Chandeliers / Happy Survival

Empty Bottle with Indian Jewelry

2010-06-12T10:01:00.001-07:00

Rappin Reverend, I aint into that

2010-05-22T16:24:00.001-07:00

CHANDELIERS at www.dustygroove.com

2010-04-28T13:04:00.000-07:00

"The Thrush" and "Dirty Moves" available NOW at www.dustygroove.com

Click Here!

Chandeliers – The Thrush (CD/LP)
"Avant rock and electronics from Chicago's Chandeliers -- blending a world of influences into a unique vibe all their own! The sounds are playful without being cute and innovative without getting all cerebral on you -- a balance that pushes the group above and beyond many of their peers. A mix of live and electronic instrumentation, with nods to the Krautrock forbears, avant dancefloor sounds from the 80s to today and global psychedelia of many kinds."

Chandeliers – Dirty Moves (CD/LP)
"Dirty Moves and kaleidoscopic sounds from Chicago's Chandeliers -- who fearlessly blend influences that range from the nascent electronic experiments of the 60s & 70s, 70s art rock & Krautrock, raw Congotronics-esque percussion, laser guided 80s electro and more into an insistent and addictive sound all their own! The material was culled from group recordings made fom 2004-2008 and has a nicely raw, kind of instinctive feel to the movements. Very cool stuff!"

-via www.dustygroove.com

Nite Jewel // May 11th

2010-04-13T19:58:00.000-07:00

Hideout

2010-03-02T22:50:00.000-08:00

Dirty Moves: the night

2010-02-01T20:54:00.000-08:00

Thursday Feb 11 at Cole's Bar (2338 N Milwaukee, near California):

Dirty Moves
featuring
Chandeliers and Axis:sovA in an intimate and familiar setting.

Electro, Boogie, Freestyle, Weirdo, Synth Soul, Wave Funk selections by
Jesse Sandvik and Chris Kalis.

Homemade laser show by Ian Lanius. Totally Free.

Keep it Comin...

2010-01-27T10:41:00.000-08:00

Ralph Lundsten in his studio (Andromeda?)

2010-01-22T19:11:00.000-08:00

Ralph Lundsten is a Swedish composer of electronic music, as well as a film director, artist and author. He has prolifically released nearly an album a year since 1966.

via Svalander

Candy Apple (free track)

2010-01-18T18:18:00.000-08:00

This track is taken from the upcoming ACTIVITY ep
(due Spring 2010 on Captcha Records)

Download Candy Apple (mp3)

1000 mirrors

2010-01-15T10:25:00.000-08:00

Michel de Broin's disco ball above Paris.

Is this the Future?

2010-01-10T22:19:00.001-08:00

Rice 2005

2010-01-09T11:23:00.000-08:00

Chandeliers first "song" and one of our first shows. Recently found.
Filmed by Mike Francovic.
Featuring Dan Dan, currently of Mahjongg / Waterbabes.

APC "Relflections" remix contest

2010-01-09T10:40:00.000-08:00

At the last minute we decided to enter WFMU's APC remix contest. The assignment was to take the stems from their track "Reflections" and remix it.

You can click and Download Here.

A good look 1983

2010-01-08T10:38:00.000-08:00

B.B.& Q. (Brooklyn, Bronx, and Queens) Band - Six Millions Times (1983)
"Six Million Times I've called and you weren't home." "Where were you
six million times?" -- classic.

There is undeniable PRINCE influence / vibe on this.. Some vocorder electro type jams too. Lots of guitar solos on the jams, some filler reggae and ballads,
but the title cut and cover make it all worth it.

Attitude - Pump the Nation (1983)

Electro, Boogie, Funk, Disco, this one has it all, if you know the work of
the SYSTEM, you'll dig this, cause they produced the entire album. Its
basically those dudes with different singers. Again, couple of duds on the
B side, but the A side is great. Apparently, the title track was a Paradise Garage anthem in its day, its pretty goofy, but it grew on me.

The first in our series of Similar Looking (and good) Album Covers.

Live Score

2010-01-06T17:34:00.000-08:00

NYE 2010 photos

2010-01-03T13:22:00.001-08:00

Crazy 80s future lazer dance party all night long..Ian rocked the lazers..Ben, Jesse, and Chris K kept it funky

Cinema 16 photos

2010-01-03T10:12:00.000-08:00

Cinema 16: Live Score to Films: Wednesday

2009-11-19T09:21:00.000-08:00

We're performing live and sampled musical scores to films assigned by Cinema 16:

Aleph - Wallace Berman (1966)
Oramunde - Emlen Etting (1933)
The Junky's Christmas - Nick Donkin, Melodie McDaniel (1993)

at the Chopin Theatre on Wednesday November 25th at 7:30pm.
This event is free, but RSVP is required.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Cinema 16 / Nov 25th

2009-10-13T08:47:00.000-07:00

Thrush "Live"

2009-10-02T13:35:00.001-07:00

This is a live version of "the thrush" from about last year when we played at the Hideout with Count Bass D.

Dirty Moves digital 9/22

2009-09-21T20:45:00.001-07:00

Get all 33 tracks of "Dirty Moves" for ten bucks! (click the little itunes button)

Dirty Grooves

2009-07-15T10:42:00.000-07:00

Brand New "Dirty Moves" LPs.. On Magenta Vinyl with insert and amazing
artwork by Chris Schrek..

Dirty Moves /// Side A //

2009-06-24T09:11:00.000-07:00

This is side A of our cassette Dirty Moves. Peace.

Dirty Mov(i)ves

2009-06-23T22:59:00.000-07:00

By Mark Brown, Baltimore, MD.

GOLDEN AGE

2009-06-21T09:01:00.001-07:00

Golden Age is super rad, if you didn't already know.. Check them out! Also
check out our new Mixtape and LP for sale there..

RONNY/S THIS SUNDAY

2009-05-27T12:54:00.000-07:00

Buffalo Stance! North Philly Loft Party Madness from Sunday..

2009-05-21T12:37:00.000-07:00

We played the Woodstove (not really a venue, just some peep's loft, but rad as hell!) in North Philly with Javelin, and the new-ist incarnation of Buffalo Stance, Jamey Robinson's (from Need New Body, Man Man) obscure and funky project who's new record hits stores very soon. The band is amazing and I can't quite describe what they sound like, cause its so many awesome things, but Stevie Wonder, the Four Seasons, and Herbie Hancock all jamming in a studio in Jamaica is kind of what I thought of. But they didnt get to play cause the party ending early (during Javelin's super-rockin set) courtsey of Philly's finest. The Buffalo dudes did a little a capella version of a tune that they had been practicing earlier at Jamey's place (Luckily we got to see them in Brooklyn last Thursday and at their rehearsal earlier that day). Look out for this band if you're on the east Coast and Check www.obeyyourbrain.com for Buffalo Stance "Sugar Glider" out this tuesday!?! Also check Javelin too, cousins George and Thom from Providence via NYC bringing super live MPC party jams that are also catchy and endearing. Photos courtesy of the talented Tiffany Yoon and phrequency.com Peace! Thanks to 4000 Flavors and Sean Hamiltion for setting up the party. Philly is so Live..

SONOTEK 5/19

2009-05-05T16:12:00.000-07:00

4000 Flavors release party in Philly

2009-04-28T19:55:00.000-07:00

CHANDOS MAY 09 TOUR DATES

2009-04-21T16:14:00.000-07:00

FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE

2009-04-15T09:59:00.001-07:00

"Its not just free music, its good music"

Over 5000 tracks available for free on the new FMA curated by WFMU.
Check out a few CHANDELIERS tracks available there..

http://freemusicarchive.org/

CHANDOS SHOPPING

2009-04-08T08:59:00.000-07:00

Coming soon...

thechandeliers.bigcartel.com

Dirty Moves review

2009-04-04T16:09:00.000-07:00

As denizens of a vibrant and eclectic music scene that hinges around the Shape Shoppe recording space on Chicago’s near South side, Chandeliers hail from the same community that includes the inventive Chi-town entities Icy Demons, Bronze, Killer Whales, Bird Names, and Mahjongg. With their 2008 debut The Thrush, the band introduced audiences to their own brand of keyboard-heavy dance rock -- a sound that twisted and shifted through an array of styles and compelling rhythms and proved that the band had a lot of tricks up its collective sleeve.

While listeners might’ve thought they’d gotten a fix on Chandeliers from what The Thrush had to offer, it now seems that we were only getting small part of the picture. The group’s new “mixtape” release, Dirty Moves, offers an extended look at the multi-faceted creative energy that filters into the group’s music.

Selected from a backlog of practice tapes that span the group’s four-year history, Dirty Moves not only charts the band’s evolution, but also displays their stunning artistic flexibility. Over the course of 33 tracks, we hear Chandeliers digging deep into groove mode, all the while engaging in the sort of open-eared improvisational interplay that fuels the band’s music, as melodic motifs get bounced around and the beat gets taken in unexpected and delightful directions. Over the course of 33 tracks, the group snakes all over the musical map and brilliantly runs through a diverse array of styles. From middle eastern synth-pop to Congotronic clatter, electro and 21st century techno-funk, plus a few slips in cinematic mode and a couple of brief sojourns into celestial realms.

Now available on Cassette and LP via the HBSP-2X label, Dirty Moves reveals the working processes of a group that’s percolating with ideas and restlessly pursuing possibilities. Tight on the one hand and loose on the other, occasionally gritty but consistently crafty -- those are the sort of moves (“dirty” and otherwise) that Chandeliers can call their own.

-- Graham Sanford

Show this Wednesday in Chicago

2009-03-30T19:49:00.000-07:00

TAPE PARTY

2009-03-30T15:49:00.000-07:00

'Dirty Moves' mixtape on HBSP-2X

2009-03-05T11:19:00.000-08:00

'Dirty Moves' is a mixtape collection of improv jams and room recordings and loops from us Chandeliers in various forms over the past 4 years. It is what the title describes, and everything (except one jam: thanks benjamin balcom) was recorded by the band on our Tascam 4-Track tape machine. Most of the recordings involved only one mic, so compared to our studio recordings, this is more like being in the same room with us while we're playing. A seamless collection of 33 lost mini soundtracks to the films in your head.... Here is the tracklisting:

SIDE A:

01. Analogue Cabin (2:30)
02. Rubber Room (0:42)
03. 3rd World (2:30)
04. Rotation (0:31)
05. Dragon Contest (2:17)
06. Telekinesis (4:19)
07. Pharaoh's Fury (2:47)
08. Baker Bros (1:35)
09. Taste of Cherry (1:12)
10. San Miguel (1:48)
11. Aerobiz (1:27)
12. Prisoner (0:59)
13. Yaqona (2:27)
14. The Durks (1:04)

SIBE B:

01. Barcelona (0:49)
02. Mayfield (0:52)
03. Triumph (0:42)
04. Ravecrunk (0:41)
05. Everybody Knows (1:35)
06. Sarah Lynn (0:33)
07. In the Octagon (2:01)
08. Street Talk (1:47)
09. Champion (1:40)
10. Color Motion (0:35)
11. Moon Lit (1:00)
12. Yellow Sky (1:00)
13. Arms Deal (0:49)
14. Hotshot (0:54)
15. Circulation (2:18)
16. Sensory Deprivation (0:32)
17. Fiji (1:06)
18. Axis (1:19)
19. Rice (2:20)

Big Up

2009-03-05T11:15:00.001-08:00

DIG IT

Kindred spirits

2009-03-04T12:06:00.000-08:00

JAVELIN !!
can't wait to meet/ jam with these dudes in may!

Javelin - Soda Popinski from Ian McAlpin on Vimeo.

Hideout 2/6

2009-01-30T15:39:00.000-08:00

CASSETTE

2009-01-30T08:23:00.000-08:00

We're working on a 60 min cassette tape release for the label HBSP-2X.
It will be a mix-tape of the past 4 years of improvs and room recordings we've captured on our Tascam 4-track.
We'll be releasing MP3 versions of it as well. In the meantime, you can hear two of the new tracks on our Myspace Page.

Pitchfork reviews "The Thrush"

2009-01-28T07:39:00.000-08:00

A pretty accurate description of our debut LP "the Thrush" (via pitchforkmedia.com):

"While there's not a deafening public outcry for mostly instrumental Moog-laden space-funk right now, Chandeliers breathe new life into some familiar sounds on their debut, The Thrush. Members of stalwart Chicago acts like Mahjongg, Icy Demons, and Mucca Pazza lend their talents to the group, and they manage to borrow elements from all without sounding anything like these precedents. With the mysterious echo of vibraphone, the studious pitter-pat of fluid basslines, sophisticated rhythms, and chilly and cerebral atmosphere, it's sound and feel will be familiar (especially to native Chicagoans), but this is more insistent and less heady-- Chandeliers mostly want you to dance, in your own stilted, highly disciplined way.

Mechanical chirps and machine-like bass keyboards lean on some busy but very human drum work on opener "Mr. Electric", a track full of dropped beats and rhythmic twists and turns that amidst its steady momentum and progressively more layered and melodic keyboards. Watery tones play repetitive, circular themes over the stiff funk of the brief "Maldonado", but "Mango Tree" sticks around long enough for a few different modes: hushed percussion and nearly whispered vocals before, slick Ray-Ban-ready keyboard melodies, and cartoonish day-glo funk. The electronic tones of tracks like "Big League" fall into place like pistons in an engine, while both muttered vocal suggestions and subtle horn accompaniment color the moderate groove of "Gold Rush" as it quietly builds towards its ascending melody.

The bass is deeper and the vibe darker on "Bamboo", while it's springy keyboard tones retain a smirk while it's echo-laden vibraphones add unexpected texture-- though by the record's end, a little guitar and junkyard percussion doesn't do much to spice up the sparse "Graffiti", and the loopy march of "Body Double (UK Mix)" only raises the record's pulse slightly. The final moments of The Thrush maintain a vibe and atmosphere at the cost of growing repetitive. While it's only steps away from post-rock, Chandeliers have taken these elements their own way for a more distinctive whole, and a surprisingly cohesive album. It's both moody and danceable, but far more of the former."

Loft Party with Friends from Baltimore!

2009-01-17T12:14:00.000-08:00

FRIDAY JANUARY 23rd
@ Electric Company in French
(1318 W. Cermak @ Loomis)

CHANDELIERS
MASS SHIVERS
THRUST LAB (from Baltimore)
MARK BROWN (video installation/ Wham City / from Baltimore)
PARTY YEAH!

9pm

$5 Donation

Interview in Lowdown Magazine

2009-01-08T12:34:00.000-08:00

photos from Schubas 12.31.08

2009-01-02T13:42:00.000-08:00

video clip for the thrush

2009-01-01T11:58:00.000-08:00

OYB NIGHT #2 | January 6th

2008-12-29T09:55:00.000-08:00

OBEY YOUR BRAIN
JANUARY 6th, 2009
SONOTHEQUE
1444 W. CHICAGO
FREE ADMISSION

CHANDELIERS
djs HUNTER HUSAR + TIME WARNER (of MAHJONGG/ WATERBABIES)

New Years Eve

2008-12-15T21:15:00.000-08:00

Top 13 of the year XLR8R

2008-12-15T19:08:00.000-08:00

OYB NIGHT TOMORROW AT SONOTHEQUE

2008-12-15T15:47:00.001-08:00

WRITE UP IN GAPER'S BLOCK

Dungen Show Nov 2nd

2008-10-23T09:10:00.001-07:00

Thrush Tour 10/08

2008-10-15T16:08:00.001-07:00

more photos here.

Mr Electric Video

2008-10-15T14:08:00.001-07:00

Chandeliers Video Art - Mr. Electric from TJ Hellmuth on Vimeo.

Live Performance on WFMU

2008-10-14T23:03:00.001-07:00

Last Wednesday we were in New York and we stopped by WFMU to do a session and an interview with Jason Sigal. Here is a stream of the show. (Our segment is in the middle). The playlist is located here (where you can stream specific tracks).

Light Slip (Bamboo) video

2008-10-14T22:32:00.000-07:00

Directed by TJ Hellmuth and Lily Skove.

The Thrush

2008-10-14T21:47:00.000-07:00

Our debut LP "The Thrush" is available on Obey Your Brain. The LP comes with a download code that contains links to download the record plus two bonus tracks and a video.