Gym, Deer – Darlings


Gym, Deer is Robert Lee, and the band comprises of his fellow Brooklyn musicians including Angelo Spagnolo and Mallory Glaser from In One Wind, Ross Gallagher, and Anthony Lamarca (co-founder of Primary Records) from The Building, also Dean & Britta / St. Vincent. Gym, Deer’s debut 12-track digital album “Other, Ways” (Primary Records, 2011) is available, HERE.

I told Rob it reminded me of Arthur Russell, to which he responded, “I don’t know who that is. This is me trying to be Nick Drake and Bobby McFerrin.” — Anthony LaMarca

Claude Rosen – 3

In One Wind – Go Follow John

The Building – Twenty Years


All tracks above are taken from “Primary Records Sampler Vol. I” (2011), available free on their bandcamp or HERE.

Claude Rosen:
What’s this? Jazz? Some strange French soundtrack? Is that a Casio MT-100? Where’s the solo? His own compositions began in a traditional jazz context but now are evolving into a more simple form: leaving out the improvisation and focusing on sonics and melody. He has shared with me some even newer recordings in which we hear some singing from Mr. Rosen. What I love best about his music is that it floats between two well known genres yet defies them both.


(thanks to thiswholeworld)

Lorena Álvarez – Mejor Acompañado
the song from the album “La Cinta” (Sones, 2012).

Narrow Sparrow – Spooky Head

A Chicago-based experimental electro-pop project, Narrow Sparrow has released a new video (featuring spooky footage from the 1920s) for the song ‘Spooky Head,’ off their four-song EP “Synthworks.”
Download Synthworks EP for free, HERE.


Narrow Sparrow – Glow (from “Synthworks”)


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Hans Richter – Vormittagsspuk
(Ghosts Before Breakfast / 午前の幽霊), 1927
One of the Narrow Sparrow’s favorite short films … (via).

Bahamas – Caught Me Thinkin (from “Barchords”)

A follow-up to 2009′s debut album “Pink Strat” (named after his guitar, a pink Fender Stratocaster) which was nominated for the Polaris Prize and a Juno for Roots / Traditional Album Of The Year, a Toronto-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Afie (AY-fee) Jurvanen a.k.a. Bahamas release his new full-length “Barchords” via Jack Johnson’s label, Brushfire Records on Feb 7th. “Barchords” was recorded with his touring drummer Jason Tait and bassist Darcy Yates, at a cabin in rural Ontario, where he recorded “Pink Strat” album.

Bahamas – I Got You Babe (from “Barchords”)


“Bahamas is Afie Jurvanen, and for the last many years he’s been playing other people’s music– PasoMino, Great Lake Swimmers, The Stills, Howie Beck, Amy Millan, Jason Collett, Hayden and zeus. He’s spent the last few years playing piano and guitar with Feist.”

Bahamas – Recording his new album “Barchords”

‘Snowbird’ by Kathleen Edwards featuring Bahamas,
for a special private show in CBC’s Studio 211.

Tronics – They’re Talking About Us


After the reissue of Tronics ‘Shark Fucks’ b/w ‘Time Off’ 7″ single, an indie New York label What’s Your Rupture? Records, their catalogue includes Comet Gain, Nodzzz, Love Is All and more…, set to reissue Tronics D.I.Y. London post-punk classic in 1981 “Love Backed By Force” LP/CD on February 14th. Pre-order, HERE.

Tronics – TV On In Bed

A post-punk band from London, Tronics — formerly known as the Gits with Ziro, a thrash/punk outfit in 1977 — were formed by Ronnie Git a.k.a. Ziro Baby (recently known as Zarjaz). Between 1979 and 1984 Tronics released four singles, a cassette, an LP and a flexi-disc. “Love Backed By Force” was recorded mainly by himself with Gaby de Vivienne.



Tronics – Shark Fucks b/w Time Off 7″ (What’s Your Rupture? /2012)

”Los Pajaros Del Rio” by Vetiver (featuring Devendra Banhart)
Stormy Records Space, Detroit, MI June 15, 2004.

Part of over 30 minutes of bonus live footage of Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Vetiver from the DVD special features of THE FAMILY JAMS, a documentary feature film by Kevin Barker, to be released in 2012 by FACTORY 25.

and …. Listen to the “Happy enchilada mix” by Kevin Barker on 8tracks.com, now!

Track List:
Harpers Bizarre – Leaving On A Jet Plane
Joe Ely – Treat Me Like A Saturday Night
David Bromberg – Diamond Lil
John Prine – That’s The Way That The World Goes ‘Round
Shiva’s Heasband – Ripple
Norman Blake & Tony Rice – I’m Not Sayin’
Chris Weisman – Working On My Skateboarding
Hoover – Leave That For Memories
Country Joe and The Fish – She’s a Bird
The Flatlanders – Tonight I’m Gonna Go Downtown

デヴィッド・ブロムバーグは４月に来日公演が！詳細はコチラ。

strobe session 43: Brokeback

BROKEBACK (Thrill Jockey Records) originally began as a one-person affair by Douglas McCombs to create music in a more open and less structured environment than his other bands, Tortoise, Pullman, and Eleventh Dream Day. Brokeback’s most recent reincarnation includes Chris Hansen (Head of Skulls!) Pete Croke (Tight Phantomz) and Jim Elkington (The Zinks, The Horse’s Ha).


An excerpt from Jessica Hopper’s interview with Douglas on Chicago Tribune, 12/15/2011:
“Even though I had never considered Brokeback anything other than a rock band — it’s slightly unusual music, but calling it a jazz band is ridiculous — I decided I wanted to make it more of a “rock band,” that is to say two guitars, bass and drums. All of the music I do is harmonically related. I tend to write things a certain way and the thing that changes is the people I’m playing with and the context in which the music is being presented.”

Wymond Miles (of The Fresh & Onlys) has released his solo debut EP “Earth Has Doors” via Sacred Bones Records. ‘Hidden Things Are Asking You To Find Them’ is the first track from that EP. And The Fresh & Onlys’ new album, as their follow-up to last year’s ” Play It Strange,”  will be released this spring via Mexican Summer.

“Four years ago Wymond Miles, guitar player and songwriter in San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys, began writing solo material thematically based on the concepts of eschatology, anthroposophy, and Gnostic and Hermetic symbolism. Drawing from a vast musical pool of inspiration, including Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt, Arvo Part, and Nikki Sudden amongst others, Earth Has Doors is Miles’ first solo release.” —Sacred Bones Records

Rodriguez – Sugar Man (Live on KEXP)
Rodriguez performs “Sugar Man” at the Triple Door in Seattle as part of KEXP’s VIP Club concert series. Recorded 6/23/09 with the Fresh and Onlys. Rodriguez film documentary “Searching For Sugar Man,” directed by Malik Bendjelloul, debuted at the World Documentary competition of 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Murayama Tomoyoshi GET ALL OF ME SEETHING
すべての僕が沸騰する 村山知義の宇宙
The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama
神奈川県立近代美術館 葉山館
2012年2月11日～2012年3月25日

the bike race scene from the brilliant expressionistic film “Von morgens bis Mitternach (From Morning Till Midnight / 朝から夜中まで)” (dir. Karl Heinz Martin, Germany 1921)

Here’s another track from Liam the Younger’s the upcoming “Clear Skies Over Black River” album re-issued along with “After The Graveyard” album, due out on February 7th through his own label A Learning Computer and Underwater Peoples. Now you can stream the both albums entirely on Prefix Magazine.

Liam The Younger – Bob Dylan
Liam the Younger raging “Bob Dylan” backed up by Luka Usmiani (No Demons Here) and Samuel Franklin (a.k.a. Fluffy Lumbers), both from Big Troubles, at the Low Log Loft Show on September 18th, 2010. Video maker Maia Stern. (via Low Log)