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.
Available in FLAC!
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Matt Stevens - Live in Blackpool
Label: Self
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:39:21
Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists as diverse as Radiohead and Robert Fripp. He plays live all over the UK.
He has released 2 albums Echo in 2008 and Ghost in 2010 . Echo was a "word of mouth" success thanks to the support of hundreds of bloggers and podcasters.
And now here is with the fresh "Live in Blackpool".
"It is just me, a guitar and a loop pedal in front of an audience at the Electric Garden Festival. There is a full review of the festival here" Matt Stevens
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Guy Honeymoon - Summercramp
Label: No Source
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:25:15
Guy Honeymoon of Sheffield UK brings us nine songs of life, love, and getting through the day. Guy sticks to the basics with stripped down guy-and-guitar pop songs. The bells and whistles would just get in the way. The lyrics and vocal melody is the meat of Guy's work and the element that will immediately draw you into his music. This is the voice of a traveler, and a sincere one at that. Amelia, Hollow Hearts and Pocketknife were recorded with Andy Miller (Mogwai, Arab Strap, Scout Niblet) at Chem 19 in Hamilton, Scotland and the rest were recorded with Brian Waller in Cellardoor recording in Rotherham, England.
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| 01 - Amelia 02 - Double Diamond 03 - Adult Attention 04 - Western Wave 05 - Schadenfreude 06 - La Honda 07 - Redlands 08 - Hollow Hearts 09 - Pocketknife |
Alexey Karpov - Lorca
Label: 45RPM-Records
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:34:46
Lorca album is a cycle of twelve Andalusian folk songs collected and arranged by Federico Garcia Lorca (1899-1936), the great Spanish poet of the 20th century. These songs were recorded for the first time in the 1920s by the Spain singer Argentinita while the same F.G. Lorca accompanied her on grand piano. At present, many contemporary flamenco musicians perform these songs. On Lorca album, the cycle is presented in the original instrumental arrangement of Alexey Karpov.
Alexey Karpov (Moscow) – the Russian jazz guitarist, the arranger. Was born in 1973 in Kazan. In game on a guitar it was trained in Moscow at known teacher Alexey Badjanova. Alexey Karpov – the consecutive adherent and the big fan of a traditional jazz. In different years represented to listeners the programs devoted to creativity Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Jim Hall. As plays a banjo in various Moscow jazz-bands. Last 15 years is fond of flamenco. It was trained at known Spanish guitarist Emilio of the Maya (Granada).
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| 01 - Las Morillas De Jaen 02 - Zorongo Gitano 03 - Sones de Asturias 04 - Nana de Sevilla 05 - Los Quatro Muleros 06 - El Cafe de Chinitas 07 - Anda Jaleo 08 - Aires de Castilia 09 - Los Mozos de Monleon 10 - Sevillanas del Siglo XVIII 11 - Romances de los Peregrenitos 12 - Las Tres Hojas |
Beyond Absence - Complacency
GENRE: Jazz, Acoustic, Ambient, Piano, Guitar
Label: Webbed Hand
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 0:49:22
One of the definitions of complacency is “to be completely satisfied right where you are.” And satisfied you will be, settled back in a comfortable chair, as you take in these mellow compositions which seem to shimmer like snowflakes in the air. This work evokes a slower, more peaceful approach to life.
“This is what we wanted to tell you for now. We are glad to have reached your ears; and perhaps a little of your hearts and minds, if for a second or two only.” – Gustavo and Mauro.
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| 01 - Abertura 02 - The End of Living and Beginning of Survival 03 - Including - Imaginary Faith 04 - Loud Again 05 - Yesterday's Product 06 - An Eagle's Egg in a Chicken Nest 07 - Space Trip 08 - Mestre Salu 09 - Goodbye Canal 100 - In Black and White |
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Menhirs of Er Grah – Different World
GENRE: Acoustic, Folk, Rock, Guitar, Alt Country
Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 0:20:54
Menhirs of Er Grah (Tom Carter) is a folk band named after some prehistoric standing-stones in France. The album was made in 7 days – a day to write and record each of the songs from scratch, and then a day to mix and master them all. Voice and guitar parts were recorded simultaneously into the same mic, and then a second guitar part was recorded as another track on-top. Tom Carter lives in London, and has released a number of lo-fi/electronica albums under the anagram of March Rosetta.
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| 01 - My Orchard Fire 02 - Different World 03 - Some Days 04 - Red Roses 05 - No Simpler Now You're Gone 06 - The Last Time |
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Menion – Out of sound/Out of silence
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Chill-Out, Guitar
Label: La Bel
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:28:12
Menion is a guy called Stefano Ferrari. He plays guitar. Out of sound / Out of silence is a collection of six chilled tunes that combine gentle guitar plucking, washes of electronics and samples with live drums. It’s the sound of sun-kissed beaches and cloudless blue skies. Totally inappropriate for Glasgow, then. On first listen it does tend to wash over pleasantly, but there’s more to it than 21st century easy listening music. Compostella has some glitchy and sharp angles to it, even as it glides into some effortless slide guitar, and there’s more than a hint of menace to the quiet I Love Imperfection. There are passages that do stray a bit too close to muzak, but they are thankfully few. Best track is the first. Coliazone Su Saturno is blissed out and beautiful. Download it and hope for sunshine!
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| 01 - Colazione su Saturno 02 - My neural forest 03 - Dear Dad 04 - Compostela 05 - I love imperfection 06 - Your body in the dark |
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Sekotis - People In Grass Houses
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Guitar, Shoegaze
Label: No-Source
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:39:29
Sekotis is British musician Tom Stokes. His album “People In Grass Houses” is full of melodic electronic music juxtaposed with layers of soothing, effect-drenched guitar and bass. Sometimes the guitars are so processed that the line between acoustic and electronics becomes blurred. The organic nature of “People In Grass Houses” is what sets Sekotis' music apart from others. Tracks such as “From A Grain Of Sound The Mountains Grow” and “Those Damn Tree Pixies” focus entirely on guitar, while the rest of the album leans heavily towards electronica. This isn't generic electronic production work, though; Sokotis is quoted as being influenced by Godflesh, Aphex Twin, Hella, and Lightning Bolt. The experimental rock and metal influences bring a great shoegazing quality to this music. The track “Black Sand” shines in this influence by buildsing to a peaceful cascade of sound. At the same time, Tom's work includes some of the best features of electronic music. The whole album is reminiscent of Boom Bip, in particular “Littlefield.” “Abyss Harmony” is very much drenched in Aphex Twin influence, while “Concreate Wilderness”, with pulsing beats, sounds like an Underworld instrumental. “People In Grass Houses” is an ideal headspace album—equal parts shoegazing and ambient dance.
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| 01 - People In Grass Houses 02 - Littlefield 03 - From A Grain Of Sound The Mountains Grow 04 - Black Sand 05 - Those Damn Tree Pixies 06 - Abyss Harmony 07 - Concrete Wilderness |
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Medelia - Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines
GENRE: Folk, Pop, Ambient, Guitar
Label: Trastienda
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:20:17
Medelia is the fusion of Elia Medel and Pablo Maqueda. The mixture of two names and a common way of understanding music. A timeless acoustic sound is distilled from its two voice lines, and creates a singular world halfway between literature and music. Medelia want to make the complicated simple. The project started in 2009 as the logical outlet for musical and literary career of Elia and Paul. Live, the "family" grows, and Paul's acoustic guitar is wrapped over the keys, strings and brushes of the band that could best understand the spirit of Medelia: Pablo Oliva (keyboards), José Luis Luna (bass), Eduardo de la Mata (brush box) and Heidi Buffington (violin). “Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines” is the first EP of the duo Medelia (Pablo Medel y Elia Maqueda), from Madrid (Spain). Five tracks moving between folk and pop, produced by José Luis Luna in Habitación 126 and Ritmo y Compás studios.
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| 01 - Stray Cats 02 - Take Me Down 03 - Tick Tock 04 - Nose Dive 05 - So Please |
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