Top 10 Songs to Listen to While Studying

http://blog.ourstage.com/2008/09/15/ten-songs-to-listen-to-while-studying/

This month, "Sanctus" made it all the way to the semifinals in the OurStage's electronic category. Each month, we select different songs for different categories to test the waters and see where we stand. Before this, "Dies Irae" was the best finisher falling somewhere in the 40's. But something happened this month and the tides turned in our favor. SEVENTH place sounds like a great start for us.

If you'd like to have some fun, judging up and coming music, check out www.ourstage.com. Maybe we'll see you there. Peace!

-TSR-

Please join us tomorrow, Monday 18th, for a special night of music at TT's the Bears. We're thrilled to announce that we'll be opening for Parachutes, the next great, up and coming band from Iceland. Their record, recently produced by Sigur Ros, has just been released and they are touring in support of it and their friends who helped make it. Doors open @ 8, We go on @ 9 and, tickets are $10. Hopefully we'll see you out there.

http://www.myspace.com/parachutesmakesongs
http://www.myspace.com/theINFORMATI

The Informati - Requiem
Produced by Steve Catazone and the Informati | Mixed by Jeff Yurek and Mastered by Mark Donahue at Sound Mirror in Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA.

"Requiem is an impressive album - all of The Informati's songs here, save one, are in Latin. Yes, Latin, the dead language high schoolers hate. At first thought and listen Inman's vocals are reminiscent of Gregorian chants reminiscent of an Enya record, though the disc's production truly brings the ancient art form back into modern times. The Informati are a duo of by T.S Ryan on guitars and J. Mark Inman ..boards and vocals, and although they employ a few others to round out the bass (Ben Foley) and drums (Michael Thomas, Brad Caetano).

With electronic beats, spacey guitars and minor chords a plenty, Requiem has just enough cool to be tapped for a Lexus commercial. Although that might be short changing the Informati, the record finds and fits the electronic, Goth chill out niche; if there is one.

Songs like "Dies Irae," and "Sanctus" are about exploring a deep stone basement in a long forgotten castle, only to find Ryan and Inman conducting rituals within. It's nice and creepy.

Requiem is a nice slice of minor melodies for those out there that still listen to The Cocteau Twins, who also like a bit of darkness with their music. (Inman Records)"

myspace.com/theinformati

-Dana Forsythe

http://www.performermag.com/nep.recordedreviews.0805.php

We just got out first play on the BBC Radio network this week. They spun "In Paradisum". Many thanks to Elias Finch for his support.

If you're in the Cambridge, MA, area next weekend, it's in your best interest to checkout this show we finally put togther. Peace!

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"Requiem doesn't claim to be a film soundtrack, but I'd bet money some of the music from this album will wind up in some psychological thriller in the near future. Using a combination of programmed electronic beats, pianos, guitars, and dubby basslines, the Cambridge, Massachusetts duo has crafted a gorgeously haunting, suspenseful album. An added bonus: these guys sing the entire thing in Latin, so there are moments when it's easy to imagine walking up and down the gigantic hallways of some baroque cathedral." - Jennifer Marston

Please join theINFORMATI tonight for some Christmas music like you've never heard before. Sing along renditions of oldies, but goodies. Tell the whole family and come on down to the Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Central Square (Red Line), in Cambridge. The show starts around 9 and the beer is cheap.

Any other questions? Hopefully we'll see you there.

Peace!

 

Hosted By: theINFORMATI
When: Sunday Dec 23, 2007
at 9:00 PM
Where: Middle East Upstairs
472 Mass Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States
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Though we were hoping to get our Requiem to everyone this fall, we have now decided to push back the release until January 1st, 2008. Realizing the potential of this record, we thought it only eloquent to be one of the first records released in the new year.

In the meantime, we'll be preparing for our proposed winter tour and working on new arrangements. There's talk of bringing back Mark's orinigal, 70 bpm Introitus and Tim is reworking their "Lux Aeterna" against Gorecki's 3rd Symphony. We've also found a local DJ crazy enough to work with us, so I'm sure there'll be more to post soon.

Peace.