it's gonna be a *lazy* saturday for yours truly. but before i fully tune out, i wanted to point out a couple full album streams, courtesy of pitchfork:
BEN FROST - A U R O R A (mute/bedroom community) the iceland-based
musician is about to drop his
next full-length and right away you may notice it's a more synthetic trip than usual; he's put aside the guitars, pianos and other string instruments used previously. (once again though, he's got a squad of collaborators on hand, including tim hecker and lawrence english.) even with the change in approach, this is sounding pretty, pretty good... frost is touring in support of the album, though no US dates have been announced as of now. i was able to see him play live with his shoe-less, computer/guitar-based setup here during sonar chicago in 2010, which was a wonderfully thrilling performance, so i'll hope for another chicago stop at some point soon. go to
here for the stream (and
here for a recent interview, also on pitchfork),
here for frost's youtube page with some tracks and a/v "excerpts" from the album, and
here for his official site with tour dates.
AMBARCHI / O'MALLEY / DUNN - SHADE THEMES FROM KAIROS (drag city) here's something
just released from the three-headed collaboration of australian
oren ambarchi and two seattle artists: sunn O)))'s
stephen o'malley and affiliate
randall dunn. rooted in the trio's 2009 soundtrack work for the short film
kairos. it's a set of long, exploratory jams (five tracks, and a complete length of over an hour) with loose but assertive percussion, and appropriately droning, ambient-ish guitars and synths. the whole thing is worthy of your joint-smoking time, and its artwork is really cool, too, as you can see in the imagery atop this post. i can't stop listening to "sometimes," a beautifully downcast track which features japanese vocalist ai aso. if you only have ten minutes to spare, i'd advise you to skip right to that one. stream
here.
okay... happy weekend!
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