MusicGeek.org » minimalism http://www.musicgeek.org/wp Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:00:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Spotlight: Apillow | Ambience, minimalism make mark in small-run release http://www.musicgeek.org/wp/2008/02/21/spotlight-apillow-ambience-minimalism-make-mark-in-small-run-release http://www.musicgeek.org/wp/2008/02/21/spotlight-apillow-ambience-minimalism-make-mark-in-small-run-release#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:49:38 +0000 Matthew Montgomery http://www.musicgeek.org/wp/2008/02/21/spotlight-apillow-ambience-minimalism-make-mark-in-small-run-release Apillow / via MySpaceLet’s get one thing straight: I like ambient, I like shoegaze, and boy, do I like post-rock. That said, you may have found many of the posts here to be of such a nature. What can I say? At any rate, today’s spotlight focuses on Apillow, a band with elements of all three styles I just expressed an affinity toward. Patrick Lacharité, of Below the Sea, is the sole producer of this quiet, uninvasive minimalism created in the fall of 2007. Leaves Winter Alone, released in October 2007 on thisquietarmy records, is limited to 200 initial CD-R copies by the label, so clearly, this isn’t out there to make a quick buck. Apillow embodies that appealing independence that too often goes missing from music generally: Even notoriously independent artists worry about making money from their music. For better or worse, Lacharité seems untainted, providing a fair bit of clarity to the world through soothing ambience.

Apillow — “The Dark” | download
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