I was still a bit under the weather last night so I didn’t go out to see the Non-event Alog (if you’ve got flash you can listen to some of their music, and check out the great video I lifted the above screencaps from) and Red Horse show. Also, Susanna supplies a podcast featuring some [...]
I’ll buy all 21 of Buda Musique’s excellent Ethiopiques series in one fell swoop.
Last Friday DJ John Staub (Tufts econ prof, I think) played an hour of selections from the series on Test Pattern, and it was all quite excellent. He’s posted some annotations here:
What Buda Musique is dubbing “The Golden Era of Modern [...]
If I manage to get out of the house for these:
The Fun Years, April 18th, PA’s Lounge, Somerville.
Mogwai*, May 14th, Avalon, Boston.
Tag-alongs are welcome.
*Mogwai’s new release is excellent, btw.
Chinese ambient band FM3 (American-born, expat musician Christiaan Virant, and Chinese keyboardist and computer musician Zhang Jian)’s recent release, according to this review:
is not a CD release, or even an LP release. It’s a small plastic box (that runs on two batteries) made in China that has not only an integrated speaker, but a volume [...]
…is podcasting! Cool - now I can FF through the weird parts. ;-)
Nice idea, but what are the odds that anyone nearby will have similar tastes to mine? Not good, I think.
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don’t you dare bring on da noise:
In order to take the spiritual temperature of an individual or society, one must “mark” the music. There is no more effective way to teach anything than with the aid of music. It undoubtedly affects our emotions. To start with many listeners do not realize the fact that music [...]
… this is just the kind of thing you’ll like.
They appear to be releasing music through their site as they create it. I read somewhere that one of the two musicians involved is a former DK.
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Still not sure when the CD will be released, but you can listen to the first release (Friend of the Night) from Mogwai’s new album here.
…has a website with some free mp3s. You know: for those of you who like this kind of thing, this is just the kind of thing you’ll like.
And apparently there are a couple of CDs I’m going to have to go out and stay in and buy.
For those who like this sort of thing, here’s just the sort of thing you’ll like.
I still need to get their new CDR.
Hilarious. Maybe it would help keep skate punks out of little kids playgrounds, too. ;-)
From Mogwai’s mailing list:
Last week we mastered our new album in NYC with Greg Calbi. We have been recording at our new Castle Of Doom studios in Glasgow with Tony Doogan since Spring this year. It is 43 minutes, 7 seconds long. We are very happy with this record, we hope you [...]
Dammit, I’ve been deliberately infected with a blogmeme. OK, here we go:
1. How much music do I have?
Probably between 300-400 CDs (it occurs to me that I haven’t listened to most of them in years), plus a bunch of stuff I’ve snagged from various MP3 blogs. And a ton of analog tapes of Brian Cleary’s [...]
NME reports:
SPIRITUALIZED mainman JASON PIERCE is recovering after an illness left him close to death.
The star, who recently completed work on the band’s new album, is now at home after spending a lengthy time in intensive care for an as-yet-unspecified illness.
Spiritualized.com had more:
Jason contracted advanced periorbital cellulitis with bilateral pnuemonia with rapid deterioration requiring intensive [...]
You can now download the set from The Fun Years’ great MassArt show.
It’s 31 mins / 36mb of cool sounds, the sort of thing I love listening to when I’m working or doing something else requiring creativity*. Even better than the set (in my opinion, anyway) is their CD now that’s what i call droning, [...]
Via Warren (wanker!) Ellis: this.mix.kicks-ass.net. I’ve grabbed several hundred MBs of nice chill-out stuff. There appear to be some other sorts of music for those whose tastes don’t run in that direction.
I dragged JMD to a nonevent at MassArt tonite: The Fun Years (some MP3s there), Geoff Mullen, and Tim Hecker. It was excellent, and I’m extremely glad I mustered the willpower to get out of the house and actually do something. JMD reported that he was glad he went, and that when his eyes [...]
Possibly the best album name ever.
UPDATE: I was aware of this, but not this or this. Ignorant geek, that’s me.