Can
volcano!
Broken Social Scene
Animal Collective
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
Four Tet
Steve Reid
Jim O'Rourke
Cinematic Orchestra
Do Make Say Think
Hanged Up
Godspeed
Midlake
Arcade Fire
Gogogo Airheart
Tristeza
!!!
The Mars Volta
Soft Machine
Jaga
Super Numeri
Fridge
Akron Family
Nick Drake
Keith
Nostalgia 77
Led Zeppelin
Tortoise
Tim Buckley
Jeff Buckley
DJ Shadow
Pink Floyd
Fat Freddys Drop
Caribou/Manitoba
Hanne Hukkelberg
Architecture in Helsinki
The Doors
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Zombies
Neu!
Black Mountain
The Rapture
David Axelrod
Ennio Morricone
Holy Fuck
Sam Prekop
Sea & Cake
Deerhoof
Gong
A Hawk And A Hacksaw
Yes
Comets On Fire
TV on the Radio
Talking Heads
Roxy Music
ESG
Amon Duul II
Neutral Milk Hotel
Spiritualized
Spacemen 3
Stereolab
Broadcast
Primal Scream
Miles Davis
King Crimson
Regular Fries
Fela Kuti
LCD Soundsystem
Grails
David Thomas Broughton
Benjamin Wetherill
Panda Bear
Silver Apples
The Kasai Allstars
Cuckundoo wants to release music with an experimental edge yet still accessible.
The ideal situation would be to get artists from all walks of life and musical styles to jam together, recorded both in audio and on film. The essence of music is in live performance, so Cuckundoo wants to be able to catch this vibe.
Inspired by not only the music itself, but also the Canadian collectives such as Constellation, Broken Social Scene and Arcade Fire and the recent Leeds scene (Dance to the Radio, Art Goes Pop, Engine Room, Gizeh...), by comedy (Chris Morris, the Boosh, Look Around You), by film (directors Linklater, Coen brothers, Leone, Kaufman, Jeunet...), not to mention all of the other day-to-day occurences that pass by.
Vessels
Experimental/post-rock band (Martin Teff, Tim Mitchell, Tom Evans, Lee J.Malcolm) who formed in 2005, and have since played at the Leeds festival and with Mono, Jeniferever, The Appleseed Cast, iLiKETRAiNS, Brett Anderson and Youthmovies amongst others. Their sound has been compared to many bands/movements, but a distinctive sound is emerging from their Green Room headquarters in Leeds.
Vessels had a second single, Two Words & A Gesture, out in November '07. You can hear that here or on Vessels' MySpace. They have finished the recording of their debut record their album at the Pachyderm in Minneapolis, US, with John Congleton, read their diary here:
Megaboon diary
escalade
I met Greg Sullivan in the Lodge in the City hostel on Taranaki Street in Wellington, NZ, in 2003. In between his recordings, we got to know each other quite well, and he passed me a cd, and 18 months later it dawned on me that we could work together, despite there being almost 10,000 miles between us. Anyway here is what Greg says about escalade:
escalade (aka Greg Sullivan) is a project based in Tokyo, Japan. Originally from New York, USA, Sullivan embarked on a self-imposed exile to New Zealand, and has currently been gaining momentum within the live scene of Japan's capital.
A-side, X's & O's, is a slow-burner exemplifying Sullivan's superb production skills that evokes the likes of Hood or Television. Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco) helped mix the track with Greg. Pleasure Treasure, the b-side, is more of a nod to Future Days-era Can or Stereolab with its insistent groove, and was mixed by John McEntire (Tortoise/Sea & Cake).
Read reviews of X's & O's here:
The Organ Gigwise 4/5 Rant Magazine Subba-Cultcha Tasty Fanzine Whisperin & Hollerin 8/10 Manchester Music 4/5
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Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
This is the first set from the slightly tweaked Beach Fuzz line-up with Fliss Horrocks now playing guitar alongside Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell. Seven tracks of clattering drums, chugging and wailing guitars, screaming keyboards, mellow, lilting pastoral improv and moaned vocals.
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A
4 track EP, titled Call Signs, it provides the perfect introduction to
the band prior to the release of their debut album, Grappling Hooks, in
early 2010.
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
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