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Showing posts with label avant-garde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label avant-garde. Show all posts

Saturday, 13 November 2010

wavin' my dick in the wind

Ah, the ocean. What is it about her that's so alluring? I puff my vintage pipe as I type this, by the way.

But really, all of that marine shit intrigues me. It's calming and strangely nostalgic, and Ween seems to capture those feelings. But for every profound statement I make, there's a retarded cousin to it. In this case, I found out about Ween from Spongebob Squarepants. 'Ocean Man' [SPOILER ALERT: Probably the best song on the album] was used for the closing track of the Spongebob movie, and I knew Ween had to be hot shit. While The Mollusk isn't consistently good, I still find myself coming back to it. I know this sounds fucking stupid, but if I in a submarine thousands of feet underwater, this is the only album I'd want to play.

Sunday, 7 March 2010

Happy now?

Program music is a fantastic project from japenese progressive classical? producer Kashiwa Daisuke. The "album" consists only of two tracks lasting 35 and 25 minutes respectively. Stella, a song based on the japenese novel, "night on the galactic railroad" is a 2deep4urknuckledraggingfriends masterpiece that will make you feel as if you were floating off to some higher plane, or, if you arn't in the right mood, make you bored as fuck. Seriously it's not one to play at a party, altough i doubt you go to many of those anyway. Anyway, so yeah, the other track on the project, write once, run melos has a more glitchy feel to it, remeniscent of some of venetian snares less "turn your brain to shit and watch it explode out your ears tracks".
So if you are up late one night and fed up of listening to neutral milk hotel over and over again, give this a go and if you are a fan of atmospheric deep music you will enjoy this as much as I do.

download this bad boy here.

Saturday, 13 February 2010

Been meaning to post this for awhile


Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project
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What is happiness? For me it's that perfect moment, when you just stop what you're doing and think 'I really hope this day doesn't end'; that moment when you're just enjoying life, without a care in the world; and that moment when you realise you've formed a special friendship with someone, a broship shall we call it.

In this concept album Charles Spearin ingeniusly explores the idea of happiness, just what is it? Does everyone have the same interpretation of happiness? Why do we feel happiness? All these questions are answered by Charles neighbours, he sits them down and just talks about being happy, and what makes them happy. He brilliantly transforms the spoken word into music, finding each note in the speakers voice and playing along, it's amazing to hear the human voice used in such a way. It's wierd how these seemingly everyday conversations make you think, at one point in Vittoria's song Charles loops her saying "It's like, it's like erm, and it's like erm just like", it seems like Charles way of saying that happiness is undefinable, the way that this young girl is lost for words really shows that happiness is an undescribable emotion. This is an album with just one purpose; to make you think.