adcBicycle — That Hill It Has Already Gone Away

adcBicycle is Matt Chisholm from Ottawa, Canada. He has been active since at least 2006 with releases on netlabels such as Kikapu and 12rec.  Now comes a new release from Russian netlabel, Southern City Labs.  The release has a central theme based on a rocky ocean cove in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Southern City Labs stated purpose is the exploration of various forms of independent rock, electronic and avant-garde music and they have an extremely deep catalog with a lot of variety.

Here is something about adcBicycle from the liner notes of the release, Malignant Cove which was posted at archive.org on March 14:

The music engages the listener with gritty analog sounds, loosely played instruments and driving beats, yet at the same time sits peacefully in the background with distant vocals, slow building drama and a consistent dark pop mood.

Let's go to Nova Scotia.

adcBicycle — That Hill It Has Already Gone Away

BSWC One-a-Day: Nic Bommarito - Once a Freak, Always a Freak

This tune is from a wonderful collection of music by Nic Bommarito and was released at the end of January by the netlabel, 12rec. Today's selection is an artfully quiet piece. 12rec used a keyword that I found really appealing: "Dreampop".

According to the release notes, Nic has studied philosophy in Ann Arbor and Albuquerque before moving to Tibet in 2006.

"Nic Bommarito is a talented musician, too. He got in contact with us in late 2006, and we spontaneously decided to release his Taciturn LP at 12rec.

The Taciturn LP fuses instrumental Rockmusic with moments of Alt. Country and epic Indiepop, keeping an eye on melody and structure. Imagine a mixture of Canadian GY!BE, the Americana Avant-Garde of Chicago's Brokeback and the huge melodies of Italian Postrockers Giardini di Mirò."

Enjoy this piece, I know I did.

Nic Bommarito - Once a Freak, Always a Freak

BSWC One-a-Day: Jasmin - Heute im Stadion

A quick post to put this one out there. From the netlabel, 12rec here is Jasmin in a 2005 release that you can find at archive.org.

The release is called EP 02 [12rec.027] The tune, Heute im Stadion has a real nice sound to it. I guess that you would call it "post-rock" if you were looking for a tag. Of course, I've been known to use "music" as a tag...probably not very effective.

12rec described the tune on the release notes:

"...heute im stadion is jasmin's version of contemporary hardrock. the title refers to 'stadium' and can be read as an ironical statement concerning huge rockband-riffing."

Here's to a good weekend. Enjoy.

Jasmin - Heute im Stadion