HOMEMADE LOFI PSYCH --- WHERE TO START?





"There is so much great music here..." WHERE TO START???

I recommend to
start with the HLFP-Samplers (especially HLFP 04).
Here you will come to know many of the bands/musicians featured in this blog. If you like what you hear, you may check out more of their music later on.
(You may also click on the picture on the sidebar and you will find the original post with download links.)

There is also a "FOCUS ON..." section. Here you will find albums that imo are absolutely great (***** = "five-stars-recordings") and that are essential listening and strongly recommended for download.


I TRY to RE-UP some stuff that has been down from time to

time, but I still don't have enough time to

listen to/post much new stuff.

Sorry!

IMPRESSUM: see here!

Friday, June 19, 2009

Andrew Bland - Atypical Dimensions (USA 2009)

"Andrew Bland
is a multi-instrumentalist who, with the help of a few friends and a four-track tape recorder, creates atmospheric soundscapes that bridge traditional world instruments with mellow electronica, time-honored folk song structures with modal and polyrhythmic textures, and old-school analog recording procedures with postmodern composition and sampling techniques."
(info from webside)

"Atypical Dimensions" is Andrew's last album, recorded August '08 - March '09 on 4-track analog in Andrew's attic, Seelyville, IN, USA. Again it is very atmospheric music, using a whole range of different instruments, many of them not very common in European or American music (see the collection here). You'll find 18 short soundscapes, most of them under 2 minutes, often rather simple but beautiful collages and compositions, that make for very comfortable, relaxing listening. I hear traces of world music, experimental weird folk as well as krautrock elements and post rock. Quite a fascinating mixture. Recommended!


You may find some of ANDREW BLAND's earlier works, "Zonohedra" and "Paper Fences" here on the blog, or have a visit to:


http://andrewbland.net/


Enjoy!


(And thank you again, Andrew, for sending me a CD copy!)


Short compositions by
ANDREW BLAND - Atypical Dimensions (USA 2009)
A celebration of the inaudible music that emerges from the deep primal silences
between sounds.
{Also the soundtrack for a yet-to-be-made series of Super-8 films
by Stewert McAlpine}
(mp3-zip, 18 tracks, 36 min, artwork incl., 81,4 MB, @ 320)
Get it here or here!
((c) Andrew Bland 2009)

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