Air Formation - Daylight Storms (2007)

style: experimental, shoegaze
highlights: "cold morning", "I can't remember waking up", "into view" & "adrift"

the title says is all: "i can't remember waking up"... an album that brings me images of glaciers, distant northern islands and the northern lights...

review

bio: Air Formation hail from Sussex in the south of England. They are Matt Bartram (vocals, guitar), Ben Pierce (bass), Richard Parks (keyboards), James Harrison (drums) & Ian Sheridan (Guitar). The band has been creating uplifting song based space-rock since late 1999. Born out of a love for ‘Flying Saucer Attack’ and the likes of ‘Spacemen 3’ & ‘The Jesus and Mary Chain’ Air Formation create songs awash with heavily delayed guitar and feedback, interwoven with keyboard drones and whispered vocals. Over the past 7 years the band has released two albums ‘Ends in Light’ (Drive-In Records 2002) & ‘Stay Inside/ Feel Everything’ (Clairecords 2004,) alongside numerous other releases. The turning point for the band came in 2005 when they recorded the beautiful ‘57 Octaves Below’ EP with legendary producer Pat Collier (The House of Love). As well as being their first recording with an expanded line up it was also their first release on UK label ‘Club AC30’ and was extremely well received…… ‘’57 Octaves Below’ is simply astonishing, as each track could hold its own as a formal “A side” among any peers both past and present. Remarkable. 9/10’‘Drowned In Sound. In the summer of 2006 the band returned to Pat Collier and recorded the new album ‘Daylight Storms’. This album was released by Club AC30 in February 2007. In November 2008 they released a new 7” “Things that don’t exist / Fires” on Distant Noise Records.

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Caspian - Tertia (2009)

style: experimental, shoegaze, post rock
highlights: "la cerva", "ghosts of the garden city" & "the raven"

though the music i listen to the last years is in general calm, with clean sounds, i found this noizy album so absorbing that i can't stop listening to it. A chaotic album with great melodies. shoegaze is my next "music love"

here is a review from the washington post that expresses my feeling about this album:
"Tertia" is just as effective when it sparkles as when it storms. Caspian has the instrumental firepower to make a big noise when it feels like it. But the melodies, timbres and harmonics are so fully realized that "Tertia" would be mighty, even without its climaxes."

bio: Caspian is an American instrumental rock band from Beverly, Massachusetts. The band formed in Autumn of 2003 and played their first concert in August of 2004.

After releasing their debut EP You Are The Conductor (Dopamine, 2005), the band spent most of 2006 touring The United States and Canada and writing their debut full-length record The Four Trees (Dopamine, 2007). “The Four Trees” was released in the U.S. on April 10, Japan on May 2 and in Europe in July of 2008. Both albums were produced by the band and recorded in Boston with Ethan Dussault at New Alliance studios. Caspian has independently booked, promoted and funded 4 cross country tours of the United States to promote both records since 2006 and appeared at the 2008 SXSW music festival in Austin Texas.

Sonically Caspian draws from a broad scope of influences ranging from the ambient sophistication of Eluvium and Brian Eno to the crushing fury of art-metalists such as ISIS and Tool. Emotively, the music of Caspian shares common threads with Sigur Ros, M83 and The Appleseed Cast.

The band’s third album (and second full-length), titled Tertia was released on September 15th on the Mylene Sheathe, and was followed by a European tour.

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Eluvium - Similes (2010)

style: experimental, ambient
an engaging album with soft sounds... dreamy...

amg review

bio: Born in Tennessee and raised in Louisville, KY, Matthew Cooper relocated to Portland, OR several years back and has since spent many a night holed up in his house transforming the vibrations in his brain into sweeping walls of elegant noise. With a depth ranging from fragile to glacial, he takes dense layers of guitars and pianos and builds them into an awe-inspiring fortress around himself. Resting comfortably and confidently in the spirits of Brian Eno's most accomplished ambient pieces, Eluvium is a freakishly beautiful affair. If it was ever possible for a warm gust of wind to send chills through every bone in your body, then Eluvium is that warm wind.

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Hildur Gudnadottir - Without Sinking (2009)

It's the kind of music i like listening late at night... and of course from beautiful iceland...
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David Sylvian - Manafon (2009)

david sylvian's new album, maybe the best release of 2009...
i just can't find the words to describe its perfection.-
allmusic review

Destroyalldreamers - A Coeur Leger Sommeil Sangiant (2004)

this is an instrumental shoegaze band from canada. the mother of post rock, and a coeur leger sommeil sangiant was their debut in 2004. one of the best 00's album i've heard lately. their songs are always in my playlist, listening to those great songs almost everyday.
a melancholic album, that didn't destroy me, i'm the worst dreamer right now listening to zeta reticuli express... ;)
check this out if you're a fun of experimental, post rock and shoegaze music, or just like listening to different kinds of music

http://soydeaire.labuat.com/

hello, this is my first post - i've never blogged before but i'll try
here's an interesting site i visited last week, and it's really great...
www.soydeaire.labuat.com/
it's a site of the month (don't really know which month, hehe) and congratulations to the team or person that created it...