A first go at it...

Hi'a. So the concept behind this whole endeavour is simply to create an easy-to-access medium for sharing music. My passion. And no, not sharing like illegal downloading (cause that's bad mkay?), sharing new bands and artists that I stumble upon. The idea is that I'll begin to develop a pretty good list of bands/artists that people should hear more of. I'm thinking I may also post up new albums I pick up and think are worth a listen. Anyhow, enough yapping...
TO THE MUSIC!!!!!


Fragment is a band out of Lyon, France. It's a one man band featuring Thierry (I can't find his last name anywhere). It's somewhat difficult to describe his music but to quote Metal Invador's interview

"Very electronic in nature, very dark, very industrial,

very noisy, very ambient, very heavy and very,

very experimental"

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/fragmentmonolith

http://fragment-com.blogspot.com/

Pelican is a Chicago based quartet who's music is purely instrumental (or at least seems to be). Quoted from the band's biography:

"It becomes fitting, upon listening to Pelican's music, that the band hails from Chicago. When Tortoise and their contemporaries ushered in a new wave of instrumental music over a decade ago from the Windy City, it was a pastiche of genre-defying sound, simultaneously cohesive and expansive in influence. Similarly, Pelican's songs touch on so much from the canon of rock music. Yet they have refined their own sound over the course of their career—perhaps nowhere as progressively and courageously as on their third full-length, City of Echoes."

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/pelican

http://hydrahead.tortugarecordings.com/pelican/index.php

jesu is a group out of the UK featuring Justin K Broadrick, Diarmuid Dalton, Ted Parsons, and Dave Cochrane. The group (spearheaded by Broadrick) has a sort of industrial metal feel to it but the music is more melodic and down-tempo than the usual metal. The band also fits the category "shoegaze" (don't worry, I had to wiki it too...). Quoted from their myspace:

"There's still plenty of that patented guitar crunch here,

but Silver [album released April 2006] exhibits a stronger sense of

melody, as if the syrupy haze froze a bit and in the process

created something more crystalline."

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/officialjesu

http://www.avalancheinc.co.uk/jesu.html

Red Sparowes is a quartet out of LA, California featuring Bryant Clifford Meyer, Greg Burns, Dave Clifford, and Andy Arahood who pump out sweeping movements of sound that move through you like some ethereal being. Their music is purely instrumental. Quoted from their myspace (talking about Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun released 2006):

"From the opening bass volley to the closing snare hit, the members of Red Sparowes expertly navigate the hidden vibrations of what seems like a preordained trajectorychiming, weeping, droning; gracefully descending, and then vaulting upwards, booming, scraping the orchestral firmament before spiraling softly into the inevitable comedown."

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/redsparowes

http://www.redsparowes.com/

Well, that's all I'm going to give you for now. I'll be back soon to share more.