post rock

The Player Piano were a band from Utah, United States. "Player Piano is the nom de plume of Indiana-born, London-fed Jeremy Radway. We’ve been a fan of his for awhile now - having had him play the past couple of Homegame festivals, up here in Fife. A talented musician and studio-engineer, Jeremy plays all the instruments on all of his recordings - drums, guitar, keys, vocals, handclaps and even backslaps (if it’s going well).

In architecture, the apse is a semicircular recess covered by a hemispherical vault, most often referenced in the context of Christian churches. It is a piece of construction that denotes an altar, a sanctuary. Apse's record "Spirit" aspires to a similar state. Less an album than one long song cut into pieces, its one hour duration consists of patterns and colors and shapes. The closest thing to a "single" is the dramatic seven-minute composition "Legions," a particularly concentrated example of the group's shimmering melodies and otherworldly rhythmic spells.

The sense of creating art that can spirit you away somewhere else entirely is something that most definitely also informs the self-titled debut album from Brooklyn, NY based band ERAAS. In 2011, the band's founding members, Robert Toher and Austin Stawiarz, both ex-members of New England-based project APSE, were gravitating more towards ritualistic and darker themes not fully explored in their previous incarnation.

Read more about ERAAS on Last.fm.

Leyaks' tunes are instrumental. They blend Melodic Post-Rock, Math, Electronica, Psychedelic and Heavy Rock influences with their own experiments in sound, playing techniques and frequent changes of style and pace. During their shows they project visuals onto the stage which are manipulated live by the band. Both music and visuals are rumoured to be inspired by Balinese black magic... Leyaks was formed in the summer of 2007 in London...