Ana Never is a post-rock band formed in 2002 in Subotica, Serbia. Beautiful music; long tracks influenced by GYBE! Get it!
Glen Johnson is the only constant member in one of my favourite bands, Piano Magic. This is his first solo album. Johnson says: "The songs on the solo album were written and recorded when Piano Magic was on hiatus. Some of them most likely could have been on a Piano Magic record but I was just too impatient to wait for us to get going again as a band." I am a bit biased but this is a great album!
Rachel's is an American post-rock group formed in Louisville, USA, in 1991. The core members are guitarist Jason Noble, violist Christian Frederickson and pianist Rachel Grimes. The group’s work is strongly influenced by classical music, particularly inspired by the minimalist music of the late 20th century. While the trio forms the core part of the band, the group’s recordings and performances feature a varying ensemble of musicians, who play a range of string instruments (including viola and cello) in combination with piano, guitars, electric bass guitar, and a drum set that includes a large orchestral bass drum. This album, the band's second, is the soundtrack to a piece of dance and theater that was based on the life of the controversial Viennese painter Egon Schiele. A pure masterpiece!
Eksperimentoj is a progressive rock band from Japan formed in May 2002. This is their first album released in January 2007 through Hurricane Records. Their sound is a fusion of post-rock and progressive rock which they call "sound art". The name "eksperimentoj" means "experiments" in Esperanto.
Kammerflimmer Kollektief ("Ventricular Fibrillation Collective") is a German experimental jazz-electronica group characterised by soothing, throbbing soundscapes accented with disjointed sounds played by instruments such as the saxophone. Although the fragile rhythms draw heavily from free-jazz improvisation the final overall effect is closer to ambient electronica. This is their fourth album. Great band!
This is one of the best albums I've listened so far this year. The Spheres are an experimental AV ensemble from Melbourne, Australia comprised of filmmakers, animators, multi-instrumentalists and expatriates collectively exploring the cross over between live music and visual projection. They play fantastic, post-rock, cinematic music. This is their only album so far, released in 2006. Amazing! Get it!
Collapse under the empire is a post-rock band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2007. They released their debut album ("Paintball EP") in May 2008. This is their first full-length album. Their sound is a combination of epic guitars with chilled electronic elements and a portion melancholic mood. Great album, highly recommended!
This is one of my favourite albums. Espers is a psych-folk band from Philadelphia, USA, formed in 2002. This is actually their third album, after their debut self-titled album (2003) and "The Weed Tree" (2005), an album of cover songs. Excellent band ...and this is their best album so far!
Elizabeth Anka Vagajic is a singer and guitarist from Montreal who writes dark folk/blues music. This is her excellent debut album released by the great independent label Constellation Records, the label of some of the greatest post-rock bands in the world (GYBE, Silver Mt. Zion and Do Make Say Think). A few members from those bands play in this record. Absolutely brilliant album!
Kovlo is a post-rock band from Switzerland. They released their first album in 2005, entitled "A new position for a second degree burnt". This is their second album. Recommended to post-rock fans.
In a perfect world, Thalia Zedek would be one of the most successful artists (commercially). But this is ain't no perfect world and Thalia Zedek's records have limited commercial success, even though she has been highly acclaimed by music critics throughout her career. In the 1990s, she was a member of the influential American indie band Come. This is her first solo album released in 2001. An "old-fashioned" rock album by one of the strongest vocalists in music. Don't miss it!
One more fantastic album by Marissa Nadler. "A voice you would follow straight into Hades" as described by Pitchfork.
Zoë Keating is a Canadian cellist. She was a second chair cellist in the cello rock band Rasputina from 2002 to 2006. In her solo recordings (a project called "One Cello x 16"), she uses electronic sampling and repetition to layer the sound of her cello. This is her second album (after the EP "One Cello x 16"). Beautiful music!
Yndi Halda are from Canterbury, UK. "Yndi Halda" is Old Norse for "Enjoy Eternal Bliss", also the name of their debut I post today. A great post-rock album. The band also creates distinctive, individualised hand-made covers. Recommended!
Artist: Tied & Tickled Trio
Support these guys! Great post-rock from Austria.
