tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11352758311752855992024-03-13T10:08:04.059-07:00River Rock ReviewsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-48241710090202935212015-02-12T18:52:00.001-08:002015-02-12T18:52:42.125-08:00End of River Rock ReviewsI would like to thank everyone that has followed this blog over the brief course of its existence and want to apologize for my abrupt absence while officially announcing its end. I am carrying on my writing as a contributor of <a href="http://heathenharvest.org/">Heathen Harvest Periodical</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://heathenharvest.org/2015/01/17/exclusive-premiering-a-new-revisited-version-of-warrior-by-anilah-and-wardruna/">http://heathenharvest.org/2015/01/17/exclusive-premiering-a-new-revisited-version-of-warrior-by-anilah-and-wardruna/</a><br />
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<a href="http://heathenharvest.org/2014/12/16/heathen-harvests-best-of-2014/">http://heathenharvest.org/2014/12/16/heathen-harvests-best-of-2014/</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-50274962556041533562014-08-06T09:45:00.002-07:002014-08-06T09:45:30.084-07:00Wychdoktor - TotemTotem is the new full length release by Wychdoktor.<br />
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Wychdoktor has created a deep, dark cinematic album of ritualistic and tribal ambient noise with the release of Totem. The fourteen tracks glue together cohesively and diversely, telling a vivid atmospheric story. Totem is isolating and otherworldly, drawing the listener into a nightmarish hallucination that ends with some sense of relief. A journey worth experiencing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-33596712286421346492014-07-02T10:39:00.002-07:002014-07-02T14:24:28.396-07:00Beastwars ReviewThis New Zealand based four-piece doom and sludge metal band has released two albums since May, 2011, the self-titled Beastwars and the followup Blood Becomes Fire.<br />
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Inspired by apocalyptic visions of a not to distant future, Beastwars commands a masterful awareness of "heavy" fusion music. Catchy old school rock and punk grooves meld with ultra heavy blues metal styled riffing. The vocal delivery is raw and impassioned, which really helps in capturing the primal feel that the band is going for. The songwriting demonstrates signs of influence from alternative music of the 90's as well as a suggested influence from Black Sabbath, showing adept diversity in composition techniques. From the debut album, Iron Wolf is a good example of these characteristics as the song leans at times more towards a somber ballad then builds rhythmically later on. The album opener, Damn The Sky, however throws the listeners into a powerful guttural chug that sets a clear tone for the entire work. Cthulhu is perhaps the most developed piece on this album, as Beastwars begins to really show their progressive and atmospheric tendencies that they explore further in their second release. Though we should not ignore the devastating album closer, Empire, which emphatically states that Beastwars will be back from more.<br />
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Picking up where they left off, Blood Becomes Fire opens with Dune, another powerful guttural song that chugs along and provokes constant movement from the listener. The lyrics "shake your soul" become audible at the end of the track, implying what is in store for the journey that their music is taking both themselves and the audience on. It feels as if on this album that Beastwars had a lot more room to flex their muscles, musically speaking, thus creating more composed and dynamic songs that hint towards post-rock/metal tendencies while retaining their inclination towards producing primordial ooze. With this we are able to witness a truly monolithic display of emotion and contemplation. A contemplation ever hinting towards physical deletion. Realms throws the listener into a primal cathartic sway with half whispered vocals weaving a narrative around the listener about the state of human existence, while growing again into that familiar shamanic influenced half shout, half blues rock wailing vocal tone. The following track, Riverman, again demonstrates Beastwars depth of songwriting and personality by building a thought provoking blues and jazz flavored verse into explosively pulverizing chorus waves. Caul of Time is perhaps the track that best acts as a microcosm for describing what Beastwars is about, a sincere proclamation of end times as seen in the signs with a groove that cannot be denied. Blood Becomes Fire continues on in an epic fashion culminating with the shoegaze fueled dissonance of The Sleeper, perhaps Beastwars most beautiful, uplifting, and articulate song; beckoning the soul to awaken.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-54407916902409899562014-07-02T08:57:00.000-07:002014-07-02T09:35:15.931-07:00Noctivagant - The Sleep of ReasonThe Sleep of Reason is an 8 track EP released in 2013 by the Russian atmospheric black metal duo, Noctivagant.<br />
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This is a cold yet elegant album lush with hypnotic and melodic layering. Noctivagant pay as much attention to ambiance and atmosphere as they do to slowly and carefully moving their isolation and despair driven compositions progressively along. A soothing sadness pervades The Sleep of Reason, one that seeps into the listeners being and provides an escape to another world, a world of desolate frost covered beauty.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-10745414450347051932014-07-01T18:30:00.002-07:002014-07-01T18:39:06.792-07:00people-eaters - DisincarnateDisincarnate is the 8 track EP by the ritual ambient project, people-eaters.<br />
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This album takes place on the peripherals of the senses. It tantalizes with a disturbed presence and undulation that provokes visions of things some may find better left unseen. Listen in the dark, with headphones.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-61410076007070069302014-06-25T16:13:00.000-07:002014-06-25T16:13:52.796-07:00Ian HaygreenIan Haygreen is an experimental electronic musician based out of Halstead, UK that specializes in making atmospheric dark ambient music.<br />
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Ian utilizes a deliberate and paced approached to songwriting with these two tracks by heavily emphasizing the atmosphere and setting of the music with noise sampling and synthetic ambiance while adding melodic touches of neoclassical piano stylings. Storm and Myrkur are perceptive, emotional and thought provoking compositions.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-11545338287623200252014-06-10T06:32:00.003-07:002014-06-10T06:32:49.237-07:00Draugurinn - MóðuharðindinDark/Ritual Ambient released in 2012.<br />
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Draugurinn conjures up visions of a foggy forest-scape which is inhabited by a mysterious entity of a dark demeanor. A shamanic trip into the underworld awaits.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-53018475927914951772014-06-09T09:38:00.000-07:002014-06-09T09:38:23.130-07:00Godflesh - Decline and FallGodflesh releases their first album since 2001 with, Decline and Fall.<br />
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A crisp, in your face, and well mixed EP. Godflesh packs lots of punch with various old-school rock, metal, and punk tendencies that culminate into a dark, futuristic, and industrialized aesthetic on Decline and Fall. This album is a refreshing take on alternative rock music with more traditional and less experimental song structures, giving perhaps a glimpse at the possible revival of genuine "popular" alternative music as well as Godflesh's upcoming full length due in September.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-39955176989502759332014-05-21T05:38:00.001-07:002014-05-21T05:39:14.061-07:00Hologram_ - geometrical keysNew album by Hologram_.<br />
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Geometrical keys is a groove, texture, and movement laden electronic fusion album that highlights the use of dubstep influenced IDM and cinematic ambient. Hologram_ frequently makes use of noise, spoken word, and neo-classical melodies to create and narrate a darkened futuristic landscape that which is populated by frenzied and aggressive industrialized dance beats.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-9607013068271509772014-05-18T06:05:00.000-07:002014-05-18T06:21:16.085-07:00Novemthree - Renewing Review<div class="MsoNormal">
Here is a review or more like a narrative commentary of Novemthree's, Renewing.</div>
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Mystical acoustic guitars greet the listener as they gain
awareness within that twilight space, the hypnagogic in-between. Gently they
are escorted above a tree covered landscape, flying and free. Entrancing drums
and rattles work to elevate while a melodious layering of vocals and various
other instruments guide the listener, as if a dreamer, back safely to the
ground; inviting them to fall asleep again with the solemn earth, with the
rustling dead leaves. With that, Soil Binds Breath and Bone, for it is on the
breath that the physical meets the spiritual and so too does the dreamer fall back
to sleep.</div>
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Sunlight begins to creep into perception, edging on that
ever elusive awakening. Rejuvenating and full of life, this bright, benevolent,
and purifying light washes away confusion and delusion, the mental cob webs
that are cast by the metaphysical boxes of the ever imposing modern man. Now a
trance builds slowly, propelled by a yearning for that which has been lost
during life proceeded by a restless fall into the deep drone of decay, the
Autumnal Procession. Whimsical and enchanting, a flute entices, while drums
steady and vocals crescendo. An increasing sense of awareness comes over the dreamer and with that the knowledge of the impending and unstoppable change
that is coming, the awakening. Through this revelation a dance breaks out, fed
by a respect for the world around and a deep understanding of the death that is always
rapidly approaching; this dance is carried off into yet another dreamscape, by
astonishingly beautiful flute playing.</div>
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Death has arrived and with him the knowledge of necessity,
decay, and rebirth. Upon alters rest the bones of time gone by, both of the dreamer’s and those remembered. Sing of Beauty; devastating and empowering,
real and unreal, the song of life. A Long Shadow creeps, with this death and rebirth, come a harmony
of self and depth of personality. A true understanding for that which is not
commonly understood by modern man; grasping of a lost and ancient tongue of
ancestral knowledge, one that speaks of the patterns and the cycles of that
which is natural.<br />
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Now awake, The River Splits the Stone. The dreamer is purpose-filled
and uplifted by the purity attained from cleansing the ego and growing, by
eroding that internal blockage. Now, life peels away one mystery and trades it for
yet another but the dreamer is better prepared, knowing it is best to travel
light and speak with a kind tongue. Nevertheless the dreamer senses that the
truth of reality will always be shrouded in mystery, which even with this
new-found sense of self - life will remain still what it was in many ways before
but now the dreamer may be comforted by a greater understanding of this life
that is lived and the chaos that surrounds it.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-352306068443349402014-05-17T08:31:00.001-07:002014-05-17T08:32:23.404-07:003:33 - Bicameral BrainBicameral Brain is the double album released by the collective 3:33.<br />
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A fusion of noise, experimental, drone, and ritual/dark/black ambient with hip-hop/rock infused beats. Groovy, textural, primitive, hypnotic, and utterly sublime. The vibe on this record is just unreal.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-3304397985801944392014-05-16T05:59:00.000-07:002014-05-16T05:59:00.372-07:00Johnny Hollow - A Collection of CreaturesA Collection of Creatures is a unique new album by the eclectic fusion group, Johnny Hollow.<br />
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Johnny Hollow takes inspiration from a wide variety of genres such as industrial, ambient, IDM, trip hop, and rock to craft their groovy darkened sound.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-67347957068352458692014-05-16T04:20:00.003-07:002014-05-16T04:20:41.853-07:00Willow Beats - AlchemyWillow Beats' 2013 release, Alchemy.<br />
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A superb blend of experimental tinged chillwave, glitch, psychedelic, hip-hop, and dubstep influenced electronic music. The songs on the this EP develop nicely into catchy, inspired pop melodies. Alchemy works to provoke an overall uplifting and cleansing vibe while remaining danceable.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-76344771053465529512014-05-15T14:41:00.000-07:002014-05-15T14:52:38.676-07:00Anilah - WarriorWarrior is the debut album of solo vocalist and composer, Anilah.<br />
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Warrior is an incredible work that fuses together new age and old world music elements, being inspired by ritual ambient, neofolk, progressive metal, and shamanism. Anilah has created something that is best described as spiritual, cathartic, esoteric, and ethereal. A quote from her Facebook page..<br />
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"Anilah is the solo project of vocalist and composer Dréa
Drury, a musician based in the Selkirk Mountains of Western Canada. Her
inspirations draw from traditional shamanic sound practices, sacred chant, dark
tribal, and Indian Classical. She has studied the art of using the voice as a
healing modality with sound healers and shamans over the past 10 years. This
has led to her own exploration of the esoteric application of sound, which she
now weaves into the tapestry of her musical expression. Her compositions are a
fusion of dark ambient and chants, with elements of progressive rock and
visionary drone soundscapes. Despite training in a variety of musical
traditions, she acknowledges her connection to nature, meditation, and moments
of complete sensory absorption - to be her primary teachers. She believes that
music is medicine."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-18206408240551137912014-05-15T14:04:00.001-07:002014-05-15T14:06:06.611-07:00Sun Worshipper - Elder GiantsNew Album by Sun Worshipper. Elder Giants, combines traits of noise, ritual, ambient, drone, and groove into progressive black metal.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-18182950693416107842014-05-15T09:14:00.000-07:002014-05-15T09:14:24.052-07:00Nadja - QuellerQueller is the new album by the experimental noise metal duo, Nadja.<br />
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Nadja layers an astounding combination of build, texture, and progression with this release.<br />
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Here is the bio from their Facebook page.<br />
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"Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff
alternately based in Toronto, Canada & Berlin, Germany. Nadja originally
began in 2003 as a solo project for Baker to explore the heavier/noisier side
of his experimental/ambient guitar-based music. In 2005 Buckareff joined in
order to make the project more than just a studio endeavour & allow Nadja
to perform live.<br />
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Nadja creates music that has been variously described as
drone metal, ambient doom, and shoegazer, combining soundscapes, electronics,
& atmospheric vocals & tempering the cacophony with an ethereal
melodicism such that the listener is enveloped in a sublimating wall of
amorphous sound."</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-78379217466216225582014-05-14T06:03:00.000-07:002014-05-14T06:04:00.892-07:00Heathen Harvest PeriodicalHeathen Harvest is a fantastic art news site that specializes in underground music. They provide excellent in-depth reviews as well as features/interviews for the darker styles of the world-wide post-industrial music scene, such as; Ambient, Metal, Drone, Noise, Darkwave, Folk, Experimental, Electronic, Industrial, Classical, and Gothic. We found out about projects such as Novemthree and Heathen Harnow via this site and highly recommend them.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/heathen.harvest">https://www.facebook.com/heathen.harvest</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-51503703799497205432014-05-14T05:54:00.000-07:002014-05-14T05:54:04.334-07:00Heathen Harnow - FlyktFlykt is a new EP released by the mysterious neofolk project, Heathen Harnow.<br />
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Flykt is an album rich with ethereal atmosphere and ancestral wisdom. Minimal, dark, and melodic; Heathen Harnow works to provoke an ancient knowledge, now mostly forgotten. Sorrowful and empathetic, this album maintains a reverence for death as well as a longing for life's beauty.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-73515011964949815042014-05-12T13:57:00.000-07:002014-05-12T13:59:35.181-07:00Silence Is A Virus - ImperialImperial is the new EP from Copenhagen, Denmark based four piece alternative post-metal/rock band, Silence Is A Virus.<br />
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Imperial is a diverse and well balanced three track album that fuses together a wide variety of the newest technical developments being made across all of the many sub-genres of metal and rock. Hook driven, heavy, and progressive - Silence Is A Virus delivers with memorable riffs and surprising depth over just three songs.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-27449340413345730762014-05-10T05:12:00.001-07:002014-05-10T05:13:04.006-07:00dRachEmUsiK Collaborations (onewayness & Joo Won Park)dRachEmUsiK recently released two new albums as a part of separate collaborations with onewayness and Joo Won Park.<br />
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Immeasureable is a collaborative long-form ambient album by dRachEmUsiK (Charles Shriner) and onewayness (Adam Holquist). This album is based around the brahmavihāras or the “four immeasurables”, which is a series of Buddhist beliefs and practices. Meditative, droney, and contemplative, Immeasurable is a pleasure for the spiritual explorer.<br />
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Side Dish Side Affect is the collaborative project between Joo Won Park and Charles Shriner. This is an eclectic and experimental noise album that combines several different unusual elements. Side Dish Side Affect looks to provoke abnormal and unfamiliar emotions from the listener through improvised noise by creating abstract, organic, and textural audio environments.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-11101331301567390692014-05-09T13:01:00.001-07:002014-05-09T13:01:26.772-07:00Indian - From All PurityFrom All Purity is the newest release from Chicago, Illinois based Noise Metal band, Indian.<br />
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Indian unleashes a scathing and hate filled delivery with the release of their fourth full length album, From All Purity. From All Purity is an intense near non-stop barrage to the senses of decaying putrid noise. Indian forgoes typical songs structure on this album in order to create a uniquely layered atmosphere of vivid darkness, a void. Pulsating walls of paralyzing sound carry on unrelenting yet satisfyingly towards this darkened rift into another dimension.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-67055903173315956472014-05-09T08:21:00.000-07:002014-05-09T08:21:33.780-07:00LORD MANTIS - Death MaskDeath Mask is the new album by the Chicago, Illinois based four piece Noise Metal band, LORD MANTIS.<br />
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Dark, deep, and gritty; Death Mask is a superb amalgamation of black, sludge, doom, and death among other genres of metal. LORD MANTIS drags the listener through their inner-most turmoils, grinding them abrasively into a catharsis with the cold earthen ground. Death Mask provides an interestingly progressive composition that continues turning over while adding or adjusting parts from section to section by using non-conventional or experimental song structures. LORD MANTIS has both primal and advanced technological elements present on this album, which allows for substantial depth throughout the entire work.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-26596203653497856742014-05-08T13:19:00.000-07:002014-05-08T13:19:44.786-07:00Black Tongue - Born HangedHere is the new EP, Born Hanged by Black Tongue.<br />
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Black Tongue is a five piece Doomwave Metal Band from Hull, England. Born Hanged is a devastatingly heavy album as well as being dynamic, well mixed, and high-tech; featuring a compelling fusion of many of the more "extreme" genres of metal wrapped in an Earth shattering sound design.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-16066491733274643542014-04-13T07:55:00.000-07:002014-04-13T07:57:21.713-07:00novemthree - RenewingA must listen neofolk album. Haunting melodies, chilling ambiance, and mesmerizing rhythms that take you on a dreamy journey deep inside of yourself. Minimal, ritualistic, and soothing. This album will stay with you.<br />
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novemthree is a folk project from The Pacific Northwest that emphasizes a humble do it yourself attitude as well as the importance of respecting and living in harmony with the natural world that we are so effortlessly usurping. A quote from their Bandcamp page - "Crafting gently dark and dreamlike tunes of
psychedelic-fringed folk music with verses inspired by a longing for a
connection with Nature, the sense of solitude and peace in the vastness of the
cosmos, meandering reflections on life and loss."<br />
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<iframe seamless="" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1119286565/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 470px; width: 350px;"><a href="http://littlesomebodyfamily.bandcamp.com/album/renewing">Renewing by :novemthree:</a></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638587019198011791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135275831175285599.post-29375805424680906352014-02-18T09:15:00.000-08:002014-02-18T09:17:13.327-08:00TaigaNew release on Bandcamp from Bryant Clifford Meyer's 'Taiga'. A quote from his Facebook.. "2 new Taiga cassette / digital releases out today via
Bandcamp - "Musikecassette III" is the third installment of the
Musikecassette series...".<br />
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