David Newlyn - ancient lights [2007]

tracklist:
01. Never Remember
02. Memento
03. Another Place
04. Coordinates
05. Rain on Snow
06. Trains to York
07. So Far Away
08. Friday Night (Light Blue)
09. OD3
10. Sector
11. Transition
12. Field Drift
13. Curve

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The Postmarks - The Postmarks (2007)

Not too long ago, I considered a move to Miami (ready, Art Brut?). As live music scenes go, it ain't exactly the next Stockholm, let alone New York. Better known for club-oriented sounds, South Florida also turns out to be the home of the Postmarks, whose self-titled debut may prove to be one of 2007's most sublime indie pop albums. (Move over, Rick Ross!)

The Postmarks probably won't soundtrack many coked-up beach parties (duh, other than mine). Tim Yehezkely sings in a breathy inside voice, with echoes of the Softies' Rose Melberg, 60s pop singers like Françoise Hardy or Jane Birkin, and Brazilian Tropicalismo icon Gal Costa. Instrumentalists Christopher Moll (co-songwriter with the 24-year-old Yehezkely) and Jonathan Wilkins draw out arrangements that enjoy the urbane whiff of lounge, Burt Bacharach, Henry Mancini, and Sunflower-era Brian Wilson. Each track has that "turtlenecked Euro beatnik chic" that Pitchfork contributor Nitsuh Abebe heard in Broadcast's last record.

Despite Florida's relative lack of seasons, nearly all of the Postmarks' songs share the Lucksmiths' single-minded focus on the weather. Cats and dogs fall in "Looks Like Rain", but Yehezkely brims over with the thought, "A gray sky can't dampen my spirit." On "Summer Never Seems to Last", fuzztone guitar, theremin, and an organ out of the sadder-than-you-remembered "God Only Knows" all support the singer's pensive sky-gazing.

The most elegant song from the album, the horn-accented "Winter Spring Summer Fall", swoons and rotates with the seasons as a metaphor for the heart; "I'm fall, fall, falling for you," Yehezkely devastatingly repeats for more than a minute like the bookish niece of the Flamingos. The repetition here and on shorter, harmony-layered "Weather the Weather" (see?) would also seem to imply some familiarity with house music.

"Goodbye" makes sense as the Postmarks' first video, outshining the rest of the album's gorgeous sighs with a deceptively sprightly tale of a young woman going her own way, her "don't leave a key underneath the mat for me" sentiment coming across matter-of-factly against the movie-score brass. With Air's follow-up to 2004's Talkie Walkie still not due for a month, The Postmarks is the best album of its kind since Hercules' In the Alleyway later that year. All they need now's to rope in Pitbull for a guest verse.

-Marc Hogan, February 12, 2007

va - bearded ladies vol 1, 2 (finderskeepers, 2007)

Varios. Femme-folk.
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Dionysos - La mécanique du coeur (2007)

FRENCH ROCK.
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Hisato higuchi - butterfly horse street (2007)

Tokyo-based guitarist/singer Hisato Higuchi has shaped an inimitable sound sphere of solitary electric notes that drape across his unearthly moan during the course of two full-lengths and an EP. Channeling loneliness and desires as elegant six-string tone poems, Higuchi has reached the heights of fellow travelers from Meredith Monk to Charalambides.

Though Butterfly Horse Street adds an unexpected snarl as Higuchi erupts into free/noise, wall of sound guitar style that echoes the most ecstatic string manipulation of Masayuki Takayanagi or Donald Miller (Borbetomagus). Ferocious and howling, Higuchi still paints desolation whether bleeding into the red or as hushed beauty.

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Jeff Zentner - Hymns Of The Darkness (2007)

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I write songs for those who see the face of god in dirt and rust and broken things. for those who love desolation and who make of it ceremony and song. for those who bear memory's weight and who count the days of their youth in the blinking lights of distant radio towers and deserted intersections. who read in the crumbling names of towns on water towers the dispatches of passing seasons and forgotten heartbeats. for those who in dreams find great and unknowable mystery. who love words that sound upon their lips like secrets and sighs."

Con esta presentación, quedan dos alternativas: 1) escuch 2) arlo

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CAT POWER - JUKEBOX (2008)

Hubo rumores de que venía a Chile pero perece que las realidad se inclina por huevadas como THE RAPTURE, THE BRAVERY, etc. y lo que vale la pena nos deja, como siempre, con las ganas (solo en el 2007 se pasearon por sudamerica JOANNA NEWSOM, SONIC YOUTH, FEIST, THE ROOTS, etc., etc. de los cuales ninguno vino a Chile).

Pero hay noticias. Se publicó la tapa de lo que será el nuevo disco (ver arriba) y su fabuloso playlist. El lanzamiento será el 22 de enero por MATADOR. un hit-in-your-face para el verano.

Playlist:

01 Theme From 'New York, New York' (Kander/Ebb; popularized by Frank Sinatra/Liza Minnelli)
02 Metal Heart (Cat Power)
03 Ramblin' (Wo)man (Hank Williams)
04 Song To Bobby (Cat Power-- new song)
05 Aretha, Sing One For Me (J Harris/Eugene William; originally sung by George Jackson)
06 Lost Someone (James Brown)
07 I Believe In You (Bob Dylan)
08 Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
09 Silver Stallion (Lee Clayton)
10 Dark End of the Street (Chips Moman/Dan Penn; originally sung by James Carr)
11 Don't Explain (Billie Holiday)
12 Woman Left Lonely (Spooner Oldham/Dan Penn, popularized by Janis Joplin)

Digital Slang No. 2 (City Slang Recs.)

CITY SLANG , coa de la ciuda', parloteo de la pobla, o como quieran ustedes llamarle, es un sello berlinés bien cool de relevancia mundial. Han puesto en linea un regalo para todos nosotros; su segundo DIGITAL SLANG, un sampler con los trabajos más recientes de imprescindibles de hoy tales como Stars, Caribou, Kevin Drew (ex?-Broken Social Scene), Menomena, Malajube y O'Death. Está bueno para enchufarse.
Para bajar el disco hay que llenar un pequeño cuestionario.

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The Kids - st (1978)

THE KIDS was a very interesting 70's raw punkrock band. Probably best known for their rockanthem " there will be no next time" but, on this first release only raw 70's punk you bastards!.

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Rev. Louis Overstreet - With His Sons And The Congregation Of...

una joyaza en dos partes:

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Pt. 2 Download.