Karate Body » the decibel tolls http://www.karatebodyrecords.com Louisville, USA Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:41:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Decibel Tolls: “Don’t Fix It If It Ain’t Baroque” http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/the-decibel-tolls-dont-fix-it-if-it-aint-baroque http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/the-decibel-tolls-dont-fix-it-if-it-aint-baroque#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:17:30 +0000 admin http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/?p=2137 Continue reading →]]> By Kenny Bloggins / The Decibel Tolls
When crafting a work that could be identified as chamber folk or late ’60s/early ’70s style baroque pop, you tread a fine line between pretension and technical mastery. Sheffield, UK collective and James Yorkston collaborators The Big Eyes Family Players have very successfully written soaring yet intimate orchestral post-rock, with flavors of Fairport style Anglo-folk, that’s wholly warm and inviting. No abstract attitudes, no wanky guitar noodling… The Big Eyes Family Players are cinematic sans any speck of pretense. Imagine Set Fire To Flames if they spent more time in the forrest foraging for wood, or Six Organs of Admittance if Chasney was more in tune with old western Europe than British India (though raga sounds do present themselves in “The Chattering Lady”). Their new release, Family Favourites, is a collection of reworked old Big Eyes canticles (the first incarnation) alongside new material and covers. The digital and vinyl compilation reworks and rerecords their vintage instrumental torch ballads with their most recent players, essentially closing one chapter to open a new one. Consider it a sort of a retrospective, with a new veneer … fitting since these guys have been around for over a decade, largely under the radar. There’s no better introduction than this one. Recommended for fans of Alasdair Roberts, John Fahey, Rachel’s, Josephine Foster, and Sir Richard Bishop.

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Phantom Family Halo follows up their incredible WFPK Live Lunch performance with a rooftop concert tonight at Glassworks with Stardeath & White Dwarfs, the Oklahoma City group currently on tour with The Flaming Lips. Advance tickets are $8, $10 at the door. Halo’s double LP, Monoliths & These Flowers Never Die, will be available in Canada this summer thanks to our good friends at NAIL Distribution. We’re stoked to be working with them. Don’t forget to pick up their single, too, out now on Sophomore Lounge Records.

Glassworks is located at 815 W. Market St. Visit our friends at The Decibel Tolls for more information. Special thanks to TDT, Crash Avenue and Transpanther for their hard work in putting this bill together.

]]> http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/halo-stardeath/feed 0 The Decibel Tolls includes ‘Monoliths’ as Best of ’09 http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/the-decibel-tolls-includes-%e2%80%98monoliths%e2%80%99-as-best-of-%e2%80%9909 http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/the-decibel-tolls-includes-%e2%80%98monoliths%e2%80%99-as-best-of-%e2%80%9909#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:37:33 +0000 admin http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/?p=497 Continue reading →]]> GD30OB2-N.pdf
Read the full list here.

Don’t forget, ‘Planet Louisville,’ which features music from Phantom Family Halo, premieres at Monkey Wrench (Barret Avenue in Louisville’s Highlands neighborhood) at 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 26. The film is the work of BMX pro and Louisville native Jimmy Levan.

“Monoliths & These Flowers Never Die” double LP with free download is available now at ear X-tacy, Underground Sounds, Skull Alley, Chicago Independent, The Vinyl Collective and Robotic Empire, as well as digitally through thinkindie.com and iTunes (U.S.). For our overseas customers, vinyl can also be purchased via Code 7 (UK) and Mandai (Benelux).

]]> http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/the-decibel-tolls-includes-%e2%80%98monoliths%e2%80%99-as-best-of-%e2%80%9909/feed 0 The Decibel Tolls reviews ‘Monoliths’ http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/the-decibel-tolls-reviews-monoliths http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/the-decibel-tolls-reviews-monoliths#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:32:48 +0000 admin http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/?p=397 Continue reading →]]> Read it here. Double LP with free download card @ ear X-tacy and Underground Sounds this coming Tuesday, Oct. 13. We are also pleased to announce that Phantom Family Halo will be on tour this winter on the east coast and Canada with Young Widows and Russian Circles beginning Nov. 27.

But before then, come celebrate the release of Monoliths Nov. 20 at Zanzabar in Louisville, Ky.

]]> http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/the-decibel-tolls-reviews-monoliths/feed 0 Gentle reminder … http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/gentle-reminder-%e2%80%a6 http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/gentle-reminder-%e2%80%a6#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:09:38 +0000 admin http://www.karatebodyrecords.com/?p=368 Continue reading →]]> The Decibel Tolls/Transpanther Group Present:
Marmoset
Invaders
The Harlequins
Friday, Sept. 18
@ Skull Alley
8 p.m., $7
1017 E. Broadway
www.skullalley.net
Louisville
All Ages (Yes, there’s beer, too)

Third Annual Homegrown Music Festival
WFPK DJ Matt Anthony
The Fervor
Squeeze-bot
@ Fourth Street Live Atrium
Louisville
Friday, Sept. 18
8 p.m., Free
All ages (but beer for the old folks,  too)

The Fervor
Mandelbrots
@ Nachbar
Saturday, Sept. 19
969 Charles St.
Louisville
10 p.m., Free
21+

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