EP: Polair - MMXIV (Demo)

Band: Polair
Album: MMXIV (Demo) EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014








Tracklist
01. With Perseverance
02. To Be Continued
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Polair is a young punk hardcore band from Orleans, France.

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Album: Plastic Violins Of Darkness - Spiral

Band: Plastic Violins Of Darkness
Album: Spiral
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014








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01. Anima In Herba
02. Spiral
03. Solstice
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Plastic Violins Of Darkness is an one man band from Leipzig, Germany. "Spiral" is their second release, consisting from 3 tracks with a total running time of over 50 minutes. A combination of doom and dark ambient, which is a successful follow-up of his debut album.

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The Inquisition: 019.This Patch Of Sky

1. How did you came up with the name of the band?

The band name was actually a comic drama that was written by Gregory Foote.  We adopted the name shorty after the drama was performed at a local theatre.

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?

Every song we create seems to go through a different process.  For example, “Time Destroys Everything, But Our Foundation Remains” was accidentally written at one of our band practices.  I was messing around with one of my guitar pedals and started finger picking a chord over and over while tweaking some settings.  Josh looked at me and said, “That’s kinda cool, keep it going.”  We started to build off of it after that.  Other songs like “The Winter Day Declining” or “Love Is In Beauty and Chaos” start with an idea that someone brings in and we begin to develop it.

3. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home?

As a band our influences seem to differ by person.  I would say This Will Destroy You and Sigur Ros are probably the largest influences for the band as a whole.  Other influences also include:  Minus The Bear,  Olafur Arnalds, The Album Leaf, Iron and Wine, Snow Patrol, The Appleseed Cast, TTNG, Message To Bears, Blink 182, Moving Mountains, Debussy, Wagner, Hans Zimmer, Hammock, Coldplay, Death Cab For Cutie, Phillip Glass, Arvo Part, MONO, Silent Whale Becomes A Dream, ect.

4. Which is the one album you can’t live without?

Sigur Ros:  Valtari

5. What's the first record you've ever bought ?

My very first album was ‘Slowly Going The Way Of The Buffalo’ by MxPx.  Laugh all you want, I still thoroughly love that album.

6. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with ?

Easy:  This Will Destroy You.

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 is a very powerful tool.  If it weren’t for the internet, our music probably wouldn’t have reached beyond our city.  Surprisingly our music has a huge presence in Germany.  Being on a German label for a few years probably played a huge role in that.

8. Do you support the idea of bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like spotify?

Haha this is a tough question.  I honestly support the idea of both.  Bandcamp is a great tool for an artist to utilize tracking album purchases, viewing stats for song plays, and to see what websites have embedded your bandcamp player.  Spotify on the other hand can reach a huge audience which is also greatly beneficial for an artist.

9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?

In 5 years, I hope we're scoring films regularly in addition to regular studio albums, and I hope we'll have our own brewery.

10. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era?

If we're fully honest with ourselves, I think you do form some of your opinion on the quality of a band based on their album covers. At least I do. If it looks cheap and tacky and photoshopped, and it doesn't look like any time was put into it, that's a reflection on your entire band to me. Album covers are an opportunity to do something cool, creative, beautiful, etc...why wouldn't you take advantage of it?

11. What is you favorite album cover?

‘Lovesexy’ by Prince.

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?

I've been collecting CDs since I was 10, and I still prefer physical formats. For me, going to a local record store is like going on a treasure hunt and much more enjoyable than clicking "download" and that's it. Vinyl is both nostalgic and has a unique sound quality that other formats don't have, and I think that's why people like it.

13. What's the most vivid story or moment as a band?

Opening for Caspian at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland.

This Patch Of Sky recently released their second full length album. It's a new stepping stone for the band as they begin to shift their focus on creating more of a soundtrack vs. individual tracks. As a result, the album gives you a more powerful, atmospheric, and cinematic album that gives the listener a chance to either stay engaged or simply drift away. With the addition of cellist Alex Abrams, the band continues to grow in their writing style which becomes clearly evident in this release.

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Video: Jakob - Blind Them With Science

Exclusive: Preview 2 tracks from Whale Fall's forthcoming album "The Madrean"

"It's been a long time since our last release, but we are excited to announce that we are finalizing our second album The Madrean -- an eight-song instrumental story, each with an individual visual,  of the Madrean Region of the American Southwest." - Whale Fall

The Madrean will be released later this fall on digital followed by vinyl.

Here you can hear two of the new tracks, accompanied by it's artwork:

I Shall Sail No More (No More Shall I Sail)

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Whale Fall is an instrumental rock band based in Los Angeles, California. Formed in 2008, the five member group, whose name derives from the biologic process by which a decaying whale carcass spawns a new sea life community, quickly established a dedicated fan base who embraced the band's dynamic live sound, leading to the recording of their eponymous debut album, a vinyl double LP self-released in 2011. In addition to live performances, recordings, and an expanding online presence, the group's music is reaching new audiences with the inclusion of two Whale Fall tracks in the award-winning documentary Code Black, currently in wide release. This cinematic foray complements the numerous soundtrack credits attributable to the fivesome’s past projects, including The X-Files, Kiss of Death (1995), Up in the Air (2009), promotional trailers for The Help (2011), and several independent films. 

Whale Fall's sound stems from a wide range of musical influences, from shoegaze to experimental rock to Ennio Morricone cinematic fare to the echoes of border town Americana replete with mariachi horns. Add to this mix the visuo-narrative influences of the group's external surroundings in the American West, the cultural milieu of Los Angeles, and the internal landscapes of their individual imaginations. This is the very concoction that gave rise to the band's second album, titled The Madrean, a collection of eight thematically linked compositions paying homage to the Madrean region of North America, the arid landmass spanning the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. With band members having spent their respective formative years in Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and California, the Madrean Region is an inescapable internal and external space for Whale Fall, and the intersection of its urban and natural environs—from L.A. freeway overpasses to majestic Sierra peaks—serve as both the backdrop and the foreground of the music of The Madrean as well as the accompanying visual imagery. 

On this, Whale Fall's sophomore offering, the band's live ensemble of traditional rock instrumentation augmented by trumpet and piano is further expanded with the addition of saxophone and cello. The interplay between Ali Vazin's ethereal guitar swells and Dave Pomeranz's raw six-string tones suggests the vast desert sky overhanging stark and rugged terrain, with J-Matt Greenberg's trumpet and keyboard flourishes providing the flora and fauna, all supported by the tectonic framework of Erik Tokle's gliding bass and Aaron Farinelli's foundational percussion. Guest instrumentalists Joseph Santa Maria on saxophone and Artyom Manukyan on cello conjure the few rivers and streams that course through this arid landscape. Recorded and mixed alongside the taco trucks and bodegas of Highland Park in northeast Los Angeles, the music of The Madrean centers its urban origins in an awareness of its encapsulation between the Pacific Ocean and San Gabriel Mountains. This sonically invoked imagery is visually reinforced by the beautiful artwork created by Emmy award-winning designer Jordan Wayne Lee. Whale Fall is very proud to present this new incarnation of a timeless character, The Madrean, to both the denizens of the Madrean Region and the world at large.

Special thanx to the band for allowing me to post the private links to stream the 2 tracks.

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Video: The Matador - Destroyer

From The Matador's latest release "Destroyer".

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