Download Jaytram Mix Tapes on Soundcloud
Y’all wanna hear some real shit? Jaytram has posted his mixes from past and present on Soundcloud . Jaytram is from another planet. He brings to you an energy that you’ve always wanted to feel but have never been able to produce. Get familiar, people: Jaytram is the Don.
New Music: Wild Belle – Keep You
Wild Belle
My dude Elliot Bergman of famous band NOMO has a new project called Wild Belle. Hear their first single “Keep You” below.
Music: Bear In Heaven – The Reflection Of You
I Love You, It's Cool
Bear in Heaven already have the best album title of 2012. Matter of fact: I Love You, It’s Cool might be the best album title in years. Check out the first taste of it: A floaty jam called “The Reflection Of You”. I Love You, It’s Cool is out 4/3 on Dead Oceans/Hometapes.
Download Bad Vibes “Computer Games” on Bandcamp
You can now download Bad Vibes’ amazing track “Computer Games” via their Bandcamp website for free.
Music: Sinkane – Ambient Weeks pt. 2
cover by Evan Richards
New Music: Lightnin’ Ray
Lightnin Ray chillin' with Maiden
Ray plays in Washed Out. He’s got a voice that’ll make you wet. It’ll also make you sweat. So much soul in his heart. He’s also an amazing gambler.
Not much of the swamp-land southern rock going on these days. Ray brings back the life the ghosts of country rock’s past with a fresh twist on things. This shit is soulful, honest, beautiful and soaked in a shitload of whiskey/reverb (which ever one you relate to more).
Music: Pôle – Inside the Dream
Inside the Dream
To start, “Inside The Dream” by Pôle the band / collective is a completely different beast from it’s predecessor, “Kotrill” (both 1975). Not just musically but, beyond synthesist and Pôle records major domo Paul Putti, the line up is entirely different. Where “Kotrill” started with it’s title track exploding out of the speakers in a synthoid götterdämmerung, “Inside The Dream” begins with an acoustic tranquility. A mellow folk riff (Michael Azad) rises into focus and is joined by a sopping wet electric guitar (Paul Putti) and near subliminal bass (Eric Dervieu). Then a smooth pleasant vocal (Christian Rouch) follows “Walking inside your dream now / So sweet, so cold / Watching your face in rainbows” . As so it goes, but somewhere along the line the electric guitar decides it’s sick of playing nice and forces it’s way into the front of the mix; if that means it’s completely out of key and pushing the needle into the red – so what? The following track, ‘Outside The Nightmare’ (solo composition by Jean-Louis Rizet) is more in keeping with ‘Kotrill’ in that it is based in the realm of synthesizers, but if ‘Kotrill’ was the soundtrack to the apocalypse, then ‘Outside The Nightmare’ is most certainly the soundtrack to the post-apocalypse. You may have lived through the worst, but you’re not out of the woods yet, kid. The third and final track, ‘In The Mäelstrom’, bleeds in from ‘Outside’, the sound of acceptance of the horrible turn the world has taken, and the will to face it, come what may. Slashing synths (courtesy Mssrs. Putti, Rizet, and Pierre Chavigny) march along with our hero, bloodied but unbroken. Along with “Kotrill”, “Inside The Dream” feels like it was either quickly and cheaply put together to get some product on the streets for Pôle (the record label), or they were the projects that inspired the start of Pôle (again, the label). Either way, they are all the better for their raw immediacy and near punk primitivism.
~ Reviewed by MarsHottentot (RYM).
Swami Land: The Millennium – Begin
Begin
Influenced by psychedelia and California rock, pop/rock producer Curt Boettcher (the Association) decided to assemble a studio supergroup who would explore progressive sounds in 1968. Millennium’s resultant album would find no commercial success and only half-baked artistic success, but nonetheless retains some period charm. Influenced in roughly equal measures by the Association, the Mamas and the Papas, the Smile-era Beach Boys, Nilsson, the Left Banke, and the Fifth Dimension, Boettcher and his friends came up with a hybrid that was at once too unabashedly commercial for underground FM radio and too weird for the AM dial. It would have fit in better on the AM airwaves, though; the almost too-cheerful sunshine harmonies and catchy melodies dominate the suite-like, diverse set of elaborately produced ’60s pop/rock tunes. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
Swami Land: Relatively Clean Rivers – S/T
Relatively Clean Rivers
A tremendous mid-1970′s rural psych album that sounds like it was recorded in late 1968, Relatively Clean Rivers has that hippie commune Springfield/Manson Family/Dead vibe down pat. Although most often compared to The Dead, only the record’s first cut, “Easy Ride” really sounds much like them, with it’s acoustic/electric guitar mix and American Beauty era vocal styles. It’s a great song, but the rest of the album is much different and a little bit better, spewing out wasted Topanga Canyon folkpsych with wacked out commune lyrics. Production is great and the musicianship is stellar, so we don’t really get much of that ‘real people’ vibe prevalent in many other records with that ‘rural’ feel, but this still more than holds up. There really is nothing else quite like this, and the smashed lysergic hippie trip present here is anything but a novelty. You can totally feel the Canyon here, and these folks never did wind up leaving. The original vinyl is long gone, with only two pressings of 500 each supposedly, but my Radioactive Label CD reissue is nice, with a clear reproduction of the lyrics and liner notes and a nice, warm pseudo-analog sound. Great stuff……
~ By Chadkelsey (RYM).
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