Procrastihontas Live @ the Swamp House - 11/28/11

Procrastihontas Live @ the Swamp House - 12/28/2011 from ScrumpTunes.

Procrastihontas plays an amazing show at the Swamp House in Fallston MD on 12/28/2011.


Song Titles:
(1/8) Train track
(2/8) They Weren't Violent Crimes
(3/8) Melody and Hook
(4/8) It's hard for me too
(5/8) Jem
(6/8) The Future
(7/8) Why Should I Try?
(8/8) I used to weave crowns


Youtube (Split-Up) Versions:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78C782AA685DBF04


Download Procrastihontas’ "Mass Produced Cassette E.P."
Here: http://www.mediafire.com/?f5669ms46h0rbtc

The cassettes are $7 Via Krecs and come in a hand sewn, one of a kind cloth pocket.
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What Scrump Listened to in 2011

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Yes Please - Ooh La La [ep]

Like turning through a photo album, or reading your lover's journal while they're away.

These five songs, recorded on a borrowed 8-track in an Olympia basement, form a compassionate narrative of a world seen with clear eyes. The songs move from topic to topic and shift moods in ways that seem both suprising and effortless.

1. Young Bride in the Sun 
2. I Live Here
3. The Good and the Correct
4. Relationships In General

5. Stems and Bones

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Bycicle Records/Myspace/Last.fm/Grass Widow

Woelv 7" & Bonus Track

01 "le niveau de la mer"
02 "bete a cheval"


& Bonus Track:
Ô Paon (AKA Woelv) - "Le Retour"  (from the "No Band Is an Island" Compilation)

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Website(1),(2)/Last.fm(1),(2)/Facebook(1),(2)

Procrastihontas - Mass Produced Cassette E.P.

Sad and soft acoustic songs about being let down by the world around you. Slow late night strums and resonant notes. These songs are meant to be listened to in a quiet place with headphones.

1. Train Track
2. They Weren’t Violent Crimes
3. Jem
4. Why Should I Try?

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The cassettes are $7 Via Krecs and come in a hand sewn, one of a kind cloth pocket.

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Antsy Pants

Antsy Pants is a French anti-folk band featuring Kimya Dawson on lead vocals. The band contributed two songs to the soundtrack of Juno. They released their self-titled debut album on plan-it-x records in 2006. It is available here http://www.plan-it-x.org/artist/antsy-pants-kimya-dawson-/ Antsy Pants is part of a musical movement called “skankoustic” that was started by a Erie Pa band called Nine Brothel Heist.

“chris clavin, from plan-it-x records asked kimya dawson to record a song for the plan-it-x compilation cd. kimya was on tour in europe and didn’t really feel like writing and recording a song on her own. she saw this as the perfect opportunity to fulfill her dream of starting a band with leo from bear creek, her 12 year old hero. she asked leo to record a song with her and he was excited to do it. she thought it would be really fun to get a bunch of her other friends in annecy, france involved too. so she got together with leo, angelo spencer, ben lupus, jane kidder, billy jet pilot, howard hughes, and her friends jarrod and emily (from port townsend, wa) who were on tour as the solvents. they recorded the song “amazing kids doing amazing shit”. it was so fun they decided to make a whole album. so some fun collaborations, great singing by marie, awesome hang outs, and trips to the ice cream store later the album was done.

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Last.FM/Myspace

Cocorosie

CocoRosie are an American duo that was formed by sisters Sierra (Rosie) and Bianca (Coco) Casady in 2003. Sierra and Bianca Casady are American half-Cherokee sisters. Sierra, the older of the two, was born in Iowa, and Bianca was born in Hawaii. Their mother nicknamed them Rosie and Coco, respectively, from which their musical act takes its name. Stylistically they may be assigned to the indie rock, psych folk genres, and are sometimes associated with the new weird america movement. Sierra plays the guitar, the flute, and leads vocals.

White Session (2004)

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La Maison de Mon Reve (2004)

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Noah's Ark (2005)

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The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn (2007)

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God Has A Voice, She Speaks Through Me (2008)

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Rare Tracks (2008)

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Coconuts, Plenty of Junk Food (2009)

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Grey Oceans (2010)

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Official Music Video's

Myspace/Last.fm/Facebook/Website(1),(2)

Wise Old Little Boy

a documentary on the microphones & little wings by ryer banta

'wise old little boy' is an intimate portrait of phil elverum (the microphones) and Kyle Field (little wings). Joining their tour of small towns and unconventional venues, filmmaker ryer banta explores the world of two incredibly unique and creative musicians. This documentary captures numerous live performances, conversations and other revealing moments from their 'wise old little boy' tour.

Please buy this DVD:

http://www.amazon.com/Wise-Old-Little-Boy-Microphones/dp/B00069YF1K

Please purchase other things from both of the artists on this DVD:

Little Wings

http://www.kyledraws.com

http://www.krecs.com/html/artists/disco.php?interest=20

The Microphones / Mount Eerie

http://www.pwelverumandsun.com

http://www.krecs.com/html/artists/artistpage.php?interest=24

Thanksgiving (Side A) from the "Three Moths" split cassette

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Ô Paon (aka Woelv)

One autumn, two winters and one summer. That is how much time it took for Geneviéve Castrée to change her musical identity from "Woelv" to "Ô Paon". Two years of gestation and four visits to Montréal's Hotel2Tango recording studio. Courses announces from the start its difference from previous records by Geneviève. The sky is heavy and the universe got darker. The lyrics are more solemn, exploring the shadowy parts of our society: wastelands, greed, the absurdity of power, violence, loneliness.

Thierry Amar (Silver Mt. Zion, Black Ox Orkestar, Godspeed You! Black Emperor) expertly arranges the recordings, adding a particular texture to the songs and even playing the role of translator for certain ideas. Courses is a record built on loops, rich with vocal and musical repetitions leading us inexorably where it wants to: what Geneviève sees as this decline unfolds. She captures the moment without cynicism or judgement (« Je t'ai vue seule et abandonnée » - I saw you alone and abandoned). Sadness contemplates sadness. Geneviève seems to tell us that life is a race already lost, and wonders what we are running after, "But don't bet on my horse, he is too tired.". Occasionally anger takes over and the musicians (Nadia Moss, Sophie Trudeau, Jonah Fortune, Julie Houle et David Payant) unite and bring their power to raise a storm. Humans and horses speed in chaos, not knowing where they are going and not caring about obstacles.

Courses is available on vinyl and compact disc. As usual, the cover is carefully drawn by Geneviève herself and English translations are included on the lyric sheet.

Courses (2010)

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45 tours 7" (2009)

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Keijo & Jarmo

"Finnish artists Keijo & Jarmo sing the most stripped down suicidal traditional blues and folk on Talkin Bout Death Past Gone. I really wonder what inspired this harmonica induced primitive Americana folk in Tampere."

Keijo & Jarmo - talkin bout death past gone (2010)

"We were not tired, but we were cold. We sat on a campfire and started to sing. There was someone at our home who had forgotten us. There was nothing left for us. Some black man sat by us. Or was it a woman? It opened its mouth and did not have any teeth. The song was cold, the song was warm. We were not afraid anymore."

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Keijo - Songs of Luck (2009)

Keijo's songs draw from country-blues sources, as is often the case with his releases.

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Keijo - Neverending Blues (2008)

"According to Indian mythology everything was born and will be born with vibration, sound. What Western civilization calls music, is narrow, nothing but strictly controlled thread in that vibrating area. Other kind of threads have been mastered elsewhere. Inevitably these threads will also face each other and become one. Basic note chimes in blues, raga and mantra. I dreamt of musics and players who can modulate with music, no matter which cultural background they come from – I felt I understood something about the sounds I sometimes heard in the evening just before falling into sleep and in the morning when I woke up."

Keijo Virtanen

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High Places

High Places channels the spirit of school bus sing-a-longs, back country camping trips, and first prize science fair projects, while conjuring dreams of faraway places through the use of field recordings, contact mics on houshold items, wind instruments and electronic thingamabobs.

High Places began as an experiment in collaboration: two people with diverse artistic backgrounds coming together to merge their skills, aesthetic tastes, and music-making approaches. Robert Barber grew up listening to punk and hardcore, and Mary Pearson studied bassoon performance, but both gravitated toward a DIY compositional style and a love of layers. It is the affinity for layering that has thus far defined the duo, both in ideas and instrumentation.

Demo (2006)

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03/07 - 09/07  (2008)

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S/T  (2008)

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High Places vs Mankind (2010)

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Original Colors (2011)

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Selected Tracks from Splits, 7" & 12" - Try

High Places / Xiu Xiu  Split 7" (2008)

High Places/Soft Circle  Split 12" (2009)

Can't Feel Born 12" (2010)

Website/Last.fm/Myspace/Facebook/Twitter/Flickr

Grass Widow

The San Francisco band Grass Widow braids apparitional vocals over distorted post-punk riffs. At the center of its songs are the troika harmonies of Lillian Maring (drums), Hannah Lew (bass) and Raven Mahon (guitar), who contribute vocals equally, echoing the band’s process.

Grass Widow’s lyrics, matched with its cautiously joyous beats, reflect its vision of the world: a mysterious Ozlike land in which the surface looks radiant and colorful but with a thinly veiled underside that reveals a fearful and fateful ethereal reality.

Grass Widow plays for gorillas Gigi, Kiki, Kira, Kimani, Kambiri and Kit, at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts.

Self Titled EP (2009)

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Self Titled LP (2009)

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Past Time (2010)

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Milo Minute 7" (2011)

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Rio en Medio (Spanish for river in between)

Rio en Medio (Spanish for river in between), is a pseudonym of folk / folktroica singer / baritone ukulelist Danielle Stech-Homsy (b. NM, USA - aka Danielle Stech Homsy). She débuted with the album “A Bride’s Guide to Waiting Music” (2004, self-release - aka Danielle Stech Homsy’s “A Bride’s Guide to Waiting Music” and Danielle Stech-Homsy’s “A Bride’s Guide to Waiting Music”) and her latest is “Frontier” (Feb 2009,Manimal Vinyl). Stech-Homsy’s recording / live performance is often in collaboration with Justin Riddle (drums, percussion), Christian Lee (guitar, banjo) and Nicholas Toll(keyboards, percussion).

(2007)

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(2008)

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Last.fm/Myspace/Label

Prefuse 73 Reads The Books EP.

There's something inherently fascinating to me about album-length remixes. The long-form remix finds one artist immersing himself completely in the work of another, struggling to find a way to inject his own ideas in an attempt to make something new... (Continue Reading)

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The Books - The Way Out

1. Group Autogenics I
2. IDKT
3. I Didn't Know That
4. A Cold Freezin' Night
5. Beautiful People
6. I Am Who I Am
7. Chain of Missing Links
8. All You Need Is A Wall
9. Thirty Incoming
10. A Wonderful Phrase By Gandhi
11. We Bought The Flood
12. The Story of Hip Hop
13. Free Translator
14. Group Autogenics II


The story of The Books began in 2000, when Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong met through a friend in New York City. Sharing similar interests but different backgrounds in acoustic music and found sound, Zammuto and de Jong took their sonic experiments to the studio. Eventually, with some urging by Tom Steinle of Tomlab Records, they created what would become their debut record, ‘Thought for Food’, in 2002.


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