Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Fire
February 26, 2012
With Serge Gainsbourg and hair in her eyes.
Memoryhouse – The Slideshow Effect
February 25, 2012
Maybe it’s the voice or the out-of-focus cover, but this new release from Sub Pop reminds me of an old favorite.
Memoryhouse, “The Kids Were Wrong”
Velocity Girl, “Crazy Town”
Tennis – Young & Old
February 20, 2012
Even better than their first ….
“Origins”
Leila – U&I
February 15, 2012
With Mt Sims adding to the weirdness.
“(Disappointed Cloud) Anyway”
“Welcome To Your Life”
Stephan Mathieu – A Static Place
February 11, 2012
From 12k Records:
A Static Place is about the journey of sound. Between 1928 and 1932 the earliest recordings of historically informed performances of music from the late Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque era were etched into 78RPM records. I used some of these records from my collection, playing them back with two mechanical acoustic HMV Model 102 gramophones. The initial soundwaves produced back then by period instruments like the clavichord, viols, lute, hurdy-gurdy are read from the grooves by a cactus needle to be amplified by the gramophones diaphragm housed in a soundbox. Those vibrations travel through the tonearm which is connected straight to the gramophones horn, which releases the music to my space. Here the sound is again picked up by a pair of customized microphones and send to my computer, to be transformed by spectral analysis and convolution processes.
Needless to say the results are stunning.
“Dawn”
Hospitality – Hospitality
February 5, 2012
Wit and wisdom; fake British accents; hospitality. Thank you very much!
“Liberal Arts”
“Eighth Avenue”
“Betty Wang”
Love and Mathematics 