Neil Young, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Sigur Ros, Red House Painters, Stars, The Cardigans, Hayden, Sufjan Stevens, Ron Sexsmith, Cowboy Junkies, Iron and Wine
NORTH ATLANTIC EXPLORERS interweave spacey songs with scenic themes and geographic imagery, enhanced by loops, samples, cinematic orchestration, and instrumental elements. The result is a blend of nomadic ventures incorporating Neil Youngs forlorn beauty, Wilcos dreamy textures, and Yo La Tengos mesmerizing ambience.
North Atlantic Explorers are captained by Vancouver B.C.s Glenn DCruze who stepped out from behind the drum kit to navigate his own ship. Glenn played with Vancouver bands who released albums on Mint Records and Nettwerk Productions and performed in thirteen countries, including South-By-Southwest in Austin, Texas and Denmarks Roskilde Festival with legends like Neil Young, The Velvet Underground, Uncle Tupelo, and Sonic Youth. He also currently plays with Anniedale Recording Artists Jonathan Inc.
THE VOYAGE THUS FAR ...
Skylines is the debut record from North Atlantic Explorers on Anniedale Records. Its a beautiful, engaging, and sonically stimulating record flavoured with strings, horns, loops, samples, vibes, xylophones, banjo, upright bass and vintage organs and pianos, with Glenn handling the songwriting and much of the instrumentation including lead vocals, guitars, drums, and piano.
Glenn teamed up with an ensemble of players and co-producer, Jonathan Inc. leader and founding Radiogram member, Jonathan Anderson (In Medias Res,Maplewood Lane, Jack Harlan, Hinterland) at Jonathans Buena Vista Audio studio where songs were lushly layered while others were stripped down to a more subtle and understated form. Some songs were scrapped altogether; others went through many incarnations being abandoned and re-invented several times over. Working out of Jonathans own studio gave Glenn and Jonathan the ability to explore and experiment, with no obligation to commit to anything that didnt feel right, and enabled them to spend as long as necessary for the exploration process.
Skylines contains hypnotic, eight minute epics (When My Ship Comes In, Anchors Away), 1930's style ballads (Sweetheart), swirly, futuristic tracks (Aerial View), lazy, spacious country (Blue Moon On The Rise), atmospheric instrumentals (Sundrenched, Coast Starlight), and multi-layered orchestration (Springtime) reminiscent of Procol Harums A Whiter Shade of Pale. The album also includes an endearing version of Tonight You Belong To Me originally sung by Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters in The Jerk and a rendition of Lloyd Coles I Will Not Leave You Alone described by Cole himself as lovely.
Hello all, this will be our final release of 2009, and a great way to end the year... Pinklogik asked 10 artists and friends to remix her entire "Learning To Trust Higher Frequencies" album and what an eclectic and stunningly produced work this is. Each track has its own feel, thanks to the diverse range of artists involved in the project. A shimmering journey through ambient colours, broken beats, sweet melodies, a little bit of quantum physics, and is one hell of a trip....
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Also from S27...
[S27-030] MIN-Y-LLAN : Dark Days (Downtempo, Ambient)
We are fast approaching the last days of 2009, so what better way to celebrate than this release from Welshman "Min-Y-Llan" who offers us this collection of atmospheric ambient pieces, the melodies within are dark and cavernous, being the perfect listening for the walk home on a frozen winters evening. Each track has a very melancholic feel as if looking towards a future that isn't as bright as we hope for, but nevertheless are powerless to escape. Free download!
Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
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Hey – just a reminder to listen in SUNDAY night at 7-8:30 pm CST to hear NORTH ATLANTIC EXPLORERS on “This Great White North” an ALL CANADIAN music show from Austin, Texas ! It’s on 91.7 KOOP-FM Listen HERE Cheers, Doug The Canuck
