Chris Schlarb is an insanely busy dude. When he’s not melting faces with I Heart Lung or composing soundtracks to video games, he’s apparently trying his hand at documentary film making. And he needs your help! Click below to see what it’s all about, and while you’re at it, check out I Heart Lung contribution [...]

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The latest reviews from Vital Weekly #680.
I Heart Lung / DWMTG- Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP
[On DWMTG] Nervous playing, small, quick movements make some delicious music.
Bright Duplex- Strawberry Trust CDr
At times chaotic and dense and then beautifully sparse, such as in ‘The Lady Is Waiting’. Lots of scraping, bowing, blowing, plucking and some nice drones lurking [...]

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Ever since Blastitude’s Larry Dolman started tweeting (seriously, follow him), we’ve been getting 140-character bursts of his daily listening. Thusly, he’s the first to review the new I Heart Lung/DWMTG LP.
I HEART LUNG b/w DWMTG: Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP (THOR’S RUBBER HAMMER) IHL=gtr/drums prog vibes, DWMTG=bass/drums low-key insectoid burrowing
He also gave a little shout-out to [...]

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The latest batch from Stunned is the label’s absolute best, yet… and there hasn’t been a bad Stunned… ever. In fact, we’re pretty sure “bad Stunned release” is an oxymoron. All of them are great, but the M. Geddes Gengras c44 hasn’t left the cassette deck — don’t miss out because these are all sold [...]

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I Heart Lung “Axes Only”
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DWMTG “Untitled, No. 9″
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When the Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP series was first conceived in late 2007, I Heart Lung was the absolute first duo that came to mind. Both musicians are solid in their own right with [...]

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Vanessa Rossetto first knocked us out with a trio of CDrs on her own Music Appreciation label. Her violin/viola improvisations and compositions saw through drones in the way Tony Conrad conjures multiple waves of sound just from one instrument. And when accompanied by electronics, Rossetto uses feedback as a [...]

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With releases on Blackest Rainbow, Peasant Magik, Stunned and others, Vincent Caylet sculpts shamanistic psychedelic-drones. He records with the acid-folk-drone duo Monks of the Balhill and solo as “V,” but under this concurrent solo project, the Frenchman reflects a roughly hewn ambience as The Pistil Cosmos. The six untitled [...]

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Jeremiah Cymerman will bring his terrifyingly beautiful compositions to the Pyramid Atlantic this Sunday, May 3, in Silver Spring, Maryland (right outside Washington, D.C.). Preview his work as recorded by WFMU this past December here.
PYRAMID ATLANTIC
Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet + electronics)
Beans Cool
Nine Strings + Pilesar
Doors at 6:30 p.m.
$7

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