Scottish electronic musician Jonnie Common has gone to his kitchen and made an album using only noises what he has found there. Here is an album preview

He’s releasing the album on a set of four hand-made fridge magnets. Each one of these magnets is unique because they were all cut directly out of a stomach-churning 80s cookbook. He says: inside each set, I have even gone to the trouble (and believe me it was painstaking) of including the name of the dish from which each magnet was taken. I must stress that the combinations (or menus) were chosen for what looked good together rather than what would taste good together but I did spread it out so that every set includes 4 different types of dish. The categories are: soups, salads & starters, meat dishes, poultry dishes, fish dishes, vegetable dishes, supper dishes, savouries & snacks, puddings & desserts, cakes & baking.

Kitchen Synch is going to be released on Song, by Toad Records on May 9th.

The American musician Saul Conrad plays “hard to categorize”, perhaps “experimental chamber pop”  or “other” bittersweet music on piano and guitar with surprising key changes, nonsensical rhythmic shifts, overlapping melodies, and folk elements. His third album (read about!) – which is more popular than previous two (listen to!) – was influenced by Kirkegaard and William Blake, Townes van Zandt and Blaze Foley, Harry Nilsson and Syd Barret, and more. But essentially his music based on his affection for music of Mozart, Chopin or Mahler.

4/23 Hamburg, DE Hasenschaukel  4/24 Berlin, DE Mein Haus am See  4/25 Budapest, HU Beat on The Brat  4/28 Leipzig, DE Dr. Seltsam  4/29 Copenhagen, DK Tjili Pop  4/30 Islands Brygge, DK “Geyser By The Sea” at Kulturhuset  5/2 Manchester, UK The Castle Hotel  5/4 London, UK Montague Arms  5/5 Hull, UK The Adelphi Club  5/6 Vienna, AT Mo.ë  5/7 Biel, CH Living Room Concert Series  5/8 Metz, FR La Chaouee  5/9  Espalais FR, Le Par Chemin

Peculiar experimental tropical music from electro-noise tunes to danceable pop
melodies by Helado Negro. Son of Ecuadorian immigrants,
who has grown in the Latin-American bustle of South-Florida.
His interest was arouse by the sounds of tropical nature and environment:
subwoofers in the cars, howling music of portable stereos,
uproars of night parties and more.
He looks on every device as musical instruments.

Ojos Que No Ven

from their new album Double Youth on Asthmatic Kitty Records (US)

„Almost danceable” ambient noise pop with cool Outer Hebridean feeling.
It’s like this picture

Le Thug‘s music comes Cocteau Twins to my mind.
They’re also from Scotland, of course.

is taken from their brand new EP „Place Is”, out now by Song, by Toad Records (UK)

“It’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it”

Wild Grass by Gentle Friendly

from the album ” K A U A ‘  I   O’O  A ‘A” on Fat Cat (UK)

Gentle Friendly started when David took some scrapped drums and guitars out of a skip in East-London. Cleaned the instruments and invited Daniel to “come and mess with the stuff” while he played his broken Casio MT-40. Eventually the guitars stayed out of use.

„All sorts of stupid phrases have been said for their music, e.g.: experimental, avantgarde, noise, art rock, but Deerhoof is just one of the best pop bands in the world.”  – RNR666

Deerhoof is a base, a point of comparison. I have gathered some „Deerhoof-like”, „Deerhoofesque” or „Deerhoof positive” artists from RNR666

Gentle Friendly – „It’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it.” Very playful experimental pop. Maybe like the early Animal Collective. Or Deerhoof.

Roze & The Rice Cakes – Funny, playful, jazzy. It brings the Deerhoof to my mind. On other sites this is called art rock.

Blanche Blanche Blanche – Experimental pop like Zappa or Deerhoof or something similar.

Joy As A Toy – They mention Talking Heads, Stereolab, Mr. Bungle and Deerhoof like same style music. Playful eclectic progressive pop.

Binidu – They’re high above the indie rock category. His music comes to my mind the Deerhoof and the French band is comparable to them. Fresh and playful music.

Papeye – Indie hard rock from France. The sound is similar to Deerhoof (I love) and Don Caballero (I don’t like).

Orval Carlos Sibelius – French multi-instrumentalist, who make music in really various styles from abstract electroinc dance to psych folk pop. His music often comes the world of Deerhoof in my mind.

Their 13th album La Isla Bonita will be released on 4 November by Polyvinyl Records (US). It was recorded live, DIY style, during „a weeklong sleepover arguing over whether to try and sound like Joan Jett or Janet Jackson

Deerhoof formed as a drum’n’bass duo in San Francisco in 1994. In 1995 Satomi Matsuzaki joined them as a singer within a week of arriving in the United States from Japan without any band experience, and went on tour only a week later… Later she would be the bass player too.  And a guitar player is there too, not of course. If you want more music click