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martes, 12 de mayo de 2009
viernes, 13 de marzo de 2009
Telekinesis - ¡ Escucha su debut !
Recomendación de StereoPills.
El disco saldrá el 7 de Abril, y en estas fechas también se editará un nuevo trabajo de bandas como Eulogies y Great Northern.
Información y escucha en Merge Records:
TELEKINESIS: A Factual, If Editorialized, Introduction
"Telekinesis is Michael Benjamin Lerner (drums, guitar & vocals) with Chris Staples (guitar), David Broecker (electric, acoustic & bass guitar), and Jonie Broecker (bass guitar & keyboards) joining him on tour. They all live in Seattle, WA. Telekinesis! (MRG344) was produced, engineered, and mixed by Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Tegan & Sara). Walla and Lerner tracked and mixed each of its songs to analog tape in a single day before moving on to the next song, with the ambitious goal of never over-thinking or sabotaging the spontaneous enthusiasm of the music."
It's such an impossible thing, at this funny little point in history, to not look back: We're recording every little thing with our cameras that make the little noise like cameras used to make; we're measuring our actual selves against our online selves with hopeful resignation; we're rendering and retouching the record of our lives at every turn. If it can be perfect then let's make it so, goes the wisdom of the moment.
To be fair, there's a certain convenience about perfection. It's easy to wear and see and swallow and enjoy, and it leaves the heart light. It's also totally boring. And though occasionally friendly and welcoming, literal perfection in pop music is never, ever awesome.
Which is where Telekinesis comes in. On record, Michael Lerner is the sole member of Telekinesis, more or less. He writes, sings and plays the songs. His love of Japan knows no bounds, though he's never been. He's a fantastic drummer and a fearless singer. And he does not look back willingly.
I mean, you can forcibly crane his head around in a pinch (mortal danger and Seinfeld reruns qualify). But Michael's songs are ridiculously immediate, and he delivers them with blinding velocity. His approach to music isn't unlike those spikes at the rental car place: Backing up deflates the tires, and not in a pleasant way.
It's reflected in Michael's writing, too, this philosophy of ever- forward motion. These are big-hearted songs, written quickly and from the gut. Telekinesis is the geography of dreams; a school year abroad; love letters from Liverpool coffee shops to the Carolina coastline and Tokyo and everywhere in between everywhere; a road trip waiting to happen. And it's absolutely perfect, but not because anyone went back to fix it. It just happened that way.
~Chris Walla, January 2009
Listado de canciones:
1 Rust 02:08
2 Coast of Carolina 03:31
3 Tokyo 02:53
4 Look to the East 03:13
5 Awkward Kisser 01:44
6 Foreign Room 03:29
7 Great Lakes 02:53
8 Imaginary Friend 02:52
9 All of a Sudden 03:44
10 Calling All Doctors 03:02
11 I Saw Lightning 02:12
El disco saldrá el 7 de Abril, y en estas fechas también se editará un nuevo trabajo de bandas como Eulogies y Great Northern.
Información y escucha en Merge Records:
TELEKINESIS: A Factual, If Editorialized, Introduction
"Telekinesis is Michael Benjamin Lerner (drums, guitar & vocals) with Chris Staples (guitar), David Broecker (electric, acoustic & bass guitar), and Jonie Broecker (bass guitar & keyboards) joining him on tour. They all live in Seattle, WA. Telekinesis! (MRG344) was produced, engineered, and mixed by Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Tegan & Sara). Walla and Lerner tracked and mixed each of its songs to analog tape in a single day before moving on to the next song, with the ambitious goal of never over-thinking or sabotaging the spontaneous enthusiasm of the music."
It's such an impossible thing, at this funny little point in history, to not look back: We're recording every little thing with our cameras that make the little noise like cameras used to make; we're measuring our actual selves against our online selves with hopeful resignation; we're rendering and retouching the record of our lives at every turn. If it can be perfect then let's make it so, goes the wisdom of the moment.
To be fair, there's a certain convenience about perfection. It's easy to wear and see and swallow and enjoy, and it leaves the heart light. It's also totally boring. And though occasionally friendly and welcoming, literal perfection in pop music is never, ever awesome.
Which is where Telekinesis comes in. On record, Michael Lerner is the sole member of Telekinesis, more or less. He writes, sings and plays the songs. His love of Japan knows no bounds, though he's never been. He's a fantastic drummer and a fearless singer. And he does not look back willingly.
I mean, you can forcibly crane his head around in a pinch (mortal danger and Seinfeld reruns qualify). But Michael's songs are ridiculously immediate, and he delivers them with blinding velocity. His approach to music isn't unlike those spikes at the rental car place: Backing up deflates the tires, and not in a pleasant way.
It's reflected in Michael's writing, too, this philosophy of ever- forward motion. These are big-hearted songs, written quickly and from the gut. Telekinesis is the geography of dreams; a school year abroad; love letters from Liverpool coffee shops to the Carolina coastline and Tokyo and everywhere in between everywhere; a road trip waiting to happen. And it's absolutely perfect, but not because anyone went back to fix it. It just happened that way.
~Chris Walla, January 2009
Listado de canciones:
1 Rust 02:08
2 Coast of Carolina 03:31
3 Tokyo 02:53
4 Look to the East 03:13
5 Awkward Kisser 01:44
6 Foreign Room 03:29
7 Great Lakes 02:53
8 Imaginary Friend 02:52
9 All of a Sudden 03:44
10 Calling All Doctors 03:02
11 I Saw Lightning 02:12
lunes, 6 de octubre de 2008
Eulogies -"Tempted to Do Nothing" [EP]
Hoy sale a la venta el nuevo material de Eulogies, un EP con 4 canciones. La que cierra el trabajo te la puedes descargar gratis en su WEB.
(EP cover by Rory Wilson)
(7 oct 2008)
Track Listings
1. Bad Connection
2. Is There Anyone Here?
3. Tempted To Do Nothing
4. Two Can Play (MP3 mediafire)
Amazon.com:
Features songs from their upcoming full-length, slated for a spring 2009 release. The first three tracks are on the CD side and the fourth track (featuring Nikki Monninger of Silversun Pickups) is on the vinyl side.
(EP cover by Rory Wilson)
(7 oct 2008)
Track Listings
1. Bad Connection
2. Is There Anyone Here?
3. Tempted To Do Nothing
4. Two Can Play (MP3 mediafire)
Amazon.com:
Features songs from their upcoming full-length, slated for a spring 2009 release. The first three tracks are on the CD side and the fourth track (featuring Nikki Monninger of Silversun Pickups) is on the vinyl side.
sábado, 3 de noviembre de 2007
martes, 18 de septiembre de 2007
Eulogies
Banda descubierta hace unos días gracias a un email de Dangerbird. Actualmente están de gira junto a Film School,los cuales,por si no lo he dicho antes, también han sacado recientemente un nuevo trabajo. Entre los componentes de Eulogies está Peter Walker, al cual descubrí con su Young Gravity.
Rock
United States
WEB
MySpace
Componentes:
Tim Hutton:bass, backing vocals
Chris Reynolds:drums
Peter Walker:guitar, vocals, keyboards
Info recogida en su MySpace:
Storytelling is a universal human instinct. Biographies of the recently deceased are the saddest form of storytelling that most people will ever know. People are remarkably good at it. Even those prone to shyness or believing themselves mealy-mouthed find they can get their lips to move well enough to describe a few snapshots from the life of the dead.
Albums, like the various camera angles of the funeral eulogy, are like scenes of a movie. Albums are the writer's chance to tell a story ten times over, from ten different angles, to ten different melodies. Abundant is the creation and deferment of hope; innumerable questions of what keeps lovers apart; what keeps him from getting it together; why she screws up every time. A resourceful writer will rise and strike down hope constantly, put people out of love and into the acrid glare of lost trust a couple times; confess a dozen of his own sins while hiding behind the writer’s mask; take revenge on enemies, and so on. All the while, touching the brush to the canvas - as the pointillist does with stabs of color - dotting guitar chords, barroom piano hits, pump organ swells….
Eulogies' Peter Walker does just this on the band's debut collection. With his voice dipped in reverb, he gently reminds us of the pre-histrionic honesty of Elvis at Sun Studios. With Chris Reynolds' drums pulsating at his back, Tim Hutton's typewriter-like bass notes keeping things uncomplicated, Walker lays out his ten scenes.
"We're all swimming in the bottles of our own accord," he intones in "Can't Relate." Elsewhere, in "Under the Knife," he confesses "pleasure comes without control …I’m scared to love what death can touch." Another song, “Useless Amends” tells a lot in its title alone.
There’s a saying that a single artist is fine, but a group has genius. This is true of athletes and certainly of musicians. Eulogies, the band, was formed on the road, bombing around America in a late-model maroon Dodge van, supporting Starsailor.
On that tour, Walker (then the single artist) fused together with his backing musicians over the course of 30 shows in 40 days. They developed that unspoken musical trust that all great rock and roll bands must have. They became a band (the group, with its potential of genius) in any one of a hundred truck stops, dozens of late nights in motel rooms, in between telephone busy signals and botched driving directions, at sound checks and in dressing rooms. Upon returning to Los Angeles, they mixed together a group of chiseled songs that only these three could sink into so easily.
The songs they laid down in the studio, at the direction of Walker and co-producer Hrishikesh Hirway from The One AM Radio, and mixed by John Goodmanson, an intimate of Sleater-Kinney and Blonde Redhead, will be available this fall on Dangerbird Records.
-Eulogies (11 Sept 2007 - Dangerbird Records)
1. Inward
2. One Man
3. Life Boat
4. If I Knew You
5. Under the Knife
6. Can't Relate
7. Compromise
8. Running In the Rain
9. Useless Amends
10. Little Davie
11. Can't Relate
12. Big Eyes
13. Blizzard Ape
With his voice dipped in reverb, Peter Walker gently reminds us of the pre-histrionic honesty of Elvis at Sun Studios. With Chris Reynolds' drums pulsating at his back and Tim Hutton's typewriter-like bass notes keeping things uncomplicated, Walker lays out his thirteen scenes. "We're all swimming in the bottles of our own accord," he intones in "Can't Relate". Elsewhere, in "Under The Knife", he confesses, "pleasure comes without control...I'm scared to love what death can touch." Another song, "Useless Amends" tells a lot in its title alone. As in his previous recordings, his new compositions, while not noticeably somber musically, are imbued with an underlying darkness.-Amazon.com
Mix it up by Eulogies
Rock
United States
WEB
MySpace
Componentes:
Tim Hutton:bass, backing vocals
Chris Reynolds:drums
Peter Walker:guitar, vocals, keyboards
Info recogida en su MySpace:
Storytelling is a universal human instinct. Biographies of the recently deceased are the saddest form of storytelling that most people will ever know. People are remarkably good at it. Even those prone to shyness or believing themselves mealy-mouthed find they can get their lips to move well enough to describe a few snapshots from the life of the dead.
Albums, like the various camera angles of the funeral eulogy, are like scenes of a movie. Albums are the writer's chance to tell a story ten times over, from ten different angles, to ten different melodies. Abundant is the creation and deferment of hope; innumerable questions of what keeps lovers apart; what keeps him from getting it together; why she screws up every time. A resourceful writer will rise and strike down hope constantly, put people out of love and into the acrid glare of lost trust a couple times; confess a dozen of his own sins while hiding behind the writer’s mask; take revenge on enemies, and so on. All the while, touching the brush to the canvas - as the pointillist does with stabs of color - dotting guitar chords, barroom piano hits, pump organ swells….
Eulogies' Peter Walker does just this on the band's debut collection. With his voice dipped in reverb, he gently reminds us of the pre-histrionic honesty of Elvis at Sun Studios. With Chris Reynolds' drums pulsating at his back, Tim Hutton's typewriter-like bass notes keeping things uncomplicated, Walker lays out his ten scenes.
"We're all swimming in the bottles of our own accord," he intones in "Can't Relate." Elsewhere, in "Under the Knife," he confesses "pleasure comes without control …I’m scared to love what death can touch." Another song, “Useless Amends” tells a lot in its title alone.
There’s a saying that a single artist is fine, but a group has genius. This is true of athletes and certainly of musicians. Eulogies, the band, was formed on the road, bombing around America in a late-model maroon Dodge van, supporting Starsailor.
On that tour, Walker (then the single artist) fused together with his backing musicians over the course of 30 shows in 40 days. They developed that unspoken musical trust that all great rock and roll bands must have. They became a band (the group, with its potential of genius) in any one of a hundred truck stops, dozens of late nights in motel rooms, in between telephone busy signals and botched driving directions, at sound checks and in dressing rooms. Upon returning to Los Angeles, they mixed together a group of chiseled songs that only these three could sink into so easily.
The songs they laid down in the studio, at the direction of Walker and co-producer Hrishikesh Hirway from The One AM Radio, and mixed by John Goodmanson, an intimate of Sleater-Kinney and Blonde Redhead, will be available this fall on Dangerbird Records.
-Eulogies (11 Sept 2007 - Dangerbird Records)
1. Inward
2. One Man
3. Life Boat
4. If I Knew You
5. Under the Knife
6. Can't Relate
7. Compromise
8. Running In the Rain
9. Useless Amends
10. Little Davie
11. Can't Relate
12. Big Eyes
13. Blizzard Ape
With his voice dipped in reverb, Peter Walker gently reminds us of the pre-histrionic honesty of Elvis at Sun Studios. With Chris Reynolds' drums pulsating at his back and Tim Hutton's typewriter-like bass notes keeping things uncomplicated, Walker lays out his thirteen scenes. "We're all swimming in the bottles of our own accord," he intones in "Can't Relate". Elsewhere, in "Under The Knife", he confesses, "pleasure comes without control...I'm scared to love what death can touch." Another song, "Useless Amends" tells a lot in its title alone. As in his previous recordings, his new compositions, while not noticeably somber musically, are imbued with an underlying darkness.-Amazon.com
Mix it up by Eulogies
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