'round the nets,Best New Music,Featured,Folk,Free EP/LP,Instrumental,Singer Songwriter,Video 19 June 2010

A round up of various tracks, videos and fellow bloggers – featured are Small Sur, JBM, Thy Courage Quail, Sam Quinn and The Frontloader & Love Shack, Baby Blogs.

 Best New Music,Canadian,Featured,Folk,Indie-pop??,Instrumental,New Album,Singer Songwriter,indie 23 February 2010

5 Albums that officially were released today that deserve a better look – enjoy a track from each!

 Ambient,Best New Music,Featured,Folk,Instrumental,New Album,Video,indie 29 January 2010

…new album from Western Vinyl’s resident instrumental alt folk group Balmorhea. Atmospheric and beautiful at is minimum, epic and jaw-dropping at it’s most.

 Best New Music,Featured,Instrumental 11 January 2010

Bands with long overly wordy song titles. I don’t know who started this…Well, I found one place where these bastardy named songs work.

 Ambient,Down-Tempo,Instrumental,MySpace 9 August 2009

I just wanted to say I am sitting here mouth agape.  Amiina does that.
I haven’t been on the band wagon (no pun intended) for very long and I didn’t find them myself – I believe it was the lovely Agnes over at It All Started With Carbon Monoxide who introduced …

 Ambient,Down-Tempo,Electro,Electro-acoustic,Instrumental,New Album,indie 2 August 2009

Balmorhea gets remixed.  But…
Okay, don’t get me wrong, I love Balmorhea and of the artists that I know that are doing the remixing they are impressive (Peter Broderick, Tiny Vipers, Eluvium…).  I am not sure I am completely sold on the full project.  Yes, it has some very nice ambient …

 Ambient,Down-Tempo,Instrumental 12 July 2009

Goodnight folks, I will leave you with one of the tracks from the newest Peter Broderick album (fittingly the end track).  Just gorgeous use of piano, strings and atmosphere:  he used no other instruments/sounds other than those from piano and violin.  This is the stuff that baffles me in its …

 Ambient,Down-Tempo,Instrumental,Video 30 May 2009

This is one of the best things I have seen in a while.  Enjoy.
~Smansmith
p.s.  Check out some previous love for Balmorhea (here and here).
p.p.s.  This is up there with that damn fine Damien Jurado video for “Caskets” I posted here.