The Mercury Program - Chez Viking (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Math-rock
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Tracklist :

1. Chez Viking
2. Arrived Departed
3. Backseat Blackout
4. Katos
5. Stand & Sing
6. The Church of Cause and Effect
7. Flourescent Laces

Since 2002's stunning A Data Learn the Language, we've been anxiously awaiting The Mercury Program's follow-up. Seven years have come and gone, and A Data Learn hasn't been tarnished one bit. Surprisingly, TMP's new album, Chez Viking, hits the streets this month, and it doesn't sound like the quartet has missed a beat. Although it contains less vibraphone than its predecessors, the new album maintains the signature TMP sound while also condensing the band's method. Only one track breaks the five-minute mark, but the music is no less powerful as a result. If anything, the album shows that the group has become a more immediate band than in the past. Opener "Chez Viking" literally wastes no time with introductions and quickly greets the audience with a flurry of sounds; and almost instantaneously we realize that the seven years was worth the wait. The main complaint to be lobbed at Chez Viking is that, with a runtime of just over thirty minutes, the ride is over much too soon. But, if that's the worst thing we can say about the album, then clearly TMP is back on top. (from Silent Ballet)

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Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Modern Classical, Electronica, Ambient, Experimental, Japan
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Tracklist :

01.Hicari
02.Faire
03.April
04.Would
05.Sign
06.Tale
07.Look
08.Tyme
09.Guitar
10.Venice
11.Ein Lied

Akira Kosemura’s (Tokyo,Japan) latest pop miniature for Someone Good, Polaroid Piano, shares this hazy filmic impression. It’s a snapshot of his increasingly personal and evocative piano and electronics pieces, tinted with field recordings (recorded in various locations including recordings from Brisbane and Hobart by Lawrence English) and offered as a series of small but gloriously rich auditory phrases. Played notes and the mechanism of the piano itself share equal presence in the compositions – Kosemura’s physicality evident throughout the album.

Polaroid Piano, like the film from which its name is drawn, captures a moment but does so with a shimmer of the unreal and the imagined.

Yuki Murata - Films (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Classical, Electronica, Japan
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Tracklist :

1. prologue
2. the Hill named Air
3. Capricious
4. under the deep Sea
5. Call my name and Hear my Voice
6. Mr. Doughnut
7. Glitch
8. Broken Arrow [mp3]
9. me and G
10. Let's Go to Neverland
11. unstable Waltz
12. the Hill Nobody Knows but only me
13. Open your Hands it's here always
14. don't Worry, all Things will be OK !

Yuki Murata is a spirited pianist who has a graceful classical style. Besides classical piano, she also does arrangements, programming, keyboardist, etc. She was originally the song writer for the band Anoice who released "remmings" on the American label Important Records. She has released her solo works through Ricco Label. She has released two albums Home and Films. She also formed a group that fused electronic music and piano called cru, who released the album "re-silence". She has also written scores to numerous movies and has been featured on Ryuichi Sakamoto's radio program "Radio Sakamoto".

Films is Yuki Murata's first solo release through Ricco label. This pianist and composer released her first solo release "Films" on April 15, 2009. Yuki Murata is regarded highly by greats like Ryuichi Sakamoto and has won numerous awards. Marked with beautiful piano and mixing by none other than Takahiro Kido handling the mixing of the album. All Tracks are made from piano impromptu renditions. They are as if watching short sentimental stories.

Sgt. - Capital of Gravity (Mini Album) (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Jazz Influence, Japan
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Tracklist:

1. Kalliope
2. Apollo Program
3. Tears of na-ga
4. Ant's planet
5. Epsilon
6. 06 銀河の車窓から (Reprise) (Tyme. Remix) / Ginga No Shasoh Kara (Reprise) (Tyme. Remix)

Having played for almost a continuous decade, Sgt. is one of the veteran post-rock bands in Japan. Sgt. can offer what only an experienced band can deliver, a tight sound. The composition of their music is a version of post-rock that is soaked with classical, noise, jazz and emo motifs. This can be attributed to the pr the essence of a female violinist who clutches onto the band's sound and takes it in new directions.

Sgt. is very active on the live circuit and even run their own semi-regular event called "seimei" which brings together the best in the Japanese indies scene. Bands like 54-71, good music, OVUM, win a sheep free, The World Heritage, and other bands have graced the event with their presence. In 2005, they released their first mini-album, "perception of casualty" with the help of the engineering skills of one of Toe's members. Sgt. then released a split with good music the following year. Their newest release, Stylus Fantasticus was released in 2008 internationally by HearJapan.

One of the often overlooked aspects of the band is their omnipresence in the Japanese music scene. They have done collaborations with ROVO, Boredoms, ONJI, etc. They are also the backing band for ILL, which is a new band from a supercar member. They are also official members of the electro dub band MAS. While they have vast playing time with some of Japan's greatest underground musicians, Sgt. has built up a repertoire of playing with western bands when they come to Japan. They have opened for the German progressive band, CAN, Damo Suzuki, and the Art of Fighting from Australia. The vast distances they cover in the music scene surely has added deep nuances to their musical productions and is definitely a band to keep an eye on.

The album reverberates with amazing and powerful sounds which make this one of the most artistically crafted instrumental albums of 2009. sgt. simply has the artistic audacity and fine sense to produce another breathtaking release ~ Hear Japan

Lymbyc Systym - Shutter Release (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Electronica, Post-rock, Shoegaze, Experimental
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Tracklist :

01 Trichromatic
02 Ghost Clock
03 Interiors
04 Bedroom Anthem
05 Kubrick
06 Contemporary Art
07 T-Ball
08 Shutter Release
09 Teddy
10 Late Night Classic

Heres the second full length from one of the most innovative and hypnotizing postrock bands out there. If you ever get a chance to see them live they will absolutely blow you away. Buy it !!! because it really is one of the best albums of 2009.

With a touring schedule that keeps them on the road seemingly more than it gives them time at home, Lymbyc Systym have miraculously completed their second full-length album, entitled Shutter Release. Magnifying the already giant sounds of Love Your Abuser was not an easy task, but with Jeff Zeigler behind the boards recording the album and John Congleton (Modest Mouse,
Explosions In The Sky) shaping the mixdowns, theyve managed to do just that. Instrumentation has become broader, arrangements more grandiose, and melodies more focused, resulting in a sublime second album.

A New Silent Corporation - Everything Is Exactly As It Seems (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Electronica, Shoegaze, Experimental, Italy
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Tracklist :

01. Time Discipline
02. Hiver
03. Will Noise
04. Reprise
05. WOTGG
06. Maple

If you are looking for a description of A New Silent Corporation’s sound, and are familiar with the works of Maybeshewill, then you need investigate no farther than that. Though this band is from Italy, rather than the United Kingdom, and is putting out their first album now, rather than in 2006, the differences seem to stop there. Both play a similar brand of 65daysofstatic-influenced neo-post-rock, where electronics live side-by-side with standard guitars/bass/drums and spoken-word clips of people decrying the status quo. If you count yourself among Maybeshewill’s fans (and the band certainly has a fair amount), then you should probably run out and grab Everything is Exactly as it Seems right away; the album sounds nearly exactly like where Maybeshewill might have gone after last year’s Not For Want of Trying (as opposed, that is, to where they did go). And if you aren’t among the Leicester-based band’s fans, then there’s probably not much that will win you over here.

For the rest of you, those who are unfamiliar with Maybeshewill, A New Silent Corporation presents a debut post-rock album with just enough pizzazz to inspire interest, but not enough to maintain it. If there is little to overtly criticize, it would seem that there is also little to explicitly praise. The track lengths are appropriate, the instrumentation is well done, and the samples, though perhaps adding rather little of substance to the music, at least do not intrude annoyingly upon our listening experience. Moments of excitement exist, and the opening track “Time Discipline” was rightly recommended as a TSB Track of the Week a few weeks back. Opening with record scratches set against developing guitar arpeggios before breaking off around the two-minute mark to move into a more standard post-rock style build-up, the track is nothing we haven’t heard before, but it shows a very nice development of technique.

At the risk of sounding excessively snarky, Everything is Exactly as it Seems is perhaps the most honestly-titled album I’ve come across in quite some time. The album carries itself with almost no pretension, and makes no claims for being more than what it appears at the surface. If A New Silent Corporation (which, incidentally, is a great band name) wishes to leave a more lasting mark upon the instrumental rock community, then they will need to develop their own personal approach to the genre. As it is, we’re left with a solid neo-post-rock debut, but one which could easily be mistaken for outtakes from another already established band (which, in turn, has been accused of being no more than a collection of 65daysofstatic outtakes). In a way, the album is like a reproduction painting of Starry Night which one might hang on the wall: nice technique, zero personality. Is this album bad? Certainly not. But is it any good? Well, I suppose so; but I can do no more than that.

by Tom Butcher thesilentballet

[me]Damn, this is good. It's reminding me a bit of 65dos. But not as heavy nor fast.

Out Of Town ! # 3

I'll be out of town again :D I'm gonna visiting my hometown for about... i dunno.. maybe 2-4weeks.


















This the picture of my birth city town square.

Yoooosh! Until i come back, there'll be no update post. N i hope that this blog still exist *lol*

See you soon :)