Under the Elephant's Skin

Artist: Under the Elephant's Skin
Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Experimental

Wow. Sensitive, delicate, beautiful electronic ambient music.
How is it possible that I didn't post it before? No clue.

Under the elephant’s skin is a musician Artemiy Nizovtsev from Chelyabinsk, Russia.
He put all the albums for free online. Check them all!

DOWNLOAD ALL THE ALBUMS HERE!

I can't believe I posted only 45 albums this year!

but I don't have the time and the place anymore to update the blog with more frequency. I'm thinking in a whole redesign with the possibility to add crew. If anyone is interested, drop me a few lines and the link to your lastfm profile to compare tastes.

Enjoy the albums that have been posted so far because they are not usually online for a long time and I cannot reupload right now.

I would love to hear recommendations of good concerts around!

Have a fantastic week.
Cy

Fever Ray - If I had a heart

More reasons why everything Fever Ray created is a piece of art

Fever Ray - Fever Ray [2009]

Artist: Fever Ray
Album: Fever Ray
Year: 2009
Genre: Electronic
Web: Myspace, Official

This album is a masterpiece.

1. If I Had A Heart
2. When I Grow Up
3. Dry And Dusty
4. Seven
5. Triangle Walks
6. Concrete Walls
7. Now’s The Only Time I Know
8. I’m Not Done
9. Keep The Streets Empty For Me
10. Coconut

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Her Name is Calla - The Heritage [2008]

Artist: Her Name is Calla
Album: The Heritage
Year: 2008
Genre: PostRock
Web: Myspace

I had the chance to see Her Name is Calla in live and they blew up my mind.
If you can see them live, don't miss it: 'New England' is a trip without return.

1 Nylon (6:31)
2 New England (9:14)
3 Paying For Your Funeral (5:02)
4 Wren (5:21)
5 “Motherfucker! It’s Alive And It’s Bleeding!” (8:11)
6 Rebirth (17:04)

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

The Seven Mile Journey - The Metamorphosis Project

Artist: The Seven Mile Journey
Album: The Metamorphosis Project
Year: 2008
Genre: Postrock
Web: Web

Old but good. Classic, deep and powerful postrock.

1 Theme for the Elthenbury Massacre 5:00
2 The Catharsis Session 9:43
3 Identity Journals (Anonymous) 14:19
4 January 4th – The Hypothesis Hours 8:55
5 A Sanctuary for Lugubrious Tracy 3:35
6 Purification – The Journey Transcriptions 15:38

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Stéphane Horeczko - G. 1888 [2009]

Artist: Stéphane Horeczko
Album: G. 1888
Year: 2009
Genre: Piano
Web: Official

for Ramiro.

1. Quand la nuit s'évapore
2. Fugaces
3. G. 1888
4. Paroles fébriles
5. L'étreinte
6. Monochrome
7. Tendres silences
8. Absences
9. Le songe d'Anastasia
10. Le ciel n'a pas mémoire
11. Ondulations
12. Une épine et la beauté

DOWNLOAD IT HERE! (see instructions in the comments)

Astrowind - Fresh Wind in the Valley of Dreams [2009]

Artist: Astrowind
Album: Fresh Wind in the Valley of Dreams
Year: 2009
Genre: Ambient, Experimental
Web: Netlabel

1. Wind on the Plain
2. Case with the Colonel Leonov
3. Lost and Found on the Moon
4. Mute Pilots
5. Out of Time
6. Prism
7. Aleksey Leonov See Dreams
8. The Return
9. Pereval
10. Geocomp
11. Nocturne for the Different Moons
12. Questions Left Unanswered
13. Spokoino
14. Park Walk
15. Meditation

DOWNLOAD IT HERE! or HERE

The xx - xx (2009)

Artist: The xx
Album: xx
Year: 2009
Genre: Indie, Rock
Web: Myspace

One of the best things I heard this year. This will be mainstream, beware.

1. "Intro" – 2:08
2. "VCR" – 2:57
3. "Crystalised" – 3:22
4. "Islands" – 2:41
5. "Heart Skipped a Beat" – 4:02
6. "Fantasy" – 2:38
7. "Shelter" – 4:30
8. "Basic Space" – 3:08
9. "Infinity" – 5:13
10. "Night Time" – 3:37
11. "Stars" – 4:23
12. "Hot Like Fire" (iTunes Bonus Track) – 3:31

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Paniyolo - I'm Home (2009)

Artist: Paniyolo
Album: I'm Home
Year: 2009
Genre: Ambient
Web: Myspace

One of the most beautiful albums I ever heard.

1. 記憶 (Memory)
2. Green & Cloud
3. 雨 (Rain)
4. Sheep
5. Reverie
6. Onigocco
7. Sunday
8. Snow Country
9. 暮らし (Life)
10. Room
11. おかえり (Okaeri)
12. …
13. 日々 (Daily)

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Metuo - Toy Shop (2009)

Artist: Metuo
Album: Toy Shop
Year: 2009
Genre: Downtempo

Beautiful music.

01] fonometro 05:08
02] fake factory 04:44
03] big gig 03:50
04] subway 05:06
05] quit 03:09
06] blum 05:21
07] shell crumbs 03:53
08] toyshop 03:49
09] animal rainbows 04:33
10] purple 03:31

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Korouva - Sleepwalker (2009)

Artist: Korouva
Album: Sleepwalker
Year: 2009
Genre: Ambient
Web: Myspace

1 Marusja
2 Close At Hand
3 Im Abendrot
4 Ghosts
5 Stray Dog
6 Dream Of The Wolves
7 Some Bloodsuckers
8 Bone Dance
9 Titles
10 Interim
11 Are You A Daysleeper?
12 Sleepwalker

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Fjordne - Unmoving (2007)

Artist: Fjordne
Album: Unmoving
Year: 2007
Genre: Ambient, Electronic

1. Sit Back, Breathe Green (5:27)
2. Sunday At Church (3:51)
3. A Time Of Peace (4:06)
4. Paused On Time (7:24)
5. Tick Away From Awake (10:24)
6. To Me You're A Peach (4:14)
7. A Book To Read (6:42)
8. Falling To The Ground (8:28)

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Fjordne - The Last 3 Days of time (2008)

Artist: Fjordne
Album: The Last 3 Days of time
Year: 2008
Genre: Ambient, Electronic
Country: Japan
Web: myspace

1 Beneath The Oak
2 Turn Of Colour
3 Dawn Right Before
4 Dazing Off
5 Everyone Has A Season
6 Wrapped In A Dream
7 Toasts For Breakfast
8 Waiting For A Drop
9 At The Footsteps
10 Snow Angels


DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Dikta - Hunting for happiness (2005)

Artist: Dikta
Album: Hunting for happiness
Year: 2005
Genre: Indie, Rock
Web: Myspace

Something I got when traveling around Iceland..

01. Losing Every Day
02. Breaking The Waves
03. Chloe
04. This Song Will Save The World
05. Remember Me
06. Someone, Somewhere
07. Wm3
08. My Other Big Brother
09. Greater Good
10. Flies Don't Tell
11. My Favourite Friend
12. A Way Out

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleeps (2009)

Artist: Riceboy Sleeps
Album: Riceboy Sleeps
Year: 2009
Genre: Ambient
Web: Myspace

Because this year I saw Sigur Ros :)

1. Happiness
2. Atlas Song
3. Indian Summer
4. Stokkseyri
5. Boy 1904
6. All The Big Trees
7. Daníell In The Sea
8. Howl
9. Sleeping Giant

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Benny Crespo's Gang - Benny Crespo's Gang (2009)

Artist: Benny Crespo's Gang
Album: Benny Crespo's Gang
Year: 2009
Genre: Alternative, Rock
Web: Myspace

One girl from Iceland one day opened her hard drive and shared me everything she got. Within the icelandic bands I found this gem. Not the usual icelandic music you would expect. Enjoy

1. 123323
2. Next Weekend
3. Untitled
4. Shine
5. Come Here
6. Running
7. Numb Face
8. Conditional Love
9. Johnny's Got a Baby

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Alela Diane - The Pirate Gospel (2006)

Artist: Alela Diane
Album: The Pirate Gospel
Year: 2006
Genre: Indie

Beautiful voice. One of these albums that keep coming to your head after listening once and again in a certain trip that you won't forget.. cold weather, desert mountains, you, you and you.

1. "Tired Feet"
2. "The Rifle"
3. "The Pirate's Gospel"
4. "Foreign Tongue"
5. "Can You Blame the Sky?"
6. "Something's Gone Awry"
7. "Pieces of String"
8. "Clickity Clack"
9. "Sister Self"
10. "Pigeon Song"
11. "Oh! My Mama"

DOWNLOAD IT HERE! (link down by request)

Newz

I didn't have time to post lately because I'm traveling. Dunno how much time I will be without a good internet connection.

In the meanwhile, enjoy whatever it's posted already, feel free to recommend more stuff and send me a msg if you know about interesting concerts in Europe, I'll be around.

Cheers,
Cy

Electrelane - The Power Out [2007]

Artist: Electrelane
Album: The Power Out
Year: 2007
Genre: Indie, Rock
Web: official

My fav album from this band, joyfully rediscovered in a long trip to Ushuaia a few weeks ago.
They are not playing anymore - indefinite hiatus, they said - but the sounds worth the listen. 'Birds' is perfect for traveling and making love. 'The Valleys' is terribly sexy, 'Gone Under Sea' is power and eccentric, 'Oh Sombra' is happily rebel.. and a big etc, take a listen.



Tracklisting:
1. Gone Under Sea
2. On Parade
3. The Valleys
4. Birds
5. Take The Bit Between Your Teeth
6. Oh Sombra
7. Enter Laughing
8. This Deed
9. Love Builds Up
10. Only One Thing Is Needed

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Worrytrain - Sleeping Through the End Times [2006]

Artist: Worrytrain
Album: Sleeping Through the End Times
Year: 2006
Web: official

Worrytrain is beautiful and delicate postrock with ambient.

Tracklisting:
01. They Will Make My Passage Easy
02. Gabriele's Ghost
03. I've Come To Watch Birds Congregate
04. Hallways
05. Broken Hymn And The Bondage Overhead
06. Apokalypsen
07. Trains Are For Chemicals
08. Empty Buildings Everywhere
09. Answers In The Garden
10. Sleep Crime
11. Aeterna
12. Where Is Revolution

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Worrytrain - Stuck In a Bad Place [2006]

Artist: Worrytrain
Album: Stuck In a Bad Place
Year: 2006
Web: official
Old Posts: Fog Dance.., Worrytrain.

Worrytrain is beautiful and delicate postrock with ambient. Here, a very experimental and eclectic album with mix of electronic and piano.



Tracklisting:
01 may glory come to our dreadful earth
02 excuse me moon people, i'm in the wrong pl
03 stuck in a bad place (slow tempo)
04 flying high on wounded wing (burden remix)
05 apokalypsen (burden remix)
06 broken hymn (drums & piano)
07 come to arms
08 grafted (worrytrain and stars times infini
09 sleepcrime (remix)
10 sleepcrime (remix#2)
12 boydome
13 wind it

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Morgenrot

Beautiful video by Jeff Desom, Music by Hauschka, released January 2009.
Thanks a lot Honza for recommending it!

Waltz - Clouds 9: Resting Places (2008)

Artist: Waltz
Album: Resting Places
Year: 2008
Genre: Ambient, Acoustic, Experimental
Web: myspace

Simple, beautiful and surprising.

Tracklisting:
01 Captain Cirrus, the Ship is Sinking
02 Altostratus Meltdown
03 Cumulus, My Sweaty Brow in Purgatory
04 The Inferno of Nimbostratus #1
05 The Inferno of Stratocumulus #2
06 Ice in Flames Would Surely Melt My Dear Stratus

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Mama!milk - Fragrance of Notes [2008]

Artist: Mama!milk
Album: Fragrance of Notes
Genre: Instrumental, Experimental
Year: 2008
Old Post: Gala de Caras

An old gem! Months looking for this! :)

1. kujaku
2. antique gold
3. hourglass
4. the moon
5. intermezzo,op.32
6. avant fermentation
7. anise
8. rosa mundi
9. smoky dawn
10. rosa moschata
11. two ripples
12. mano seca
13. sometime sweet
14. waltz, waltz

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!