tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48812787013024662042024-03-13T02:42:26.515+00:00toby ravesprogressive music blogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881278701302466204.post-56786256989708911172012-04-05T18:12:00.003+01:002012-04-05T18:12:26.816+01:00hiatusthis blog is on hiatus.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881278701302466204.post-2086934477318139952012-04-03T06:00:00.000+01:002012-04-03T06:00:04.620+01:00brand new ghosting season,same hi quality.<br />
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Message to Bears is multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander.
He has recently released a new album, Folding Leaves, and it’s fucking great. It’s an album
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I can’t recommend it enough. So what’s it about. </div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #080808;">The loose theme
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<span style="background: white;">I did sense that element of
travel/travelling on the album, so I asked him a question about where the most
beautiful place he had visited was. (Though with such an intriguing answer I
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<span style="background: white; color: #080808;">Probably the Iguazu waterfalls in Brazil, absolutely
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<span style="background: white;">I’m gonna try and catch a
live offering when it roles in to town because the sound is so intriguing. I
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<span style="background: white; color: #080808;">The live show
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night bus sound. Here’s what he said when I asked him to describe the music: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not sure how I'd describe my music to be honest, it's been described in a few
bizarre ways before, like 'slowcore' and 'night bus' but I don't even know what
they mean, let alone agree. I don't want to come across as being pretentious,
but I don't think it's healthy to pigeon hole music either to be honest,
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in my tracks are things that I've stumbled upon and have ended up being exactly
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Been writing for <u><a href="http://thefourohfive.com/" target="_blank">the 405</a></u> recently, here's what I wrote, or at least the start, go to the site to read the whole thing.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Music is invariably about what you hear not what you see, right? Yes. But the visuals deserve our attention too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are many songs which people have been utterly dismissive off at first, perhaps they were too loud or too quiet to grab our attention - but when a video is added, and it’s good enough to grab your attention again and again, the song and the band all of a sudden become noteworthy (I for one became a fan of Health and the xx through their videos).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every few weeks I’ll be interviewing music directors, taking a closer look at their work and seeing where they get the inspiration from when it comes to putting together visual representations of our favourite songs.</span></div>
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I especially like the commentary that goes with this one. Enjoy.<br />
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artist Robin Warren-Adamson. He’s just released his second EP, The Woods. </span><span style="color: #666666;">Lyrically this is a great
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fictional, but I think you always use your own biography to access the feelings you're trying to write about, even if they're made up. I'm really
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Not necessarily likeable characters. Sort of trying to push the way in
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vehicle to express these ideas. Add some electronics and I’m there. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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pointless. I think people tend to fetishize certain elements that you associate
with a genre, in the case of folk, acoustic instruments, voice, intimacy, small
environments etc. but I find them to be a bit exclusionary. I don't know,
depends on each artist I suppose, as to how they come across best. I don't
consider myself to be 'folk' and I don't really care about being considered
within that framework. If folk is just 'music of the people' then numbers
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4881278701302466204.post-45054118804601269532012-01-20T23:24:00.000+00:002012-01-20T23:27:24.094+00:00yellow ostrichMy favourite diy pop music project from late 2010, early 2011 is back with a new album, Strange Land. the observant among you will notice there's a more of an amplifed guitar sound here. <br />
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It's out, March 6.<br />
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Here's the first song you can here off the album, Marathon Runner. <u><a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/first-spin-download-yellow-ostrichs-marathon-runner">Free download here</a></u>.<br />
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<u><a href="http://tobyraves.blogspot.com/2011/07/halls.html">His style of rhythmic ambience is clear to hear - there's great haunting vocals to accompany as well. I'm enjoying listening to this and you will too. Enjoy. </a></u><br />
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Thought I would share, in case your a kid and haven't heard before. By Concious, it's called Heartless.<br />
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For a more chilled ride, go to Soundcloud and listen to 528hz. Enjoy.<br />
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Cloudkicker song. Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Cloudkicker's music is a mix of ambient and post-rock and the result is some inventive music.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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references I’ve cobbled together this image of Ohio being a place where they
grow corn and decide who the Democratic nominee is going to be. But seriously, if you live in Ohio and make great music what
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different music, and that's probably the number one thing. Sometimes I'll get a
song or album or something in my head for days at a time and be compelled to
explore that just to get it out of my head. </span></div>
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or project I interject a fair amount from whatever is going on around me or
whatever I have bouncing around in my head. To me, writing music is as much
about communication as writing a book would be, I just feel like I'm better at
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<b>Brontide - Coloured Tongues</b><br />
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<b>Christina Vantzou - Homemade Mountains</b><br />
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<u><a href="http://tobyraves.blogspot.com/2011/07/sima.html">You heard Sima back in July and since then...</a></u><br />
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Brought out an album hot on the heels of Texture. Called it Softness. Yet another apt title, the physical copies have sold out. You can by it on Bandcamp and at the price it's being sold at I suggest you do.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">As this year starts to close, I thought I should just let people know what I’m up to. Throughout this year I’ve been writing and recording for a second album, it’s quite a large number of songs actually and while I’m still deciding exactly what to do with them all, expect an album first half of 2012.<span id="more-188"></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you missed them, I put out two releases this year, Paper Trumpets was a double single on 7″ & digital, also a film score album called All That Glitters, which is free to download. Right now I’m feeling pretty excited about making music in the year to come, thanks to anyone that’s listened already. x</span></i></div>
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