Artist Spotlight: Brokenkites
January 23rd, 2008
Everyone likes Bedroom Walls
July 20th, 2007
Back in 2003, Bedroom Walls were invited by the honorable Nic Harcourt to perform on KCRW's excellent Morning Becomes Eclectic show. Thanks to the infinite power of the internet, you can watch or listen to that performance here.
More recently, Bedroom Walls have been getting some well-deserved attention around the blogosphere:
I found out about this band just after I finalized my list of Favorite Songs of 2006 and would have liked to include on that listSomewherein newhall , a song from their 2006 release
.Bedroom Walls consists of Donna Coppola, Adam Goldman, and Melissa Thorne, and their sound is soft and ethereal, almost shoegaze, with just a bit of an edge. There are some lovely bells, strings, vibraphone, and even trumpets on this album, all instruments that I love to hear. [Speed of Dark, 6/4/07]
They've got some dark content, but it's fantastic music. You'll hear strings incorporated into some of their music that will blow you away. If only it would last longer, some of their songs make you wish for a little bit more. [Bring Me Up, 6/5/07]
Rhys Fulber Conjures up a Solo Project with “Conjure One”
April 26th, 2007
Conjure
One is the self-titled solo debut from Rhys Fulber (best
known for his work with Delerium and F.L.A.). The
album consists of ambient dance pop drawing influences from around
the world and features collaborations with guest vocalists like
Sinead O'Connor on
Tears From The Moon
(
Center Of The Sun
(The following is an excerpt from an interview with Rhys Fulber from About.Dance.com:
Few artists can honestly say that they witnessed and contributed to the birth of modern industrial music... Rhys Fulber can. Widely known for his work with Austrian musician Bill Leeb on a little project called Frontline Assembly, Fulber has cemented the use of synthesizers and electronic drums in industrial music. Since Frontline Assembly, Fulber has expanded his musical horizons by composing for numerous side projects such as Intermix, Delerium, Synaesthesia and now Conjure One. Living outside of his hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia, Rhys avoids the big cities and mostly keeps to his quiet rural home. There he works on remixes and production for acts such as Mindless Self Indulgence, Megadeth, and the Tea Party. Despite his busy schedule, Rhys Fulber takes some time out to talk with us at About.Dance.com about the release of the new Conjure One album; Extraordinary Ways.
Star: So Delerium and Conjure One are both very ethereal feeling, how do you see them interacting with the more club-oriented genres like industrial and EBM?
Rhys Fulber: I don't know, I never think about it to be honest. I thought it was something kind of different, I don't really connect the two things that much really. The Conjure One stuff is pretty different than what influenced what you would call industrial. So I don't know, it's hard for me to say because it seems to me that it's a different audience, but I could be wrong.
Star: Well, given the similarities between Delerium and Conjure One, I guess could you contrast the two for me, or I guess what was the intention behind having them as two separate projects?
Rhys Fulber: Well, I don't think they sound that similar. The way the music's put together, to me, is quite different, the way the songs are written for Delerium and the way the songs are written for Conjure One, the working process differs a fair amount.
Star: How so?
Rhys Fulber: Well, with Delerium, I'm working with Bill and he will bring an idea of something and then we'll assemble a song, a lot of the times we're assembling songs around samples and stuff like that, whereas with Conjure One it's more like stuff that's just sort of written or it's just a piano and stuff like that. I mean there's a lot more live instruments on Conjure One than on Delerium. I think as I'm doing all the programming on both projects, that's probably where you're going to have a similarity because it's the same person doing a lot of the texturing and stuff like that. But the feeling of the music feels different to me. That's the only way I can describe it, Conjure One feels a little more intimate from my perspective.
High Two Jazz
November 27th, 2006
Amie Street just got some Jazz from High Two,
a great label from Philadelphia we've
already posted about. High Two put up tracks from three
artists:
The first group is Shot x Shot, "an
improvisational acoustic quartet performing original compositions
steeped in jazz tradition, but with experimental sensibilities."
[Bio] Dusted calls Shot
x Shot's self-titled album "a thunderous, thoughful debut from a
group well on its way to turning every last head that will listen."
Don't miss the track
Chains of Agree
.
The second group is Sonic Liberation
Front, a group that "practically invents a new genre with each
composition" and that's "known for its iconoclastic combination of
free-jazz passion and Afro- Cuban percussion excitement." [Bio] Check out the
track
The Next Thing That Happens
from their new album Change Over
Time.
Downfall
in particular.
Don't miss High Two's Jazz!
