windermere.dk: To create the special and ambient-noisy sound of Windermere the band members sometimes have a somewhat different approach to playing on their respective instruments. Kim as a songwriter, guitarist and keyboardplayer combines effects from both keyboard and sequencing machines with the warm and dusty sound of an old tube amplifier. Hans (guitar) and Jakob (bass and vocal) eventually use a bow on their strings to evoke an ambient atmosphere in the music. Thomas plays the drums, not with power and restlessness, but with a laid back stylistic approach that matches the soundscapes of both guitars and backing tracks."
southern.net: "Christina Carter first joined Tom Carter and Kyle Silfer in an unnamed trio in 1991; they went on to become a duo called Charalambides. Charalambides is a singular entity that has constantly defined itself by gripping music and its operation outside the parameters of the music industry. Beginning with self-released cassettes, then moving on to the Siltbreeze label in 1993, Charalambides garnered attention from those in the know with their unique mix of noise, gospel, folk and blues. Jon Dale wrote in Signal to Noise that "For more than a decade, the trio have continually re-defined an attitude towards music-making that's about capturing the emotional and spiritual intensities of the moment, working from within skeletal song-forms and expanding outward through improvisational tactics and psychedelic sound-mapping to reach an ideosyncratic space of pure heart-to-heart communication."
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ananova.com "A 16-year-old boy invented a hamster-powered mobile phone charger as part of his GCSE science project.
Peter Ash, of Lawford, Somerset, attached a generator to his hamster's exercise wheel and connected it to his phone charger." More
npr.org: "Robert Moog is the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, an electronic keyboard that makes unworldly sounding electronic music. He invented it in 1963. Also, Moog didn't invent the theremin, but he manufactures this early electronic instrument. A Russian invented it 70 years ago, and it's been used on many science-fiction films because of its eerie, wavering tones. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has just honored Moog with the technical Grammy award for Lifetime Achievement. This interview originally aired on Feb. 28, 2000" Listen here
bbc.co.uk: The very first John Peel Day will take place on Thursday October 13th. The day will be a celebration of John's life and massive contribution to music and broadcasting with as many venues as possible staging gigs across the UK under the banner of Peel Day. More
"Referring to themselves as experimental glitter-art post-punk, the cumbersomely monikered Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia is an indie rock band from Oxford, England. Consisting of Pete ("guitars center"), Ollie ("guitars right," bass), James ("guitars left," samples), Emily ("monologues"), Tim (keyboards), and Mark (drums), the group formed in 2000 and quickly got to work on a demo. The sextet debuted through a split release shared with Moonkat on Tinfoil (I Only Wanted Something to Do but Hang Around) and later released a 7" (No Cigar) of their two songs from the release." More info
wnyc.org. Michael Gira of The Angels of Light, and members of the band Akron/Family join host David Garland to present their new albums. Gira is a veteran of his 1980s loud, dark, harrowing band Swans, and has recently been recording equally intense but acoustically played songs as The Angels of Light. For the new album "The Angels of Light Play 'Other People,'" Gira enlisted as his backing musicians Akron/Family, a young ensemble whose own self-titled album is new on Gira's Young God Records label" Listen here
brocoli.org: "The universe of Minizza was born from the joining of various contrasting musical genres, stylistically tied together through electronic processing. It’s strength: drawing original ideas from experimental music that reinforce pop music’s catchy composition.
With luxurious ambiences, Minizza’s first album is simultaneously catchy yet demanding. Music for Girls is a musical trip that gently starts by caressing one’s auditory senses, with tracks like the upcoming hit Monoball, and gradually warms up to the more experimental climates of the later songs." More info
ragingmole.com: "Return to Chaos (hereafter RTC) is my Windows version of the FTL classic "Dungeon Master" and its sequel "Chaos Strikes Back", originally released on the Atari ST and Amiga in 1987. Whilst I make no claim to the idea, graphics or sounds, the program itself was entirely written by myself; mostly as a work avoidance tactic in my final couple of months at university. I started writing RTC to learn as I went along the basics of game programming and as such it is the first and only game I have ever written; please be tolerant with any bugs you find! I wish to thank those denizens of the 'Net who have play tested the game exhaustively - I hope this game brings as much pleasure to you as it did to me whilst writing it. Good luck and have fun." download here
fuzzylights.com: "The minimalist violin/guitar/organ collective Fuzzy Lights formed in August 2004. Usage of live looping enables them to shift between spacious soundscapes to walls of sound, building emotionally charged tunes. For the past year they have been performing in and around Cambridge and have recorded their first mini EP, "in silence we weep", which contains a handmade sleeve with an original photograph print. Having only 2 core members (with occasional guests), Fuzzy Lights certainly distinguish themselves with this fact (think Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Silver Mt. Zion with seven plus performers) but manage to pull the traditional post-rock formula into more delicate areas while maintaining the ever present noise outs."
younggodrecords.com "Their music is bare and austere, made with simple instrumentation - voice, acoustic guitars, and other very sparse orchestrations. I wouldn't say it compares at all to the current crop of neo hippy "weird folk" etc. It has the naked quality of certain early Nico recordings, or Chet Baker...soulful and elegant, without being touchy-feely or confessional. Their music reminds me of how one might imagine a winter Finnish landscape - haunting and pure." More info
Boston Globe: 'Josephine Foster is a self-described 'opera school dropout' whose downbeat folk stylings build without effort or affectation into shrieking, valve-blowing arias. Her new album with the Supposed, "All the Leaves Are Gone," is explosively electric. Foster fronts a full, amped-up, and extremely inventive band, and her voice billows and soars through a 12-song sequence that was originally conceived as a rock opera. A neo-quirk-folk-rock opera? Foster -- although she is louder than any of her contemporaries -- represents the quintessence of the new folkies. Their wellsprings are in the ancient and arcane, but they are breaking new ground. Their music can be recondite, but it admits no limits. There is a word for this, it fits perfectly, and it was coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins in a poem about his favorite composer, Purcell: 'arch-especial.'
br-online.de: "Entweder sitzt man gerade in der U-Bahn, schwitzt beim Sport, schuftet in der Arbeit oder hat ausgerechnet jetzt überhaupt keine Zeit. Eigentlich egal, die Lieblingssendung ist auf jeden Fall vorbei. Nicht ärgern, wir haben die Lösung: Ausgewählte Beiträge aus dem Radioprogramm des Bayerischen Rundfunks gibt es jetzt in Spezialausgaben zum Mitnehmen für Ihren MP3-Player. Und das neue DownloadCenter hilft beim Finden, macht Lust auf weitere Mitnahmeangebote und bietet sogar Abo-Möglichkeiten für die eigene Lieblingssendung. Alles ganz einfach und kostenfrei." Mehr Info
<b<wikipedia.org "YPS war ein Comic-Heft, das von 1975 bis 2000 wöchentlich im Phasenvertrieb erschien und aufgrund des beigelegten Gimmicks (oft ein Spielzeug) schnell Kultstatus erreichte. Das Konzept des Heftes basierte auf dem französischen Heft Pif Gadget, aus dem zahlreiche Gimmicks und Comics übernommen wurden." Mehr bei wikipedia.de
tinitusstadl.de: "in dieser sendung gab es ein spezial zum leipziger jahtari projekt.
jahtari steht für "dlr - digital laptop reggae": "digital laptop reggae is nothing else but reggae music produced with a computer"
doch dies hat nichts mit dem bekannten muster des technodub oder ähnlichem zu tun - nein, die musik klingt nach klassischem reggae und dub - doch auch wieder nicht. die verwendung von rein "digitalen" instrumenten, sprich computer, gibt dem ganzen ein neue note. zudem steckt in jahtari ja auch irgendwie des 8bit-wunder atari. und auch hier wundert man sich ein zweites mal, den die musik klingt nicht nach atari-spielkonsolenmusik, sondern kommt mit mächtig viel druck und bass daher.
neben viel musik von jahtari-mitstreitern gab es einen dub-mix zu hören, der den musikalischen background des projektes näher beleuchtete.
zusätzlich telefonierten wir mit disrupt, einem der beiden köpfe hinter jahtari."
allmusic.com: "Space-age pop collagists Broadcast formed in Birmingham, England in 1995; comprised of vocalist Trish Keenan, guitarist Tim Felton, bassist James Cargill, keyboardist Roj Stevens and drummer Steve Perkins, the quintet came together out of a shared affection for the psychedelic cult band theUnited States of America, a primary influence on their subsequent work as a group. Debuting in 1996 with the "Wurlitzer Jukebox" label single "Accidentals," Broadcast immediately won favorable comparisons to Stereolab for their sample-heavy, analog, synth-driven sound; the comparisons continued when they signed to Stereolab's Duophonic Super 45s imprint for their next effort, "Living Room." After the icily atmospheric Book Lovers EP, the group moved to Warp Records to release 1997's Work and Non-Work, a compilation of their existing singles tracks." Read more
burntsugarindex.com: "Born in Taejon, Korea in 1975, Okkyung Lee started her musical training at the age of 3 playing piano. A couple of years later she switched her instrument to cello and continued her classical training for next 11 years. In the fall of 1993, she moved to Boston where she received her dual bachelor's degree in film scoring and contemporary writing & production from Berklee College of Music, and master's degree in contemporary improvisation from New England Conservatory of Music." Read more
thewire.co.uk: To accompany the Invisible Jukebox interview with Carla Bozulich in August #258 issue, Carla and Ches Smith have offered up this track from their handmade debut CD-R album Carla Bozulich/Ches Smith: Elements Ascending 6.1 MB download here
allmusic.com: "Multi-instrumentalist from Glasgow Richard Youngs began releasing albums in the early '90s on various independent labels. His music ranges from the pure experimental, instrumental, minimal, and avant-garde through to folk-inspired songwriting and progressive rock. In songwriting mode, he is similar to Robert Wyatt, Anthony Moore, and in particular other fine acts from Glasgow John Martyn and the Incredible String Band. In his more experimental projects with Simon Wickham-Smith and Brian Lavelle, the cacophonous roar is closer in style to the '90s noise underground artists such as the Dead C, Sun City Girls, or White Winged Moth. More
Downloads: thewire.co.uk: "To accompany September issue's cover-feature interview, Richard Youngs has donated readers a full, free download of the now-deleted limited edition (35 only) CDR 'Garden Of Stones' (NFR07). It was originally made for people who attended a couple of Portugese shows earlier in 2005. All sounds Richard Youngs" Download here
