Friday, 30 April 2010

The Middle East - KCRW-SXSW Festival 17.03.2010

One of the few bands that I have bought an actual CD rather just flac. Spellbinding stuff. Worldwide tour - check the link below :)


5 songs from The Middle East live at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. Beautiful music + a very rare live performance. These guys are touring now. Check the website & the myspace page for the 2 songs that totally sold me to this band!

Saturday, 24 April 2010

New Sigur rós album for 2011 !!!

Update 03.2011:
~The live DVD from the London concerts late 2008 is in final production, a final edit has been completed. No info. on release date yet
~News coming soon with regard to the 10 Anniversary Agaetis Byrjun

" yep the SR hiatus isn't indefinite, it's temporary. they start rehearsing new songs next month as far as i know. not sure what journalist first invented this "indefinite" label, makes it sound like it's gonna last forever."
bjossi - Jónsi/Sigur rós - Managment team

& from Jónsi himself
" Im going to tour for the rest of the year and in between touring I'm going to try to meet the guys from Sigur rós and we are going to record some more songs and a new album in 2011"
1Live interview - 01.04.2010

Update: Jónsi said last week that he is really looking forward to getting back into the studio with the 'boys' to start playing [recording] music again :D 08/12/2010


Jónsi - Roseland Theatre, Portland 13.04.2010













Jónsi - Roseland Theatre, Portland 13.04.2010

So here at last, the first full length concert from Jónsi. The quality is good with just a little clipping at some of the louder parts. Each track was recorded separately so a little mixing has made this into a full concert but with some fade outs where necessary to keep the continuity and flow of the concert. I should add that the mastering is always done as 'flat' as possible to leave you with as much room as possible to use your own personal favourite EQ settings.
Huge thanks to DC Media for recording this and making it available. A lot of work has gone into this. Enjoy :)

Set List:

01 Stars in Still Water
02 Hengilás
03 Icicle Sleeves
04 Kolniður
05 Tornado
06 Saint Naive
07 Sinking Friendships
08 Go Do
09 Boy Lilikoi
10 K12
11 New Piano Song
12 Around Us
13 Jonsi's New Guitar Song
14 Animal Arithmetic
15 Grow Till Tall

[MF] MP3 - Part 1 Part 2
[MF] FLAC - Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 (tr 07 download)

Friday, 23 April 2010

Mimicking Birds - OPB Radio Session - 27.09.2009 + Videos














Mimicking Birds - OPB Radio Session - 27.09.2009 + Videos

Brilliant new discovery, more info in the post below!

[MF] Download Songs+Interview
[MF] Download Videos of session

Mimicking Birds - Now & Then - not an album, just songs










Mimicking Birds - Now & Then - not an album, just songs

Mimicking Birds has just released a new album (s/t) It is brilliant! Fantastic acoustic guitar work with complex intelligent lyrics interspersed through out, delivered with a 'The Books' like urgency. Truly a wonderful album and a great surprise find.
The album can be found here: http://www.glacialpace.com/mimickingbirds/
THIS album however is a freely available download of 14 home recorded songs offered through the kindess of Issac himself

[MF] Download
myspace
website

Thursday, 22 April 2010

Jónsi - 2010-04-17 San Francisco, Amoeba Music - Mastered












Jónsi - 2010-04-17 San Francisco, Amoeba Music - Re-Mastered

Lineage: Sonic Studio mics -> Edirol R-09HR (24 bit / 96 kHz) -> Nero (level boost & downsample to 16 bit / 44.1 kHz) -> cd wav -> flac level 8 > MASTER > Flac

The first recorded Jónsi public appearance! The appearance at the 'Amoeba Music Store' coincided with 'record store day' To the delight of fans there was an opportunity to meet Jónsi and the band afterwards for a record signing session. There is some hiss in quieter moments (which became apparent during the mastering process) However its my hope that a good balance has been achieved between the improvement in the overall sound and the original.
The original 'Un Mastered' version is available here @Dimeadozen [LINK]
Im posting this Master just in FLAC for now. LINKS BELOW
Heartfelt thanks & gratitude to 'tomzero' for both recording the show and permission to both allow me to master and share this with you
NB: You want to hold off on downloading as we have another version which combined with this show should be even better :)

Set List:

01 Stars in Still Water
02 Icicle Sleeves
03 Kolnidor
04 Go Do
05 Sinking Friendships
06 Boy Lilikoi
07 St Naive
08 Outro

(Any problems with files please let me know a.s.a.p by email me for a solution)

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Jónsi - Tour 2010 Video Preview (The Making of Part 4)

Jónsi - KCRW Radio Session 19.04.2010








Jónsi - KCRW Radio Session 19.04.2010

Be excited! This is one of, if not the best session yet. Superb sound from the wonderful KCRW Studio's, some different versions of songs and finally a superb quality 1st appearance of St Naive.
Fantastic show with superb quality sound

Set List:

01 Stars in still water
02 Icicle sleeves
03 Kolnidor
04 Sinking friendships (acoustic version)
05 Go do
06 Boy Lilikoi
07 St. naive
00 Interview

[MF] Flac - Part 1 Part 2
[MF] VIDEO - Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Saturday, 17 April 2010

Lusine - Triple Door 18.04.2008

















Lusine - Triple Door 18.04.2008

I don't anything about this guy other than he opened for Stars of the Lid and makes similar music but with some nice electronica mixed in. Really really nice stuff, very warm calm ambient, electronica. Highly recommended. Perfect quality.
edit: as I was posting something else I started listening to this and now I can't stop listening to it. This is some of the best ambient/electronica music I have heard in a longggggg time.

[MF] Download FLAC - part 1 part 2 (new links 22.04.10)

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Nick Drake - Lost Boy - BBC2 Radio Documentary mp3

Something a little different -1 hour long BBC2 audio documentary about the life of Nick Drake. Worth it if only to hear the monologue by Brad Pitt. "Im Brad Pitt & Im a huge admirer of this English singer songwriter" (Joking apart, its really nice)
[MF] Download 96 kbps mp3