Zak Riles Discography of CDs

Zak Riles songs A key member of the post-rock outfit Grails, guitarist Zak Riles continues his main band's interest in experimental, psychedelic instrumentals that often draw a heavy influence from the traditional music of the Far East. Some compositions engage Eastern modalities and drone-like structures in a way ...

Zak Riles discography Grails is one of the more consistent and assured bands to emerge out of the Pacific Northwest's fertile drone metal scene. Their second album for Temporary Residence is a slab of dark, exploratory heaviness as black and imposing as 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY's monoliths. A ...

Zak Riles albums Winter Farewell is, in effect, the first genuine collective Norfolk & Western band effort, featuring mostly ensemble performances and production and at least a half-dozen co-writing credits. It is also every bit as strong as -- in fact, even stronger than -- Centralia. The album ...

Zak Riles CD discography Bobby Birdman is the alter ego of Rob Kieswetter, a singer/songwriter who makes ample use of the acoustic guitar but who also injects new elements into his quiet music with the use of wild, atmospheric electronics. His sparse, computerized accompaniment and sullen, whispery vocals are ...

Zak Riles music CDs On his second album, Born Free Forever, Bobby Birdman continues to mix searching, acoustic-based songs with experimental and electronic touches, resulting in a sound that owes as much to bands like Smog and the Radar Brothers as it does to Radiohead and the Flaming Lips. ...

Zak Riles songs Track Listing of songs: Soft Temple; More Extinction; Silk Rd; Drawn Curtains; Outer Banks; Dead Vine Blues; Origin-Ing; Burning off Impurities;

Zak Riles CD discography Grails' second full-length album seems to be influenced by one or more of its members moonlighting in Jackie-O Motherfucker, namely in its appropriation of dirge-like "traditionals" (or at least what sound like folk spirituals) and elaboration of them in a post-rock context. Or perhaps there's ...

Zak Riles albums Grails are like that worn and comfy leather jacket that you've had for years and years: it slips on easily and conforms to the contours of your body, immediately soothing you with its warmth and its recognition of its owner's body shape. The Grails = ...

Zak Riles music CDs Additional personnel includes: M. Ward, Joey Burns, Nick Luca. Recorded at Type Foundry, Portland, Oregon and Wave Factory, Tuscon, Arizona. Personnel: Adam Selzer (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, classical guitar, harmonica, Mellotron, finger cymbals, percussion); Zak Riles (guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo); Tony Moreno (guitar, ...

Zak Riles discography The Portland, Oregon, outfit Grails creates a Pacific Northwest brew of psychedelic gloom that recalls both the band's contempoaries (they've worked with or toured with Jandek and OM) and their foggy locale. REFUGE is percussive and rhythmic but without menace or bombast; its instrumentation is ...

The artists who have recorded for FILMguerrero have always had a remarkable way of translating distance, particularly wide open spaces and how people move through them, into delicate little sound photographs -- the (often wordless) short narrative as pop song -- and Peace Harbor is no different on that score (no pun intended). It should come as no surprise, considering Not Yet Fire has such a visual approach to sound, that Zak Riles ...