2010...

Film Screening...

The Post Rock Years: INTROSPECTIVE
INTROSPECTIVE (Adam Garriga, Spain, 2006, 65 mins) This music documentary explores ‘post-rock’, the term coined by the influential Wire magazine to describe a diverse set of groundbreaking artists who emerged in the 1990s. Featuring great live footage, filmed over a number of years at the Sonar and Primeavera music festivals in Spain, of bands like Mogwai, Tortoise, Low and Mouse on Mars, and interviews with underground music icons like Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Ira Kaplan of Yo la Tengo and Jason Pierce of Spiritualized, INTROSPECTIVE creates a fascinating overview of alternative music in the last 20 years.
THE 7th LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 8-17 JAN. 2009
8:00 PM Sat, Jan 09 Venue:Roxy Bar & Screen

New Release in Jan. 2010...









a track to download: Black Smoke

TINDERSTICKS - Falling Down A Mountain (2010)





REPRINT... ---> http://musictraveler.blogspot.com/
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Various - All Tomorrow's Parties 1.0 (2001) (@256)

This post is about the best rockumentary I've seen in 2009, which was about the festival All Tomorrow's Parties. It's a film that was released by Warp X (a subsidiary of Warp for which there is an ongoing tribute) and gives an insightful look at a festival that always brings us the cutting edge of today's music.
So, this post's upload is a release that deals with some the groups of the bill of 2001's ATP, which was curated by Tortoise and Foundation.
Tracklisting
01-The Sea and Cake - Bird and Flag (remix by K Brown)
02-Prefuse 73 - Shitslime Garbage Can vs. My MPC
03-Broadcast - DDL
04-Calexico - Piker Sam
05-Yo La Tengo - Our Way to Fall (live)
06-Rick Rizzo & Tara Key - Sinfo
07-Black Heart Procession - Waterfront (The Sinking Road)
08-Tortoise - Cliff Dweller Society
09-Mike Ladd - I Seen What You Say
10-Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country (edit)
11-Atmosphere - If I was Santa Claus
12-Cannibal Ox feat. El-P - Ridiculoid
13-Autechre - All Tomorrow's Linoleum
14-Russell Haswell - Maquette Augmentation
review link: here
download link: here
http://musictraveler.blogspot.com/2010/01/various-all-tomorrows-parties-10-2001.html

... 2009 - -impressions of a year to reflect upon... THE IOTA KAPPA PROJECT REVIEWS

... 2009 - -impressions of a year to reflect upon...
THE IOTA KAPPA PROJECT REVIEWS
---the iota kappa project choices (the artists are in alphabetic order) for 2009 - not necessarily the "best"(!?) but those which we actually loved and enjoyed:

BLUENECK - Low (from the new album, "The Fallen Host")
Artist: Blueneck Album: The Fallen Host Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 8/10

BRITISH SEA POWER - Man of Aran (from the new album "Man of Aran")
Artist: British Sea Power Album: Man of Aran Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 9/10

CASPIAN - The Raven (from the new album "Tetria")
Artist: Caspian Album: Tetria Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 8/10



Artist: Giardini di Miro Album: Il Fuoco Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 9/10


Artist: If These Trees Could Talk Album: The Earth, Below The Sky Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 7/10

MOUNTAINS - "Telescope"
Artist: Mountains Album: Choral Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 7.5/10



Artist: Pertego Album: Ep "Hjarta" Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 7/10

THE ANTLERS - Kettering (from the new album: "Hospice")
Artist: The Antlers Album: Hospice Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 9/10

... elegies for an epoch to reflect upon, sense and feel... - -pragmatics to consciencize some elements of the theory of Praxis - for m.s.

MONO & WORLD'S END GIRLFRIEND - "Palmless Prayer - Mass Murder Refrain" (2005)

‘Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain’ – quoted as possibly the greatest post rock album ever made...

Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Trailer 5 [1/2]
Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Trailer 5 [2/2]

the iota kappa project review: 10/10




Artist: Kashiwa Daisuke Album: april.#02 (1st album) Year: 2006

Kashiwa Daisuke - The Unexclusive Virus
Kashiwa Daisuke - Rabbit's quartet

the iota kappa project review: 9.5/10




"Boy Vertiginous" - British Sea Power from the album, Man Of Aran - track 6
"Conneely Of The West" - British Sea Power from the album, Man Of Aran - track 8

Artist: British Sea Power Album: Man of Aran Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 9/10

...recent releases in post-rock - - -2009 in review

THE IOTA KAPPA PROJECT REVIEWS -- some post-rock albums released in 2009:

Please, note that the artists/groups are in alphabetical order...


Arctic Plateau - "In Time" (2009)
Artist: Arctic Plateau Album: On A Sad Sunny Day Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 6/10


http://www.myspace.com/theautumnproject
Artist: The Autumn Project Album: This we take with us Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 6.5/10

Canyons of Static - "Are we still the good guys?"(2009)
Artist: Canyons of Static Album: The Disappearance Year:2009
the iota kappa project review: 7/10

Caspian - "Ghosts Of The Garden City" (2009)
Artist: Caspian Album: Tetria Year:2009
the iota kappa project review: 9/10

En Plein Air - "Irradia" (2009)
Artist: En Plein Air Album: L'Alba Irradia l'Inutile Parola Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 6/10

Jacaszek - "Rytm to niesmiertelnosc" (2009)
Artist: Jacaszek Album:Treny Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 6.5/10


Jonsi & Alex (aka Riceboy Sleeps)- "Atlas song" (2009)
Artist: Jonsi & Alex (aka Riceboy Sleeps) Album: Riceboy Sleeps Year:2009
the iota kappa project review: 8/10

Kwoon - "Kwoon" (2009)
Artist: Kwoon Album: Tales and Dreams Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 5/10


Maybeshewill - "Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony" (2009)
Artist: Maybeshewill Album: Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony Year: 2009
the iota kappa review: 5/10

The Mercury Program - "Chez Viking" (2009)
Artist: The Mercury Program Album: Chez Viking Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 6/10

Misuse - "While It Lasts" (2009)
Artist: Misuse Album: Misuse Year: 2009
...that's a greek post-rock band - -
the iota kappa project review: 4.5/10


Tom Milsom - "Autumnsong" (2009)
Artist: Tom Milsom Album:Painfully mainstream Year:2009 (not a post-rock album)
the iota kappa project review (just for the 'Autumnsong'): 6/10

New Century Classics - "A small misunderstanding" (2009)
Artist: New Century Classics Album: Natural Process Year:2009
the iota kappa project review: 8/10


Paucity - "Hombow" (2009)
Artist: Paucity Album: Deer Bird Bear Ship Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 8/10

Pelican - "Strung up from the sky" (2009)
Artist: Pelican Album: What we all Come to Need Year: 2009
the iota kappa review: 6.5/10


Russian Circles - "Hexed All" (2009)
Artist:Russian Circles Album: Geneva Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 6/10

Say Hello To My Kids - "A Century Ago I Felt Fine" (2009)
Artist: Say Hello To My Kids Album: Say Hello To My Kids Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 6/10

...the ethereal sunshine of a post-rock mind... - a rough guide to some of the best post-rock music ever composed

...the ethereal sunshine of a post-rock mind ... - a rough guide to some of the best post-rock music ever composed... --the first 25

... THE IOTA KAPPA PROJECT...

Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain "Trailer 5" [1/2]
Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain "Trailer 5" [2/2]
MONO & WORLD END'S GIRLFRIEND --1/25
MONO --- WORLD END's GIRLFRIEND

Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die "Glass Museum"(1996)
TORTOISE --2/25

Explosions in the sky - "First breath after coma"
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY --3/25

Giardini di mirò - Il Fuoco "La favilla 2" (2009)
GIARDINI DI MIRO --6/25

Blueneck - The Fallen Host "Low" (2009)
BLUENECK --8/25

Hammock - "Through A Glass Darkly" (2005)
HAMMOCK --14/25

Jakob - Solace "Oran Mor" (2006)
JAKOB --15/25

...beyond but still familiar...

...ms


You Are My Everything - "Stalker"
Artist:You Are My Everything Year: 2009
the iota kappa project review: 9/10

king of woolworths - bakerloo (vj mix)
Artist: King of Woolworths Song's title: bakerloo (vj mix) Year: 2006
--superb tune...


Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Artist: Alcest Album: Souvenirs d'un autre monde Year: 2007
the iota kappa project review: 6/10
Alcest is a musical project born in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France.Beginning as a raw black metal act in 1999, Alcest later became a vessel for Neige's "memories of another world" as the band evolved into his solo-project. While Alcest still retains some black metal roots, the music now draws more comparison to other genres such as shoegaze and post-rock.



Ganger - "Capo (South Of Caspian)" from Album: Hammock Style Year:1998
Ganger formed in march 1995, in Glasgow, with the idea of doing a kind of krautrock thing - lots of folk were listening to ‘can’, ‘neu’, ‘kraftwerk’ etc. at the time. They started with 2 basses (stuart & graham), 2 drummers (james & steven), keyboards, guitar and clarinet (lucy). Ganger split in April 2000.


Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
Artist: Japandroids Album: Post-Nothing Year: 2009
..great garage-band!!!

... holding back the years 2004-2008...

artists in alphabetical order... (-m.s.)

ACTARUS - "Milkfloat"
Artist: Actarus Album : Actarus Year : 2005
the iota kappa project review:7/10

AUDREY - "Plain Pieces"
Artist: Audrey Album: Visible Forms Year: 2006
the iota kappa project review: 7/10


ADELAIDE - "Games Without End"
Artist: Adelaide EP: Adelaide Year: 2004 (rare)
the iota kappa project review:8/10

BECAUSE OF THE GHOST - "Fall Short of Certainty"
Artist: Because of Ghosts Album: The Tomorrow We Were Promised Yesterday Year: 2006
http://www.becauseofghosts.com/
the iota kappa project review: 7/10

MAYBESHEWILL - "He Films the Clouds Pt.2"
Artist: Maybeshewill Album: Not For Want of Trying Year: 2008
the iota kappa project review 6/10


MOVING MOUNTAINS ALBUM - "8105"
Artist: Moving Mountains Album: Pneuma Year: 2007
the iota kappa project review 8/10


NEIL ON IMPRESSION - "Barone"
Artist: Neil on Impression Album: L'Oceano delle Onde Che Restano Onde Per Sempre Year: 2008
the iota kappa project review:6/10

RED SPARROWS - "Alone & Unaware..."
Artist: Red Sparrows Album: At The Soundless Dawn Year: 2005
the iota kappa project review: 7/10

WOODS AND WIRES - "Archernar"
Artist: Wood and Wires Title: Archernar Album: Wood and Wires Year: 2006
the iota kappa project review: 7/10