MUZOЯAMA: January 2008

KOMUNA · at 11:16 pm

ALBUM: You Cross My Path

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Rock / Pop

LABEL: The Charlatans

INFO: The Charlatans 10th studio album, You Cross My Path, will be available in its entirety as a FREE download from Xfm’s website www.xfm.co.uk and the Charlatans official site www.thecharlatans.net from Monday 3rd March 2008.
The album will then get a physical CD and vinyl release, in 33 countries, on May 19th through Cooking Vinyl. This will include a deluxe edition and strictly limited vinyl 45’s box set of the LP.

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KOMUNA · at 11:04 pm

ARTIST / BAND: Headlights

SONG (MP3): Cherry Tulips

ALBUM: Some Racing, Some Stopping

FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Rock

LABEL: polyvinyl records

INFO:

From its inception, Headlights has represented an exercise in developing a musical vision. Following years of bringing the visions of others to life in the acclaimed pop act Absinthe Blind (Parasol Records), the three members of Headlights together provide insight into what they
brought to the table in their former band, as well as how it limited them. In an immense and prosperous moment, the band is now more than ever an entity of its own. Simply put, Headlights is anything but mere byproduct.

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KOMUNA · at 8:23 pm

Karolina Komstedt of Club 8

RADIO MUZORAMA IS BROADCAST WEEKLY ON RADIO FORTUNA (FM106.9 , TBILISI, GEORGIA)
PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

LISTEN TO THE SHOW

CLUB 8 - HEAVEN

THE DRAWBACKS - CELIA

THE BILLIONAIRES - THE END OF SUMMER SONG

THE MOST SERENE REPUBLIC - THE MEN WHO LIVE UPSTAIRS

BRITISH SEA POWER - WAVING FLAGS

THE AUTUMNS - BOYS

LA SCALA - PARALLEL LIVES

CORNELIUS - GUM

LK - PRIVATE LIFE OF A CAT

READY FIRE AIM - SO FINE

CRUSHED STARS - SPIES

BELA KAROLI - SUMMERTIME

WHITE HINTERLAND - DREAMING OF THE PLUM TREES

KEVIN DREW - ONE NIGHT MAN

HELLO, BLUE ROSES - SHADOW FALLS

KOMUNA · at 7:53 pm

ARTIST / BAND: TV On The Radio

SONG (MP3): Staring At The Sun

ALBUM: Young Liars

FILE UNDER: Indie / Rock / Alternative

LABEL: Interscope

INFO: TV on the Radio (often abbreviated to TVOTR) is a New York City indie rock band formed in 2001 whose music spans genres as diverse as free jazz, a cappella/doo-wop, soul, trip-hop and electro. The group has released several EPs including their debut Young Liars (2003), and two acclaimed albums, 2004's Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes and their most recent, Return to Cookie Mountain (2006), which received wider notice and appeared near the top of several end-of-year lists. Rolling Stone magazine voted it the fourth best album of the year, and Spin magazine voted the band as 2006 Artist of the Year.

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KOMUNA · at 7:07 pm

ARTIST / BAND: Burial

SONG (MP3): Ghost Hardware

ALBUM: Untrue

FILE UNDER: Hardcore / 2-step / Garage

LABEL: Hyperdub Records

INFO:

Burial is the working name of an anonymous dubstep musician from London. Burial's eponymous debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim. The Wire magazine named it their album of the year and it came fifth in the Mixmag 2006 Album of the Year list.

On Friday, September 28, a message on the Hyperdub website announced a new Burial album. Untrue was released on November 5, 2007. Metacritic gave it album of the year 2007.^[2] Label owner Kode9 also posted tracklistings to dubstepforum.com. The vinyl and CD releases of the album feature different running orders and also have exclusive tracks.^[3] Although both albums have been met with much critical acclaim Burial has remained anonymous, in an interview the artist has said 'only five people know I make tunes'.^[4]

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KOMUNA · at 12:15 pm

Label: Ranking Records

Info: Formed in early 2007, the Ranking Records collective started producing Drum and Bass and Dub in 2005. Inspired by the sound system culture of the Leeds dance music scene, they began producing Dubstep in 2006, and after receiving overwhelming hype over what was to be their first release, Miserere/Arigato, set up Ranking with a view to altering preconceptions about this relatively new genre: the Ranking philosophy is based on high quality production with sound system mentality.

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MP3 (mix): RUCKSPIN DUBSTEP MIX VOL.1

TRACKLIST:

1. Sunshine Dub - Ruckspin & Quark (Dub)
2. Arigato - Quark (Ranking Records)
3. Butter Fingers - Ruckspin, Quark & Planas (unsigned)
4. Punisher - (Skream remix) Pinch (Planet Mu)
5. Anger - Ruckspin, Quark & Planas (Ranking Records)
6. What's Wrong ft. YT - Iration Steppas (Tandoori Spice)
7. Kitchen Dub - Ruckspin, Quark & Quantum Soul (unsigned)
8. Jah War - ft. Flowdan (Loefah remix) The Bug (Ninja Tune)
9. Metal Grime Instrumental - Ruckspin & Planas (Ranking Records)
10. 50,000 Watts - (Loefah remix) Matty G (Argon)
11. 7 Stellas Dub - Planas (unreleased)
12. Son of Thunder - Ruckspin, Quark & Planas (unreleased)
13. Captain Hawkeye - Ruckspin, Quark, Planas & Quantum Soul (Ranking Records)
14. Kingfisher - RSD (Earwax)
15. Tempest Dub - Ruckspin & Quantum Soul (unreleased)
16. Size 3 - (Skream remix) Mark Ashken (Leftroom)
17. The Blues is Now - Funk Ethics (unreleased)
18. 1st Dynasty - Forensix [mcr] (Revolution Records)

KOMUNA · at 10:39 am

ARTIST / BAND: Hello, Blue Roses

SONG (MP3): Shadow Falls

ALBUM: The Portrait Is Finished...

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Locust Music

INFO: The sweetheart duo of Dan Bejar (Destroyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) & Sydney Vermont (visual artist, former Toronto Children’s Choir kid singer) have tied the knot around an infectious readymade classic with their 14 track self titled debut. The Portait Is Finished folds the last few decades of pop music together, drawing on everything from an unabashed love of 80s AOR (Prefab Sprout & Kate Bush) to the cheery mysticism of young Scotland ( Orange Juice & Felt) to prime Aquarian age femme folk of the 60s & 70s (Bridget St. John, et. al.).

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KOMUNA · at 1:01 pm

ARTIST / BAND: White Hinterland

SONG (MP3): Dreaming of the Plum Trees

ALBUM: Phylactery Factory

FILE UNDER: Experimental / Afro-beat

LABEL: Dead Oceans

INFO: The record was recorded in Portland, OR with Adam Selzer at Type Foundry Studios. Shawn Creeden provided the wonderful artwork to accompany it (including the cute hyenas prowling around on this site). We like it very much, and can’t wait to share it with you when the time comes! To hear snippets of demos for the new record, head to White Hinterland’s myspace page. But caveat emptor! The quality's quite rough, but worth a listen anyhow.

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KOMUNA · at 12:49 pm

ARTIST / BAND: Crushed Stars

SONG (MP3): Spies

ALBUM: Gossamer Days

FILE UNDER: Indie / Alternative / Folk Rock

LABEL: simulacra records

INFO: The new record "Gossamer Days" will be released Feb 19, 2008.
It was recorded with and mixed by Stuart Sikes (Cat Power, Modest Mouse, White Stripes).
Guests include Myopic/Pleasant Grove's Jeff Ryan.

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KOMUNA · at 12:26 pm

ARTIST / BAND: Ready Fire Aim

SONG (MP3): So Fine

ALBUM: This Changes Nothing

FILE UNDER: Electronica / Alternative / Pop

LABEL: expansionteamrecords.com

INFO:

Ready Fire Aim is a collaboration between Brooklyn duo Sage Rader and Shaun Morris. Sage is a classically trained violinist, published poet and accomplished vocalist with years of live performance experience. Shaun has been a producer of electronic music for the past 15 years, while running his own UK based indie label.

Sonically compared to The Postal Service and Depeche Mode with a splash of Goldfrapp, RFA is a modern-retro fusion of 80’s influenced pop, rock, and electro.

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KOMUNA · at 12:09 pm

ARTIST / BAND: LK

SONG (MP3): Private Life Of A Cat

ALBUM: Vs. The Snow

FILE UNDER: Pop / Experimental / Acoustic

LABEL: POL recordings

INFO: The LK (The Love of Kevin, Colour, Chaos and the Sound of K) is the brainchild of Lindefelt, abstract sound artist, and Fredrik, pop visionary and songsmith par excellence. Fusing musique concrète-style sonic collages with tight pop arrangements, they craft their own brand of playful, elegant "micro-jangle", occupying a snow-sprinkled middle ground between perplexing and hummable. After 2 EP releases of esoteric pop under the moniker Lovekevins, The LK formed definitely in 2006 when the two lanky swedes stopped caring about keeping a band and took on doing what each of them love. Playfulness, dream-fueled high drama and polar interplay between structure, chaos, abstract and concrete make up the trademark LK sound: crisp noise-pop mayhem with an aggregate human presence, sadness and wry sense of humour.

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KOMUNA · at 10:32 am

ARTIST / BAND: The Billionaires

SONG (MP3): End of summer song

ALBUM: Really Real For Forever

FILE UNDER: Pop / Powerpop

LABEL: Too Soon

INFO: This March we are releasing our debut album on "TOO SOON" records. blahblahblah Growing up on Martha's Vineyard was nice. The beach is pretty. We grew up working for the summer folks, landscaping, carpentry, shingling... We have been playing music together since we learned the instruments. All of us have recorded albums where we all play together on. This is the first time we created a band from the begining. It happened at the end of a hot summer day. Joe and Tim decided to set up the gear and record something different. It turned into a 3 week party of writing and hanging out, blahblah. Then Farleys dad uncovered an old indian castle burried in a field and excavated it. Deep in the ruins we built a recording studio and at the end of every summer we meet there, underground, and write this music. We like to sing loud late at night drinking and getting too close to the fire. Write for original lyrics

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KOMUNA · at 10:05 am

ARTIST / BAND: La Scala

SONG (MP3): Parallel Lives

ALBUM: The Harlequin

FILE UNDER: Melodramatic Popular Song / Indie / New Wave

LABEL: Highwheel Records

INFO: La Scala is a new band, from Chicago. Their trade is in fully blooded rock songs, complete with guitars, drums, hooks, and all, yes. But, there is one important difference here, for these are songs that are heavy on the haunting, melodramatic air that used to be so common, that used to define what a great song really was. Yes, you know quite well this type of melodrama, and this type of song - anyone with a pained heart surely does. It is the kind found in the Sicilian alleys frequented only by the forlorn street singer, or in the smoky cabarets of prewar Paris, or in the tiny hillside villages of the Eastern bloc, tucked away all those years behind that iron drapery. It is this spirit, this old world sense of melody, that La Scala employs with such expert skill, creating a sound that is equal parts rock, Eastern European folk, and saccharine 1960's Continental Pop music.

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KOMUNA · at 9:58 am

ARTIST / BAND: Aster

SONG (MP3): Attempting To Multiply

ALBUM: Some Things Seldom Heard Of

FILE UNDER: Rock / Pop / Indie

LABEL: None

INFO: There are currents. Indisputable channels of energy that constantly ebb and flow. Like the entangled arms of an infinite host of octopi writhing and enmeshed together in some salty roman orgy. But the beasts have no heads and there is no common goal. Accidents happen.
Sometimes the currents bring strangers together, sometimes they pry friends apart. Most of the time the riders simply find themselves staring up at foreign stars, oblivious as to what current it is that has them in its grasp. All a lost sailor can do is consult his compass and his nautical maps, his gods and his star charts.

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KOMUNA · at 1:43 pm

ARTIST / BAND: The Autumns

SONG (MP3): Boys

ALBUM: Fake Noise From A Box Of Toys

FILE UNDER: Indie / Ambient

LABEL: Bella Union

INFO:Cinematic and evocative, listening to The Autumns is an intoxicating experience, taking the listener on magical flights of musical fancy. Their music soars, filled with majestic guitar lines and elegiac melodies. Vocalist Matt Kelly possesses a truly astonishing voice. His effortless, angelic falsetto and the power and range of his vocals share much common ground with those of Jeff Buckley. This is further enhanced by the beauty and romance of the poetic lyrics.

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KOMUNA · at 12:21 pm

ARTIST / BAND: The Most Serene Republic

SONG (MP3): The Men Who Live Upstairs

ALBUM: POPULATION

FILE UNDER: Indie / Experimental / Progressive

LABEL: Arts & Crafts

INFO: he Most Serene Republic is a Canadian indie rock band formed in Milton, Ontario, most members having left post-secondary studies to pursue more artistic ventures. It takes its name from the sobriquet of formerly independent Venice under the Doges, which was regarded as "The Most Serene Republic of Venice".

Originally formed in mid-2003 by Ryan Lenssen and Adrian Jewett under the name Thee Oneironauts (O-nye-rawn-nauts), the pair recorded and self-released an EP entitled Night of the Lawnchairs on Lenssen's GROK Studios imprint, based on the concept band Rushing to Redlights started by Lenssen. Thee Oneironauts grew to trio status with the addition of Nick Greaves on guitar.

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KOMUNA · at 11:01 am

ARTIST / BAND: Bela Karoli

SONGS (MP3):

String of Lights

Summertime

Prelude 2

ALBUM: Furnished Rooms

FILE UNDER: jazz-inflected electro acoustic tunes

LABEL: helmet r00m recordings

This unorthodox trio combines an upright bass, mechanical electronic percussion, two women singing, violin and accordion to produce music undefined by genre. "Furnished Rooms" ranges from sparsely acoustic to lush, electronic landscapes.

KOMUNA · at 10:51 am

ARTIST / BAND: Club 8

SONG (MP3): Heaven

ALBUM: The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming

FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Electronica

LABEL: Fortuna POP

Exquisitely melancholic yet danceable indie electropop from Sweden, on which "Karolina Komstedt drapes her lovely vocals over the 12 tracks on this latest collection of indie pop bliss." -Pitchfork

Club 8 is Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergard. All songs written, recorded and produced by Johan Angergard at Summersound Studios. Cello by Lina Waltin. Trombone by Marco Regazzoni. Tuba by Hakan Selg. Photos by Kjell B Persson. Artwork by Peter Eriksson.

KOMUNA · at 10:33 am

ARTIST / BAND: The Drawbacks

SONG (MP3): Celia

ALBUM: Slightly Less Vague

FILE UNDER: Indie / Alternative / Rock

LABEL: Chocolate Hearts

Lo-fi Swedish pop has a way of saturating the spaces around the listener. The Drawbacks are no exception, reveling in its softer, near-garage sound. Cute and sunny without being trite or superficial, engaging and charming.

KOMUNA · at 10:18 am

ARTIST / BAND: Cornelius

SONG (MP3): Gum

ALBUM: Gum

FILE UNDER: Electronica/Indie/Pop

LABEL: Everloving

The new EP by pop sensation Cornelius (aka Keigo Oyamada), who has always marched to the beat of a different drum machine, even in his wildly eclectic habitat of Tokyo, Japan. Cornelius has amused fans worldwide with his freeform pop aesthetic.

KOMUNA · at 11:00 am

ARTIST / BAND: Maps

SONG (MP3): Stay Another Day

ALBUM: Xmas download

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Electronica / Indie

LABEL: Mute

Maps started at the end. The end of the night, the end of the music. When the last beat was dropped and the needle finally slipped off the groove, a lost soul began drifting through empty Northampton streets in the vague direction of home. Alas, he never arrived. For it was during his euphoric twilight stumble that this particular ending gave way to a bright new beginning; it was here, in the half light of a joyously desolate Sunday morning, that Maps made itself exist. Spinning through Earth's orbit, he was the first audionaut of our generation.

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KOMUNA · at 10:51 am

ARTIST / BAND: Chromatics

SONG (MP3): "I'm On Fire" (Bruce Springsteen cover)

ALBUM: Studio Sketches

FILE UNDER: Indie Pop

LABEL: ITALIANS DO IT BETTER

The Chromatics (not to be confused with the Seattle group or the Southern country rock ensemble of the same name) have released two singles featuring their brand of new wave disco-punk on the Troubleman Unlimited imprint: Healer/Witness and the limited-edition "Nite" 12" are back but this time on troubleman's kid brother Italians Do It Better. "They played kid sister to Glass Candy on the hyped (and rad) Italians Do it Better label compilation, After Dark, but this record is a star turn." - Prefix

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KOMUNA · at 8:53 pm

ARTIST / BAND: British Sea Power

SONG (MP3): Waving Flags

ALBUM: Do You Like Rock Music?

FILE UNDER: Indie / Alternative / Pop

LABEL: www.roughtraderecords.com

Resident Brightonites, British Sea Power, have never followed the crowd. Eccentric, whimsical and blessed with the freedom that an indie label and insanely loyal fan base bring, each record has defied expectations. The seafarer's third album again tests the limits of what we conceive as 'rock'.

A dark, churchlike presence runs through Do You Like Rock Music? that drags you under the pounding drums and chants. From opener "All In It" violin arrangements and touches of organ add a distinctly lush, anthemic feel to the tracks that's reminiscent of Arcade Fire. The Canadians' influence is hardly surprising. Howard Bilerman, drummer on Arcade Fire's debut Funeral, is one of the album's three producers and part of the recording schedule even took in the crazy Canadian storms, with the sound of power lines snapping under the weight of ice.

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