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- Shimmering Stars - Ghosts Past EP
Shimmering Stars - When I See You Again by AlmostMusique
"Jason Molina's music has been a constant source of inspiration for me and for countless others. His songs tap into something dark, beautiful, and eternal. He is a musician in the truest sense of the word - someone who puts their entire heart and soul into their craft. Almost Musique and I had discussed covering 'Hold On Magnolia' some time ago, but after reading about Jason's current personal and financial struggles we decided to release this 7" as a show of appreciation and admiration for Jason. We're going to donate 10% of the proceeds of this 7" to the Jason Molina Medical Fund. It's not a huge amount of money but we hope that our humble offering will help Jason on his road to recovery, which we are certain he will find. It's fitting that 'Hold On Magnolia' is a song about redemption. You can show your support by sending well wishes and personal donations to:
Jason Molina
c/o Ashley Lawson
4632 Quincy Adams
Ct. Lorain, OH 44053
USAThe original songs on this 7" represent a turning point for the band. 'Slaves' is an older song that speaks to some of the more familiar Shimmering Stars themes: heartache, alienation, anxiety, and fear. 'When I See You Again' is a departure both thematically and otherwise. It is a song of redemption and hope, and reaches for something bigger than our earlier material. Also, we left the garage for an actual studio to record this song, which represents another significant turning point for the band." Rory McClure
PRE-ORDERShimmering Stars - Ghosts Past EP 7" vinyl
release date - March 5th 2012
5€ - prices below include shipping costs- Mariee Sioux - Gift for the End
Mariee Sioux - Ghosts in my Heart by AlmostMusique`
Gift for the End, Mariee Sioux’s new album, draws its benevolent psychedelia on the native folk roots: a canyon crisscrossed by paths leading Joni Mitchell’s, Neil Young’s and Bonnie Prince Billy’s souls into a deep world music, mystical and ancestral, either from America or from elsewhere.
Since the release of her debut album Faces in the Rocks, the young californian girl from Nevada City toured a lot - sometimes with her homie Alela Diane or Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star) -, in the US and in Europe, she also participated in tribute albums to The Cure (Perfect as Cat, released on Manimal Vinyl Records) and to Graham Nash (Be Yourself on Grass Roots Records/Coop) and recorded several tracks
in duo with Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy) to be released this year.
Gift for the End was recorded between April 2010 and August 2011 in Placerville’s Moonsoon Studios and in the Nevada City’s Sun Dial studios. Mariee Sioux added intricate melodies to her traditional guitar picking, combining the most classical and the less conventional instruments, allowing herself a wider personal and emotional exploration. As compared to Faces in the Rocks’s consistency and uniformity, Gift for the End offers a large variety of sounds, universes and themes, the one about native Americans, as symbolized by traditional flutes, being more discreet.
The guest musicians are familiar and necessary, Sean Kae’s arrangements and production sometimes treat the traditional folk instruments in a hallucinogenic way: a subtle carpet of percussions, vocal harmonies, ghostly sounds features allowing to link the tracks together and to weld them into a single block of different crystals electric americana riffs ("Tule"), delicate strokes of Wurlitzer ("Icarus Eye"), classical
piano tracks ("Old Magic"), new age analogic landscapes ("White Fanged Foreverness"), country western atmosphere ("Twin Song"), or English psyche folk ("Homeopathic", "Ghost in my Heart").
Gift for the End is a mineral album. It also brings to mind Enya, Linda Perhacs, Townes Van Zandt, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Pentangle, Jackson Browne...PRE ORDER
Mariee Sioux - Gift for the End
Release date - March 5th
CD (digisleeve) ALMST05
Vinyl ALMST05LP
- hhappiness - bananas ep
hhappiness - all kinds of trouble by AlmostMusique
Sunlight, Serotonin, Synthesis, Happiness. In 2008 a group of Stockholm bred music aficionados found sound together, and created their own musical outfit called Hhappiness. Amongst the trails of their three years as a band they have recorded and thrown away a record, rotated instruments a handful of times, picked up an H along the way, and shared the stage with the likes of Deerhoof, Ganglians, Wavves and Shout Out Louds.
So what do these four multi-instrumentalist existentialists choose without drowning in the sea of choice? Minimize, experiment, and capture on your own. Hhappiness present you with their first official release, a 7” record released via Almost Musique. Expect much more from these songs a day souls.
a1- all kinds of troubles
a2- bananas
b- right as rain
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hhappiness - bananas ep 7" vinyl
release date - February 14th
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- Arlt "Le Pistolet / Chien Mort, Mi Amor"
La musique d’Arlt est une langue. Ce mot constituait d’ailleurs le titre fort judicieux du premier album enregistré par le duo, épaulé à l’époque par des cousins d’idiolecte, Bertrand Belin et surtout Mocke (du groupe Holden). "La Langue" contenait déjà (ou plutôt, ne contenait déjà plus) l’envie d’un langage nouveau, d’une approche différente de l’écriture: des mélodies à la beauté errante, un français étrange(r), une guitare rythmique à la fois virtuose et déglinguée, et un chant, le fameux chant double d’Eloïse Decazes et Sing Sing, que l’on pourrait aisément qualifier de possédé. Il serait tout aussi juste de parler d’un chant possédant. Voire encore plus aujourd’hui, avec ces deux nouvelles chansons.
"Le Pistolet" et "Chien Mort, Mi Amor" annoncent un prochain album qui pourra s’intituler "La Langue Tirée": un disque de sale gosse, qui choisit de n’être plus sage (le fût-il un jour), de casser les filtres. Le virage est électrisé: même toujours caractérisées par un certain minimalisme, les guitares de Sing Sing (entremêlées à celle du camarade de jeu Mocke et enregistrées en une ou deux prises) prennent des libertés, de la liberté, un ton plus punk, "plus rock n'roll en tout cas, et nourri par les écoutes de musiques ethniques, de free-jazz, de pop déviante, etc."
La partie finale de "Chien Mort, Mi Amor" est une petite aventure en soi. Après cette chanson ahurie d’enfant terrible, aux nerfs apparents, Arlt entre dans une transe dont on sent qu’il refuse de connaître la sortie, volontairement, effrontément, armé d’un pistolet manifestement bien chargé. Pas de poncif sur la prise de substances (on aura compris que c’est à la musique qu’Arlt se shoote): Arlt a replongé et pris de la substance, du contenu, décrochant cette fois-ci encore plus d’immédiateté.
Classez ce 45 tours dans la catégorie « art brut musical ». Ecoutez Sing Sing et Eloïse transformer le "warm gun" de Lennon en "Tu m’as pris pour un pistolet". "Nous voilà à terre, mi amor", chantent-ils également, à l’unisson, produisant une musique à la fois sexuelle et ludique.
Mickaël Mottet
Arlt's music is a language. Incidentally, the duet's first album was entitled "La Langue". Holden's Mocke, an Alrt-dialect speaker himself, took part in that album, which already contained (or should I say, could no longer contain) the will to reach a new form of language, a new way of writing words. You can sense that in the rootless beauty of their melodies, their strange use of the French language, and virtuoso/broken rhythm guitars. Besides, Eloïse Decazes and Sing Sing's vocals do not sound like anything else. You could call their voices possessed; unless it works the other way round. Their songs are actually possessed by their vocals, especially these two new ones.
As "Le Pistolet" and "Chien Mort, Mi Amor" show, the tongue in Alrt's next record could well be stuck out. Problem children Arlt have stopped behaving (have they ever?) and torn the castle apart. They have gone electric, too. Sing Sing and Mocke's guitars, recorded in one or two takes only, still sound quite minimalistic, but they are now taking liberties, and regaining their freedom. Punk rock is in the air, rock 'n' roll too, fueled by ethnic music, free jazz, deviant pop music, etc.
The last part of "Chien Mort, Mi Amor" is one small adventure in itself. As the stunned/stunning tune is almost over, Alrt goes into a trance, willingly throwing the map out the window. This is not music to take drugs to - musicis the drug. Arlt wouldn't go to rehab; they have even more substance, more immediacy.
File their new 7" in 'Musical Art Brut'. Listen to Sing Sing and Eloïse turn Lennon's "Warm Gun" into "Tu m'as pris pour un pistolet" (you took me for a gun). They also sing in unison, "Nous voilà à terre, mi amor" (here we are on the floor, mi amor), making music both sexual and playful.
Mickaël Mottet
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Arlt "Le Pistolet / Chien Mort, Mi Amor"
7" vinyl
Release date November 14th
5€
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