Wednesday 31 March 2010

Kyle Bobby Dunn - ...A Young Persons Guide To - EXCLUSIVE!



















Kyle Bobby Dunn - ...A Young Persons Guide To - EXCLUSIVE!

Regular visitors to this blog will know that every now and again I come across a piece of music that inspires me so much that I write to the artist asking for permission to share some of their music with you as a download in the hope that you will enjoy it as much as I do. This is one of those times.
Kyle gave me permission to share a couple of MP3's with you from this release. I hope you like them. With much gratitude to Kyle:
[MF] Download tracks - Bonaventure's Finest Hour & Sets of Four

Review:

Kyle Bobby Dunn's new release 'A Young Person's Guide To...' is quite simply a master piece of drone. Since his last release 'Fervency' Kyle's music has matured into what has to be considered some of the very best music in this genre. With over 2 hours of music including many tracks over 11 minutes in length you are guaranteed to be in for a long and beautiful journey.

There will be inevitable similarities made with the music of Stars Of The Lid but where SoTL has a grandiose, orchestral sometimes cinematic feel Kyle's music has a softer, warmer , more mature feel. Kyle has somehow managed to blend the soft ambient elements of Brian Eno's music with the swirling minimal orchestral movements found in Masterpieces such as Stars Of The Lid's '...And Their Refinement Of The Decline' and Album of the Year, Eluvium's 'Copia' into what is a rare album of ambient/drone perfection that deserves to be an award winning album for 2010.

I can't recommend this album enough, it deserves a 5/5 star rating. As a long time follower and admirer of drone music I can confidently say this will take pride of place in the collection of any fans of ambient drone.

I should also add that the CD is available at a very reasonable price (and to my delight a very quick shipping time!)

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A meaningful short video from Sigur rós

Music Matters - Sigur Ros (22-3-10) from Music Matters on Vimeo.

Tuesday 30 March 2010

Jónsi - Guest DJ on NPR Radio

Jónsi guest DJ'd on NPR radio. He talks a lot about 'stuff' and plays some of his favorite songs. 46 minute session.
[MF] Download

Monday 29 March 2010

Jónsi - Go (1st hearing of the entire album!)

Jónsi - Studio Brussel Radio Session January 2010












Jónsi - Studio Brussel Radio Session - January 2010 (Mastered)

Two songs from a Radio Session performed for Studio Brussel back in January. A particularly nice acoustic version of kolniður. Good quality but there should be a higher one coming soon.
Thanks to 'idiotic' for making this possible

30.03.2010 - New High Quality
1. Boy Lilikoi
2. Kolnidor
3. Interview

[MF] MP3 Download
[MF] FLAC Download

Sunday 28 March 2010

Jónsi - 2010.03.26 - Tour Rehearsal Concert, 3 Mills Studio














Jónsi - 2010.03.26 - Tour Rehearsal Concert, 3 Mills Studio -(Mastered)

Included in this post are only the new songs as, co-incidentally, the ones we know already from the album unfortunately suffered from clipping. Very beautiful. A little taste of things to come...
Huge thanks and kudos to Grant for making this possible

01 stars in still water
02 icicle sleeves
03 saint naive
04 k12
05 new piano song
06 jónsi's new guitar song

[MF] Download FLAC
[SS] Download MP3 (not recommended as I had to master from mp3 hence the lossless version)

Friday 26 March 2010

Jónsi - Radio 6 Lauren Laverne - 22.03.2010













Jónsi - Radio 6 Lauren Laverne - 22.03.2010

A great session with Jónsi's 'Hallelujah' comment making me laugh every time I hear it! An interesting show for guitarists as well as his ukulele playing can be heard very clearly. Fantastic quality as always...
Features songs 'Go Do' & 'Boy Lilikoi'

[MF] MP3 Download
[MF] Flac - Download (re-up)
[MF] songs only (you may need to re-tag) Download

Saturday 20 March 2010

Jónsi - Radio 1 Live Lounge Session 20.03.2010




















Jónsi - Radio 1 Live Lounge Session 20.03.2010

A beautiful 2 song session from Jónsi with a mind blowing cover of MGMT's 'Time To Pretend' Both downloads contain pics from the session :)

Download FLAC (new links 06.04.2010) FLAC (Alt link if 1st fails you 4.5.2010)
Download MP3 (new link 23.03.10)
Download Songs Only
(I noticed a tiny bit of distortion on 1 of the tracks - If you havn't noticed its ok. IF you did notice then you are an audiophile & can download again - 'Time to Pretend')

Friday 19 March 2010

Natural Snow Buildings - The Centauri Agent 2010




















Natural Snow Buildings - The Centauri Agent 2010 !!

The first Natural Snow Buildings album of 2010 is being giving away for free!!! through the wonderful Vulpiano Records Stunning Music!
From the Site:

VULP-0013 is Natural Snow Buildings’ first release of 2010, the free-for-download double LP The Centauri Agent! On part one, the 41 minute “Our man from Centauri” sets the stage, a cosmic, sprawling opener with themes that continue on into “The accidental remote viewer”, before fizzling out into static. Part two is comprised of nine beautiful and intense tracks (particular stand-outs including “The Psychic Circle/Uchronia”, “The storm of resurrection”, and “Solar flares”). Lovely and intricately woven as ever, while frequently heading off into new and challenging sonic territory, Mehdi and Solange have created yet another very special work of musical art with The Centauri Agent!

Download here (mp3)
Download here (FLAC)

—-Tracklisting—-
Part One:
1-Our man from Centauri
2-The accidental remote viewer
Part Two:
1-The Psychic Circle/Uchronia
2-Black holes
3-The storm of resurrection
4-Moscow signal
5-Phantom twin
6-Stuttering probe
7-Solar flares
8-Emergency network farewell broadcast
9-Memories found in a bill from a small animal vet
—-
Cover art is by Marilyn Roxie, designed from Creative Commons images Alpha Centauri and the Batman Nebula (by jah~) and Swirl texture (by ~Essence of a Dream~). Font used is Poilet Taper.

Thursday 18 March 2010

Tósóngli - Melódíus



















Im not sure who this is other than they are from Rejvavik AND they will be playing with Jónsi at 2 shows in USA.
Quiet acoustic, experimental music. I like it as do almost all fans of Jónsi I have talked to!

[MF] Download (2 tracks)
(any extra info gratefully received!)

The Album Leaf - Radio Sessions - 16.11.2006 / 20.01.2009




















2 more wonderful Radio Sessions from the wonderful Album Leaf (currently on tour!)

Session 1 - 16.11.2006

1 - Twentytwofourteen
2 - Wherever I Go
3 - Into The Sea
4 - Always For You


[MF] - Download

Session 2 - 20.01.2009

1 - Wet The Day
2 - The MP
3 - Wishful Thinking
4 - Storyboard


[MF] - Download

On Tour Now!... Wonderful !!

Thursday 4 March 2010

Sigur rós Tagging of FLAC & MP3

Following much discussion with those who know more than me about this sort of thing! The future & following Sigur rós concerts will all be re-tagged as follows

The tagging will follow the structure indicated in the example below:

FLAC - File Titles = sigurros_20060221_stlouis_01_glosoli
MP3 - File Titles = As Above BUT the tagging will be:
- Name of Song = Glósóli
- Name of Concert = 2006.02.21 St Louis
- (The track numbers will be hidden from the title but tagged)

This has come about to bring into line my masters with a unified taper standered system and a qualified MP3 standered tagging.
All my efforts to date have been to master as many of these wonderful concerts as possible. Because there has been over 10 years worth I have had to work as efficiently as possible to complete this project whilst I have the opportunity. Now I aim to correct any Masters than can be improved further and to focus on a more over-all 'qualified' product for you

Sigur ros - The Pageant, St. Louis 21.02.2006 - Re Master 2010 V2















Sigur ros - The Pageant, St. Louis 21.02.2006 - Re Master 2010 V2

I was asked to re-upload this as the links had died but ended up doing quite a bit of work to improve the sound quality. Upon re-listening it seemed clear there was far too much high end in general which has been balanced out although this is not an easy concert to work with effectively due to the acoustics of the room and the inherent difficulties with audience recording (not to say I am not extremely grateful to the taper as are the people who attended)
Good quality and energy. The bass is punchy and warm, the voice is strong, well rounded and sits very well in the mix. Other elements of the sound are really nice as well, clear and balanced.
Thanks to Danny for the taping and sharing.

Set List:


01 Takk / Glósóli
02 Ný Batterí
03 Sæglópur
04 Njósnavélin
05 E-bow
06 Gong / Andvari
07 Hoppípolla / Með Blóðnasir
08 Olsen Olsen
09 Hafssól
10 Svo Hljótt Heysátan
11 Popplagið
12 Exit Music

[MF] MP3 download part1 part2
[MF] FLAC download part1 part2 part3 - So sorry, part 2 is now actually part 2!! *smacks wrist*