Ground Zero

I continue yesterday's weird album with another weird offering, Ground Zero's Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver.1.28. It's from 96, so some of you might have heard it already, but it's worth hearing it if you haven't. It's a Japanese band that makes experimental noise rock via, as far as I can tell, free improvisation. Now let me explain, before you stop reading. This is not Derek Bailey or Anthony Braxton free improv. Sure, it times it's noisy, but that's to be expected. I'm listening to the album as I type this, and a long noise section just ended, and now a soothing female singer is vocalising in a very Eastern sounding mode, there are some cymbal hits, and it's relaxing. Of course, within the next five minutes, it might sound like Hell on Earth, but it's enjoyable.

Plus, there's a guy in the band that plays turntables.

Free improv turntables.


http://www.mediafire.com/?mhoxjmmgtmm

Paavoharju

So, I haven't posted in a while, much to the dismay of like two people, but I will try to get this up again.

To start with, I'm giving you guys a Finnish psychedelic folk band, Paavoharju. The album's name is Yhä hämärää, which looks about as obnoxious some shit Magma would release, but the music is actually pretty decent. It's pretty droney, and the female vocalist is great at giving the music a bit of a Far Eastern feel, although this could just be Finnish folk, which I am not really familiar with. Either way, it's solid except for a couple tracks, so DL that ish, and keep checking back. Or just use Google Reader and have your life much easier.

It sounds just like Animal Collective.
Exactly.




http://www.mediafire.com/?x4fwwyhmqyy

Honor Roll Breakfast!

So my band recorded today, and are releasing this here shit for free. It's a two track EP, the first being Pitchfork, and the second Minus The Bear.

Hopefully the music is more creative than the song titles.


http://www.mediafire.com/?whxyg2jmw2q


(No album art cuz we're too indie, maybe later)

OMG

BLACK PEOPLE IN OFFICE

YAY

Double Feature: Marnie Stern

I'm listening to Marnie Stern's new album as I'm typing this, so I've decided to up her last album. This is because I'm on the third track, and don't want to disappoint my avid readers. What I know for a fact is that In Advance of the Broken Arm is some of the best noise-pop I've heard. This is also for fans of Hella and the myriad of other projects Zach Hill has going on, because his drumming is as prominent as Marnie's guitar lines, and the two insane styles actually compliment each other, surprisingly so.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ywomwdmymji

The Necks

You like trance? jazz? krautrock? minimalism? pink things?

The Necks' Drive By is an hour long track of meditative goodness. This trio develops their sound very gradually, creating very beautiful melodies subtly. Even if you don't love it at first listen, when it ends you'll miss it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2joumzcn2gj

toe and toe make fore

Toe is a Japanese math rock band with a fantastic drummer and a great sense of melody. The shifts in key and tempo are very subtle, and they really groove more than most math rock bands today. I could call it jazzy to convey that it has interesting textures and stuff, but the music is not improvisational in any way, so don't think that.

Book About My Idle Plot on Vague Anxiety

http://www.mediafire.com/?mtkxyozng1m

New Sentimentality

http://www.mediafire.com/?znw2ayoznny