Esgi - Echoes In Time
Label: Bandcamp
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 01:09:34
Essentially a concept album comprising twelve tracks of varying pace and feel. Written over the space of a few months in 2007 initially for a sound track, the project developed into this album. Now re-edited and remastered, 'Echoes In Time' is intended as a chilled out escape and something to drift away to.
From the rhythmic pulse and guitar of 'With No Beginning', the Eastern orchestral chants of 'Dawn Of Mind', the smooth melancholy of 'Alone Again' and the filmic feel of 'Destiny', Echoes In Time seeks to explore the world of fantasy, film and emotion.
'I Wonder' with its Close Encounters influence proves this in point and 'A Paradise Lost', which takes us back to primordial lands after a Great Extinction and its rebirth in 'A New World'.
The title track drifts between here and then, slightly disconnected from the rest of album, while 'Of Wars And Power' explodes with violence and fury.
'The Drifter' captures the relief of surviving absolute terror. (Ripley in the escape pod at the conclusion of seminal classic 'Alien').
'In Your Heart' is a more contemporary, guitar solo based track and 'There Is No End' completes the journey with a strings and breakbeat style affair.
I hope you enjoy the album!
Love,
Esgi.
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Sandro Marinoni - Don Baltasar
Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:36:46
Just an album of simple music.
Twelve songs by twelve different moods.
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| 01 - Calling home 02 - Between the yellow and blue 03 - El apartamento 04 - Desert rose 05 - Lahore 06 - Canon 07 - Morning in the Sahara 08 - Don Baltasar 09 - Prank 10 - Pico 11 - Dagon 12 - Valzerella |
Charts and Maps – Dead Horse
Label: Lost Children
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:56:24
"Charts and Maps have always been a difficult band to figure out. I was at both their first and last shows - I saw them develop from a loud, jumbled mess of good ideas wrenched together at angles to one of the most aggressively forward-thinking end electrifying live bands on the Los Angeles underground circuit. Dead Horse, much more than any previous recording, captures the sheer bombast of their live performances. It was recorded at the band's pinnacle, on the eve of their final performance at the tail end of 2009. Clashing personalities and gargantuan creative workloads pulled them in different directions. This is where the Heard of Elephants family tree comes in -- It gets a bit complicated. Khawaja (bass), Melancon (drums), and Allison (sax/vocals) currently play in Woolen. Melancon, Allison and Watford (guitar) are part of Random Patterns, and John Taylor (guitar) is one half of Semiconscious Gloria.
Their music is the convergence of a number of diverse tendencies. They're one part ballsy big band jazz, another shimmery post-rock act with walls of melodic sound, a mathy-but-not-calculator-mathy garage-prog outfit, or an ill-tempered funk band with bad intentions -- all underpinned by an almost reckless sense of imagination, deep, grooving beats and eloquent, nimble lead melodies.
The album opens with the cheekily titled 'Take Me Back To Highland Park (Or I Will Die a Gruesome Death),' inspired after a night out in Hollywood. It is loud and stompy, sax heavy and skipping almost entirely through odd-time signatures while managing to be all up in your face without jamming on the distortion pedal. The epic, sweaty 11-minute opus 'In the Town of Machine,' follows, weaving an ominous melodic narrative inspired by the film Dead Man through a number of dystopian sonic landscapes, most culminating in absolutely searing lead lines by guitarist John Taylor. I'm loathe to use the word 'incendiary' to describe guitar playing, but, I mean it; I honestly believe that the man can start fires with his fingers alone.
The album closes with the band's final song, the title track 'Dead Horse.' I would argue that it is their finest work, one of the few to include prominent vocals (though you won't find a lyric sheet attached anywhere) and is vast in concept but concise in execution. Waves of sound lull you into a sense of comfort before dropping you off, leaving your floating in a futurist pool. Abruptly a mean funk commences. It's all syncopated and raw and signature Charts and Maps before the intensity drops to a pause. Then it builds slowly into what band members have described as 'a descent into hell.' And you can see why. It is as if they knew this was their final communication with the world and they wanted to get it all out. At the crashing end, every member is playing at 10 before the beast collapses, winded and spent.
Whether this is your cup of tea or not, Charts and Maps and this album in particular is an experiment going defiantly against the grain in Los Angeles with equal dashings of aggression and aplomb." - Jasper Crane, P.H.D.
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| 01 - Take Me Back to Highland Park 02 - In the Town of Machine 03 - Gold Roomer 04 - Now I Must Hit You 05 - Pearl Divers of the Arabian Peninsula 06 - Hypnotiq American Firework 07 - Dead Horse |
Humberto Luis Schenone - Um Perto II / Cosmic Partchworks
GENRE: World, Fusion, Percussion
Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 1:02:23
Humberto Luis Schenone was born in Buenos Aires on September 6th 1955. Since his childhood had some school trouble for his pleasure of beating over anything, making “candombe-batucada”. Graduated as psychologist in 1985, he dedicated himself to his professional activities and for some time, to study Spanish guitar. In 1990 he assumed his role in music as percussionist. After different periods travelling and living in Brazil, he settled a house 30 kms away from Buenos Aires where he built his first “percussion-room” and started his studies of afro-american rhythms with several important teachers. He has been part of several bands related with afro-percussion, bossa nova, samba, salsa, rock, south-american folk, tango, etc. Nowadays, again in Buenos Aires, he works on his solo project CD collections: “Human Tracks”, “The Rhythms of Life I & II”, “Human Fights”, etc. , dedicates part of his time to the construction of ceramic udus and participates as guest musician in different groups.
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| 01 - Apertura 02 - Panamericana 03 - The Ones Who Do & the Ones Who Speak About (patio recording) 04 - Walk towards the Sunrise 05 - Noon at the Seaside 06 - Gudumberto’s Speech 07 - Cafe y Galleta on the Bus 08 - Comparsoide 09 - Medianoche en el Monte 10 - Volando Sobre Las Cumbres (new double kalimba first intro) 11 - Asi Metrico 12 - Cantu Reo a La Tormenta Que Llega 13 - Memoria de Juguete 14 - Sunday Solo 15 - Sunday Solo II 16 - Fofoca em Familia 17 - Impasses 18 - Walk towards the Sunrise II (Calling Calling) |
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Triplexity - Between Light And Shadow
GENRE: Jazz, Nu-Jazz, Fusion, Ambient, Electronic
Label: Self
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 1:05:45
The word Triplexity is a portmanteau of triplex and complexity. Triplexity is a virtual band consisting of 3 members who have never met each other face to face, all collaborations came to live thru the Internet. It would be difficult to define Triplexity's musical style inasmuch it's extremely varied and versatile, there are no two tracks sounding alike. One time it may be jazzy, another time harsh and electronic, sometimes ethnic and organic and sometimes abstract and ambient. There are some qualities though that always persist in Triplexity's music : uniqueness, complexity, intelligence and threefold talent of the trio members. Every member has different musical background, together they blend their knowledge and inspiration and give life to the magnificent music that can be heard bellow. Available in FLAC!
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Humberto Luis Schenone - World Noise Entrance
GENRE: World, Fusion, Percussion, Experimental, Ambient
Label: Humantracks
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 1:19:43
Humberto Luis Schenone, (born September 6, 1955 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an percussionist and experimental artist based in Buenos Aires. In his childhood time Schenone was already having trouble at school because of the pleasure he got from beating over anything making “candombe-batucada”, but his first steps in music were in his teens when he started singing and playing guitar in folk and rock groups. Graduated as psychologist in 1985, he dedicated himself to his professional activities and, for some time, started to study Spanish guitar with jazz and tango guitarist Claudio Gomez. Many years later, in 1990, he assumed his role in music as percussionist. After several periods of traveling and living in Brazil he finaly settled in a house about 30 km’s away from Buenos Aires where he built his first “percussion-room” and started his studies of Afro-American rhythms. His teachers in the art of percussion were, among others, Bam Bam Miranda, Abdoulaye Badiane, Ricky Olarte, Pocho Porteño and Hugo Nuñez. He has been part several bands related with afro-percussion, bossa nova, samba, salsa, rock, South American folk, tango and more. Nowadays, living in Buenos Aires again, he participates as guest musician in several bands and teaches percussion classes.
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| 01 - World Noise Entrance 02 - Last World Last 03 - Cá mina 04 - Cántaros 05 - How do you udü (en cordobés) 06 - Eu Rail 07 - Magic Carpet Rise 08 - Machi 09 - Night Meeting on The Beach 10 - NosotrosoN 11 - Mal Ambo Palagua 12 - La Gran Marcha 13 - troesma 14 - Caá Porá 15 - Caapia 16 - Miss Kant Owes |
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Jesse Spillane - Art of Presentation
GENRE: Jazz, Fusion, Progressive, Electronic
Label: Self
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:44:48
"I make groove based instrumental music with jazzy undertones. The music is largely keyboard based but occassionally makes use of a guitar, bass, recorder or anything else I can get my hands on. I use acoustic piano sounds alongside vintage keyboards and layer synths sounds above it all. The music is generally played live rather than programmed. Some people do enjoy my music. My sister tells me that she likes some of my songs. She even likes the first 10 seconds of “Death of a Pop Song”. I must be doing something right. I don’t know the slightest bit about marketing myself (or I can’t bring myself to spam you fine people). If you enjoy the music, feel free to pass it along to a friend. You can also tell me what you think."
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