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Milwaukee post-rock combo Pele was shaped in 1997 by guitarist Chris Rosenau, bassist Scott Schoenbeck and drummer Jon Mueller; fourteen days before documenting their debut record Teaching the annals of Teaching Geography, the trio recruited previous Promise Band member Scott Beschta to try out keyboards, eventually the prominent musical component …

Combining together acoustic tools with computer and subject recordings, the Stockholm, Sweden, trio Tape (multi-instrumentalists Andreas Berthling, Johan Berthling, and Tomas Hallonsten) possess attracted comparisons to Speak Speak, Gastr del Sol, and John Fahey. In 2002 the music group released the dreamy Opera and in 2003 the greater song-oriented Milieu, …

Bearing no regards to the short-lived Chicago-based band of the same name, Bottom certainly are a primarily instrumental rock and roll quartet from Japan comprising guitarists Mino Takaaki and Yamazaki Hirokazu, drummer Kashikura Takashi, and bassist Yamane Satoshi. Frequently grouped as post-rock or mathematics rock and roll, their free-flowing, extremely …

Conceived by Collections of Colonies of Bees and Volcano Choir member Thomas Wincek, All Tiny Creatures released their first all-instrumental EP, Segni, being a white vinyl-only (via Hometapes Reports) preview for the band’s forthcoming full-length. That full-length, credited this year 2010, was to feature fellow bandmembers guitarist Andrew Fitzpatrick, bassist …

In 2005, a long time before Justin Vernon started building recordings beneath the name of Bon Iver — and before his earlier band, DeYarmond Edison, had sometimes split — he collaborated with Selections of Colonies of Bees’ Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau, Jim Schoenecker, Daniel Spack, and Thomas Wincek on the …