Arms and Sleepers - The Organ Hearts (2011) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Electronica, Post-rock, Trip-hop
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Tracklist :

01. Kepesh
02. Tusk
03. I Sing The Body Electric
04. The Afternoon Child
05. A Smile In Sofia
06. Antwerp
07. Serie Noire
08. Reprise
09. Yesterday's Child
10. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
11. Atelier
12. Airport Blues

The Organ Hearts is the 3rd full-length album by Arms and Sleepers, following up on the recently released mini-album Nostalgia For The Absolute and the first single, Tusk (featuring a remix by Helios). Written and recorded throughout 2010 and early 2011, The Organ Hearts finds Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic collaborating once again with Ben Shepard (of Uzi & Ari) and Philip Jamieson (of Caspian).

Unlike Matador, the band's sophomore effort, the new record features significantly less guitar and focuses more on electronics and drum-heavy compositions. Pulsing beats and driving synths replace the lush glockenspiels and melodicas of the previous album, while concise song structures and haunting melodies remain. Like Matador, the new record is intense, filled with varying textures and intricate layers, and unafraid to free itself of any genre constraints. The execution feels natural, showcasing the band's musical maturity developed over the past four years, 14 releases, and extensive touring.

The Organ Hearts is divided into three sections, much like the band's debut full-length album, Black Paris 86. Each part acts as a soundtrack for the ever changing daily and seasonal frames of mind, a cinematic reflection of our complex feelings and delicate emotions. In the end, the journey through the record embodies the opposing forces of our actual lives: excitement vs. anguish, clarity vs. confusion, satisfaction vs. longing. Acting collectively through the three sections, these 12 individual compositions paint an arresting picture encapsulating our life's variation and unbearable tenderness, but also evoking a sense of hopefulness that might be waiting around the corner. Nothing is certain, but not everything is lost. The album's poetic subtitle, then, seems to be quite appropriate: The Things That Make Me Feel Weak And Strange Get Engineered Away.

Arms and Sleepers - Nostalgia For The Absolute (2011) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Modern-Classical, Ambient, Electronica
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Tracklist :

01. Crash (02:40)
02. Lisbon (02:40)
03. Croix Rouge (01:35)
04. Lovers Arctic (01:35)
05. Clayton (01:39)
06. The Dying Animal (02:43)
07. Nova (01:10)
08. Rondo (02:29)
09. Tonight We're Thinking Of You (02:05)
10. The Hidden Sea (03:30)
11. Quiet Camera (01:18)
12. Night (02:23)
13. Rire Jaune (Bonus Track) (03:12)

ARMS AND SLEEPERS is the American duo Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic, with frequent guest appearances by Ben Shepard of Uzi & Ari. The band was formed in 2006 and has since released 12 albums and EPs, in addition to several tours of North America, Europe, and the UK.

"Nostalgia For The Absolute" is Arms and Sleepers' 12th official release, and the 1st of 2011. Deliberately planned for the transitional period between winter and spring, this short album evokes not only the romanticism and darkness of the unforgiving cold season, but also the excitement and hope of the nascent warm season. Written and recorded over a course of two years, "Nostalgia For The Absolute" finds the band further exploring their modern-classical and ambient leanings, both an homage to and an expansion on their previous effort of similar nature, Cinematique. Wordless, concise and melancholy, this is a release that has focus but is not afraid to breathe—a perfect soundtrack for the sleepless, the contemplative and the nostalgic.

"Nostalgia For The Absolute" is the first in a series of albums and EPs to be released by Arms and Sleepers in 2011, and acts as an introductory piece to the 3rd official full-length, out in May also via Expect Candy.

Arms And Sleepers Live@ Casa Del Popolo, Montreal, QC

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Arms And Sleepers - Matador (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Trip-hop, Ambient, Electronica, Post-rock
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Tracklist :

1 Orly
2 Matador
3 The Architekt
4 Twentynine Palms
5 Helvetica
6 The International
7 Simone
8 Kino
9 Words Are For Sleeping
10 The Paramour

Arms and Sleepers began one night in the back of an ambulance in Cambridge. In an alleyway a man was bleeding with a cassette player in hand, the play button still on. What sounded like recordings of a gospel choir blared from the tin speaker, while down the street a jazz band could be heard. The man was dying.

He dropped the cassette player on the cement and closed his eyes, the sound carrying through the air into his ears for one last time. Though this moment in time died with him, his cassette lived on — and Arms and Sleepers were born.

Persistent international touring and constant dissemination of their sounds makes Arms and Sleepers a worthy opponent for the typical temporal constraints that can befall a band. Having issued a series of limited edition releases and the well-received Bliss Was it in That Dawn to be Alive EP (Fake Chapter) in 2007, Black Paris 86 is their debut full-length on Expect Candy Records (DE).

A tight and intense record, listening to it feels like sitting in a cinema, watching landscapes, beauty and tragedy – feeling warm and safe while a hint of mystery seems to whisper that not everything is ok out there.

[me] how could i missed this amazing album, i just found it and start to listening 2 days ago -_-;

The American Dollar / Arms And Sleepers - From The Inland Sea (EP) (Spilt) (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Post-rock
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Tracklist :

The American Dollar:
1.Landing
2.Schipol
3.Where We Are

Arms & Sleepers:
4.The Catcher Elsewhere
5.Van Buren
6.The Inland Sea

Split EP from two amazing ambient / post rock bands ! Give it a listen, you will like what they do.