| Esmerine / Dalmak |
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| Album: | Dalmak | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Esmerine | Added: | 09/2013 | |
| Label: | Constellation Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-09-15 | Pull Date: | 2013-11-17 |
| Week Ending: | 17 Nov | 10 Nov | 27 Oct | 20 Oct | 13 Oct | 6 Oct | 29 Sep | 22 Sep |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 13, 2013: | Meow After Midnight Bladerunner Pussycore Sleeptime | 4. | Oct 17, 2013: | Stringless Balloon Learning To Crawl | |
| 2. | Nov 07, 2013: | All Things Go Barn Board Fire | 5. | Oct 09, 2013: | Brownian Motion Lost River Blues I | |
| 3. | Oct 23, 2013: | Meow After Midnight Translator's Clos Ii, Translator's Clos I | 6. | Oct 08, 2013: | late night dryer Lost River Blues Ii, Lost River Blues I |
| Album Review |
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| awyeh Reviewed 2013-09-10 | ||
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Wow! Really cool stuff from label Constellation: a bunch of Canadian post-rock/indie musicians from GY!BE, Silver Mt. Zion, Set Fire to Flames, and more went to Istanbul and recorded this heavily Eastern-influenced album, with four Turkish musicians playing instruments bendir, darbuka, erbane, meh, barama, and saz on most tracks. (The variety of percussion listed there creates a great, unique sound.) Not too post-rocky or new agey; to my untrained ear, they did an outstanding job blending their cello/marimba/percussion with the traditional instrumentation. A-file co-star Sarah Neufeld and contrabassist Aaron Lumley also feature. Fans of currently trending ragas should dig this. 1 (3:23) Wintry strings and shimmers over low rumbles. Calm. Starts/stops a few times over final 45 seconds. **2 (7:26) Percussion quiet and constant- all together it sounds almost like a jungle. Ominous. Horns and strings fixtures, beautiful strings near the end. Ends abruptly, play with 3 (part 2) **3 (3:18) 2 continues with a huge kick up in intensity; loud, rhythmic, intense *4 (4:08) Folky, stringed intro (both kinds of strings); intensifies over its length. Loud, pounding drums, soaring instrumentation at the climax. 5 (3:55) Synths, electronic fiddling/ambience, non-Turkish. Really good, if you aren't digging the other more unique tracks. *6 (3:53) Doomy ambient cello/violin overtaken by upbeat, rhythmic Turkish percussion+instruments. Breaks open into a storm halfway through. 7 is part 2, but the transition isn't bad if you can't spare 11 min 7 (6:52) Upbeat, rhythms continue, heavy strings; as they intensify, vocals kick in, continue while track grows quieter and quieter until it's sparse plucking, chimes, and a light ambient cello hum. 8 (3:59) Acoustic, Eastern-flavored piece without the traditional instrumentation; nice, not essential 9 (5:21) Chimes, strings, vox low in the mix, restrained | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Learning To Crawl | 5. | Hayale Dalmak | |||
| 2. | Lost River Blues I | 6. | Translator's Clos I | |||
| 3. | Lost River Blues Ii | 7. | Translator's Clos Ii | |||
| 4. | Barn Board Fire | 8. | White Pine | |||
| 9. | Yavri Yavri | |||||