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spirit and came out swinging with a record that will be ripping you, not one, but two auxiliary assholes. Since forming their strange musical alliance in
2002, Cars Can Be Blue have strived to combat the inertia of indie music’s boring banalities with cheekily colorful aplomb. The twisted worm that had
always wiggled beneath the surface of this cheerful boy/girl pop duo has gradually swelled up and begun devouring its human host. Behold, ‘’Doubly
Unbeatable!’’ A joyous paroxysm of negative energy culled from three years of uncertain circumstances and desperate living, Becky Brooks and Nate
Mitchell have filtered their own distrust of humanity into a living document that is catchier and more compelling than the volume that preceded
Cars Can Be Blue Doubly Unbeatable 795103605725 $15.97 CD Rock/Pop
16 songs! Three years in the making! Two people who can barely stand each other most of the time, who have endured emotional distress,
heartbreak, a grueling, botched disaster cross-country tour that resulted in bankruptcy and homelessness, yet still summoned inhuman tenacity of
spirit and came out swinging with a record that will be ripping you, not one, but two auxiliary assholes. Since forming their strange musical alliance in
2002, Cars Can Be Blue have strived to combat the inertia of indie music’s boring banalities with cheekily colorful aplomb. The twisted worm that had
always wiggled beneath the surface of this cheerful boy/girl pop duo has gradually swelled up and begun devouring its human host. Behold, ‘’Doubly
Unbeatable!’’ A joyous paroxysm of negative energy culled from three years of uncertain circumstances and desperate living, Becky Brooks and Nate
Mitchell have filtered their own distrust of humanity into a living document that is catchier and more compelling than the volume that preceded
Etziony,Yair Flawed 4560267290133 $23.97 CD Electronic
Flawed’ is the fist solo album by Yair Etziony from Tel Aviv, Israel also known as Faction on UK’s Neo Oujia label. When i started working on this
project i wanted to create two separate albums, one with smoked jazzy feeling with emphasis on beats and second one with only textures,a piano and
pads. At that time i was performing a lot with this sort of music in galleries, art events and museums. In my live show performance i used to combine
elements from both albums, i liked the way it sounded and slowly i got the notion that i can fuse all the sounds and ideas into one album.I tried to use
the same working techniques for all the tracks in the album, most of them were created on a computer, some beats and stabs that were created on
an old analog sampler. Most of the work effort was to edit the raw material i had and than arrange in on my computer. All composition deal with
mistakes, non-perfect things and flaws. I think that sometimes when dealt in the right way a mistake or a flaw can be a beautiful thing, li
Felix La Vida Secreta 7804605560104 $19.97 CD Rock/Pop
Author pop, with simple and refined musical arrangements, convert this debut from the Argentinian songwriter Felix, “La Vida Secreta”, in an absolute
discovery. Felix recover the capacity to compose intimates lyrics that are perfect partners for affable melodies that convert this debut in an essential
work. His lyrics seems chronicles about a generation personal worries, and locate this songwriter in the first line of highlights musicians from his
country like Coiffeur or Diosque, that update the face of the indie song in that latitudes.
Felix La Vida Secreta 7804605560104 $19.97 CD Rock/Pop
Author pop, with simple and refined musical arrangements, convert this debut from the Argentinian songwriter Felix, “La Vida Secreta”, in an absolute
discovery. Felix recover the capacity to compose intimates lyrics that are perfect partners for affable melodies that convert this debut in an essential
work. His lyrics seems chronicles about a generation personal worries, and locate this songwriter in the first line of highlights musicians from his
country like Coiffeur or Diosque, that update the face of the indie song in that latitudes.
Grimm,Joe Brain Cloud 4560267290157 $23.97 CD Electronic
Joe Grimm (formerly known as The Wind-Up Bird) is a composer/ performer based in Providence, RI known with remarkable releases on Music
Fellowship Label. The seed for this music was planted when I participated in one of Glenn Branca’s 100-guitar symphonies. The sound was incredible:
a deafening, electric choir incorporating so many voices that the each element was subsumed within the group sound. But I was struck even more by
the unrealized potential in Branca’s approach; the sound was separated into several identifiable voices, so that the impression given was of a
conventional counterpoint-driven music.
Hosaka,Akane Niko Niko Denki Muzic 3760146840065 $25.97 CD Rock/Pop
With her lunging rhythms and deliciously retro melodies, Akane Hosaka catapults us into a world of gleeful wallabies and drummer-boy monkeys. Her
discovery of music came\nthrough song, and only later led to instrumental experimentation. References to her early influences, the 60s and 70s
precursors of electropop, are deliberate, there for all to see: Raymond Scott, Perrey & Kingsley or Yellow Magic Orchestra\Nevertheless her true
inspiration is from the visual world and lies in graphic forms and architectural fantasy: Keiji Ito, Archigram or Bruno\nMunari. For her, these images
evoke music that she then sets about transcribing. Naturally reserved, she’s a perfectionist in her work. Seeing her in the studio is like watching a
blacksmith in the smithy, as she bends her music into the\nrequired shapes. Her compositions are like pastel-coloured soap bubbles\nin extra-bright
Super 8.
Ikeda,Ken Mist On The Window 4560267290102 $23.97 CD Electronic
Ken Ikeda is a video artist and composer born in Tokyo (1964) but currently resident in New York. He has exhibited sound art and visual installations
around the world and has collaborated with painter Tadanoori Yokoo and artist Mariko Mori. Mist On The Window is his third album, following Tzuki
(2000) and Merge (2003) both on the Touch label. There are moments in your life when something changes as you hear and become aware of the
sounds around you.
July Skies Weather Clock 823566443728 $25.97 CD Rock/Pop
July Skies is the musical project of Antony Harding from Birmingham UK, assisted by members of the band Epic45 (Antony worked on their 2006
album May Your Heart Be The Map) who have both previously received airplay from the late John Peel and Rob Da Bank of BBC Radio 1 and also by
Verity Sharp of BBC Radio 3. Both bands are part of the truly independent UK label collective Make Mine Music, who are heading towards their 50th
release in autumn 2008. The Weather Clock is July Skies 4th album and the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2004 album The English Cold.
Musically, think The Durutti Column, the sensitivity of 80’s indie bands like The House of Love, the guitar work of Maurice Deebank (Felt) or Robin
Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Harold Budd, or even a modern reference to British Sea Power if they ‘didn’t like rock music’.
Melodium My Mind Is Falling To Pieces 3760148281613 $25.97 CD Electronic
Now, with “My Mind is falling to pieces” on arbouse recordings, it lets us glimpse a world quite singular. Folk Much more than usual, much more
organic and acoustic (guitar, piano), Melodium offers us listen compositions melancholy, nostalgic ditties where the melodies are furnish a few clicks
and relents beep ... We discover his voice and his talented songwriter. It is finally a unique, a meeting between Folk and Electronica.
Merzbow Arijigoku 5904259358675 $22.97 CD Experimental
2008 release from the Japanese avant-garde artist. Arijigoku is Merzbow’s fourth full length CD album for the Vivo Records label. All music by Masami
Akita. Recorded & mixed at Munemi House and Sound Studio Noah, May 2008. Four tracks.
Merzbow Arijigoku 5904259358675 $22.97 CD Experimental
2008 release from the Japanese avant-garde artist. Arijigoku is Merzbow’s fourth full length CD album for the Vivo Records label. All music by Masami
Akita. Recorded & mixed at Munemi House and Sound Studio Noah, May 2008. Four tracks.
Miaou All Around Us 4532813130255 $23.97 CD Electronic
Miaou, one and only band offers glittering electronic melody and post rock sounds. 2 years from last “painted e.p”, miaou has finally come back to
scene. Mino, the engineer worked with most well known Japanese post rock band “toe” backed up miaou. “All around us” has easily exceeded their
past 2 releases “painted e.p” and “MAKE THESE THINGS ALRIGHT”. Unlike last 2 albums, latest album features a vocal tune “you found me”. With
powered up rock sounds and melodies, miaou will definitely become the scene leader.
Opitope Hau 4560267290119 $23.97 CD Electronic
Optiope is a duo formed by Date Tomoyoshi and Chihei Hatakeyama (also known for his works on Kranky) in autumn 2002. ‘Hau’ is an imaginary
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