Heaven Sent An Angel with Soren Well - An Interview

Brooklyn, NY, é absolutamente incrivel a quantidade de bandas sensacionais que estão sendo criadas na cidade, já tivemos o Pré Punk, a No Wave, e tantas e tantas outras cenas e agora NY simplesmente nos dá inumeros tesouros sejam mais shoegazers, mais garagem ou mais noisepoppers, o fato é que a cidade é a mecca da nova musica alternativa e não tem para ninguém.

Passeando pelo My Space me deparei com esse tesouro chamado Soren Well e fiquei deslumbrado de verdade com a sonoridade dos caras, um shoegazer classico daqueles especiais mesmo, nivel Ride, MBV, Chapterhouse, Boo Radleys, músicas esculpidas através de dissonantes guitarras e loops com vocais que mais parecem outra guitarra, uma perfeita maravilha, dai para variar busquei o pessoal da banda e me deparei o Derek, extremamente acessivel, simpatico e como eu, um grande fã de tudo isso que nos fascina, dai foi um passo para realizar mais uma entrevista muito, mas muito gratificante e com um presente do Derek e seu estupendo Soren Well. Guardem bem este nome....

***** Interview with Soren Well *****

Q.When did Soren Well start, tell us about the beginning…
A. I guess Soren Well came to be in the fall of 2008 when I began writing some songs under that name, when I had first been put in contact with Jason by a mutual friend Craig (he owns some internet list or something). We both really dug the early 90's britpop / shoegaze sound and clicked pretty much instantly. We actually recorded his vocals to the instrumental demo the night I met him. We had tried to get off the ground with that demo alone, lacking a permanent rhythm section. Then the stars aligned and Kevin, Kristin, and Eric joined up with Jason and myself. It's been the most pain free musical expedition any of us have even been on.

Q.Who are the influences for the band?
A. Well there's the gateway drugs... Things we heard on the radio growing up like Smashing pumpkins, Blur, Oasis, Verve, Primal Scream and that sort of "dreamy" radio friendly rock moment that America was briefly exposed too. I was luckily turned on to more under the radar UK groups like Slowdive, Chapterhouse, Curve, My Bloody Valentine, etc. From there you could say that I found my "sonic personality" and what I wanted to do musically.

Q.Brooklyn, NY is a mecca from new noise/shoegazer bands, tell us about the scene in the city.
A. Truly Inspiring and Utterly unflattering. Everyone is in a band here. You can find awesome instruments and musicians to use them but moving forward from there, well Its tough. There is just SO much going on any given evening. Getting people to turn up at your live shows, DJ sets, etc is tricky. You really have to offer something that can't be found elsewhere. Maybe we sell nostalgia.

Q.Tell us about the process of recording the ep?
A. I have a recording studio called Honeyland, and the recording process is very relaxed here. Eric and I have a great dynamic recording together as he is the hand of reason to some of my more unorthadox production methods. Sometimes we take what we have for granted, as we are only investing time into producing songs. The first day of tracking drums, I was more hungover than I, possibly anybody, had ever been before. I spent most of that week in bed pretty sick. Eric single handedly had to hit record from the control room and run behind the kit for every song. That was a dark winter; though it was funny.

Q.Which bands songs would you love to make a cover version?
A. We've done "she's so high" by Blur and we are slowwwwly working out a version of Q lazarus's "goodbye horses" I'm constantly obsessing and re-obsessing with songs that I can hear sounding pretty cool with our spin on it.

Q.Which new bands do you recommend?
A. Telltale, Electric Umbilical Cord, and the Violet Hour are very awesome. The morning after girls are very fucking awesome.

Q.What´s the plans for future?new records, a tour….
A. The album comes out this winter. We're excited... It's been a while waiting to release these songs... Like, it's easy to get sick of things you have been rehearsing for a year. We're in discussion with a band that we all really like to support them on their winter tour of the US and Australia. As of now its keep writing and not freeze to death.
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Thanks Soren Well
http://www.myspace.com/sorenwellnoise

Soren Well - After - http://www.mediafire.com/?dmdwmzjym3m
Song from EP - Starry Eyes Gone Blank Tonight

Noise from Heaven by Anything After - An Interview

Prediletissimos deste que vos escreve, o Anything After passou por aqui com um tufão de white noise com seu absurdo album de estréia, que conforme eu coloquei é mais ou menos assim:

"There´s Something Warm e é um choque sua audição, um verdadeiro massacre noise em alta rotação sem tempo para se respirar. O vocal neuroticamente gritado dá o tom exato para as estridentes guitarras e o wall of sound que carrega o album do inicio ao fim.

O desfile de canções desde a abertura com Little Down até o ultimo acorde da redenção final com Same old Thing causa um estrago absurdo, e faz com que caras como eu, amantes de noise e guitarradas fiquem a merce da perfeição que estes caras fazem nesse album, em meio a um tiroteio sem limitações, All for This, She Always Said, Whats With You, Where Do I, Mistake e basicamente todas as canções do album são um cruzamento em alta rotação de In a Hole com April Skies e Precious Little, com uma linha de baixo que salta aos ouvidos a´la Simon Gallup."

E não contente resolvi contactar os caras para mais informações e saber mais destes californianos, mestres do wall of sound, onde gentilmente Brian Dale, Jason Ayala e Bradley Dale me concederam a belissima conversa abaixo, então saiba mais sobre a devastação vestida de noise chamada Anything After.

***** Anything After - An Interview *****

Q.When did Anything After starts, tell us about the beginning…
A. Well Anything After was just idea during junior year of high school. then late senior year of high school we started to get more serious. but offically it start June of 2004.

Q.Who are the influences from the band?
A.Well the main influences are The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, New Order, The Cure, Flesh For Lulu, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time....
The Jesus and Mary Chain - PsychoCandy
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
The Cure - Disintegration
The Raveonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust
New Order - Lowlife

Q.Tell us about the process of recording There´s Somenthing Warm?
A. Well were fairly young at the time when we recorded that album, maybe like 19 20? We kind of wanted to just went head into the studio not know what to do..so we did what we thought we should do..record two rythem guitars, a solo track, bass track and the drums and then of course added the oh so yummy white noise! :D it took us about maybe..a month to finish that album..we recorded 2 versions of the album one by ourselves and another one with help a of friend that knew how to use the recording studio. So yeah the version you are hearing is the one with our friend showing us how to use our recording studio. hahaha

Q. How Anything After feels playing alive?Tell us about the shows...

A. We love playing live shows. when ever we get the chance to play live, we always try to put on a good show..even if it's just for 15 minutes! Someone described our shows as if they were watching a trainwreck happening..they couldnt keep there eyes off of us. I guess thats a good thing right?

Q.Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A. We dont do covers normally. We play cover songs during practice or at like sound checks for warms up. Our fans are here to see Anything After so we will give them Anything After. Put during our warms up we like to play Ceremony by Joy Division/New Order.

Q.Which new bands you recommended?
A. I would want to say new bands because they been out for awhile but I'd recommend Taking a listen to The Raveonettes Album. Really good stuff..we dont listen to new music that much..we kind of just like put ourselves in hole when ever we start recording new stuff.

Q.What´s the plans for future?new records, a tour….
A. We are almost done recording our 2nd album. this album has taken us about two years to complete, but now that we got stuff rolling again..everything is falling in to place and we are looking at a release date of late 2010.

Q.Any other important thing to tell us…
A. Our first album is avalible for free to download at our website www.anythingafter.com :D

Thanks again renato.. i hope this is good for you!

Guys, this is fucking awesome, tanx for that!!!

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Sem mais, VOCÊ DEVE TER O ALBUM!!!

Psychocandy with Meat Whiplash

Como dizia o programa, "senta que lá vem história" e isso aqui é pura história, alias histórico, East Kilbride, Scotland, mais conhecida por ser a terra natal dos maiores J&MC, mas esta pequena cidade da Escocia, produziu na mesma epoca outra banda que sucumbiu a história, mas que deixou marcado definitivamente a essência do que a cidade era, primeiro que o Meat Whiplash foi a primeira banda a assinar com a Creation, segundo que a capa de seu unico 7" foi concebida por Bobby Gillespie, produzido pelos irmãos Reid, precisa mais??Precisa porque 1 unico 7" e 4 canções colhidas de Peel Sessions da aquele gosto amargo de querer mais e mais e muito mais, ainda mais pelo seguinte, se os caras eram banda de abertura do Jesus, tinham que ter a mesma caracteristica e eles tinham, só que mais bubblegum e mais esquizofrenicos tipo Fall tudo isso a´la Jesus, só sei o seguinte Don´t Slip Up e Here It Comes são clássicos absolutos do underground de todos os tempos, noisepop doentio e pegajoso, com muito wall of sound...espancando um kit de bateria basicamente inaudivel, um pout pourri para os amantes de música seja class of 86, shoegazer, noise, pos punk, tanto faz, tem que ter Meat Whiplash na tua coleção, isso fora as 4 musiquinhas da peel sessions, Loss, Walk Away, Eat me to the Core, She Comes Tomorrow são fantasticas também....uma pena que a banda não vingou, mas para quem curte os desmembramentos do underground inglês e quiser ir atrás, a banda depois do single recrutou a vocalista Alex Taylor que era do Shop Assistants e dai a banda virou Motorcycle Boy, mas ai já é outra história para outro dia...

Aqui é hora do clássico Meat Whiplash....

Meat Whiplash - http://www.mediafire.com/?jmtmjmj1uqm

The Girl With The Loneliest Eyes with Daniel Land & The Modern Painters

Love Songs For The Chemical Generation este é o nome do album de estréia de Daniel Land & the Modern Painters que já apareceram por aqui com os dois EPs, e já digo facilmente, este é o melhor album de dream pop do ano, se a palavra perfeito representa o que o aurélio diz, ou seja, adj. Que reúne todas as qualidades; que não tem defeitos; ideal, impecável; excelente. / Completo, absoluto, total., esta é a definição exata para esta obra prima do dream pop.

O album é longo, ambicioso e climático do inicio ao fim, viagens moldadas em dedilhados imersos a inumeros delays, com uma sonoridade que flutua entre o tenue fio que vem desde House of Love e Felt, passando pela 4AD e os prediletos Cocteau Twins e com a passagem direta ao paraiso com pinceladas de Slowdive e Pale Saints, assim é Love Songs For The Chemical Generation, com canções majestosas como Glitterball, Benjamins Room, a altamente house of loviana Off Your Face Again, Daniel Land e sua voz androgina comanda o passeio pelos ceus, em Within the Boundries e Codeine evocam os mestres Halstead e Gosswell, um primor de album, um deleite que flutua entre as nuvens, caso das fascinantes, Smiling in Slow Motion, The Magic in My Head e a mojaveviana Good Speed Good Fun.

É possivel que alguém peça para retirar o link, então sugiro guardar a sete chaves o arquivo porque esta é uma das chaves para o paraiso, cortesia de Daniel Land & The Modern Painters.

Daniel Land & The Modern Painters - Love Songs For The Chemical Generation
Part I - http://www.mediafire.com/?tzyoz23wjmi
Part II - http://www.mediafire.com/?mk1y2qiwznz

Psychedelic Furs by Solar Powered People

Finalmente chegou em minha mãos o segundo album do Solar Powered People, um dos mais dificeis de se conseguir, mas enfim é hora de pegar carona na sonoridade mezzo pos punk, mezzo shoegazer dos americanos, este Living Through The Low esta mais 80´s do que 90´s com influências mais acentuadas de Psychedelic Furs, Chameleons e afins, tanto na ambientação como na vocalização, tudo pode ser notado nas soturnas Melting Ice and Snow e Dark Disguise, ou na baladaça Wash Put, e só por este motivo já valeria mais do que a pena, mas ainda tem o lado shoegazer, e as paredes de wall of sound pedem licença a partir de You Were Right evocando um Swervedriver dark, ou na cintilante e empolgante Counting Down Days a melhor do album, um mix frenetico condensando os dois lados distintos da banda, vocais arrastados ao melhor estilo Richard Butler e camadas e camadas de guitarras sobrepostas pedindo benção a Catherine Wheel e Adorable, brutalmente perfeita, em tons epicos o Solar Powered People despede-se com Out of time e seus mais de oito minutos de puro lamento e desamor. Discaço que é evolução natural do primeiro album Hibernation que você pega na casa dos amigos.

Solar Powered People - Living Through the Low - http://www.mediafire.com/?3d2lgnjywyz

Catch the Breeze with Moonbeams - An Interview with Ryan Lescure

San Diego, California, este é o lar do Moonbeams, ouvi-los é uma sensação de calmaria, frescor, como se todas as manhãs acordassemos no paraiso, as vezes guitarras altas, as vezes guitarras candidas e vocais doces e cristalinos, este é o clima que transcende o EP homonimo de estréia de Ryan Lescure, o homem por trás desta sonoridade.

Canções como Save my Soul, Echoing Seasons evocam Slowdive, mestres e maior influência deles palavras do própria Ryan, em entrevista concedida após ele próprio me presentear com o EP, as perolas do Moonbeams não acabam por ai, Awake e Fireworks puxam uma influência mais noise com trejeitos de Echodrone do Skywave, sem mais por menores veja a conversa bacana com o gentil e cortez Ryan Lescure e seu Moonbeams.

***** Interview With Ryan Lescure from Moonbeams *****

Q. When Moonbeams starts?Tell us about the beggining...
A - Moonbeams started in Spring 2009, but I have been making music for a long time. I have loved shoegaze for a while now. I started Moonbeams as my own project, recording overdubs of myself in my bedroom. We initially were going to blend twee pop and shoegaze, but I had more fun writing the shoegaze songs, so I stuck with that. When we started playing live, it was just my girlfriend and I. Now we play as a four piece.

Q. Who are Moonbeams influences?
A - I am specifically influenced by albums I always look for in the record shops but can never seem to find...shoegaze bands like Lilys, Swirlies, Slowdive, the Telescopes, Astrobrite, Secret Shine and Skywave. I am also influenced by 1990s indie pop...the Field Mice, the Cranberries, the La's, the Sundays, Rocketship, Belle & Sebastian, etc.

Q. Tell us about the process of recording the debut ep?
A - I have an old 4-track tape recorder that I used for the EP. I recorded most of it in my bedroom. The 4-track is usually broken, resulting in one track being quieter than the others, or it will randomly turn off while I'm using it. It's frustrating, but I think it has a lot of personality.

Q. How was the shows?
A - The shows are fun. We are so much louder and intense live than we are recorded. The musicians that I play with are my best friends too, so it's very rewarding.

Q. What´s your opinion about shoegazer classic era?
A - Classic shoegazer era...I love bands like My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, and the Jesus and Mary Chain, but I have always liked Slowdive the most. They definitely have a big influence on the music I make.

Q. Which new bands you recommended?
A - New bands I recommend...A Place to Bury Strangers, Tears Run Rings, the Fauns, Darker My Love, Ceremony, The 1959 Hat Company, I heard the Vandelles the other day and they sounded pretty cool.

Q. What´s the plans for future?
A - I plan on recording more and more! I'm going to try to put out an LP.

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Thank you, Renato.
Thanks a lot Ryan...it´s a pleasure to me...

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Moonbeams - EP - http://www.mediafire.com/?2j251zmd3yz
http://www.myspace.com/moonbeamssandiego

In a Hole with Anything After

J&MC, J&MC, J&MC, J&MC, J&MC, J&MC, J&MC, J&MC, J&MC, J&MC, um pouco de MBV fase Ins´t Anything, Telescopes fase noise e post punk essa é a receita para este absurdo chamado Anything After, bandaça californiana composta por Brian Dale, Jason Ayala e Bradley Dale, os caras tem no curriculo um album que esta completamente fora de catalogo, palavras do proprio Brian em recente troca de emails. O tal album chama-se There´s Something Warm e é um choque sua audição, um verdadeiro massacre noise em alta rotação sem tempo para se respirar. O vocal neuroticamente gritado dá o tom exato para as estridentes guitarras e o wall of sound que carrega o album do inicio ao fim.

O desfile de canções desde a abertura com Little Down até o ultimo acorde da redenção final com Same old Thing causa um estrago absurdo, e faz com que caras como eu, amantes de noise e guitarradas fiquem a merce da perfeição que estes caras fazem nesse album, em meio a um tiroteio sem limitações, All for This, She Always Said, Whats With You, Where Do I, Mistake e basicamente todas as canções do album são um cruzamento em alta rotação de In a Hole com April Skies e Precious Little, com uma linha de baixo que salta aos ouvidos a´la Simon Gallup.

Penso o seguinte, não dá para não ter isso, indispensavel para qualquer coleção de shoegazer, eindie rock, noise ou seja lá o que for, Anything After e seu There´s Something Warm é necessário.

Anything After - There´s Something Warm - http://www.mediafire.com/?lt2ym2tydnk

Morningrise with Dreamtiger

A história é a seguinte, conheci essa maravilha chamada Dreamtiger através de uma recomendação dos caras do Everness, dai meu amigos, ouvir o debut do Dreamtiger é resgatar o lado etereo, magico, candido, denso e submerso a inumeros delays, mesmo porque a abertura deste magistral Ep de estréia intitulado Glisten já mostra qual é a fonte principal destes californianos, Heard Inside the Sun é um convite ao mistério das camadas de delays, com uma vocalização magica, oras pelo guitarrista e também vocalista James Meetze oras pela doce e angelical voz de Desiree Cooper, para os ouvidos mais desatentos a audição do Dreamtiger pode ser facilmente confundida com os mestres Neil & Rachel do Slowdive/Mojave 3 que são logicamente a principal referência do Dreamtiger. Tesouros como Waves and Tides, Fragile Girl não são tão facilmente encontrados por ai. Recomenda-se audição imediata e repetida, em carater prioritario.

Dreamtiger - Glisten - http://www.mediafire.com/?mtjqmymg4jk

Magical Spring with Everness

Ouvir Everness é sentir aquele climão sessentista com roupagem indie rock, e fortes doses de guitarras melodicas, vendo toda a caracteristica do som é impossivel não lembrar da obra maxima desta sonoridade que atende pelo nome de Carnival of Light do seminal Ride, dai a evidência e principalmente a reverência que os caras do Everness fazem ao Ride, tanto no primeiro EP que você pode conferir aqui nos colegas e agora no recente Everness 2nd EP, que mantém o nivel do primeiro EP e encharca definitivamente a psicodelia melodica de Byrds, Kinks, Statos Quo e desce a guitarreira indie rock sob o nome de Eating Our Dust, que deixara Andy Bell e Mark Gardener com sorrisos de ponta a ponta, dai vem High, vocalização rideana/byrdiana no limite melodicamente perfeita, na sequencia a sugestiva Barret com um riff altamente grudento e mais guitarras permeiam esta gema indie psicodelica com ecos fortissimos do saudoso Church, para fechar Learning to Run muda o jeitão 60´s e da velocidade e o lado shoegazer do Everness vem a tona com uma pegada a´la Swervedriver, sensacional.

Dai fica a impressão do seguinte, os californianos Eric, Joe, John & Reed já estão prontinhos para debutar com o album cheio, que venha o Carnival of Light do 00´s.

Everness - 2nd EP - http://www.mediafire.com/?tvkizruzyzm

Black Metallic by Catherine Wheel

Esta semana tem sido basicamente tensa e tortuosa, mal deu tempo de estar por aqui e escrever, mas a ausência as vezes é compensada por algo intocavel e que as vezes sem explicação acontece, desde segunda feira tenho viajado pelo interior de sampa e meu acompanhante foi um album basicamente acima de qualquer suspeita, um INTOCAVEL na realidade, algo magistral e que tornou-se atemporal e fundamental para o exercicio de noise, texturas, guitarras, poesia, melancolia e shoegazer no talo em alto e bom som, o fato é que meu acompanhamente foi o Ferment do Catherine Wheel, precisa falar mais alguma coisa??

Precisa, logico, a 120, 140 km por hora em estradas ela faz pleno sentido, já nos primeiros acordes de Texture já da para entender o porque o album é superior, Rob Dickinson, vocais e guitarra, Brian Futter, guitarras, Dave Hawes, baixo, e Neil Sims, bateria fazem o shoegazer chegar no limite do noise e pop ao mesmo tempo, carregados de poesia e melancolia graças ao Sr Dickinson, sobrenome que soa familiar não, pois é o cara é primo do famigerado Bruce Dickinson de um tal de Iron Maiden, inclusive quando fiquei sabendo disso, fiquei até meio receoso, mas já nos primeiros eps, que alias são essenciais, já me apaixonei mortalmente principalmente pelos guitarras ruidosas de Brian Futter que na minha opinião é um dos melhores guitarristas de sua geração.

O Ferment é um desfile de musicas que fogem a qualquer rotulo de classicas, essenciais e o que mais possam falar, é algo intocavel, para se ter uma ideia, quando do lançamento de Black Metallic, os criticos diziam que ela era nada mais nada menos que o a Stairway to Heaven da geração shoegazer, só que ao contrario da criação de Page & Plant, Black Metallic é devastadoramente ruidosa e candida a perfeição em forma de musica, o mesmo acontece com as fantasicas I Want to Touch e She´s my Friend que devem facilmente entrar nas melhores musicas da decada de 90, mas Ferment ainda contém perolas esculpidas de forma colossalmente noise e sonhadora como as popissimas Shallow e Flowers to Hide, sem contar nas viagens transcendentais ao fundo do amor que são Indigo is Blue e Ferment.

O som das guitarras e a voz de Dickinson conduzem o tenue fio da muralha ensurdecedora do noise até o mais cristalino dedilhado, Ferment é eterno, e para isso eu digo, Ferment é INTOCAVEL.

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I've never seen you when you're smiling
It really gets under my skin
You say it's easy when it's faster
I still can't guess what you're after

It's the colour of your skin
Your skin is black metallic
It's the colour of your skin
Your skin is black metallic
Your skin is black metallic
Your skin is black metallic

I think of you when you're sleeping
Of all the secrets that you're keeping
You can't stay all day under the covers
'Cause under there you'll discover

It's the colour of your skin
Your skin is black metallic
It's the colour of your skin
Your skin is black metallic
Your skin is black metallic
You're turning black metallic

It's the colour of your skin
It's the colour of your skin
Your skin is black metallic
Your skin is black metallic
Your skin is black metallic

You're turning black metallic

It's the colour of your skin
Your skin is black metallic
Your skin is black metallic
Your skin is black metallic
Your skin is black metallic
Your skin is black metallic
Your skin is black metallic

- Black Metallic

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Catherine Wheel - Ferment - http://www.mediafire.com/?mohm3mmnqoy

Like a Daydream with Youngteammusic - An Interview with Fredrik Liljequist

Sem muitos rodeios, eu fiquei fascinado desde a primeira audição da musica Your Love e Tokyo que consegui vasculhando pelo Soul Seek e pelas inumeras audições que fiz na pagina dos caras no Myspace, shoegazer, dream pop, psicodelia 60´s tudo em perfeita sincronia entre espaço e mundo real, essa estupenda banda vinda da Suecia é magistralmente obrigatoria, seu nome Youngteammusic, a estreia datada de 2006 atende pelo nome de Missnojesbandet, que além das preciosas Your Love e Tokyo, deve ser apreciado na integra sem intervalos para que não se perca um detalhe sequer, porque albuns como este não se fazem todos os dias.

Tentei achar por inumeras lojas conseguir o album fisico, mas este já se esgotou, todavia me contendo com o arquivo em mp3 que foi uma cortesia dos amantes dos bons sons Miguel e Tadeu via Amor Louco, dai acabamos mais uma vez entrando naquela sintonia que já virou rotina entre nós, mas na data que postaram o album, eu estava fechando uma entrevista que me deu um enorme prazer de ter feito, primeiro pela grande receptividade de Fredrik Liljequist, dono e mentor do Youngteammusic e também pela imensa gentileza de me adiantar demos do que vira a ser o novo album da banda, mas essas ainda devem ficar guardadas só entre amigos, heheheh, me desculpem, é fato que Mr. Fredrik é um grande cara, gente bonissima, vale ressaltar que o contato imediato com o Youngteammusic foi facilitado pelo ilustre Scott Causer que foi nada mais nada menos o cara que inaugurou a sessão entrevista aqui no blog, então sem mais rodeios, Sras, e Srs, Mr Fredrik Liljequist.

***** Interview with Fredril Liljequist from Youngteammusic*****

Q.When did Youngteammusic starts, tell us about the beginning…
A - Youngteam started playing at the end of 2005 i think, back then it was only me and Peter and Jesper...and some friends helping out (like Anna Järvinen etc).

It all started cause i hade some songs that i wanted to record, song that i´ve had in my mind for a very long time, and asked Peter if he wanted to start a band with me.

We wanted to do more noisy stuff, more shoagazy music with a twist of psych...but we wanted to do it our own way, the way that we want music to sound like.

Theese songs made the first youngteam EP, "Missnöjesbandet". The title of the album came up as a joke by Isak from Speedmarket Avenue, cause we were all playing in different bands at that time, and he said we werent happy with that so we started a missnöjes band = dissatisfaction band....haha.

After we released that Ep (through Northern Star Records only) were started to play more like a band, writing new material, playing a lot together, doing shows, recording more stuff...Johan joined us on Guitar and later on Mattias on bass. Youngteam were completed and devoloped our own kinda thing, and we also skipped the -music, and changed name to just youngteam.

Q.Who are the influences from the band?
A- My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Mogwai, Sonic Youth...and others.
Mostly 90´s Shoegaze bands and a lot of the 60´s psych i guess are the main influences. Also Stones, Led Zep, Early Status Quo, Cult Of Luna.

Q. Tell us about the process of recording Missnojesbandet?
A - Actually that EP were recorded by Peter and me at our rehearsal all by ourself. It was recorded during the summer in 2005 and we had nothing else to do but being in the rehearsal studio recording and drinking.

I had some songs, sometimes only an idea, and we just started to record it...didnt have a clue how its gonna end - we just let it happen.

Some friends came buy to help us on some songs, and that was it....pure fun. Nowdays its little more prepared.

Q. Tell us about the prescent Swedish scene from shoegazing bands…
A - There isnt really are scene for shoegazing in Sweden, very small one if so...wich is to bad!!!
There are some few minor clubs and bands, but its not easy to get shows for shoegaze band i think, not at the big clubs...too noisy and loud i guess, and for people who dont like it may sounds like noise with to low vocals.

There are some good bands here though, Radio Dept, The Early Days, Mixtapes and cellmates, Aerial, de la mancha.

Q. Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A - I often think of that, dunno...maybe good times bad times by led zeppelin???

The best cover i´ve ever heard someone do is Fleeting Joys Cover of Bob Dylans Masters Of War - BRILLIANT!!!!

Q. Which new bands you recommended?
A - Im really bad looking up new bands to be honest, and mostly listen to the stuff ive always been listening to. Bands that i do like nowdays and i think you should check out is, Fleeting Joys, The Early Days, December Sound, Soundpool, Asteroid #4, A place to bury strangers, de la mancha.

Q. What´s the plans for future?new records, a tour….
A- We are right now at the end of finishing our debut album, 12 songs i think it will be in the end. We have been working on that album in periods, started recording in about 2 years ago and then did nothing for about a year for some reason i dunno...

We have recorded it with the Producer Mattias Glavå in Gothenburg. I believe we have taken our music to the next level with this one, hard to descibe though but...a lot of melankoli, darkness, psychadelic, 12 string guitars, melotron..lot of downtuned guitars, and shoegaze influences....were very very happy with the results!! Hopefully it will be out soon. After that we will focus on play live as much as we can.

Q. Any order important thing to tell us…
A - We got in touch with Scott Causer from Northern Star Records right after we had recorded our first EP. We love many of the bands that have vorked with him, and what he was doing for the scene - so it was the only way to go to contact him. He is a true psych/gaze lover, and maybe one of the most dedicated persons to music ive ever met, and doing a nice job spreading good music.

Were very proud to be apart of that.

Peace
Fredrik Liljequist - youngteam
http://www.myspace.com/youngteammusic

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Precisa dizer mais alguma coisa?!?!?!?Simplesmente fenomenal Fredrik, you´re always welcome my friend!!!!!

A pedido do Fredrik abaixo um aperitivo da exuberancia do Youngteammusic...

Youngteammusic - Your Love - http://www.mediafire.com/?zywmify52ny

Love is a Sign by Low Line Caller

Estilo e classe são elementos que associados acabam por configurar algo intocavel e acima de qualquer suspeita, exemplos clássicos que vem a mente facilmente são: Roxy Music, David Bowie, os seguidores New Order, Orange Juice, Go-Betweens passando por House of Love, Felt, Pale Saints e assim vai, é nesse ambiente que a fonte de inspiração desta perola, alias outra vinda de Austin, Texas, que vem fazer companhia aos inspirados She, Sir e Eaves, é fato que o Low Line Caller tem um padrão de criação e qualidade de fazer o queixo cair, o belissimo debut Hi Def Soft Core, um EP na realidade, e que EP hein, sem exceção, tem que ouvir do inicio ao fim e repetir por algumas vezes para tentar eleger qual a canção mais perfeita dentre as maravilhosas, Built Over Gasoline, Heartstrings Playing Notes, Over the Counter Kids, Killing Cool, Anderson Junction e Thief, tarefa dificilima, mas a perfeição de Killing Cool é fascinante, todas as nuances, o clima pos punk e new romantic atrelado ao dreampop cool e calmo cativa, nos restando a admiração plena, tamanha a sensação de sonhos que o Low Line Caller exala neste lindo EP, o amor e a beleza pairam na audição completa, indispensavel.

Low Line Caller - Hi Def Soft Core Ep. - http://www.mediafire.com/?kwqmvj4dzqm

Ladies and Gentleman Let´s Floating in Space again with Electric Assembly - An Interview

Tudo começou em 20 de outubro deste ano, recebi o seguinte email:

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"From: dreamdriven@hotmail.co.uk
To: renatomalizia@hotmail.com
Subject: Electric Assembly - White Splinter EP
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:23:11 +0100

Hi there

I'm David from the band Electric Assembly. We have just released our second self-released ep and would love it if you would consider reviewing it on your Blog. It's available in a limited cd edition of 100 in deluxe handmade sleeves. You can see pictures of them here:

http://electricassembly.blogspot.com/2009/06/white-splinter-ep.html

We describe our sound as -The Velvet Underground plays Boards of Canada produced by Kevin Shields arranged by Sun Ra listened to by Syd Barrett.

Others have described us as - 'The sound of Galaxie 500 bumping around in Thurston Moore’s wonky mind' and 'The ethereal elegance of Explosions in the Sky, or the frosty emotions laced through Slowdive'

You can listen to the ep here:

http://electricassembly.bandcamp.com/

The EP is available to download from Amazon, iTunes, Shockhound, Napster, Lala, iMVu and Rhapsody

We are about to run out of the limited cd - the final copies are available from Norman Records in the UK - but we have some promo copies available that i could send you one of if you are interested in reviewing it.

I can also send you the press release as a pdf.

Hope to hear from you.

Thank you.

David
electric assembly "

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E a partir dai, começamos a trocar vários emails, sobre inumeros assuntos, dentre gostos musicais, shows e outros mais, e logicamente o EP White Splinter, segundo registro dos ingleses, que flutua literamente no espaço, com guitarras em cascata oras cristalinas e limpidas oras brutalmente ensurdecedoras fazendo o deleite dos aficcionados em delays e viagens intergalacticas, e o clima vai e embriagando desde a magnifica abertura com Descent Pattern e chegando ao apice lisergico na longa, densa e climatica 11:43, o clima vem mais tenro com a soberda Broken, um como se Jason Pierce e Dean Waheram estivessem basicamente fazendo uma serenata para Syd Barret, algo sublime eu diria, e fechando majestosamente a intensa Wipe the Sun off Your Shoes.

A audição deste grandioso ep esta a disposição no arquivo abaixo, mas eu recomendo, adquira-o, faz isso a você mesmo, para o bem da sua alma.

Aproveitando a oportunidade, o amigo David me concedeu uma belissima entrevista, com muita informação a respeito do já predileto Electric Assembly na qual você confere abaixo na integra.

*****'Interview with Electric Assembly*****

Q. Why Electric Assembly?
Well, we came together through a shared love of similar music, films and sense of humour. All of us were already playing music in some capacity before the band started, but none of it was serious. As close friends, it just seemed like a natural progression to start a band together. The name 'Electric Assembly' came about after hundreds of other suggestions - but we just liked the way it looked on the page and how it sounded.

Q. When the bands start?
Electric Assembly was born on Halloween night of 2004 but our roots go back a little deeper. In a previous incarnation we had music released on the sadly now defunct Earworm records.

Q. Tell us about your influences...
While the more obvious influences would be Spacemen 3, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, early Mercury Rev, Harmonia - we also love music by Boards of Canada, Clark, Angelo Badalementi, Can, James Brown, Steve Reich...the list is endless. We would also have to include films by directors such as Werner Herzog, Monte Hellman, David Lynch, Gaspar Noé; books by Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis, William Burroughs, Haruki Murakami; art works by Yayoi Kusama, Adam Neate, Jackson Pollock and the relationships we have with our family and friends. We don't know if any of these examples can be clearly identified in the music we make, but we certainly would not be the same band without them.

Q. How Electric Assembly feels playing alive?
Maybe nervous euphoria? It's a bit like going on the scariest ride at a fair - you're not sure how safe it is, or if you're going to like it - but something compels you to do it anyway. Then once it's over you're on a real natural high and can't wait to get back on.

The best moments are always the ones that are spontaneous and unrehearsed – when something new and magical emerges from what we're playing. Live is often when songs we’ve been working on finally reach their peak.

Q. How was the shows?
Instead of just playing a bunch of separate songs thrown together, we generally try to make our gigs flow into one trip or 'soundtrack' if you like. Whilst we believe the songs work individually and in their own space - we like to make the gig experience a bit more special than that. We sometimes work with our friend and film maker Lux who does visual projections for the gigs - these have always been the most fun shows for us. But when we're playing without the visuals, we like to think people use their ears to experience the music and not their eyes.

Q. What´s your opinion about shoegazer classc era?
It was a time for beautiful and crazy guitar sounds, perhaps the final era in the electric guitar’s evolution. Certainly it was a time when digital combined with analogue technology bringing the electric guitar somewhere fresh and new.

Q. What´s your opinion about the new shoegazer era?
We're suspicious of anyone deliberately trying to sound exactly like they come from the past. Having said that there are many bands, artists and producers using the sounds of that time as inspiration for something exciting today. Boards of Canada’s Geogaddi was like this decade’s Loveless. To us it represents a similar approach to sound and mood. We're not so into bands who sound exactly like the old shoegaze bands, we would rather go back and listen to the early Ride/Slowdive/Swervedriver/Moose eps.

Q. Which bands you like actually?
Current acts we're into would include Animal Collective, My Bloody Valentine, Do Make Say Think, Deerhunter, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Jim O'Rourke, Magnolia Electric Company, Twilight Sad.

Q. Tell us about the eps? When the album is coming?
The first EP was recorded and put together over a really long period of time. As it was our first release we were all a bit apprehensive about making our first 'musical statement' as a band - so many bands seem to get boxed or labelled by their first release. So we took a lot of time recording and making sure the mastering by Kramer was as good as it could be. We realised that working in this overly cautious way wasn't much fun, so made a pact that we would never go down that route again.

There was quite a gap between that and our second EP 'White Splinter', but that was more to do with us spending time on writing new songs and just getting better as a band. The actual recording, choosing of songs and artwork all came together fairly quickly once we decided we wanted to release another EP and we think the music is much better for it.

We haven't really spoken about releasing an album yet as we're not even sure if that format is really relevant as an artform any more. A lot of albums that have been released over the past few years seem to dilute the aesthetic of the band. That's not to say there aren't albums that we all love or that we would never record one ourselves - we would just have to feel like the time was right. The EP format seems to work best for us at the moment.

David tanx a lot for this!!!
"You're very welcome."

'the White Splinter EP is available as a limited CD edition of 100 with handmade sleeves. The last copies of the CD are available from Norman Records:
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/110289
The EP is available as a download from all the usual MP3 stores.'

for info
www.electricassembly.blogspot.com/
www.electricassembly.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-make-mistakes

Electric Assembly - White Splinter - http://www.mediafire.com/?i3m1myzxu31

Mad Love by Lush

Meriel Barham, Miki Berenyi e Emma Anderson, o começo do Lush era assim, as 3 mocinhas na formação, mas não durou muito não e Meriel depois iria fazer parte de outra banda fundamental chamada Pale Saints, história para outra hora, agora Emma e Miki juntas fizeram do Lush uma viciante e altamente influente banda, talvez a que alcançou maior sucesso em vida de todas as clássicas da Scene. O Lush fazia parte do cast da 4AD e foi adotada carinhosamente por Robin Gutherie que produziu alguns EPs e colocou a belissima Miki cestampada na capa de todas as publicações da epoca, Thoughtforms, Sweetness and Light, De-luxe, Nothing Natural, for Love, Single Girl, Ladykillers, Hypocrite singles que atingiram o topo das paradas independentes fizeram a história da banda que colocou Cocteau Twins, Blondie e J&MC na receita ficando o recheio com a vocalização perfeita de Emma e Miki soando como Lennon & McCartney na mais perfeita simetria shoegazer x perfect pop.

Os albuns são essenciais, não adianta eu querer enaltercer um ou outro porque cada um tem sua razão especifica, então para não ficar na duvida, nada melhor do que um bootleg da epoca, mais precisamente a Black Session de 1994 em Paris, só para deixar com agua na boca, a sequencia do meio para frente com Deluxe, Sweetness and Light, Hypocrite, Sunday Girl (Blondie), Starlust e Baby Talk, já deixa claro a perfeição do mesmo.

Ah sim, sempre fui apaixonado pelo Miki ok!!!!hahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahahhahaha


Lush - The Black Sessions - http://www.mediafire.com/?q5ymnditlwe

There's No Escape From Heaven with Curve

Ah sim, deusas, esta a palavra mais perfeita para definir Toni Halliday, vocalista do Curve, bandaça que viveu a merce da Scene lá no inicio de tudo, isso porque o Curve vivenciava o lado escuro com batidas eletrônicas, que hoje são basicamente obrigatórias, somada ao vocal da musa Toni, que de longe era a garota mais sexy daquela epoca, tá certo tinhamos Miki do Lush, mas Toni estava acima, uma voz e sussuros capazes de destruir qualquer um, vide o inicio de Horror Head do classico Doppelganger, de arrepios a delirios, adicionando a isto tinhamos um gênio por detrás de toda a massa sonora, um cara chamado Dean Garcia, que hoje conduz o SPC ECO, outro experimento que segue o padrão Curve de qualidade, mas Dean e Toni juntos chegaram a perfeição, primeiramente com os 3 primeiros eps, com destaque a espetacular Ten Little Girls que é a definição perfeita do som deles, camadas de guitarras, sequencers ininterruptos e o vocal oras falado, oras cantado, oras com gemidos e sussuros tudo envolto a ar dark que os destoava das demais bandas, e depois com o já citado Doppelganger, não a toa, eles em sua maior turne, abriram para os mestres Reid, que na epoca haviam lançado o colossal Honey´s Dead fecharam para banda de abertura da turne simplesmente o Curve, dá para imaginar a esbornia???

Aqui nada dos eps ou dos albuns, separei um artefato de colecionador que são as Radio Sessions , tá tudo aqui, Ten Little Girls, No Escape from Heaven, The Colour Hurts e as deslumbrantes Coast is Clear e Horror Head que colocam nós, meros ouvintes, a merce dos experimentos de Dean e principalmente da Srta Toni Halliday, eu sei, pareço encantado não é, mas estou mesmo, ouvir Curve é um exercicio de admiração cega e avassaladora que tenho por ela desde aquela epoca, ou como setencia a letra: "...In my heart, in my soul, everywhere I go, you are with me..." ou "...There's no way you'll convert me ..." ou simplesmente "...There's no escape from heaven, try as you might ...". Prefiro não tentar, para que fugir do paraiso quando ele é comandado por Toni????

Curve - Radio Sessions - http://www.mediafire.com/?3iv2nj5oizz

I Wanna Kill with Crocodiles

I was born into this life
To a drunk father and a rented wife
Who layed down in a concrete bed
Who layed dark thoughts inside my head

But they don't know
No they don't know

Nothings wrong, nothings right
Nothing feels quite alright
Watching my fists turn white
Turn the lips into eyes

Nothings right, nothings wrong
Nothing makes me belong
All the kids sing swan songs
All the kids sing along with me

I, I want to kill tonight

I want to kill tonight

I, I want to kill tonight

I want to kill tonight

I was born into this world

Some kind of sinister little girl

I let jesus off the christ

And drag his face into the moss

But they don't know

No they don't know

Nothings wrong, nothings right

Nothing feels quite as right

Watching my fists turn white

Turn the lips into eyes

Nothings right, nothings wrong

Nothing makes me belong

All the kids sing swan songs

All the kids sing along with me

I, I want to kill tonight

I want to kill tonight

I, I want to kill tonight

I want to kill tonight

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"" I Wanna Kill - Crocodiles ""

Class of 09 with Dum Dum Girls

Brooklyn, NY, novamente, a impressão que dá e que fica também é que a cidade esta fervendo, borbulhando de grandes sons, já não bastassem os prediletos APTBS e o Crystal Stilts que é a mais cool das cool bands atuais e mais um penca de gente boa, agora a onda é atacar a famigerada Class of 86 fazendo reverencia a mestres como Shephen Pastel, Eugene Kelly, e recuperando o punk noise bubblegum de gente como Shop Assistants, Talulah Gosh convertendo tudo isso na cartilha dos irmãos Reid, e é nessa linha mesmo que as meninas más do Dum Dum Girls atacam, dois 7'' lançados de qualidade lo-fi proposital é puramente garageira crua e frenetica para ficar pulando nas pistas de dança ouvindo bem alto e estridente assim é Catholicked, Hey Sis e Yours Alone já Put a Sock in It já ataca outro lado da garagem, mais pesado, com um riff desgraçadamente pegajoso a influência de J&MC se faz presente junto com Iggy e os Stooges, fodaça viu, no outro 7´´ tem Longhair, Mercury Mary e Let it Be Me com jeitão de Raveonettes que chega a ser deliciosamente bubblegum, por estas e outras dá para dizer facilmente que Phil Spector pode morrer em paz, porque se depender das Dum Dum Girls seus ensinamentos jamais vão cair no esquecimento.

Dum Dum Girls - 7'' e 12'' - http://www.mediafire.com/?quo0zytyzjx

Velocity Girl with The Joy Formidable

Lembram do Gospel Gossip? Então, as early guitars bands na tradição de Velocity Girl, Black Tambourine e afins, pois é, mais uma fresquissima vem rechear a cena atual com muito charme e aquele grudento sex appeal, logicamente que temos uma garota a frente de toda a brincadeira, a Srta Ritzy Bryan guitarras e vocais em conjunto com seu namorado Rhydian Dafydd, baixo, te sugam literalmente para dentro do debut deles, A Balloon Called Moaning, é literalmente impossivel não ceder aos delirios do album, digo novamente, IMPOSSIVEL, exemplos absurdos dessa abdução atendem pelo nomes de Cradle, Austere, The Last Drop e Whirring, é Velocity Girl fundido com Raveonettes na cabeça, mais Pixies e Throwing Muses na receita, ainda tem a baladissima 9669 para cantar junto com o casal e para fechar o disquinho em alto nivel, a noise Ostrich. Ah sim, o nome da banda, verdade, quase me esqueci, THE JOY FORMIDABLE, tá bom ou precisa dizer algo mais???

The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning - http://www.mediafire.com/?gwzgtimzjmm