In no particular order: Tom Waits, Neil Young, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Drake, Sparklehorse, Daniel Lanois, Charles Bukowski, Depeche Mode, Angelo Badalamenti, Jean Vigo, Mark Hollis, Low, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, The Band, Lee Hazlewood, Pink Floyd, Vincent Gallo, Les Baxter, Serge Gainsbourg, Jack Kerouac, Francoise Hardy, John Fante, Ingmar Bergman, Arthur Rimbaud, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, François Truffaut, Arvo Pärt, Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, Django Reinhardt, Jean-Luc Godard, U2, Franz Kafka, J.S. Bach, Leonard Cohen, Brian Eno, Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Delerue, Gram Parsons, Giacomo Puccini, Neu!, Kate Bush, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Agents, Topi Sorsakoski, Roy Orbison, early Genesis, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Stina Nordenstam, Mazzy Star, early King Crimson, Shriekback, J.J. Cale, The Velvet Underground, W. A. Mozart, Ennio Morricone, The Flying Burrito Brothers, George Gershwin, Townes Van Zandt, William S. Burroughs, Lucinda Williams, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Robert Johnson, Aki and Mika Kaurismäki, Coleman Hawkins, David Bowie, The Smiths, Sergei Eisenstein, Paul Simon, Otis Redding, Hank Williams, Wilco, Billie Holiday, Emmylou Harris, Kurt Weill, Jimmy Scott, Jackson C. Frank, David Lynch, Scott Walker just to name a few that came to mind.
"The Gentleman Losers are nothing short of one of the best things I've heard all year." Jennifer Allan / Angry Ape
"This is a stunning release for City Centre Offices' new Büro imprint, and one that haunts and enchants with its timeless beauty." Ian Roullier / Clash
"Les cow-boys dans l'espace... Pour se figurer la musique de ces losers finlandais, il suffit d'imaginer le Ry Cooder de la BO de Paris, Texas, perdu dans les étoiles, ou encore le Neil Young du Dead Man de Jim Jarmusch reconverti en version post-rock... ...belles atmosphères qui évoquent des routes sans fin, des paysages en cinémascope et l'errance initiatique des perssonages de Kerouac"
Jean-Yves Leloup / Trax
"..carefully constructed ambient soundscape that woozily makes its way through towering clouds of nebulous menace."
Kansai Time Out, Japan
"Da wo Jazz, Blues und Country zu Anfang des letzten Jahrhunderts an den Crossroads standen, wollen The Gentleman Losers hin, nur tauschen sie alles Erdige gegen die Weite eines verlassenen Flugplatzes. *****" Debug
"This is music for seeing mirages to." Almost Cool music reviews
"The brothers weave lazy acoustic and electric guitar parts through hazy synthesized chords, adding dusty handclaps and hesitant percussion as the songs drift through imagined glimmering dusks and distant smoky dawns." The Wire
"Masterfully cinematic, wonderfully sublime, a genuine pleasure!"
Trevor Jackson
"I might as well get to the meat of what you, the reader, want to know. Screw objectivity, this is the best thing I’ve heard all 2006. ...Put bluntly, if this record asked me to jump off a cliff you would find me approaching the ground below seconds later weeping tears of joy that these musical poets had deigned fit to address me." Indiecult
Hie the brothers kukka ! Thanks for the comment. Happy to know you like it. Very nice music too, sounding like pleasant memories. Great works. Thanks for friendship. Peace. Yann
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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.
Thank you for taking the time to listen and the comment! I love your music, as well. I first heard of you two in a Bibio interview a few months ago, and have been stopping by this page every now and then to listen to your tracks. I definitely plan on ordering a cd of yours soon. -Eric
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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