The Musical Brochure Vol. 3

So I joined a gym last wednesday and it's giving me more time to listen to some of the music that i haven't heard in a while and ones that I just recently got. I jumped on the treadmill and put my ipod on shuffle and every single time i liked the song i would put it on my 'on the go' playlist so when i got home i could check the titles and listen to the songs. Some of the picks for this weeks Volume came from the workout at the gym others were old favorites i wanted others to hear because i enjoyed them. I hate using genres and labeling music but it's the only way to organize your music and artist, it makes it much easier to kind of have an idea of what the style the band is. I tried to keep it pretty easy listening this week, beside the closer but anyways noticeable genres are electronica, fusion jazz, acoustic freak folk, basically some good track. I couldn't decide on what excerpt I wanted to use this week so i just kept it to 15 songs plus Caribou does a great job starting the playlist. one of my favorite songs on this weeks playlist has to be Mew's 'Am I Wry? No'. I annoyed the crap out of the my roommates singing acapella to the one Bridge haha i don't know it just stuck to my head. Anyways I hope you enjoy this weeks Playlist and keep checking out the blog as much as you can, i'll be updating it whenever i get the chance and i'll be throwing in some goodies as well. BIG NEWS is coming to you guys soon i'm gonna need all the help i can get to get this project where I want it to go. I'll keep you posted.

The Musical Brochure Volume 3: (15 songs/ 1:10:32/ 91.8 MB)

1. Caribou- Melody Day (4:11)

2. Dirty Projectors- What I See (3:27)

3. Giant Drag- Cordial Invitation (2:59)

4. DJ Shadow- Changeling (7:52)

5. !!!- Must Be the Moon (5:56)

6. Mew- Am I Wry? No (4:54)

7. Rob Crow- Taste (3:28)

8. Celebration- Foxes (4:17)

9. Broken Social Scene- Our Faces Split The Coast In Half (3:42)

10. Devendra Banhart- Now that I Know (4:58)

11. Jimmy Chamberlin Complex- P.S.A. (5:46)

12. Film School- On & On (5:40)

13. Kings of Leon- On Call (3:22)

14. Zero 7- Warm Sound (5:30)

15. Clann Zu- Words of Snow (4:35)

Featured Artists:

Thank you Pilotsleep Designs for the great Album Artwork, GO check out his designs on his DeviantArt Profile. George is self taught at photoshop I remember back in 05 he'd make me backgrounds from Paint good to see that he upgraded. If you'd like to get in contact with George message him at his Myspace. He'll definitely help you out with artwork for your EP or Full Length.

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Efterklang

Efterklang? You and I both buddy, i have no clue what that means, anyways about two years when i first heard of this band from the album 'tripper' i had to do some research about them because their sound was something i haven't really heard much of, from the first listen i felt that reminiscence of múm with the glitch but the more i heard different songs from various albums they've released their style evolved from mum's glitch sound, i heard the use of more wind and orchestral instruments it kinda seemed more like a scored arrangement, as much as i tried to do the research but i couldn't any real biographies of them, they aren't really that big of a band at least in the states, i mean coming from Denmark of course. So i didn't find out if they arrange their pieces but i did find out though that they have 5 core members and they play individually various instruments ranging from flute, computer sequencing, piano, drums, trumpet and choir, they also have 4 live band members that help arrange the choir, play violin, piano, trombone and guitar. if this danish band ever comes to the states I'm definitely attending that show i have to be there and witness how this sounds like live and see what message they're trying to evoke, because this little review will never be finished until i see that conecrt, hopefully their newest effort 'Parades' keeps me intersted, i just hit the play button on the first song.

Check out Efterklang's Myspace

Listen to their music on Last FM

Buy their albums on Amazon

Watch Efterklang- Mirador (Video)

Efterklang Live in Trondhiem, Norway in 2005 ----->

What is Minimalist Music?

Straight from Wikipedia.org :

Minimalist music

Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonant harmony, steady pulse (if not immobile drones), stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells. Starting in the early 1960s as a scruffy underground scene in San Francisco alternative spaces and New York lofts, minimalism spread to become the most popular experimental music style of the late 20th century. The movement originally involved dozens of composers, although only four—Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and, less visibly if more seminally, La Monte Young—emerged to become publicly associated with it in America. In Europe, its chief exponents were Louis Andriessen, Karel Goeyvaerts, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Steve Martland, Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt, and John Tavener. The term "minimalist music" was derived around 1970 by Michael Nyman from the concept of minimalism, which was earlier applied to the visual arts. For some of the music, especially that which transforms itself according to strict rules, the term "process music" has also been used.

Some albumRecommendations: 

Vladislav Delay- Whistleblower

Steve Riech- Music for 18 Musicians

Murcof- Martes 

Clann Zú- Words of Snow

No longer a band anymore but their music is still very much appreciated at least to the ones that know what they are all about. let me explain to you guys what i appreciate about this band, for some odd reason every single time i hear this song i can literally just cry. like without caring about anything i don't know if it's about a depressed feeling i have or just the uncontrolled happiness of a feeling but to the end of this song after the singing when it's just Declan de Barra speaking fast kinda like spoken word i just get this weird shiver down my spine. i don't even care if these guys made a damn rap song, because any sound that can give me that feeling or shivers down my spine will be appreciated. straight and simple just like a friend told me, "music is about you and it" the feeling, the emotion, the carelessness of certain things thats what makes music so beautiful. I provided a download for 'Words of Snow' and some fun links to check out. hope you guys enjoy it. i think i found volume 3's opener. haha. we'll see.

Download Clann Zú's- 'Words of Snow' 

Check out Words of Snow Lyrics @ SongMeanings.com

Buy a Clann Zú Album @ Amazon.com

Check out Wikipedia's Biography on Clann Zú

Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural: REELism Film Nights Presents:

El Violin

the Violin

in spanish with english subtitles

Thursday April 3rd, 2008

FREE Event, Donations welcomed

Join us for a special showing of El Violin. It Is a stunning film of an elder Don Plutacro (Tavira), his son and grandson whom are farmers and traditional musicians that also support the campesino peasent guerilla movement's armed efforts. The film evokes the struggle between peasents and goverment, duty and pleasure

Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural 

10258 Foothill Blvd. Lake View Terrace, CA. 91342

818-896.1479  www.tiachucha.com

Check out Tia Chucha's Myspace for more Info about them and upcoming events.

Billy Cobham- Spectrum (1973)

If you call yourself a drummer and don't listen to drummers like buddy rich, elvin jones, max roach, neil pert, carl palmer, terry bozzio and especially billy cobham you ain't got style. hah. to make a long story short, i tend to always talk to older musicians or music listeners because i was born in the late 80's so i was never around those days and i'm always intersted in listening to stories about music experiences and syles in past years, but anyways my old neighbor and i would sit down and listen to cds and just chill, order food and smoke. we would sit there listening to mahavishnu orchestra, emerson lake & palmer, king crimson, pink floyd and even madonna haha, one day we got into a pretty intense argument about which drummer in our opinion drummed his ass of in the 70's. we both ended eliminating artist by different qualities and quotas for fun and we came down to billy cobham being one of the best 70's drummers, hitting skins with mahavishnu and he's very jazzy and fun Solo Project. i feel like i'm giving away to much free stuff but hey he doesn't really need anymore money his time is long gone and recommending good old bands you would've never heard of if it wasn't for this blog post is pretty cool and also this album is just plain brillance, one of my favorites. i had to ask around just to get this album because i lost all my music on my pc and only had a burn disc to rip for download, but anyways for all you drummers out there this album is for jehu, you'll love his jazz drumming techniques. expect fast rolls, quick cymbal hits, weird ambience, guitar solos, drum solos, piano solos and i'm just talking about 'Stratus', the song massive attack sampled on blue lines called 'safe from harm'.  i hope you'll enjoy this  great quality copy i found. it's the remastered one =)

Downlad Billy Cobham- Spectrum from Mediafire

Watch An Epic Live Video from Mahavishnu Orchestra on Youtube

Click 'Stratus' to watch a live video of Billy Cobham with his Band.

A Wikipedia Biography of Billy Cobham

Cannibal Flower Group Show 03/29/2008

Check out cannibalflower.com for more info and upcoming events

Check out Woven's Music on their myspace

Sataurday March 29 2008 

9pm-1am  @ the Hangar 1018

1018 S.Santa Fe Ave, 

Los Angeles, CA 90021 

www.hangar1018.com

Shows for Tonight in LA!

Red Sparowes and Russian Circles will be @ the Echoplex

i will not be attending because i am not 21 a couple more months haha.

Tokyo Police Club, We Barbarians and Eagle Seagull will be @ the Troubadour

theSTART @ the Crash Mansion

Free Moral Agents @ the Silverlake Lounge

again i am not 21 or else i'd be there.

there are many other shows today, but these are the one's i recommend to check out. check out Upcoming.org for an updated list of events going on in LA

Benga-Diary of An Afro Warrior

If you just got a new stereo system in your car or already have a good system and are tired of the same stuff rattling your license plate i suggest you check out this disc and pop it in your car. he's from UK some know him as Beni Uthman others in the UK know him as 'Benga' and some of us didn't even know that was a name. Well know you know there is a guy called Beni Uthman and he uses the pseudonym 'Benga'.   i've just recently been getting more into dub and researching techniques that DJ's use combining a variety of instruments and samples on their tracks. you can tell this guy really enjoys BASS. His newest release 'Diary of An Afro Warrior' is an eclectic mix of a bunch of styles, ranging from dubstep, drum n bass, techno on some tracks and of course electronica. Not everyone will like this artist, but i think his style is unique especially coming from a african american from the UK. The feel is a bit darker than your usual dub you've probably heard but I just thought i'd write something about the cat. enjoy

Download the first track off Diary of An Afro Warrior- Zero M2  

Purchase His Album at Amazon

Listen To More Of His Music On Myspace

The Ladies- They Mean Us

With their obscured song  titles, offbeat drum signatures, and those simple yet metaphorical lyrics, you can tell these guys were having fun recording and preparing for this album , it's all for fun nothing completely serious, it's like the underground superstar group well at least to me. you might recognized the vocals or the weird drumming, it's rob crow and zach hill. yes yes it's another rob crow band haha you can never get tired of rob, he has one of the most calm and easy listening voices besides those off songs that never really fit the record and were just jokes or those weird experimental noises he's made on many of his projects, but lets get to the point this album has everything i ever wanted in a band besides one thing a bassist. Rob Crow and Zach Hill call themselves 'The Ladies'. Their Self Titled  includes 8 real songs and 4 interludes. Most of them are titled 'Recycler' either 1a 1b or 2 and the other one is called 'Black Metal In The Hour of Starbucks' i know it makes no sense and when you hear the song it still won't either the drumming is basically Zach hitting i'm not sure what and this cymbal he created which is all cracked and looks broken it just sounds like a noise rock bands bridge,the actual songs on the record are short but clever. once i got this album i loved it and i hope you will to. As a gift you can download this whole album, i'll only up whole albums if i know it's worth it. Remember Support Independent Music sometimes you have to promote before supporting, but it'll all pay off in the end.

My Favorite Tracks: Non-Threatening, Vacation, Asphyxia, Vacation

download from Rapidfire

10th Annual Cesar Chavez Walk LA

He may not be god or given you a million dollars but he did do something to make a change in our futures and that doesn't mean just Mexicans but for all Social & Ethnic Backgrounds. This Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist is the co-founder of the United Farm Workers. His work led to numerous improvements for union laborers and is considered a hero for farm laborers. He also opposed both legal and illegal immigration to help keep wages higher and improve work safety rules. He is hailed as one of the greatest American Civil Rights Leaders. Let us pay tribute to him on this day and join us on:

March 29, 2008 @ the Historic Olvera Street at 125 Paseo de la Plaza Los Angeles, Ca. 90012

from 10am to 2pm 

and be aware and knowledgeable about your social justice.

Check Out the United Farm Workers Website For More Info on the Walk

For More Information About Cesar Chavez 

Hercules & Love Affair- Self Titled (2008)

 Not many people know about who Andy Butler is or that there is a DJ called Andy Butler, but now you know. He fronts this collaborative group under the monkier, 'Hercules and Love Affair, his self titled release that has gotten alot of attention internationally features Antony Hegarty's unique vocals from the band Antony and the Johnsons he also did a duet with the famous icelandic singer Bjork. When i uploaded the tracks on my ipod and herd first track "Time Will" play on my itunes right away i could tell this album was gonna be good. The vocals were very unique and the programming was great, i reminded of an old Depeche Mode song or a confused uk synth pop band. Track by track it gets better and better , hercules' theme sounds like the perfect song to make it on soul train's next compilation album. On Top of that the first single "Blind" with it's catchy bass line, melodic and dubbed vocals, muted trumpets, percussion and guitar tracks makes the perfect first impression on what you're gonna get from this album  I recommend you check out any upcoming shows for Hercules And Love Affair and or buy the album.

Listen to My Favorite Hercules and Love Affair's Song: 'Time Will' to download right click "Time Will"

Check out Hercules and Love Affair's Myspace

Check out Hercules and Love Affair's Music Video for Blind on YouTube

Buy His Album On Itunes or Amazon

Scene Index- Andromedae

A shorlived act that hailed from the musical city of Sacermento, California. If i remember correctly when i saw them live it was two keyboardist, a guitarist and a drummer, totally instrumental. great show good album they played this album live that night. Hope you guys enjoy it.

Artist: Scene Index

Album: Andromedae

Genre: Post-Rock/ Ambient  

Release: 2005

Length: 17:42

Label: Independent                                                            

Download from Mediafire

Scene Index Myspace

The Musical Brochure Vol. 2

This Week's Mixtape touches many different dynamics from ambient sounds to fast noise rock tempos. Including bands like Kinky which on Tuesday i went to go see at the The Mayan Theater in Downtown Los Angeles they in seconds turned the aztec designed venue into what the mexicans call the 'DISCOTECA'. Others on the Mixtape include local acts such as, That Noise; an electronic rock outfit from Los Angeles, California and Woven which actually the Lead Singer of That Noise use to provide the low end for. Another local act is IDM and Electronic Producer/ Programmer Daedelus who digs into genres such as jazz, dub, hip-hop, and down tempo. This mixtape will lead you through different moods, everywhere and anywhere starting from that nice quiet spring day to that saturday night romantic dinner with your lover and also to mention the P.G.M.G. tracks Mr. Club & All Medicated Geniuses are individual tracks off of 'The New Romance, i joined them to fit the mixtape. i hope you enjoy my second volume of the Musical Brochure

Musical Brochure Vol. 2 (16 Songs/ 1:00:50/ 88.7 mb)

1. Opitope- A White Cloth Falling From The Snow Branches feat. An Excerpt from JFKonMLK (1:46)

2. Oceansize- One Day This All Could Be Yours (4:20)

3. Balmorhea- San Solomon (3:45)

4. Kinky- Ejercicio No. 16 (4:22)

5. Golden- Feel This Flow (5:28)

6. Daedelus- At My Heels (3:21)

7. Death From Above 1979- Do It! (Live) (2:30)

8. That Noise- What's Really Going On (3:37)

9. Jaga Jazzist- Airborne (5:13)

10. Ben Kenney- Wrong (3:00)

11. Four Tet- She Moves She (4:42)

12. Pixies- Tame (1:56)

13. Pretty Girls Make Graves- Mr. Club/ All Medicated Geniuses (4:12)

14. Woven- Tesion (4:00)

15. cLOUDDEAD- Son of a Gun (5:47)

16. King Crimson- Book of Saturday (2:56)

Featured Artists:

The Musical Brochure Album art was taken by Mayra Lara with her beloved poloraid camera. she captured a shadow and a tree and it's leaves, to me the simplicity is wonderful; the art of simpliticy, more of her art is inside the zip file under '05 Featured Artists' and links to her myspace.

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The Musical Brochure Vol. 1

Touching on a bunch of genres and styles, breezing through shoegaze, alternative rock, avant-garde and electronic. enjoy the mix of the week of the 17th of March

-Musical Brochure Vol. 1

-01 Musical Brochure Vol. 1

-Mixtape

-02 Artwork

- Original Album Artwork

-03 Lyrics

- Links to Lyrics of Mixtape Songs Online

-04 Websites

-Last Fm Link to listen to more of their music & explore other bands.

Musical Brochure Vol. 1 (16 songs/ 1:07:04 total time/ 102.9 mb)

1. Intro- Network Film (1:40)

2. Air- Run (4:15)

3. dredg- Triangle (5:04)

4. Faith No More- From Out Of Nowhere (3:22)

5. Blonde Redhead- Spring and By Summer Fall (4:16)

6. Porcupine Tree- Normal (7:08)

7. Animal Collective- Leaf House (2:43)

8. Radiohead- Recknor (4:50)

9. TV on the Radio- Province (4:37)

10. Björk-  Bachelorette (5:21)

11. Queens of the Stone Age- Misfit Love (5:40)

12. 65daysofstatic- Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here (4:19)

13. Minus The Bear- Throwin' Shapes (2:47)

14. Frank Zappa- Don't Eat The Yellow Snow (2:09)

15. Solar Powered People- Awhile (4:30)

16. M83- Moon Child (4:38)

Instructions for Itunes playing order

1. make a new playlist name the playlist

2. open the Musical Brochure file

3. drag 01 Musical Brochure Vol. 1 into designated itunes playlist

4. load and put it on to your ipod or burn disc with itunes

Downloads:

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coming soon...