One Leg Mary / Yes exactly, maybe not. (2012)

So hard to find things that I really want to post because I like them a lot.

But, searching and searching, you always find something. Maybe in Greece, just across the Adriatic sea for who writes.

I don't really know what to write about this band. But I can feel their music very well. Rough and often simple but perfectly fit sounds, that in some passages breaks your listening like a fault in your brain's connections. And that is good. Compact, solid, modern melodies, with a voice that reminds you of someone who is reflecting about himself speaking. And probably  is just like that, because lyrics, in my opinion, shows signs of reflections that surely needs more than ore read to get the message from letters to heart and brain.

So, read.

And

Listen.

Oh yes. Another freebie for you and your ears.

Coast Jumper / Grand Opening (2011)

I started listening to hip hop because I like it.

And lucky me I like it, because I find easier finding good hip hop than good rock, nowadays.

So, when everybody says "hip hop is dead", I think "if it is dead, rock is already decomposed".

Then, like everything, like zombies, things come back.

And you have the Coast Jumper.

Yuo have guitars, you have bass, drums, voice SINGING and not only talking on fucking stupid stereotyped, thin guitar sounds backed by fake bass players that pays more attention at the shoes they're wearing than playing the bass, along with little idiot-march like drums. Oh, and maybe everything amalgamated with random synth sounds.

Yes, I HATE that fucking indie rock going on in these days, but this album, while can be described as indie, is FUCKING WELL DONE. 

The Coast Jumper here are playing because they like it, and you can hear it, you can hear their engagement inside these 10 well assorted tracks, filled with rhytm and melody changes, and with REAL OVERDRIVEN GUITARS.

10 tracks that make you feel something, reflect, excite and then slow down to a more reflective phase again, 10 tracks that you for sure have to

Listen.

Freeeeeee.......

The Dead Pirates / Malevolent Melody EP (2010)

Sometimes, you need to go back.

Nowadays, you can have all kind of synths, sample movies or songs more than easily, you can pull out whatever type of sounds out a computer.

But, sometimes, you need to go back. You want to go back.

Sometimes, you only need "5 members,greg on drums, pat's got a bass, two brothers on guitars and elliott plays the rhodes.

Sometimes, you just need some fucking energetic old-school (but NOT trivial) rock 'n' fuckin' roll inside your eardrum.

Sometimes, you don't have to say or write too much about a great think.

Sometimes, yyou only have to check their great videoclip, with his unique and great style.

And, sometimes, you only have to listen.

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YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN / YT​/​/​ST (2011)

I'm back. Sorry for all this time passed with nothing. I was listening. Maybe I have to change the title of the blog. "Every day" isn't true. Sorry :D

At least, in these days I've found new and new-old thing to post.

One of the new-new things is this album.

I wasn't so sure to post this, because, after a first listen, it generated anxiety in me. A lot of it. So, I was ready to erase it from my pc, when I listened to it for the second time.

You may say "why you downloaded it if, after a first web-listening, you didn't like it? Only for being more a music pirate?". Well, no. I've done it because I tought the idea was great.

YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN are a collective, so lots of people, trying to mix oriental sounds with rock, metal and a lot of "western" sounds, using instruments and electronics.

Well, this is interesting.

Then came the second listening. The dreamy atmospheres of these sounds from the east (mainly coming from the voice), that I found annoying after a while, get back on the earth with distorted guitars and drums like we use to play it in the west. THANK YOU.

Oh, also the cover is GREAT.

Believe me, this is interesting. Make your move.

Listen.

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Spaces / Nothing Exists but Atoms and the Void (2011)

I thinked about them sometime before decide to make this post. Then, I decided I like them enough.

I must admit it, I love sci-fi books settled in space. I mean, the intelligent one, like Asimov's Foundation etc.

So, when I saw Spaces, I was very curious. I was asking myself if, while listening to this music and closing my eyes, I would be able to imagine the open space, like I would when I read these books.

Well, it works.

They say they try to play post rock without "the bombast and crescendo". Surely, there's something particular in this album. Electronic quantity is well equilibrated, and it alternates with guitars that goes from Latin music like bend notes, toghether with brass instruments, to powerful old-school ovedriven wah sounds, then coming back to oneiric arpeggiated riffs.

And, if you want, in this sounds, you can find the space. From scenes on green, nature dominated planets, to descents into the darkests voids, totally alone, screaming with no voice coming out from your mouth.

Or maybe I just take heavy drugs. But you but you can not know whether this is true or not. So there's only one way you can discover if what I wrote about this album is true.

Listen.

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Cougar / Patriot (2009)

In this period is hard to post something, because of the short time I have, but I won't give up ;).

Cougar is a american post rock band. Well, from my point of view, they're not exactly post rock. At least, my ears wouldn't accept this as post rock. I feel them mostly rock, with the right quantity of post. I don't know why, but thats what I feel like.

Apart from my deliriums, their instrumental music focus on their instruments, using few electronic sounds. Maybe is that use of modern distorted guitar and solid, groovy rhythms that make me feel them more "rock" than "post".

Well, for today I wrote enough incomprensible things. But trust me; listen to them.

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PS: I love their drummer style; he plays also in another great band, that I will surely post in the future ;)

Papir / Stundum (2011)

I'm a bass player.

And one of the thing I like to do most are jam sessions. Yeah, making songs is fantastic, you can put your feelings and ideas into them. But jams are different. You don't put feelings into them; they automatically come out from you, and enter your music. You can travel into yourself, making music, and you can go everywhere you want, just play the note you feel like, at the moment you feel like.

Papir is a band from Copenhagen. A so called "power trio": drums, bass, guitar. Their approach is simple, like "the ones you see playing are the ones you will hear". No computer programmings, overdubs.

They define themselves "semi-improvisational psychedelic rock".

And this album is a huge and powerful jam session.

Today, in 2012, with computer that can make even the poorer and incapable popstar able to sing and have behind so much sounds that you can believe that a single machine can do this, this band made an album made only of the three fucking pillars of rock, without adding shit or studying songs to make them sell better.

Thank you. We NEEDED an album like this.

Put your earphones on. Start listen. Travel.

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http://papirband.com

Piglet / Lava Land EP (2005)

When I have less time to post, I have to go back in my music library, searching for something good to share.

This is not the case. Because this is not good; this is FANTASTIC.

Piglet are an american post/math rock band, with only this EP published. Sadly.
Only six songs, a perfect mix of great technique and musical taste; fast arpeggios, syncopated rhythms and sometimes dissonant sounds, but everything in place. Another way of saying that you can do post rock in your own original way, without necessarily having to make slow and boring 12 minutes long songs.

Please, listen to the song "Little bubble, where are you going?" with a lot of attention. Close your eyes. I know you can see that bubble going up and down, now she's slowly climbing the air and then fall, in a heartbeat.

This is what music should be. Music.

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Sick Tamburo / A.I.U.T.O. (2011)

And today, something italian.

Sick Tamburo is a band born from what remained of another italian band, very popular in the '90s during the punk-rock period, the Prozac +. This is their second album. And is great.

Only two musician. Heavy and compact distorted guitar making simple but powerful riffs. A very "acid" female voice. Everything is simple, often repetitive, something like a message of propaganda someone is trying to get into your head. Because, from my point of view, this disc IS a message.

There aren't too much ingredients, but the few you have works great togheter. Also, I can't forget to mention the lyrics, all in italian, but great,something talking about the simplest things of life but in a very deep way, some other times talking about bigger arguments, but always very "conscious"(the punk heritage more band should have nowadays). If you can, try to get them translated in your language.

I'm tired, and I'm getting hard to talk about this album as it deserves, but trust me, this is great music. Very rare nowadays, specially in Italy.

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http://www.myspace.com/sicktamburo

Foster The People / Torches (2011)

Ok, let's start the week with something relaxing.

Foster The People are an american indie pop-rock band. Well, from what I read they're enough famous in the USA, but I didn't know them before listening to this album.

Usually I don't like indie rock sounds, but this album was made pleasant to listen to. Tracks have good grooves, and enter inside your mind like Orwell's Big Brother. You can't get them out, believe me. Also, you will probably find yourself dancing and singing 5 minutes after listening to the first track.

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Have fun.