| Feb. 13th, 2005 @ 07:20 pm Auralgasms Compilation CD: Bliss Of Life |
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 | Auralgasms is pleased to announce our brand new compilation cd entitled Bliss of Life. This cd picks up where our debut, The Beat of Dis-content left off. Bliss of Life features some of the hottest up and coming musicians, as well as a few familiar voices. It's hard to hide my bias, but this cd is solid from beginning to end.
Click the link below to find out more about the cd, including how to purchase it. Descriptions of the tracks follow.
www.auralgasms.com |
- Blue States - Across The Wire
Across the Wire, telling tales of wingless angels on desk duty, is the stand out
track from Blue States' third album - The Soundings. Blue States are Andy
Dragazis, Chris Carr and Jon Chandler.
- Lunascape - Praise Me
The Lunascape sound mixes catching rhythms, sampling and loops with acoustic and
electric guitars reinforced by strong melodies and Kyoko's (ex-Hooverphonic)
enchanting voice. The music of Lunascape can best be described as ethereal
ambient trip-pop music.
- Paco - My Love
Paco is the creative alchemy between Dominique Durand & Andy Chase of the
esteemed NY indie-pop band Ivy and their friends Michael Hampton and Gary
Maurer. The band's full-length debut, "This Is Where We Live", creates evocative
songs that seduce the listener. It's sultry & melancholy but with
unmistakable attitude.
- Astaire - L-L-Love
Astaire is the NYC-based duo of Brazilian / American siblings, Erica and Bruce
Driscoll. The band released their self-produced debut EP on their own Wax Divine
label in Fall 2004. Mixed with Andy Chase (Ivy, Paco, Tahiti 80), the EP has
been well received in publications such as CMJ, Entertainment Weekly, America
and Z!nk. "L-L-Love" is the lead track on the EP and will also appear on the
band's first full-length, due in late 2005.
- Hector Zazou (w/ Nicola Hitchcock) - Surrender
The French-Algerian composer has a surprise waiting with each new composition.
Whether it be for string quartet, wind instruments, classical voices or
synthesizers, all illustrate his passion for the most unexpected inventions. He
has collaborated with such luminaries of Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Cale, Dead Can
Dance, Suzanne Vega, Björk, Siouxsie and Jane Siberry. His most recent projects
include a series of new solo albums, Strong Currents – released in 2003 and
L’Absence, an electronic twin of the former. L’Absence features the beautiful
collaboration with Nicola Hitchcock (of Mandalay). Nicola’s golden voice with
the ambience of a Zazou composition is pure ethereal bliss.
- Sleepthief (w/ Jody Quine) - Eurydice
Sleepthief is Justin Elswick in collaboration with some of the most recognized
vocalists in electronic, folk and world music; including Harland and Jody Quine.
Their music is a unique and arresting synthesis of sounds both ancient and
modern, reminiscent of Delerium.
- Hungry Lucy - To Kill A King
Intoxicating trip-pop music with enchanting female vocals. Hungry Lucy sounds
similar to Lamb, Olive, Portishead, Halou, Dido, Madonna, Emiliana Torrini,
Hooverphonic, Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Claire Voyant, etc
- The Autumns - Cattleya
A small sampling of reviews of the new album:
"This album has such majestic chutzpah that the epic gene in you will simply surrender."
The Times Of London -- 4 Stars ****
"The Autumns are masters of structure and dynamics. This is one glorious album from a band which can produce music that is unutterably beautiful but also hugely powerful."
Mojo -- 4 Stars ****
"It's impressive stuff... a lavish phalanx of guitars... a swooning juggernaut... intense..
Q."
- In-flight Safety - Lucky Boy
"... a solid batch of smartly written pop songs and lush live show. Evoking the spirits of classic Pink Floyd and modern Britpopsters Coldplay, In-Flight Safety
knows how to write a song that captures the ear and the imagination"
The Coast, Halifax, NS
"... Bright, ringing little percussive notes punctuate some of the downbeats, paired with more expansive, deeper notes from, say, a guitar or a piano, in the way The Beach Boys did so well... you'll be
mesermerized by Mullane's effortless vocal delivery"
The Daily News, Halifax, NS
- Her Space Holiday - Something To Do With My Hands
Recording under the Her Space Holiday moniker since 1996, Marc Bianchi conjures
sugarcoated dreamscapes that float alongside sweet and bitter narratives of
life. Always intent on challenging himself, the Her Space Holiday sound has
morphed from release to release as Marc has added more intricate sampling and
drum programming to an already rich palette of sounds and matured as a
songwriter.
- Highspire - Skies You Climb
A small group of musicians, living in and around the Philadelphia area who are
notoriously elusive, opting for the pursuit of writing and recording good music.
Usually labeled as "shoegaze" or "dreampop", Highspire has always been more
interested in expanding these sounds and/or crossbreeding with other musical
ideas to help create their own style of symphonic-rock/pop.
- Asobi Seksu - Walk On The Moon
Asobi Seksu, like Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine before them, are evolving
and redefining what noise means within the model of pop songwriting. The band
melds lush yet wonderfully crushing waves of white noise in variation with
synth-driven pop delicacies and tight lounge progressions ala Stereolab. The
quartet’s melting-pot aesthetics also include narratives sung in combinations of
English and Japanese.
- Monster Movie - Beautiful Arctic Star
A pleasant stroll down strummy, wistful pop lane. Warm, brittle, slightly dreamy
& melancholic acoustic here, Radio Dept fuzzy there, toytown MBV shapes,
Mercury Rev pie, Joy Zipper kebabs & Sarah records without the knee socks
& hairslides
- Au Revoir Borealis - Blissfield
Cinematic Ambient Rock band from Detroit with electronic and acoustic
influences. Expansive sound, intimate atmosphere.
- Jody Quine - Hollywood
Her presence is captivating and electric, and with a voice that beds down with
the shivers under your skin, she's fantastic to catch live. Her new material,
the results of a songwriter maturing and tasting life, is bound to touch people
and make them think, and then... keep them coming back for more. Jody has also
recorded with Balligomingo and Sleepthief.
- Harland - Little White Lies
Harland encompasses grace, beauty, style and talent beyond measure. In the last
two years, she has been signed to a publishing deal, collaborated as a highly
sought after guest vocalist with seminal electronic artists, toured as a lead
vocalist for Delerium, and has played her first solo live shows in New York .
Her music tells the story of a creative soul finally breaking herself free of
the everyday and finding a new lease on life in New York, in love and in music.
- Eskobar - You Got Me
Eskobar began life under another name in a Stockholm suburb during the mid
nineties. Like most young bands, their first musical efforts owed a lot to their
influences (at that time mainly British acts). Since then they have forged their
own path. They have up to date released three albums that contain fused
melancholy, intimate melodies with big guitars, reminiscent in a way of the best
80s arena bands yet at the same time sounding totally fresh and individual.
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