George Dorn Screams - The Large Glass EP (2009)

Stylistycznie to całkiem odmienne oblicze George Dorn Screams od znanego do tej pory. Knajpiano-nostalgiczny klimat Karate z bluesowo-soczyście brzmiącymi gitarami toruje sobie tu często drogę przez marzycielski slowcore z trąbką na drugim planie. Dialogi wokalne Magdy Powalisz z Girthem McGarthem dopełniają całości.

Na “The Large Glass” można spojrzeć jak na hołd złożony Dougowi Scharinowi, członkowi wielu zespołów, które na ciągle ewolujące brzmienie George Dorn Screams miały niewątpliwy wpływ – między innymi Codeine, June Of 44, HiM czy – przede wszytkim w kontekście nowego wydawnictwa – Rex. Często również zespół powołuje się na Bonnie “Prince’a Billy’ego.

Niezwykła, ciepła atmosfera, która na “The Large Glass” pobrzmiewa, to zasługa niewielkiego studia ukrytego w Sucharach pod Nakłem nad Notecią i ręki Jarka Hejmana, znanego przede wszystkim z produkcji dub i reggae.

Grafikę do “The Large Glass” zaprojektował i wykonał Rafał Piekoszewski, na co dzień gitarzysta poznańskiego Plum oraz autor wielu plakatów dla klubu Kisielice.

Tytuł zaczerpnięty został ze słynnej pracy Marcela Duchampa z 1923 roku traktującej z grubsza o wpływie pożądania kobiety na stymulację męskiego porządania.

Genre: Slowcore, Experimental, Avant-Pop
Bitrate: avg. 250kbps
Size: 46mb
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Tracklist:

1 Field Code 3:54
2 The Terrace 5:31
3 Sprigs and Branches 5:19
4 Another Day 11:06

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Previous albums:

O’Malley’s Bar (2009)
Snow Lovers Are Dancing (2006)

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by adi51 ~ Sunday, 10 January 2010 0 comments

George Dorn Screams - Snow Lovers Are Dancing (2006) *****

George Dorn Screams is definitely a band for late evenings. This music is full of sincerity, calm and melancholy. George Dorn Screams is also energy coming from between post rock and slowcore. After their debut album called “Snow Lovers Are Dancing” they were called the forerunners of Serpentine Rock by Piotr Kosinski from Polish Radio 3rd Programme. “Mazzy Star meets Joy Division”.


>If you haven't heard that one, get it now!<

Tracklist:

01. 69 Moles [05:19]
02. Scheme Box [04:15]
03. Call Me [04:18]
04. Phoney [04:57]
05. Winter Of Deceit [08:03]
06. The Woman With A Bow [03:58]
07. Galway’s Song [04:04]
08. More Than This [05:17]
09. Snow Lovers Are Dancing [03:07]


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by adi51 ~ Saturday, 20 June 2009 0 comments

De La Mancha - Atlas (2008) *****

After the excellent ‘Release All Light EP’, De La Mancha arrive with a full-length offering, delivering on that early promise with an album that combines a Sigur Ros-like sense of scale with humbler, shoegazing songwriting values. ‘Release All Light’ still shines brightly from the album’s tracklist, sounding great on an epic scale, but there’s a lot more to Atlas than that: perhaps due to the presence of Dag Rosenqvist (aka Jasper TX) on electronics and guitar, for every moment of tuneful Euro-indie like ‘Lotus Seven’, there’s a more subtle, soundscaped piece like the ambient brass tones of ‘And Rainy Days’, or the introspective, echoing piano chords of ‘Sleep’. If all this sounds suspiciously like some sort of by-the-book post-rock exercise and your tolerance for such things has reached saturation point, fear not: this isn’t really that sort of record at all… despite the presence of gratuitously long, irritating titles like ‘So Let’s Blow Up Our Heads And Leave’, ‘Atlas’ is proof that De La Mancha have an impressively diverse repertoire, comfortably blending musical disciplines, and handling their instruments with a real expertise. Furthermore, the album is all filtered through a great production job from Rosenqvist, who keeps the hour-long duration ticking over with a real sense of dynamism and narrative progression. Lovely.

>Fantastic<

Tracklist:

01. Newfoundland
02. Release All Light
03. Lotus Seven
04. And Rainy Days
05. The Kimono
06. Superstoned
07. So Let's Blow Up Our Heads And Leave
08. Being A Hero Is Easy
09. Sleep

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Iowa Super Soccer - Lullabies To Keep Your Eyes Closed (2008)

ISS are Natalia Baranowska (vocals), Michal Skrzydlo (acoustic guitar and vocals), Marcin Fluder (guitar), Slawek Plotek (percussion) and Blazej Nowicki (bass). Since 2004, they’ve put up a band that brought a sound not common to Poland’s musical scene. We’re talking about pop music and alt-country; melancholic, acoustic and slow.
On their new EP, they’ve lost their innocence and this can be seen on the track The River. The indie catchy pop tunes, mellow and sung so delicately have been adulterated. They’ve been plugged to the current and injected high doses of electricity and percussion into their music.

Tracklist:

1. One day in the grass... 4:12
2. She 5:00
3. The River 2:57
4. Screaming 4:45
5. Cold 3:05
6. Letter to nowhere 3:27
7. Robin Hood 3:31
8. Naive song 1:52
9. Let me die 4:19
10. Live as if you'll die tomorrow 3:23
11. Tony 6:41

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by adi51 ~ Monday, 15 June 2009 0 comments