I figured my first post should be about my current favourite track. Dead King by Espers is quite lovelly and easy to listen to. From their second album, and in my opinion, their best. I have sent this song all over addicting many people to the wonderful music.
I'm always a bit apprehensive about trying new genres of music, I haven't heard much or any of before. But I was browsing amazon.com and looked at someone's list of Top-whatever-albums (don't you love those lists/guides? Speaking of need to update mine soon) and came across a guide to folk or as they put it - I think - fairytale folk, which intrigued me.I've noticed that in The Sun's music re...
Hope all you Philly peeps are going to make it out to the great event of the weekend... TONIGHT! at the International House, presented by the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, a screening of Jaromil Jire's 1970 classic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders with a new live soundtrack by my friends:Greg Weeks (Espers, Grass), Margaret Wienk (Fern Knight, Eyesores, String Builder), Brooke Sietinsons (Espers...
I figured my first post should be about my current favourite track. Dead King by Espers is quite lovelly and easy to listen to. From their second album, and in my opinion, their best. I have sent this song all over addicting many people to the wonderful music.
They were halfway through the recording when the drugs began to take hold. That, at least, is the only explanation I can muster for the break from reason and sanity that takes place just before the four minute mark in “Hearts and Daggers”. What was previously an eerie funeral march of a song (“When daylight strikes them, their graves will shatter; flies will gather for hearts and daggers” – cue...
A nice, fairly boozy dinner party with our new friends Ben & Helen resulted in a very drafty but promising composition (Needs tons of work obviously..)Very much Espers in spirit, I thought.