Brundlefly and the Swede Cabin Music Tape

Cabin Music Tape released today! Check it out!

FINS - FINS gets a 7.5 on Pitchfork.com!

THANKS JAYSON GREENE! Some one gets it as much as we do!

"FINS register on first contact like a clawing blur, just like a punk tape should."

Check out the full album review on Pitchfork.com

FINS - Self-titled

FINS release their self-titled 6 track mini-LP today.  This scuzzy snack rock beast was recorded by Ben Greenberg of The Men.  It is only available on cassette and.  Get your copy @ the OMR Store

TONIGHT! ATRINA kick off their tour with BEASTY @ Cafe Nine

ATRINA are kicking off another brief but fierce tour tonight in New Haven @ Cafe 9!!!

Woodsman Orphan - A New Era

Woodsman Orphan has joined forces with Ghost of Chance, VVVRS, and Deluxe.  Stay tuned for some amazing music!

Bio:

Woodsman Orphan is a freak-folk and post-psych collaborative with the uncanny ability to call together the visceral and the psychical muses into one unearthly choir. Press play and one is instantly stirred up by catchy pop hooks, psychedelic guitars, and acoustic rambling of disjointed folk mind dump.  The group's distinctive style is characterized by subtle time signature changes and sonically open experimentation set to surrealist lyrics.  But the discerning listener soon finds that the pop elements mingle with a mysterious and protean ethic involving strategic elements of surprise, dissonance and harmonization. In the spirit of influences like the Beach Boys, 13^th Floor Elevators, John Cale, and Neil Young, Woodsman Orphan is concerned with leaving the listeners in a different place from where they start.

http://www.soundcloud.com/woodsmanorphan

http://www.facebook.com/woodsmanorphan

http://ghostofchance.bandcamp.com/

http://deluxemusix.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/vvvrs

https://soundcloud.com/ofperception

FINS' new album scheduled for release 10/29

Get Ready... FINS' new album will be released 10/29. Limited cassette release!

Want a Taste?
Check it out:

Please welcome Brundlefly and The Swede

We are excited to announce a new member to the OMR family, Brundlefly the The Swede.  They come from CT--but are now based in New Jersey.  They just released "Cabin Music," a beautiful instrumental record in the vein of Jim O'Rourk. In the next month or so, we'll be releasing an extended version of the record.  So watch out!  It's going to be great.

This is what Pitchfork.com said about "Cabin Music"
Read review here
Pick up "Cabin Music" here on 180g vinyl (includes free download code)!

A little about them:
The Brundlefly & the Swede is the haphazardly chosen moniker of Jason Socci and Matthew Kohnle, both alumni of long defunct Connecticut instrumental band DAYBED. The two had not played together in any form, since initially disbanding DAYBED in early 2000.

DAYBED trafficked in the kind of “Post-Rock” that saw popularity in the 1990’s, akin to, but unique in its own right, to output of such labels as Thrill Jockey, Drag City and Kranky. While “Cabin Music” finds the duo plumbing similar territory (instrumental music, progressive arrangements, employing double drums kits, and an emphasis on “studio as instrument” style production), it’s not a record that concerns itself with nostalgia. In many ways, it’s an idealized summation of DAYBED’s work, and the current state of mind of it’s creators.

In the nineties, while Jason and Matthew were working with the quartet that was DAYBED, they would often perform together independent of the group in a duo format. Often infiltrating open mic nights, the band would cleverly separate into small units and “crash” an evening of singer-songwriters and blues-addled lawyers by providing often jarringly contrasting music to the otherwise standard fare most commonly seen in coffee houses on random Tuesday nights.

Brundlefly & the Swede would counter their bandmates often electronic, synthesized drone or experimental loop performances by performing their unique blend of acoustic guitar arrangements, more akin to the work of John Fahey or Gastr del Sol’s David Grubbs and Jim O’Rourke.

“...We were both getting into that pseudo-fingerpicking-bluegrassy-folk-country style we heard O’rourke and Grubbs doing. I don’t think that would have fit with Daybed’s aesthetic and would require quite an over haul of the group. BF&S was perfect for Matt and I to develop a new way of playing, unlike anything we’d done in the past.” -Jason Socci

“It’s impossible to overstate the influence a band like Gastr del Sol had on us at the time. While Daybed was a band that would focus it’s energies on the more electric and electronic, Brundlefly & the Swede would take things in an organic direction, but with the same angle of exploration and experimentation... The album “Camoufleur” (DRAG CITY, 1997) kind of sparked our imagination, helping us realize that you didn’t have to simply rely on strumming folk songs with the acoustic- you could challenge and experiment as well, and subvert expectations of your audience who might be comfortable at first seeing two dudes with acoustic guitars setting up, as opposed to watching a furrowed browed character plugging in ominous old synths and tape echos...” -Matthew Kohnle

SPACETRON: A New Concert Experience, THIS SATURDAY @ SPACELAND BALLROOM

SPACETRON is finally upon us! This Saturday @ The Spaceland Ballroom, get down with some amazing bands and an all around unforgettable evening.

Taco Hut Music & Obscure Me Records Present SPACETRON by Jose Oyola & The Astronauts with a special guest appearance by SLAY Hubbell Mountain www.hubbellmountain.bandcamp.com Head with Wings www.headwithwings.bandcamp.com Sun Dagger www.facebook.com/SunDagger Photobooth LED Hula hoops by Veronica Vixen www.facebook.com/veevix Airbrush face painting by Holly Corsano Kaleidoscope Building Caricatures by Vincent Vernacatola Prepare your flashlights. Tickets on sale here: www.tacohutmusic.bigcartel.com 21+

ATRINA Vinyl finally available

Hey everyone ATRINA's In Planetary Sugar vinyl LP is now shipping!  Get your copy today!  OMR STore

Please welcome Spectral Fangs!

Obscure Me Records is proud to announce that Spectral Fangs will be joining the OMR Family!  Spectral Fangs is a Danbury, CT based four-piece band comprised of Joe Russo (guitars, vocals), Tony Mascolo (bass, vocals), Jared Thompson (drums) and Danielle Capalbo (guitars, vocals). Spectral Fangs wash over you with waves of reverb, floating tight melodies, high above a coalescence of ’60s soul, ’70s punk, irreverent ’90s rock and indie pop. The result is an idiosyncratic and infectious canvas of sound grounded in Joe’s vocal ache and elevated by Tony’s soaring harmonies.

Spectral Fangs’ influences range from The Shins and Belle and Sebastian to Elvis Costello, Dinosaur Jr., The dBs and The Pixies. This reflects only a sliver of the vast music catalogue galvanizing the band—and the many projects that each Fang has embarked upon since they were teenagers growing up in the Tri-State Area.

Check out more (and music!)

Please welcome The Guru!

We are proud to welcome The Guru to the Obscure Me Record's family.  The Guru is a four piece band from Watertown, Connecticut. They cut their teeth in small shows for handfuls of friends in the back of a main street coffee house. Soon they streamlined their psychedelic-influenced songs into songs with more focused melodies, slicker guitar parts, and dance-influenced conversations between the bass and drums. They grew comfortable playing shows after a summer of playing every show they could get booked on in New England. Along the way they developed a dedicated fan base that shows up to every show, to exchange energy, dance, and sing

Check out some of their previous releases!
Native Sun
Go Easy

Woodsman Orphan My Name is Ishmael Ali released today

Woodsman Orphan's record, My name is Ishmael Ali, is available today via digital download here (bandcamp), and here (iTunes)!  Sadly the vinyl got held up.  But stay tuned.

Atrina @ Bar vids

Thanks to Kari Bunn--you can watch ATRINA's whole set at bar!  Enjoy!

Pt1

 Pt2


Pt3

Woodsman Orphan's new album delayed

The vinyl pressing has been delayed for woodsman orphan's album :(  updates asap

ATRINA

Please join me in welcoming ATRINA to the Obscure Me Family!   Atrina will be releasing a vinyl LP soon. Check out a song below!

Please welcome Vesme Dreamchatcher Kiong

We'd like to welcome Vesme Dreamchatcher Kiong to the Obscure Me family!  Vesne Dreancatcher Kiong is Roberto Vodanovic. Roberto is from Zadar, Croatia, right across the Adriatic Sea from Italy.  We will be releasing an album called "Oblivion," a somber acoustic album, on tape July 11, 2013.  Stay Tuned!

woodsman orphan new website

check it out: http://woodsmanorphan.com/

Woodsman Orphan - My Name is Ishmael Ali

Woodsman Orphan will officially be releasing 'My Name is Ishmael Ali' 4/20/13 (record store day!) it will be available digitally and on 12" vinyl, which you can order from the site, or pick up at one of their shows!

This album was previously available in a 20 copy CDr release a while back. but was never officially being released! Get ready!

High Pop review on PF

Check out the awesome review of "Loner" Pitchfork gave High Pop

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15048-high-pop-loner/

High Pop - The Shakes

High Pop - The Shakes from Jason Devin on Vimeo.

Florida = Death now on OMR

Please welcome Florida = Death to the OMR family!

High Pop

Please join us in welcoming the newest member to the OMR family: High Pop!

Check out some of their previous releases here!

donate to ghost of chance for a tour!

Donate some buckaroos to Ghost of Chance for a summer tour!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ghostofchance/ghost-of-chance-hitting-the-road

Nutmeg State of Mind Comp

FINS and Ghost of chance are featured, a long with a number of other amazing Connecticut artists, on a tribute to Newtown Connecticut compilations. All proceeds go to Mental Health America

download you copy today: nutmegcollective.bandcamp.com