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Points: 9008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2007 at 15:28
Well, I was thinking of getting it since I liked their previous effort, but after seeing so many negative opinions on the album I wasn't as interested as before. Maybe I'll try to get my hopes up and get the album.

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Points: 6419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2007 at 19:33
Has anyone heard of The Mercury Program? Good, jazzy Post-Rock that reminds me of Do Make Say Think.

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Originally posted by Philéas Philéas wrote:

Has anyone heard of The Mercury Project? Good, jazzy Post-Rock that reminds me of Do Make Say Think.

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I think you mean the Mercury Program.

Yes - I have "A Data Learn the Language" and "All The Suits Began To Fall Off " and love them both.
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Points: 6419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2007 at 19:53
Yes, of course I mean The Mercury Program! EmbarrassedLOL But the mind slips sometimes, you know...

I have those two albums too and I definitely think they're worthy of inclusion. I also have From the Vapor of Gasoline.


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Points: 1138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2007 at 19:57
Their jazzy sound is definitely unique within the genre.  I need to get From the Vapor of Gasoline.

@Chamberry - you managed to get Jakob in here for me.  The Mercury Program is definitely needed here.  I think I discussed them with you earlier.   I'll see if I can get some stuff together for you.
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Points: 6890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 00:44
Originally posted by chamberry chamberry wrote:

Well, I was thinking of getting it since I liked their previous effort, but after seeing so many negative opinions on the album I wasn't as interested as before. Maybe I'll try to get my hopes up and get the album.

 
I think it's marvlous, not as many heavy moments as you would expect though
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 Yes. The Mercury Program do deserve to be here. I have all the info needed to make a bio for them, but I'm the only one that has voted YES for their addition so I'll have to wait for at least another YES vote so I can add them. I have A Data Learn The Language and From The Vapor Of Gasoline, but I've only heard the former as of today. A perfect album for people who enjoy vibraphones in their post-rock.

There are still alot of bands that I'm trying to add to the archives so stay put and wait for it. Wink

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Points: 9008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 01:19
Originally posted by schizoid_man77 schizoid_man77 wrote:

Originally posted by chamberry chamberry wrote:

Well, I was thinking of getting it since I liked their previous effort, but after seeing so many negative opinions on the album I wasn't as interested as before. Maybe I'll try to get my hopes up and get the album.

I think it's marvlous, not as many heavy moments as you would expect though

Cool. I'll add it to my wishlist and check it ASAP.

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I just reviewed the latest album from Scraps Of Tape, I didn't have them planned for my next journey (was thinking World's End Girlfriend or Mono), but since I listened to this and have read that the debut is what I should really hear by them, I'll just as well make them my next "Experimental Journey". Clap

I decided to call "This Is It Copy, Is This Copy" off the great albums list, though it isn't uninteresting. It's instead more loose and rummaging. I hear influences from 65days, Explosions harmonies and Magyar Posse.
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Points: 9008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 11:39
^^^ I too wasn't impressed with their latest offering. I felt that the band had lost its identity. Like I said in my review, their debut had a personality of its own. It did had some influence here and there (like any other band), but their song structures  and on/off dynamics where very interesting and more enjoyable to listen to. You should check it out.

Just wait till you listen to The Lie Lay Land by World's End Girlfriend. It's an almost 5 star album for me, although I'll have to warn you that his other releases are more on the glitch, electronica side of music that even I'm having a bit of trouble digesting.

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here's a question for you post-rockers: what do you think of Fripp with the League of Crafty Guitarists? I have heard Intergalactic Boogie Express and it's very rock-neutral and chamberish, stringy and texturally atmospheric, so hearing it made me think of you all.
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Points: 9008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 14:11
I wouldn't know since I haven't heard it, but I'm definitely interested. I've been meaning to get into them, but I never really found a good starting point.

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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 15:48
Quite interesting you suggest Fripp and Crafty Guitarists here, they're in Art Rock with the entire Fripp discography and, since they're based on guitar craft, guitar rock, polyphonic acoustic melodies and thematic improvisations, they're quite good and minimal for Art Rock

I'm a Fripp fan. Smile
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Points: 9008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2007 at 20:36
Latest addition: Toe.


TOE.*

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Progressive music sub-genre: Experimental/Post-Rock
Country: Japan
Official website: http://www.toe.st/

Toe. are a Japanese band formed in 2000 that make They're one of those bands that are hard to really pin down into one genre. While being mentioned in many post-rock circles, their song structures and dynamics are similar to that of math rock artists. They released their debut EP, "Songs, Ideas We Forgot" in 2002. The world didn't saw another release of the band until 2005 when they released their first full-length album, "Book About My Idle Plot on Vague Anxiety". The band incorporated some new instruments into the mix like acoustic guitars and rhodes piano with this release and in 2006 they released another EP, "New Sentimentality", which saw the band in the same direction as their full-length album. Toe. has toured with many bands in the past years. They've been opening act for post-hardocre acts like Envy and post-rock artists like The Mercury Program, The Album Leaf and Pele.

Recommended for fans of: Do Make Say Think... I can't think of anything else. A bit of post-rock and math rock made with acoustic guitars.

Samples: http://www.myspace.com/tableauofeulogists

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I made a review of their latest EP yesterday, but it didn't even lasted 24 hours in the main page. Very addicting and very great music.


TOE.* — New Sentimentality

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3%20stars Toe. are a band that can be either seen as a post-rock act or a math rock one depending on which side you come from. It can be seen as a math rock band with emotional touches or a post-rock band with a dynamic flare, but whatever label they may fall into, the music on this EP has a certain charm to it that you'll be listening to it for weeks to come.

The music in New Sentimentality may not sound loud enough to make an impression or to stun the listener on the get go, but you'll slowly subdue to the music either by the warm acoustic guitars and fender rhodes (two instruments rarely seen in this kind of music) or the brisk drumming that, while being fairly complex, is still soft to the ears. Their start-stop dynamics never sound jagged or out of place because they're smoothed out with memorable melodies. The album has a breezy and organic sound thanks to the acoustic guitars which gives the album a great atmosphere which remind me of bands like As The Poets Affirm or Do Make Say Think (in atmosphere, not sound). The flamenco-ish clapping in "1/21" also adds to the atmosphere along with the lovely fender rhodes and horns (or that's what I think it is). The first three songs on this EP share the same atmosphere while "Goodbye" sees the band playing the first electric guitar on the EP. The "lovely fender rhodes" is still present in the song as well as the acoustic guitars, but they're now accompanied by a new instruments: vocals. They aren't just thrown in for the sake of having them, these guys do them well and they do add alot to the overall emotion of the album. Probably my favorite song from the band. Lets just hope they get to experiment with it more on future releases.

This EP was my first taste of this band and I quickly fell in love with their sound and grabbed their other releases. My only set-back is that it's too short! OK. I know this is an EP and EPs tend to be short by nature (unless we're talking about Jakob or Yndi Halda...), but the music here is so wonderful that it leaves you wanting for more. Keep an eye out for these guys, they showed great potential with this release and with their full-length album as well.

3.5 out of 5




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Sorry if this band has been mentioned before, I'd like to mention this recent acquisition I made.
The band is a side project by several American musicians, called C'est Mortel. Their music, is an inventive and quite dynamic and heavy form of post-rock, filled with complexities and musical ideas.
Here's some info from their label's website - http://www.2sheds.com/cestmortel.html
Devin Brown - guitar, vocals
Mason Brown - guitar
Brett Griffin - bass
Tom Naumann - drums
David Specht - keyboards
 
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Seems like every musician in Athens is in multiple bands, so why should Jet by Day be any different? Jet by Day mainstays Tom Naumann and Mason Brown get their jones to "do something different" by moonlighting in C'est Mortel, a post-rock/prog-rock project that also includes Athens area musicians Devin Brown, Brett Griffin, and David Specht.

Formed in 2000, C'est Mortel composes and perform epic compositions which render obsolete the context in which others use the term. C'est Mortel's M.O. is to write 30-40 minute mostly-instrumental compositions, which are made up of multiple suites or theme changes that are simultaneously part-Slint and part-Kyuss, Each "song" is labeled as a "set" by the band, which is an indicator that the "sets" are really meant to be heard and performed live.

C'est Mortel's live show typically consists of one of their sets, performed in its entirety. Since the band has a number of sets on tap, fans are often treated to an entire show they've never heard before.

Brett Griffin joined Naumann and Brown as Jet by Day's bassist in August 2003.

C'est Mortel is currently inactive, as the Jet by Day contingency is now devoting all of its energy to the main gig."

And those are some reviews:
" - "Some would call it straightforward rock, while there are elements of math-rock, prog-rock, and even stoner-rock with metal moments. But that's what is so good about this release. The styles are blended effortlessly, and the fact that the band recorded these songs live amazes me. This is a fantastic release, and the fact that this is a side project is astounding. Let's hope it doesn't get ignored as side projects tend to be, because with this more free, less constrained project, these guys have amazing potential."

Splendid - "C'est Mortel (Tom Naumann and Mason Brown, both of whom are members of Jet By Day, who formed this as their night gig) follow the standard formation of guitars and drums, like their contemporaries and comparison measurement the Oxes, but the added sounds set them among instrumental experimenters like TransAm, Tristeza and Tortoise. Naumann and Brown feed each other incredible energy; in both tracks, the muscular drumming and ripping chords crescendo like the players are fighting each other, but the sounds mesh perfectly."

Southeast Performer - "This powerful but unobtrusive seven song album is a dynamic journey into a territory filled with alienation, struggle and surrealism; a sort of mental Dali painting. It pulls from bombastic beginning through extreme quiet, blending back into fuzzy spaces inhabited with shrieking guitar, theremin, blasting drums and a constantly changing schizophrenic melody. There's a full dose of metallic prog-rock, but it is tempered with abrupt, sparse lines, spacey experimental jags, and even clapping." "

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Very good album, I find it to be veyr dynamic, gets me "invloved" in the music, active listening; it's captivating, heavy (at times actually metal sounding), varied in sound and moods. Recommneded.
 
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2007 at 07:29
With the review and the high listen of their debut, I can definitely say Scraps Of Tape have become part of my Experimental Journeys.

Read Beneath The Lines At All Times:
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=132055

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Their very powerful hard-post orientation remains helpful for when I get the feeling what 65daysofstatic are doing has exaggerated motions. Clap

Now, I'm on to pick another band.
(And, after I finish Bark Psychosis, another set of reviews LOL)
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I finally got a listen to Toe. What an excellent band!! Japanese bands are quickly becoming my favorite. There's not one i dislike.
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Points: 9008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2007 at 16:07
^^^^  Toe. has quickly became and addiction of mine from the first time I heard it, specially the EP New Sentimentality. I really like the feel of the whole EP. It's like a breezy spring day. Wonderful stuff. Clap

Originally posted by avestin avestin wrote:

 

Assaf, that bands sounds mighty interesting. I'll give a listen to some of their samples. Thanks for recommending them!

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Points: 9008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 18:48
Managed to add two bands in these past days and I owe it all to the members from the respective bands for letting me use the biographies from their website / myspace page Thumbs%20Up:

The first one:

SICKOAKES*

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Progressive music sub-genre: Experimental/Post-Rock
Country: Sweden
Official website: http://www.sickoakes.com/

Bio taken from http://www.typerecords.com/ with the band's permission.

In the early summer of 1999, David, Jonas, Mats and Simon started getting intimate with their guitars in an old candy factory. From this seed a whole new twist on music has sprouted and today Sickoakes consists of a, at most times, six man strong orchestra playing instrumental, cinematic music best categorized under the genre of postrock.

Over the years Sickoakes has been performing all around Sweden, recording songs at soylent green studios, and releasing it on a 12" split vinyl (with Audionom) and a countless number of single copy CD-Rs

Recommended for fans of:  Yanqui U.X.O
Samples: You can download their first EP for FREE here: http://www.archive.org/details/pls003 (Our friend, Meddle, posted the link some pages ago).



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