Labradford Discography of CDs

Labradford CD discography MI MEDIA NARANJA is Artist's defining moment. In the reconstructionist spirit of what the media likes to call "post-rock," this Richmond, VA band makes mostly instrumental music that gleefully breaks down stylistic barriers. MI MEDIA NARANJA, the band's most fully realized effort, eschews traditional "rock" song structures, and moves instead toward what could be the soundtrack to some long-lost art film....

Labradford albums MI MEDIA NARANJA is Artist's defining moment. In the reconstructionist spirit of what the media likes to call "post-rock," this Richmond, VA band makes mostly instrumental music that gleefully breaks down stylistic barriers. MI MEDIA NARANJA, the band's most fully realized effort, eschews traditional "rock" song structures, and moves instead toward what could be the soundtrack to some long-lost art film....

Labradford music CDs In the spirit of Meddle, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, and Millions Now Living Will Never Die, Artist's sixth record features a side-length composition and a flip of shorter works. With Fixed::Context, they've built on the spatial qualities of E Luxo So, while making their most personal and intimate recording, despite it being completely vocal-less. Simple, subtle, and quite beautiful, the 37-minute album rewards during...

Labradford discography With this oddly named 1993 debut, the Richmond, Virginia duo of Carter Brown and Mark Nelson helped reinvent the concept of ambient music for the then-emergent electronica generation. Artist were unmistakably influenced by Brian Eno's pioneering ambient efforts, the deceptively simple minimalism of Philip Glass and Steve Reich, Terry Riley's increasingly meditative solo experiments, and-most obviously-by the '70s Krautrock of Can,...

Labradford songs On their fifth album, Artist--a band already known for its sparse, dreamy soundscapes--tones things down even further. In approaching a more minimalist aesthetic, Virginia's favorite post-rockers drop the film-noir Ennio Morricone vibe that garnered unnecessary comparisons to Tortoise. Instead, there's a hushed, subtly electronic (it sometimes sounds like Pole's Stefan Betke is sitting in) feel to these six lengthy, untitled tracks...

Labradford CD discography The music on Artist's third album can be considered "post-rock" in that it is instrumental and contains aesthetic similarities to bands like Flying Saucer Attack and Tortoise. But there is a clear structure to Artist's songs. Organs, guitars and strings waver and shimmer, while eerie, digitized sounds provide a percussive undertow. The songs are framed by velvet spaces that serve to...

Labradford albums The title of Artist's second album might be a refererence to the contribution of the newest addition to the Richmond, Virginia duo of Carter Brown and Mark Nelson. Artist's third member, bassist Robert Donne, adds a whole new dimension to the band's sound. The spacey, near-formless drones and explorations of the oddly-named debut PRAZISION LP were heavily influenced-by Brian Eno's pioneering...

Labradford music CDs PRAZISION LP veers from such turn-of-the-'90s dance-oriented ambient house artists as The Orb and The KLF by entirely ignoring rave culture in favor of the more solitary, personal experiments of The Spacemen 3, an extremely influential British guitar/noise band. As a result of these influences, the album has an insular, distant, yet oddly comforting feel, with such extended songs as the aptly-titled "Listening In ...