Posts Tagged ‘Oregon’

TYPHOON – ” Caesar / Reed Road ” Live at the Crystal Ballroom

Posted: November 24, 2015 in MUSIC
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Kyle Morton uses Typhoon’s joyful, clamoring, folk-orchestral sound as a Trojan horse for a powerful rumination on life, death and lost childhood.”

Download Live At The Crystal Ballroom, recorded live in Portland, Oregon and featuring 14 songs from the orchestral indie band. The Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon–was about as high a pinnacle to which one could aspire. Our parents used to drive us up from Salem to see bands like Built to Spill and the Get Up Kids, events which, in the mind of a fourteen year-old boy, were enough to sanctify the venue as a sort of holy place

Today, the fact that the band Typhoon has actually played at the Crystal Ballroom does not reconcile easily with my early associations. That the stage there has been graced by so many of my musical idols seems to preclude the notion of my ever setting foot on it.

But then life is strange. I am over the moon to present you with Typhoon: Live at the Crystal Ballroom. Please forgive the minor muck-ups of the performance–to say we were all a little overwhelmed by the evening would not be an overstatement.

RARE MONK – ” California “

Posted: November 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Rare Monk have a new self-titled EP expected November 20th via B3SCI Records, Produced By: Tom McFall
Recorded at: Jackpot Studios in Portland, Oregon. 

Rare Monk is born from the grit of jam sessions, proof that the modern day rock band who creates together, stays together. In 2015, the Portland-based Rare Monk will release their apocalyptic-tinged self-titled EP, produced by Tom McFall (Weezer, Bloc Party, Snow Patrol, R.E.M.).

The follow-up to 2014’s widely lauded 7-inch “Splice/Sleep Attack,” the Rare Monk EP is the next progression in the Northwest quintet’s unique sound. Pairing forward-thinking arrangements and visceral, soulful instrumentation with a strong sense of effective pop songwriting (the band counts acts as diverse as Phoenix and Sonic Youth as key influences), the four tracks are a powerful statement of intent.

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Rare Monk traces its origins to the act’s college years, where they where the go-to band for impromptu drunkin’ dorm gigs and psychedelic jam-outs. In 2012, the band teamed up with producer Skyler Norwood (Horse Feathers, Blind Pilot) for their self-released “Death By Proxy” EP, and between then and now have been regular touring fixtures in the UK and on America’s West Coast as they honed their thunderous and affecting live show. In October, the band will play a series of U.S. dates with Aquilo, Beach Baby, Leisure, and Oscar.

Rare Monk are: Dorian Aites (Vocals, Keys, Violin, Guitar), Isaac Thelin (Violin, Saxophone), Hugh Jepson (Guitar), Forest Gallien (Bass), and Rick Buhr (Drums).

Grab Rare Monk’s new EP release both digitally and on limited edition CD.

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Produced By: Tom McFall
Recorded at: Jackpot Studios in Portland, Oregon

JOSEPH – ” Tell Me There’s A Garden “

Posted: March 15, 2015 in MUSIC
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 Joseph is a must see at SXSW after their positively lush debut album last year entitled “Native Dreamer Kin”. This sister-trio excels with their spine-tickling harmonies that lock in and rise with a mystic air bound up in natural landscape of their home town of Portland, Oregon. Ears to the mountains and feet in the dirt, their lyrics cut to the heart and carry you along on their journey. “…lush, pastoral acoustic music generated by the three harmonious sisters…Natalie, Allison and Meegan are in many ways akin to U.K. folk sibling trio The Staves in their approach to creating delicate acoustic songs where angelic three-part harmony is the distinctive calling card. Joseph are these three Oregon sisters are bringing the sounds they grew up singing in their mountains, to ours. Like wind whispering in the pines, accompanied by perfect guitar.”

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The HELIO SEQUENCE – ” Stoic Resemblence “

Posted: March 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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The self-titled sixth album by The Helio Sequence began within the Portland, Oregon music scene .In a sense, The Helio Sequence had spent their whole career preparing for this record. They’d sunk entire recording advances into studio purchases, collaborating with local engineers to build custom gear and a space where they could blend high fidelity with kaleidoscopic sound. In 2013, the pair took on their first full-scale production project, the Brazilian rock band Quarto Negro, after the group inquired about their space and availability through Facebook. As producers, they’d remixed Shabazz Palaces, picked up mixing sessions with Portland acts and earned representation from Global Positioning Services. Summers and Weikel discovered just how adaptable and powerful their studio could be.

They began arriving each morning in their Portland space—housed in the cafeteria and break room of an old warehouse— with the mission of making as much music as possible in one month. They began exploring and capturing, recording guitar riffs and keyboard loops, drum patterns and bass lines. One piece documented, they quickly advanced to the next idea. Summers and Weikel didn’t discuss what they were making or the reference points that informed it, though such discussions had once been central to The Helio Sequence’s more self-conscious process. They just played. Created. In time, they returned to each fragment, broadcasting it over the studio PA, jamming and recording the results. Mistakes didn’t matter, and second chances didn’t exist. After two weeks, Summers and Weikel began cutting those loose takes into rough shapes, steadily building songs from their cavalier sketches.

When June arrived, the duo gathered their 26 finished songs and sent them to 31 friends, fans and family members. They asked each person to rank their 10 favorite tracks. By summer’s end, they had arrived at the brisk 10 tracks that shape the breathless and magnetic The Helio Sequence—a record so named because it’s a kind of clean restart for the longtime pair, a revamp of their process and a revitalization of their results.

AGES and AGES – ” Divisionary “

Posted: January 25, 2015 in MUSIC
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Ages and Ages are an American rock band from Portland, Oregon which has been receiving positive critical attention because of their upbeat raw choral pop” sound Every member of the band sings accompanied by handclaps, shakers and noise-makers. They are a secular band with a big tent revival sound. The group was voted as a top Portland band by the local Willamette Week. In 2011, they signed a record deal with Partisan Records and have since undertaken several national US tours. In 2013 the band changed their name from AgesandAges to Ages and Ages. The rechristened band played their first European dates in the winter of 2014.

GROUPER – ” Lighthouse “

Posted: January 25, 2015 in MUSIC
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No other album in 2014 sounded quite like Grouper’s “Ruins”. Liz Harris, from Portland, Oregon. is the musician behind Grouper’s murky world of sound, recorded the album with a four-track tape deck and a single microphone at a house in Portugal, where she was doing an artists’ residency. Each day she walked through the ruins of several old estates, sifting through a lot of what she calls “emotional garbage” and anger. “Ruins” captures this period of soul searching — a delicately woven mix of Harris’ wispy voice, a lone piano and a menagerie of incidental sounds that sneak into the recordings: Distant bullfrogs, crickets, the wind, the creak of a wood floor. It’s a profoundly moving collection of songs that feel almost cavernous, like the dark and empty hole that must reside somewhere in Grouper’s heart.

MIMICKING BIRDS – ” Owl Hoots” and ” Bloodlines “

Posted: October 31, 2014 in MUSIC
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A new album is out now titled EONS featuring the tracks Bloodlines and Owl Hoots, the band are from Portland Oregon music available on Glacial Pace Records, this is their second release.

 

GREY LAG – ” Another ” and ” Yours to Shake “

Posted: October 16, 2014 in MUSIC
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Greylag a trio from Portland Oregon  the band got together from all parts of the USA, heavy on moody vocals and blustery instrumentation

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