Saturday, July 31, 2010

GLASSER - APPLY EP


In pictures and onstage, Cameron Mesirow is often shrouded, wearing a mask, for instance, or cloaked in kaleidoscopic light from the projections that are part of her set. In person, Mesirow, who makes music as Glasser, is an open book: friendly, high-spirited, and willing to share nearly any detail, from her self-consciousness about her music’s digital infrastructure to the particulars of her dreams. This project, she says, exists in a state “between sleep and wakefulness,” and even the Glasser name came from a midnight vision of a figure hovering over water. The songs’ content emerges from the same place, and their structure grows slowly from the in-headphone trance Mesirow cultivates when she’s working.Sometimes it takes the eye of an outsider to see something others would miss. No one better exemplifies that than Mesirow. Though her just-released Apply EP brings the number of Glasser songs in circulation to a spare six, Mesirow’s output is earning an abundance of attention for its consistently charming mix of artfulness and unvarnished beauty. Composed on Apple’s GarageBand program, songs feature her hypnotic voice layered over an array of synth sounds and prefab percussive loops. It’s sublime, drone-prone electronic folk, not that Mesirow had anything like that in mind when she started Glasser.





GLASSER - Apply Ep.

1. Apply
2. Glad
3. Learn




AUERGLASS
Symbiotic relationships with Instruments



The Auerglass is a two person pump organ created by Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow. The instrument cannot be played alone. Each player has a keyboard with alternating notes of a four octave scale. Each player must pump to supply the wind to the other player's notes.The Auerglass was included in the exhibition: Tauba Auerbach HERE AND NOW/AND NOWHERE at Deitch Projects September 3–October 17, 2009 Performances Tuesday through Saturday at 5pm daily. Special performances September 3 and September 11 at 8:00pm followed by Glasser


Performance outfits created for Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow by Ida Falck Øien. The Auerglass was constructed by Parsons Pipe Organs in Canandegua, New York







Friday, July 30, 2010

SPECIAL OTHERS



Special Others is a Japanese post-rock band that blends improvised jazz and post-rock influences to create a modern style of jazz that is popular with younger club scene fans. The members of the band met in high school and formed the group in 1995. They began performing in earnest in 2000, and their first major release, Indy-Ann, remained in the CRJ-tokyo charts for seven weeks.


Their first release on NMNL Records was the EP"Ben" which entered the Tower Records Shibuyaindie chart at #1, and #2 in the national Tower Records chart. After releasing their second EP, "Uncle John", in June, 2005, the band played at theFuji Rock Festival in July.
In June, 2006, they released "Idol", which was followed by a sell-out gig at Daikanyama UNIT in July, the release "Aims" at Tower Records in October, and the release of their long-awaited first full album, "Good Morning", on November 22. The band toured with Asian Kung-Fu Generationfrom late 2006, with guest appearances at five performances across Japan.

SOURCE - WIKIPEDIA







Artist – Special Others
Album – Ben
Release Date – 2004
Genre – Instrumental, Post-rock, Math-rock, Post-jazz, Jazz-core

Tracklist
1 Ben
2 Ngoro Ngoro
3 Peacefultree
4 Cacao
5 Khechi Khechi






Artist – Special Others
Album – Uncle John
Release Date – 2005
Genre – Instrumental, Post-rock, Math-rock, Post-jazz, Jazz-core

Tracklist
1 Sunshine 5:57
2 Random 4:50
3 Uncle John 6:36
4 Meal 7:00
5 Mellotron 6:53






Artist – Special Others
Album – Idol
Release Date – 2006
Genre – Instrumental, Post-rock, Math-rock, Post-jazz, Jazz-core

Tracklist
1 Idol 8:37
2 Aului 5:38
3 Saudade 7:48
4 Mambo No. 5 3:50
5 Quinto 4:58






Artist – Special Others
Album – Good Morning
Release Date – 2006
Genre – Instrumental, Post-rock, Math-rock, Post-jazz, Jazz-core

Tracklist
01 Aims
02 Good Morning
03 Circle
04 Yagi & Ryota
05 Around the World
06 Session
07 Koya
08 Comboy
09 KHN
10 Door of the Cosmos (The Stars Are Singing Too)




Artist – Special Others
Album – Star
Release Date – 2007
Genre – Instrumental, Post-rock, Math-rock, Post-jazz, Jazz-core

1 Star
2 Surdo
3 When You Wish Upon a Star
4 All Things (Part 1)
5 All Things (Part 2)
6 Aului80 [Self Remix]

DOWNLOAD - SPECIAL OTHERS - STAR









Artist – Special Others
Album - Quest
Release Date – 2008
Genre – Instrumental, Post-rock, Math-rock, Post-jazz, Jazz-core

01. Night Paradise
02. Laurentech
03. Ovelia
04. Quest
05. Bump
06. Johnson
07. APOLLO
08. Ubiquitous
09. ACN
10. Hankachi


DOWNLOAD - SPECIAL OTHERS - QUEST




Artist – Special Others
Album – PB
Release Date – 2009
Genre – Instrumental, Post-rock, Math-rock, Post-jazz, Jazz-core

Tracklist
01 – Title
02 – P.B
03 – Stay
04 – Spin Wednesday
05 – Charlie
06 – Silent
07 – Potato
08 – Twilight
09 – LIFE
10 – Sunrise



Artist – Special Others
Album – Indy-Ann
Release Date – 2009
Genre – Instrumental, Post-rock, Math-rock, Post-jazz, Jazz-core



Tracklist :
1. NGORO NGORO
2. WOODS MAN
3. INDY-ANN
4. Kondogi
5. Athisyajim




Artist – Special Others
Album – Laurentech
Release Date – 2008
Genre – Instrumental, Post-rock, Math-rock, Post-jazz, Jazz-core

1. Laurentech





Up to date discography…

2004 ~ BEN
2005 ~ Uncle John
2005 ~ DUB WISE
2006 ~ IDOL
2006 ~ AIMS
2006 ~ QUINTO EP
2006 ~ Good morning
2006 ~ Daikanyama UNIT
2006 ~ Shibuya CLUB QUATTRO
2007 ~ LIQUIDROOM
2007 ~ Surdo
2007 ~ STAR
2008 ~ SHIBUYA-AX
2008 ~ QUEST
2008 ~ Laurentech
2009 ~ PBEP
2009 ~ PB




Thursday, July 29, 2010

BEE AND FLOWER


Bee and Flower is a band that was founded in 1999 by singer/songwriter/bassist/composer Dana Schechter. The band released their debut CD "What's Mine Is Yours" on Neurot Recordings in 2003. In 2004 the band moved to Berlin, Germany, recorded a new album, and have been playing concerts, touring and recording further.
Made in Berlin with engineer Ingo Krauss (formerly of Conny Plank Studios, Köln) , Bee and Flower's second album features a 25-piece string section, a whirlwind of grand pianos, vintage electronics, delicate melodic percussion, a mammoth ‘bass section’, keyboards, guitars, lap steels, and sweeping vocal choirs. Many special guests joined the band for the recordings, and band members featured on Bee and Flower's albums and in the live group include members of Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsCalexicoKeren AnnIggy PopAngels of LightStephan EicherSwans, and Bertrand Burgalat.
http://www.beeandflower.com/





1. I Know Your Name
2. Twin Stars
3. Wounded Walking
4. Riding On Empty
5. Let It Shine
6. On The Mouth
7. Something Good
8. Carpenter’s Fern
9. Dupe
10. This Time



DOWNLOAD - BEE AND FLOWER - Whats Mine Is Yours - MEDIAFIRE




1 -3 Reverie
2 Don’t Say Don’t Worry
3 Two Makes One
4 For The Last Dance
5 Planets Fall
6 Minx
7 Last Sight Of Land
8 Leaving With You
9 Homeland
10 In The Hush
11 kiss it goodbye



DOWNLOAD - BEE AND FLOWER - Last Sight Of Land - MEDIAFIRE



SGT.





  • Bass:
  • Kouji Akashi Akashi 興司
  • traumerei
  • Violin:
  • Narui Mikiko Mikiko Narui
  • MAS
  • Drum:
  • Oono Hitoshi Hitoshi Ono
  • Brigade, traumerei
  • Guitar:
  • Hironori Taoka Taoka Hiroshi Book
  • zampa






Formed in 1999. Activities organized by the current members in 2003. Approach to film music, rock, jazz, noise, emo,



Sounds like a fusion of multi Insrumental improvisation. November 2005 1st mini album
"Perception of causality" debut (mastering engineer: mino takaaki / toe). In November the following year good music! With Split CD "sggmt!!" Release. Original So far, Live, DVD, produced 08 works including omnibus / participation.

Biography - Courtesty of http://sgt-web.net/index.html









1st Full Album "Stylus Fantasticus"

01. Light Ends
02. The prisoners dilemma game
03. Midnight Sun
04. To think aloud
05. Backroom and playing
06. Moon Island of memories
07. 創Re galaxy destroying the power plant

DOWNLOAD - Stylus Fantasticus - MEDIAFIRE



2nd mini album [capital of gravity 』

01. Kalliope
02. Apollo Program
03. Tears of na-ga
04. Ant's planet
05. Epsilon
06. Taken from the Galaxy-reprise-[Tyme. Remix]

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1st mini album「perception of causality」

01. Drawing on a sense of universal
02. Taken from the galaxy
03. Harukaze
04. Moewe
05. ... ... ...

DOWNLOAD - SGT. - Perception Of Causality - MEDIAFIRE




sgt. & good music! Split CD "sggmt!!"

01. Paranoia (sgt.)
02. A vague promise at courtyard (sgt.)
03. Fall (good music!)
04. I was born on a ray of sound (good music!)

DOWNLOAD - SGT. - Split Ep - MEDIAFIRE