but jam-h... More About: Music
Jonathan Abbou
2008-10-07 20:52:00 French photographer Jonathan Abbou riffs on archaic photo styles such as the old "Exotic Orient" photo cards of the late 19th century to create highly textured and successful work; Toning by saturation, colorization, sepia toning, work in acrylic flat tint, gilding on printing, liquid emulsion... As many techniques having a direct connection with matter in a chemistry bordering on alchemy to get that so specific atmosphere of lightly faded colors to take us in an eroticism of the past, reinterpreting the masters or making old-fashioned portraits of contemporary or timeless themes.Links;Jonathan Abbou
Megazilla
2008-10-07 17:07:00 MegaZilla, a bass and drum duo from Colombia, Missouri wears their version of gross heaviness with a unique grace many bands can't attain. Comprised of Joey Hook and Corey Cottrell, who played together in rock outfit Grand Canyon back in ol' MO, the two united over their experience in "heavy, brooding bands," explains bassist Cottrell. Influenced by bands like EnemyMine, Harvey Milk, The Melvins, and High on Fire, MegaZilla is dynamic, and rich with sonic landscapes just waiting to be battered with their jarring, alluvial tone.EnemyMine's Mike Kunka played an 8-string bass that Cottrell says "didn't sound like anything I'd ever heard in my life," and more like "this very bizarre guitar." Returning home one night after tending bar equipped with a fresh tax return and access to the all-knowing inter-web, he perused Ebay and found himself an 8-string bass. Though his immediate reaction in the morning was regret because it was hideous and he hadn't established an understanding wit... More About: Music
A Day of Pigs
2008-10-06 18:50:00 I was really intrigued by New Jersey?s A Day of Pigs earlier this year when I heard a couple of tracks off of their EP, ?The Oath?. It was a mix of doom, metal, noise and hardcore that didn?t adhere to any particular formula or genre trappings. I never got a chance to pick it up but I remembered that the name and the music were damn good.So now we flash forward to November and the band are on the verge of releasing a full-length album through the awesome, underground label Spare Change Records. ?Lecherous? is the name of the album and it is an armed to the teeth affair with 10 brand new tracks, 2 interludes and a cut off of their previous EP. This is some really killer stuff, I got to say. They kind of remind me of Acid Bath in the way that they splice doom with other elements of metal in a twisted, unholy manner. Don?t take that comment in the sense that A Day of Pigs sound like Acid Bath because this band has a sound all of their own and I only used that reference to put an emphas... More About: Music
Oren Ambarchi
2008-10-05 14:45:00 Having recently spent time scouring a darker aspect of his music, releasing on Southern Lord, and performing as part of SunnO))), Oren Ambarchi's output of late has taken a turn away from the warmer, more accessible climes of his wonderful "Grapes From The Estate" album. Within the past year or so, the Australian drone maestro has turned his attention to the raw, less sanitised tonal explorations of Stacte Motors and Lost Like A Star, both of which captured Ambarchi at his most vehemently experimental, using elements of mechanical automation to propagate a kind of industrialised drone, divorcing the more uneven, human elements from the compositional process. "In The Pendulum's Embrace" finds Ambarchi returning both to the Touch label, and the more emotive, personable sound that characterised his most enduring work. Clearly very much at home experimenting with lower frequency spectra, 'Fever, A Warm Poison' quietly plunges itself into an ocean of bass, the guitar's bottom end re... More About: Music
Blood Ceremony
2008-10-04 13:14:00 Sure, there are a mess of bands out there that are brilliantly effective at channeling the '70's, but not that many have had as strong an impact as Sweden's Witchcraft. Their debut did more than just ape vintage Pentagram ? it sounded like it was actually recorded at the start of that decade and was a long lost gem from another era.For better or worse, numerous like-minded bands have spawned in their wake. The latest is Canada's Blood Ceremony , who goes so far as to label its music as ?witch rock.? Sure, the band probably means they're occult influenced, but given the vintage feel of Blood Ceremony and Witchcraft's catalog, it's hard not to draw comparisons.And yet while Blood Ceremony does share some of the same Pentagram- and Roky Erikson -isms, they're strong enough to be taken on their own (provided you aren't familiar with Jex Thoth, that is). Blood Ceremony, as it's been said on this website, sounds like Jethro Tull had Tony Iommi joined the band back in 1968 - blues... More About: Music
Lazerwolfs
2008-10-04 12:42:00 Unlike their back story about how in the early days of internet message boards there was this discussion thread to come up with an outrageous band name for their new band, Lazerwolfs' music is pretty straightforward and their focus is pretty narrow. It's all about the heavy groove, the power-trio energy and in your face hard rock, 70s style.I can imagine how effective this kind of rock n roll will be played live. The band understands this as well. That's why they seem to have set-up their rehearsal pad one fine weekend to just plug in and record their latest album. Lazerwolfs is like you and me, just more kick ass. They have their regular jobs; the music and the whole throwback, is just their passion and they don't really care if a label signs them or not. And that's why their previous albums are available for free downloads and that'sexactly why they've done a DIY with this new release titled La Bruja as well.With the album opener All Together Now, you're already subjected ... More About: Music
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
2008-10-03 23:52:00 So I'm a third of the way through my first listen of Margot and the Nuclear So and So's new record Animal! -- well, the first of their two simultaneous releases, I should say, the other being Not Animals -- and good grief, man, they did it. Transcended my expectations, that is. Completely. If you'll remember I was a little non-plussed upon hearing the new material live this past Spring. Well, let's just say, I'm glad that I reserved judgement, because these songs are just fucking swell, friends. What's more, I'm having the exact opposite reaction that I expected to have (granted this is only on cursory listen, so take it for what it's worth): The more textured numbers are striking a decidedly sweeter chord with me than the sparser ones. I'm listening right now on cheap Altec Lansing computer speakers; seriously can't wait to get off work so I can bump this shit on a decent system. -- Dave HerreraMonday morning post script/second impressions: Now that I've had more time to... More About: Music
God Is An Astronaut
2008-10-03 22:48:00 As any working mother of four from middle England will tell you, drug dealers are a menace to society. They hang around outside school gates waiting for innocent children to come out so they can get them hooked on crack. The first hit will always be free, and then the quality of their items-for-sale will drop off sharply. Before you know it, your little tyke will be hooked, and whatever they buy will never be enough, as it'll never recreate the same first euphoric high they experienced.While I'm not suggesting the members of God Is An Astronaut have produced an inferior product, it wouldn't have hurt them to put a warning label on their new disc. On their previous albums, Lloyd Hanney (drums, synths) and Niels and Torsten Kinsella (everything else) created music that packed a visceral punch to the senses. Their last album, All Is Violent, All Is Bright, was pretty much the aural equivalent of the finest crystal meth money could buy ? it entered your system and set off a depth cha... More About: Music
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
2008-10-02 19:43:00 The proverbial Bohren intro is followed by a gentle slide, an enduring, slowly swelling sound and the faint echo of an organ. Film music? Only after the first, long 46 seconds of ?Staub? (English: Dust) does the drum beat finally make its mark on the acoustic flow, though it takes no toll on the tempo of the track, only to underscore it ? unusually ? in its slowness. There?s not a shadow of doubt: this is pure Bohren, brewed and bottled in Bohren country, the new 2008 album with the surprising name, ?Dolores?. The name is not the only new thing about ?Dolores?. That?s to be expected. Bohren have a habit of producing something new. Twenty years is no flash in the pan. It?s worth taking the time to re-listen to ?Gore Motel? (1994) or ?Midnight Radio? (1995) to recap on the astonishing path which the seemingly static formation by the name of Bohren have followed since they began in 1988 and released since their debut album in 1994.What?s that dripping noise? Orgelblut? (English: organ ... More About: Music , Club
Falcon
2008-10-01 20:37:00 It's been a long wait, both since the last Falcon album and since this sophomore effort was recorded. And a wait filled with anticipation and impatience it was, because the debut was just a stone monster of 70's influenced hard rock and heavy metal. Definitely one to show all the pretenders how it should be done. Has it been worth the wait? Well let's press play and find out..."Jimmy Clark" kicks in with a somewhat swinging groove over laid with a raw and heavy riff with just a touch of doom showing. Immediately it's obvious that not only has Falcon not lost anything since the debut, but they've built impressively on that solid foundation. The song is strongly written and grabs the listener's attention immediately engrossing them in the tale of race track tragedy.The rhythm section is an absolute joy, nailing the song down like a 20 ton hammer but also adventurous and flowing and through it all tighter than the proverbial duck's ass. But then what else would you expect when t... More About: Music
Siena Root
2008-09-29 17:04:00 I've been listening to a lot of Stoner Rock/Metal of late (I blame our fearless leaders at TMO for sending me heaps of promos of this type) and overall it's been interesting to see exactly how my perception of it's changed. I initally thought this genre was pretty much impossible to screw up; surely big riffs and a really druggy attitude aren't all that hard to get right.However, turns out that really isn't the case. Certainly the riffs are easy enough to get right- get a minor pentatonic scale and run it up and down a few different ways- but there's so many, I guess unquantifiable aspects to it. The production has to be nailed in that satisfyingly 70's manner, everything has to be authentic and with a satisfying good times/bad times vibe while still delivering some ideas that haven't been beaten to death....And luckily for us, SIENA ROOT manage to deliver a very pleasing style of Stoner Rock. It's certainly closer to the gentler psychedelic stuff then anything that's part... More About: Music , Siena , Root
Gomer Pyle
2008-09-28 13:08:00 This is the second album from Gomer Pyle in 15 years. You can call these guys lazy if you want, but when you?re finished listening you know it was worth the waiting. Damn this is good, they got groovy beats, bass, awesome hallucinating guitar and all played loud as fuck. So when you like, pink Floyd, Kyuss , Pearl Jam this is a perfect blend of all three. Some krautrock-ish trance, spacesoundscapes and some serious repeating riffs. Hell, you got to love these guys. I realy hope to see these guys on the Roadburn 2009 festival, this is a band a small country like Holland can be proud of. I?m not spending more words on this, go listen to this album, and when you?re finished go buy it from Spacejam-Records or Suburban. and go see a show when they play in you neighbourhood. peace; mr.A Links; Gomer Pyle - Idiots Savant Gomer Pyle @ MySpace Gomer Pyle Spacejam-Records Suburban More About: Music
Sunn O)))
2008-09-27 12:54:00 Last year Sunn 0))) was invited to perform at a ancient cathedral in Bergen Norway . The performance was captured via 24 track mobile recording and the resuluts were pressed onto double 180 gram vinyl. This recording will be available exclusively on vinyl only. There will not be a digital release (cd or downloads). Pure analog! The 0))) lineup for this performance includes Attila Csihar (Mayhem) on vocals, Steve Moore (Earth, Ascend) on the churchs' legendary pipe organ and Norwegian native Lasse Marhaug on electronics.The packaging for "Dømkirke" was designed with the utmost attention to detail and quality that perfectly compliments the audio content. Each 180 gram vinyl comes in a heavy stock, full color inner sleeve that features stunning photographs from the performance. The cover of the gatefold jackets feature exclusive art by Tanya Stene (Burzum, Ulver, Darkthrone).The jackets themselves are ultra-durable extra thick cardboard stock with thick, luxurious lamination. These we... More About: Music , Sunn O
Kamchatka
2008-09-26 23:15:00 This is our first submission from Rochester, NY-based Grooveyard Records and what a powerhouse it is. Kamchatka take their name from the volcanically active Russian peninsula that divides the Okhotsk and the Bering Sea, and on first listen you?d swear you?d unearthed an early ?70?s Robin Trower classic. The Swedish trio have not only perfected gut-wrenching blues-guitar riffs that erupt spontaneously, but back them up with one of the heaviest rhythm sections of the decade. Breaking it down into equal parts, we start with singer/guitarist Thomas Andersson, a student of all things graceful and fluid in blues-soaked guitar. Unafraid to amp up a Hendrix chord progression as in ?Out Of My Way,? or shoot for a more Stevie Ray Vaughan drive in ?No,? Andersson caresses each note ? one at a time and lives through its distinctive sound. Then there?s the voice; guttural and gruff, but smooth like Irish whiskey. Bassist, Rojer Ojersson adds his voice both figuratively and physically in the Sabb... More About: Music
Blackstrap
2008-09-26 13:06:00 Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, Blackstrap is one of Europe?s most exciting new bands. They play blissful rock and roll drenched in the warm rays of fuzzed out guitars. Their Tee Pee Records debut ?Steal My Horses and Run? conjures up a lush atmosphere that is equal parts hypnotic rock, dream pop, and shoegaze. These sonic landscapes stretch over twelve tracks, drawing upon the inspirations of genre pioneers Spiritualized, Primal Scream, and The Jesus and Mary Chain.Formed in 2001 by primary songwriters Jonatan Westh and Maria Lindén, Blackstrap delivered their debut album ?Ghost Children? in 2003. The album quickly gained international attention upon release, gathering substantial airplay, including an exclusive live performance on P3, a Swedish national radio show.Intent on encapsulating their energetic live sound for their next record, Blackstrap recorded ?Steal My Horses And Run? in a bunker in Amsterdam during frigid cold weather. The only way to keep warm was to play. Environm... More About: Music
Megapuss
2008-09-25 20:35:00 MMegapuss is like the last half of the film Joe Vs The Volcano. You must understand this, they sing for all the ducks and all the hams, for the things that are clearly so sheik and Megapuss-esque.Please know this, they play pop songs.Megapuss is Devendra Banhart, Greg Rogove (Priestbird), Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes, Little Joy), Noah Georgeson (member of Banhart's band and producer), and Aziz Ansari (actor/comedian). "A legitimate band of talented musicians, capable of effortlessly tossing off the finest in California-style tambourine jams". After a penis-skirt wearing performance (yes, you read that correctly) in Hell-Ay last month, Devendra Banhart (along with Priestbird?s Greg Rogove) has been busy recording a full-length album (tentatively titled Surfin and set for a 2008 release) with his side project band, Megapuss. The duo started the project as a joke and even recruited the mega-funny Aziz Ansari to sing a song about duck racism ( ?Duck People, Duck Man?), but thankfull... More About: Music
Travis Millard
2008-09-25 20:16:00 Travis Millard is the current CEO/Janitor of Fudge Factory Comics international, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Fudge Factory Comics specializes in common archaic scribbles, doodle awing, zine making, funny stories, product design, animation, installation, skateboard injuries and local sunflower seed distance spitting champion. Links;Travis MillardTravis Millard ::Interview:: More About: Travis
Conifer
2008-09-24 17:38:00 Though Conifer has received quite a bit of critical praise they've somehow managed to live off the grid for the past six years. With Crown Fire Conifer is finally getting the exposure they deserve. Mixing post-rock, kraut-rock, metal and pschychedlia they have created this relentlessly driving and hypnotic masterpiece. Crown Fire's only vocals are from Oxbow's Eugene Robinson fronting the albums final 13 minute epic. LP version limited to 500 copies with 200 on color vinyl.Conifer has been writing primarily instrumental music with a lawless take on the styles from which they've taken cue. New content is found by way of augmenting brutality and suspense with time. Conifer seems to reckon with the notions of bands like Enemymine, Mogwai, or Grails while taking an approach toward their music that's entirely meditative (as opposed to premeditated). Minimal, ethereal passages are narcotically lengthened and crescendos of distortion are sustained well beyond the boundaries adhered to... More About: Music
Kiryk Drewinski
More articles from this author:2008-09-22 19:52:00 Kiryk Drewinski was born in Poznan (Poland) in 1978 and came with his family to West-Berlin in 1985, where he soon became a musician playing the guitar as well as composing. In the mid 1990s Kiryk begins to design posters for the bands he is playing with: The Riot Weed, Strawfever, The Liquid Visions, The Magnificent Brotherhood and others. Eventually Kiryk also gets into doing posters for other bands. On his posters you will find names like: The Electric Prunes, Baby Woodrose, Painted Air, Siena Root, The Magic Twangers, Cherry Overdrive, Sun Dial, Cpt. Howdy, Bevis Frond, Vibravoid and many others. After a sojurn to the art college between 2000-2003 Kiryk starts to design LP and CD covers, logos, T-shirts, stickers, posters and flyers for bands and clubs all over the world under the moniker Kiryk Rock Design. Kiryk's art is very much inspired by the mid- and late 60s posters of the psychedelic era. That is because Kiryk is a great lover of psychedelic rock music from that period.... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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