“Medicinal plants, strange berries, thick pollen, and brown dirt. Hailing from Texas, the Book of Shadows live in the soil trodden on by Jandek and Charalambides, sprouting from those voices, those guitar sounds. This secretgarden will grow on you, it’s roots will envelope you, it’s beauty overwelm you. Alternating between composition and improvisation the guitars echo down like the rain, drones warm the ground, thorny notes scrape up against the fragile skin of Sharon Crutcher’s voice. Water your minds, shine from behind your eyes.”
“Smoke inhaled and blown out into the wide oceania sky. The moon just became brighter. Pathways revealed by songlines through high planes, drifting inward through oblivion. Ancestral footsteps, creaking cellos, smeared brown analogue electronics, alchemy rising, drums expanding, tied together by a delicate web of guitars… ”
“Fossils crushed into dust, distilled into it’s purest form, no overdubs, no effects, no residue. Are these severe abstractions or disorientation by rare clarity? Basements dug into a bone filled ground. A lonely metal machine grinds out music, scraping it’s way past the ghostly clouds of Steeltown’s dark legacy. Confusing times indeed.”
- 2muchachos
Claude Mono presents psych, folk, dark folk , electronica, dream pop, and …wait for it… real PROG from the original seventies super-prog label Vertigo —-> Listen here
PLAYLIST
Devendra Banhart – I Feel Just Like A Child – Cripple Crow
Isobell Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Black Mountain – Modern Folk
Basil Kirchin – I Start Counting – Fuzzy Felt Folk
Fern Knight – From Zero to Infinity – Castings
Lou Rhodes – They Say – Bloom
Lou Rhodes – Beloved – Beloved One
The Espers – Another Moon Song – Espers III
2Muchachos – Bicycle Travel – Teplaja EP
S V Hutor – Equivalent of a Hedgehog
Boring Room – Margarette I
Panda Bear – Bros
Sun Glitters – A Dragonfly in the City (Teen Dream Mix) – Everything Could Be Remodelled
Paul Weller – Light Nights – 22 Dreams
Paul Weller – Sea Spray – 22 Dreams
Paul Weller – 19111- 22 Dreams
Paul Weller – Light Nights 2 – 22 Dreams
Amorphous Andogynous and Paul Weller – Aim Higher – Wake Up The Nation Delluxe Edition
Andy Votel – Vertigo Mix Excerpts – Vertigo Mixed
Sproatly Smith – The Farriers Fling – The Yew and the Hare
The Wickerman OST – Fire Leap – The Wickerman OST
Sproatly Smith – I Shall Leave You There – The Yew and the Hare
Silence – That Velvet Echo – Silence
The Cinematic Orchestra – Music Box – Ma Fleur
warm ghost aka paul duncan
richard in your mind
tunng
speck mountain
dennis wilson
Claude Mono
Chris Bell – Speed of Sound – LateNightTales Flaming Lips
My Morning Jacket – Northern Sky (live)
Paul Duncan – The Fire
Trentemoller – Neverglade – Into The Great Wide Yonder
The Advisory Circle – Further Starry Wisdom – As The Crpw Flies
Belbury Poly – A Year and a Day – From an Ancient Star
Kid Loco – Cosmic Supernatural – A Grand Love Story
Headshoppe – Ace of Folk – Secret Love
Husky Rescue – New Light of Tomorrow – Secret Love
Woods – Out of The Eye – Sun and Shade
Maxy Bills – No More Mice – Dust Moats
Bright Back Morning Light – All We Have Broken Shines
The Books – A Wonderful Phrase By Ghandi – The Way Out
Tunng – The Roadside – And Then We Saw Land
Grizzly Bear – Reprise
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Hazy Field People
Richard In Your Mind – Vision – Sun
Voice of Seven Thunders – Cylinders – Voice of Seven Thunders
Speck Mountain – Chlorine Fields – Summer Above
BJ Ward – I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
J Dilla – I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times – Pet Sounds In the Key of D
J Dilla – Pet Sounds – Pet Sounds In the Key of D
Iron and Wine – Godless Brother – Kill Each Other Clean
Dennis Wilson – Farewell My Friend Pacific Ocean Blue
Sleepy Head – Gold Dust Women – Legacy Rumours Tribute
Devandra Banhart – Don’t Look Back In Anger
Anthony Princi of RTRFM’s Friday Drivetime returns to The Golden Apples and curates Episode 32…
cody chestnutt – 5 on a joyride
the gaslamp killer feat computer jay – ?
emiliana torrini – jungle drum
mice parade – galileo
mum – a little bit , sometimes
free choice – ?
high places – she’s a wild horse
seekae – blood bank
usurper of modern medicine- dental plan (usurper remix)
portishead – humming
pictureplane – transparent now (thin veil)
nice nice – make it gold
seu jorge / almaz – the model
earlies – enemy chorus
sufjan stevens – Interlude I: Dream Sequence in Subi Circumnavigation
espers- another moon song
prefuse 73 feat adron. – the only guitar to die alone
sleepy sun – golden artifact
exile – watch out false prophet
suuns – up past the nursery
gang gang dance – before my voice falls
seaworthy & matt rosner – meroo lake pt 1
imaad wasif – the hand of the imposter
tiago la is losing the plot – hostage
fleet foxes – he doesn’t know why
tame impala – the sun
usurper of modern medicine
Tristan Gibbs explores the sounds of beautiful rediscovered female folk, psych, electronica, new wyrd, hauntology and much more…come in…
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PLAYLIST
Susan Christie – Rainy Day – Paint a Lady
Linda Perhacs – Chimacum Rain – Paralellograms
Vashti Bunyan – Glow Worms – Just Another Diamond Day
Magpahi – Horses – Bearded Ladies
Josephine Foster – Where There Are Trees – Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You
John Fahey – On the Sunny Side of the Ocean – The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
Jim O’Rourke – Bad Timing – Bad Timing
Swans – You Fucking People Make Me Sick – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Led Zeppelin – The Battle of Evermore – [Untitled]
Espers – Cruel Storm – Espers II
The Owl Service – Willie O’Winsbury – The View from a Hill
Paul Giovanni – Procession – The Wicker Man OST
Fairport Convention – Farewell, Farewell – Liege & Lief
BBC Radiophonic Workshop (John Baker) – Structures – BBC Radiophonic Music
Delia Derbyshire – The Pattern Emerges – Electrosonic
Wendy Carlos – Theme from A Clockwork Orange – A Clockwork Orange OST
Nuno Canavarro – [Untitled] – Plux Quba
Phonophani – Neverdal – Kreken
Nico – The Fairest of the Seasons – Chelsea Girl
Nick Drake – Cello Song – Five Leaves Left
Love – The Castle – Da Capo
Trevor Jones – Gelfling Song – The Dark Crystal OST
Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Late Day Sun Silhouettes – Luminaries & Synastry
Belbury Poly – Caermaen – The Willows
Balam Acab – Dream Out – See Birds
Moon Wiring Club – Queen of Puddings – A Spare Tabby at the Cat’s Wedding
Demdike Stare – Forest of Evil (Dusk) – Tryptych Pt. 1: Forest of Evil
…a young lad lounges on vividly green grass in total sunlight in apparently blissful, Arcadian communion with a cute woodland animal. The hedgehog’s spikes suggest it could be dangerous, and yet the hedgehog and the child seem like friends, and no threat is posed to the child – indeed, with his withdrawn hands and relative distance, the boy seems suitably respectful of the hedgehog. It’s a utopian scene, given extra evocative, sentimental charm by the child’s circa-nineteen-seventies hair and clothing…but…
The Golden Apples suggest you sit down give yourself some time – perhaps stream one of the recent shows from this blog – and read this really interesting article posted by Adam Harper here
More from Andrew Harper’s post
The opening of Geogaddi, where ‘Ready lets go’ leads into ‘Music is math’, is one of the most memorable moments in Boards of Canada’s discography. The tape weathering on ‘Ready lets go’ isn’t particularly heavy, but higher frequencies are attenuated and mild compression can be heard when the broken chords of the upper part enter, both sonic hallmarks of a twentieth-century domestic cassette player. A low-pass filter on the synthesiser is opened and closed randomly, apparently by hand, and the synthesiser’s pitch is oscillating slowly and gently, reproducing the effect of a warped tape or record spinning in the machine thus ‘breaking the fourth wall’ – we’re listening to a listening experience, listening about listening. More complex, psychedelic sounds of indeterminate origin can be heard in the distance towards the track’s end.
The Golden Apples of the Sun 