http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:40:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In support of Bowerbirds recently released debut album (technically a re-release) Hymns for a Dark Horse on Dead Ocean -- home, also, to Will-Oldham-analogue Phosphorescent and indie-dissonance-rockers Dirty Projectors -- the label releases a stunning stop-motion music video for 'In Our Talons'.  Since touring with John Darnielle's Mountain Goats ... http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog/2008/08/13/bowerbirds-in-our-talons/ Paavoharju's 'Tyttö tanssii', yet another highlight of the year from Finland. http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog/2008/08/12/paavoharjus-tytto-tanssii/ Gearing up for the album release of Max Richter's24 Postcards in Full Colour, FatCat/130701 and Max Richter have launched a splendid promo site, explaining the project's conceptual underpinnings.  Basically, each of the twenty-four tracks were composed as ringtones, only squeezed into an album format for conveniece or tradition's sake. The 24 ... http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog/2008/08/04/max-richters-24-postcards-promo/ "I'll Read You A Story" taken from The Golden Morning Breaks and Colleen Et Les Boîtes À Musique. The video was made by Jon Nordstrom http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog/2008/08/03/colleen-ill-read-you-a-story/ HARMAA LAGUUNI is psych free-folk composed inside an iron-lung OR scandinavian bare-bones communal folk enhanced with exoskeleton. Even before the release of their untitled late-2007 comeback spectacular, Kemialliset Ystävät had secured a place in outsider music history, recognized as one of the Finnish folk invasion's most creative and prolific pioneers.  Jan ... http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog/2008/08/01/kemialliset-ystavat-harmaa-laguuni-secret-eye-2008/ in brief: seafloor spreading drones dressed with stream-engine synths and a raving frenchman make for a delightfully sinister serenade. at length: Once upon a time, Type Records' John Xela (Twells) created the sort of charming electronic ditties you could share with friends around the neighborhood hangout's jukebox on Saturday night after the ... http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog/2008/07/28/sea-zombies-it-died-in-africa-review-digitalis/ Fire on Fire released their first EP on Michael Gira's Young Gods Records a few months back.  The group is packed with Portland, Maine folk fixtures, notably Big Blood's Colleen Kinsella and Caleb Mulkerin, amidst a serving of fellow Cerberus Shoal alumni like Chriss Sutherland (who released a stunning solo ... http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog/2008/07/24/fire-on-fire-live-portlands-space-gallery/ In a continuation of the good news emerging for Radiophonic Workshop enthusiasts, the BBC reports the existence of 267 previously unreleased Derbyshire tapes uncovered shortly after the composer's 2001 death.  Delia Derbyshire, early electronic/tape music pioneer, is the most celebrated of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop composers, largely responsible for the ... http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog/2008/07/24/forget-about-this-she-says-its-for-interest-only/ Some critics and historians have stated that Skip James' sound emerged from a "Bentonia school" of blues performers noted for falsetto vocal delivery, elaborate finger picking on the guitar, and dark lyrical thematics, creating what David Evans described as "...some of the eeriest, loneliest, and deepest blues sounds ever recorded" ... http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog/2008/07/24/skip-james/ 'Down there in the Gypsy camp a banjo was jiggling with a popular melody.., one had the impression of distant dance music, dizzying waltzes one the sweetness of an accordion. Camp fires were everywhere, each with its cooking pot. Everywhere chickens were stewing and banjos going wild...' This was the setting ... http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog/2008/07/23/97/