Charlemagne is a man, not a band, the rather brilliant new creation from Carl Johns, leader-songwriter of Wisconsin alt-country-psych-noir-rockers Noahjohn. For the most part Charlemagne is pop music, borrowing elements from upbeat folk, roots-rock, and droning psychedelia, earning comparisons to The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, and Lambchop. As Delusions of Adequacy said, " With all the new crap that comes out everyday from scores of marginally talented musicians, it's refreshing to hear new acts that n...   [ read more ]

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Marc Richter's new Black to Comm offering Charlemagne and Pippin churns out a slowly, methodically building single-tone battleship, that somehow manages to become more powerful, hopeful, and grandiose as it oscillates. Richter's characteristic organ noise is rounded off beautifully with various electronics, bells, metal percussion, toys, water, and violins, provided by band members Renate Nikolaus and Ulf Sschutte, which grow around the central note yet slowly move to the center themselves. The Bursting el...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The Touch label presents the Observations and Momentum split LP as a great opportunity to hear noise minimalist Eleh and Swedish visual/sound artist Christofer Lämgren aka Nana April Jun at their finest. Nana April Jun's track "Sun Wind Darkness Eye" is taken from the album The Ontology of Noise, particularly because it stands out as being perfect for a vinyl edition. In the same time-frame, the series of releases by Eleh on Important Records attracted the Touch label's attention. These homag...   [ read more ]

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