This Spring the Season 2 of the Showtime TV series This American Life will feature four Bexar Bexar tracks.  If you missed Season 1, featuring 10 Bexar Bexar tracks, you can now purchase it on DVD or download individual episodes.  Later this year the documentary film Think Big, directed by Tally Abecassis, will be released, featuring a soundtrack by Bexar Bexar.  Additionally, the new film The Recruiter by Edet Belzberg (director of Children Underground), will feature one Bexar track. 

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"Many of the songs have this feeling that's hard to describe but so satisfying to hear: like a sadness that's been buried and you're soldiering quietly on, and not making a show of it.  The spare, lovely melodies swell and recede, all with perfect precision and tremendous understated feeling. How this music can be so emotional without ever getting sentimental or corny is completely beyond me"

– Ira Glass, This American Life

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"A sadness pervades much of the material (“The Messy Message,” “Sweet Devil”), lending it an affecting gravitas, while shimmering settings like “Window Piece” and “Unsettled and Unstable” are about as lovely and tranquil as pastoral ambient music gets.”

– Textura [read full review here]

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"It's Bexar's skill in treading the line between the evocative and the universal that makes Tropism seem more engaging than 37 minutes of aparent tranquility should: less a still life than a blank canvas for the mind."

– WIRE [read full review here]

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"These ten songs are acoustic palms; prayers, unbelievable and quaint, that haunt the conscious; unreal and empty. Yet each one, every last enduring moment of each note, hope and reverie, simply has to be… Such frailty is indescribable. Listen. Just…listen."

– Silent Ballet [read full review here]

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“A a purely emotional world filled with hidden memories, lost hopes, and a faint sadness that pervades it all. It is easy to see how comparisons are constantly made to the ambient work of Brian Eno, as well as the strange and wonderful instrumentals of Mum and even Mogwai....It is a beat-less but constantly swirling collection of sounds and motions that ends up stirring the hearts and minds of its listeners a little more than the rump-shaking beats of similar artists like Prefuse 73 or FourTet."

– Indieworkshop [read the full review here]

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"...Equal parts Eno, Mum and Mogwai. His songs construct equally barren landscapes: "Aidos" burbles up from nothing and swells into a circle of warm, chiming guitars, evoking what it must be like to float on your back in the Gulf of Mexico without another soul for miles; the waterlogged, percolating synths of "Kt" approximate the best beatless moments of Boards Of Canada, or at least an instrumental B-side from Kid A. Bexar Bexar often contributes music to dress the scenes on NPR's "This American Life," and it's easy to see why. Haralambos makes perfect background music for quiet, reflective moments: reading a book, lying in the dark, imagining you're the last person on earth."

– CMJ

"whether feelings generated from the songs are akin to the stark melancholy of looking upon a freshly fallen snow or the hopeful joy of waking to a fresh autumn day, this is one hell of a great album."

– All Music Guide

Additional reviews can be found at Go Mag! and Cyclic Defrost.

  

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  WEST023 Haralambos

kt

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  WEST040 Tropism

Sweet Devil (edit)

Oil Thumbprints (edit)

Window Piece (edit)

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