There Is No Reason To Rise Alone: February 2011

Monday, February 28, 2011

Echo Waves

Rigorously disciplined and also a free-form freakout.

I think that every sound on this album is guitar-originated.

As a guitarist, I often dislike listening to guitarists. Especially rockers. Especially rockers who use a lot of pedals to adjust their sound, and frequently zoom into needly-noodly squealy land. Fuck those jerks.

This guy is an exception. I'll listen to him any time. Something about the krautrock rockers that is especially true here: they knew how to play guitar solos in such a way that they actually sound ego-less. They're not showing off, they're blasting off. And they're taking you along.

Often this almost sounds like techno, only guitar-based. Intense krautrock jammy techno.

Enjoy!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/5s64e7yuvkj5lv8/Manuel%20G%F6ttsching-%20Inventions%20for%20Electric%20Guitar.zip

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Strumming

Would you like to spend 52 minutes vibrating to intense, vigorous, one-chord piano drone?
I should think so.

Previously:
http://noreasontorisealone.blogspot.com/2010/01/manifestations.html

http://www.mediafire.com/file/78hgl6jl4h3w34q/Charlemagne%20Palestine-%20Strumming%20Music.zip

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Don't Judge Me

Insanely good gypsy music compilation. Haven't managed to find out anything on the interwebs-- really, I don't know a thing about this, except that it will make your moist parts a little throbby, and your brain will overload and shut down for a while, which will be good for everyone. Stupid brain causes all sorts of problems.

Raise a glass, sob a little sob, smash it on the floor, now dance with the ones you love. Tomorrow we die.

Can be purchased online at Asphalt Tango (if you don't mind the international shipping) or (one copy) at Amazon. Not on iTunes, though I just requested that they carry it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?1dken25i1ocqv6x

Monday, February 21, 2011

Improvised Guitar

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Winter Solstice Mix

Don't miss this one, it's insanely good.
http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=4458

Friday, February 11, 2011

I Was Caught In The Storm

An artist I only discovered a few weeks ago. I can't stop listening to her. Lhasa De Sela was a Montreal-based singer with roots in Mexico and the U.S. as well as Canada. She sings in three languages, in a voice about as sultry and smoky and rich as I've ever heard.

That is, she did sing, while she was alive. She died last January, of breast cancer, at age 36.

This is, I think, the second of three albums. A few years old now and the production is possibly a bit mid-oughties sounding, if you mind that sort of thing. You shouldn't though- her preference was for spare, unorthodox, Leonard Cohen-style arrangements: unexpected trumpet solos, spare harp, an occasional drifty slide guitar, an upright bass wandering forward and then back again.

All in all either I just have a music crush, or it's genuinely amazing stuff. I think the other albums seem amazing too, but haven't heard them in full. Check this one out and let me know what you think.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/9g49s9d5pe029ug/Lhasa%20De%20Sela-%20The%20Living%20Road.zip

Also:

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Ca-Caw

Feeling claustrophobic, chilled and bored?
Tired of dirty snow and long days coughing in an underheated office?

Adjust your bikini, swim up to the bar, avoid the parrots and monkeys trying to steal your mai-tai, and tune in:
http://www.exoticaproject.com