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  • 05.15.09
    Interview: SIMON PILER INTERVIEWS, QUIXODELIC RECORDS, SIMON PILER | Comments Off
      The interview of interviews? Quite possibly. Either way, this is one long and mightily interesting reads, so strap yourselves in, get comfy and dig on it.   1 How did you get into making music?  I think I was singing little songs from a very early age, and I'm sure that my father would sing his (unaccompanied) songs to me as well, when I was very young.  My first song didn't really have a name, and was only one line long, repeated over and over - Òwe gotta do one thing, we gotta put the lights on the Christmas tree.Ó  I was probably ...
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  • 03.20.09
    Review: SIMON PILER & THE ATOM BAND – Songs From Home QUIXODELIC RECORDS, REVIEWS, SIMON PILER | Comments Off
    In an imaginary back bedroom somewhere on your street, Simon Piler and The Atom Band are hunched around a whirring tape recorder that accidentally captures some process of song. The completed record - "Songs From Home" - is a collision of ideas coagulating to form a wonderfully lo-fi compound of sound. Dylanesque bluesy guitar-led folk runs effortlessly into experimental synthetics, random instruments pipe up long-lost melodies and samples of sound texture sputter on in the background. And all the while Simon Piler sings, intelligent heart-felt poetry, the underbelly of America, politically astute, emotionally aware, and unconsciously different. As compounds go, ...
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  • 03.20.09
    Simon Piler and The Atom Band – Songs From Home QUIXODELIC RECORDS, RELEASES, SIMON PILER | Comments Off
    Simon Piler and The Atom Band Songs From Home download: http://www.daydreamgeneration.com/MP3/SongsFromHome.zip It's been a while, but finally here we go. 2009, and in association with NEW RADISH, Quixodelic Records are pleased to introduce SIMON PILER AND THE ATOM BAND'S brand new record "Songs From Home". Lo-fidelity experimental folk music for the aimless spring mind, alive with poetry and adventurous sound-stitchery. And FREE of course. I'll stop the superlatives there and save them up for the interview I'm about to write, but why not gift yourself the time and patience it will doubtlessly take to wade through my clumsy sentences and just click the DOWNLOAD button above... Find out ...
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