Russian Circles - Geneva

2 months to the new Russian Circles album Geneva. Which means it's time to get excited, mark it in your agenda and what else not.

The genre-bending instrumental trio known as Russian Circles will be releasing their third album, Geneva, on October 20th through Suicide Squeeze. Produced by Brandon Curtis of the Secret Machines, Geneva promises a slew of hypnotic shred epics, the tracklist for which is below. Catch them live this summer on July 18th at Dudefest in Indianapolis, IN, and keep a look out for more supporting tour dates.

1. Fathom
2. Geneva
3. Melee
4. Hexed All
5. Malko
6. When the Mountain Comes to Muhammad
7. Philos

TheTripWire



src

Yesterday's mail. (Sleep Whale, MGR, Isis)

Sleep Whale - Little Brite

A twenty-six minute electro-acoustic soundtrack to a summers-day is what this Texas outfit offers on their six track EP. Imagine laying on your back in a park, drifting away on the tones of a skilled fingerstyle guitarplayer sitting on a bench improvising on the downtempo electronica from some kid down the street checking out the latest hip Japanese cupboard idm. Add the organic flow of waves caressing - and subtly refracting - a production floating on warm strings and you end up with half an hour of breezy summer bliss. A successful exercise in a genre labeled as electro-acoustic from a band we hope to hear more from in the future.

myspace.com/sleepwhale



MGR (Mustard Gas and Roses) - Wavering on the Cresting Heft.

I love MGR; it's slow, it's dark, it's beautiful sadness on vinyl I want to be devoured by at massive volumes...

The sleeve note describes it rather well:

MGR is an emotionally charged amalgamation of sounds that, much to it's credit, refuses to fit neatly into any particular category. MGR's effectiveness stems from how fluidly Mark Gallagher - of renowned dirge architects Isis - is able to gradually add texture upon texture, building up the intensity of the tracks until they reach a tragic momentum. Imagine Isis with much of the bombast stripped away, leaving only dark, moody and melancholic soundscapes...

myspace.com/mgrsounds


Isis - Wavering Radiant


Read up on my findings of Wavering Radiant here. Both the Isis & MGR albums are released by Conspiracy Records with much love and eye for detail, as always.






There even is a print on the inside of the gatefold sleeve... wow.


ConspiracyRecords.com
myspace.com/isis

Isis - Wavering Radiant

Blurping on Isis' latest in the Release of the Month article at TSB.

After their 10 year jubilee and related vinyl box re-releases, a Seldon Hunt documentary and a whole lot of patience and speculation, Isis astonished fan and foe alike with an album that recapitulated and expanded upon their decade of unique post-metal. Unlike its predecessors, Wavering Radiant revisits the strong points of a strong career, from Celestial to In the Absence of Truth, rather than building on the work of a single album. A more notable place is reserved for haunting vocals, while sturdy bass and subtle, supportive soundscapes (containing Rhodes-like accents) carry the weight of the sometimes uplifting, sometimes destructive guitars. Isis’ eye for detail and the progressive nature of this album makes it their most complete and refined work to date: a standout album in their already impressive catalogue as well as in the progressive post-metal genre itself. full article

written for and published by The Silent Ballet

Semiosis - Pictural

blurping on the Release of the Month: March 2009 article at The Silent Ballet... which was a strange month.

The divine Edgar Allen Poe once stated that when one is confronted with a vast amount of impressions screaming for our attention – like signboards with adverts – one tends to block out those that are (too) obvious. The mind sometimes works in mysterious ways, and in a month filled with great releases, mine kept wandering back to this Romanian collision of ambient post-rock and math rock. Semiosis is the combined effort of breakcore artist Candlestickmaker and Serban Ilicevici. On their maiden release, Pictural, they offer seven enjoyable tracks ranging from soothing ambient pieces to adrenaline pumping post-metal. Razor-sharp IDM and occasional bombastic drum samples lift the dreamy instrumental rock to epic sonic climaxes in this solid and sometimes surprising production. (Could the theremin be the new glockenspiel?) An ideal album to erase the memory of a gloomy winter and to make way for the uplifting melancholy of a spring dawn.

src

The album is available for free download here by the good people of Asiluum.com as well as a physical copy, but you can find out about artsy attached strings at the download page.


Written for and published by The Silent Ballet.
Semiosis myspace
Asiluum
Candlestickmaker myspace

Prime Kut Sunday I

Sunday's, and especially the morning, is the ideal moment to spend some, ahum, quality time with the vinyl. Thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to mold my weekly picks in a list and who knows maybe you'll get introduced to something you've been missing out on, maybe you feel like recommending something... it's all good.

so, this morning's prime kuts...


artist - album SPECIFICS [remix/version] (kick-ass tracks)

1. B-52's - Love Shack SIN
2. Senser - Asylum LP (Weatherman!)
3. Senser - Age of Panic EP - A-side [Git-O-Rama mix]
4. Santana - Santana LP (Soul Sacrifice!)
5. Isis + Aereogramme - In The Fishtank 14 LP (Delial!)
6. Opeth - Orchid printdisc 2LP - D-side (The Apostel in Triumph + Into The Frost Of Winter!)