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Saturday 13 February 2010

New Pacific Blush Album! Valentine's Release Day

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Returning from eight months probation! A single eked out under duress, only because of the Halloween stress and storm – holiday season hit hard this year. But here, the second one. Not eked, totally formed. The most complete Pacific Blush effort yet. A gloomy, stormy, sweet, powerful, loving, trip to the heart of Blush. Featuring a tiny pocketful of guests, this album remains Matt's.

Definitely a darker album than the debut, yet also more expansive and at times a shade content. A stronger focus on electric guitar and organ helps with the shadier connotations while the vocals bring a warming glow. Self-assuring realizations scatter across the album, leaving a sense of hope.

Fashion Chrysalis is the follow-up to last summer's “acclaimed” Skeletal Gardens. It's official release is Valentine's Day, Sunday the 14th. It will be available on iTunes, amazon, eMusic, and lala. There is also going to be a handmade edition, which will be made available here post-haste. In the meantime feel free to ogle the tracklist below.

1. Alternate Lights 6:32
2. Frozen Impressions 3:10
3. In Luscious 4:36
4. Dead Palms 2:59
5. Dreamers Love 4:01
6. Fashion Chrysalis 2:25
7. Overcast 3:22
8. Theater Piece 4:55
9. Jellyfish Colours 8:11
10. Illuminated House 5:19
11. Obscured Ghosts 3:12

Recorded July – November, 2009.

Pacific Blush is Matthew Marcure.

Feat.: Kyte Lockett on electic gtr. 5, 10. Joseph Marcure producer on 8, acstc gtr on 9.

fashion chrysalis back cover

Frozen Impressions

links:

Myspace last.fm

Saturday 23 January 2010

Matt's Top Ten Albums Of 2009

Honorable Mentions

Times New Viking - Born Again Revisited

Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange

Dan Deacon - Bromst

No Age - Losing Feeling

Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

jj - jj n° 2

Nite Jewl - Good Evening

Cold Cave - Love Comes Close

Woods - Songs Of Shame

10.Fever Ray - Fever Ray

FEVERRAY

9. Wavves – Wavvves

WAVVVES

8. Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall

WATCHMEFALL

7. A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Ashes Grammar

ASHESGRAMMAR

6. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

TAROTSPORT

5. Atlas Sound - Logos

LOGOS

4. Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective

FLOODLIGHT

3. Real Estate - Real Estate

REALESTATE

2.Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca / Bat for lashes – two suns

BITTEORCA TWOSUNS

1.Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion / Fall Be Kind

MPP FALLBEKIND

Friday 30 October 2009

Illuminated House Single

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Illuminated house is one of the last songs off the forthcoming album 'Fashion Chrysalis', which should be out by late november, early december. The track is kinda halloween-y, so i thought I'd make it into a little single to post for today. The other track is a song recorded just for the single.. You can download it here for the time being. Hope you enjoy it, and Happy early Halloween!

Also....

I'm going to make 15-20 handmade editions of Fashion Chrysalis that I will sell on this blog for $12. Or however much. I need to find out how much it'll cost to make.

Saturday 10 October 2009

Fashion Chrysalis

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Hey, this is just a quick announcement of Fashion Chrysalis, the new 10 track pacific blush LP! That's the front and back cover of the album above (which might not be final). Anyways I have some plans for the album that I will post about in the next day or so... maybe few :p I have a cold or flu or something, and I don't quite feel totally here so everything I've meant to do is taking forever.

Tuesday 6 October 2009

The Last Ovmujyo!

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This was the, can you guess it?, last Ovmujyo track before the project went on indefinite hiatus. It was recorded in 2004. Initially it was going to appear on the third coil-list compilation and then the most unfortunate happened and eventually it appeared on a tribute compilation to Jhon Balance entitled "The Loneliest Link In A Very Strange Chain" (itself a line from a Coil track). It had long been one of my dreams to work with, or at the least share my work with, Balance, and I think this was probably the closest I'll ever come. Yoink,

The track is called "Transmarginal Abreaction, Dude". It's something I'm still happy with and I hope you will like it too. I tried to reference a little TG in it, as I'd always heard Jhon was their biggest fan.

You can listen below or, if you'd like, download it here.

The photo is of my childhood best friend Tim and I, though you might have to take my word for that on the latter. Tim features in the track, though the recordings of his voice are from a few years after this was taken.

~joseph marcure

Wednesday 30 September 2009

Favorite songs Pt. 5

Sunday 27 September 2009

"Dawn Owl"

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Another little Aiko P. ambientish missive, enjoy.

Saturday 26 September 2009

Aiko P. Missive

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Well it's been a while since I've mentioned anything from my little corner of the galaxy, planetarium, etc... so here is a little early morning ambient piece, a rough sketch of something that I started for a new Aiko P. track..

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Friday 25 September 2009

Twilight At Carbon Lake Cover

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This is a cover me and my friend jordan did recently. It was kinda tough, since it was the first cover I've done and probably his too. I've played it everyday on the organ since. Hope you like it.

Favorite songs Pt. 4





Thursday 24 September 2009

Another Real Japanese Alice (2)

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To be found here genpaku, it's the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Unfortunately, for me, though with good reason, my Japanese has deteriorated to the point where at the moment I can only read fragments here and there, and that's being nice. Anyway, this may have been the inspiration for, well...

Images by, of course, John Tenniel.

International Broadcasting Bureau demo

IBB

I've been planning on releasing a IBB demo EP for awhile now, but I've just never gotten around to it, but I was looking through some folders and found this demo of dust collector. It's almost an entirely different song, and I think I may like it better than the version on 'after school.'

You can download and stream it below.

(sorry about it being a wav, I'm having a lot of trouble converting the file. I'll change it as soon as I can.)

Favorite songs Pt 3.


Beach House - Heart of Chambers

I Love this sooooo much, always puts me in a good mood, always inspires me to write. In my opinion, this is their best song, and probably always will be.

Wednesday 23 September 2009

Pavement!

Pavement

(this is a drawing I did when I was like 12)

Tuesday 22 September 2009

Favorite songs Pt 2.


Deerhunter- Spring Hall Convert

This is probably my all time favorite song

Monday 21 September 2009

we fish it

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fish

via weheartit.com

Favorite songs Pt 1.


AT&T - Pavement

Sunday 20 September 2009

Pleasant Pavillions JPAL- 06

Pleasant Pavillions

This is #1 (now son!) of many improvised tracks to be released, and the the first of three Improvised jams that my friend Jarod and I did today, Or I guess yesterday now. I'll try to post one every week or two. On this one, I play guitar and synths, while Jarod's on the drums, But the other two are me playing drums and Jarod on guitar. You can download, and stream it below,.

Sunday 13 September 2009

Another day, another blog

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