Small Sails - Similar Anniversaries

Small Sails is a music and film making collective from Portland, Oregon. The music is a gorgeous post-electronic tribal thing and the films are performed live at their shows using original reel-to-reel footage and dual projectors. A field of dandelions plowed over, inner-city kids jumping double dutch in gritty streets, birds and waterfalls, playground vocals, clicky electronics and warm, spacey melodies - that's what Small Sails looks and sounds like. Their new music is different, too' chanting, humming vocals hint at tangibility while remaining half-submerged; rhythms are a baby-bouncing jumble of eclectic percussion and twittering electronics; and achingly gorgeous melodies get stripped down to the still-gleaming bone. The words are sparse and nonsensical, but somehow such ambiguity it what helps make Small Sails so compelling, both on record and in person.

1) Somnambulist
2) Aftershocks and Afterthoughts
3) Backside of a Magnet
4) Farewell Weird Owl
5) Corners
6) Lawn Makers
7) Earthbound with Parents
8) This Flimsy Traveling Machine
9) House on Home
10) No Spirit Animal
11) Somnambulish [CD-ROM Track]