pilole 2016 giugno/agosto

GIUGNO 2016	AGOSTO 2016
BEN LUKAS BOYSEN "Spells" Born in 1981 as the third child of opera singer Deirdre Boysen and actor Claus Boysen, his classical music training on piano and guitar began when he was seven years old; the works of Bruckner, Wagner and Bach laid an important foundation. Rediscovering this music shared with his parents, united with the sounds of Autechre, Cristian Vogel and Jiri.Ceiver to Pink Floyd and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, brought back an understanding of why he wanted to write music in the first place. [ file under: contemporary ]		AMAZING "Ambulance" Christoffer Gunrup, The Amazing’s lead singer, songwriter and one of the band’s three lead guitarists, is known for his reluctance to talk about his process. He prefers to let the music speak for itself. On Ambulance, the Swedish band continues their journey to a place where music is free of restrictions, offering up another collection of densely concentrated melodies and fractured rhythms. [ file under: indie'gaze ]
CASE/LANG/VEIRS "S/t" case/lang/veirs is a one-of-a-kind event from three phenomenal, self-driven artists: avant-rock icon Neko Case, legendary musical nomad k.d. lang, and indie folk star Laura Veirs. The women wrote all 14 songs and shared lead vocals equally, sometimes even within the same track. Full of stunning harmonies and spellbinding rhythms, case/lang/veirs travels through aches and eras, torch songs and tributes to the undersung. [ file under: it's a woman's world ]		AVALANCHES "Wildflower" Wildflower is the second studio album by Australian electronic music group the Avalanches. It was first released for streaming on Apple Music on 1 July 2016, and saw a full release a week later on 8 July. The album features multiple guest collaborators providing vocals and live instrumentation across its 21 tracks. Wildflower also features extensive sampling, especially from 1960s psychedelic music and relates to the era through themes of counterculture and anti-establishment. The album's structure as a road trip from a hyperrealistic urban environment to somewhere remote and far away while on LSD. [ file under: plunderphonics ]
CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM "The monolith of phobos" wo worlds have collided, and what glorious and odd worlds they are. After a successful summer tour, pairing Primus with Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the two bandleaders, Les Claypool and Sean Lennon, have decided to combine their abstract talents into a project called The Claypool Lennon Delirium. Their efforts thus far have spawned the Monolith of Phobos. [ file under: psychodelic ]		BADBADNOTGOOD "IV" Mellow, dubbed out jazz-fusion and exotica folding in warm, Italianate library/lounge synths and soul vox with guest turns by fellow Canadian Colin Stetson, plus Kaytranada, Samuel T Herring and Charlotte Dasy Wilson. File next to Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar. [ file under: in sound from way out ]
FENNESZ & JIM O'ROURKE "It's hard for me to say I'm sorry" Despite decades of activity and having crossed paths in various collaborations Editions Mego is honoured to release the first ever duo recording from two of the most highly regarded citizens of planet experimental electronic. Individually, Jim O’Rourke and Christian Fennesz have been responsible for numerous legendary works which merge the traditional avant-garde with contemporary sensibilities. On It’s Hard For Me To Say I’m Sorry these giants of experimental electronic practice come together for an immensely powerful sonic experience. [ file under: editons mego ]		CAR SEAT HEADREST "Teens of denial" This is the first full album of new music from Car Seat Headrest released on Matador. With Teens of Denial, his first real “studio” album with an actual band, Will Toledo moves from bedroom pop to something approaching classic rock grandeur with nods to the Cars, Pavement, Jonathan Richman and Wire. [ file under: indie rock ]
FLUME "Skin" The mega success of Flume's first album set the expectations high. But Harley Streten avoided the sophomore slump by upping the ante on all his contemporaries. Picking up on all sorts of cues from electronic glitchiness, dub, trap music, house, and even psych, Skin is the perfect combination of all sorts of flavors and the result is an epic album bursting with style. Guest artists: Beck, Vince Staples, Tove Lo, Little Dragon, AlunaGeorge and Raekwon. [ file under: electro rap ]		FACTORY FLOOR "25 25" Factory Floor shift away a little from the TG / Cabaret Voltaire inspired machine music of some of their previous works. '25 25', release on DFA label, focuses on the colder rhythms of European techno and the familiar buzz of acid house music. [ file under: tek-house ]
GOLD PANDA "Good luck and do your best" Good Luck And Do Your Best is Gold Panda’s third album after 2010’s Lucky Shiner and 2013’s Half Of Where You Live, both of which saw him develop an organic, sample-based approach blending vintage IDM sounds with contemporary club music. [ file under: break & beat ]		HIEROGLYPHIC BEING "Discos of Imhotep" Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being release his solo album of 2016 via Technicolour imprint. He has built a sterling reputation both as a producer and live performer of deep, mesmeric experimental electronics and free jazz rooted in his native Chicago and his relationship with the city’s fertile underground club scene. Moss was mentored by visionary producers Steve Pointdexter and Adonis, who showed him the drum machines that were the backbone of the Movement and whom encouraged his early forays into music production. [ file under: ninja-tunes ]
STEVE GUNN "Eyes on the lines" On his last album, 2014’s Way Out Weather, the virtuosic guitarist Steve Gunn came out of his cocoon. Long known for his insular solo guitar studies, Gunn finally emerged as a pop-oriented songwriter, with a full band in tow to bring his bold arrangements to life. Now, with Eyes on the Lines, Gunn has moved in an even more accessible direction. [ file under: west-coast ]		KORNEL KOVACS "Bells" For the past seven years Kornél Kovács has been busy rocking dancefloors and boomboxes worldwide as one third of Stockholms Studio Barnhus alongside Axel Boman and Petter Nordkvist. The label and DJ trio is spearheading a new era of fearless Swedish off-centre dance music, straddling the line between the cute and the menacing. [ file under: electronica ]
MARK KOZELEK "Sings favourites" Accompanied by piano, Mark sings songs by 10CC, David Bowie, Modest Mouse, Bob Seger, Waylon Jennings, and others. Guest singers include Mike Patton, Mimi Parker, Minnie Driver and Will Oldham. Mark Kozelek is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and occasional actor. He is best known as the vocalist and primary recording artist of the indie folk act Sun Kil Moon, with whom he has recorded eight studio albums, and as the vocalist, guitarist and founding member of the indie rock band Red House Painters, with whom he recorded six studio albums from 1989 until 2001. [ file under: covers album ]		MOTION GRAPHICS "S/t" Motion Graphics, the solo project of NY based electronic artist Joe Williams, announces its debut with a self-titled LP out August 26th on Domino. Created over a two year period between NY, LA, & Baltimore, Motion Graphics is a unique and compelling collection of richly detailed widescreen compositions, inspired in part by the ambient sound effects of digital menu systems that decorate today’s auditory landscape. [ file under: pop-tronika ]
KLARA LEWIS "Too" Klara Lewis will release her second album for Editions Mego on May 27th. The Swedish producer debuted on the label in 2014 with Ett, an album that subjected field recordings and other organic sound material to all kinds of electronic manipulation. Now she returns to the Vienna experimental outpost for Too, which Editions Mego calls "nine tracks of blurred rhythms and haunted backdrops," using a similar approach as on Ett. [ file under: transgressions ]		NONKEEN "Oddments of the gamble" Nils Frahm and his childhood friends, Frederic Gmeiner and Sepp Singwald, joined by Andrea Belfi and Peter Broderick, merge post-rock, jazz, modern classical in their 2nd full length under the Nonkeen banner. A continuation of the unique, analogue concoctions that formed the first album. Although it inevitably draws on a similar formula to the previous LP,pensive loops and melodies, sweeping arpeggios, post-rock jams and rolling jazz breaks, Oddments of the Gamble still stands alone as another statement from the trio despite originating from the same recording session. [ file under: contemporary ]
LONE "Levitate" Levitate is a nine-track, 34-minute breakneck psychedelic journey through hardcore, jungle, and ambient say R&S Records, who are releasing the record. The album follows 2014's Reality Testing, which apparently left Cutler in something of a creative slump. Inspiration for Levitate struck while he was ill and bedridden on a trip to New York. [ file under: new electronica ]		WHITNEY "Light upon the lake" Formed from the core of guitarist Max Kakacek (ex-Smith Westerns) and singing drummer Julien Ehrlich (ex-Unknown Mortal Orchestra), to say that Whitney is more than the sum of its parts would be a criminal understatement. Their debut album marks the culmination of a short creative period for the band. Chicago's Whitney arrive as a fully formed gang of outsiders, their album rich in the musical history of the classic bands of the 60s and 70s. [ file under: secretly canadian ]
MAMMAL HANDS "Floa" Stunning new jazz from trio, Mammal Hands, finding a home on Matthew Halsall's 100% reliable Gondwana label! Recommended if you like GoGo Penguin, Portico Quartet and Jaga Jazzist. [ file under: nu jazz ]
MINOR VICTORIES "S/t" Minor Victories' debut album, featuring Slowdive's Rachel Goswell, Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai, Justin Lockey from Editors and James Lockey of film makers handheldcineclub. The album also features guest vocals by Mark Kozlelek from Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters and James Graham from The Twilight Sad. [ file under: post shoegaze ]
BETH ORTON "Kidsticks" Between her 1996 breakthrough Trailer Park and 2012's Sugaring Season, Beth Orton embarked on a steady but slow-moving transition from her signature "folktronica" sound to styles rooted in far more traditional rock instrumentation. Nearly four years later, with Orton's career now in its third decade, she returns with Kidsticks, on which she employs an arsenal of subtle but ever-present technology. [ file under: folktronika ]
STARLESS "S/t" The debut album of Starless comes from the lushly orchestrated brainchild of Paul McGeechan, keyboard player of Love & Money. It’s an epic and unique album featuring such illustrious collaborators as Paul Buchanan (The Blue Nile), Karen Matheson (Capercaillie) and Chris Thomson (The Bathers). McGeechan who wrote, arranged and masterminded the project, recorded the album with the stunning Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The result is a an emotional soundscape with references ranging from Ennio Morricone to The Cocteau Twins and David Sylvian. [ file under: pop life ]
VARIANT "Sequential sleep" Sequential Sleep is an ambient two-part CD release made for dreaming, a sonic travelogue set in multiple locations within a winter forest. [ file under: isolationism ]