21.7.09
brand new song from Elika entitled "Already Know". enjoy...
Archway People next Monday(7/20) @ The Bell House
13.7.09
Archway People return next week in the front lounge of The Bell House spinning all your favorites, new and old...kicks off at 9PM
LMG exclusive... Jatun vinyl podcast
My friend Scott Worley of Jatun did an all vinyl podcast some months ago for a blog that ended up going under before it saw the light of day. LMG is honored to present it here for the first time...enjoy
Download parts 1 and 2 and the recording info here
pt 1:
- Stars Of The Lid - Requiem For Dying Mothers Part 1 and Part 2 - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid
- Hammock - Stranded Under An Endless Sky - Stranded Under An Endless Sky
- National Skyline - Some Will Say - This = Everything
- B.fleischmann - Sad Star - Sidone EP
- Ulrich Schnauss - Einfeld - Goodbye
- Manual - Stealing Thru - Isares
- Limp - City Speaks Tonight - Orion
- M83 - Teen Angst - Teen Angst Single
- Glowworm - Something Told Us That We Should Be Getting Home - Glowworm / Slyven 7" Split
- American Analog Set - The Green Green Grass - Set Free
- My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes - Loveless
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pt 2:
- Sun Ra - Onward - Interstaellar Low Ways (formerly: Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus)
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - The Lady's In Love With You - Vince Guaraldi Trio
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - Yesterdays - Jazz Impressions
- Thelonious Monk - Monk's Mood (with John Coltraine) - Thelonious Himself
- Radiohead - Pyramid Song - Amnesiac
- The Notwist - N.L. - Shrink
- 33.3 - Joanne Will - Plays Music
- Couch - Plan - Profane
- Alles Vie Gross - Gaststätte - Vertonung
- Barry Black - When Sharks Smell Blood - Tragic Animal Stories
- 13 & God - Superman On Ice - 13 & God
- Ms John Soda - I & 8217 (Ms John Soda works adapted by Subtle) - While Talking
Lawrence Chandler @ Make Music New York 2009
24.6.09
sadly the rain would not stay away and we had to move the whole thing to the Bellhouse at the last minute. it was very bittersweet.
this is an edit of Lawrence Chandler's beautiful 23 minute performance. it was shot by our friend Jason Banker. check out more of jason's film at www.jasonbanker.com
construction time again...
4.6.09
going to be making some changes to the blog layout, so if you see any weird posts please ignore...
Yuki
"Yuki is Gwynn Reitz, Rob Guernsey, Tony Reitz, and Jason Crews. Past alliances include (but are not limited to): Svetlana, Majhas, Turncoat Serenade, Lunar Event, Endive... Taking pages from Shoegaze, Dreampop, Britpop, Experimental, and Alternative music, Yuki is a poppy, jingle-jangly, band that incorporates soft male and female vocal harmonies juxtaposed with loud, crashing tones. Some of their influences include Slowdive, Low, Charlatans UK, My Bloody Valentine, The Field Mice, 14 Iced Bears, Leonard Cohen, The Jesus and Marychain, Brian Eno... They rarely leave their humble basement. They spend most of their time writing, recording, and collecting gear."
myspace
Kiln
"KILN construct radiantly textured soundfields that envelope and immerse the listener in a panoramic smudge of chromatic rhythms and syncopated tones."
for real...
amazing stuff...
myspace
web
listen to Airplaneshadows, which is on the Loveless/Seemless No. 5 mix
Loveless/Seamless No.5
3.6.09
Seekers Who Are Lovers(Remix) - Cocteau Twins
Courants Intimistes - Millimetrik
Underwater (Isan Mix) - Televise
Wish - Hammock
At The Seaside - Guitar
Time To Find Me(Come Inside) - Seefeel
Messages(BBC Session) - OMD
I Can See You(Fierce Panda Version) - Sing Sing
Circumstance - Real Cool Rain
Airplaneshadows - Kiln
download it here
Make Music New York, LMG Style, June 21st
12.5.09
Make Music New York, described by city officials as “one of the largest musical events in the city’s history,” returns for a third year of free concerts in public spaces throughout the five boroughs of New York City, all on Sunday, June 21st, the first day of summer. MMNY takes place simultaneously with similar festivities in more than 327 cities around the world — a global celebration of music making.
From 11 in the morning to 10 at night, musicians of all ages, creeds, and musical persuasions — from hip hop to opera, Latin jazz to punk rock — perform on streets, sidewalks, stoops, plazas, cemeteries, parks and gardens. From high school bands to marquee names, MMNY is open to anyone who wants to take part, enjoyed by everyone who wants to attend.
Loveless Music Group in conjunction with Deluxa, Self Storage Recordings, Hidden Shoal Recordings, Make Music New York and Time Out New York give to you...
and yes that is the Lawrence Chandler, formerly of Bowery Electric
By Night With Spear write up at Jezebel Music
from Jezebel Music
May 4, 2009
By Night With Spear
LOCAL SPOTLIGHT NYC
People know what is delivered to them – and what is delivered through the local scene seems, for the most part, to be larger indie acts that already have the driving PR wheels behind them. When it comes to the fresh, up-and-comers new bands, those that are selected to be in the spotlight always tend to amaze and befuddle the smaller community of musicians and promoters that often see their work turned a blind eye to.
One particular worthy new band, that delivers those resounding surges of springtime hope is By Night With Spear. Unfortunately, they will probably only come into the x-ray view of the few fortunate enough to stumble across them and appreciate their offerings.
Their name was inspired by the American artist, sculptor and avant-garde filmmaker, Joseph Cornell. His last film, the silent 9-minute, By Night with Torch and Spear, was produced in 1979 and explores the world of a steel foundry. It’s exactly this type of artistic inclination and exploration that inspires their current body of work. Heavily influenced by 80s post-punk and British new wave, this four-piece, fronted by the lovely Anaben, proves that their worth their weight in spirit. After initial ideas of the group were discussed around 2004, the band finally began performing out in legendary and now deceased LES venue The Continental. With a recent show at Santos Party House with Longview and Dead Leaf Echo, and a current signing with Self-Storage Recordings (who plans to release their first two EPs), By Night With Spear will undoubtedly make an indelible impact upon those listeners that prefer their drops of beauty mixed equally with majestic power.
By Night With Spear will be performing at the outdoor music festival Make Music Make New York at Deluxa on Sunday June 21st.
by Gordon Sharp
The LMG Monthy kicks off this Thursday (4/23)
21.4.09
things kick off this thursday with a the sharp little 2 band bill of Luxa and Telltale.
Telltale...
Brooklyn’s Telltale showcases an intriguing mix of experimental no-wave, reverb-soaked post-punk, and dark shoegaze. Featuring Eric Gilstrap, Laurie Ruroden, Stephan Cherkashin, and Lauren Andino, the quartet's ear-splitting washes of guitar feedback, deadpan chants and ominous droning wastelands doesn't so much blanket you as it does envelop you, overpowering you with Sonic Youth caterwauls and JAMC-esque walls of sound. The music churns in a slow burn, awash in effects, but there’s an aggression lurking just beneath the surface that maintains an uneasy atmosphere. There’s also a healthy dose of reverb to help wash down all the gauzy noise... "This will destroy you... and you will love every second of it." -The Free Times
Luxa
Luxa has a dim relation to the newer offshoot genres of shoegaze, but enters greater landscapes with a volatile adventurism and a new kind of dynamism in its swirling beauty. raw and tender. complex and simple. consumable and out of reach.
doors at 7PM show starts at 8
coming up at The LMG Monthly
May 21st
Aarktica, Luxa, Millimetrik + more
w/ DJ Mark Van Hoen(Seefeel, Locust)
June 18th
Project Skyward, Himalaya + More TBA
Interview with Sergey Soukas of Slow
16.4.09
translated from here
Slow - ambient-project of Sergey Suokasa
Author: Bulat Sharipov
Before the speech at a Moscow club young musician of Karelia Sergey Suokas 44100Hz tells about how his music a career, than the difference between copyright and Projects Slow Suokas, role of Scandinavia in his work in Sweden and why so many suicides ...
44100Hz: Recently, the name of one of your projects, Suokas, often can be seen on posters big techno-festivals and apples plates known labels, such as, for example, Multivitamins. Have you had hoped for such a development a couple-three years ago?
Sergey: I do not think that everything turns. Just wanted to write music. And then happily coincided circumstances.
44100Hz: What?
Sergey: It is not only creative but also life in general. For example, I went to work with the firm intention to deal only with music, although this has not been a single statement. And suddenly I began to invite me to clubs. In parallel, a lot of events happened in his personal life that have consistently not allowed to relax.
44100Hz: So now you are not doing anything except music?
Sergey: Yes, the music and just a pleasant thing.
44100Hz: How do you allocate time among their projects - Suokas and Slow?
Sergey: It happens spontaneously. Sometimes, like vyplesnut energy into the music, then this is techno, Suokas. When you want to relax, look at life more broadly, beyond time, it Slow.
44100Hz: Slow - this is meditation?
Sergey: Both meditation, in a sense. But Slow, of course, more profound.And sincere.
44100Hz: sincere in the sense that you want to do it this music?
Sergey: I try to put the sincerity of both projects. In Suokas more power, shaman dance. This music is suitable for танцпола when people are staying together. Mass meditation, in other words. A Slow - solitary. Therefore, it must get more deeply.
44100Hz: If Suokas - this is music for the big events, what a place is suitable for Slow?
Sergey: We played ambient in a cinema with the guys from Norway, it was great. It was the soundtrack to the film nemomu 1926-year "Mother" Vsevolod Pudovkin. In the winter we are Mental Overdrive and his wife Aggie during the week working in a studio in Tromso in the north. Future autumn, we plan to make several more times in Norway and in the next year - in Russia.
44100Hz: Do you have a special relationship with Scandinavia. For example, a lot of the tracks named after the Scandinavian cities.Why?
Sergey: Honestly, I do not know ... This is a secret relationship. Maybe Scandinavians perceive Karelia as part Ckandinavii and are looking for people who are close to them in spirit.
44100Hz: Clushaya Finns like Vladislava Dileya, or Swedes, like Fever Ray, you might think that the cold and the dark polar night correspondingly affect the mental state of people living there. On the other hand, there is a nude disco and balearik in which the Swedes succeed. Perhaps the reason that - nostalgia for the spa heat?
Sergey: I think everything is very individual. Swedes - the master copy, can make beautiful, fashionable, but their music little individuality.
44100Hz: Nevertheless, Sweden can now claim to be a major country music, judging by the number of projects, which at the time of becoming successful.
Sergey: Yes, they were always ahead.
44100Hz: Thanks plagiarism?
Sergey: Rather, the State, which cares for its people. In Swedish with children a lot of opportunities to grow in different directions.
44100Hz: Why, then, is the highest number of suicides?
Sergey: Because there is no fire, bored. And the Finns are just frozen people.
44100Hz: How do you think of the suicide and the desire to create a roots music? In addition to boredom?
Sergey: I know that in a state of despair is very good and great music, go out and hidden deep within the emotions. You zlishsya, for example, or offended, or very sad. In all of this creativity can be released. Especially in the technology. In the percussion takes aggression. In psychedelia and events happening in the background meditation. And in principle, constant repetition is something divine.
44100Hz: For people who listen to, this principle works in the same direction, or vice versa? They are charged or discharged?
Sergey: On the dance floor is - the exchange of energy, and in the process of creating the track - an emotional discharge. Music is seen as a language.People are meditating in a dance with me, and the exchange occurs between the aggression, which are released in the dance.
44100Hz: Project Slow - What are the emotions he goes?
Sergey: Emotions are different: love, sadness, fear. But they did not play a major role as a filter. The more I manage to convey infinity, wisdom, so I am more than happy track. Most importantly - it is the inner harmony and purity, openness, honesty, intuition. Often most of the problems, especially in the works, due to the fact that too much thinking. And intuition is helping to set up and do the right steps. You intuitively feel the music, and from this it becomes even more music. Because the language of feelings in the music dominates.
44100Hz: Tell me about the next steps the project Slow. What we hear in "Shanti" on your statement?
Sergei: There is something to load and may be a bit flashy. The fact that in April will be released as an album of "Sealand". This is my first official album.I would be happy to be free to put his music on the site. But someone is doing better than me. With their help, more people will hear it.
myspace.com / slowartist
Shanti, 22 April
Myasnitskaya proezd, 2 / 1
Start: 20:00
Live: Slow
DJ: Anrilov, Khz
Admission: free
his album Sealand with be available in May from Self Storage Recordings
