Thursday, December 30, 2010

Music to Listen to When it Snows

It just happens to be snowing today.


Let's get old school and go back to 2004 for a moment. Back then everyone thought the world was going to end in 2012, but by 2010 after that movie came out with John Cusack it became uncool to believe in that apocalyptic babble. But today, lets have and End of the World Party (just in case).

Listen to: (a Youtube Link, SoundCloud doesn't like it)


You just heard Medeski Martin and Wood. It's funky out in the open, anything goes jazz. They have earned a name for themselves all over but
chances are you haven't come back to this record in a while even if you're a fan already.
Download:




Snow? Apocalypse? Perfect.
Miike Snow - Silvia

From Lil Walter to Lil Tae,

The Jacob Fred Jazz Odessy:


Listen to: 


Found this quote for their website, I Loled:

"JFJO's second album launched them into the national touring scene, partly based on it's expanded variety of styles & sounds, and partly based on the assumption that it was really recorded in Tokyo. Actually, it was recorded in Tulsa, OK - half live at The Eclipse and half in a studio owned by punk rock legends N.O.T.A."


I am familiar with Eclipse in Tulsa and it cracks me up to think these dudes were/are that raw because they're so ill. Norman knows how to get down. 





Go buy Lil Tae Rides Again. And then Remix Tetherball Triumph. 

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

From Traditional to Glitch

This is the post to prove I am not "going for" anything specific with this blog. I will just continue to post Artists that I enjoy from any genre. I will try not to "review" the bands and mainly just give you guys the music. Although there are situations where I can't help but include certain opinions. Now go "listen to the tracks".

Gjallarhorn is not an easy band name to spell. I saw this group perform at Globalquerque in 2006. Globalquerque is a two day music festival in Albuquerque showcasing music from around the world. The album Rimfaxe shares the name of a horse god from Norse Mythology.

Listen to:
Kokkovirsi [Bonfire Song]







Look at that Moustache. Wilikers. 






I don't want to say to much about this.
Just
Listen to:
The Greatest Distraction

and Download the album, A Southern Summer's Breeze, @Bandcamp









And somehow not everyone has heard this:



Listen to:
Perverted Undertone

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Not a Music Blog

 I don't want to write a big introduction. This is a place where I will post my ideas, and music that I like. 


The 2009 release 'Up To No Good' by
Birds and Batteries
Listen to:
Out In the Woods
The Villain


released 26 October 2009 
Written and produced by Mike Sempert 
Performed by Mike Sempert, Christopher Walsh, Jill Heinke, and Brian Michelson






D Numbers 2010 release 'ONDA'  is great. It is missing the element of Rock and Roll that their previous album savored but it is not without the moments of Psychedelic layering. 


Listen to:
Ghost Talk




D Numbers is based out of Santa Fe New Mexico. The three of them changed my idea of what is possible with instrumental music.  D Numbers is a band that should be on everybody's watchlist. They shared the stage with Birds and Batteries for the ONDA Release party in Santa Fe. Soon after that show I was lucky enough to catch Birds and Batteries again and after seeing them twice they too quickly became a new favorite. 
I have been lucky enough to closely watch some of the evolution of D Numbers. Their sound grows tendrils like their equipment on stage grows cables.  As strange as it feels to describe their previous release 'Light Parade' as "stripped down" it seems that way in comparison to ONDA. ONDA isn't more textured or excited but it does make me realize how much I appreciate the way that "Light Parade" sounds like a rock band as opposed to a symphony of computers.  


Listen to: 
Xylem Up