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May 14, 2005
Estonian Shoegazer
Thy name is Pia Fraus, and you’re a fucking good band.
I highly reccomend the album Sailing on a Grapefruit Lake.
As well as these four songs via their website:
Moon Like A Pearl
Condemnation
Mooie Island
400 & 57
Posted by shane at 02:04 AM
May 12, 2005
Another Day On Earth
The tracklist for the first Brian Eno solo album in like 15(?) years:
01 This
02 And Then So Clear
03 A Long Way Down
04 Going Unconscious
05 Caught Between
06 Passing Over
07 How Many Worlds
08 Bottomliners
09 Just Another Day
10 Under
11 Bone Bomb
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47.5 minutes
Somehow I seem to have an advance copy, and somehow it’s one of the best albums to have come out in quite a few years. And when I say best albums I really mean albums, because it’s rare that I listen to a whole album straight through anymore. I’m not ready to abandon my favoritism toward a great 2-3 minute song, or even the recent trend I have noticed toward so-called full albums that are really only 20-30 minutes in length, but Another Day On Earth breaks my bad habit.
It somehow manages anachronism and futurism at the same time, and works conceptually as a musical contemplation on earth, the human race and personal mortality, whether listened to one song at a time, or as a whole. And as a whole it becomes one big song, each relevant to the next, all while giving the impression of being written by an individual with a remarkably introspecitve sense of self, as well as his place within humanity in it’s entirety.
You can’t fake the maturity that’s in this music. Completely genre-transcending. Utterly poignant and refeshingly free of any superficiality or sarcasm. I guess Eno is just that kind of guy.
Posted by shane at 08:28 PM
May 11, 2005
Piana
I got a whole lot of music from my friend Risa the other day, most of which I haven’t even got to yet. One I thought I’d mention tho (because I am listening to it right now) is this album by Piana on Cubic Music, which is a quite quirky, simple, childlike, dreamy piece of work with soft Japanese female vocals by Naoko Sasaki. It bears comparison to Gutevolk, which I believe I mentioned the other day, and not so coincidentally is part of the same (small) roster on 12K’s Happy label on the US side of things. There are a couple song samples on this page.
Posted by shane at 04:30 PM
May 10, 2005
Twigy+Hifana Shoot Last Saturday
Maybe the photos will be self-explanatory (maybe not).
Needless to say it was a nineteen hour workday for me.
Hungry cameras.
Davi on the array of G4 lappies. Another trio in the background: Hifana + Bonzu.
You’ll see when the video’s done.
Hide on the job.
Twigy with some serious attitude.
Same goes for director +cruz.
The shit ended at 6AM. Everyone was exhausted. In fact, I am still exhausted. But now the edit and animation begins. (along with like 3 other projects that I am simultaneously working on) We have 18 hours of footage, and 10,000 hi-res still photographs to be utilized. I think it’s gonna be a nice (I mean ridiculous) piece of work. Tho I’d rather just go to bed than think about it.
Posted by shane at 08:25 PM
May 04, 2005
Mouse On Mars
I just came back from Mouse On Mars live at On Air West. It was the shit. Those boys have known how to rock me since I was like 18 years old. It’s too bad Lali Puna had to play before them, because I’ve almost forgotten her show. It’s also too bad that I didn’t bring my camera today.
Word up to Faderbyheadz and Tyme for the discount.
Posted by shane at 01:17 AM