While most people know Scott from his work with his bands (Neurosis, Tribes Of Neurot, Corrections House, etc...), his most cherished role is that of a father and husband.
His wife, Sarah, woke up on Tuesday March 24th unable to walk or see. She was immediately admitted to Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford, OR. As of today, (Sunday March 29th), the doctors are still not able to identify an exact diagnosis. Currently, her eyes have gotten significantly better but she is still not able to walk. She has begun rehabbing in the hospital, but it's slow going.
As he stays close to Sarah at this time, medical bills and every day living costs are building and he's financially struggling. So it's time for the music community to stand by the Neurosis founder, the band who influenced probably the whole genre.
Nils Frahm has declared a Piano Day! A new annual celebration of the instrument he loves so much, which takes place on the 88th day of each year, cause that's the number of keys a piano has.
"Piano Day is intended to be the most joyful of all holidays," says Frahm and what a better way to celebrate his newly declared day than releasing a new album called "Solo" via Erased Tapes and making it free for anyone to download! Of course the solo piano LP is also available on vinyl, CD and iTunes. All proceeds will go to help piano builder builder David Klavins build his latest model, the Klavins M450, with a prototype of which Frahm's new album was recorded. You can also donate here.
Band: This Social Coil
Album: Time Label: Self Released
Year: 2015
Tracklist
01. Red Water
02. Wish
03. Underwater Sea Walk
04. Coil
05. The Walk
06. Time
07. Rising Above
08. Demons
09. Inner Core
10. The Flight
11. Fader Download
This Social Coil was created in spring 2011, founded in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. It´s hard to describe the music direction exactly. It´s something between post-rock, indie and alternative, instrumentals and vocals. The influences are coming from post-rock, post-punk and typical alternative sounds. Lyrics often treat typical philosophical thoughts of the life.
Band: Maïak
Album: A Very Pleasant Way To Die Label: Fluttery Records
Year: 2015
Tracklist
01. Nutributter Green Is People
02. I Am Not a Man, I Am a Free Number
03. A Fond Poster Girl For Tatmadaw
04. Sometimes You've Got To Take the Hardest Line
05. We All Live In a Yellow Kursk Streaming
Created in 2010 in Lausanne, Switzerland, Maïak is composed of four musicians influenced by wide dynamics of post-rock soundscapes and fearless to experiment sudden shifts of atmospheres.
The group was named after Maïak, a nuclear plant in the Soviet Union, where one of the worst nuclear disasters of all times took place and despite its dramatic consequences, stayed hidden for decades.
Filled with the symbolic weight of a catastrophe that arose as the punishment of man’s guilty arrogance in an outburst remained silent, Maïak delivers a dark and powerful instrumental rock that evolves between tenuous melancholy and chaotic blast.
"A Very Pleasant Way to Die" is the pure post-rock at its best.” says Taner Torun, Fluttery Recods label founder.
Recorded with a certain sense of urgency (three days session for forty two minutes of pure post-rock music), "A Very Pleasant Way to Die" wanders through the different colours of the band's aural palette. The album seethes with raw energy.
The five tracks share complex constructions, blending murky soothing melodies with outbursts of powerful clamour and noiseful explorations. You would at times crave to lie down and gaze at the stars, but you would soon feel the urge to bounce back on your feet and bang your head until you break your neck.
Band: Beirah
Album: Cuatro Vientos Label: Self Released
Year: 2015
Tracklist
01. Desde El Umbral
02. Relatos Ausentes
03. Senderos
04. Pintando Realidad
05. La Muerte Del Viento
06. La Ilusoria Naturaleza De Las Fronteras
07. Ascender Entre Las Sombras Download
Beirah is a post/math-rock band from Tijuana, Mexico.
Four individuals with backgrounds as diverse as the state they dwell in converging in the Blue Ridge Mountains of SW Virginia to create energetic yet atmospheric music.
" These 3 tracks are the groundwork for our first full length Liminality. These will be alternate version of the album recordings that will take place later this year. At this time there is no plan for a physical release but we have not ruled out any options at this point. We had some new songs and we wanted to share them with you. Special thanks to our friend Steve Anderson for helping us with these. " - Bombardier
Band: Minor Empires
Album: Minor Empires Label: Lar Gravacións / Radix Records
Year: 2014
Tracklist
01. The Physics Of Light
02. Targets
03. Empty Rooms
04. The Story Of Timothy Treadwell
05. Truth Seeker
06. Linsey
07. Echoes From Nowhere
08. Numbers
09. Drones
10. The Season Download
Minor Empires is the side project of members of Nothink , Toundra , The Big Bench and Moonich .
Band: Cannon
Album: The Beginning Of Our History
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014
Tracklist
01. The Rise Of The Unseen Kingdom
02. The Light Comes At Midnight
03. Tears For The Expired
04. Rafmagns Karnival
05. She Dances Alone, But Then...
06. Winter Solstice
07. Illuminate The Dark
08. Peaceful Wartimes Download | Mirror
"Cannons is composed of two gentlemen. One living in Toronto, Canada. The other in Seattle, WA. We collaborate digitally via the depths of the internet including email, dropbox, text, etc....
Our days will always look different. Some days, we are focusing on writing a soundtrack for a movie score. Some days, we are working on adding music to videos sent to us by fans. Even other days, we are simply out enjoying a nice glass of Scotch while we enjoy the few nights we have on this beautiful planet.
We have chosen to keep our identities anonymous so that it always stays about the music. Never about us.
Cannons is about something much larger than two high-class gentlemen creating music. it's about a community of people stumbling through life, finding beauty where it has been provided to us by the kindhearted god(s). We don't create beauty. We hunt for it. Then we capture it and exploit it.
We want you to be involved in this. You make us better. We are stronger when you contribute (more of that on the "sights" page of this site.)
We love music. Always have. We need you. Without you, we shrivel and perish.
Band: Anadelta
Album: Supposing We Haven't Reached A Deadend
Label: Self Released
Year: 2015
Tracklist
01. Oh, The Humanity
02. The Infinite Chaos At The End Of The Tunnel
03. Karma
04. Things Left Unsaid
05. Ruthless Time
06. Somniloquy Streaming
Anadelta is a solo studio project from athens greece. created in 2011.
Band: The Silence Of A Whisper
Album: 1988 EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2015
Tracklist
01. 1988
02. Inner Peace
03. Déjà Vu
04. Vilsen
05. Dawn To Dusk
06. Gothenburg Download
The Silence Of A Whisper is the musical project of Jerome Engström, a multi-instrumentalist, producer and artist from Gothenburg, Sweden . All programming and composition of The Silence Of A Whisper are performed by Jerome.
Sleeping Bear name was a result of quite an intense brainstorming before our debut show in April 2013. We signed to play a concert in Kyiv and we still did not have any name, that's why we were in urgent need of coming up with a good idea in quite a short period of time. We have discussed lots of different options, and after a long discussion Sleeping Bear was approved.
2. Do you have a standard procedure of creating a song? Do you just jam around or is there a main riff and the track is build up on it?
Not really. Some of early tracks were written by our guitarist Oleksiy and then improved by all the members of the band during rehearsals. Some other tracks have been created from random jams, when everyone of band members shared their ideas and together we composed the track. And we believe, this is the right way to do things, when you play in the band - everyone should be involved into composition and dedicate himself to all this.
3. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home?
Oleksiy: I try to keep my music taste diverse as much as it's possible. I can shuffle black metal and pop music in my playlist. Aside of post-rock I am pretty much into ambient and modern classical genre. My record collection includes lots of albums by contemporary composers like Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Fabrizio Paterlini etc. I have another project of mine in that genre, it is called Endless Melancholy.
Evgeniy: I listen to lots of different music, not limiting myself to any certain genre. At the very beginning I got the inspiration to play post-rock from such bands as This Will Destroy You, God Is An Astronaut, Mono, Jakob, *Shels, Blueneck, Balmorhea, Hammock. Of those bands which have slightly heavier sound - Isis, Rosetta, to name just a few... I am a big fan of Tool and A Perfect Circle. I also love experimental genres combining classic sound of live instruments with electronic music, as Bonobo and Submotion Orchestra do. I like getting inspiration absolutely from everywhere. You can find something new and interesting for yourself in any genre and it may become an incentive of writing a new composition.
Arthur: My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Portishead.
4. Which is the one album you can't live without?
Oleksiy: I'd never could point one particular favorite album out, there's simply too many of them.
Evgeniy: Jakob – Dominion. For me it's not just music, it's like a trip to your own inner world.
Arthur: Beastie Boys - Check Your Head.
5. What's the first record you've ever bought ?
Oleksiy: When I was a little kid I was a fan of cheesy dance and techno music, I think the first cassette I ever bought was of that kind. Talking about the first record I bought when I became a vinyl fan awhile ago - it was "Felt" by Nils Frahm.
Yevgeniy: It was a cassette with "Load" album by Metallica long ago. Pirated, of course (it was impossible to get a licensed copy in that time, they simply haven't been on sale here). Metallica and Nirvana were the bands, from which my passion to music has started when I was 12 or 13 years old.
Arthur: Sonic Youth - Corporate Ghost.
6. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with?
Yevgeniy: There is lots of them (definitely, all the bands I have listed above as my inspirations), but most of all, probably, Tool. Not that I was dreaming to share the stage with them but rather to visit their show. We will be sharing the stage with Russian Circles this spring on Asymmetry Festival in Poland. It's a big honor for us, too.
Arthur: Jakob, Mogwai, God Is An Astronaut.
7. Did the internet and specially the blogs helped to spread your music around the world? Name a place (country) that you were surprised to know your music has reached to?
At this moment internet is the only good way for us to share our music with people. And this is really great. It's difficult to imagine, would anyone even know about us, if we started making our music 10 or 15 years ago. Most likely only our friends would be familiar with it. It is a very exceptional and pleasant feeling to read a feedback on your creation from somebody from the opposite side of the planet. You understand that despite all the differences between our cultures, religions, views there is something uniting all of us. And this something is music.
8. Do you support the idea of Bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like Spotify?
Yes, it's a great idea. We don't have our music up on Spotify, but thanks to Bandcamp we have a chance to cover part of the recording expenses. We aren't signed to any label and we organize everything ourselves - composing, recording, mixing, mastering, cover arts. The money we receive from Bandcamp we invest in our further activities.
9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?
In 5 years we'd love to see ourselves living in a successful country with no war. And of course, continuing making music.
10. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era?
Of course, we think that the cover art should necessarily reflect those emotions that you put into music. It must carry some idea instead of being just a nice picture.
11. What is you favorite album cover?
Yevgeniy: *Shels - Plains Of The Purple Buffalo.
Oleksiy: Same thing as with pointing out a favorite album... Too many great cover arts. Well, Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind, Alcest - Écailles De Lune and Les Voyages De l'Âme, Jakob - Solace, to name just a few.
12. It seems that a lot of people are turning on vinyl again. Why do you think that is and which is your preferable media format?
Oleksiy: I am a big fan of vinyl, I have a collection of records, that is constantly growing... Having music released on vinyl gives a very special felling about an album. Not only because of the audio quality, but also because vinyl record is literally a piece of art you can enjoy even just looking at it. I have released an album by my solo-project Endless Melancholy on vinyl. With Sleeping Bear we prefer digital format so far, however we've made a short run of CD's with our debut album.
13. What's the most vivid story or moment as a band?
We guess, winning a contest and getting an invitation to play on Asymmetry Festival 2015 edition, to take place in Wroclaw, Poland in May 2015. It's going to be our first show outside Ukraine.
Sleeping Bear recently released their stunning second release, "Parinae" EP.
The name Coastlands originated from a collaboration between Nick and Jason. There was some legal distribution ties with the old name (Ainsley) and we wanted to distance ourselves from the individuals involved. We decided that a mutually inspiring area for the both of us was the coastal region of the pacific northwest. Viola! Coastlands was born.
2. Do you have a standard procedure of creating a song? Do you just jam around or is there a main riff and the track is build up on it?
Typically an idea or riff is made, and brought up and we start making it a song. Much of the new record is compiled of ideas and progressions that we have had stewing for the past 2-3 years. It was amazing how the ideas just meshed perfectly together. We started playing and everyone would join in and we would slowly craft the songs.
3. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home?
Our influences come from a combination of our personal backgrounds. From metal and hardcore to hip hop, math rock, folk and ambient. We all listen to everything when we are at home, the musical collection between us all is very diverse.
4. Which is the one album you can't live without?
Jordan: ‘Intimacy’ by Bloc Party
Rick: ‘Admiral Fell Promises’ by Sun Kil Moon
Jason: ‘Ghost’ by Radical Face
Nick: ‘The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place’ by Explosions In The Sky
5. What's the first record you've ever bought?
Jordan: ‘The Funeral of God’ by Zao
Rick: ‘White Pony’ by the deftones
Nick: Either ‘Nimrod’ by Green Day or ‘Enema Of The State’ by Blink 182
Jason: Either ‘Life In General’ by MxPx or ‘Act Of Depression’ by Underoath
6. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with?
Jordan: Russian Circles
Rick: The Calm Blue Sea or This Will Destroy You
Nick: Explosions In The Sky or Mono
Jason: Copeland
7. Did the internet and specially the blogs helped to spread your music around the world? Name a place (country) that you were surprised to know your music has reached to?
The internet and blogs specifically have helped so much! We were very surprised to hear people in Israel and Singapore were listening to our music. Several incredible people have reached out to us via Facebook and Instagram to let us know where they are from and how far our music has reached.
8. Do you support the idea of Bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like Spotify?
I absolutely support Bandcamp and the name your price idea. I have gotten some amazing music free and cheap music that way. That’s how we discovered Hammock, now one of our all time favorite bands. The whole structure is so intuitive and is built to help you succeed. We’ve made a good portion of additional proceeds from fans being abundantly generous and paying more than the minimum. P.S Thank you to everyone who purchased the album via Bandcamp, we can’t thank you enough!
9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?
Hopefully still recording music, playing shows and progressing in our music. As long as we don’t slow down and keep challenging ourselves then we are bound to succeed.
10. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era?
I think that artwork is very important, especially in instrumental music where you are using the music to paint mental imagery, the album art can really help to set the overall theme.
11. What is you favorite album cover?
‘Moonlover’ by Ghost Bath and “Beneath Medicine Tree’ by Copeland.
12. It seems that a lot of people are turning on vinyl again. Why do you think that is and which is your preferable media format?
Vinyl is great! It always has been and always will be. We hope to be able to press vinyl here soon, it looks cool, and the sound is so warm and unique. I wish everyone had a record player and loved vinyl. However, as far as preferable media we might lean more towards digital strictly due to the fact that it makes your work openly accessible to anyone, anywhere.
13. What's the most vivid story or moment as a band?
In my experience in Coastlands, I remember the time that Jason and I were in the studio and we finally nailed this drum track and it sounded perfect with this technical guitar track. We erupted. It was very exciting seeing everything that we had conceptualized within come to fruition.
Coastlands released their second full length album "Come Morning, A Radiant Light" this month, be sure to check it out!
I really don't remember it and I don't like this name. One day, I will change it.
2. Do you have a standard procedure of creating a song? Do you just jam around or is there a main riff and the track is build up on it?
Yes, I try to find the first "good riff" and the rest of the song is building naturally on it. Or , my computer is full of "pieces of songs" and sometimes, I listen to them, and choose one that matches my mood.
3. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home?
I don't have any direct influences I think. I try to mix classical ones (like Philip glass, William Sheller or recently Lubomyr Melnyk) with dirtiest ones (some sludge, punk bands). At home it's pretty quiet, for Aurelia (my girlfriend) and generally because I have to be concentrated. I keep all crust, noise HxC music for the Van !
4. Which is the one album you can't live without?
En Attendant L'apocalypse by Paris Violence. (French Oi!/Wave band).
5. What's the first record you've ever bought?
When I was 10, a friend of my father sold some stolen CD's , and I remember I was digging through the boxes and found by accident " NAS / It Was Written ". And it accompanied me for a long time.
6. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with?
It's difficult to say… I like Anna Von Hausswolff. I think it could be a good "mix".
7. Did the internet and specially the blogs helped to spread your music around the world? Name a place (country) that you were surprised to know your music has reached to?
I don't know who has listened to it.
8. Do you support the idea of bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like Spotify?
Yes sure, I don't have a Spotify account and Le Seul Elément is not in it. I prefer Bandcamp and that everybody can pay what they want.
9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?
Playing my last gig as drummer of Neurosis.
10. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era?
Yes! This is the basis of universe that you try to create, it's the most direct message of your artistic approach. If you play ambient music, and if the cover of your album is a black'n'white forest, it's almost normal (and almost boring…), but if you want to put dirty socks in a fridge on it. All your album will change…
11. What is you favorite album cover?
Many are… Recently I liked "Floating Coffin" by Thee Oh Sees
and "New History Warfare, Vol 2 : Judges" by Colin Stetson
and "Le Cimetière Des Harlequins" by Ange (french old progressive rock)
and the material on the cover of "2.0" by Garbage.
12. It seems that a lot of people are turning on vinyl again. Why do you think that is and which is your preferable media format?
Old formats are coming back since a few years,it's fashion and it's very good. Especially at this time of dematerialization. People have to spend more time by album, I say that but I'm all the day on YouTube. Internet is useful to discovering bands, but the next normal step is to buy a material format.
13. What's the most vivid story or moment as a band?
Hum…Playing a piano/ambient song with all your soul on stage, but still a drunk guy screams: "ROOOOOTS BLOOOODY ROOOOOOTS".
Check Le Seul Elément's recently released "Meradiam". It will haunt you!
Jay: There isn't much of a story behind it. We just wanted something simple that didn't say too much about the band, to allow the listener to come up with their own visuals and meaning based on our sound.
2. Do you have a standard procedure of creating a song? Do you just jam around or is there a main riff and the track is build up on it?
Jay: I never really sit down and say, “ok, it’s time to write”. I just record them whenever I have an idea, and then go back to it later. Like even after we finished this last record, literally a week later I started writing new songs. I guess I’m just afraid of not catching something while it’s there.
3. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home?
Jay: We all have different influences. I think it's pretty obvious when you listen to our music, but personally I'm a huge fan of artists like Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Apparat, etc. I'm also really into stuff like Al Green, Etta James, and Nat King Cole.
Seamus: The beauty of making music with these guys is we all come from different backgrounds allowing us to share ideas and basically learn a lot from each others' tastes. With me personally, my earliest influence was Brian Wilson's work with the Beach Boys. The mix of amazing songwriting and ridiculous harmonies got me interested in music right from the age of 8. Since then, anyone from Jesse Lacey from Brand New to Dallas Green, there really are too many to name.
Jane: I grew up learning classical violin and then fell in love with indie-rock/alternative stuff that incorporates orchestral elements. I’m inspired by artists like St. Vincent and Andrew Bird, who have a good grasp on what can sound accessible, yet are unafraid to get a little weird.
4. Which is the one album you can't live without?
Nunzio: My "go-to" album no matter what mood I'm in is Steely Dan's "Aja"
Ryan: Misery Signals - Of Malice and the Magnum Heart
Seamus: Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Jane: Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs
Jay: Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun
5. What's the first record you've ever bought?
Jane: Blind Melon – Self-Titled
Ryan: Rancid – Out Come the Wolves
Jay: Boyz II Men - II.
Nunzio: Green Day - Dookie
6. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with?
Ryan: Radiohead
Seamus: Brand New or Thrice
Jane: I just recently started listening to This Will Destroy You. I think it’d be really fun to play with them.
7. Did the internet and specially the blogs helped to spread your music around the world? Name a place (country) that you were surprised to know your music has reached to?
Jane: Absolutely. Without the internet, I don’t know how we would have reached an audience outside of NJ/NY. We’re constantly blown away by people who reach out to us from different countries like Brazil, Japan, and Mexico.
8. Do you support the idea of bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like Spotify?
Nunzio: I like the idea of fans paying what they want. I think that concept has worked well for some artists. I also like the idea of services like Spotify for their accessibility but they've been getting a bad name for how little they pay the artists. They'll have to figure that out.
9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?
Jay: I can't bring myself to wonder where I'll be in 5 years. I fear I won't be too happy about the conclusion.
Jane: I hardly know what the next 6 months will look like. Live in the moment, right?
Ryan: Happy and healthy.
10. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era?
Nunzio: It's important for the feel of an album. I think the artwork sort of prepares the listener emotionally
Jane: Yeah. At least for me--when I listen to a song, my mind tends to immediately visualize the album artwork--like it’s been catalogued in my brain and makes that association automatically. I’m betting that’s the case for a lot of people and why art is so important.
Ryan: Yes, people find ways to judge everything so I feel album artwork should be well thought out and tasteful.
Seamus: I think the artwork of albums is important. It's basically the only visual you give the listener to go along with your sound. I like to think it sets a tone even before you hear a track.
11. What is your favorite album cover?
Nunzio: Something about "Dark Side of the Moon" that's so iconic. I've always loved that simplicity ever since seeing it for the first time in my dad's vinyls as a kid.
Ryan: Frank Zappa - Over-nite Sensation
Seamus: Weirdly, I’ve always liked Say Anything’s - Is a Real Boy album cover.Just like the simplicity of it I guess.
Jane: Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Iconic, thought provoking, and stays with you.
12. It seems that a lot of people are turning on vinyl again. Why do you think that is and which is your preferable media format?
Nunzio: Everything's gone digital but some people still like to have something physical to hold onto. Vinyl has a very cool sound and feel to it depending on the album, but personally I'm always listening digitally.
Ryan: I am extremely excited about the vinyl movement. It is a lot harder to skip a song or part on a record player so I get happy knowing that people are more likely to listen to the full album in its entirety which it was designed for.
Jay: I think the intention is great, people want to listen to music and have it sound good. Although sometimes I'll see people hook up their record players to shitty speakers which sort of defeats the purpose. Still there is at least a sentiment for quality.
13. What's the most vivid story or moment as a band?
Ryan: They're all vivid, every time I take the stage with my band, I am excited to show our music.
Jane: For me, it was when we played the Highline Ballroom earlier this year, opening for Mae. Looking out at the sold-out crowd at such an awesome venue was pretty surreal.
Jay: A couple summers ago, we played the Northside Festival in Brooklyn and after our set, we got to hang out by the Williamsburg Waterfront. The weather was perfect and we watched Seamus do tricks on his skateboard. It was nice to be able to kick back as a band after a busy run of shows.
Owel amazed us with their debut self-titled album 2 years ago and a new EP it's on the way after their crowd funding on indiegogo.
Platonick Dive is something that you can feel but you can't touch. It's something that really exist but you can't see. Like the platonic love, the Platonick Dive is an abstract immersion into today's society.
2. Do you have a standard procedure of creating a song? Do you just jam around or is there a main riff and the track is build up on it?
It’s never easy to explain about the writing process, ‘cause every track has different story and different inspirations. Writing is what we really enjoy doing, always exploring the many depths of electronic music, trying to discover that particular sound. Sometimes it comes from a piano or guitar riff, sometimes it comes from a synth line or electronic project.
3. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home?
Our music comes from everyday life, so everything and anything could be an inspiration. We are great listeners of different kinds of music: electronic, classical, psychedelic, instrumental. Our main music background comes from the American alternative '80-'90s scene. Also literature and graphic art are great inspirations.
4. Which is the one album you can't live without?
"In Utero" (Nirvana), but also "Dirty" (Sonic Youth) and "Immolate Yourself" from Telefon Tel Aviv.
5. What's the first record you've ever bought?
Probably "Nevermind".
6. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with?
Battles.
7. Did the internet and specially the blogs help to spread your music around the world? Name a place (country) that you were surprised to know your music has reached to?
Yeah, the internet helps a lot to spread our music around the world. Russia and Eastern Europe in general are countries where our fan base is growing a lot. And the internet is essential.
8. Do you support the idea of bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like Spotify?
Yes, we really like Bandcamp's idea. You put your album with a standard minimum price and then the fans decide what they want pay. It's a brilliant idea! Spotify has some positive aspects but also some negatives. It creates a strange process.
9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?
We don't know. We will probably still be trying to write cool songs, because music is more important than everything.
10. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era?
Yes, absolutely. 'Cause today, when you see a cool artwork from your laptop...it's always something that captures your attention. And your fans, who buy the album (CD or vinyl), want to touch the album, feel the "physical" of the music.
11. What is you favorite album cover?
Sonic Youth - "Goo".
12. It seems that a lot of people are turning on vinyl again. Why do you think that is and which is your preferable media format?
As we said, the real fan want the physical album formats. Vinyl, more than CDs, is a format that can really give you this sensation. In the digital era, when you buy a physical copy of an album, it means that you are really into that album. So it's a very different sensation to listen your favorite artist on vinyl instead of from a smartphone.
13. What's the most vivid story or moment as a band?
When we shared the stage with Efterklang on our first European tour. It was totally crazy!!!
Platonick Dive recently released their amazing album "Overflow".
Band: Yanos
Album: Omega
Label: Self Released
Year: 2015
Tracklist
01. Isolation
02. I. Anger
03. II. Denial
04. III. Bargaining
05. IV. Depression
06. V. Acceptance Download
Amber are dead. Long live Yanos from Marburg, Germany.The new band of the survivors of Amber play the same intense, dark, post-metal/hardcore, they used to but with more experience, darker Voices and more melodies. Still in the vein of bands like Amenra, Light Bearer, Cult Of Luna and Isis.
Their six track album is inspired by "On Death and Dying" by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the 5 stages of grief. Soon to be released on vinyl.
Dan K: The name "Gates" came about based on a graphic identity concept for the band. We wanted something simplistic, clean and open to interpretation. I designed a logo with "Gates" set in all lowercase Caslon, and wide letter spacing within a circle. The visual element was just an initial concept, but it has become the visual guideline that we still follow to this day. "Gates" is also the name of an As Cities Burn B-side that was influential to us early on when we started playing together.
2. Do you have a standard procedure of creating a song? Do you just jam around or is there a main riff and the track is build up on it?
Kevin: There definitely is not a standard, as writing for us is a 100% collaborative effort. Someone typically has an idea for a part or two that we jam on, or someone has demoed an idea completely and we modify the idea from there. For Bloom & Breathe, we would work on ideas for three or four hours, then record them and put them into a Dropbox folder. Each of us would listen to it individually, and then we’d reconvene in a few days and either work on any changes that we can agree on or move on if we’re not feeling it.
3. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home?
Kevin: For me personally, I’ve been listening to a lot of Alt-J, Tycho, Dawn of Midi, Pianos Become the Teeth, and Death Cab for Cutie recently. I also picked up the original Godzilla soundtrack on vinyl and was spinning that a bit.
4. Which is the one album you can't live without?
Dan K: “The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place" by Explosions in the Sky. The album album is entirely instrumental, just guitars, bass, and drums. Despite the lack of a vocal narrative, the melodies, textures, and dynamics created on these instruments create a story that transcend words. The production on the record is amazing and the guitar tones are flawless. Their ability to evoke feeling to the listener through their songs is what makes this record one of my favorites.
5. What's the first record you've ever bought?
Kevin: I can’t remember the first album I bought with my own money. My mom bought me Dookie by Green Day and Superunknown by Soundgarden for my birthday one year and those were the first two CD’s I ever had.
6. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with?
Kevin: I would absolutely love to do longer tours with Pianos Become the Teeth and Foxing. We recently got to play some shows with them, and it was a really great experience. There’s just something about seeing a band that just humbles every bone in your body that I feel just defines what I love about music. I just wanted to get home and write as fast as possible on both tours, and I took so much away from seeing those bands perform every night. It was really a gift to be able to play alongside those bands.
7. Did the internet and specially the blogs helped to spread your music around the world? Name a place (country) that you were surprised to know your music has reached to?
Kevin: The internet has definitely made our music available to people all over the world. We’ve subsequently distributed records to Japan, Malaysia, and Europe all based on fans who run labels and distribution outlets who wanted to stock our records. I think that’s really awesome and we’ve always been surprised at the appreciation for our music internationally.
8. Do you support the idea of bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like Spotify?
Kevin: I definitely support Bandcamp as we’ve seen a lot of income that I don’t think we would have seen otherwise from the service and it’s a great way for fans to donate directly to bands with very little taken from Bandcamp themselves. Spotify is great from a user perspective, who wouldn’t want every song ever available for instant stream at their fingertips? However I think it’s proven difficult for them to fairly compensate artists themselves due to the very nature of what they’re trying to accomplish. I know this has gotten a lot of media attention lately, and Spotify defends themselves by saying it’s income that otherwise wouldn’t have been there or would have been lost to piracy. I would say that’s not a good way to look at it. Just because it’s better than piracy doesn’t mean it’s actually working. Regardless, the digital piracy/streaming argument is almost moot at this point. There’s no going back in my opinion, and artists should focus on making quality products like vinyl that are impossible to download that people actually want to buy, or have incentive to buy. It’s a shame that the music itself has been devalued so much, but I’m not going to sit around and beg people to change because that’s not how the world works. Instead we’ll look for other avenues to try to generate some income and keep doing what we do. Hopefully they’ll figure out a better payment model for streaming services in the future.
9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?
Kevin: I have absolutely no idea. I guess that all depends on whether or not people like our music enough to continue to purchase the albums that we make and come to the tours that we go on. Our success is immediately dependent on fans and whether or not they support what we do, spread the word about our music, and become or continue to be active members of the music community. I have a hard time seeing where the future of career musicianship lies. Regardless, I’ll still be making music in some form, trying to record/produce as much as possible, and just be as active as I can as far as creating art is concerned.
10. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era?
Dan K: I feel like album artwork is more crucial now than ever before simply because there are so many more platforms for a band's visual presence to exist on. A successful art campaign can function on any medium, whether it is in physical or digital format. When an album has a consistent cohesiveness across these platforms, the viewer/listener has more to connect with the music. These days, a lot of people find their music online through streaming services, blogs, and reviews, so having great visuals to grab their attention right away on screen is just as important as having great music.
11. What is your favorite album cover?
Dan K: It's difficult to chose one, but one of my favorites is undoubtedly "Full Collapse" by Thursday.
Although it is incredibly minimalistic, the entire aesthetic set the tone for one of the most influential albums I have ever listened to. The album artwork is pretty vague, but I think it left enough room for the viewer to create their own narrative between the visual elements and the music. I owned the "special edition" CD which had a pale blue slipcover with the dove logo centered on the front underneath the band name and title. The dove logo eventually became a mainstay in the band's visual campaign and was used across all formats, creating a unique and cohesive identity that goes hand-in-hand with the music. The subtle typographic treatment, spacing, hierarchy, and composition provided lasting influence to my aesthetic as a graphic designer.
12. It seems that a lot of people are turning on vinyl again. Why do you think that is and which is your preferable media format?
Dan K: Vinyl is definitely my preferred media format because it is the most immersive way to experience an album. The process of opening a record sleeve and interacting with the music/album art as an artifact is something that can't be replicated digitally. I also really seeing enjoy how different everyone's collection of vinyl/record player setup is from one person to the next. Its much more interesting than everyone having the same exact iPod. As an artist, having the music in a physical format with large scale artwork has been my biggest reason to start collecting vinyl. I think more people are beginning to gravitate towards owning music in physical formats again. Personally speaking, I used to download music a bunch but stopped entirely once I started to feel like I wasn't enjoying music as much. Everyone consumes music differently, and for some people having streaming access to any song ever recorded in lower quality audio isn't the answer.
13. What's the most vivid story or moment as a band?
Kevin: I would say being on stage at the first show of our tour with The Gaslight Anthem, finishing our song “Walls” and hearing the applause afterwards. We had never played to a crowd like that before or since and it was such a surreal experience to actually be up there in front of that many people. That was definitely a moment I’ll never forget and I’ll cherish for the rest of my life.
Band: Coastlands
Album: Come Morning, A Radiant Light
Label: Self Released
Year: 2015
Tracklist
01. Skeletons
02. The Scarlet Thread
03. Eons
04. Heron
05.Come Morning, A Radiant Light Streaming
Coastlands is a collaboration who creates an ephemeral shape and form of the atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest in the take-it-or-leave-it tradition of ambient music.
The project was started by Jason Sissoyev and Nick Fisher in 2011. In 2014 the group brought in Jordan Householder. They found common ground in their penchant for bizarre recording techniques and unexpected instrumentation while individually offering a range of obscure skills and artistry. Jason's trademark glitchy percussion and use of a violin bow to create ambience is punctuated by Nick's perfecting technique and manipulating effects to achieve astral and lucid resonance. Jordan, with a musical upbringing in metal and hardcore, brings a heavy influence of both dissonant and capacitating sounds.
Inspired by space and nature, Coastlands creates unmatched soundscapes that one can quickly fall victim to, much like the trance of a beloved, nebulous melancholy. Capturing the aesthetics of hope void of expectations and the sorrows that accompany compassion, their songs create a cocoon of solace and reprieve.
Coastlands records in a small home studio in the Southeast region of Portland, Oregon.
Le Seul Elément is a solo project of a French musician. He does not want to be named by his real name, which has everything to do with the way he sees this artistic project: there is an air of danger coming from this music, that seems to come from a ghost or some other force out of this world, as an abstract shadow-play translated to music. Silence and absence plays as much a part in this music as does sound. Le Seul Elément played Dunk! Festival a few years back and now releases a full album on Consouling Sounds (CD) and Wolves And Vibrancy Records & Prügelprinz Records (Vinyl).
Meradiam is Le Seul Elément's first full album and it's a combination of dark ambient, post-rock and noise. Add experimentation, electronically infused haunting vocals and piano creepiness and you have a beautifully delivered album. Meradiam is balancing between anxiety and hope, darkness and light, elevating listener's heart rate and then offering a glimpse of hope. Are you ready to be frightened and like it?
Band: Tsima
Album: Shatter
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014
Tracklist
01. Philae
02. Fracture
03. Split
04. Maria
05. Infarkt
06. Last Train To Lusatia Streaming
Tsima is a post-rock/metal band from Poland. After releasing their debut EP "Juniper" on 2013, they left us wanting more and what a great way to fulfill our hopes for an amazing debut album.
"Shatter" released on December and let's just say that I regret that I didn't listened to it earlier. This album is a must-listen!
Band: Summon The Octopi
Album: Nonversations EP
Label: Sober Up Records
Year: 2014
Tracklist
01. Intro
02. Slobodan The Sloth
03. It's Been Sick, So I Tried To Feed It Some More
04. Apricots Apricate (Alligators Alligate)
05. Rehabosaurus Rex
06. Lulling Waves, Sullen Gaze (All Is Space) Streaming
Listen up and submerge into the instrumental post-rock world of the Octopi.
A one dude band from Berlin, Germany writing, playing and recording all instruments creating a sonic collage of buzzing abyss, delicate romance and intricate grooves that will keep you on your toes, auditorily dissecting the vast influences that acted as ingredients to this truly unique recipe.
Summon The Octopi's debut EP 'Nonversations' will drop jaws like lollipops from babies mouths. Whilst one track will engulf you into a dream like realm, the next has the power to put you into a manic state whizzing like the Tasmanian devil.
Band: Corbeaux
Album: Hit The Head
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014
Tracklist
01. Cran d'Arrêt
02. La Bagarre
03. 7th Avenue
04. Sur Un Fil
05. Where Is Dave?
06. Ezimpurkor Streaming
Corbeaux are a French quartet consisting of two guitarists, a bass player, a drummer — and (almost) no vocalist. Their debut album Hit the Head released on December and it might be enough to say that if you’re a fan of bands such as Russian Circles, Pelican, and If These Trees Could Talk, you will enjoy this album. But it deserves more than drive-by name-dropping. Especially for a debut album, Hit the Head is a dynamic and engrossing experience.
Both within each song and through the album as a whole, the music ebbs and flows, with changes of pace, volume, and mood that will keep you involved and interested. Anchored by distorted, grinding bass notes and precise but ever-changing drum rhythms and creative fills, the songs spin out a wide array of absorbing dialogues between the dual guitars.
The album was recorded and mixed by Amaury Sauvé at La Senelle Studio (Birds in a Row, As We Draw…) and mastered in Stockholm by Magnus Lindberg (Cult of Luna, Abraham). Artwork by Romain Bardot.
Band: Gimu & Eeem [eim]
Album: Analogue By The Lake EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2015
Tracklist
01. Analogue By The Lake (Far Ahead)
02. Analogue By The Lake (Sundown)
03. Analogue By The Lake (Into The Night) Download | Mirror
Gimu & Eeem [eim] joined forces to create that 3-tracks story "Analogue by the Lake".
The collaboration starts from a few days at a Finnish cottage by a lake, goes around via Brazil /Gimu's home and comes around via China where Eeem lives for this year.
"Analogue" is for "Oberheim SEM" and "Minimoog" which are producing most of the sound textures those tracks lay on. But also for the French "analogue" i.e. "qui présente de l'analogie, des rapports de similitude avec une autre chose": as if music was a universal form of sharing and elaboration across great distances.
"Those tracks extend from the contemplation of the nature to an expression of our fragile life's expectations, but we hope, as well looking forward to the future."
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