Dirge for George

microtonner George II

I heard this on the recent Blocsonic compilation netBloc Volume 9.

The Silent Ballet - Volume IV

Various Artists - The Silent Ballet - Volume 4
Lost Children Netlabel release
post rock, instrumental, ambient

The Bird Ensemble: Part 1 No. 4

Signal Hill: This New Year's Absence

The Lost Children net label celebrates a year of showcasing new artists, and presents their fourth compilation release.

Easily Embarrased

Easily Embarrassed (archive.org)
Sublogic Corporation net label release
ambient, psychedelic, chillout

From Sunset Last Night to Sunrise This Morning (I Don't Want to Sleep)

Four tracks released in one mix with a cue file... I've had it on repeat play over an hour now -- it wanders off into different musical territories, and comes full circle when I press play again.

The week in post-rock

I've been listening to the post-rock keyword on archive.org for a week now. I'm going to split my search results down to a few posts, starting with these tracks which are not part of bigger releases:

Sickoackes: Wedding Rings And Bullets In The Same Golden Shrine

Tom Sweetlove: Janvier Ier

From Delta Waves Under Clouds Over Ground release on Earth Monkey Productions:

Delta Waves: For Your Smile

And also a track from a Gasgiant release on Floppy Records I stumbled upon a while ago... The Silent Ballet raves about Gasgiant in their review.

Gasgiant: Slocore

A Beautiful Machine

A Beautiful Machine (archive.org page)
Embryo netlabel releases
Post Rock, Shoegazer

Solar Winds, White Noise, Antigravity: Shining
Home: Home
Another Time EP: The Last Time

A Beautiful Machine -- a band from Australia, I'm not sure they're together anymore. These releases are from 2004 and earlier. And again, so hard to just pick a few to post here, I had their complete releases playing all weekend.

French Teen Idol

French Teen Idol (myspace): Enlightened False Consciousness
LostChildren netlabel release
post-rock instrumental ambient

Enlightened False Consciousness
Ode To A Departing Friend

French Teen Idol (myspace): self-titled release
Nishi netlabel release
Shouting Can Have Different Meanings
Lamb

Many many gems here, hard to pick just two from each of these releases. This is mostly instrumental music, and orchestrations of found recordings. Beautiful awesome music.

Noise Room

Noise Room: The End of the Lord's Constellation
LostChildren netlabel release
post-rock post-metal instrumental ambient

Friends

Back. Vacation, visits with relatives and friends. All good. Thankfully Lost Children haven't been on vacation -- new releases await. I think Noise Room (from Italy) have personally welcomed me back with this anthemic homage to friends.

Nic Bommarito

Nic Bommarito - Taciturn - 12rec.037 - netlabel release

I heard Nic Bommarito's music on the BlocSonic Volume 3 compilation... enough to get me listening to all of Taciturn. It's all good -- I'd have picked one of these for the compilation:

The Academic (Life and Afterlife)
Badly Asbestos Covered

Check out Nic Bommarito's blog -- there's a lot more music there, including this gem from the Paranormal is Normal EP:

Pure Sound

Iambic2

Iambic2 released Under These Stars, We'll Sleep Again a couple of months back. Thirteen beautiful emotional indietronica tracks on the Laridae net label. Hard to pick just two from this release, since the whole release sort of works together, but these two caught my attention:

Rain Drop
Going Home

Death by Panda

Here's one the good folks at Silent Ballet should notice... lovely post rock sounds in 3 releases on Beardology Records from Death By Panda:

From EP1: My Sleep Machine

From Arms and Allocation: Arms and Allocation
From Arms and Allocation: Everything Was Gone

From EP2: JFK Samples

Video: Dichotomy from Arms and Allocation release

Tantrum

I'm still a sucker for loud noisy guitars. Tantrum, from Scotland, have two releases on Floppy Records. Some samples from Advice To Users:

Liftoff
Emergency Poncho

I particularly liked Emergency Poncho, that's exactly what the weather is like here on Vancouver Island at this time of year. Some lovely dreamy sounds from the earlier release, Maisie's Friend:

Pills and Dreams
Filmsong part 2

Observation Point

The music and sounds of Observation Point (myspace) are inspired by the surroundings and atmospheres of Port Talbot, South Wales: abandoned buildings, decaying industry, looming hillsides and deserted beaches provide the backdrop to deep space collages, ambient rhythms and dark experiments. And it's all good, in fact, I've been listening to it all for days... here are highlights in the collection on the OUIM net label:

from Geometer: Brugel Artefacts

from Thought Paths Vol. 2: Breathing Space

Nobody Here, haunted abandoned buildings found in the undergrowth of South Wales:

The Silent Ballet - Volume 3

Another great compilation from The Silent Ballet on the Lost Children net label. Some samples:

Jatun: The Temptation of Joy

Miaou: Anything Goes

Blocsonic: netBloc Volume 2

Another Creative Commons compilation from Blocsonic. A few noisy ones on this release:

Microtonner: Frequency

Giraffe: A lot of history in a very short time

Time.Space.Repeat

Another Lost Children release... Time.Space.Repeat is a London/UK post-rock band (myspace). Loved the opening anthem... These tracks are from Early Transmissions:

Joy / Sorrow

Meditation #1

Transit

I'm still listening to Lost Children releases... Transit is a Belgian post-rock band (website, myspace). I love how they blend simple quiet melodies and big noisy sounds. A track from their first EP:

Harmattan: Maza

From their second EP,

Broad Leaves vs. Conifers: Reflections Upon The Asfalt

Loss Of A Child

I think Zune's play 3 times sharing system is okay. That's my rule of thumb... if I want to play something a fourth time, I figure I should write about it here. I've been listening to Loss Of A Child all week. Two albums on the Lost Children net label... samples from The Future Symphony:

The Future Symphony
One Wish

A couple more tracks from Caught And Lost:

Like Dancing In Rain
DTA

Corwin Trails

This Corwin Trails release, on Archaic Horizon Records net label, is pretty hard to classify -- this time we journey through a surreal landscape of found sounds and smooth melodic phrases:

Corwin Trails: Palindromes
Corwin Trails: Sand Castles

Milhaven

I heard Milhaven on Bleepwatch. They're a German post rock band that released their EP I.M. Wagner this past November. Long, lovely sounds, and starting with a song about the Pacific Ocean that sounded like they'd be right at home playing here at Ocean Beach.

Oh! Great Pacific

Clean Room

Milhaven has an earlier release, which includes this song with an Apocalypse Now! theme:
Bars Closing Down: Drink A Pint Of Blood A Day

Heard on Bahgheera's Orbit

Another highlight from Bahgheera's Orbit...:

A big beautiful sound...
The Big Sleep: Sleepy Kid Waltz