new albums from Deluge Grander, Birds & Buildings

Hi everybody.  Four pieces of news from the wide but tiny world of Emkog Records:

1. "All Over Everywhere, Inner Firmaments Decay" will be released on August 20, 2010. All Over Everywhere is a musical collective from College Park, Maryland, USA, built around the songwriting of Trinna Kesner and Dan Britton (Deluge Grander, Birds and Buildings). Inner Firmaments Decay, their first album, is a collection of eight symphonic progressive chamber folk songs in the vein of Espers, Grizzly Bear, or Magenta and "I Talk to the Wind"/"Book of Saturday"-style King Crimson, with the vocal talents of Megan Wheatley and ten supporting musicians from a wide range of backgrounds. Although not really a "rock" album, it features fairly intricate arrangements, and lush atmospheres, and includes a 10-and-a-half-minute track called "Gratitude" that closes the album in a decidedly epic manner. Samples can be heard at:
www.emkog.com/AllOverEverywhere.html or
www.myspace.com/allovereverywherecp.

2. The second album by heavy symphonic jazz-rock group Birds and Buildings will be called "Multipurpose Trap" and should be released in January 2011. The new album might lean a little closer to jazz than its predecessor, but it will still maintain the density and intensity of the debut, adding other elements such as free-improv, heavy funk, post-rock, acoustic techno, and proggy disco (or "prosco"). For more information and an early version of the song "Miracle Pigeon," check:
www.emkog.com/BirdsandBuildings.html or
www.myspace.com/birdsandbuildings

3. Deluge Grander is planning a three-tiered, seven-album cycle that will be released over the next ten years. The details are fairly complicated, but those who are intrigued are advised to visit www.emkog.com/DelugeGrander.html to read more.

4. For those who aren't familiar with these groups, there is an almost-brand-new 78-minute sampler CD with music from the upcoming as-yet-unreleased albums, as well as music from previous albums by Deluge Grander, Birds and Buildings, and Cerebus Effect available at www.cdbaby.com/cd/emkog. It is full to the brim with the very best music from six albums, and at $7 costs about half as much as a regular CD.

7 album cycle...10 years!

Orgasm.

Thanks for the comments and compliments everybody!

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Liquid Eternity- the Emkog sampler CD (Item #4 above) is just for you!  ;)  Seriously!

It has the best material from the 5 finished albums I've been involved with so far.  And I tried to compensate for the things those albums were criticized most for (1-my singing, of which there is NONE on this CD, and 2-sound quality, by remastering the majority of the old stuff with some new expensive software I recently bought).  And I tried to make it not just a compilation, but a nice cohesive collection of songs, putting a lot of thought into running order and artwork.

It's part of the $5 sale at CD Baby too, which means if you buy 2 other CDs in that sale, you get all three for $5 each.  Huzzah!

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This is awesome, have August in the Urals but still haven't got The Form of the Good although the samples sounded fantastic.  I'm excited to hear this awesome news.