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Terrastock Seven delights

Published
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sean
on July 23, 2008
in filler and live
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The continued vitality of microlabel experimental, psych, drone and folk is perhaps best witnessed in the continued success of live festivals like Terrastock 7 or Bottled Smoke.  Both festivals, unfortunately, were outside my reach.  Thankfully, Terrastock and BS event hosts have been thoughtful enough, with the festival chaos and crowds dispersed, to remember their most geographically challenged followers, sharing the musical spoils with photos and videos aplenty.

Windy & Carl @ Terrastock 7 (Ned Raggett)

Terrastock is not just a festival, it’s a family. There’s a feeling of community that you won’t get anywhere else and you can’t help but feel caught up in it all. This isn’t Boneroo, Lollapalooza, or Austin City Limits. People aren’t here for spectacle or to be seen - they are here for the music and the community that surrounds the psych genre whose umbrella is the zine Ptolemaic Terrascope. That sense of community extends from the biggest acts to the smallest. This is, when you get down to it, nothing more than a big house party at (founding editor of PT) Phil McMullen’s pad. The pad this year just happened to be in lovely Louisville, Kentucky in the Mellwood Arts and Entertainment Center - a former factory turned multi-use facility. — Ramon Medina, TX

Wooden Shjips (alt)

Windy & Carl (1/2) (2/2)

Mike Tamburo

Kinski, Sharron Kraus w/ United Bible Studies, Mono (pt.1, pt.2), Grails, Tara Jane O’Neil (pt.1, pt.2, pt.3), Ignatz, Pelt, The Black Twig Pickers (alt), Paik, Makoto Kawabata (pt.1, pt.2), Sleeping Pill (Yo La Tengo), Black Forest/Black Sea (pt.1, pt.2), Terrastock 7 @ flickr & Terrastock 7 flickr group (yahoo ID required)

Windy & Carl live photo courtesy of Ned Raggett, used under Creative Commons license

(h/t narikiri, greatest youtube user ever)

Brief glimpse into the latest Digitalis cdr subscription series, ‘Arroyo’

Published
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sean
on December 5, 2007
in feature, podcast and review
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Bottling Smoke was Digitalis Industry and Phantom Limb’s first experimental, field-folk festival, featuring the many of the best acts contemporary ambient/experimental music has to offer. Festivals are a dime a dozen these days, some good, some not so good. Bottling Smoke, though, was something special. From an outsider’s perspective, the numerous collaborative performances were the highlight of the festival and a fitting reflection of the communal backbone vital to the contemporary micro-label culture. One glimpse at the Brad Rose or Grant Capes (festival co-curators and Digitalis/Phantom Limb masterminds, respectively) discography is evidence enough of this empowering, internet enabled, globalization of independent, self-produced music. As explained by Sir. Rose, Bottling Smoke was a chance to bring these artists together for the first time, who had previously only been able to collaborate remotely. Tragically, I was unable to attend, so my take on all this can’t be terribly insightful.

Fortunately for me though, Digitalis has produced and recently released the first slew of disks in their new ‘Arroyo’ cdr subscription series. ‘Arroyo‘ is apparently intended to capture and communicate some of BS’s wonder and magic for the rest of us, the geographically deprived.

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