16 January 2007

Songs For Sundays Parlours - the 4 song ep (2005)

Songs for Sunday Parlours is the project of Malte Jantzen and Saskia Melina Waldeck, a duo, sometimes a trio, from Nordhessen, Germany. The started in 2005, and at the end of this year they released this first demo ep of acoustic lo-fi folk songs.

02 January 2007

Monovalley - deception island ep (2006)

When I discovered the French band Acetate Zero with their first album “Softcore Paradise” in 1999, I’ve been directly under the charm of Elsa Diot’s voice, hoping that she would take more place in the future of the band. But even if the following discography of this always underestimated band is more than recommended, this particular fact never happened, Acetate Zero always worked as a band.

05 December 2006

1985 - emaline (2004, Masa)

This new ep of Matt Fuller offers also seven bonus tracks from a live set in Portland, OR, early 2005. These are poorly recorded and don’t bring nothing particular to the original versions, it just an interesting listen if you are a fan.

Much more seducing are the five new songs of the ep.

21 November 2006

1985 - where tomorrow lets us breathe (2004, Masa)

Shortly after the release of “Dawn Treading”, Matt Fuller seems to have received the opportunity of being recorded in a small studio. This was done by Bob Schwenkler.

“Where Tomorrow Lets Us Breathe” is mainly a new version of “Dawn Treading” with almost the same songs, as eight of the eleven songs here were already on the previous record in close 4-track versions.

14 November 2006

1985 - dawn treading (2004, Masa)

With “Dawn Treading”, Matt Fuller changed his project name from A Sandcastle Still to 1985. Basically it’s the same thing, intimate folk lo-fi songs recorded in urgency with mostly his voice and his acoustic guitar.