Jikkenteki - Flights Of Infinity
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Ektoplazm, a fully featured psy trance site and netlabel, released in March’08 Jikkenteki’s second album, Flights Of Infinity. The album is a dense trip into psy featuring long tracks with that crescendo feeling leading the way. Nice dark listening for late hours!
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This release has a unique combination of industrial, dark, gothic, rock and electronica that could please even open-minded soft-music adepts. The music is intense and vocals are very expressive, creating a complex atmosphere based on distorted guitars and synths. Looking at their Last.fm scrobbles and internet archive downloads they seem to be quite popular nowadays! Worth listening!
They have been sitting on my drafts since Jan 16th, so my apologies for taking so long to post.
Last Saturday my mom asked me to put up a playlist to her birthday party. She said she’d like something “lounge”, just some music to be playing while people chat. Former parties immediately stormed into my mind. Not really nice memories. People, usually, don’t like music I like, they think its weird, they think it’s bad, they ask me to change it, please.
Me: I don’t have any cool songs, mom.
Mom: Of course you have. Just put on anything and it will be ok.
There I went to choose some songs… disbelieving I would find any. Choices were obvious and in less then 10 minutes I had 2 days and 15 hours ready to play for the next 4 hours. I started to believe.
I set up the equipment and let it go randomly. Whooa. It was nice. Music was really nice. I really had cool songs to play.
About 60% of the artists have already appeared here, including Vate, Anawin, …and nobody cared, Antony Raijekov, Axial, ElectroLatrine, fonetik, Jade, Lunar, Oprachina, Philippe Mangold, Jonathan Rickert, SaReGaMa, Silence and Triplexity.
The night was good and I was really enjoying the random music.
However, after the cake the cold and sad reality started to show up. People asked me what is this music. People said it is weird. Some people asked to change it, please. People asked for some music they knew. People wanted to know where did I get these songs. Maybe it was the sugar.
It’s ok, they never liked it anyway. Still, they listened for some time.
And then I went off to see some furniture.
Móveis Coloniais de Acaju - Idem
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A friend of mine introduced me to this band from Brasília in late 2006. Their songs are simply crazy. A creative mix between rock, ska, samba, swing, and eastern European sounds. It is the kind of music you can (and will) repeatedly sing along with the vocals and with the instrumental part. I can say that after listening to their album “Idem” for 1,5 years, I’m still able to go from São Sebastião (where I work) to São Paulo (about 2h30 trip) happily singing their songs along the way…
Yesterday I finally got the chance to see them live! And they are great. Móveis Coloniais de Acaju (could be translated as Colonial furniture made of a mahogany-like wood) is composed of 10 skilled musicians that create a spectacular atmosphere on stage, always dancing and interacting with their audience. During the song Copacabana (one of their hits), the crowd opens up a circle and most of the band (with their instruments) get off the stage to play the song’s instrumental interlude with their fans. After they are absorbed by the crowd (and still playing the song’s climax) they magically re-appear on stage! Crazy.
They have released an official music video of the song Seria o Rolex?, you can watch it below.
Also, there are tons of fan videos with them playing live, here.
As many growing independent bands from all over the world, Móveis Coloniais de Acaju know the importance of their fans and the internet to spread their music. Each musician post entries to their weblog, songs are available for download on the official site and you can also buy a hard copy of the album Idem at Amazon. You will find them at MySpace (where you can read André Abujamra’s description of the band).
Please world, listen!
01 - Perca Peso
02 - Seria o Rolex?
03 - Aluga-se-vende
04 - Copacabana
05 - Menina Moça
06 - Cego
07 - Esquilo Não Samba
08 - E Agora, Gregório?
09 - Swing Hum e Meio
10 - Do Mesmo Ar
11 - Sadô-Masô
12 - Receio do Remorso
