s. f., gravilha@gmail.com

terça-feira, abril 28, 2009

Flying Around Was Impossible


Perante a escassa informação disponivel e a felicidade de uns curtos dias sem acesso à rede, perguntei-me se não seria mesmo o Lou Barlow a gozar connosco; até podia ser, mas o instrumental não deixa mentir. E mais que o nome, a música é memorável.
Eye was an ion EP.
Spread the word.

quinta-feira, abril 09, 2009

Spy in the House of Memories

Sholi is an indie/alternative/experimental group that originated in Davis, California, and now has members dispersed throughout the Bay Area. The members include primary songwriter Payam Bavafa, drummer Jonathon Bafus, and bassist Eric Ruud. In the Autumn of 2008, Sholi signed to Quarterstick / Touch and Go Records. Their full-length debut, produced with Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, was released on February 17, 2009.

Feitas as apresentações acrescente-se em jeito de síntese redutora que são uma espécie de Deerhoof-instrumentais-menos-cubistas-de-voz-Malkmus-e-espírito-pop-a-la-Shins. E que o disco é fantástico, extraordinário, memorável, imperdível, etc.
Mais informações aqui. A cover é do michael aghajanian, que faz fotografias muito interessantes.

quarta-feira, abril 08, 2009

When They First Saw the Floating World

Mais de 10 anos depois, continua a soar tão fresco e único como se tivesse sido ontem; resultado do génio, pesquisa e trabalho árduo de Josh e Mischo McKay e Kai Riedl acerca da música tradicional de Java, Sumatra, Bali, aqui cruzada com o indie-rock com que Athens, Georgia lhes marcou os genes e transfigurada em moldes que se adivinham feitos por alguns dos mestres do post-rock de Chicago.

Não seria este um diário honesto sem que Masha dos Masha, album que me absorveu Março quase todo, levasse com um sublinhado do tamanho da Lua.

sábado, abril 04, 2009

Hunting Without Heads


Ready archivists of existence, the members of Miracles throw their bodies into nature’s cycle of collapse and renewal. Dirty bass, overdriven keyboards, sparse vocals and maniac drums try to compete with the crash and clatter of human fortunes and failures.
After ten plus years of periodic collaboration on poetry, art and music projects, Adam Stolorow (vocals, keyboards) and Baxter Holland (bass) arrived in Brooklyn by way of late 90’s Providence and the requisite diet of utopian thinking and freak flag waving. What started in Chicago as an experimental ripple of drums, cheap keyboards and onstage loops between Stolorow and drummer Matthew Berland in 2004 became a focused vibrational wave by the time it reached the coast. Increasingly, the Miracles sound threatens to burst living through the brick and asphalt of the metropolis.
With the addition of Chicago transplant Gabriel Fowler on drums in 2006, the re-formed trio went almost immediately into New York’s legendary and now defunct Funcity studio to record “Pioneers” with producer Wharton Tiers (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Unrest), which the band self-released as a limited edition silkscreened 12” in 2007. The Funcity session was followed by visits to Brooklyn’s Civil Defense studio, where the band recorded Colony Collapse (Creative Capitalism) with Jeremy Scott in 2007 and 2008. Fowler left the band in 2008 to pursue other projects and Amanda Huron (Vertebrates, DC) has since rotated into the mix.
Miracles work in skyscrapers but worship like beasts.

Shipping News-Post-Punk, boa poesia. A não perder.