Northern Abbey - Glimpses (2017)

New track from Northern Abbey. Nick Lambert of Falling Up's project which I have always enjoyed, even as sparse and limited the releases that have come.

But with Falling Up's retirement, I imagine Nick has more time to work on this stuff. Great acoustic/attmospheric/chamber folk/rock, etc. Somewhat similar to The River Empires for whatever reason.

This tune specifically does remind me of the last FU album in some ways. But I do wonder if the title "Glimpses" references more to come soon.




Northern Abbey is a solo project by Nick Lambert. (Falling Up Guitarist) He loves all the greenery, forests, rain, lakes, and people that the northwest brings together, and writes music as a sort of soundtrack to all of it.

Mountain Machine Collection (Nick Lambert of Northern Abbey/Falling Up)

This was released nearly 2 years ago I guess from Nick Lambert of Northern Abbey, and it's just 4 tracks from music I think is used in his project/application for games called "Mountain Machine."

It, like Northern Abbey, is really sublime, cinematic stuff. Kind of reminds me of some of the Nordic Giants stuff I've been so into of late.

Anyway, I'm not sure to what extent the music from this app/game etc will continue to be released, but if anymore like this comes, I certainly am interested to check it out.




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Northern Abbey - The Sounds of Glowing [EP] (2013)

1. Portrait 04:59
2. The Trail 02:38
3. A Lonesome Road 03:10
4. Glowing 05:02
5. Of Lights 02:58
6. The Several Seas (Bonus Track) 02:34



Wow, this sort of came out of nowhere! Although, given I got in touch with Nick Lambert after my end-of-year blurb from last year in here, and he mentioned there was more music coming soon, this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.

 But as the link shows, he plays and writes more or less all of it. Jessy Ribordy of The River Empires and Nick's bandmate in Falling Up, it shows produced and mixed it along with writing a string arrangement on "Portrait," the opening track.

But I really loved the 1st/debut EP from last year from Northern Abbey. So, this is really cool to see this now become available. The artwork is a little puzzling, being sort of a faded/cloudy white/gray, but I imagine there's a good reason for that.

Lost Lander - DRRT (2012)

I'm enjoying a lot of this debut album from this new Portland group Brent Knopf of Ramona Falls/ex-Menomena, worked with.

They use fuzzy guitar, piano, vocal harmonies, strings, and a lot of other things that I often enjoy in music. Chamber College-Rock of sorts.

Kind of cool how in the encoding of the mp3's from their Bandcamp page, the lyrics show up on at least Windows Media Player I use.

The bandcamp finds in 2012, especially from bands that are working-with or even just promoted on artists facebook pages that I already know/like. It seems to be what I am digging the most this year so far.

I guess it could be safe to say, 2012: the year of Bandcamp.com or the year of the "Bandcamp finds." We'll see if I discover 1 every week, I'll have 50+ newly discovered artists just from said website.

Also for some reason, a lot of them hail from Portland, Oregon (Norhern Abbey, Forest Park, now these guys). Maybe I need to go visit or even move there? lol.

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Northern Abbey - Northern Abbey [EP] (2012]

1 The Catacombs 5:29
2 Wayward Village 2:29
3 Paintings 3:29

Jessy Ribordy was passing this project along on facebook yesterday as it was just released. This 3-track debut EP from Nothern Abbey.

Wow, The River Empires much? regardless of how similar, this is SUBLIME. Damn.