arborea

arborea - s/t (fire museum 2008)

"This self titled collection is the second release for Arborea. Hailing from Maine, the duo of Buck and Shanti Curran (on vocals, guitars, banjos, percussion) are joined on two numbers by Helena Espvall of Espers on cello. Here they conjure up a musical offering that is equal parts Appalachian music, traditional English folk music, and contemporary psychedelic folk with experimental touches creating a sound that stands out as unique while touching upon something that feels as ancient as the urge to create music..." fire museum

pensaba que después de Valerie Webb & Paul Labrecque no habría nada comparable a ese aura de indescriptible magia pastoril que desprende Trees, Chants & Hollers, pero me equivoqué. en su segundo disco los arbóreos Buck y Shanti hacen cosas tan bonitas como Idles of March (rozando a Grails, Bruce Langhorne, Greg Malcolm,...), Seadrift (una canción perfecta, mucho mucho banjo, casi Valerie Webb & Paul Labrecque, casi Kath Bloom, casi...todo), Black Mountain Road (cantos, árboles y banjos, Meg Baird, Edison Woods, The Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree y otros seres multicolores en un solo cuerpo), y la esencia y semilla del folk: Dark is the Night in the Wind. un suavísimo appalachian up & holler que dura un suspiro, a ritmo de delicios mmmms mmmms...mmmms y banjos de algodón. Valerie & Paul siguen siendo muy especiales para mí, pero esta canción es demasiado, demasiado, demasiado bonita.

filed under:...buena sombra le cobija :)

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two by treesquel

ngetal

!!!feliiiz, feliiiiz en tu díaaa, amiguita que dios te bendigaaa, que reine la paz en tu díaaa y que cuuuumplas muuuchos maaaás!!!

*cumpreanos ledo mirtamirta*

festival

festival - come, arrow, come! (language of stone 2008)

"On the way to the top of the mountain/ We’d been staring, inhaling the light of the sun/ All these days, spent re-telling the stories"

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essie jain

*glory*

paavoharju

paavoharju - laulu laakson kukista (fonal 2008)

"...If you've never heard the music of Paavoharju, prepare yourself for one of life's more considerable and uncontained pleasures. They are a band who take in influence from the "Radio India" style shortwave pop transmissions of the Sublime Frequencies label, freak folk, Europop, modern classical, plunderphonics, choral, devotional, experimental and multicoloured music of almost every description imaginable - and yet they embody a specific sound that's unmistakably their own..." boomkat

"Sounds of raindrops falling on sheet metal roof melted together with old television's random-dot-pattern-noise. Leena Uotila's soft voice echoed in empty, dusty rooms. Catowls gathered to the sky, appletrees were blooming and waves rocked a barrell against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassette's magnetic tape. I finished our work with prayer only a moment before the cold winds rose from Saimaa.
Laulu laakson kukista (A song about flowers of the valley) is dedicated to Marja Ainala." fonal

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(gracias ...and the world smiles with you)

siguen siendo tan fascinantes, esa extraña combinación de cocteau twins y sublime frequencies (preciosas 'kevätrumpu' y el piano de 'tuoksu tarttuu meihin').

y siempre es un placer volver a contemplarlos y oirlos en dos de las canciones más perturbadoramente bonitas del mundo

lau nau

lau nau - nukkuu (locust/fonal 2008)

"Nukkuu (Finnish for Sleeps) is the long awaited sophomore album by celebrated Finnish femme folk fave Lau Nau. Nukkuu is psychedelic, abstract & emotionally captivating. Nukkuu is an album of changes. In the years since her debut album Kuutarha, Laura became a mother, moved to the Finnish countryside and took valuable time to carve out a space for her enchanted art in the new found tranquility of her remote surroundings. Conceived in tight attics & vacant dens on off hours when her young son Nuutti was fast asleep, this is an intimately crafted 9 song collection that unfolds like dreamlike musical ribbons for the senses and delivers the listener to a place of unhurried contentedness." fonal

(el mejor regalo posible, de jorge de ...and the world smiles with you)

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lights

lights - lights (language of stone 2008)

"Brooklyn's Lights enchant on their self-titled Language of Stone debut. Produced by Espers' Greg Weeks, the three-girl harmonizing (by Sophia Knapp, Linnea, and...Wizard Smoke) combined with forest spirit mythology and gothic undertones make for deliciously psychedelic, and sometimes dark, treat. Like being stuck inside the Wicker Man and actually enjoying it." othermusic

"Lights are Sophia Knapp (guitar, vox), Linnea Vedder (drums, vox), Wizard Smoke (light show, vox, jew’s harp) and Andy MacLeod (bass) (formerly of White Magic). Lights toured in 2005 with Jana Hunter and in 2007 with Bright Black Morning Light and Mariee Sioux as part of the Crystal Totem Tour.
The album ‘Lights’ was recorded and mixed at Hexham Head by Espers's Greg Weeks." inertia

“Here, for every virginal vocal harmony a vampiric riff lies in wait, each dulcet tone risks transformation into snarling beast, and ghost-like apparitions infest the rafters, unseen but duly felt. Lights embody the mixture of pop beauty and psychedelic horror that has compelled millions to shiver in fright and ecstasy. Join us.” lights

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foto: fancyclaps

goliath bird eater

goliath bird eater - black pentagon (ruralfaune 2008)

"New directions in spectral doom from Mr Bobb Bruno with help from Pocahaunted. Goliath Bird Eater are endlessly reverbed vox smeared into washes of tone while single chord doom/fuzz jams move from wasted refusals of any notion of forward momentum through to psychoactive repeat-minimalism. Edition of 77 copies with a whole bunch of alternative covers included." volcanic tongue

"Goliath Bird Eater...In simple terms, “Pentagon Black” is a trio of dense, metal-inspired drone pieces. But there’s more to it than that: The assistance from Rafe Mandel (The For Carnation) and the Pocahaunted girls on “Loop of Pine”, the mid-song silence breaks in “Shiranui”, and the title track, which could be an alternate soundtrack for the intro of Holy Mountain. All of these elements make “Pentagon Black” transcend all things drone and metal. As a matter of fact, I take the first sentence of this paragraph back. This record comprises a trio of complex sonic rituals bearing subtle hints of doom, drone, metal, Slint, Jodorowsky and you fuckin’ name it! It’s a damn great record, and it’s got some of the slickest cover art ever to grace a cd-r! Highly recommended!!! 9/10" foxy digitalis

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familiar trees

sunspot