Archive for January, 2009

Posted on January 30, 2009 - by Mark Zonda

Safety Matches

I’ll never get tired of good indie Music. And it’s a shame any country in the World hasn’t his own scene. Take Portugal for example. How could you possibly accept that “Safety Matches” are only a strange twist of fate placed in a country so fare away from their musical references ? Yet another great “Cloudberry Records” descovery. Bravo Roque!

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Posted on January 29, 2009 - by Halina Rifai

The Cause And Resolve Of Prego

Prego are a London based 5-piece spectacular. The band members are Edd Simpson, Simon Britcliffe, Caspar Williamson, Will Leslie and Paul Jennings. They have been playing for a few years but 2008 brought them to the forefront as an act to watch for. Steve Lamaq, Drowned in Sound and Rocklouder are a few to have praised them.

Their sound is like that of a super sonic jet, a stirring beginning that builds up to an almighty bolt of sonancy.

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Posted on January 27, 2009 - by Megan

Jill Leighton

On Saturday 24^th January, I met Jill Leighton again for the first time in 15 years. The first thing that strikes you even before she has started to perform is her beauty. She is one of the most beautiful people to ever consume my gaze, golden hair and a face as pure as the morning sun rising. She has this innocence in her eyes that is so endearing and a manner that is as calm as a willow tree washing over a breezy landscape. (more…)

Posted on January 26, 2009 - by Mark Zonda

Back to the Future

The last years of the 90’s were quite something for music. Everyone (well, almost) felt the urge to pull their socks to manage to build the music of the future. Internet file sharing, burning devices, power laptops and cheap recording systems weren’t at hand yet. Quality of music and recording still had some value. We had the opportunity to find out some great exhotic albums and some guys still had interest in open new doors to music not being afraid or feeling the urge to being catalogued by a recognisable label. Electronic music has its creative moments, but it was also the era of astract pop, post-rock, jungle and big-beat.

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Posted on January 25, 2009 - by Mark Zonda

Life in a Swedish Town

How’s life in a Swedish Town? Cold days, even colder nights, youngsters living in the comfortable micro-world of a room listening to some music or trying to look for an appealing warm place like tea-hous. Or a library. Welcome to Moz-City! These are probably the main elements that garanted to new Cloudberry star Twig such a powerful appeal: his voice is warm and confidential, his melodies reminds of the sweetest days of your past summers, he actually works on a library in sweden and his songs are dealing with… books!

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Posted on January 23, 2009 - by Mark Zonda

Burning! Bright!

Could you cound how many indie-bands are now playing outhere with a tiger in their names? There are some obscure london guys that were “Shining in the Wood“,  (San Fran)Cisco’s  “Paper Tiger“, an electronic band that is even “Half Tiger“. Only in Italy we’ve two bands called “Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger!” and “Tiger, Tiger!” (not to be confused with “Tiger!” Tiger!” from Atlanta).

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Posted on January 21, 2009 - by Mark Zonda

This band is fucking right!

“Please don’t tell me I’m your friend. I’m NOT your friend”

Cloudberry Records seems to hold a strong controll on what’s cool or not on the new-lo-fi-c86 revival. Delays, catchy melodies, stereophonic guitars, week voices melting a subtile taste for poetry with teenage dramas. We had the chance to interview Cloudberry’s headmaster Roque on which bands he tought were the best to represent his label’s rooster. Some names came out, and one of these were “The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart”. Each song a perfect manifesto on what’s the essence of nowaday’s home-made indie scene.

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Posted on January 20, 2009 - by Megan

The Sound of Mature Huddersfield: The Scaremongers

Yorkshire is the epitome of good music. Bands such as The Beautiful South, Kaiser Chiefs, Human League and the Arctic Monkeys all are Yorkshire natives, and proper Northerners. Being a proud ‘northern lass’ myself, I love finding new talent from my area, so that I can have yet another reason to love the place I live. So, when my friend and I discovered the Scaremongers, an Indie/post-punk band from Huddersfield, I was quick to check them out. This interest was boosted by the fact that Simon Armitage was a band member; as far as I was concerned, nothing could go wrong.

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Posted on January 18, 2009 - by Mark Zonda

From Atari to Nintendo

Let yourself go on the coolest blips and hooks of electroing music, find the mood and dive yourself into the synthetic theme-park of Alec Empire Music. The Pop Leviathan “Death Trap In 3D” is a rushed journey into energy in sounds, as the continuous drum loops gives form to an hysterical mantra for the saddest acid dance of ever. “Welcome to the state of the Beast: to eat and to be eaten, it feels so bad, and so much worst than pain”.

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Posted on January 18, 2009 - by Halina Rifai

At Regular Intervals We Experience Rapture

Scotland has the ability to parent artists that propel a certain aura and hegemony like no other place. The only other land I can think of immediately that levels this comparison is Iceland. It is an awe-inspiring wall of sound and it is one that you have to submerge the whole of your head. It is like sliding down the back of the bath after a particularly trying day. (more…)