Album: The Evpatoria Report - Maar

Band: The Evpatoria Report
Album: Maar
Label: Get A Life! Records
Year: 2008







Tracklist
01.Eighteen Robins Road
02.Dar Now
03.Mithridate
04.Acheron
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The Evpatoria Report was born in January 2002 in Switzerland and the band consists of two guitars, a bass, drums, a violin and a keyboard.

The band offers an instrumental rock combining serenity, power and intensity. In order to enrich some of its compositions, The Evpatoria Report are willing to collaborate with other musicians, as it was the case with Reverse Engineering, the Orchestra of Ribaupierre or the Union Choral society of Vevey.

The band’s activity can be summarized through the release of its first EP (2003), followed by its first album "Golevka" (2005) as well as through life performances, in particular with Mono (2004), Calexico (2004) and Red Sparowes (2006). The Evpatoria Report have recorded a new album called "Maar" (due to release on Sep.5th,2008) and maintains a keen interest for all sort of project, notably that of a soundtrack.

A lot of people thought that after a masterpiece like "Golevka", The Evpatoria Report couldn't release an album like that.The band proved them all wrong though, by releasing an excellent and solid album, with 4 tracks with 11+ minutes play time each. Personally I think that it's even better than the first one.

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Album: Neko - Ghost Tracks

Band: Neko
Album: Ghost Tacks
Label: Self-released
Year: 2004





Tracklist
01.Jukebox
02.Li-Zhen
03.Bliss
04.Synkronized-Killing-Machine
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Neko took their time before emerging as the instrumental trio the band has become. Mainly influenced by rock bands, Neko mix rock energy with post-rock contrasts, play with loops to create progressive ambiances, all the while knowing how to adopt a more direct approach when needed. “Explicit Lyrics,” the band’s demo, was made available in early 2003, the year that saw the band first hit the stage in Northern France where the band are from. In 2004 they released "Ghost Tracks" and after that they composed a soundtrack for a film called "Les Somnambules (OST) - Un film d'Antoine Capliez".

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Album: Kehlvin - Holy Cancer

Band: Kehlvin
Album: Holy Cancer
Label: Division Records
Year: 2008







Tracklist
01.Le Barnacle (Love Will Never Be Enough)
02.Untitled
03.God Is A Mere Intentional Object
04.Untitled
05.Atheist Hope
06.Untitled
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Formed back in early 1999 by five friends in La Chaux-de- Fonds, Switzerland, Kehlvin are delivering a slow, progressive and metallic hardcore. After the release of their first album, "the Mountain Daylight Time" and some shows across Europe with the likes of Burst, Mono, Red Sparowes and Unsane, the members of Kehlvin have collaborated with their friends from Rorcal in order to record a split album called "Ascension". It consists of one song of 30 minutes with the two bands playing simultaneously, written and recorded in 4 days. Since this monolithic masterpiece, the band has spent some time recording three new songs for the new EP "Holy Cancer", released with a bonus DVD containing more than one hour of live footages.

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Album: El Ten Eleven - These Promises Are Being Videotaped

Band: El Ten Eleven
Album: These Promises Are Being Videotaped
Label: Self-released
Year: 2008







Tracklist
01. Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
02. I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool
03. Fat Gym Riot
04. Adam and Nathan Totally Kick Ass
05. K10
06. Paranoid Android
07. Chino
08. Numb Tooth
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El Ten Eleven is a two-man post-rock band known for combining guitar/bass doubleneck, with heavy effects pedaling, over acoustic or electric drumming. Stylistically, they have been described as atmospheric, putting a much more ethereal spin on the southwestern post-rock/Americana movement than bands like Calexico or The Court & Spark, though less electronic and more organic-sounding than Tortoise or most shoegazer bands. Comparisons have also been drawn to Sigur Ros;s and The Mercury Program. It should be noted that, so far, El Ten Eleven has remained a primarily instrumental act. Spin, which picked them for Band of the Day, September 29, 2005, describes their work as "experimental instrumental music that's both highly skilled and deeply felt," and Entertainment Weekly considered their piece, "Lorge," to be "instrumental rock that's not boring." Amoeba Music adds "Moody, nutricious!" The band's self-titled debut album was released September 20, 2005 on Bar/None Records (home of Architecture in Helsinki, Trembling Blue Stars, Freedy Johnston, The Spinto Band, and the original They Might Be Giants label). In 2007 El Ten Eleven released their second album entitled "Every Direction Is North".

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Album: Mouth Of The Architect - Quietly

Band: Mouth Of The Architect
Album: Quietly
Label: Translation Loss Records
Year: 2008





Tracklist
01.Quietly
02.Hate And Heartache
03.Pine Boxes
04.Guilt And The Like
05.Generation Of Ghosts
06.Rocking Chairs And Shotguns
07.Medicine
08.A Beautiful Corpse
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Members:
* Jason Watkins – vocals, keyboards, samples
* Dave Mann – drums
* Steve Brooks – guitar
* Kevin Schnidel – bass guitar
* Alex Vernon – guitar, vocals

Mouth of the Architect formed in 2003 with the lineup of Jason Watkins, Gregory Lahm, Dave Mann, Alex Vernon, and Derik Sommer. They released their first album "Time and Withering" in 2004 to positive reviews.
Soon after the band released a split with label mates Kenoma in 2006, their second album. "The Ties That Blind" was released in August, and featured Brent Hinds of Mastodon on guest vocals on one track. To support "The Ties That Blind", the band toured extensively around the United States, first with These Arms Are Snakes in late 2006, then with 400 Blows and Unsane in May and June of 2007.
Recently, they have recorded and mixed their third album "Quietly" for release on Translation Loss in early summer 2008. - Wikipedia

"Quietly" is an solid and epic release from Mouth Of The Architect, and definitely one of the best releases of the year.If you liked the previous ones, you'll love this!

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Album: Red Sparowes - Aphorisms EP

Band: Red Sparowes
Album: Aphorisms EP
Label: Digital Release
Year: 2008






Tracklist
01.We Left The Apes To Rot, But Find The Fang Grows Within
02.Error Has Turned Animals Into Men, And To Each The Fold Repeats
03.The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer
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Red Sparowes formed in 2003 as another project for its members. Through signing to Neurot Recordings, Neurosis' record label, Red Sparowes toured with The Dillinger Escape Plan and Made Out of Babies in 2004 after recording demos for their debut album. The debut was recorded in late May of 2004 by engineer Desmond Shea, with the resulting sound in the vein of guitarist Bryant Clifford Meyer and Jeff Caxide's band Isis, Chicago post-rock/metal outfit Pelican, as well as bands as varied as Sonic Youth and The Cure. Members Jeff Caxide and Dana Berkowitz relocated in late 2004, thus forcing them out of the band.

Red Sparowes' first studio album, At the Soundless Dawn, was released in February of 2005, following guitarist Bryant Clifford Meyer's other band, Isis, in their initial tours in support of Panopticon. Shortly after this release, a split 12" was released with Gregor Samsa. The Red Sparowes side contained the second track from At the Soundless Dawn, "Buildings Began to Stretch Wide Across the Sky, And the Air Filled With A Reddish Glow," as well as a song recorded during the album's recording sessions with guitar from Mike Gallagher of Isis, initially only available on the Japanese release of the album. After the release of the album the band headlined a tour in Europe and participated in an American tour with Pelican, Big Business and Breather Resist. After touring the band released their follow-up record, Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun, in 2006. This release was followed by more touring of North America and Europe.

Recently Josh Graham has parted ways with the rest of the band to pursue a musical project with Vinnie Signorelli, the drummer of Unsane, called A Storm of Light. Red Sparowes began recording new material with engineer Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business, Tool) in May 2008 for release later that year, which will be available for download in August from iTunes, Amazon and similar online retailers. - Wikipedia

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Album: Transit - Whitewater

Band: Transit
Album: Whitewater
Label: Zeal Records
Year: 2008







Tracklist
01. Boat Song
02. Maribor
03. Thor
04. No Smoking Gun
05. Trees
06. January
07. Lucas
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Transit started out as a trio (Jeroen, Toon and Nick), enjoying long improvisation sessions in a snug, smoky and ear deafening rehearsel space, occasionally joined by drummers, often not. In 2005 Koen joined them on drums and kept on coming back (they loved the fact that he also was a fervent birdwatcher!). After 5 months, they participated in a 'rather' important national rock rally 'het Oost-Vlaams Rockconcours' (winter of 2005). During their 3rd concert ever, the final in the beautiful 'Vooruit' (Ghent), Transit received an 'honourable indication' .. or the prize of the audience as others later converted it to.

From then on Transit had great fun doing the support of great bands like 65 Days of Static (UK) (3 times), Liars (USA), Apse (USA), EF (Sweden), This will destroy you (USA), Snowden (USA), Sean Lennon (USA), Daturah (G), Picastro (Can), Ansatz Der Maschine (B), Confuse The Cat (B), The Go Find (B) and Madensuyu (B) in nice places as the Vooruit, STUK Leuven, AB (Ancienne Belgique), Magdalena Zaal (Cactus Club), Handelsbeurs, Kultuur Kaffee, TAC (N), W2 (N) and a few festivals like Bruksellive and Boomtownlive (Festivities of Ghent).

November 2006 the band released a first EP "Broadleaves vs. Conifers" (including 5 songs, 30 minutes). It received airplay on a few radio programs, among others Cucamonga (Radio 1-National Radio) and Duyster (Studio Brussel-National Radio). The EP also received some good comments and reviews in 'de Morgen' (National Newspaper), RifRaf and some E-zines: Soundslike, Musiczine, Goddeau, The Silent Balet (USA).

The last couple of months Transit has been recording, mixing en fixing up their first full-album. End of march 2008 they brought the record out on Zeal Records, a nice and small independant recordlabel (Tomán, Confuse The Cat, Sleepingdog,...). Available in the shops...

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*See also previous posts here and here