American Green is a solo project of japanese musician Takafumi Shirai. All music written and recorded in School Notebook Studio. - his own bedroom.
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Roof To Roof EP (2009)
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Last.fm|MySpace|School Network Studio.
ent is the name of a solo project by the singer and guitarist of ストレイテナー ホリエアツシ (Horie Atsushi) mainly focusing on experimental electronica influenced pop.ent is the alias that Atsuhi Horie hailing from Nagasaki in the south of Japan. He came to Tokyo at 18 years old and started a full-dress band activity. And now he is taking charge of vocal & guitar & keyboard in the band called STRAIGHTENER that 90's UK ROCK and 00's US INDIE influenced. However, Atsushi was attracted to Electronica and Post Rock personally several years ago. And he started the song making different from the band in the bedroom to aim at making more personal and more sentimental songs. Afterwards, he named this solo project "ent". And the first album "Welcome stranger" made little by little in parallel with the band activity was released from Preco of Japan in February, 2009.
My Humble Opinion
Very nice and light music, easy to listen. Some kinda post-rock with pop rhythms and vocals.
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Welcome Stranger (2009)
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This actually is a very nice song although the video is so stupid)
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Frakkur is an alias used by Sigur Rós singer Jón Þór (Jónsi) Birgisson to release his solo material.
This first public appearance of frakkur (a.k.a. jónsi birgisson) was a part of Kitchen Motors's 5 year birthday celebration, held at the klink og bank building in Reykjavík on may 1st 2004. the concert began with four musicians onstage but Frakkur was nowhere to be seen, until a faint drum could be heard approaching from the back of the building. this was Frakkur entering the building, in full costume, followed by the girls choir of kársnesskóli. Frakkur circled through the crowd and led the choir to the stage, where he drummed and sang. Joining Frakkur onstage were jazz musicians Hilmar Jenssen on guitar, Skúli Sverrisson on bass, Matthías Hemstock on percussion and Orri Páll Dýrason on pots and pans. The performance lasted for only 10 minutes, after which Frakkur led the choir back the same way they came.
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Once described as “frequently mesmerizing, seamlessly interwoven combination of electronica and ambient guitar…” by the legendary Wire magazine. Stafrænn Hákon has indeed through the last 6 years been described as a mix of post-rock, lo-fi, ambient guitar & electronica. The Icelandic born Ólafur Josephsson has been recording music since 1999 under the name Stafrænn Hákon (sometimes stafraenn hakon, stafrann hakon) which has often confused the media, due to the confusing Icelandic origin. Late in 2005 and Stafrænn Hákon is hard at work on his 5th album entitled “Gummi”. Ólafur drives up to the countryside in Iceland to meet up with his friend Lárus Sigurðsson in a church to record harps into the opening song of “Gummi”. Still there is no sign of any elf or a ghost there, the reason is simple, and there is no such thing. The delicate and subtle sound of Lárus harps spread over crunchy ambient guitars in opening tones of “Járn” and make the song one of the most complete songs Ólafur has ever written. The more acoustic alive sound on the album can be clearly heard when Birgir Hilmarsson of Blindfold and Ampop plays the last notes on the harmonium as he stands up and exits the studio in the closing track “Veggur”. The climax of the song comes with Birgir singing harmony vocals over the enormous guitar layers and crunchy drums from Daniel Lovegrove (aka Dialect). Samúel White a long time collaborator and vital part of the Stafrænn Hákon project is delivering one of his most elaborative works with his beautiful picked guitar parts. In the intense melody of “Hausi” Samúel´s guitar is sounding huge with vocals contributed from Minco Eggersman. “P-rofi” collaboration with the Danish based Efterklang ties the album together with the advanced sonic structure and subtle use of instruments. When Ólafur enters Daniel´s studio to complete the album with additional production, he knows this album is going to be the most complete and solid record he has ever done. With Daniel´s drums and production, the sound stretches to new dimension in Stafrænn Hákon´s soundworld.
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Gummi (2007)
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A revolutionary listening experience, From Monument to Masses is the moniker of the politically astute post-rock trio from the San Fransisco Bay Area. The group came together in late 2000 when Matthew Solberg (guitarist/vocalist/programmer) and Francis Choung (vocalist/percussionist/drummer) met through an online message board for local musicians. The two began playing together and connected with Sergio Robledo-Moderazo (bassist/keyboardist/programmer/vocalist) who also had connections with Steve Aoki who was the main frontman of Dim Mak records - the record label they would sign to shortly after. Instead of searching for a lead vocalist, the band decided to implement samples of various media sources into their music showcasing the members’ political and social concerns with the modern world. Combining the fluid arrangements and structures of post-rock (one thinks of a more upbeat Mogwai or Godspeed You! Black Emperor), along with the standard principles of post-hardcore, the band has gained critical acclaim for their approach to instrumental rock. The band is still currently signed to Dim Mak records. The follow up to 2003’s groundbreaking The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps was a album containing covers and different version of their songs, as well as two new tracks, titled Schools of Thought Contend. For the next four years From Monument to Masses toured massively, throughout America, Europe and Asia. In 2009 they released Beyond God and Elvis as a single, and in March released On Little Known Frequencies. The band will be touring soon to promote this album.
My Humble Opinion
Remarkably, this band doesn't have a vocalist. They use samples from movies, TV programs, commercials and political debates, which sounds pretty nice reminding me of my favourite Maybeshewill's album Japanese Spy Transcript. All in all according to the texts and their own words FMTM are quite politically oriented and hope to change the world around with their music. I don't know if they have succeed but the sound is pretty nice.
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From Monument To Masses (2002)
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Felix Laband is an electronic music artist from Pietermaritzburg, South-Africa.He creates light, emotional, minimalist soundscapes by combining several styles, and samples from classical, jazz and old television recordings overlaid with instrumental performances by himself and other guest artists. His music has been described by his record label as “indie-tronica” and is similar in some ways to Boards of Canada and Iceland’s múm.
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Thin Shoes In June (2001)
4/4 Down The Stairs (2002)
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Dark Days Exit (2005)
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