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Jazzaria – Moving Up

Jazzaria – Moving Up

Jazzaria

“Moving Up”

A gain in altitude can provide a shift in attitude. Though at times uneven, any assistance is welcome when climbing the slopes of life. A veteran escalator, having helped many ascend, is deserving of celebration and esteem.

Featuring escalator, escalator-triggered bass and snare drums, trumpet, electric guitar and bass, background vocals, and shaker.

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posted 12 November 2023

Jazzaria – Un Known

Jazzaria – Un Known

Jazzaria

“Un Known”

Pass through to an unknown domain, and witness an intangible procession of intelligence – and the lack thereof. A known unknown, contrasted with its contrapositive, yields a self-similar absence of informative variation. Yet such leaps are still insightful, logically winnowing and ultimately implying an uncertain something about the state of things.

Featuring unaccompanied improvised clarinet with reverb.

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posted 05 November 2023

the House of Wills – “the house always wins”

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the House of Wills

“”the house always wins””

JV as the House of Wills has become a fixture all their own. Named after a once-crumbling prominent Cleveland building that has reinvented itself again and again, JV has been in a half dozen of your favorite punk bands (Ultra Ultra, RAM ONES, and The Public, to name a few) but their solo project somehow manages to bring even more emotional heft than some of their bands’ hardest bangers. the House of Wills is a powerful project, playing ceaselessly around the region and quickly gaining steam from their two releases in 2020. Much like the ever-changing legendary local landmark, the House Of Wills is something that has existed, and will hopefully continue to exist, even as JV’s rock bands come and go with time. Long live the House of Wills.
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posted 04 November 2023

Jazzaria – Rite to Left

Jazzaria – Rite to Left

Jazzaria

“Rite to Left”

The end. Tension rises, building to a finale. Journeys continue, exploring and developing a varied space. A relaxing soiree, begun with modest chimes.

Featuring full symphonic orchestra of strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion (including snare drum, timpani, and triangle), and solo flute.

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posted 08 October 2023

Jazzaria – Often Used

Jazzaria – Often Used

Jazzaria

“Often Used”

Of frequent relief, with backup motifs – 5/5, tried by each one alive. A fallback – A standby – A favorite – A stalwart. Often used (sometimes abused).

Featuring shakers, strings, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bass clarinet, synths, voice, electric guitar, electric bass, drum kit, and granular oboe, flute, and cello.

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posted 03 September 2023

The Maravines – Light Distelfink

The Maravines – Light Distelfink
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The Maravines

“Light Distelfink”

Light Prospector is a Rehearsal album, that is by the Maravines. It is recorded during the day time , on Saturday, January 30th, 2017, at Prospector Studios, in Nutley, New Jersey. With Chris Lee on the acoustic guitar, and vocals, and Evan Pope on the light electric guitar, the short rehearsal has songs that are on their studio albums Pearl, Bruce, Belmar, and Bradley. It is exclusively uploaded to the Internet Archive’s public domain on Friday afternoon, September 1st, 2023.

The length of the album is 13 minutes, and 26 seconds. The size for it, in M. P. E. G. 1, Audio Layer III, at 320, 000 bytes per second is 32, 280, 576 bytes. The acoustic guitar that is being played is a Yamaha AC3R, and the electric guitar is a Fender Stratocaster, on an Orange crush amplifier. The Microphones for recording are a Blue Bluebird, and a Shure. The mixing, and the mastering for the album is by Chris Lee, with Acoustica Mixcraft Version 5.

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posted 03 September 2023

Luciftias – Staring into Oblivion

Luciftias – Staring into Oblivion
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Luciftias

“Staring into Oblivion”

From the eg0cide Productions release notes:

“We welcome back long time contributor John Beers aka Luciftias with a new album of subtle droning ambient, featuring contributions of his cousin and collaborator Caleb Beers. Like most of their work, Staring Into Oblivion is based on guitar sounds, often heavily treated but more recognizable on some tracks here – always hypnotic.”

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posted 01 September 2023

Fields Ohio- Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire

Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire

Fields Ohio – Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire

Fields Ohio

“Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire”

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Bien que moins souvent à l’honneur dans nos pages que d’autres projets du New-Yorkais Eddie Palmer (citons Cloudwarmer, Aries Death Cult ou feu The Fucked Up Beat en plus de ses albums solo), ce duo plus acoustique et psyché qui l’associe à la multi-instrumentiste et vocaliste Christine Annarino fait preuve d’une belle constance depuis une dizaine d’années d’existence, avec une quinzaine de sorties au compteur, pour l’essentiel en long format.

Déjà auteurs cette année de l’excellent “Valkyrie”, typique de l’univers des Américains entre trip-hop mystique aux accents world music, downtempo-patchouli densément arrangé et touches electro hédonistes, on imaginait les Fields Ohio persister et signer dans leur admirable pré carré Ninja-Tunesque (de la belle époque) avec cette suite. Loin s’en faut ! Si “Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire” se décline au gré de la double-hélice d’un ADN désormais bien connu, il donne également l’occasion aux deux musiciens de se réinventer avec subtilité. Les rythmiques ici sont souvent plus feutrées, les textures plus oniriques et gorgées de reverb au diapason des nappes de synthés scintillantes d’Eddie, les lignes acoustiques et vocales de Christine fondues dans l’ensemble avec une homogénéité toute particulière, les mélodies presque serpentines et d’une fluidité qui évoque l’eau, élément omniprésent sur le disque.

Souvent inspiré par la contemplation de la rivière Hudson que surplombe son appartement new-yorkais ou par ses sorties au bord de l’océan, Eddie Palmer y trouve en effet matière à se concentrer sur le présent, autre thème central de l’album. “Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire” sonne ainsi comme un rappel à l’ordre que l’on se fait, dans ces moments de chaos que la vie nous réserve : affronter les problèmes un à un, un jour après l’autre, sans se préoccuper de trop d’un futur encore lointain et abstrait. Autant de sensations – ligne d’horizon, impermanence et abstraction – qui président à cette superbe collection d’instrumentaux au groove impressionniste et hypnotique.

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ENGLISH VERSION

Although not featured in our website’s columns as often as other projects by New Yorker Eddie Palmer (including Cloudwarmer, Aries Death Cult or the late great The Fucked Up Beat, in addition to his solo albums), this more acoustic and psychedelic duo associating him with multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Christine Annarino has shown great consistency over the span of its ten years of existence, with about fifteen releases so far.

After dropping earlier this year the excellent “Valkyrie”, representative of the band’s signature sound somewhere between mystical trip-hop with “world music” elements, densely arranged downtempo psychedelics and hedonistic electronic touches, we imagined that Fields Ohio would go on with that “great Ninja Tune era” trademark with its follow-up. Not exactly though ! Even if “Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire” remains consistent with that henceforth well-known DNA, it also gives the two musicians the opportunity to subtly reinvent themselves. The beats here are often more subdued, the textures more dreamlike and bursting with reverb in tune with Eddie’s scintillating synth pads, Christine’s acoustic and vocal lines melt into the whole with more homogeneity, and the melodies’ fluidity evoke water, an omnipresent element on the record.

The contemplation of the Hudson River from his New York apartment or his outings by the ocean indeed help Eddie Palmer to focus on the present, another central theme of the album. “Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire” thus sounds like a reminder, in these moments of chaos that life has in store for us: facing the problems one by one, one day after another, without worrying too much about a still distant and abstract future. So many sensations – the horizon, impermanence and abstraction – which preside over the impressionistic and hypnotic groove of this impressive new collection of instrumentals.

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posted 29 August 2023