Sietse schreef:
was voor mij dus ook een nieuwtje dat met gisteren binnen kwam. Stond in de Boomkat nieuwsbrief.

sxesven schreef:
Die Beirut plaat klinkt veelbelovend!

cichlisuite schreef:
Pub - Legless (ampoule) 14/05/2006

Marsen jules - les Fleurs (cco) 12/06/2006

Helios - Eingya (type) 15/06/2006

Sietse schreef:
das een re-release, John had het daar al een keer over.
Ik weet zeker dat ik die ga kopen, want dat is echt een hele mooi split.

Gather 'round the dinner table, kids, 'cause it's time for a little Akron/Family meeting, and there's news to share! The band has just announced that they're preparing a new album, titled Meek Warrior, on Young God this September. Recorded primarily at Chicago's Shappe Shoppe, the forthcoming LP was produced by Akron/Family and Michael Gira, and engineered by Griffin Rodriguez (Need New Body, Icy Demons, Bablicon), who also plays bass on one song, "No Space in This Realm". The band also spent a day recording in Toronto with their bros from Do Make Say Think/Broken Social Scene.

The album will feature songs mostly written on the road, "in the van the few weeks prior to the studio time, while we were all freezing in the wintery hinderlands of middle Canada, wheezing with bronchitis," according to Family man Seth Olinsky.

The Chicago location presented Akron/Family with the unique opportunity to collaborate with legendary free jazz percussionist Hamid Drake. Drake, said Olinsky, was "a total dream and pleasure" to work with in the studio, as he helped "bring the music to life." Charles Waters of the Gold Sparkle Band and William Parker's Little Huey Creative Orchestra also contributed saxophone and clarinet solos to the album.

The band aims to hold a record release party at the end of September at Tonic in New York City, followed by an appearance at the Pop Montreal Festival in, uh, Montreal, as well as a few other dates in Canada. A West Coast tour is on the agenda for December, as is the recording of yet another new album in October in November. As they say, the family that plays together, stays together.

bubbachups schreef:

Yep, originele is uitgekomen op 267 lattajjaa, nog gewoon verkrijgbaar volgens de site. Zat zelf nog te twijfelen of ik de originele zou nemen of de heruitgave, maar ik vind de hoes van Type wel erg tof.

Overigens is het wel onmogelijk om al die labels een beetje bij te houden zeg. 267 lattajjaa, celebrate shop phenomenon, Ikuisuus, Foxglove, Digital Industries, musicyourmindwillloveyou, enz. Ik hoop altijd maar ik de krenten uit de pap kan halen, maar ik heb toch altijd het gevoel dat ik dingen mis.

Nieuwe/aankomende releases die in ieder geval al in bestelling staan of die ik komende week in bestelling doe, zijn:
Acid Mothers Temple - Have You Seen the Other Side of the Sky? (Ace Fu Records)
Ashtray Navigations - Four More Raga Moods (Ikuisuus)
Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals (ATP)
Helios - Eingya (Type)
Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs (City Centre Offices)
The North Sea & Rameses III - Night Of The Ankou (Type)
Plotkin/Wyskida - 8 improvisations (Archive)
Six Organs Of Admittance - The Sun Awakens (Drag City)

En verder hoop ik maar dat ik niets over het hoofd zie.

Arcade Fire Spill Droplets of Album Info


So many bands have appeared on the scene since Arcade Fire released Funeral at the end of 2004 that the album almost seems like ancient history. Remember the days before Beirut, before Tapes ‘n Tapes, before even Clap Your Hands Say Yeah? What a looong time ago.

Fortunately, it's summer, which means it's time to toss the history books out the window and take a dive into the sea of hype. And add a few more drops to that sea, because Win Butler has given us precious little information on the follow-up to Funeral.

In a journal entry on the band's beautiful but thoroughly confusing website (hint: go to "Win's Scrapbook"), Butler gave a progress report saying things are going well in the studio and that the band members are expanding their musical palettes:

"Feeling excited and inspired, learning to play all these new instruments... well, mostly Regine is, to be honest! It's gonna be really interesting how we're going to fit all of these new sounds in a tour bus. This week we are recording a huge fucking pipe organ on 2 songs. What an incredible sound!"

Butler said the band have laid about 15 tracks to tape "with little bits left to record," but there are still a couple more left, with "a couple of songs in me and Regine's living room, because the drums sound so great in there."

Owen Pallett, a.k.a. Final Fantasy, will take a small break from his touring schedule in July to play violin on the currently-untitled record, and there are also plans to record with "a full orchestra in Budapest just before Tim [Kingsbury] and Natalie's wedding in late July!" Wedding?! Sounds like the next album title right there.

Tzadik schreef:
De nieuwe Mars Volta is onderweg! De titel is Amputechture, de tracklist:


1. VICARIOUS ATONEMENT
2. TETRAGRAMMATON
3. VERMICIDE
4. MECCAMPUTECHTURE
5. ASILOS MAGDALENA
6. VISCERA EYES
7. DAY OF THE BAPHOMETS
8. EL CIERVO VULNERADO

Qua vage titels is er niets veranderd, zo blijkt. Waarschijnlijk wel weer wat kortere nummers, Frances the Mute had maar vijf tracks.
En de artiest die de cover gaat ontwerpen is ook bekend:


http://www.jeffjordanart.com/

bubbachups schreef:
Even wat aankomende releases op een rijtje:

Jason Molina - Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go (22 augustus)
Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails (12 september)
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force (12 september)
Bonnie Prince Billy - Then The Letting Go (19 september)
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet (16 oktober)

It's always nice when we actually have news to report. To begin with, we can now say that we have completely finished writing our next album. It has six songs, ranging from three to thirteen minutes each. The artwork, again by Esteban Rey, is also nearly finished. In August, we will be going to Minnesota to record the album with John Congleton, and if all goes well, we're hoping to release the album in February. Then we will re-discover our van and begin touring.