Daily Archives: October 4, 2016

Help Fund Ian Ethan Case’s New Acoustic/World Music Album

by Dæv Tremblay

Ian Ethan Case is a name you might be familiar with, if you’ve read our blog for some time. His impressive double-neck acoustic guitar (and associated skill set) makes for an attentive listen while atmospheres are summoned from the void itself to fill in the aural landscape. This vision of the world will be even more tangible with the horde of world-class musicians mentioned in Ethan’s indiegogo campaign video. Flutes, percussions, live strings… You name it!

The Earth Suite will be Ian Ethan Case’s fourth full-length album, and his most ambitious yet. Check out a playthrough video for ‘Butter II’ … Read more

Thinking Plague Just Released ‘The Echoes of Their Cries’ for Their Backers

by Dæv Tremblay

tp16The legendary avant-garde/art rock ensemble Thinking Plague started a crowdfunding campaign, last year, to help finance their seventh studio album, temporarily titled Hope against Hope. The album was set to be released in September of 2016, but, as you may have noticed, it hasn’t.

However, if you were a funder of the project, you should by now have received an email from Kickstarter with a download link and code to get the first track from the album. The song is called ‘The Echoes of Their Cries’, and we can also notice a small change in the album title: … Read more