D/B Artist Feature: Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson
Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson are a young and excellent postrock Band from Oslo/Norway. D/B highly recommended, not only for postrock fans.
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Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson came to be when a group of four classmates Morten (drums), Gjermund (guitar), Torbjørn (guitar) and Audun (bass) at the Bodø University decided [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Lee Fields & The Expressions
Lee Fields is a bona-fide, unadulterated, pure, gut-bucket soul singer. While the crate-digging funk and soul community bestowed “legendary” status upon him due to his undeniably solid series of rare 7″ singles recorded and released on his own labels in the 70s, he’s never been one to sit in a dusty corner.
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D/B Artist Feature: eLan
eLan is an another superb producer from San Diego, United States. His cool synth sounds are a musical journey rooted in Funk, Boogie, Down- and Instrumental Beats.
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You can Download his latest Album famLay free on his MySpace site. Highly recommended. You heard it first here.
D/B Artist Feature: ASURA
The inaugural Non Projects release is the debut multi-genre album by Los Angeles resident Ryan York. An album of pure emotion and evocative powers, Asura plays out like a continuous movie for the mind. Brand new and D/B highly Recommended.
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Complete with neck snapping beats and snaky synth lines, silent [...]
D/B News: Joanna Newsom | New Album “Have One on Me” and first Song streaming on Drag City + US Tour Dates
Joanna Newsom’s new album “Have One On Me” will be released by Drag City on February 23. Drag City streaming already ‘81′ from Newsom’s new triple album, Have One on Me.
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Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist, and singer-songwriter from Nevada, California. Newsom was first taught to play [...]
D/B Artist Feature: The Books
The Books are an American experimental music duo founded in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. Their music is a mix of electronica, folk, and acoustic music, incorporating samples of sounds, speech and music.
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They have released three critically-acclaimed [...]
D/B Artist Feature: BIBIO
Stephen Wilkinson aka. Bibio, is a British music producer. I know this guy for a long time now (since his first release actually), but I think after his two excellent releases last year on Warp he became very well known.
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A resident of the West Midlands, England, Stephen Wilkinson developed [...]
D/B Artist Feature: DYNOOO | Gum Dragon EP & Video EPK
Gent-based producer and Mac Fly owner Dynooo will release his debut Gum Dragon EP in collaboration with new Belgian label Digsville. Brand new & highly recommended!
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12″ vinyl / cd & digital / out on Digsville/Mac Fly soon.
D/B Artist Feature: Nite Jewel | New Stones Throw Podcast 54
Nite Jewel is the performing moniker of Ramona Gonzalez. She is a composer, songwriter, and multimedia artist from Los Angeles, California, where she has exhibited a number of video and sound installation pieces.
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A recent sound installation entitled “The Question Concerning Technology” has been transcribed to traditional notation by Human [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Jerome Faria + Hugo Olim @ the MADEIRADIG Festival 2009
Great performance at the MADEIRADIG of the two young local artist Jeroma Faria and the visual artist Hugo Olim.
hugo olim was born in madeira island, portugal. he works in the field of visual arts, especially with the medium video and photography. the aim of his work is to explore the different nature of images and [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Johann Johannsson
Jóhann Jóhannsson has been called by critics “Iceland’s foremost genre-crossing multi-instrumentalist” (Irish Times), “one of the bright lights in the already talent rich Icelandic underground music scene” (Aquarius Records), “the most compelling composer working today”, and “An important figure in Iceland’s new music scene at the turn of the millennium”. (All Music Guide). Amazing and [...]
D/B Artist Feature: new century classics
The postrock band new century classics was formed in may 2006 by a group of friends and refugees from various parts of the world, centered around a mutual love of good music and the desire to fill their time and their hands with as many instruments as possible.
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The band [...]
D/B Artist Featute: Aufgang
The epic tale of Aufgang starts with the new century in the star city of the New World. Rami Khalifé and Francesco Tristano met in the year 2000 in New York where they were both studying the piano at the very prestigious Juilliard School.
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Being almost as assiduous in their [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Rhian Sheehan
‘Standing In Silence’ is fourteen parts of an exquisite expedition through soothing aural landscapes touched with organic sounds of human interaction, accompanied by stunning photography from Andrei Jewell. An album to soak in, breathe to and be inspired by.
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“The idea for Standing in Silence was born from the now [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Danny Norbury
Danny Norbury lives and works in Manchester. He is a cellist. He has written and recorded two EPs: ‘Dusk’ (Static Caravan), and ‘Jean Cocteau’ (Ono), using the instruments he has around him at home.
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His last album “Light in August” is just breathtaking wonderful. Highly recommended!
D/B Artist Feature: Athletic Mic League
The Athletic Mic League (aka AML) is a 7-man collective that eventually lead to the solo-careers of Buff1, 14KT and Mayer Hawthorne.
Despite the recent success of those solo-endeavors, AML is still a collective, a family, and they plan on releasing an album in 2010. To end 2009, AML has decided to release their complete catalog [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Blue Daisy feat. LaNote
23 year old London based artist Blue Daisy who just recently released his debut. Wunderful minimal late night ambient space beats with a stunning whiff of voice. Highy Recommended.
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‘Imagine yourself in a box, a normal four-by-four box, and you’re sitting in there, and you’ve got little holes to breathe….
D/B Artist Feature: ARAYA
With the Album “Whilst We Try” sees highlander Keir MacCulloch return to the shores of Benbecula for a second outing. This trip proves to be a much more focused and dancefloor-friendly affair. Wonderful and highly recommended!
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From the lush guitar-laden opener “Sergio Leone”, to the orchestral synth fusion of “Duty [...]
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Every second thursday of the month @ Madame Claude
The MADEIRADIG Festival 2010
3-6.12.2010 | Madeira Island / Portugal
