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An exploration of lo-fi ambient music, tape noise and distortion and atmospheric soundscapes.
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Watch for review in a future posting. --Reviewed by Bryan Baker .
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Visit Bing Satellites
Bandcamp URL: https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/lo-fi-ambient-works
This tape consists of previously released material, condensed for Al's SOP label. A pretty fair electronic excursion, but rather unmemorable. There's some nice subtlety here and there, and a little grappling with peaks. Good for background-- and that's probably the whole point.
The cassette album is still available from Sound of Pig via the link below.
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Sound of Pig Catalog (see SOP 238)
As Clevescene wrote in 2004, The Faint of Heart leading man, Cleft S, doesn't sing as much as he talks in key. Kiss & Make-up is full of doo-wop hooks and jilted humor. Acoustic guitar and 3-part grrl harmonies. And a lot of tasty stuff for the ears, glockenspiel, organ, etc. Reportedly there was a followup recorded shortly after this one called Let's Do It! Where can I find it?
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May 14, 2004
RE: Anything Go Review for Better Off Red
To Whom It May Concern:
Enclosed please find a promo kit for my band, Better Off Red, complete with a copy of our current EP release, Anything Go. We are a four-piece rock band based in Los Angeles, trying to move our market to a national audience. We would greatly appreciate your taking the time to listen to our album or a few of its tracks and to include a review on your website.
You may find additional information about Better Off Red and Anything Go on our website at www.betteroffredmusic.com. The CD may be purchased through our band's site or at www.cdstreet.com/artists/betteroffred. Samples of our music, for online preview, are available at both sites, as well.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions at xxx-xxx-xxxx or via email at jeremy@betteroffredmusic.com. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Park Better Off Red
CD price: $8
This band appears to have come on with a flash and died as there is little to find online except for digital crumbs on the wayback machine consisting of a number of tour dates at circuit clubs around their home state of California.
anything go is a solid heavy, riff-packed grunge debut typical of this era.
Check the gallery here for scans of everything in the envelope. Let me know if you know anything more about these guys.
Wait is a haunting album of stark piano and vocals with industrial-type guitar and bass and percussion. I don't think I've heard anything quite like this combination of influences and textures. Johnson's classically trained voice belongs in theatrical productions and you hear that here. His piano is laid bare at many points and you hear its harmonics singing; it's really quite beautiful. You have to give Wait your full attention. I love it.
This CD came to GAJOOB around 2003. I received A LOT of mail back in the day and couldn't get to all of it, but I'm still trying, for what it's worth. And this is one of those albums that make it worth while. The sound remains fresh for me, due to the interesting arrangements of acoustic guitars, cello and flute. Genji Nakano's songs have a happy spirit and paint pictures of characters I get to know through the lyrics. Drummer Larry Boodman propels these songs with both a driving rhythm and funk and a perfect lighter touch whenever it matters; always.
I'm discovering new music after it's prime with these boxes of unopened submissions. Four Way Free toured for a decade. You'll find a short live set at the Hard Rock Cafe linked here . It appears that three of the members are teachers. Cellist Peter McCafferey plays in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Boodman runs a School of Rock in Huntington Beach. It seems music is still their gasoline for life's fire.
Wolfgang Dorninger of Monochrome Bleu, Josef K Noyce, The Smiling Buddhas will perform his entire catalog during a 24-hour streaming event from Sonic Sound Studio in Linz, Austria.
During the performance, NFTs of music and studio items will be created and made available.
Tickets to the event as well as post-streaming access are being sold in advance of the show.
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Carl Kruger CHEFKIRK - chefkirk.bandcamp.com Console Jammer - Fumbata Phiri - linktr.ee/fumbata Gintas K - gintask.puslapiai.lt mhzesent NRZK odd person - oddperson.bandcamp.com sadfem - sadfem.bandcamp.com Stormhat Sylvia_Din - soundcloud.com/sylviadin vÄäristymä - vaaristyma.surge.sh Yu Hein - twitter.com/Ninelo_ compiled and mastered by Travis D. Johnson cover art by Neal D. Retke panpanpanaviandistresscall.bandcamp.com
REVIEW:
I highly recommend this volume of tracks collected by Poverty Electronics, a netlabel dedicated to experimental and electronic music of all kinds. It's a diverse collection of music from ambient electronic pieces to noise that plays well to my ears, always hungry for new directions. This one will take you there. Go get it at a price of your choosing. --Reviewed by Bryan Baker .
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Bandcamp URL: https://povertyelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/poverty-electronics-vol-9
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Bandcamp URL: https://sockpuppet.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-substance