Patrick O'Hearn

Lia has been playing this song over the past few months and every time I asked her who the artist was I forgot to write it down. I finally got around to exploring Patrick O'Hearn's ambient collection and have been very impressed. Especially with this track, it's so ethereal, and it brings back great memories for me.

Mooncake

Happy 4th of July! It's getting pretty pathetic how little I have been posting lately, but I'm not going to make another promise to post weekly, I've tried that and failed. But anyways, Mooncake! An incredible post-rock band from Russia. I guess I should be posting an American band on this great day, but this track is too good to pass up. Check out the acoustic and the original!

No Clear Mind

I stumbled across this band on YouTube yesterday. They barely have over 2,000 listens on LastFM. Not exactly sure where to get a hold of their material, but you can visit their MySpace here.

Tycho

I am confused as to how I had not heard Tycho until today. I've been listening to The Album Leaf for the past four years, but haven't visited his Last FM page in a grip. When I visited the page today someone commented about Tycho, there are definitely some similarities. Ahhhh, music discovery.

If These Trees Could Talk

Just some good old Post Rock from Ohio.

Björn Olsson

I can't stop listening to this song. There's just something so special about it that I cannot describe, so I won't even try.

Anoice

Anoice is a six-piece piano based instrumental group from Tokyo. They use an awesome assortment of instruments ranging from the viola to the tenor saxophone. This song slowly picks up and almost reminds me of a classical piece. A cleaner non-live version of this song can be found here: Liange

Heavy.

Caspian is a Post-Rock band hailing from Dupont, Massachusetts. This is not your typical Explosions in the Sky type of instrumental band. Don't get me wrong, I love Explosions, but Caspian offers a wider variety of sound amongst their songs. This track in particular gets heavy, which is what makes it so great. The Raven encapsulates the "beyond mellow" of Post-Rock.

Download here: Caspian- The Raven

Caspian is an American instrumental rock band from Beverly, Massachusetts. The band formed in Autumn of 2003 and played their first concert in August of 2004. After releasing their debut EP You Are The Conductor(Dopamine, 2005) in late 2005, the band spent most of 2006 touring The United States and Canada and writing their debut full-length record The Four Trees (Dopamine, 2007). “The Four Trees” was released in the U.S. on April 10, Japan on May 2 and in Europe in July of 2008. Heavy touring in North America and Europe ensued through 2008 while the band continued work on their 2nd LP, “Tertia”. Tertia (Mylene Sheath/Make My Day 2009) was released in September 2009 and was supported by 2 massive European tours, a 2 month North American run in spring of 2010, and the band’s first performances in China in July of the same year. In 2010, Caspian’s US record record label, The Mylene Sheath, re-issued You Are The Conductor and The Four Trees on a special 3XLP vinyl only set with new artwork and remasters of the original recordings. Currently the band has plans to tour in the autumn/winter of 2010 and continue writing their 3rd full-length album, to be released in 2012 worldwide. Sonically Caspian draws from a broad scope of influences ranging from the ambient sophistication of Eluvium and Brian Eno to the crushing fury of art-metalists such as ISIS and Tool. Emotively, the music of Caspian shares common threads with Sigur Ros, M83 and The Appleseed Cast.