PARALLAX SOUNDS (NEWS)
BRIAN ELLIS IS SIGNED TO PARALLAX SOUNDS RECORDS AND AN ALBUM IS DUE IN JANUARY 2011!
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PARALLAX SOUNDS RECORDS IS THE FIRST MUSIC LABEL THAT SELLS MUSIC AND OFFERS FREE MUSIC ASWELL THROUGH THE PRANA SERIES (THE NET LABEL SIDE OF PARALLAX).
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Brian Ellis is no stranger to the music scene as he's already released 3 fine albums on Benbecula Records, 1 being under the alias of Free Festival. Apart from his solo works and side projects, he's also the main guitarist of the band Astra. Brian is a multi-talented musician from San Diego and can play over 15 instruments. Brian's music styles range from Prog Rock, Jazz, Psychedelic, Folk, to Electronica. Parallax Sounds is thrilled with joy in Brian joining the label and equally excited in anticipation of the upcoming album release! Click on picture to visit his myspace profile and check out his band Astra aswell!
Russian trio 2muchachos delights us all with a special debut album release titled "formanta" and is available to buy NOW!
The album "Formanta" comes from the latin formatio (formation) and is also the name of the 1970's soviet vintage synthesizer.Formanta album has elements of electronica, folktronica, shoegaze and ambient.
Each track is carefully crafted by gradually washing you gently with their lush deep, warm beautiful sounds that almost sound abit similar to Ulrich Schnauss, Isan, Cocteau Twins and Paavaharju. Russian trio 2muchachos find themselves in methodic ambience, the ticking clock of time measures these compositions into structured forms, bringing the band's sound closer to the realm of Icelandic slow core like "Sigur Ros" or, when factoring in the much more subdued, delicate touch which the band employs and it's mastery of pastoral bliss would be more suited to Icelandic band "mum".
.All the tracks on this album are designed to take you on a journey through the seasons. Each track flows into the next track, like a medley.
There is some sort of background noise between the tracks which suggests the album could of actually been created outside, giving it that natural organic, field sound recording vibe. There are lots of ambient hissing noises, crackles, unidentifiable percussion, droning organs, hushed echoing vocals and some really awesome gitchy IDM
Formanta album is available to buy on lancing pack CD / download. If your going to buy this album make sure you buy the limited edition versions as they are very special and rare and only 50 copies are available.
Sjofn lives in a log cabin in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska where she writes, sings, and records her unique magical folk songs. Sjofn is noted for making raw, lo-fi, melancholic, and often quirky little folky dream pop songs. Sjofn's voice is beautiful along with her excellent acoustic guitar skills. The music is enchanting and soothing to the soul and just you wait until you hear the clarinet, you be thinking that the clarinet have never sounded so good! Sjofn's music is original sounding and of it's own but you can hear the likes of Olof Arnaulds, Nina Nastasia and Mazzy Star in there somewhere.
Her band, Mountain Mission, features Sjofn (vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele), Paul Monserrat (clarinet, tin whistle, banjo, vocals), and Leif Ericson (fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and various sounds). Wash-tub bass player Christina Brown is also a frequent guest player.
There are also plans of Sjofn doing a John Peel live session later this year.
Sjofn album "Secret" is widely available now worldwide on digipack cd / download via Parallax Sounds.
Check out the new remix of "93MillionMilesFromTheSun" track "The Times We Have Are Now!" This epic track is remixed by Michael of the great shoegaze band, "The Fauns!" The vocals seem to be bought out more and there's an awesome string section towards the end of the track! This will be eventually released on an ep in the future, but you can now listen to it in its full glory on the Parallax Sounds myspace music player.
Other news, There will be a new 5 track Ep called "All You've Found" which will be available to download from the 31st May 2010 and the best thing about it is that the Ep download will be available on the Prana Series section of Parallax Sounds for FREE! Yes! You did hear me correctly! FREE! We do look after our fans here at Parallax! Also, watch out for a live John Peel session from 93MMFTS in a few months time along with another new Ep, a forthcoming album and gig's!!!
After their fine west coast of USA tour, Foreign Cinema are back at working hard on their new debut album and it could be released by early 2011. There are also discussions about a 7 inch single release just before the album. In the mean time the "Non-Synchronous Sound" EP is available to buy on cd and download - the cd-r version which has a bonus track on has unfortunately sold out!
PHANTOM - GREAT PRETENDER cd single and mp3 download available to buy now! This critically acclaimed single has had many excellent reviews, got "single of the month", and respectfully came at number 15th Best Single Of The Year 2009 in Artrocker magazine!
Phantom have had a great year in 2009 what with their Great Pretender music video getting shown in all 400 Topshop stores in the U.K! It seems that they not only invented a new music genre "Gloomgaze" but may of started gloomgaze fashion aswell? Phantom also appeared on Cherry Red TV and have had great reviews, among them ofcourse was "single of the month" and "15th best single of 2009" in Artrocker magazine.
New releases to expect in the upcoming future:
2MUCHACHOS, 93 MILLION MILES FROM THE SUN, BRIAN ELLIS, FOREIGN CINEMA, HITOMI UENO, SJOFN...
Parallax Sounds artists get radio play on John Peel Radio - Dandellion and Global Soundtracks
If your a fan of John Peel, you might know that there are 2 radio stations dedicated to him in playing the best alternative music, the first one is Dandelion Radio and the other Global Soundtracks. Some of the artists from Parallax Sounds have been played on them!
2muchachos-Symerki track taken from the album Formanta is being played daily through the whole month of August 2010 on Mark Whitby show on Dandelion Radio: http://www.dandelionradio.com.
Sjofn-Whiskey track and 93 Million Miles From The Sun-Waiting there (Noise) track is now being played daily through the whole month of July 2010 on the Mark Whitby show on Dandelion Radio.
Sjofn-Fulton Street Jacket track & 2muchachos - Warmtime track was played daily through the whole month of June 2010 on Mark Whitby show on Dandellion Radio
93MillionMilesFromTheSun - July Sky track was being played daily through the whole month of January 2010 on the Mark Whitby show on Dandelion Radio.
Bagpipe Whiskey - I Am Stupid track had radio play on Mark Whitby's show on Dandelion Radio back in December 2009.
Bagpipe Whiskey - Tobias and special live halloween session on Tom Ravenscroft (John Peel's son) show on Global Soundtracks:
http://www.globalsoundtracks.com/show/09-november-2009/
Bye Bye Violet Tapes - Colours had radio play on Mark Whitby's show on Dandelion Radio back in March 2009.
This is just the beginning! More to come!
RECENT NEWS:
Sjofn - Secret album review on "The Line Of Best Fit" website! www.thelineofbestfit.com
This album documents the bewitching work of Alaskan songstress Sjofn, and intrigues more consistently than it entertains.
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Sjofn - Secret album gets reviewed on The Beat Surrender blog 3 out of 5!
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The Sjofn album "Secret" - It's blowing my mind! One of the most remarkable albums of the year. Absolutely amazing stuff! This music is of the highest quality. It deserves to be enormous. Mark Whitby (Dandelion Radio DJ / John Peel Radio)
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Sjofn album review on No Depression (Americana/Roots Music) blog: http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/alaskan-folk-artist-sjofn
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SJOFN - SECRET album is out now! Available to buy worldwide on digipack cd or mp3 download from the 5th July 2010!
Sjofn's amazingly beautiful album is charming, quirky and magical. You can discover the secret of this unique folk artist's music by visiting Sjofn's website: http://www.sjofn.net/ You can also purchase Sjofn's album through places like Parallax Sounds website, HMV Records, Cargo Records, Amazon, Apple itunes (worldwide), Gogoyoko, Cd Universe, JPop, Napster, Myspace store, Emusic, HMV Japan, RecordstoreUK, and many more good music stores!
Sjofn - Secret album is easily one of the best albums of 2010 and is very highly recommended!
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Sjofn - Secret album review: http://www.reviewyou.com/cdreviewblog/sjofn-secret/
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Parallax Sounds joins GOGOYOKO! Parallax Sounds are proud to be apart of this fine digital distributor which i think is owned by Sigur Ros and based in Rekjavik in Iceland. This could very well be the future in digital distribution. The idea is more Fair Play to music artists and small independent labels. Parallax Sounds is among labels like Leaf, R & S, Morr Music, etc..
Sjofn's new album "Secret" is the first release thats on there and we plan to put all the releases on there including some of the back catalogue. Sjofn is proving very popular on here aswell, Sjofn is up there with artists such as Seabear, Mum, Isan, Jonsi, Amiina, Aphex Twin, Caribou, The Knife and many more! I strongly recommend you check out Gogoyoko by clicking on the link below and becoming a member and at the same time you can hear lots of great music and listen to the new Sjofn album in full and if you like it you can even buy it! http://www.gogoyoko.com/#/store
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FOREIGN CINEMA are doing a West Coast USA Summer Tour! You can see them live in all these places during the month of July! Be sure to check this awesome band at one of the places listed below!
Foreign Cinema - Seattle at The Comet, Seattle, WAMon, 12 July @ 21:00
Foreign Cinema - Olympia at Private Event, Olympia, WA...
Tue, 13 July @ 20:00
Foreign Cinema - Portland at The Know, Portland, Oregon
Wed, 14 July @ 20:00
Foreign Cinema - San Francisco with Stripmall Architecture and Silver Swans at Milk, San Francisco, CA
Sat, 17 July @ 21:00
Foreign Cinema - Sacramento at Fox and Goose, Sacramento, CA
Sat, 31 July @ 20:30
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Sjofn does a 2 week tour in Iceland and Greenland. Watch out for Sjofn playing live on a front porch in a icelandic village near you soon!
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93MillionMilesFromTheSun - All You've Found Ep (PS14)
Released: 31st May 2010,
There are 5 great quality tracks featured on this Ep, this is a continuation of what they do best which is heavy, noisey, shoegaze rock and because we love our fans so much we decided to release this Ep on the Prana Series section of Parallax ...Sounds for FREE!
Tracklisting:
1) All You've Found You've Left Behind.
2) Autumn Comes / Chasing.
3) Rachels Echo.
4) Waiting There (Noise)
5) When You Come (NickMainline Mix).
DOWNLOAD FOR FREE FROM THE PRANA SERIES OR RELEASE PAGE!
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Parallax Sounds label joins Cargo Distributors which means better distribution for all future releases worldwide.
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Feel free to check out the new remix of "93MillionMilesFromTheSun" track "The Times We Have Are Now!" This epic track is remixed by Michael of the great shoegaze band from Bristol, "The Fauns!" The vocals seem to be bought out more and there's an awesome string section towards the end of the track! This will be eventua...lly released on an ep in the future, but you can now listen to it in its full glory on the Parallax Sounds myspace music player: http://www.myspace.com/parallaxsounds
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93MillionMilesFromTheSun will be releasing a new 5 track Ep called "All You've Found EP" which will be available to download from the 31st May 2010 (Bank Holiday Monday) and the best thing about it is that the Ep download will be available on the Prana Series s...ection of Parallax Sounds for FREE! Yes! You did hear me correctly! FREE! We do look after our fans here at Parallax!
Also, watch out for a live John Peel session from 93MMFTS in a few months time along with another new Ep and a forthcoming album!
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BAGPIPE WHISKEY - Men Bason track gets featured on this David Icke interview! Open your mind and ears to what David Icke says in the interview - it might just change your life with positive awareness! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRnyrzjiSbg
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Spring is coming, with it finally comes out 2muchachos debut album “formanta” on the label Parallax Sounds.
There comes thaw, the first snowdrops appear soon. We have accumulated new stuff, which is devoted to this.
We decided to release pre-spring EP of the forthcoming album. Also it will include an acoustic version of “dreaming girl” and an early version “vremja tepla” (from the album “formanta”).
In addition we have prepared a special version of EP on cd-r ..3,5’.. (4 tracks + bonus video) with exclusive hand-made artwork. write to e-mail: billyfishbrown@yahoo.com
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PARALLAX SOUNDS RECORDS BECOMES FIRST LABEL TO GO COMPLETELY ECO AND ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY WITH A STRICT NO PLASTIC POLICY ON CD CASES!
So why the change Parallax Sounds?
It just made good sense to me and this is the way forward. Plastic looks ugly and cheap plus they can crack easily and are obviously not eco friendly.
We will gradually be replacing the plastic jewel case with Eco friendly card wallets, Digipacks and Lancing Packs style packaging. These styles look alot nicer and more attractive to the eye. I would rather have a digipack cd than a jewel case anyday! I will also be gradually replacing the archive release catalogue with the same eco friendly cases.
I am also currently looking into manufacturing Hemp Digipack cd case.
I think that would be such a cool idea.
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Here's some nostalgia for you! Parallax Sounds music label was in session for the first time on Phonic FM Radio on the Peter Harris show on Tuesday 21st October 2008 and even though we were a little naive back then, it was a great success! We had thousands of listeners from all over the world and hundreds of emails too! A big thank you to Phonic FM Radio, Peter Harris (Radio Presenter), Tony (Myspace and links provider) and ofcourse everyone who listened in to the radio show! You can now download the Parallax Sounds radio session for free! It is in 2 parts. ENJOY!!!
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