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.

 'round the nets, Ambient, Duet Feature, Electro-acoustic, Folk, Instrumental, MySpace, New Album, Singer Songwriter, indie 4 April 2009

What is going on around in my fellow bloggers world that is of concern to me (and hence you)?  Well, I am glad you asked.  Let me drop some links for you for items of note for me (and hence you).
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Captain Obvious has put up a post on Joe Purdy …