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« Antony and the Johnsons have emerged with a new album, « The Crying Light » which will be released January 21st 2009. « Another World » is the first single, and it will be released as part of the five-song Another World EP which is being released on October 7th.
On « Another World », Antony sings of a disappearing world. The EP also includes « Shake That Devil ». Part exorcism and part Shangri La, Antony calls out shape-shifting perpetrators and banishes them one by one. Two other songs, « Crackagen » and « Sing For Me » are pastoral and surreal. Finally the epic « Hope Mountain » closes the EP, an episodic narrative set after a flood; people gather on a mountain to witness the emergence of a luminous girl. »

till then here is a video of Antony & Lou Reed singing together « Candy Says ».

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Sister is 30 years old, she lives in the state of New York, USA.

Her voice is beautiful and fragile but behind the brightness of her wonderful songs is sometimes hide a feeling of sadness and loneliness.

Sister is buiding a boat for love … don’t miss the boarding.

http://www.myspace.com/sisterlittlealms

Where did you find your inspiration ?
Inspiration is everywhere. I have been fortunate to live in some beautiful places where the landscape just takes on a life of its own. I lived on a sailboat in the bahamas as a child, lived in the mountains of connecticut as teen, and ran around living in all different places in the states in and after college. For a while there it felt like i moved somewhere new each year. still is that way i guess. There’s always a lonesome feeling in all the change, the newness of each place, never really belonging to anything but the landscape before you. I guess my songs always end up being about longing for the something or someone missing, always about something missing, an empty pit in your gut ; I did write a few tunes inspired by Bronte’s « Jane Eyre » last year.

What’s your story with music ?
There was no musicians in my family. I was interested in music at an early age..my folks wanted me to play piano but i rejected the idea and now i am sorry. five years ago i learned clawhammer banjo in upstate new york and fell in love with old time music. I guess i started toying with writing music then. One day, when i was living in houston, a year later, i wrote my first tune and then i couldn’t stop. I don’t play guitar now, just enough to write and keep time. Lately i’ve been working my first novella and writing tons of songs.

What kind of music did you hear at home when you were a child ?
My stepfather loved Cat Stevens, owned every album, for this i am thankful. Jimmy Buffett was also floating around which i could’ve done without. I guess there was a novelty in him sailing around on a boat listening to Cheesburger in Paradise.

What’s gives you the need to sing, is it a hobby or is it vital, can you imagine your life without singing ?
At first it was a hobby, now i think it balances me out. I am pursuing a pretty traditional graduate degree, living a somewhat straighter lifestyle, and the music lets me live out my imaginative life, turn it into something more tangible. There are times when i need to write music more than others.

What are your projects for the coming months ?
Well, i plan on wrapping up school in the next two years, and also to get a few albums out. I have over a hundred tunes and haven’t had the time or the tools to sit down to record the lot of them. My hope is to finish even half of what i set out to do..not looking for a label, no major plans in the works ; just aiming to settle down soon so i can have a steady band and play out more.

Is there a song you wish you had written ?
Sibylle Baier’s « Forget About »

Most ever playing record at home ?

I can’t honestly answer that ; lately, it’s been Arizona Amp and Alternator (self titled).

Songs on rotation on KOKOMO WebRadio :

Stuck on a note
Revolver
In vain
Raining
Route 79
Holiday
Forty Days

http://www.myspace.com/sisterlittlealms

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In Our Talons (good quality)

 » Inspired by films like Microcosmos and The Planet Earth series, the video takes the visual spectacle of a nature documentary and puts it into a stop-motion animated world. We explore 3 magical creatures from 3 different lands, equally beautiful yet doomed by the hand of man.

The stop-motion puppets were custom made for this video. The bird alone took over a month for the puppet fabricators to build. Over 300 feathers were manually sized and glued onto the bird puppet. For the animals to come to life, the puppet is put into position, a picture is taken, then the puppet is moved slightly and another picture is taken. This is done 24 times for one second of animation. On average we would shoot about 5 seconds of animation a day.

Most of the miniature sets were made out of foam and clay and then painted. Clouds were made from cotton balls.

The video was directed and produced by Alan Poon who resides in Toronto, Canada and works as a freelance director and cinematographer « .

http://www.myspace.com/bowerbirds

http://www.bowerbirds.org/

« On October 7, Merge Records will release « OH (ohio) », the new album by Lambchop. « OH (ohio) » was recorded in Lambchop’s hometown of Nashville and produced by Mark Nevers at his Beech House studio. It features 11 new songs all written by Kurt Wagner ».

Slipped Dissolved Loosed

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www.lambchop.net

www.myspace.com/lambchopisaband

 » A Hoosier transplanted to the coal highlands of Northeast Pennsylvania, Timothy Showalter has nested in fertile musical soil. Taking cues from luminaries such as Nebraska-Era Bruce Springsteen and a burgeoning Neil Young, Showalter extends a musical gesture and searches to find modesty in the midst of confusion, addressing insecurities and settling existential debt with a simple and beautiful delivery. The personification of a midwestern Grandfather’s advice, his songs smack with hard truth and poignant severity. 

In between teaching second graders and painting on cardboard scraps, Showalter and La Société Expéditionnaire prepare the finishing touches to Leave Ruin, the debut full-legnth album expected in the year of our lord, 2008 « .

You can listen an exclusive 4 song ep and read an interview of Timothy Showalter  at The Secret Stereo.

Clear Recollections

Daniel’s Blues

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Shadow and Dust are Joshua Alan and Laura Olivier – You can listen and buy their delicate and wonderful music on their website. 

Joshua Alan, singer songwriter, answer kindly to our questions …

Who is Shadow & Dust ?  I’m 31 years old, I play guitar, drums, bass, harmonica, keyboards and piano. Laura is my wife, co-producer and adds some electronic sounds to songs…sometimes a little background vocals ; she plays piano, keyboards. We live about 30 minutes outside downtown Los Angeles in a urban area: Fullerton.

How did you start playing/singing ?  I began to play piano and quietly sing around 6 or 7 years old after my mother bought my uncle’s piano… Starting recording my own songs around 12 years old with a analog tape recorder in my bedroom with a Casio keyboard and microphone. 

Where comes from your inspiration ? Your music looks close to nature …  Inspiration comes mostly from my family I have three young children that are amazing musicians you will here about them in a couple of years. We camp a lot as a family in a little mobile trailer …we frequent beach camping and mountain ranges here in the States..Inspiration does come from reflecting on these trips. I would say that my music is a reflection of my internal thoughts on nature, hope, family, love, God, peace, death and personal relationships etc…. I think a lot about our existance and when I sing these spiritual stories just develop from nowhere. In the end my music is the echo of my soul …sounds of a father…. his childrens tears and laughter …and my lovers friendship. 

Where can we find your music ?  For now we plan to only release songs though MP3 downloads on our SNOCAP store as with previous cds we make a couple of hundred cds and when they sell out we don’t make anymore… 

Tracks on rotation on KOKOMO (webradio): 

Searching for answers
Quiet hill asleep
Washed away 
The inside out 
Occupied at the moment
End up beautiful
Shout to be heard
Weighted letter
Hidden Creek
A comfortable resting place
Cold House