Superlative Clamor

Covers

2011-06-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

Over the past couple of years, I've created a TON of original material on the guitar (primarily for the Gyoza project). To tell the truth, I've barely focused on doing any sort of covers. But recently I've made a better attempt at finding tabs of my favorite songs, then actually learning how to play each song (rather than giving up in a dissapointed manner). What songs did I choose? From what bands? See below, and you may see that I've picked some of your favorite songs/artists:

Botch- Transitions From Persona To Object

Self- Borateen

Dismemberment Plan- What Did You Want Me To Say

Burning Airlines- Scissoring

Failure- Wonderful Life

Hum- Double Dip

Cave In- In The Stream of Commerce

2011 Albums: So Far...

2011-04-18T18:15:00.000-07:00

-Stemage- Alpha Squad Soundtrack

-Solar Powered Sun Destroyer- Ender///Receiver

-Hammer No More The Fingers- Black Shark

-Young Widows- In & Out of Youth and Lightness

-Rival Schools- Pedals

-Foo Fighters- Wasting Light

COMING SOON

-Cave In- White Silence

-Stemage- 2nd Album

-Small Brown Bike- Fell & Found

-Junius- 3rd Album

-Junius/Rosetta Split Album

-City of Ships- 2nd Album

-Look What I Did- Zanzabar III

and trying to think of what else...

New guitar tricks & more

2011-02-26T12:41:00.000-08:00

Learned how to fingertap this week, came up with my own little piece as well (sorry that the audio quality isn't incredible in the video). I got inspired by some Riddle of Steel, so now I'm look forward to using this style in future music recordings.

some other things....

-Gonna be uploading some more "golden oldies" to the Superlative Clamor bandcamp (see below post). Already got "Gyoza 09" taken care of, about 20 more to go?

-In the next couple of months I'll be posting some new reviews for:

*Hammer No More the Fingers/Voo split

*Solar Powered Sun Destroyer- Ender//Receiver

*Stemage- Alpha Squad Soundtrack

*All the Way Rider- City of Champions (even though it came out last year)

-Hoping to attend Krazy Fest in Louisville this May. Cave In, Coalesce, and Small Brown Bike are going to be there!!!

That's all for now

Golden Oldies

2011-02-17T17:40:00.001-08:00

Uploading some old tracks from my projects on bandcamp, including:

-Gyoza 09

-Gyoza: Bland, Bitter Attempt

-Gyoza: Clean EP

-Last 4 tracks off of Levajura's Console Sciatic

-Gyoza vs. Levajura split album

-Levajura: Warship EP

-Levajura 16-track s/t

-Levajura: 1278/H. EP

-Levajura: LP 25%

-Roller Coaster Heathen: Nebraska

-Metamorphic:Detections EP

-Metamorphic: A Prized Fortune

-Metamorphic: Iotacism

-Both Metamorphic remix albums & all singles

-Superlative Clamor Comp. Vol. I

Yeah, it's going to take a while.

Gyoza 2011 (Make Believe) Tour

2011-02-06T15:42:00.001-08:00

It would be epic as Cthulu, or an invasion of giant isopods, or total [insert cult-status evil creature here] chaos.

But I'll probably have to wait another year or two (or four...) for that to happen.

The Coolest EPs (and etc.) of 2010

2011-02-02T19:23:00.000-08:00

-Metroid Metal- Expansion Pack
1 year after the debut album "Varia Suite", the live version of MM is at it again, laying down more astonishing remakes of metal remakes of the Metroid VGM. This EP includes songs from the original game, Super Metroid, Metroid Prime, and Prime 3.

Check out: Norfair

-Torche- Songs For Singles
It's 8 tracks at around 22 minutes, with tons of bite-sized heavy hitters that will make you crave for more! Not as sludgy as previous material, but still the balls-out massive rock that Torche is known for, just moreso up-tempo.

Check out: Face the Wall

-Small Brown Bike- Composite Vol. 2
The second volume of their 7" Composite series is SBB relaxing a bit from their more punk/hardcore side, feeling inclined to make some slow-yet-dynamic tunes. Perfect for winter weather.

Check out: Both songs, it's a 7" after all

-City of Ships- Three Mile Bridge/South Laurel
Not as hi-fi as their debut album "Look What God Did To Us", but that doesn't mean City of Ships is losing momentum: not at all. Modulated guitars, growling bass, eerie and smooth vocals into irate screams, and intense drumming can be found once again.

Check out: Their cover of M83's "Don't Save Us From the Flames", though it's only found on the digital version of the 7"

-Alpha Stasis- Escape The Machine Planet
A new artist has emerged in the galaxy that is space rock, mixing together an obsession of sci-fi and robots with a post-hardcore/metal mentality. Also features soothing indie rock guitars and vocals that will satisfy fans of Hum, Hopesfall, and Zozobra.

Check out: They Don't Know

(Damn) This Desert Air- Distance Waits
The New Jersey 5-piece put out their 2nd EP in 2010, but instead of just recording it themselves again, they went to the studio with Brian Virtue (who's also worked with Deftones, Jane's Addiction, Born Empty, Look What I Did). They certainly are getting better and better, with their ethereal brand of post hardcore that will definitely fill up the room.

Check out: Trembles

My Music Video Resume

2011-01-14T19:09:00.000-08:00

Here's some music videos I've created/starred in:

'Steam' - Hammer No More the Fingers from inhaler records on Vimeo.

This whole thing started when I recorded myself dancing to 3 songs from HNMTF's self-titled album and uploaded it on Youtube. Some of the guys who run the band's label from the U.K., Inhaler Records, took notice and I got a request to do a video for a new song from HNMTF's upcoming album "Black Shark". I was suprised, but was totally up for it as well! Started recording some scenes in late June, even made a makeshift tripod with a music stand so I could record myself dancing at the creek behind my house. I went over to Flemingsburg to shoot some more scenes with the help of some friends of mine, which makes up the majority of the video. Overall it was really a pleasure to do music video for one of my favorite bands! (There was actually additional footage I recorded with more friends in late August, which took place out in the woods of Hillsboro, but wasn't used.)

Just made this video recently, and I owe such an idea all to Dell Webcam Central, which can let you do a bunch of awesome shit like slow motion, werewolf transformation, that "seeing double" video effect, etc. I used my creativity with the program to make a music video for a Gyoza song, and ended up recording a bunch of footage in the time span of about 2 hours. I went on to edit the footage, and the very next day I was able to complete it. It served as a great time killer too, as I was imprisoned in my home thanks to another snow storm.

Music videos sure are loads of fun to create, especially when you don't have to pay a dime to make them! (Though in the future I may plan on doing something with a slightly bigger budget then $0, haha)

New(ish) name

2011-01-11T15:07:00.000-08:00

Decided to change the name of the blog, since it relates more to my "music label", which is known as "Superlative Clamor". This blog will tie in more with the FB page for SC as well. Hope to put out some new music this year, and I should have the rest of my Top 2010 stuff out by next week. In fact, I'm already getting ahead of the game for this year, listening to Solar Powered Sun Destroyer's debut album "Ender/Receiver", great stuff! But anyways, more post for this re-enhanced blog on the way...

Top Albums of 2010 (Part 1)

2010-12-20T14:44:00.000-08:00

Yes it's true, I enjoy what you could call HEAVY independent rock, but also the kind that likes to combine impressive melodies and musical creativity. Most bands that make it to my Top Albums fit this category, so if you enjoy that kind of music too, keep reading! You may even discover a new favorite band from this list, so without further ado, here's my favorite albums from 2010!

Constants - If Tomorrow The War (Science Of Silence)

RIYL: Jesu, Godflesh, Junius, City of Ships, Cave In, (later) Traindodge

I got into Constants towards the middle of this year, thanks to hearing them from my favorite music blog Exploding In Sound. From past releases, they played a blend of shoegaze, post rock, and prog rock. On this album however, Constants has definitely become more heavier, which isn't a suprise considering they got Justin Broadrick to produce this!

On top of that, Will Benoit's vocals are higher in the mix and more melodic, drumming is faster and more dynamic, guest vocals (or better yet SCREAMS) from Andrew Neufeld of Comeback Kid and Mike Hill from Tombs bring a hardcore element to some songs , and plenty of outer-worldly synths back up this fantastic record. I feel like I'm being abducted everytime I hear "Halloween In New Orleans"!

If Tomorrow The War is beyond a doubt my favorite record from 2010. Good work Constants, a.k.a. the Undisputed Kings of Space Rock

Listent to it now!

Halloween In New Orleans/The Sun, The Earth Live Performance

Look What I Did - Atlas Drugged (Modernist Movement)

RIYL: Mike Patton, Botch, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dog Fashion Disco, sElf, Born Empty

I also happened to have discovered this band this year, but it wasn't until a couple of months ago that I started listening to this truely creative hardcore band. The first time I saw the vid for their song "Fade to Daft", I thought "A heavier Self? Awesome!" This and other mentioned bands from the RIYL slot is what really got me into Look What I Did, so I went ahead and started listening to their new album "Atlas Drugged".

This album really likes to mix mathcore brutality with clever pop sensibility; it's no 1-trick-pony for sure! Everything from abrasive screams to hip-hop beats to jazzy chords to crazy time signatures to catchy vocals and so on make up this stunning record. Look What I Did is definitely not your average hardcore band, which is much needed in today's state of music!

Music Vid For Serf Song

Violent Soho- s/t (Ecstatic Peace)

RIYL: Nirvana, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Planes Mistaken For Stars, early 90s rock

I first discovered this Aussie grunge 4-piece from the first music compilation Exploding In Sound released last year, hearing their song "Love Is A Heavy Word". Unfortunately I kind of forgot about them, up until having the opportunity of seeing them live with The Bronx this year. One week before the show, I started listening to stuff from their upcoming self-titled album, and this time I surely wouldn't forget about Violent Soho!

This record actually features several re-recorded songs from their first album, "We Don't Belong Here", but also some brand new ones. Throughout the album, their are plenty of great grunge riffs, distorted bass, and vocals that are reminiscent of early 90s rock, but also some more relaxed acoustic passages in a couple of songs. There's also some screams that kind of remind me of post-hardcore bands like PMFS. Overall, I'd say this is more of an album the owes alot to the live sound of the band, which is a good thing since this band kicks ass live!

Even got a signed record at the show!

Music vid for "Son Of Sam"

More albums on the way!

Gyoza- Live Demos (2010)

2010-12-19T12:34:00.001-08:00

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ss944n60bwal0p5/Live.rar

1. 56
2. Oversize Load
3. In Many States of Isolation/02
4. Detach
5. 56
6. The Lost Voyager
7. Eagles
8. One Week of Destruction
9. 00/Peeved/SSTS
10. Silk Merchant

2 awesome covers by 2 favorite artists!

2010-09-24T16:04:00.000-07:00

If you're a fan of progressive space-rock like me, then you might just be interested in Stemage and/or City of Ships. A few days ago, they both unveiled some new cover songs originally by some cool European bands...

http://www.stemage.com/blog/my-cover-of-goblins-la-caccia-zombi-dawn-of-the-dead/

Get a free download of Stemage's rendition of "La Caccia/Zombi", originally by Italian prog-rock band Goblin. It happens to be off their score of the zombie-movie classic "Dawn of the Dead".

(it sure would be interesting if you walked in a movie theater before a movie, and all of a sudden, the narrator for MovieTunes or whatever it's called announced that this song would be playing next!)

http://www.cityofships.com/2010/09/new-7/

When you buy City of Ships's new 7" record "Three Mile Bridge/South Laurel", or just download it digitally, you also get their cover of "Don't Save Us From The Flames" by french shoegaze/dream-pop band M83. It's originally from the M83 album "Before the Dawn Heals Us".

(...and reminds self to start listening to said album sometime soon)

It's great to find out when your top artists pay homage to some of their own favs. You also find new music this way, and this situation has definitely happened to me on more than one occasion. Just another reason to love music even more!

Boris, Russian Circles, The Life & Times

2010-09-06T09:54:00.001-07:00

Very blurry pic of TLAT

1. Pain Don't Hurt
2. Mea Culpa
3. Let It Eat
4. Hush
5. (new song)
6. (another new song)

It appeared that Rob Smith (Traindodge/Roma 79/Riddle Of Steel) was backing up TLAT! He played keyboard and guitar (yet no percussion, what he's usually known for). Wish I went up front for this one, despite the set being brief.

Russian Circles setting up

1. Harper Lewis
2. Malko
3. Carpe
4. Hexed All
5. Death Rides A Horse
6. Geneva

This was when I got up front, and I'm very glad I did. Russian Circles opened up with the first song I had ever heard by them, and still one of my all-time favorites!
They then went into Malko, which is also a favorite, though I wasn't too pleased with the harsh, high-pitched keyboard part Brian Cook played (probably because I was right next to the stage speaker!). I believe the next 2 songs they played were Carpe and Hexed All. Both sounded great, and I was suprised that Russian Circles played one of their softer songs. Then came Death Rides A Horse, with all the unforgettable riffs that got them established in the underground-metal world. They closed with Geneva, which is probably my favorite Russian Circles song at the moment, so overall I was widely impressed with the performance. It also sort of brought back memories of the Isis & Pelican show I went to a year before (since they are all referred to as post-metal bands). Nonetheless, EPIC

...and so it got even more epic!

1. Farewell
2. Rainbow
3. 8
4. Luna
5. Statement
6. Floor Shaker
7. A bao a qu
8. 16:47:52
9. Akirame Flower
10. Pink
11. Korosu
12. 1970
13. Untitled (from Smile)
I think this is what the setlist was, I went to setlist.fm and most of the sets of this tour look the same so I'll go with this.

Though I've really only listened to Heavy Rocks, Pink, and Smile, I definitely did not want to miss out on seeing Boris, for I'm up for anything they play (whether it's drone-y sludge to stoner rock to experimental shoegaze). All I can say to sum up this performance is OUTOFTHISWORLDAMAZING! From the fog filling up the ballroom to the big Orange and SUNN amps, Boris was the absolute best that night, as well as the best band I've seen perform at Southgate House. Like I said, I'm mostly familiar with their more hard-rock/stoner stuff, so when they went into Statement, I found myself wanting to just move to the music even more, and there were definitely others feeling the same way. This was were the first mosh-pit occured, though it wasn't as intense compared to the trifecta of Pink, Korosu, and 1970 (my 3 favorite Boris songs!) I witnessed. Even with the moshing that went on as Boris played, there were also more relaxed songs. I can't remember the song that Wata was singing and Atsou was doing unique percussion on, but I really enjoyed it, though there were some that started to talk due to the lack of heaviness. They closed with what I believe is "Untitled", the last song on their latest album "Smile". It leans to more of their sludgey/drone side of Boris spectrum, and up to the ending nearly everyone had their hands in the air, everything from horns to applause. Finally, Atsou dived into the crowd, with the rest of the band leaving the stage.

I feel I could go on for how much I was impressed with this show, but I'll just stop here for now. Can't wait for anohter show that will be as incredible as this one!

It's been a long time....

2010-08-10T17:39:00.000-07:00

Well, I figured I'd get back to writing on this blog again, and actually bring back something I've been meaning to do since last winter: continue the "Latest Listening" feature of this blog. And I shall do so, because at the end of the week, Constants is putting out their new album "If Tomorrow The War" for free download (that is, for eveyone that pre-ordered the limited vinyl!) I've been eagerly awaiting it's release ever since I got into Constants this summer, streaming the shit out of "Your Daughter's Eyes" and "The Sun, The Earth" from their teaser site and Myspace while getting into their previous releases as well. I'm really thinking that this will be their best album to date!

Oh, and another new thing I just thought of as I was writing this post, doing reviews of recent live shows I've attended. I know, I don't go to shows every week or anything, but I'm sure as hell lucky to be seeing Boris, Russian Circles, and The Life & Times (2nd time!) tomorrow at the historic Southgate House. Not sure if I'll bring my camera to take pics or even vids, but we'll see...

So that's all for now, I'll get back to writing once again real soon!

Roller Coaster Heathen is back

2010-06-14T09:49:00.001-07:00

So it's true, me and my brother Michael have brought back the ole' RCH, and he's already recorded part of a song, so I'll complete the rest and put it up for your listening pleasure. Not sure what we're doing exactly though, either and EP or an album? We'll see...

Superlative Clamor Compilation

2010-04-25T14:56:00.000-07:00

An upcoming compilation from Superlative Clamor (my label), is arriving soon. It will feature the following:

-Gyoza- One Week Of Destruction (Demo)
-Levajura- Resonator (Demo)
-Roller Coaster Heathen- Crumbling Tower

and possibly more...

Roller Coaster Heathen- Nebraska

2010-04-02T09:04:00.000-07:00

http://www.mediafire.com/?tklm5monmoy

1. 45 Thieves
2. Phantom's Ass
3. Wilderbeast
4. Pygmy Killer Whales
5. One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
6. The Last Ride Out

Roller Coaster Heathen is/was

Mike Farr: Guitar, vocals, programming
Nick Farr: Drum programming, SFX

ROLLER COASTER HEATHEN

2010-04-01T10:37:00.000-07:00

An old project my brother started 3 years pretty much kicked of both of our
experiences with recording mostly original music. RCH pretty much inspired me to start Gyoza, and I also got the position of drum programmer for the band when my brother was making the debut album "Nebraska". It later got scraped, until now...

About a year later I started to add some additional percussion to the old RCH tracks, giving them this electronica type of feel, whereas the guitar parts were pretty sludgy. I didn't really do anything afterward up until recently, today in fact! I kind of remixed the songs I worked on, and even found some more to spruce up, so now there's 7 RCH tracks I plan on releasing really soon, probably on Last.fm first. 6 of those tracks will be "Nebraska", while another will be on an upcoming Superlative Clamor compilation (more news on that later). Now I need to tell Mike about this and see what he thinks of the old project, and see if there might be any future plans.

Ultimate Idea

2010-03-31T21:39:00.000-07:00

So I've decided that I'm going to start making my own podcasts about my recent music
listenings/discoveries! I think it will be great for this blog since I'll be talking about alot of great bands that I enjoy (and probably get some more people to check out what I do or just simply talk about good music!)

I'll go ahead and say that it will feature such bands as City Of Ships, Junius, Stemage, Refused, Open Hand, Dude Japan, Small Brown Bike, The Stella Link, The Appleseed Cast, Love Cup, and Hum. Hopefully it works out...

Name for the upcoming debut album from Gyoza is...

2010-03-11T17:10:00.003-08:00

How I love the family Canon FS200

2010-02-17T10:58:00.000-08:00

I've been using a camcorder that the whole Farr family got for Christmas a lot for Gyoza stuff, including photos and vids. I just love it! It's really keeping my project more alive than before, though still not much feedback has arrived. I hope that's just because of it being the early stages.

Which brings me to the topic of a "music video". It's quite a wintry featurrete, creating a lost feeling, which relates to the song itself. I may have to put in some lyrics later as well. But anyway, for now it's a spacey, noisey instrumental in the drop-d variety, and the song was actually created out of improvisation on my DL4 while I was recording with my 4-track once again (also did the same with M-Chee). The bad part would probably have to be me trying to improvise drums via drum machine, and it's a little sloppy at parts for that, but there are some shining moments of percussion in there.

If your reading this, the video will arrive soon, and the song will also be on the upcoming Gyoza album that's still untitled.

Metamorphic

2010-02-13T13:17:00.001-08:00

I've decided to upload music from my very first music project "Metamorphic" to Last.fm. There should be some stuff up real soon...

L.L.- Superdrag

2010-02-10T15:37:00.000-08:00

Superdrag- Head Trip In Every Key (1998 Elektra Records)

So I got into Superdrag right before Christmas, and since then, I've listened to 3 of their albums: the debut album Regretfully Yours, the latest Industry Giants, and Head Trip In Every Key, which I got on CD a week ago.

Well I really enjoyed their first album, where it had everything from that "power-pop" sound, some shoegaze feel ala MBV, and even some similarities to one of my favorite bands Jawbox (wonder if they toured together back in the day...). Well, most of that isn't really present in the 2nd album. I guess you can still call it power-pop, but there's definitely some homage to the Beatles, who may or may not have invented the genre used to describe bands like Superdrag. It opens up with "I'm Expanding My Mind", a pretty mellow song with a nice acoustic guitar, beatiful ambience, and perhaps bordeline country (slide guitars can be found). "Hellbent" brought Self to mind, but that's only because they share the same genre tag and song title. As far as the sound of the song goes, it's got the biggest Beatles influence in this album, also makes me think of Cheap Trick I guess (has a more 70s vibe to it at times). "Sold You An Alibi" has a unique clean guitar sound to it, and I like the lyrics John Davis uses ("sympathy fuck"? Awesome). "Do The Vampire" was supposed to be their hit song for this album, but as with every underrated 90s rock band that was signed to a major only to be ignored by the mainstream, that didn't really happen. But this song will get the QOTSA fans turning, since it's still pretty accessible and hard-rockin', along with tight drums. All of a sudden a piano comes out in "Amphetamine", so it kind of starts out like a ballad, later to have some bending guitars showing Superdrag's love for classic rock. "Bankrupt Vibration" is probably the most eclectic song in this album, with some acoustic guitar and percussion that makes you feel like your in the desert. Then it goes to some pounding drums and crunchy guitar. "Mr. Underground" showcases more instrumentation with some horns, but still holds the poppy sound from yours truly. More softness set in with "Annetichrist", and by now you'll probably notice how clever a lyricist John Davis is. It also gets a little shoegaze-y towards the end of the song, and retains that calmness found throughout this album. "She Is A Holy Grail" is what I could describe as a folky rock dirge, and it also kind of brings me back to listening to STP (you'll love Superdrag if your a fan of the Pilots). "Pine Away" is my personal favorite, made me think of Pinebender hence it's title, and it's not far off from that band besides being more mid-tempo. I feel like they capture everything found in this album with this song: indie, classic, little bit of shoegaze. "Shuck & Jive" is a fuzzy number that seems kind of political, and is very similar to their latest album. "Wrong Vs. Right Doesn't Matter" has a indie-pop opening only later to shift to a grungy sound, along with a solo in the middle. This album closes with "The Art Of Dying", featuring orchestration, middle-eastern guitar licks, more soloing, and of course Davis's calm but powerful lyrics. Like the Beatles? 90s rock? 70s rock? Classic Rock? Indie Rock? It's the melting pot of all of that my friend, pick it up!

P.S. I didn't really mention the bass or anything since I didn't notice it (obviously?), but I'm pretty sure if your a fan of clean and/or Beatles bass, it's there for ya... (your still an awesome bassist Tom Pappas!)

Links:
http://www.superdrag.com/news.htm

Head Trip In Every Key - Super...

Latest Listening- Roma 79

2010-01-31T14:48:00.000-08:00

This is pretty much my new kind of thing I guess where I talk about new music stuff I've required and such.

Roma 79- The Great Dying (2005 Ascetic Records)

Got this in the mail on Wednesday, which was a bad day for me personally, so I didn't listen to this as soon as I had gotten it. But later on I uploaded it to my computer and gave it some more listens later through the week. Honestly I had listened to it already via Lala.com,and really liked it, but really wanted to own the tracks for unlimited streaming. I decided to just order it from Amazon for pretty cheap, along with the Superdrag album I'll go into later.

But anyway, I've been into Roma 79 ever since I downloaded the latest "Praise The Divide". Compared to TGD, PTD is much more mellow and synth arranged, where TGD is much more angular in most songs, featuring heavier guitar sounds and distorted bass. "Heads Down" keeps me thinking of the ole' guillotine with that drumline in the chorus, and it's all pretty good with kind of middle-eastern sounding guitar and Jeremy's signature vocals (which kind of reminds me of Keeley Davis from Engine Down, but not completely), and everytime the bass kicks in it gets more thick. "Disposed To Violate" has some build-up in the beginning, and then it gets pretty fast, and it was kind of shocking to hear Roma 79 go in this direction from what I had heard from PTD. It's pretty post punk, and probably the most distant from any other song Roma 79 has made. Reminds me of Traindodge if anything, except not as technical. "Kill The Sun" on the other hand is a little reminiscent of Riddle Of Steel guitar-wise, and even classic prog-rock sounding. "Gold" is what I would say the standout track in the whole album, and a good blueprint of their overall sound.
"4MO1" is the most chilled out song in TGD. Would I say that it's cabaret sounding? "Angel Message" is also pretty post-punk, and pretty versatile in structure, featuring a grooving-pop beginning, dischordant guitar line where Patfield says "exit left...exit right", and my favorite, a start-stop/palm-mute guitar bridge. Then comes 'the long song', known as "The Spin". It's pretty good though, more catchy than most lengthy songs I here. "Reprise" is basically, well, a synth-laden reprise of Heads Down I'm assuming. The last-song, the title-track, is original and thought out, with some slow but pounding guitar parts that could be appealing to fans of Jesu. Overall, Roma 79's mix of indie rock, shoegaze, post-punk, prog-rock, and synth pop is much better than what I've heard to be too 'repetitive' or 'going no where'. 'The Great Dying' is something you need to get if your a fan of any of those genres or are just getting into Ascetic Records material. The latter is where most of the fan-base is located obviously, but hopefully this could pop up in the lap of the former too, because this band is highly underrated!

Hope my first album review doesn't suck too bad.

Links!
http://www.roma79.com/news.php
http://www.myspace.com/roma79

The Great Dying - Roma 79

Levajura- Warship

2010-01-23T16:33:00.001-08:00

http://www.mediafire.com/?honlny0zxic

1. Cement Your Mouth (Violence)
2. Smooth Sails Across The Rugged Tidewater
3. Circle (Steal Drums)
4. Smothering Sight Edit
5. Crateria
6. Warship Edit
7. Haunting

Gyoza- Gyoza 09

2010-01-23T13:50:00.001-08:00

http://www.mediafire.com/?1g530thnqjc

1. 02
2. Oversize Load
3. Ether
4. Detach

Bonus Video- Singling Out Myself (live@bedroom)

The Common Browns- 4 Song Demo

2010-01-23T12:04:00.000-08:00

http://www.mediafire.com/?zqmomztkyyt

1. Real Cowboy
2. Tomorrow's Kings
3. Sunburst Gun
4. Powder Blue

Cody: Vocals, Guitar
Mike: Guitar, Backup Vocals
Tank: Drums

Update

2010-01-23T11:17:00.000-08:00

I've been wanting to write up about my favorite music, but due to laziness, breaks, login complications, etc., haven't gotten around to it. I shall though, i shall...

As usual, I'll make updates on my current music ventures, so now is the time to do so:

-Gyoza 09: Should be out on this blog by the end of the month, features 4 songs. Call it a demo, call it an ep, whatever. If anything, it's nothing too special, but it's better than what I've done before. Promise, "Gyoza 10" will be better!

-Rock Lick Radio: The band I've been playing bass for since September has changed it's name to the aformentioned title of this bullet. We were supposed to record towards the beginning of the month, but thanks to the local snowfall, that has been postponed to a later and hopefully soonish date (thinking February). There's a whole albums worth of material we've got, and the plan is to release that album's worth as, well, a DEBUT ALBUM! For now, mr. low end here is going to release the 4 songs back when it was just 3 members without the bass and then recently named "The Common Browns". More talk about this garage punk/folk group later...

-Levajura: Currently on hiatus, at least from doing the original plan of making all the music electronically. With that said, there might be a chance that I'll do an acoustitronic-like thing with previous songs, and perhaps some new ones. Not entirely certain though.

-Wallmaster: Actually have tinkered with some ideas using my Big Muff and drop-d tuning. I still want to do something with this project, even though there's pretty much nothing I've put out yet.

So yes, that's the whole shin-dig right this moment. Hope to throw some awesome tunes out there this year, and hopefully more people will pay attention!

Before the good stuff....

2009-12-07T14:33:00.000-08:00

Let me say some words about my stuff:

-LEVAJURA: New EP, "Warship", is coming out very soon, possibly this week. As far as everything after that, there won't be much from Levajura probably. Looks to be a hiatus?

-GYOZA: A new demo is officially coming out! It's simply entitled "Gyoza 09", and features pretty much all the stuff recorded on the 4-track this year. A new song, called "Detach", is also going to be streaming soon, and will be released on the demo. More from Gyoza is expected from 2010.

-WALLMASTER: Uh.....maybe a demo in January?

Also, all three Superlative Clamor artists have "signed" with local Morehead, Ky label Toothcomb Records. There might be a chance that there could be some recording going on at the label next year! As far as internet stuff, keep following the label Superlative Clamor.

More Extensive

2009-11-28T20:28:00.000-08:00

I, Nicholas J. Farr, plan on making this blog even more devoted to music, not just my own! There's alot of focus on my projects Gyoza and Levajura on this blog, but what one (in this case 'you') should really pay close attention to for now is what I really think is incredible, inspiring music.

I pretty much live upon music, nothing else I do compares to the absolute devotion I have towards it! My favorite type of music would be underground rock, in other words "space rock", "post-hardcore", "hardcore", "progressive punk", "experimental metal", and for a good amount of time "pop". I also have followings to other things such as electronica, video game soundtracks, some movie soundtracks, classic rock, GOOD mainstream radio stuff, occasional guilty pleasures, noises, and other stuff both conventional and non-conventional. Some good points to start would be Cave In, HUM, Failure, The Casket Lottery, Small Brown Bike, sElf, Shiner, Jawbox, Traindodge Botch, Coalesce, Isis, Pelican, Stemage, Hammer No More The Fingers, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, and so much more. I have around 300-400 artists scrobbled on last.fm, so I listen to a bunch of stuff. So yeah, its pretty much my life to listen to a variety of artists, usually my favorite genre/style, and continue to read into the stories of each artist/band considering how much time I have and how devoted I am to the artist. I figured it was time to get it across to the best place I can right now, the world wide web (i.e. Internet, Firefox)

A plethora of it for sure, IT STARTS NOW!!!

p.s. I'm going to try to stop being so vague and, perhaps, dry?

1 Year

2009-09-19T09:42:00.000-07:00

This is the anniversary of this blog, so to celebrate:

Finally?

Gyoza Vs. Levajura (Split Album)

2009-08-02T14:58:00.001-07:00

http://www.mediafire.com/file/f2ynbmomjy0/Files.rar

1. Dissapointing New Approach (Levajura)
2. Singling Out Myself (Gyoza)
3. Peeved (Levajura covering Gyoza)
4. 1278 (Gyoza covering Levajura)
5. TV Dinner Remix (Gyoza/Levajura colloboration, originally by Gyoza)

2 names, 1 artist.

The New Levajura Vid

2009-08-02T14:40:00.000-07:00

Upcoming Music Video From Levajura

2009-07-10T10:10:00.001-07:00

Levajura is making a video for the song "Processing Unit", off of their latest release "Console Sciatic". It will differ from the previous 4 videos as it will have actual video rather than a bunch of pictures made on msn Paint put together.

A hint on the video: It rhymes with Motel Wario.

Levajura- Console Sciatic

2009-06-22T14:50:00.000-07:00

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wyiyxttldww/Console Sciatic.rar

1. Processing Unit
2. Galvani's March
3. Cement Your Mouth
4. A Soothing Song
5. Outcoming Circuits
6. A Smothering Sight
7. Worship
8. Themomentwhereallhellbreakslose
9. Warship

Levajura- LP 25%

2009-06-22T14:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.mediafire.com/file/yiz2mrygtbi/LP 25%.rar

1. New File
2. 404 Error
3. Triangle
4. Document Deletion

Gyoza- Bland, Bitter Attempt (2007-2008)

2009-06-22T14:40:00.001-07:00

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jjc4lewykm2/BBA.rar

1. 00
2. Peeved
3. Pro Catastrophe
4. Acoustic Jam With Ripshit Drums
5. TV Dinner
6. Mollusckcean
7. A New Element

This Blog

2009-06-21T22:17:00.001-07:00

Is back, oh yeah

Next Installment: HUM/Cave-In

2008-12-17T09:45:00.000-08:00

The next slideshow combo will feature the music of Hum and Cave In. The first song will be "Boy With Stick", a b-side that accompanied Hum's singles from You'd Prefer An Astronaut. The other is "Prognosis", a rarity track that came in between Cave In 2.0 and Cave In 3.0. So for those of you that haven't heard these splendid, lesser-known songs, you might want to wait for this vid to come out this month.

Gyoza News

2008-12-16T14:56:00.000-08:00

Gyoza plans on making another demo soon. This time the music will be recorded on tape, along with some more "complete" songs in contrast to the prior acoustic material. Expect distorted guitar, clean guitar, vox, and percussion on this next batch of stuff.

Gravitar/Craw Tribute Video

2008-12-05T20:37:00.000-08:00

It's up on YT now:

Gravitar- The Michigan band was around in the 1990s and put out a good amount of albums, eps, etc., with "Now The Road of Knives" being their swan song (and perhaps best) release. They blended in rock, free-form jazz, and noisy fx to attain a sound hard to digest. They're broken up now, and the drummer works on his electronic solo work currently. Not sure what other alumni do...

Craw- Cleveland, Ohio math rock band with hard-edged prog-metal, similar to their next door neighbors Keelhaul. They formed around the start of the 90s, maybe enven around the time Gravitar did. In 1994, they put out 2 albums, both engineered by Steve Albini, their s/t debut and "Lost Nation Road". Then later in the decade they self released an album called "Map Monitor Surge", and again got help from Albini. By the time of their 4th release, they would have a new label (Hydra Head), new producer, and be without their founding guitarist. Much like the Cleveland bros from Keelhaul, they don't really tour. Semi-functional, but don't expect to see them live anytime soon.

Next video will be b-sides from 2 RCA space rockers...

Levajura- s/t

2008-11-27T18:30:00.001-08:00

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AB2VOSEL

The debut full-length from Levajura. Songs created in the spring of 2008.

1. _________ (Line)

2. ++++++++ (Plus)

3. ********* (Star)

4. ^^^^^^^^^ (Up)

5. %%%%%% (Percent)

6. $$$$$$$$$ (Tender)

7. ======== (Tunnel)

8. ()()()()()()() (Circle)

9. ------------ (Dashed Line)

10. {}{}{}{}{} (Spikey Thingy)

11. [][][][][][][] (Square)

12. ''''''''''''''''''''''' (Slash)

13. """"""""""""""" (Slash x2)

14. <><><><> (Diamond)

15. ................. (Dotted Line)

16. Esc (Escape)

NOTE: Words in parentheses are the alternate titles of the songs

New Slide Series

2008-11-27T18:14:00.000-08:00

I'm starting this new video series to be put on YouTube. It's these slide shows featuring music from 2 select artists (most likely artists or songs very underappreciated). The first will be the noise rock bands Gravitar and Craw. You'll see what I'm talking about once you see it...

Oh yeah, and it is different from the slide shows I make with my music project "Levajura". These videos actually have effects and shit!

Gyoza - Clean EP

2008-09-18T17:33:00.000-07:00

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yjrlp35sqag

Debut release for Gyoza. Includes 3 acoustics songs created over the summer of 2008.

1. ...
2. Frigid
3. C.Y.