Akira Kosemura – Polaroid Piano

 

Track listing:

• Hicari
• Faire
• April
• Would
• Sign
• Tale
• Look
• Tyme
• Guitar
• Venice

Akira Kosemura at Amazon

Reviewed at:

Pitchfork – http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13980-polaroid-piano/

Boomkat – http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=239358

The Silent Ballet – http://www.thesilentballet.com/dnn/Reviews/2009/November/tabid/147/ctl/Details/mid/608/ItemID/2893/Default.aspx

Textura – http://www.textura.org/reviews/kosemura_polaroidpiano.htm

 

Genre(s):

• Ambient
• Piano
• Acoustic

 

Similar artists:

• Haruka Nakamura
• Flica

 

Further information:

@Official Website – http://www.akirakosemura.com/

@MySpace – http://www.myspace.com/kose0606

@LastFM – http://www.last.fm/music/Akira+Kosemura

thisquietarmy

Bother! I missed checking Eric Quach out when he played Halifax last night. That’s what you get for not checking The Coast as soon as it comes out. Although, it does mention that he has specially created a soundtrack for Yassine Ouhilal’s art opening at Argyle Fine Art today (Friday 12th March 2010).

http://www.myspace.com/thisquietarmy

Oh well, YouTube to the rescue. Here is an excerpt of a performance from April 11th 2008  in the attic of the Trepid House (http://www.trepid.org) in Waterloo (Ontario) .

I’ve also managed to write a little Java application, using NetBeans IDE, which allows me to look up similar artists on last.fm without going to the website. I have restricted it to the fist 10 similar artists at the moment. Here is what I get for thisquietarmy.

So, the top ten Similar Artists to thisquitearmy, according to Last.fm data, are:

• Aiden Baker and thisquietarmy
• Nadja
• Aiden Baker
• Destroyalldreamers
• yellow6
• Below the Sea
• Victory and Good Hunting
• My Education
• Jasper TX
• Our Ceasing Voice

NoTwist – Sturm

Track Listing:

Vilina Kosa Version
Jan
Sarajevo 1
Prayer
Simon
Storm 1
The Hague
Jonas
Storm 2
Sarajevo 2
Sturm 2

The most recent album from NoTwist is the soundtrack to the Hans-Christian Schmid motion picture ‘Sturm’. Released September 2009 the album consists of hypnotic ambient pieces which just seem to hang unsuspended in space.

Slow electronic swells and piano loops combine with xylophone, glockenspiel, accordion and violin to produce a truly hypnotic experience.

Interview with Martin Gretschmann of the Notwist: