My friend sent this along as a cure for assorted winter sicknesses, and boy howdy does it do the trick. "Stephin Merritt sings 'Nun's Litany,'":http://www.channel4.com/music/video/magnetic-fields-acoustic-performance-distortion-stephin-merritt-video.html solo acoustic ukelele style. I need to make another trip to the record store to pick this up (oh, Canadian release dates...).bq. "I may not fi...
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I've been listening to Gal Costa's first two albums on repeat for a few days. (My sister asked for a bossa nova mix. I got sidetracked.)My favourite features of these albums:- both called ??Gal Costa??- both released in 1969- each at least 75% "far out"- tropicalia is awesome- Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil pop up occasionally- Gal Costa's singing sounds effortless even when she's making creak...
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I decided to spend Halloween with Caribou because they seem to like costumes and the two times I've seen them before (once as Manitoba) are still holding strong in my personal list of top live music experiences. I think its the combination of the double drummers, the projected animations, and the bizarre pre-recorded components. (Sometimes, despite all the excess on stage, the vocals are pre-re...
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I went looking for an autoharp moment to add to my little post about "Basia Bulat":/ookpik/blog_post/119905, and I recalled my first, most excellent encounter with rock autoharp was when the mighty Xiu Xiu came to town years ago.
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I saw Basia Bulat open for "Final Fantasy":/music/Final_Fantasy on Sunday night. (Owen Pallett's former bandmade Nifty was the first opener, but lets not talk about him ok? Overheard after his set, in a regretful tone, "I passed up a turd sandwich to be here tonight, man!")So Basia was quite a relief! She was not what I was expecting-- she didn't sound like an indie singer-songwriter much at al...
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"Mixperiment":http://www.mixperiment.blogspot.com/ looks fun: a very low-commitment, public mix CD swap. I love my town. Even though it is so rainy today that it is basically still nighttime.bq. "Each month a date, time, and place is announced for the next installment of the mixperiment. I will arrive promptly with a mix cd that I've made. Participants come by with a mix that they've made (and ...
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:http://stylebubble.typepad.com/style_bubble/2006/08/tenenbaum_on_pa.htmlIn a parallel universe I think this song featured in The Royal Tenenbaums. Maybe the one by Les Anderson.
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I am noticing that a lot of my posts are about music that helps me get stuff done. Our work is never over!This track is helping me move furniture around while I have a mind-altering headcold (the kind that stuffs your ears and messes up your balance, and makes you feel blockaded from the rest of the world). It is also helping me stop listening to Daft Punk, which seems to be difficult today. (I...
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- dancing zombies- gratuitous head-squishing- charming musical saw interlude- perfect for your next stomp-around dance party!This was produced for another of my favourite local annual events: the "Cinevic Reel 2 Reel":http://cinevic.ca/events.html competition (this is where the "award-winning" descriptor was earned). Local musicians contribute songs, and local filmmakers are drawn at random to ...
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Love Songs of The Hanging Gardens (2005) is the album that made house music 100% ok for me. I can handle anything now! It was kind of a trial by fire: K.P. leans to the italo side, with really expressive vocal harmonies that sound straight out of '80s guitar jazz, and strings that are specifically styled after classic disco. Oh, and the whole album follows a theme about love in outer space. DOR...
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