Alien Airforce - Give Pigeons The Right Of Way - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Hazel is the fifth record from Æthenor, the group of eclectic travelers that includes Stephen O'Malley (SunnO))), KTL), Daniel O'Sullivan (Ulver, This is Not This Heat, Grumbling Fur, etc), Kristoffer Rygg (Ulver), and Steve Noble (Brötzmann Trio, N.E.W.). Together they bring their considerable pedigrees into play with unexpected and original results. Contradicting expectations of a massive blow-out of sound, everyone plays with remarkable, effective restraint. Atmospheric and layered, this latest features bits and pieces of identifiable rock-moves peeking out from under a thick blanket of hard-to-identify drift.Based on live recordings made on a lengthy tour of Italy in 2010, Hazel has been extensively edited and supplemented, but without losing the elemental sound of a group playing live together. Though there's plenty of weird ambient sound to be heard, this isn't a soundeffects / InchpedalboardInch record. Like the previous en Form for Bla, Noble's drums anchor the music with spare and considered playing, sometimes lashing out with abstract punctuation, and other times laying out a Can-like groove. O'Malley's guitar is also restrained, providing a bed for O'Sullivan's constantly morphing Rhodes, synths and electronic effects. Kristoffer Rygg contributes a rousing vocal incantation to InchErmannaInch and peppers the mix with ghostly modular details. Æthenor's catalog continues to be not like anything else out there right now. Sleeve designed by Stephen O'Malley. Album Tracks 1. Confluence (Incorporating InchLetter from ToporInch and InchEyes's of a Scanning GirlInch) 2. Transfiguration (Incorporating InchOpium CabaretInch)

Album Tracks 1. Springs & Things 2. Ichnusa 3. South By West 4. Way Back When 5. Dub Feelings 6. Sunbathing in Space 7. Make Rollers Roll Again 8. Crusty Rolls 9. Train Journeys (Some Kinda Interlude) 10. Reminisce 11. Total XTC 12. H to the a to the R to the D to the C to the O to the R to the E 13. Sardinian Sunrise 14. Think About It

Pidgeon's only album, 1969's self-titled InchPidgeonInch, would be even more obscure than it is, were it not for the presence of Jobriath (here credited as Jobriath Salisbury) as principal singer, co-songwriter, keyboardist, and guitarist. In mid-1968, he hooked up with Pidgeon, whose material was co-written by Jobriath and lyricist Richard T. Marshall. The album is produced by Stan Farber. Pidgeon contains elements of California sunshine pop, the harmonies of the Mamas & the Papas, the baroque pop of the Left Banke, and a little heavier psychedelia à la Jefferson Airplane. Album Tracks 1. Of the Time When I Was Young 2. Milk and Honey 3. When She Arrives 4. Dark Bird 5. Irene 6. The Wind Blows Cold 7. Penny's Magic Bell 8. The Main Line 9. Springtime Girl 10. The Dancer 11. House on a Hill Among Trees