Dreamend - The Long Forgotten Friend [2008]

Dreamend is the main musical output of Ryan Graveface, Graveface Records' owner/sole employee and part time guitarist for psychedelic oddballs Black Moth Super Rainbow. Since its’ inception in 2002, Graveface has released albums by Monster Movie (ex-Slowdive), The Loose Salute (Mojave 3 side project), Kid Dakota, Appleseed Cast, Art in Manila (ex-Azure Ray), Octopus Project, BMSR and many more.

The Long Forgotten Friend's 14 songs (10 songs on the cd version) are loosely based on stories and memories of a relative from the far past, whose tragic life has metamorphosed into legend over the course of time. This is music to listen to while driving through abandoned cities and ghost towns, imagining their disintegration. Rather than drums making the melody as on their previous efforts, banjo and vocals are at the foreground of the landscape. The drumming is minimalist, almost spastic and, as always, the guitars are the ghosts. Dreamend has taken a darker, folky, more nightmarish road than before. Some evidence of this can be found on the tracks Your Kiss, Scratch and Deathwatch Carnival 1965. Conversely, they have found themselves with more poppy, almost sing-alongs than ever before (see Are you Waking and The Tulip Staircase).

Appearances by Toto of the Octopus Project and Darren Jackson of Kid Dakota add some outside sounds, while Darren and John Congleton's (see Explosion in the Sky, Modest Mouse, etc) mixing bring them all together.

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The Long Forgotten Friend [2008]

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Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted [2008]

songs for the broken hearted

Cover Imagethis is an album about love. everyone has known love, and everyone has known loss. love is not just about warm fuzzy feelings, although that would be the part people say they like the best. and in any span of time, love changes and means different things to different people.

i never thought this would be an album. we started these recordings the same weekend i started I Hate People. it was a dark time, and when the tapes were taken off the reels i really thought that was the end of them. they were just going to sit and rot away somewhere.

but between christmas and new year of 2007, carl pulled them out and decided to finish them. he became obsessed with them somehow, i suppose in much the same way i had become obbsessed with finishing my own album earlier in the year. he worked every night for weeks, and as i wandered around the house i heard those songs everytime they played. and some of them made me cry, everytime. they sounded sad to me, because they were started in such a sad time. carl kept talking about wanting to have a new record out for 2008, and i told him only if it was named Songs For The Broken Hearted. he said fine, he just wanted it done.

so in early 2008 he gave me a cdr with what he felt were finished tracks, and asked me to write words for them. i had no ideas, i just kept crying when they were on. it really did not seem important to me to get them done because they only reminded me of things..........and then, one night, i started writing. i wrote words for 4 or 5 songs that night, and started singing the next evening. and we did rough mixes that i listened to for a week or so, and then i pulled out my journals, the gang of them that i had been filling since the fall of 2007, and i picked a few pieces that seemed like they would go with the music. i rerecorded some of the tracks with the new words, and resang some vocals i thought could be better. and the songs went from being all sad to being a reflection of how love works. how we are affected - by ourselves and others. how love makes you swoon and lonliness makes you cry. how when you love someone in this world you love them no matter where they are, and the connections you feel to and with them. love can make you blind, both when things are good and when they are not, and how do you react to being blind? what choices do you make and how do they change the world around you............

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Songs For The Broken Hearted [2008]

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The Secret Machines [2008]

“The band has always been more than our individual egos; we’re no less The Secret Machines now than we’ve ever been,” says singer/bassist/keyboardist Brandon Curtis.

When his brother, co-founder/guitarist/vocalist Ben Curtis, left the band to focus on his band School of Seven Bells in early 2007, Brandon and drummer Josh Garza knew this didn’t mean the end. The energy and emotion that The Secret Machines fans responded to over the last decade, and continue to seek, was intact. Rather than pull the plug, they carried on with their towering third album, Secret Machines.

Longtime friend Phil Karnats, who played with Ben in the Polyphonic Spree precursor Tripping Daisy and filling in for Ben, was installed as permanent guitarist. “He’s an equal third member, musically,” says Josh, who says Karnats was a part of this record’s earliest sessions. “Ben is obviously irreplaceable,” adds Brandon , “but the transition to Phil has been very easy.”

Unfazed and undaunted, and in an industry where even the smallest task can prove Sisyphean, The Secret Machines carved its own destiny. “We didn’t know what was happening with Warner,” Josh says, “but we thought if we were going to go out, we might as well go out with a bang.” In June 2007, the trio went into Manhattan ’s The Magic Shop to record (and Electric Ladyland to mix). When Warner Bros. balked at getting behind a “new” band, The Secret Machines chose to self-release the new album in collaboration with World's Fair Label Group. Josh calls it the album they’ve “always wanted to make.”

Secret Machines also marks the first record on which the same core—Brandon Curtis, Josh, Karnats, and producer Brandon Mason—were used throughout the entire process, from the earliest demos to the final master. The continuity shows in the final results, in the expansive instrumental swells, in the hooks and phrasing, in the tracking itself. Opening with the disaffected, futuristic verse-chorus “Atomic Heels,” The Secret Machines embark on a journey where their appreciation for the Beatles, Zeppelin, and Krautrock is clear but not derivative or bromidic—and they crank up the volume.

Other influences bubble up as well: “Last Believer, Drop Dead” straddles the fence between Pink Floyd atmospheric philosophy and Manic Street Preachers glam-bratty Marxism; “Have I Run Out” sets the Floydian existentialist trip set to drone-y apocalypse; “Underneath the Concrete” marries Devo’s automaton quirk to the Psychedelic Furs’ fashionable introspection.

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The Secret Machines [2008]

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Suki Ewers - Kind of Hazy [2008]

Suki Ewers has spent her career perfecting a glorious, countrified strand of dream-pop as part of bands Mazzy Star, Opal and Anemone, and this new Kramer-produced solo outing is comparable with the slowcore loveliness of Low, the stargazing Nashville sounds of Cortney Tidwell, and most obviously, the opiated balladry of former bandmate Hope Sandoval, particularly on the brilliant opener 'Time After Time'. The songwriting and production are in perfect harmony, sounding like a pedal steel-toting Velvet Underground on 'All Day Long', whilst spouting blasts of echoing guitar distortion and searing synthesizer on 'This Must Be Heaven'. Sidestepping the dream-pop pitfalls, Ewers never hides her songs - or for that matter her vocals - behind the array of studio techniques and effects that help shape this album, and Kind Of Hazy resounds far more clearly than its title might have you believe.

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Kind of Hazy [2008]

"Know What You're Saying" Suki Ewers

S p i r i t u a l i z e d

Following a major breakdown in relations between Spacemen 3 co-frontmen Peter Kember and Jason Pierce, the group's bassist Will Carruthers, drummer Jonny Mattock, and guitarist Mark Refoy decided to form a splinter group, before persuading Pierce to join alongside local friend Steve Evans to create Spiritualized. The band took their name from an adaptation of the text on the back label of a bottle of Pernod. Due to formation from a majority of Spacemen 3 members, a technical clause meant that Spiritualized had to maintain the Spacemen 3 recording contract with Dedicated Records.

The first Spiritualized release, in 1990, was a cover of The Troggs' "Anyway That You Want Me"; the record heralded the official split of Spacemen 3 following contractual wrangles over the band's name and its use in Spiritualized-related promotional material (initial copies of "Anyway That You Want Me" came with a Spacemen 3 logo on the sleeve).

Evans was replaced on keyboards by Pierce's then-girlfriend Kate Radley for the follow-up single, "Run"/"I Want You". A number of singles followed, before the band, in early 1992, released their first LP Lazer Guided Melodies, which had been recorded in Rugby over the previous two years. A second album, Pure Phase, was released in 1995, and a third Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space emerged in 1997 to notable critical acclaim and commercial success.

The musical style of Spiritualized relies heavily on sustained 'pedal' notes and drones. Lazer Guided Melodies and Pure Phase incorporate elements of the shoegazing style, drones and tremolo. The landmark Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space saw the influence of African-American gospel and blues beginning to show, while "walls of sound" modelled after the production styles of Phil Spector and Brian Wilson also made their presence felt. Such influences dominated Spiritualized's next album, Let It Come Down which included over 120 musicians. Amazing Grace favoured a more stripped down sound with the gospel, blues, and soul influences even more dominant than before.

After several years of work and a serious illness on Pierce's part in July 2005, the latest Spiritualized album, Songs in A&E was released on May 26, 2008 in the UK, and on May 27, 2008 in the US. The first single from the 18-track album was "Soul On Fire". The release was backed by an Electric Mainlines UK tour which began in May.Pierce has also scored Harmony Korine's 2008 film Mister Lonely.

Pierce is quoted as saying in a 2008 interview that Spiritualized was scheduled to play the CERN collider. "They asked us to do it! We were gonna play in it before they’d thrown the switch. But it was a timing thing—their timings didn’t coincide with ours."

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Discography:

01 - Lazer Guided Melodies [1992]
02 - Fucked Up Inside [1993]
03 - Pure Phase [1995] (part1/part2)
04 - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space [1997]
05 - Live From Royal Albert Hall [1998] (part1/part2)
06 - Let It Come Down [2001]
07 - Amazing Grace [2003]
08 - Songs in A&E [2008]

Compilation:

09 - The Complete Works Vol. I - II [2003 / 2004]
(part1/part2/part3/part4)



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Psychedelic Horseshit

I never thought I would find the courage to disgrace a complete scene of music, but shitgaze really is abysmal. Another of these silhouettes of shite is ’Psychedelic Horseshit’, I mean seriously which member of the band was drunk when that name was conjured up. ’New Wave Hippies’ sounds like a toddler playing with something that has thousands of buttons. The guitars are scratchy, and deliberately out of tune. It’s almost as if this band has gone out of its way to completely undermine every musical convention every proposed. This band is either a load of idiots on speed who suddenly thought they could play music while tripping, and sounds like a very massive pile of utter drunken shit, or it’s just some very clever chimpanzee’s who’ve evolved and suddenly realise they ’might’ be able to play some music. In one song, ’Bad Vibrations’ the vocalist literally says over and over again ’ahhoooowaaaooo oooo oooo oooooooo’. I’ve actually given up on summing up this utterly pointless way of life. I would rather shave all of the hair off on my body and commit myself to a life of celibacy and become a neo-Nazi. My flat mate has put this review out of its misery and very kindly summed up this entire music scene in two words, ’utter bollocks’.

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Discography:

01 - Who Let the Dogs Out? 7" [2006]
02 - Summertime Suicide EP [2006]
03 - Magic Flowers Droned [2007]
04 - Blackout Fest Live - 4-19-07
05 - Appears on:Split EP [Times New Viking / Psychedelic Horseshit] (2007)



Psychedelic Horseshit - Live at Blackoutfest XII

Cyann & Ben - Spring / Happy Like An Autum Tree / Sweet Beliefs [2003 / 2004 / 2006]

..> CYANN & BEN release their first album for Ever Records on September 11th. SWEET BELIEFS is an epic and yet intimate album that gives the space rock template a Gallic makeover by adding a much needed romantic grandeur. CYANN & BENs Paris is not the one you see in Amelie its dirty, dark and stressful as much as beautiful and SWEET BELIEFS, with its multi-layered and ambitious sweep, sounds as unsettling as it is irresistible. "a slow motion hurricane ripping apart your temporal lobe" Magnet /// "...a rare strain of "epic" music, where bravado does not exceed the composition, but remains at all times within it. Cyann & Ben are masters of this subtlety." Pitchfork /// "Chaude et froide a la fois, [la musique de Cyann et Ben] est sublime parce que fiévreuse, effrayante parce que toujours sur la sellette, lumineuse et sombre, tendue et limpide ... " Les Inrockuptibles /// "...toujours intelligente mais pas hautaine, évidente et unique en même temps. " Rock Sound /// "douce rêverie éveillée, cotonneuse et poignante. " Magic /// "un ailleurs elegiaque et mysterieux" Teknikart ///

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Sweet Beliefs (2006) (part1/part2)

Happy Like An Autum Tree (2004)

Spring (2003)

Cyann & Ben - Sparks of Love

Swirlies - Strictly East Coast Sneaky Flute Music [1998]

Strictly East Coast Sneaky Flute Music [1998]




The Swirlies - Tall Ships

Congelador

La música que flota alrededor de la orbita sonora Congelador, se transmite con gran fluidez en la inmensidad del cuerpo, hombre contemplativo, pensar dentro de una nave espacial, tan lejos de la vegetación, quiebras cemento!, quema su cabeza!, el impulso de gestación repentino se impregna en la armonía, de bases Post-Rock, Lo-Fi, Shoegaze, Dream Pop, Experimental.
A mayor distancia, el aire helado apuñala el corazón de ave libre en el cielo, humo negro, tóxico!!!.
Ahora, la amable caricia en cada arpegio juguetón, que se mueve en una nota pequeña, aguda, pero material uterino.

The music that floats about the sonorous orbit Freezer, is transmitted by great fluency in the immensity of the body, contemplative man, to think inside a spaceship, so far away of the vegetation, bankruptcies I cement!, burn his your head!, the sudden impulse of begin impregnates in the harmony, of bases Post-rock, Lo-Fi, Shoegaze, Dream Pop, Experimentally. To major distance, the frozen air stabs the heart of free bird in the sky, black, toxic smoke!!!.
Now, the nice caress in every playful arpeggio, which moves in a small, sharp note, but uterine material.

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Cuatro [2002] (Rs)







Iceberg [2000] (Rs)







Perdidos en el espacio [1999] (So)







Despertar [1999] (So)







Congelador [1998] (So)







Pulsos Ep [1998] (So)







Congelador. Caminar


Congelador. Átomo

Fying Saucer Attack

It is a band of quality, creative of impeccable atmospheres that cross the noise of the pollution, and they go to great speed in his flying saucers, towards and cardinal downtown in they are of initiating the assault with his sonic immense pieces that flood the sky, floating in the dream the black hands of the woman shining, a waterfall of paces that are not listened ahead, the spot opens orifices to compensate the humility of a new star to which copy his functioning gives another respite and a bit more of time to the planet.

The band I form in Bristol, England in the year 1993, his founders are David Pearce and Rachel Brook who with his compositions of guitar and voice saturated create a soft and constant avant-noise of mystical sensations.

Es una banda de calidad, creadora de atmosferas impecables que atraviesan el ruido de la contaminación, y se dirigen a gran velocidad en sus platillos voladores, hacia e centro de la ciudad capital en son de iniciar el ataque con sus piezas sonicas inmensas que inundan el cielo, levitan en el sueño las plomas manos de la mujer resplandeciendo, una cascada de ritmos que no se escuchan delante, la mancha abre orificios para compensar la humildad de una nueva estrella a la cual calcar su funcionamiento da otro respiro y un poco más de tiempo al planeta.
La banda se formo en Bristol, Inglaterra en el año 1993, sus fundadores son David Pearce and Rachel Brook quienes con sus composiciones de guitarra y voz saturadas crean un avant-noise suave y constante de sensaciones misticas.

MySpace.com - Flying Saucer Attack

P.A. Blues [2003]

Mirror [1999]

New Lands [1997]

Coming Home / Hope [1997]

Flying Saucer Attack / Tele:funken "Distant Station" [1996]

Sally Free and Easy [1996]

In Search of Spaces [1996]

Chorus [1996]

Beach Red Lullaby / Second Hour [1995]

Further [1995]

Outdoor Miner / Psychic Driving [1995]

Distance [1994]

Land Beyond the Sun / Everywhere Was Everything [1994]

Rural Psychedelia [1994]

Crystal Shade / Distance [1994]

Soaring High [1993]

Wish / Oceans [1993]

About this Video :

Let's Pretend To Be Human Beings

A video completed for a 2006 college art class final, which was to be a self-portrait. A silhouette of myself keying a mystic fire in a hypnotizing loop while the title track plays in the background. At the time (Thanksgiving 2002) I was heavily influenced by Flying Saucer Attack so this music, improvized on a Four Track in one day, has some shoegazer aspirations.

The full-length version is 15 minutes but due to Youtube's time limitations I can only present the final 10 minutes.

Shogun

The noise put in sedates cochineal powder, the whole got dark room, is the route of unavoidable leak for play that Cristián Heyne, determines to Shogun, close to Jaime Laso and Denver. To my taste, a combination of electronic bases, voices with effects and distorted batteries that it has playful phrasings of sensual expansions to the feminine perfect and nake body, and placid confrontations with the internal evilness of the being in post of be regenerating likewise, coherent flows to the metaphorical radiance close to the step of the contaminated surge that the reality protects with jealous dread, to give symbols impregnated in the spirit of the work, as an expantion of the nature, base of expulsion to the conviction of the saturated area that reveals with sounds his identity for the cosmos and his interpretation.
The portal towards the tomb kidnaps my tact in his between legs moistened, operates the compass stored of his mouth to laugh so false, so superficial, is that you dried your blood unconsciously.

El ruido posado en seda carmesí, toda la habitación oscurecida, es la vía de escape ineludible para la emotividad que Cristián Heyne, condiciona a Shogun, junto a Jaime Laso y Denver. A mi gusto, una combinación de bases electrónicas, voces con efectos y baterías distorsionadas que tiene fraseos juguetones de sensuales expansiones al cuerpo femenino perfecto y desnudo, y placidas confrontaciones con la maldad interna del ser en post de regenerarse así mismo, flujos coherentes al resplandor metafórico junto al paso del oleaje contaminado que la realidad resguarda con celoso temor, para dar simbolos impregnados en el espíritu de la obra, como una expanción de la naturaleza, expulsión inevitable a la convicción del terreno saturado que revela con sonidos su identidad para el cosmos y su interpretación.
El portal hacia la tumba secuestra mi tacto en su entre piernas humedecido, maniobra el compás almacenado de su boca para reír tan falsa, tan superficial, es que secaste tu sangre inconscientemente.

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MySpace - Shogun.
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Discografia :

La Rata [2004] (Part.1) (Part.2)

Alma [1999]

Demonio [1998]

Disco Negro [1996]

Colecciones :

- XYX [2001]
- Fuego, el Aumento [2002] (Part.1) (Part.2) (Part.3)
- Sesiones Nocturnas [2007] [[[ Here ]]]

Demos & Ep :

- Remixes [2004]
- Lylh [2005]
- Noor [2005]
- Ophiel [2005]


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