a quiet end

bring your desires here

The new album from Crimson Mourn, curator of the excellent Deploy Your Senses compilation, & esteemed post-rock champion. Hazy and powerful, it features a quite expanded sound pallet and is another demonstration of the ever growing vitality of Mauro’s project. Free download links here.

Liars ~ No. 1 Against The Rush

Consistently inspired. Adding more of its kin over the next little while…

Sigur Rós ~ Ekki múkk 

Video by Inga Birgisdóttir.

support system

Four shots of tequila. 

Maybe you’ll die

Or just meet a floor you like

Greased by the previous occupants

And full up with your dreams.

Or maybe not.

It can hold your hand

Cradle your head.

Doesn’t mind the slurred come-ons

Or misplaced groping.

Process.

(Source: amateurgore)

Saul Williams ~ DNA / Coded Language 

Live from the streets of Toronto. Shot by Southern Souls during CMW a week and a half ago. 

Farfetch’d ~ The Alchemist 

Another gorgeous track from Deploy Your Senses. The excellent post-rock/ambient/shoegaze compilation that is free to download over here.

look at what’s past when the future is near

Several days ago marked one year since the debut EP was released. As with any somewhat-milestone, it’s a good time to look at how far things have come; give the figurative pat-on-the-back while putting up the telescope a little as well.

In the months that followed its release, the EP found its way into a number of hands and more than a few hearts. There was no big splash, but none was needed. Its being welcomed by even a small number of folks and met with enthusiasm in quiet-ish corners was success enough, and an indication that the project has both legs and life. 

BlogTO’s The Neighbourhood Mixtape on ‘Birthplace St.’, the lead track on the EP: “The song unfolds with gleaming chords, vocal fades, and a final-minute flourish that feels as endless as those childhood nights when you wished you could stay up till dawn.”

The EP is still available as a free download over at bandcamp, and can be streamed over there too.

Past Fragments was released this past January and was largely something done as a sort of an experiment/exercise; a series of minimal, atmospheric, instrumental piano pieces, mostly improvised and recorded haphazardly in short bursts over several days. Releasing it was decided after the fact and intended to be a kind of musical footnote more than anything else - very much following the same unplanned logic as its creation. Despite its much less direct nature, it more than quadrupled the first few week’s success of the EP, and has since it has found its way quite literally around the world to hundreds of new listeners in a fairly short amount of time. Past Fragments can be found here.

The instrumental song ‘Whale Bones’ was selected to be featured on the international post-rock/shoegaze/ambient compilation Deploy Your Senses Vol. 1 which was released just this last week. It’s flattering to have been included with so many talented artists from such a multitude of diverse places; it is excellent company to be in.

Deploy Your Senses Vol. 1 is also available for free digitally. Check it out, there are many nuggets to be found. 

Lately it has mostly been on to development for what’s going to come later, but there will be a few new things in the months ahead.

All told it has been a good year. And everything’s grown.

deploy your senses

‘Whale Bones’ - the first song from Past Fragments - has been featured on Deploy Your Senses, a compilation of Post-Rock/Shoegaze/Ambient/Experimental music curated by the excellent Crimson Mourn. It’s a truly international effort, featuring some thirty artists from all over the world, and chalk full of stunning songs for both achy souls and soaring hearts alike. 

It’s available as a free digital download; get it here. 

From the graphic novel in woodcuts “Gods’ Man” by Lynd Ward, 1929.

Always pulled between darkness and the light.