DEAD HEART BLOOM: Better Than Most
First new single in 4 years featuring psychedelic vocals supported by trademark wall of sound guitars and an upbeat driving rhythm that sits somewhere between early Tame Impala, Achtung Baby-era U2 and late period Echo & the Bunnymen. Self-reflective, confident with a modern post-punk slant.
SHANNON FERGUSON: Rooms At Sea
Shannon Ferguson is perhaps best known in indie rock circles for the celebrated sonic euphoria he created while wielding his trusted Fender Telecaster as a member of the early 2000’s New York City-based Longwave. Rooms at Sea was recorded at Ferguson's own Breathing Canyon studio in Lagunitas, California, during the first half of 2020. Primarily using a baritone guitar, a Casio sk-1 (the classic '80's "toy" sampling keyboard), and an analog delay pedal that Ferguson designed and built himself. The music is like an abstraction that recalls the liquid guitar melodies that featured prominently as his aural signature (and would not be out of place in his Longwave work)
THE BLESSED ISLES: Gone
Latest single “Gone” is matched with 3 equally sublime tracks for the extended play release “Havoc”. The guitar/synth/pop duo continues to showcase an affinity for grazing the stratosphere with lush instrumentation enveloping crafted pop songs dealing the uncertainty of forging ahead after entangling devotion with transgression. New tracks "Visions", "Right Here" and title track "Havoc" showcase a wider range of electronic instrumentation and broadens the band’s signature sound of expansive guitars and electronic pop. While the broadened sonic palette lends texture and depth to the compositions, the focused songwriting remains the centerpiece. Tuneful and introspective, the songs voice defiance in the face of adversity.
LIVE FOOTAGE: Two Bedroom Flat
“Two Bedroom Flat” is a guided tour of avant electro taking the listener across moods and scenes and creating aural landscapes by building beats, atmospheres and fashioning unexplored sonic spaces.
MODERN NATIONS: Erase the Sun
Modern Nations is a collaborative project helmed by veteran producers and principal songwriters Nolan Thies and Toby Pipes. Thier latest is “Erase the sun” reflects a more convulsive, dare we say, ‘rock’ side of Modern Nations with a heavy backbeat, guitars brushing up against the heavens and deadpan vocals by Jodynl with backing support by previous vocal collaborator Denitia.
TIGER MOUNTAIN: Structures
Tiger Mountain take on a Joy Division classic, "The Only MISTAKE," in tribute to both that band and the immortal Factory Records. Haunting atmospheres, glacial synths and wistful guitars create a musical landscape that’s foreboding, contemplative and futuristic hanging with nostalgia for a simpler era.
BORIS SKALSKY: Forever and a Day
Forever and a Day is a five song acoustic record written and conceived as a duet between Boris Skalsky and New York based singer-songwriter Joy Dragland. Exploring themes of love and loss, the songs were written, recorded and produced in New York City.
BORIS SKALSKY: Fading Portraits
Boris Skalsky’s first full feature soundtrack “Fading Portraits” artfully connects listeners (and viewers) to the visually stunning story of Iranian photographer Maryam Zandi’s struggle with authoritarian censorship. The 18 track score balances plush electronic terrain with piano, violin, cello and percussion as it aurally narrates and translates an expanse of environments that encompasses the seemingly endless visually rich and vivid hues of the Iranian country-side, the sophisticated urbanity of modern-day Tehran and the paranoid and stifling mental constraint of an artist caught in the throes of autocratic government control.
RUBIN KODHELI: ESCAPE
New York City-based cellist and experimental composer Rubin Kodheli’s latest solo work “Escape” is a 3 part suite for cello that takes the listener on a journey through the twisted cycle of expectations and escape mechanisms via Kodheli’s cello, live looping and effects.
DEAD HEART BLOOM: State of Mind
Dead Heart Bloom’s “State of Mind” recent single “Lost In A Dream” with 3 brand new tracks that explore broken hearts, future dreams and the interior spaces of time and place. Musically shifting between guitar effect-laden bursts, merciful piano ballads and subtle electronic psychedelics, the EP places the band firmly, as one reviewer maintains, “between the Beatles and ‘The Bends’”.
BOB OXBLOOD: Trash Mansion
Bob Oxblood has again partnered with Ephemeral Arts to release his latest single “Trash Mansion”, a summery reflection of laid back heady days shored up with textural guitars, affecting synths and Oxblood’s characteristically winsome vocals. A lighter side of the Brooklyn-based singer songwriter that walks the fine line between inertia and apathy, anchored by looping acoustic chords against steady piano and drums.
LIVE FOOTAGE+ DANNY MEYER: Unwritten Soundtrack
The result of a collaboration between Live Footage and saxophonist Danny Meyer (who has contributed musically to such acts as Julia Holter, Chairlift, ExoTech and MGMT), this is a expansion on the urbane electro charged atmosphere that the duo has fulfilled in which the saxophone overlays an organicness that simultaneously pays homage to the jazz of a past age with a future that is only just being discovered.