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Recommendation: Grandbrothers - Open

Band: Grandbrothers
Album: Open
Label: City Slang
Year: 2017








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01. 1202
02. Bloodflow
03. From A Distance
04. Long Forgotten Future
05. Honey
06. Alice
07. White Nights
08. Circonflexe
09. Sonic Riots
10. London Bridges
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Grandbrothers are Erol Sarp and Lukas Vogel. After meeting at university in Dusseldorf, Erol and Lukas formed Grandbrothers to tie together their respective musical backgrounds and disciplines: Erol is a trained jazz pianist, while Lukas constructs synthesizers at Access Music. Together, they create a sound that combines classical composition with modern, experimental production and sound design.

For fans of Ólafur Arnalds, Ben Lukas Boysen.

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Island Songs: Week 6

Ólafur Arnalds brings you the sixth single from Island Songs, his 7-week journey across Iceland to record a series of compositions.Watch Particles, where he collaborates with Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, the co-lead vocalist in Of Monsters and Men. The video is directed by Baldvin Z.

Island Songs: Week 5

Ólafur Arnalds brings you the fifth single from Island Songs, his 7-week journey across Iceland to record a series of compositions. Watch Dalur, where Ólafur returns to his hometown to collaborate with french horn player Þorkell Jóelsson and the Brasstríó Mosfellsdals. The video is directed by Baldvin Z.

Island Songs: Week 4

Ólafur Arnalds brings you the fourth single from Island Songs, his 7-week journey across Iceland to record a series of compositions.Watch Öldurót, where he collaborates with Atli, a composer who has returned to his home town after many years in Hollywood writing film scores, and the orchestra SinfoniaNord. The video is directed by Baldvin Z.

Island Songs: Week 3

Ólafur Arnalds brings you the third single from Island Songs, his 7-week journey across Iceland to record a series of compositions. Watch Raddir, where he collaborates with Hilmar Örn Agnarsson and Georg Kári Hilmarsson, father and son, featuring the South Iceland Chamber Choir. The video is directed by Baldvin Z.

Island Songs: Week 2

Ólafur Arnalds brings you the second single from Island Songs, his 7-week journey across Iceland to record a series of compositions.

Watch 1995, where he collaborates with music teacher and organist Dagný Arnalds. The video is directed by Baldvin Z.

Island Songs: Week 1

"Welcome to Island Songs.
Over the next 7 weeks, I will be travelling to 7 different locations in Iceland - one per week - to record a series of new compositions.

In each location I will be collaborating with local artists to create and perform a new song and each week I will release the audio track and video performance, shot by director Baldvin Z. Each artist has their own unique story to tell and way of contributing, making this a diverse and evolving project.


Island Songs is a living musical film and therefore everything will be documented in real-time. You can join me by keeping an eye on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat (search for Kiasmosed), Instagram and islandsongs.is for regular media and commentary.

I'd love to get as much feedback as possible from people via social media as the project progresses, and really keep a conversation going. During Living Room Songs people sent me in artwork, song titles, suggestions... it was as if I were having a conversation as I was making the music." - Ólafur Arnalds

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EP: Eloi Casellas & BLAK - Vostok (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Band: Eloi Casellas & BLAK
Album: Vostok (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2015







Tracklist
01. BLAK - Vostok
02. Eloi Casellas - Zarya3
03. Eloi Casellas - Irina
04. Eloi Casellas - Nikolai
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BLAK and Eloi Casellas (a band member of BLAK) partnered to write the soundtrack for the motion picture "Vostok". BLAK's track with the self titled name is an amazing instrumental post-rock composition, influenced by the early Mono tracks. Eloi Casellas completes this beautiful soundtrack contributing 3, more ambient oriented, instrumental tracks. The only downside is that the EP has a running time of approximately 18 minutes. Well there is always the repeat button...

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Exclusive Track: Zachary Reid - We Break Backs And Bend Wills

Zachary Reid is the eponymous pseudonym used by ambient producer and composer Zack Hansen, also know as a founding member and drummer of Tucson based doom monsters North (Prosthetic Records), and grind band Languish (Battleground Records/Crown and Throne Inc).

What started as pure noise on his end, a cacophony of misplaced notes played out painstakingly on a darkened computer keyboard. The outlet for stifled creativity and frustration with all music eventually turned into something more. Actual music.

After what felt like an eternity of electronic tinkering, his debut album “Songs For Cyanide” was released like a dull murmur into the nothingness in early 2014. An amalgamation of cackling noise, soothing synths, and distorted samples ripped from nothingness, replete with vicious critiques about the state of modern theology throughout the work, “Songs For Cyanide” reflected it’s bitter epithet. 

“I was almost embarrassed by it, this personal of an album with my name on it, it was something I’d never done before” Zack says. The album went unheard for the most part, no physical medium in site and Zachary had no interest in sending it to anyone, content to leave it on bandcamp.

The project stagnated, until a series of live opportunities sprang into existence. “I had several friends coming through Tucson and not enough bands to play, so I thought, why not?”. The only problem was “Songs For Cyanide” was entirely created on a computer with virtual instruments and samples, the question was how would Zachary Reid be played live? Zachary set out to build a live set that could be accurately represent his music. Thus the first live shows were performed. “I then realized I had written an entire album for live purposes and I actually really liked the songs” he says. From these live shows, the next album was created. 

“My Return To The Ground Will Be Lonely” is a dramatic, despair filled, compilation of music composed entirely for solo live performances. A profound loneliness and a foreboding sense of doom about the human condition flood the work which is replete with lush synthesizers and distorted drones. “It’s not hopeful music, if anything it’s what happens when you’ve given up hope”. 

Now both albums are ready for the world, with simultaneous cassette releases being readied by Zachary Reid’s own label, Precarian Media, with “My Return To The Ground Will Be Lonely” coming digitally as well. Limited to 50 white cassettes for Songs For Cyanide and 100 black cassettes for My Return To The Ground Will Be Lonely, followed by the first ever Zachary Reid tour, scheduled to make stops in El Paso, Tucson, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Phoenix alongside Memphis based ambient guitar wizard Holy Gallows.

Zachary Reid has performed live with such bands as Barrows, Godhunter, He Whose Ox Is Gored, 100 Onces, Destroyer of Light, Sleep Like Trees, Minnow, Methra and more.

Songs For Cyanide (PCM-001)  

https://zacharyreid.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-cyanide

1. Never Ending Quiet
2. Cyanide Dreams In Scarlet Sleep
3. Singularity
4. Fuck Music
5. Entropy
6. Dead Kids Don’t Do Drugs

My Return To The Ground Will Be Lonely (PCM-002)

https://zacharyreid.bandcamp.com/album/my-return-to-the-ground-will-be-lonely

1. Form and Void
2. We Break Backs And Bend Wills
3. And The Graves We Dig Shall Be Our Own
4. My Return To The Ground Will Be Lonely

RIYL: Stars of the Lid, Tim Hecker, Eluvium, Fennesz.

September 23rd - El Paso, TX - Bowie Feathers

September 24th - Tucson, AZ - Sky Bar w/ Ryan Chavira, Adam Golden

September 25th - Los Angeles, CA - The Pehrspace w/Barrows, YEAR

September 26th - San Diego, CA - The Treehouse

September 28th - Phoenix, AZ - The Trunk Space w/ MA Bell

all shows with Holy Gallows

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