photo from Mindful Seeing (please visit)

So what do you know this post Halloween Saturday?  What new and exciting items happened to the musical landscape?  With a few quick glances, I have gathered one small corner of the interwebs below for your perusal.

• I did include a track from the new J. Tillman – Vacilando Territory Blues on yesterday’s playlist, but the album was more or less leaked this week – but pick it up next Tuesday over at the Western Vinyl shop.
• The Perm & Skullet has a list of all their podcasts that are available – so visit and subscribe.  TONS of good music that should keep you busy for those long days in class/work detail.
• New Blogroller – Womenfolk – has a very nice post on Ane Brun for her recent releases.  I just picked up “Sketches” yesterday due to their heads up.  Nice work over there.
• Chromewaves brings a massive amount of indie updates on a daily basis – recently enjoyed their feature on Emmy the Great.  How do they get soo much stuff??  I am going to have to quit my job to even try to follow in their footsteps!!
• Last but not least, I Am Fuel, You Are Friends has a great write up on the Ray LaMontagne show in Boulder – wish I was there.

I will leave you today with what is apparently a themed weekend for Western Vinyl – I think I am just looking into the label a bit closer and only now digging into their library.  This all ends up being fairly new to me and if it is new to you as well, then great discoveries all around.  The band is Balmorhea and they are what you might call an instrumental, acoustic, strings heavy indie style band.  The music is all encompassing, and worth lying on the grass…staring skywards for hours while listening.  The local Calgary photo selected at the top of this post captures the sound of Balmorhea for me – something of natural beauty.  Enjoy tracks from this Texas outfit’s “Rivers Arms” album from December of last year.

Balmorhea
“The Winter” (mp3)
from “Rivers Arms”
(Western Vinyl)

More On This Album

Also as a bonus, check out this great performance from Vimeo on the Retread Sessions.

Balmorhea “Untitled 2″ from Retread Sessions on Vimeo.
~Smansmith