EFTERKLANG:

Another label that has seemingly found its finest form of late Loaf"s latest signing "Efterklang" deliver a beautifully realised debut that has had us transfixed. This Danish band boasts a remarkable lineup, a ten piece outfit that includes amongst its ranks the amazing Amina quartet plus a breathtaking arrangment of brass, piano, percussion, electronics and even a chroir from Greenland.
Their sound is very much rooted in the ethereal instrumental landscapes that Sigur Ros & Mum have delighted us with over the last view years, but the sound of "Efterklanf" is considerably more organic and reverential.

Discography:

"Tripper"
"Springer"

JULIEN NETO:

After contributions and remixes on various compilations around the world, the mzsterious Parisian has fibnally setteld into his home on Type Records where he has been working from the very beginning.
Very little is revealed about Julien Neto, other than the fact that he has a great talent for crafting soulful & moving electro acoustic soundscapes & a penchant for fine literature.
Yet what makes his debut album Le Fumeur De Ciel so beautifully inviting is its delicate naivety. There is something of timeless theatrics about the record, hazy childhood memories propelled by a tireless romantic melancholy - this is a work which confronts tragic loss with an unflinching honesty.
The atmosphere which Julien Neto carves are the most striking aspects of his music. With samples, rough tepe edits and disintegrated synthesiezed sounds he can manipulate imaginary worlds. Beautiful widescreen listening - one of the finest releases on Type to date.

Discography:

"Hiiro"
"Retork"
"Lighted Apartment"
"Le Fumeur de Ciel"

Lhasa de Sela:

Biography:

* 1972 in Big Indian (Catskills, New York, USA). Nowadays she lives in Montreal, Canada. Her father is originally from Mexico & her mother is jewish US-American. As a child she was traveling through USA and Mexico with her family with a bus for 7 years. That time of "nomadism" without school and TV, but with many books and mostly important with music influenced her creativity and thinkings.
When she was 13 years old she had her first gig in a small Cafeshop in San Francisco. In 1991 she got to know Yves Desrosiers, the producer of her first album La Llorona. Those 11 songs characterically stand for a melancholic beautiness, a intensive and emotional voice & a view selected instruments; all songs are in Spanish. Next to her own songs, she also interprets songs from Victor Jara & Violeta Parra.
Often she is compared to the musician Lila Downs. For some years she was living in France, there she was creating a new kind of circus together with her sisters: Pocheros. In Marseille she wrote the biggest part of her second album The Living Road, on which she sings in English, French and Spanish.


Discography:

2000 - La Llorona

2003 - The Living Road

Weblinks:


inoffical webside (french): http://www.sendereando.com/

webside about Lhasa (english): http://www.impressaria.ca/e_lhasa.htm