unaccompanied voice accompanied by some news...

ok, starting with the post for tonight, here's Maja Ratkje's cd entitled "Voice." you may remember Maja from her project Fe-mail. this is her "a capella" cd of just her incredible voice and vocal chords. Mike Patton, eat your fucking heart out. Maja can do some INSANE shit with those chords. this is a really interesting listen, very different but really only for the adventurous listener as there is really nothing but jarring and strange vocals. she uses no electronics, no post production, and nothing else but those lungs. it's amazing, really. worth a listen cause you will never hear anything else like it.

Maja Ratkje - Voice
http://www.mediafire.com/?fi5y04qudjm

and here's the sadder news: i'm slowing down posting. i'll still try to put up something every day, or at least some youtube stuff, but my computer has been crashing every time i upload more than one file at a time, and since i am not the only user on this computer i can't sit here and spend hours uploading stuff. so it's one thing per day for a while. sorry guys, untill i figure what the problem is then that's the way it has to be. the quality will not drop, however. as a compensation i'm gonna put a few more mixes up soon. no one really cares about those, but you should. they are all really good and full of weirdo bands from all over. so download them mofos!

top 3 downloaded stuff on this site btw:

1. homosexuals cd
2. gamelan son of lion 2xcd
3. conrad schnitzler lp

keep it up! thanks for the support! i've got loads more goodies to come, and some extra rare shit too!

bacon tomorrow

Harvester was a strange collective of musicians from the swedish lands. they went through four different names for their project (Parson Sound, International Harvester, Harvester, and finally Trad, Gras, & Stenar). focussing on having fun, their recordings sound more like parties than the usual prog that their contemporaries were releasing, having much more in common with a drum circle than emerson, lake, and palmer. because of this, they have a much more tribal and primordeal sound to their music, and that gives them a much more spiritual feel. it really sounds like someone turned a microphone on during one of this band's drug-fueled freak outs more than an actual recording session, with strange chanting, repetetive drum and bass lines, flutes and clatter, and an air so thick with smoke that you can hear it.

this album, "Hemat," is especially ethereal, with loads of indeterminate chanting and yelping, and a definite feeling of spiritual release going on with the musicians. it sounds really cathartic and intense.

for fans of Circle, Finnish Free-Folk (like Avarus, Kemialliset Ystavat, and Anaksimandros), and Krautrock bands (whom i think may have had a certain affinity with these guys more than most prog rockers.) oh, and they also got a mention on that ever-so-pretentious nurse with wound list.

awesome sturf.

Harvester - Hemat

http://www.mediafire.com/?ymqfmywqjey