Big Rig Records

Kieran Carroll and The Charcoal Sea released their one and only album A Straight Line To Wander Through in November 1997. Forming in Melbourne some two years earlier, they recorded the album at the North Carlton Baptist Church. Recorded by Matt Hills and mixed by Andrew Coates (Black Cab), the album is a delicate and [...]

Manners’ Gregory Beson is a master of musical understatement. His minimalist jazz-folk melodies have precisely enough notes to maintain a rare and rewarding kind of disjointed momentum. Occasionally, these haunted ghost melodies burst briefly into bloom, resolving long-accumulated tension before dissolving as quickly as they had arrived.

Vinegar Socks are establishing themselves as one of the most important indie projects in Italy. 2009 saw the band touring nationally, playing concerts with Kaki King and Joan as Policewoman and working on the film soundtrack for “Dieci Inverni” (which premiered at the Venice film festival and is currently preparing for international distribution). The band’s reputation for sophisticated songwriting and powerful shows is quickly spreading throughout Europe and America, earning them appearances on MTV, featured performances on Italian national radio, and invites to perform in various major European cities.

The Lark Descending believes in: the beauty and terror of a decaying world; inquiry in the face of death; the impotence of regret; the overthrow of the capitalist hegemony; and the restoration of love as the supreme ideal.

The Lark Descending uses instruments he does not know how to play and sings as best he can – he once sang in a Cathedral Choir to a god he once believed in and now mumbles in a way that pleases himself. His music is lyrical and sad folk.

The Lark Descending lives and loves in Brunswick, Australia.

-IST is an album in two parts: -IST I and -IST II, each part consists of 11 tracks. Recorded in Tennessee (Dec 2009 – March 2010) during the winter months. In the Appalachian Mountains, and the smoggy city of Knoxville.

-IST is an abbreviated descriptive for the landscapes the album ventures through, cold mountain paths and snowy crags. -IST is also shorthand for the methods of rendering sounds on the album from minimalist to existentialist.
Renee Arozqueta and Chad Bishop stretched out for some winter months, hiking through different parts of Southern Appalachia uncovering remote parts of the psyche and surfacing with them to create the album -IST…

E-wah’s third release, 8 song album Lights and Sirens, broke away from the more prickly and raw sound of its predecessors with gentler “lullabies.” Lights & Sirens received enthusiastic play on independent stations across the country. Reviewer for Mess and Noise, David Nichols wrote, “E-wah Lady makes stuff go, with her excellent command of tunes and what sounds like quite a mature and realistic view of life.”