
Available now via our friends at Experimedia.
Dave Hartley, AKA Nightlands, releases his second album, Oak Island, today via Secretly Canadian.
Check out album track “So Far So Long” below.
Another Thrill Jockey release hits the streets on Tuesday: Brokeback’s Brokeback and the Black
Rock. Check out a teaser track below.

Program Note
Written in Autumn 2012, in Three Fantasies for Cello and Guitar I sought to explore various techniques for playing the guitar and ways that the cello might imitate or replicate them. There are sections highlighting harmonics, pizzicato (plucked strings), single-note melodies, arpeggiated and block chords, and rasgueado (flamenco style strumming). Descriptive terms like misterioso (mysteriously), dialogo (dialogue), birichino (mischievously), and solenne (solemn) locate the motivation for these technical etudes in the realm of character pieces.
Some MIDI demos below via my SoundCloud page.

Via the SoundCloud embed below, check out “Three Rivers,” a track from Canzonas Americanas, Alarm Will Sound’s new CD on Cantaloupe. It features music by Derek Bermel, the talented composer, clarinetist, and curator of multiple new music programs.

Feel like Black Friday has inundated you with enough “buy buy buy” messages? Well electronica artist DFalt has teamed with Ableton to offer a new EP for free download via SoundCloud (embed below).

Steve Hauschildt’s new release, Sequitur, is out this week via Kranky. Check out album cut “Constant Reminders” via the SoundCloud embed below.

This week, the reunited classic lineup of Guided by Voices releases its third (!) LP of 2012 via Fire Records: The Bears for Lunch. Check out leadoff single “She Lives in an Airport” via the SoundCloud embed below.