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circle vs square is the best

Noah -- June 11, 2009 -- Because We Care. Tags: , , .

I wanted to elaborate on Chad’s post regarding Circle vs Square a couple below. I have yet to understand the way in which Chad organizes his music; whether these are separate albums, ideas, or entities I have yet to ask. What is clear is that these albums are greatly inspired by their environment. As he wrote, “The bulk of this release’s 18 songs were made in parks, hotels, museums and trains around Tokyo during a two week visit to Japan last summer” and in a recent email he has informed me of his forthcoming venture into the woods to record new tunes. You’ll be hearing more from Chad about his other projects, but to break his humble spirit I just want to say that the sounds coming out of this man are electronic yet set to your ears as if they were entirely organic. Finding comfort in the soundscapes of Zomes, Bibio, Expo ‘70 and several other titans of the FMLY blog’s heart I want to encourage absorption of these deep pulses and floating melodies. We covered Chad as Loudspeaker Speaker in April here, and so did [our favorite rag] Impose here.

and here are a couple of tunes that you hopefully have already downloaded. if not then download more a couple of posts below or follow the links above.

Circle vs Square – Melody Boy
Loudspeaker Speaker – To Tokyo

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holy mountain

Noah -- June 6, 2009 -- Because We Care. Tags: , , , , , .

For those who have followed this blog for some time I’m going to clear up one of our many mysteries on that Lost tip. If you’ve noticed, I tend to drop sporadic reference to the label Holy Mountain when either posting on their artists or when I lack the expression of how to describe a sound. Grasping for an accesible definition, Holy Mountain represents the cracks in time and space between Boards of Canada and early Animal Collective or Leni Riefenstahl and Peru Ana Ana Peru…maybe not the greatest of comparisons, but you get the picture.

Holy Mountain ranks as one of the most admirable and go-to rosters in these parts of the internet and for those who haven’t yet dabbled into this long list of qualified sound prophets then let this post serve as a sign. The name Holy Mountain refers to the Alejandro Jodorowsky-directed cult film released in 1973 [thanks to Beatles manager Allen Klein], the trailer of which is above. The label and the film come with the highest recommendations from FMLY, so if you’re looking to just trip out on this gorgeous Saturday night then please go ahead. Below are samples of artists whom you’ll find on Holy Mountain and this site. Totally unrelated, take a peek at Salvation Mountain!

Zomes – Cosmovital Force
Wooden Shjips – Death’s Not Your Friend
Cloudland Canyon – Heme (via play it as it lays)

RLTD
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cloudland canyon

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Zomes

Noah -- December 29, 2008 -- Uncategorized. Tags: .


Zomes is a new solo project by Asa Osborne (Lungfish, The Pupils, Tear Jerks). A lot of people don’t know this but Asa punched Keith Levine in the face a few years ago and uses one of Levine’s teeth as a pick on this album that straddles the valley between Seesselberg and library music…

Zomes is the new solo project of Lungfish guitarist Asa Osborne, who for this debut album strings together a number of misshapen lo-fi loops and miniatures across an album that references Vincent Gallo-style rundown melancholy, stargazing kraut rock, and a selection of organ-driven passages that bring to mind a miniaturised Religious Knives. Osborne is at his best on pieces like ‘Night Signs’, a beautiful, hiss-coated guitar phrase, repeated in a sombre, ambiguous fashion over a couple of minutes. It makes no associations or attempts at narrative, but there’s undoubtedly something quite moving embedded within its diminutive frame. Elsewhere Osborne gets rocking a little harder, marrying overdriven chord sequences with rowdy, furniture bashing beats on the likes of ‘Crowning Orbs’ and the progged up ‘All Together’.

I saw Zomes open for Brightblack Morning Light as a three-piece last month and was left completely speechless. This year’s self-titled release combines the diverse texture of Black Moth Super Rainbow with the repetition of Boards of Canada in a sound quality that could have been captured by anyone’s bedroom. Osborne has put out a very surprising album, sounding radically different yet incredibly related to his work in Baltimore’s “prog-punk” veterans, Lungfish. Sixteen hypnotic jams of emotional underscoring have made Zomes one of my favorite albums of the year. If you find yourself interested, please check out Religious Knives and Expo ‘70.

Purchase Zomes here

Zomes – Night Signs
more downloadable tracks

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