Cagey House - Calico Pastry Sunshine
Label: Bypass
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:16:32
Bienvenue dans le shaker des illusions perdues! Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, and above all, be careful, for the paint is not yet dry! Scattered about, are the remnants of formica chips (hell! formicat, comment vais-je traduire ceci? Laminate?) Float now, through a powerfully atmospheric memory trip and experience complete levitation, as everywhere the particles are excessively resistant to your gracious appreciation. Relax and let yourself go completely. Nothing is spared, nothing is restricted. Dave Keifer aka Cagey House may very well be a genius, an iconoclast provoking a demonic revolution...
By now, you, of course can understand the near impossibility of portraying such a character (though this was exactly what ZhangJW asked me) - Cagey House does not respect conventions! Ready to dissect?
"Lower the bubble viewer" which brilliantly opens the release, will not leave you indifferent. If it does, you need to quickly consult a supersonic astrophysicist (I have addresses). Where are we? Too late! Surrounded! Submit to delicious words of love, a french whisper, bouncy riffs, flexible sarabande, and many more temptations to come, but...Scenery change.Speed dating in a flash of high velocity, you're transported to a delightful towering garden, flowering with whiskers. Symbiotically echoing and reflecting, you merge into a piercing laser beam's voluptuous flash with the softness and agility of Barbarella, while the laconic, fuzzy guitar riff brewed into the cut-up advances."You and the Beach Flea" will embrace you gently and will respond to you day and night, enveloping you in a strange, dreamy ballet...a very curious to and fro. If Cagey also shows a bit of a "romantic streak" let's not become entangled in endless, sterile discussions...the rhythm is there! The rhythm is there and does not wait just until the delicate point of rupture-- you will slalom in the mode of "ritournelle".
But where are we? So ready to exit and yet so completely lost.
Could Cagey House have surreptitiously abandoned us? Left us alone, destitute...poor harmonic orphans. But no! Now the ringmaster of this magnificent circus has given us his finest gift, "Ethel of the Rocks". So much like a perfume caressing our eternal desires and illusions...our eternally sweet illusions...lost.
[thierry massard - adaptation by Daria & Solange Gabrielli / feb2011]
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Lower the Bubble Viewer 02 - Billboard Whiskers 03 - Tu et la Flea de la Plage 04 - Cagey House is a Big Sissy 05 - Ethel of the Rocks |
Velislav Ivanov - The Eye of the Beholder
GENRE: Rock, Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Label: Self
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 00:51:54
Velislav Ivanov, born in 1988, is an independent musician from Sofia, Bulgaria. He releases his music for free, which allows him the freedom to do whatever he likes both musically and lyrically. He is primarily a keyboardist and singer, and utilize samples for other instruments. Both of his albums are strictly solo affairs, with only Ivanov appearing. His debut record, "Under dark skies" was released in 2006 and was heavily influenced by Marillion. It is a conceptual album based on the life and poems of the renowned Bulgarian poet Dimcho Debelyanov. In late 2008 he released his sophomore album, "So close to the sky itself". Ivanov consciously decided to produce a much different album from his first effort. It is a darker and more progressive effort, with a more complex and multi-layered concept and sound. Ivanov cites as influences MARILLION, PINK FLOYD, KING CRIMSON and THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT along with more contemporary artists like TINDERSTICKS and RADIOHEAD.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Прашинки от хаоса 02 - Град на птици 03 - Погледът на съзерцателя 04 - Среднощна сюита 05 - Пустота 06 - Диапозитив 07 - Компромис 08 - Кръв по асфалта 09 - Цялата в мен |
Creative Commons license: All Free - All C.C.
Mateusz Słyk - Sen na jawie
GENRE: Rock, Jazz Rock, Art Rock
Label: Jamendo
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 1:15:52
Songs composed and recorded independently, using "live" instruments (organ, piano, guitar, bass, percussion) and virtual (synths, drums). I have not used any samples from CD's. The record was made in my home mini-studio.
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Creative Commons license: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs 3.0
1/16 - Pornstar
GENRE: Rock, Post-Rock, Art-Rock
Label: Laridae
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:33:14
There's not to much info about 1/16, except that they come from the Ukraine and make damn good music. The result is a mixture of an abstract modern rhythmic poetry filled with strange and sometimes shocking images.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Bold headed 02 - Lullaby 03 - Pornstar 04 - Stereovomiting 05 - Japan Animation 06 - John |
Creative Commons license: All Free - All C.C.
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If you liked "Songs for Rainy Mornings", try "Sketchbook" of the same musician http://humantracks.blogspot.com/2011/04/cd-sketchbook.html Written by Roxana on 20 April 2011 -
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