September 8th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Mog'
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* * * * * Landing ” Update… ” * * * * * 2003 Title ” Passages Through ” added. An absolutely gorgeous listen that goes for fans of [ Windy & Carl ] ~ [ Mi & L'au ] ~ [ Uzi & Ari ] ~ [ Cyann & Ben ] and the likes.
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Loading ...September 8th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Mog'
Now this is nothing for the Greatest Hits Collection. No excellent piece of craftsmanship, no mentionable artistic value. Just stuff that happened, songs that happened while I was planning on something else, like a comma in the short story that is my life.
That’s how it rolls, you’re designing your career, planning out your steps, willing to create something big and meaningful, and in the meantime there are all those little things going on… friends become strangers, strangers turn into friends, maybe one of them reminds you that life’s not so bad or meanwhile you’ve found comfort in nihilism, and then there’s this little ukulele that you’ve owned for years but rarely ever played… yet suddenly it’s overflowing with music.
No experiments this time. No exploration of unknown terrain. No concepts, nothing big. Sometimes I feel so sick of sounding lovely all the time, of always sounding the same, but then again I can’t help it. So, fuck creativity! Fuck belief in progress! Maybe I should be elsewhere already.
We always feel urged to move forward, do better shit than yesterday, more accomplished, more brilliant, more fancy, and maybe it’s almost considered stagnation in personal development if someone just wants to lean back and play some boring ukulele folk songs to comfort himself. Sure I want to be more brilliant and fancy and better than ever, too, but for now maybe there is no need to reinvent the wheel as long as I’m happy playing my rediscovered ukulele for a while.
All the flamboyant shit can wait until tomorrow. So once more I’m not taking a creative leap forward but rather just sitting down on the very spot I happen to stand right now. But maybe someone wants to sit besides me and listen?
Sometimes I read funny speculations about what instruments I used on my recordings. This was my repertoire for these songs:
A soprano ukulele, a bowed guitar, a bluegrass banjo, a mandolin banjo, glockenspiel, one concertina, another concertina, a wooden flute, borrowed drums and a cardboard box, casio mini-keyboard, shaker & tambourine.
~~~~~~~~ ( In terms of vocals and not musically or instrumentally but just vocals… this is probably the closest to [ Cranberries ] you’ ll ever hear. STUNNING VOCALS to fall in love. [ MySpace ] | [ Last.Fm ] ). ~~~~~~~
Artist – Entertainment For The Braindead
Album – Trivialities
Release Date – 2010
Genre – Folk, Indie, Acoustic, Indie-folk [ STUNNING STUNNING VOCALS ]
Tracklist
1. A Smile
2. A Friend
3. An Answer
4. A River
5. A Glass of Wine
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Entertainment For The Braindead – Trivialities
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Recommendations: Amiina | Jack Rose | James Blackshaw | Profondo Rosso | Win A Sheep Free
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(6 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...September 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by DORN
Many centuries before there was a New Zealand, there existed Aotearoa, the ‘Long White Cloud’ homeland of Maori culture and civilisation. The first Europeans arrived with the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642. The Maori, however, prevented Tasman from landing on the soil of Aotearoa, and it wasn’t until Captain James Cook’s voyages in the following century that the country finally capitulated to European interests. In 1840 Aotearoa became New Zealand, a British colony.
Oceania is what happens when Maori culture meets the modern world. The result is extraordinary contemporary music; a rich palette of new sonic possibilities all freshly stirred for our musical delight.
At the heart of Oceania are Maori instruments, legends, history and language, presented to the world for the first time via the talents of singer/songwriter Hinewehi Mohi and the lead singer of British post-punk band Killing Joke, Jaz Coleman.
Over a decade ago Coleman left England for New Zealand, where he became the Composer in Residence for the Auckland Philharmonia. Coleman also recorded several albums for the Phillips Classics label, during which time he was fostering the idea of recording a contemporary Maori album.
This vague ambition was cemented when Jaz met Hinewehi at a traditional Maori blessing for the opening of a new building – in this case a recording studio.
By the time she met Jaz Coleman, Hinewehi had already established a formidable reputation as a singer/songwriter and as a director/producer for Maori programmes at Television New Zealand. Hinewehi has constantly championed the integrity of Maori culture and its contribution to the fabric of New Zealand.
Released in September 1999, Oceania was the first international Maori album. It has achieved double platinum sales in New Zealand and exceeded sales of 70,000 copies worldwide.
( Exotic and modern tones combined with Hinewehi Mohi’s famous voice melt together into a masterpiece. Every song has its interlude where native instruments appear. This album turns out smooth vibes. DON’T MISS THAT by all means. ) [ O Last.Fm ] | [ HM Last.Fm ]
Artist – Oceania & Hinewehi Mohi
Album – Oceania [ * * * * * ]
Release Date – 1999
Genre – Etheral, Dream-Pop, Electro-Pop, Singer-Songwriter, Female Vocalist
Tracklist
01 Pukaea (The Trumpet) 6:32
02 Kotahitanga (Union) 4:41
03 Hautoa (Warrior) 4:46
04 Hinerakatauri (Goddess Of Music) 4:55
05 He Tangata (People) 5:37
06 Kihikihi (Cicada) 6:23
07 Haera Ra (Farewell) 5:35
08 Pepepe (The Moth) 6:17
09 Tino Rangatiratanga (Self-Determination) 6:11
10 Hautoa (Warrior) – Bullet Park Remix 4:41
11 Kotahitanga (Union) – Bullet Park Remix 3:28
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Oceania & Hinewehi Mohi – Oceania
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Recommendations: Fever Ray | Love Spirals Downwards | Malory | Cranes | The Emerald Down
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(13 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...September 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by DORN
Nonima (T.Ferrans) is Scottish electronic music producer, and also runs the Section 27 Netlabel with co-conspirator theAudiologist (A.Paterson). His style fits between between Glitch, Downtempo, Ambient, Glitch Hop and Industrial, has released two full length albums “Fear Of Mathematics” and “WrpData”, an out-takes collection “Scream Unheard” as well as a handful of EP’s on various netlabels. A new album titled “Karmadebt” was completed and released in July 2010.
He was involved in a project with theAudiologist that saw the release of three full length albums, “Dystopian Battle Hymns”, “Ceremony After Amputation” and “Almost Tomorrow”. In February of 2010 “Ceremony After Amputation” was re-released as “Ceremony After Amputation : Deluxe Edition” with a bonus EP entitled “Fragile Shards” which contained unreleased tracks from the same sessions as the album, and also the last release under the name of the combined aliases.
They are now involved in the Altered:Carbon project.
Artist – Nonima
Album – Karmadebt
Release Date – 2010
Genre – Experimental, Abstract, Abstract-Drone, Glitch, Ambient, IDM
Tracklist
01 – Nonima – Swarm Prediction 3:37
02 – Nonima – Hivemind 6:04
03 – Nonima – Karmadebt 5:55
04 – Nonima – Sin (feat. Adviruz) 5:17
05 – Nonima – Ludic 4:23
06 – Nonima – XIII (feat. Altered-Carbon) 7:49
07 – Nonima – Cfengine 1:54
08 – Nonima – Cyber Tree (Nonimx Of Pollux) 8:45
09 – Nonima – Interlude 1:23
10 – Nonima – Autarchy 4:30
11 – Nonima – pH1 3:57
12 – Nonima – Lullaby (Nonimx Of Theaudiologist) 4:25
13 – Nonima – IWD 4:58
14 – Nonima – Mundane (feat. Theaudiologist) 6:19
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Nonima – Karmadebt
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Recommendations: Ekca Liena | Isartum | Four Tet | Shlohmo | Atonalis
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(10 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5) Loading ...September 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by DORN
Probably best known by London gig-goers as the posse behind regular Wednesday club Goonite at the Buffalo Bar in Islington, Wry actually began life many moons ago, back in their homeland of Brazil. Childhood friends Mario (vocals, guitars), Lou (backing vocals, guitars), Chokito (bass) and Renato Bizar (drums), never ones to follow the trend, grew up playing basketball in a country obsessed with football. When it came to music they preferred Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine to samba or bossa-nova, and in 1998 they sold their souls to rock’n’roll, called themselves Wry and released their debut Direct.
They quickly built a local following, signed to Brazilian label Monstro and released three albums over five years. They toured Brazil with the likes of Man Or Astroman?, Superchunk, Mudhoney and Make Up, and picked up praise from MTV Brazil who loved them and played their videos. Tim Wheeler from Ash saw them and fell in love, he produced three tracks for their last album (the other tracks were recorded by Strokes producer Gordon Raphael). They also promoted their own festival in Sorocaba/Sao Paulo called Circadelica and played to 4000 people.
2003 the band decided to set up in the UK and split their efforts between London and Sao Paulo. They hooked up with The Subways for a tour and played with bands like The Rakes, The Subways, Ash, Asobi Seksu, The Morning After Girls, The Cribs, Air Formation among others. In the meantime their third album Flames In The Head was released in Brazil and they went back to do their ‘06 In Flames Brazil tour. With the departure of Renato Bizar, in 2007 Andre Z joined the band bringing more flavour to their sound and a vasta range of creativity on writing the new songs.
( Here is a piece of music that shows how great eleven minutes of music could be. Hope that more Wry titles will make their way to TSS. ) [ MySpace ] | [ Last.Fm ]
Artist – Wry
Album – Deep Field / Nostalgia
Release Date – 2010
Genre – Shoegaze, Nu-Gaze, Lo-Fi
Tracklist
01 – deep field / nostalgia 8:35
02 – in the hell of my head (flanix remix) 2:58
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Wry – Deep Field / Nostalgia
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Recommendations: Amusement Parks On Fire | Lower Dens | Actors & Actresses | The Longcut | The Radio Dept.
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Hello everyone... as you would have noticed by now the shout box on TSS is no longer available. About a month ago we decided to implement a [ Forum ] section based on two main reasons.
1st Since it came to our attention that the shout box is limited and only a number of shouts is made available, anything over and above, one will have to pay for a premium account to access the archived shouts. In return many valuable shouts go unread and archived which is not accessible on a standard account.
2nd It was also concluded that having a [ Forum } section will in turn results to more mirrors being made available and thus lesser complains about being hosted exclusively on one dedicated host.
I have to admit majority of the posts on TSSF [ The Sirens Sound Forum ] is indeed hosted on various hosts and is not exclusively to one service.
Therefore it has been decided to move all [ TSS ] communications to [ TSSF ] as originally planned. Registration will only take a minute or two and I would also like to add, as a community [ We values everyone's shouts, recommendations and comments ] So please... lets get together on the other side of TSS and let’s make it an even more pleasurable experience.
As far as TSS goes... nothing change, posting and updates goes as usual. All this means is that I will be picking up your recommendations from [ TSSF ] instead of here and needless to say it is more likely that your recommendations will be recorded and accessible at all times.
Hope this doesn’t cause too much of an inconvenience... believe me, just like the majority I also do not like changes. But if its for progress and a better cause then yes. Dats about it lads... Hope to see you on the other side. [ REGISTER TO TSSF ]
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