The Cambridge headquarters of PaisleyTunes has a guest for the next day or so who is in possession of a six-month old baby girl. What kind of music would a baby girl want to hear? While Stabbarific would certainly choo-choo-choo-choo-choose mid-’90s Raffi, I am going to lean toward something a little more avant garde. I’m […]
Category: Ambient
Bear In Heaven: I Love You, It’s Cool
A little Leap-Year Magic! I just happen to have found another band about bears and, whooo-whee, this one sounds like a spacier Ratatat or a geared up Depeche Mode. Bear In Heaven is a Brooklyn based band and manages a rare release every once-in-a-while, the latest of which, I Love You, It’s Cool, will be released on […]
Bombay Dub Orchestra: Self Titled
While seeking out tunes on a list Architorture sent me, I came across this album that the jacket told me would be solid. Electronic ambient with eastern vocal and instrumental sampling. With 6 minute tracks, it’s a solid double disc that sometimes enchants the audible environment with a single resonating gong, or a cacophony of endless musical […]
Message To Bears: Folding Leaves
Every time I happen across a band with “Bear” or “Bears” in the name I feel obligated to write about it… just ’cause I know my audience loves bears. So: Today I want to tell you about Jerome Alexander and his one-man-band Message To Bears (For some reason I can’t help but to think this […]
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
“I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe. I will tell you things at random…” said Simon Jeffes in 1970. Since that day, until his death decades later, Jeffes and his musical entourage produced nude penguo-human afro-commune art and the unique sounds to match, casting themselves Out of the mainstream. This, appropriately shot them back In as their music became a staple […]
Blue Sky Black Death: Noir
By way of Colorado’s University in Pueblo, I’ve been introduced to Blue Sky Black Death. With fourteen albums and ten ‘other’ releases, these two are by no means freshmen in production. This ambient sampling pair of Seattilites, ‘Kingston’ & ‘Young God,’ transform the world around the listener into a melancholy film, or VW commercial, carrying lighthearted themes throughout […]