Fresh
off last January's debut disc, Eponymous,
Arms of Kismet releases two new CDs in the next four months. Arriving
in late October is Ted's 12: Original Soundtrack, which captures
Mark Doyon's score for the upcoming postmodern sitcom from Produce
Perfecto Films. The disc features the new Arms of Kismet track, "My
Mercurial Nature," plus a slew of toe-tapping "Mercurial"
knockoffs and mood pieces. Appearing after the first of the year is Cutting
Room Rug: Curiosities, Exotica & Miscellany, a collection of fresh
outtakes from Eponymous that features the single, "Listen to
Me."
In
the meantime, Wampus is offering a free download of "My Mercurial
Nature" with orders of Eponymous...
http://cdbaby.com/armsofkismet
Also
newly available from Doyon is a remaster of his 1990s disc, Bloodline...
http://cdbaby.com/wampeters4
For
more information, visit...
http://armsofkismet.com
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Casey
Abrams Records Session at Wampus
Wampus
Multimedia recently recorded a session with Massachusetts-based songwriter
Casey Abrams.
Featuring material from Abrams' current release, Thirteen American Ghosts,
plus promising new songs, the as-yet untitled disc is on track for a pre-holiday
release. Abrams' smooth tenor and virtuosic guitar playing inform a growing
and imaginative catalog. Drawing from trad and country influences, Abrams'
modern folk sensibility breaks new ground.
Visit...
http://www.caseyabrams.com
Coming
early next year: Wampus session with Pennsylvania-based songwriter Johnny
J Blair.
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J.T.
Bowman & Lerlene Stackwood: That's What I'm Talkin' About!
Rocketing
out of the backwoods with a smile as large as the chip on the universe's
shoulder, country-music outsider songsmith J.T.
Bowman is putting the finishing touches on J.T. Bowman & Lerlene
Stackwood, six would-be country hits tracing the demise of a romantic
relationship and its 21st-century after-effects.
The result? Real country music that could be created and played only in
a place where the fun is superseded by, well, more fun. Growing up in music's
"hill country" and later schooled in its "lower valleys," J.T. came to rest
between those verdant highs and lows, writing and playing what he calls
"the music of no fixed address."
"I think the best songs live somewhere between the completely recognizable
and the completely unknown," he explains. "It's that moment when you recognize
something you've never seen before in your life.... That's a song."
Stay
tuned. Release date: November 30.
Visit...
http://jtbowman.com
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Cafebar
401 Featured in Current Issue of Amplifier Magazine
Wampus
artist Cafebar
401, whose debut album hit store shelves in July, is featured in
the new issue of Amplifier magazine. Get your copy today at Tower
Records and other fine stores.
Brimming
with darkly sweet pop hooks, Cafebar 401 blends Bowie-esque vocal
presence with danceable grooves rooted in Euro-rock. Currently setting the
Dutch pop scene ablaze, the band has appeared this year on Dutch national
television and radio. Their relentlessly contemporary sound calls to mind
Coldplay, Masters of Reality, Muse, Beck, Soulwax, Radiohead, and Queens
of the Stone Age, but they bring something of their own to the party.
With
the release of their debut
CD, Cafebar 401 is reaching beyond The Netherlands to greater Europe
and the United States. Armed with a disc that rocks hard and sticks like
candy, Cafebar 401 could stick with you.
Buy...
http://cdbaby.com/cafebar401
Visit...
http://wampus.com/artists/cafebar401
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Cafebar 401
Brimming
with darkly sweet pop hooks, Cafebar 401 blends Bowie-esque vocal presence
with danceable grooves rooted in Euro-rock. Their relentlessly contemporary
sound calls to mind Coldplay, Masters of Reality, Muse, Beck, Soulwax, Radiohead,
and Queens of the Stone Age.
Arms
of Kismet / Eponymous
Literate
and insidiously catchy, Arms of Kismet is postmodern pop for the savvy,
ironic streetcrawler.
Various
Artists / After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou Reed
From the unflinching optimism of Johnny J Blair's "Sunday Morning" to the
cerebral ambivalence of Brook Pridemore's title track, 'After Hours' tells
the story of an artist unencumbered by popular expectations, yet... popular.
Various
Artists / If I Were a Richman: a Tribute to the Music of Jonathan Richman
A
wildly entertaining ride through the repertoire of one of rock's most original
and eclectic songwriters. Like Lou Reed & the Velvet Underground before
him, Richman's deceptively straightforward music defies easy categorization.
From his early days with the original Modern Lovers, through numerous iterations
of the Lovers, to his latter-day solo career, Richman's work has mixed an
arresting sense of innocence with a deep sensitivity to human emotion.
tvfordogs
/ Heavy Denver
The
best modern-rock record of 2003. Check it out.
Kowtow
Popof / Kowtow Drops the Pop Off
Powerfully
nuanced postmodern rave-ups that set the car radio ablaze. "Preternaturally
surrealist post-pop." --Eve Zibart, The Washington Post
Amateur
God / Near Life Experience
Dark
gothic-semi-vocal-ambient music in the tradition of Mylene Farmer, All About
Eve, Celtic Frost, Type O Negative, Sisters of Mercy, The Gathering, Jean
Michel Jarre, Orbital, Front 242, Rammstein, Art of Noise, and Voivod.
Various
Artists / Glass Flesh 2: a Tribute to Robyn Hitchcock
Twenty-one
great ways to skin Robyn Hitchcock's cat. Indispensable.
Wampeters
/ Murder Your Darlings
D.C.
post-modernists reinvent the contrarian rock sensibility. Smoldering chamber
rock descended from the Band, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys. "A
great narrative album. The last great mainstream release that exemplifies
this method of development of style and sound is Wilco's Summer Teeth."
--Heidi
Drockelman, IndieMusic.com
Wampeters / Bloodline (remastered)
The
connections between people are indecipherable and everlasting.... Here's
why.
Mark
Doyon / Bonneville Stories
Crisp
fiction from Arms of Kismet's Mark
Doyon that's as dark as optimism gets. "A brilliant collection
of beautifully written stories that made me cringe, grimace, and laugh,
while sometimes moving me to great pity.... There just aren't any
flaws here, and I can't possibly do this book justice in a review. No one
could, really...." --Laurie
Edwards, CultureDose.net
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1929763093/qid=1034199246/sr=8-7/ref=sr_8_7/102-8551637-2399362?v=glance&n=507846
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Coming
in 2004-06
- Mitch
Renault & Arms of Kismet / Ted's 12: Original Soundtrack (October
2004)
- J.T.
Bowman & Lerlene Stackwood (November 2004)
- Wampeters
/ Pagan's Nest, remastered (November 2004)
- Casey
Abrams
/ Wampus Session (December 2004)
- Arms
of Kismet / Cutting Room Rug (January 2005)
- Wampus
Multimedia / Wampus artist sampler (January 2005)
- Johnny
J Blair
/ Wampus Session (February 2005)
- Wampeters
/ Folk Medicine, remastered (February 2005)
- Donnie
/ Kissing the Kaaba (March 2005)
- Warren
Zevon tribute CD (March 2005)
- Wampeters
/ Screen Test, remastered (April 2005)
- Rake's
Progress
/ Leaves and Grass, remastered (August 2005)
- Mark
Doyon / Slingshot to Obscurity (2005)
- Kowtow
Popof / End of Greatness (2005)
- Kowtow
Popof / Exalted Headband (2005)
- Wampeters
/ Days of Beer and Daisies: 1994-2005 (2005)
- Arms
of Kismet / Play for Affection (January 2006)
- J.T.
Bowman & Lerlene Stackwood
/ Cowpie Beach (2006)
Dedicated
to the support and promotion of independent music, Wampus is home to growing
roster of indie artists. Interested in becoming a Wampus
artist? Read all about it.
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