[Music] Ethan Diamond, Bandcamp – XOXO Festival (2014)

July 21, 2015 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

If you haven’t heard of Bandcamp, you really need to catch up. Artists and record labels are using this absolutely wonderful platform to sell vinyl, fan merchandise and other objects as well as high-quality digital downloads in a host of formats.

Ethan Diamond, the founder of the company, is seen here speaking about the many uses of Bandcamp. We wish him and the company continued success, though I’m mad that his invention is cleaning out my wallet!

For a sample of his music taste, check it out here.

[Music] Villagers of Ioannina City – Krasi

July 19, 2015 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

This is beautifully weird, and I have my dear brother, Yasen Kazandjiev, to thank for it.

This sounds like Greek folk music gone somewhere between post-punk and psychedelic music. As if Joy Division discovered the pleasures of lamb and ouzo. I’m looking forward to watching Villagers of Ioannina City grow and develop this sound!

[Music] One of the world’s most isolated vinyl record shops opens in Mongolia

July 10, 2015 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

From FACT Magazine, it seems Dund Gol Record Shop is bringing vinyl back to Ulaanbaatar. This would make one hell of a pilgrimage to head over to Mongolia in order to pick up local wares and talk shop with fellow record jockeys.

[Sample] Bjørnar Habbestad – Solo live at Landmark, June 2015

July 5, 2015 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

It pays to scroll through various social media from time to time. Today’s Soundcloud scroll brought me to the music of Bjørnar Habbestad, a Norwegian composer of avant-garde and improvisational music. I don’t know if this particular piece is part of a CD or just a live improv, but this made for some incredibly good listening this afternoon.

[Sample] Marco Lucchi – Preludes and Fanfares

June 26, 2015 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

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Beautiful dark ambient my Italian composer Marco Lucci.

[Sample] Standgericht – Scrape Through My Skin (Preview)

June 21, 2015 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Many thanks to Diana of Standgericht, who sent me some material she’s working on for an upcoming album release. If you have a passion for Electronic Body Music of a more brutal type, this will be worth waiting for.

[Review] Fake Cat Project – Fake Cat Songs

June 11, 2015 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

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Kirill Makushin (who also records under Kirill M and Crows In The Garden) is no stranger to this blog. He’s a bayan player who works well with experimental composition. In this EP for the Fake Cat Project (his new band), he works with the legendary Russian avant-garde music stalwart Alexei Borisov, and Igor Levshin, who contributes ‘vocals’ (meows, really).

[Sample] Finnegans Wake – 4th

May 24, 2015 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

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Finnegan’s Wake is the name of at least one other progressive rock band, but this one hails from Belgium, though now resides in Brazil, and is led by Henry Krutzen, who founded the band in 1993, and it reminds me of a chamber-rock band, not dissimilar to Rock-In-Opposition bands like Henry Cow or Art Zoyd.