Strange Attractors Audio House: Archive

Arborea Daytrotter Studio (Rock Island, IL) Jan... →

Daytrotter session with Arborea is live! Read the excellent image-rich parable about the band, download a live in the Daytrotter studio session featuring many tunes from Red Planet and some catalog classics, and of course, admire the caricature drawing of Buck & Shanti Curran.

Feb 1st

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Yair Yona - World Behind Curtains (SAAH071) →

Go to official page: http://bit.ly/uVMqu0 Hear: “It’s Not the Heat (It’s the Humidity)” via Soundcloud: http://snd.sc/trTamv World Behind Curtains is, in many ways, a befitting title for the exquisite second album by Israeli guitarist/composer Yair Yona. Tel Aviv is a bustling modern metropolis, but for a musician whose medium is compositional steel-string guitar...

Dec 31st

The Out Door's favorite solo guitar albums of 2011 →

Th Out Door is without a doubt our favorite column on Pitchfork - really about the most challenging and therefore compelling component of the site, pound for pound. It combines the tremendous talents, knowledge, and impeccable tastes of writers Grayson Currin and Marc Masters. So imagine our excitement to see The Out Door’s Top 10 ranking of 2011’s best solo guitarists - and it is typically...

Dec 24th

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Chuck Johnson - A Struggle, Not A Thought... →

Go to official page: http://bit.ly/pJMJqR Chuck Johnson is a composer and musician currently residing in Oakland, CA, whose musical acumen and resume is as diverse as it is impressive. He was a member of Spatula, Idyll Swords, and Shark Quest - influential bands in the Chapel Hill independent music scene of the 1990’s and early 2000’s, and his early influences of North Carolina...

Sep 10th

Sep 3rd

Arborea's music echoes through the deep hollows of... →

What a fabulous article on Arborea written by the venerable Jesse Jarnow in Raleigh, NC’s Independent Weekly. This is in advance of two shows coming up week of 9/5, including a performance at the Artist & Author panel at Hopscotch festival. Catch the on tour throughout the US: ARBOREA - RED PLANET US TOUR September (1) The Garage (Tea Bazaar if it rains)/Charlottesville, VA (2)...

Sep 2nd

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Sean Smith 'Huge Fluid Freedom' out now!

Hi friends of Strange Attractors, Sean Smith’s 4th and newest album ‘Huge Fluid Freedom’ is out now! Lovely cardstock gatefold CD, gatefold LP with download card (1st 100 copies pressed on clear vinyl - mailorder only), and of course the totally uncollectable, yet highly convenient MP3 format. Sean himself sent out the following missive to his vast colonies of fans. Rejoice +...

Aug 30th

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My Education/Theta Naught: Daytrotter Session... →

Daytrotter does their thang for the recent My Education/Theta Naught collaboration project ‘Sound Mass’. The seeds of this came about while My Education were on tour last year. When they hit Salt Lake City, the band hunkered down with Theta Naught, whom they never met before but became connected through TN”s fandom of My Education, and let the improvised smok tendrils unfurl....

Jul 26th

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Sean Smith 'Huge Fluid Freedom' drops Aug. 30, but... →

Sean Smith’s 4th album Huge Fluid Freedom now available for preorder! CD comes in a cardstock gatefold sleeve, LP is housed in a gatefold sleeve with download. FIRST 100 MAILORDER COPIES ARE PRESSED ON CLEAR VINYL! All preorders will ship July 26, 1 month prior to it hitting stores. Head to the order page to place your preorder. Instrumental musician, experimental composer, and widely...

Jul 8th

Arborea...escaping from the man-eating hyphenated... →

Jun 23rd

Jun 22nd

to steal a little soul of a place: sharron kraus... →

This lovely piece on Sharron Kraus and collaborator Michael Tanner appeared recently on Wears the Trousers.

Jun 16th

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Glenn Jones / Sharron Kraus NE Mini-Tour

Glenn Jones and Sharron Kraus are heading out on tour together! Glenn is supporting his recent full length ‘Barbecue Bob in Fishtown’, his latest ltd split 12” w/ The Black Twig Pickers w/Charlie Parr on the mega-incredible label Thrill Jockey, and is gearing up for his new album on Thrill Jockey this fall. Sharron is coming over from Wales to support her latest ‘The...

May 18th

Arborea – Red Planet (plus exclusive Video... →

Folk Radio UK are Arborea true believers. They have been ardent supporters since day one. Today (17 May) they go very in-depth into Arborea’s newest triumph ‘Red Planet’. Their video of the Tim Buckley classic “Phantasmagoria in Two” is featured (which they debuted exclusively on their site a few weeks back), as well as videos for the “Sun Room...

May 17th

Arborea (@Arboreasongs): Video for ‘Phantasmagoria in Two’ on My Old Kentucky Blog http://fb.me/ItmC7Aro http://twitter.com/Arboreasongs/status/69393407067422720 (Sent via Seesmic http://www.seesmic.com)

May 14th

Arborea sail across a fossil sea - CD Reviews -... →

May 9th

Live music review: Austin Psych Fest Black Angels... →

My Education performed over the weekend (May 1 to be exact, on the Beltane) at the 4th installment of the Austin Psych Fest, put on by the folks in The Black Angels. My Education closed the whole shebang, but this time, like during their SXSW official showcase, the band collaborated with Sal Lake City-based psychsters Theta Naught with their Sound Mass project. Something which began somewhat on a...

May 2nd

FRUK Exclusive Video: Arborea – Phantasmagoria in... →

This is a brand new video by Arborea for their eerie, otherworldly take on the Tim Buckley classic “Phantasmagoria in Two”, which can be found on the band’s 4th album ‘Red Planet’ (out 4.26.11). Video created by filmmaker/photographer Derek Moench. Folk Radio UK gets the exclusive premier - because they have been so supportive of the band since day one. Support them...

Apr 26th

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This fabulous video for “Careless Love” by Arborea, culled from their latest album ‘Red Planet’, captures the mystique and imminent spirit of this husband-and-wife duo from Maine. Shot by Shanti Curran on two coasts in two states that host Portlands - Maine and Oregon - in 2010, “Careless Love” is rich in imagery, bouncy yet beguling, with Shanti’s...

Apr 22nd

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http://www.pressherald.com/life/go/arboreas-red-pla... →

Arborea are getting ready to drop their 4th full length ‘Red Planet’ and is it ever a woozy stunner. Here’s what the Portland Press Herald (Maine - the “yin” Portland to our “yang” here in Oregon) has to say about their local heroes, Buck & Shanti Curran.

Apr 21st

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Sep 24th

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New video from My Education: ‘Sunrise’, the title track to their new album of music composed as a soundtrack to a live performance of FW Murnau’s 1927 film ‘Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans’. Heartwrenching. HD video, stunning quality. Austin, TX’s finest instrumentalists. Believe it.

Sep 24th

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SubArachnoid Space are calling it quits. Its been...

Jul 29th

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The Things That We Used to Do is the definitive visual document of the music of the late Jack Rose and Glenn Jones, capturing the two titans of the modern acoustic steel string movement at the top of their game. Shot live in a loft in Brooklyn, NY expressly for this project, with full sets by each player, two duets, and a half hour + interview/conversation with Byron Coley. Here’s a clip...

Jul 20th

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Audio: “Brave Walls”, by Yair Yona,...

Jul 15th

Sonic Inebria from Strange Attractors Audio House

Hi there and welcome to the brand spanking new Strange Attractors Audio House tumblog. Posts aplenty with SAAH artists and releases will abound here to compliment our other online outlets. Stay tuned!

Jul 15th