What the mailbox brought in #5
After a long time of non working mailbox, here’s some of the better submissions sent to undomondo reviewed. Thanks to all the submitters for their patience! :)
victor bermon - farewell lunch for laura
* Victor Bermon’s debut long player, Arriving At Night is out on Chicago’s Hefty Records. The promo track ”Farewell Lunch for Laura” is really really cool with a shuffly beat and hints of old jazzy hiphops. It’s like old Four Tet or old Ninja Tune stuff, electronic but with refined cinematic chords. I have to admit that I wasn’t expecting something this good. Will get the album and do a proper review hopefully.
* French electropop duo Kawaii Music sent some kawaii (japanese for cute) music to my way too. They’re pretty amazed that their music is compared to Deerhoof because it’s not. The only thing that resembles Deerhoof is their creativity and cuteness. In their own words they are more like “French Dragibus, Pascal Comelade or Pascal Ayerbe…”. Electropop with guitars and unusual song structures.
* if you like some jazzy tech house stuff like yesterday’s Natural Rhythm, Funkfield label boss and old friend Ugur Bayram’s clockwork mix of funky & deep tech stuff will make you happy. Just click the green arrow for the file!
* Long time Can-head Tago-Mago,has an interesting self released mashup/remix album available for free incl. remixes of the streets, marvin gaye, mos def, b-52’s, cocteau twins, more. check it out and donate.
panda riot - plateau
Electropop&guitars duo Panda Riot is going to get their new album out on April. Here’s a demo track which I quite liked, they may have sent me the finished one but I had to get this out today, so sorry for that. Here’s some more tunes to check out.
Ian Cho - Get Free!
* Australian Tovian Records’Ian Cho has an experimental electronica/ambient album out. The album has a story like this “Some years ago, a young man was faced with a strange question: If a forest could sing… what would it sound like? It was this curious query that led Ian Cho on a three year quest for an answer.”. You know I like forest sounds & ambience, maybe because I live in an urban metropolis of 15 million ppl. and almost never go to forests. Anyways you can check more tracks out from Ian Cho’s myspace.
* The Yankee Dollar are a two piece twee pop easy listening orchestra
that has the 60’s US surf & tv vibe. If you’re into the gentle indie scene of Architecture in Helsinki or are collecting old & odd postcards from the 60s, you’ll like these stuff. However not tagging your tracks are a bad thing kids, please tag them properly the next time :).
* Folk songs for the Five Points is a great hyperdocumentary project of NYC street life which mixes folk songs with ambient street noises and history of NYC. The project was undertaken by the Tenement Museum about a year or so ago, now they have a cd out. Recorded and remixed by cross-disciplinary artists The Folk Songs Project and featuring new compositions by Luso-Angolan composer and instrument-builder, Victor Gama (Reflex Records), this new CD combines oral histories, local music, and ambient field recordings to create a unique document of the Lower East Side. It’s available for purchase from Tenement’s store. This is one of the most ambitious & successful oral history & culture documentation project I’ve ever witnessed check it out please.
* I’ve been contacted by Texas based Bexar Bexar about his upcoming “Tropism” CD on Own Records. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen the name and the album somewhere, is it being re-released on Own, I don’t know, anyways Bexar Bexar produces textural ambience & beautiful drones to develope a multi layered sound. Check out Luxembourg based Own records for more interesting music, like The Dust Dive’s ambience (with fluttering birds) and Gregor Samsa’s guitar based post-rock ambience.
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