MACHINE DREAMS SLÄPPS  2 SEPTEMBER, 2009

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Anti-Records is excited to announce the upcoming release of Mo Beauty from celebrated singer/songwriter Alec Ounsworth. The Philadelphia native, who earned acclaim with his band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, recently recorded his debut solo record in the music-steeped metropolis of New Orleans at the famed Piety St. recording studio.

For Mo Beauty, Ounsworth was backed by George Porter, Jr. on bass, Stanton Moore on drums, Robert Walter on keys, and Matt Sutton on baritone and pedal-steel guitars, with additional help from some members of the diversely talented New Orleans community such as Mark Mullins, Craig Klein, Greg Hicks, Washboard Chaz, Shannon Powell, John Boute, Al ”Carnival Time” Johnson, and Meschiya Lake. The album was produced by veteran musician/producer and fellow Philadelphian Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, Blasters, John Lee Hooker, The Replacements), who initially suggested the New Orleans setting.

“I met Steve while I was in New Orleans,” Ounsworth says. “He said, ‘do you want to make a record?’ And I said ‘maybe.’  You see, I was just starting to work on the Flashy Python record, and was working on other projects as well.  Nevertheless, it seemed I had some songs ready to be put forward (most old, some new) and so ‘maybe’ became ‘yes’ in relatively short order. . .  New Orleans informed the spirit of the record, as it should. It’s not a ‘New Orleans record,’ though, because, besides ”Holy, Holy, Holy Moses,” most of the songs weren’t written specifically for New Orleans . . .  Any record can be influenced by its location aesthetically, and some are more than others.  So it was with this record . . .  it is New Orleans, after all.”

Midaircondo är äntligen tillbaka med uppföljaren till sitt hyllade debutalbum Shopping For Images [Type Records 2005], som fick ett lysande mottagande från både kritiker och publik världen över. Sedan dess har gruppen turnerat intensivt både i Sverige och internationellt. Midaircondo är kända för sina visuella livekonserter där fantasifull musik och experimentell video möts i drömska och stämningstäta ljudlandskap.

Det nya albumet Curtain Call är den första releasen på Midaircondos nystartade skivbolag Twin Seed Recordings.

På Curtain Call har Midaircondos originella improvisation och innovativa komposition utvecklats till ett nytt och fördjupat sound. Klassiska instrument, poetiska texter och field recordings från gruppens många resor förenas i Midaircondos säregna elektroniska värld. Låten Silk, Silver And Stone, som har en otvetydig popkänsla, gästas av Ebbot Lundberg från The Soundtrack of Our Lives och resultatet är en enastående vacker kärlekssång. Förutom Ebbot som gäst, har Midaircondo samarbetat med ett flertal andra musiker på skivan.

Curtain Call är producerad av Midaircondo, mixad av Christoffer Berg och mastrad av Andreas Tilliander. Kompletterande mixar är gjorda av Paul Bothén och Johan Forsman.

Midaircondo
Lisa Nordström: röst, basflöjt, flöjt, cittra, kalimba, percussion, elektronik
Lisen Rylander Löve: röst, tenorsax, basklarinett, kalimba, piano, percussion, elektronik

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Tryck play för albumspåret ”Give Blood”

Kyp Malone’s Rain Machine Signs With Anti- Records.

Anti- Records, home to other musical visionaries such as Tom Waits, Neko Case and Bob Mould, is thrilled to announce the signing of Rain Machine, a startling new musical venture from Kyp Malone. ”It’s thrilling to hear this side of Kyp,” says Anti- president Andy Kaulkin. ”The songs are emotionally raw and passionate yet still experimental and full of surprises.”

Malone, known to many as guitarist-singer for soulful art rockers TV On The Radio, explains the origin of Rain Machine: ”I’ve been writing and recording songs alone since I moved to NYC in 2000, at first alone because I didn’t know anyone, then through the years by choice because of a particular freedom that going it alone afforded. I’ve played regularly since then, at first under the name Black Lights until some kids in Texas told me they were already using that name. Then under my own name but I didn’t like how ”Kyp Malone” looked on mock ups of t-shirts and fliers, thus Rain Machine.”

Produced by Ian Brennan (Ramblin Jack Elliott, Lucinda Williams, Jonathan Richman), Rain Machine’s debut, set for release this fall, offers an enthralling mix of innovative song structure and sound entirely in service of Malone’s emotive singing and evocative lyrics. Malone describes the Rain Machine sound as ”a nearly full spectrum of frequencies audible to the human ear – a reflection of a variety of emotions and situations real and imagined, some rhythm and some rhyme.”

”People might be surprised that anyone is still working in a long format recorded medium considering the economic climate, current trends in dissemination and consumption, i.e. the internet and mp3 players,” Malone continues. ”There is so much work being produced in this moment, in this, the age of readily available prosumer recording equipment and an internet hungry for content, not to mention the mountains of old songs that exist for most listeners who, in a lifetime, will only skim the surface of that magnificent library. People might be surprised that, with all that weighing against it, buying and listening to this album will be more than just pleasurable, more than just horizon expanding. This record will bring the listener to a higher level of consciousness, that peace and happiness are attainable through bathing in its sounds…LOL!!! Really though, I had a great time making this record and I hope listeners enjoy it.”

[ingenting]- Ny singel ”Halleluja!” / album ”Tomhet, Idel Tomhet” + LIVE på WAY OUT WEST.

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I maj kom Per Eglands singel ”lust och hägring” som är hämtad från hans kommande debutalbum ”Slut dina ögon och dröm om Egland”.

Per, som fö säger han att han bara gör musik i väntan på jantelagens renässans och har kallats kallats för sveriges suraste gråsosse, har filat och knåpat ihop den vassaste och mest intressanta skivan på år och dar.

”Slut dina ögon och dröm om Egland” är Pers slutgiltiga Michael Douglas-Falling down –Uppgörelse med sin egen samtid. En debut laddad med knivskarpa texter och nattsvarta vardagsbetraktelser av allt från förtidspensionrade själar och FRA-lagar, till ”Rock n..roll-Jeansbutiker” och långa ensamma män med gitarrer.

Press Play to listen to te single Meet and Greet

Meet and Greet is the first single from the upcoming third album by Slaraffenland and it is a perfect song and title for introducing a new chapter in the ever-growing history of the Copenhagen based band.

The b-side of the single is My Bad Ways, which is a very powerful outtake from the album recordings that took place in the studio Mexico City with the successful Danish producer Fridolin.

September the 7th 2009 the entire album will be released. The title is We´re On Your Side and it will be released simultaneously in Europe and USA (via Hometapes). It is without doubt the best and most accessible album by Slaraffenland yet. Rumraket looks forward to make this album available so everybody can fall in love.

Someone who already fell in love is the famed French video artist Vincent Moon. You know him from the many Blogotheque/TakeAwayShows.com videos and his work with bands like Arcade Fire, Beirut, The National and R.E.M. He has been following Slaraffenland for the last two years and for the album release this will culminate with a big collaboration between Slaraffenland and Vincent Moon. More details of this project can be revealed soon.

Two years after the release of their last album, eccentric pop maestros múm return with their fifth album proper, simply named Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know, a flickering candle of an album. The album is a much more laid back album than múm’s most recent outings, more relaxed and quietly sad, often recalling sand running through fingers or ripples on a lake. And to an even greater extent than their previous albums, Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know is an ode to the light in its different shapes, from a fading bulb to the blinding sun.

Sometimes the music sounds naively utopic, but always manages to stay effortless and pure. As usual, the songs are brimming with unusual sounds, this time much of the songs revolve around a lightly prepared piano, hammered dulcimer, a string quartet, marimbas, guitars, ukuleles and in the background of a few of the songs one can hear Örvar’s parent’s parakeet singing with the piano.

The album was recorded in countless different places in four different countries, although most of it was done in múm’s native Iceland. Gunnar Örn Tynes moved to a cabin in the countryside where much of the album sprang to life, but as always múm have a hard time staying put and recorded in both Estonia and Finland. In Estonia borrowed a beautiful, many hundred-year-old house in Leigo, a place of hundreds of lakes, where they wrote new songs and recorded with the Estonian Suisapäisa Mixed choir.

Much of the music was hatched in the middle of Iceland’s recent political turmoil and uprising. The Icelandic government was forced to resign after intermittent civil unrest and the constant banging of pots and pans. By
stretching the imagination, one can imagine a link between the turbulent political situation and the serene idealism hidden in the music.

The band or group or collective or whatever people want to call it consists on this album of Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (trumpet / piano/ keyboards/ string arrangements), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello/vocals), Sigurlaug Gísladóttir (Vocals/ ukulele/ various), Róbert Reynisson (guitars/ukuleles) and Finlander, Samuli Kosminen (drums / percussion). Högni Egilsson, also joins in a few songs, sharing songwriting duties on one song and arranging choir for two others and Guðbjörg Hlín Guðmundsdóttir plays violin.

Two years after the release of their last album, eccentric pop maestros múm return with their fifth album proper, simply named Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know, a flickering candle of an album. The album is a much more laid back album than múm’s most recent outings, more relaxed and quietly sad, often recalling sand running through fingers or ripples on a lake. And to an even greater extent than their previous albums, Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know is an ode to the light in its different shapes, from a fading bulb to the blinding sun.

Sometimes the music sounds naively utopic, but always manages to stay effortless and pure. As usual, the songs are brimming with unusual sounds, this time much of the songs revolve around a lightly prepared piano, hammered dulcimer, a string quartet, marimbas, guitars, ukuleles and in the background of a few of the songs one can hear Örvar’s parent’s parakeet singing with the piano.

The album was recorded in countless different places in four different countries, although most of it was done in múm’s native Iceland. Gunnar Örn Tynes moved to a cabin in the countryside where much of the album sprang to life, but as always múm have a hard time staying put and recorded in both Estonia and Finland. In Estonia borrowed a beautiful, many hundred-year-old house in Leigo, a place of hundreds of lakes, where they wrote new songs and recorded with the Estonian Suisapäisa Mixed choir.

Much of the music was hatched in the middle of Iceland’s recent political turmoil and uprising. The Icelandic government was forced to resign after intermittent civil unrest and the constant banging of pots and pans. By
stretching the imagination, one can imagine a link between the turbulent political situation and the serene idealism hidden in the music.

The band or group or collective or whatever people want to call it consists on this album of Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (trumpet / piano/ keyboards/ string arrangements), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello/vocals), Sigurlaug Gísladóttir (Vocals/ ukulele/ various), Róbert Reynisson (guitars/ukuleles) and Finlander, Samuli Kosminen (drums / percussion). Högni Egilsson, also joins in a few songs, sharing songwriting duties on one song and arranging choir for two others and Guðbjörg Hlín Guðmundsdóttir plays violin.

Dead Man’s Bones- Name In Stone

THE DUO’S SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM, TO BE RELEASED ON OCTOBER 5th

This album was not supposed to be an album. This was intended to be a soundtrack to a play about a monster-ghost-love-story. When Zach Shields and Ryan Gosling met in 2005 and discovered their mutual obsession with ghosts, they decided to write the afore-mentioned ghastly love story. Scrapping the stage show when costs became prohibitive, they already had songs written and decided to continue. The pair chose to play all the instruments on the record, even those they had never touched before. They also imposed rules on themselves during the recording process, like not playing with a click track, or trying to do no more than three takes on any song, letting any imperfections highlight the strengths of the music.

Enlisting the help of the Silverlake Conservatory Children’s Choir to round out the tunes, the album was produced by Tim Anderson of I’m A Robot. The result is a striking collection of doo-wop songs about werewolves, haunting melodies telling tales of zombies with broken hearts, and children singing the joys and pains of being alive or being dead.