Recommendation: Fugato Orchestra - Noe

Stop whatever music it is that you're listening to and play this!

A song for the aspiring rockers: Emmanuel & The Fear - Jimme's Song

Emmanuel & the Fear from Brooklyn have released this year their first full-length, Listen, an orchestral rock album filled with goodies, rich sounding catchy tunes. Here's a great song from it called Jimme's Song.



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Review: Bell Orchestre - Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light (2005, Rough Trade)

Bell Orchestre is an instrumental group from Montreal. The band has ties to other bands: Arcade Fire, Torngat, The Luyas, Islands and Snailhouse. Their music is a sort of an orchestral ambient and post-rock nature with a variety of instruments used. The music is very dynamic, flowing from highly energetic, upbeat and positive-sounding sections to mellow and somewhat melancholic passages.

The studio lineup consists of:
Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) - upright bass/keyboard/percussion
Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire) – violin
Stefan Schneider (The Luyas) - drums/percussion
Pietro Amato (Torngat, The Luyas) - French horn/electronics
Kaveh Nabatian - trumpet/melodica
Mike Feuerstack (Snailhouse) - lap steel guitar



Review after the Jump

Support a musical project - The River Empires

Who are The River Empires?
Here's a short blurb from their website:

"The River Empires is simply a group of friends from Oregon who write and play music together. Their style infuses bluegrass, folk and country with cinematic instrumentation and themes. They claim to be an independent band as well as conceptual, yet have been careful not to turn the two of those genres into gimmicks. They have self funded and self created from the birth of the group. Their music and lyrics tell a story written by the singer, Jessy Ribordy."

Here you can listen to some of their tunes. 
Their first album is available digitally on iTunes and Amazon and here physically.



The band is preparing on recording their followup album and has started a Kickstarter fund-raising. Now, if you like what you hear, then please read the following and see if you'd like to support it.

"We plan to track the 14 song album over the course of two months during winter 2010/11. Being that our musical style combines bluegrass with film-like soundtrack/scores, we require several hire on musicians to perform the symphonic sounds we are aspiring for. On our first album, we had a very talented harpist, french horn, oboe, clarinet, flute, trumpet, trombone, and bowed contrabass players. We are hoping to continue through that vein of style and so most of the budget would be going toward adding all the extra instrumentation. Essentially we require a small symphonic orchestra to complete our vision of this next album. In addition, the budget will go toward other production costs, including several weeks of mixing engineering in post. 

We are also hoping to really have the time to create, like our first one, a pure and organic album. We don't use auto tune on vocals and we don't quantize instrument performances. We take the time to get take after take until we are happy with it. And we believe that creates much more of an honest sound that is missing these days in the music industry. So this also requires a bit more time in the studio than normal and a lot more attention and devotion to detail."





 Some musical teasers of the band for you to listen to: