Δευτέρα 25 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

ALICE RUSSELL-To Dust


That’s right folks, Alice Russell’s fifth solo album ‘To Dust’ is out worldwide now (apart from the USA where it is released on 30th April), showcasing the crisp, cutting edge production and eclectic influences that nestle alongside a lifelong love of vintage soul and gospel at the core of her unique and powerful style. The first single, “Heartbreaker”, came out in November, accompanied by a video starring Harry Shearer (The Simpsons/Spinal Tap) that has had 70,000+ views. Gaining BBC 6Music and Radio 2 play and tastemaker love from The Fader, Hunger TV, OkayplayerNTS andKCRW, the single release also saw Alice performing on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends and being interviewed on the 6Music Lunchtime Show.
by  http://www.tru-thoughts.co.uk


FreshlySqueezed ELECTRO BLUES CD2 mini-mix

Σάββατο 23 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Lightning Bolts (Music Video)

XAVER FISCHER TRIO Dumdidum


Originally a 90s retro loungey dude who played keys for the likes of Stereolab, Xaver Fischer and his trio became leading lights on the nu-jazz scene. Now he's back with two new thirds and the same old values. Recorded in two days and strictly adhering to his 'no studio trickery and no more than three takes' philosophy, "Dumdidum" is an impressive work indeed. Highlights include the trancey breakbeat-isms of "Concerto For Square Wave", the self-descriptive "Afrobeat GTI" and the has-to-be-heard-to-be-believed "Old Man Guetta" which, yes you've guessed it, fuses David Guetta production and trad jazz!

Lessons in Graffiti: Math Symbols Make Street Art Equations

Lessons in Graffiti: Math Symbols Make Street Art Equations
math street art
1 window plus 1 window equals 2 windows – seems obvious, but it warrants at least a double-take, so to speak, when you see it so explicitly expressed. Simple black-outlined, white-filled, faux-three-dimensional shapes that render urban happenstance into something with a humorous sense of order.
math graffiti alley tags
Dubbed Sum Times (itself a cute play on words) this latest street project by Aakash Nihalani skips the alpha and numeric and heads straight for the symbolic, turning everything from trash cans and dumpsters to windows and doors into educational equations.
math inspired 3d symbols
The basics of multiplication, divisions, addition and subtraction – literal object lessons that makes chaos more comprehensible, and might even teach school children a thing or two (including how to subvert their surroundings).
math based installation equations
Regular readers and fans may recognize this artist’s style from similarly-abstract street artwork including this urban tape art series and this set of shifting geometries, each of which also impose a kind of three-dimensional geometry on flat urban surfaces.
by weburbanist
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live In L.A. | 24 Hour HD Re-Broadcast | 'Push...

Πέμπτη 21 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

Other Lives For 12

Kunek was a genre smoothie. Toss some indie, folk, post-rock, and ambient in a blender and set to awesome. In August 2008, Kunek announced via their Myspace that Kunek will live on only through their fan
Other Lives No. 3
Other Lives No. 3 (Photo credit: frank3.0)
tastic but lone album, Flight of the Flynns. Five members of Kunek have transferred to a new band under the Other Lives moniker. The debut album from the Stillwater, Oklahoma band is finished as of August 2008, produced by Joey Waronker (Beck, REM) and will be released via TBD records (Radiohead, Underworld). Their sophomore album, Tamer Animals, was released in May 2011 on TBD records.

Τρίτη 12 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

The xx: Tiny Desk Concert

February 11, 2013 Beneath The xx's tightly controlled image-making lays music that's raw and vulnerable; shy, worried tentativeness is wired into a sound that shimmers powerfully, but remains as fragile and delicate as a soap bubble.

Παρασκευή 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, 'Push The Sky Away'

Seedy and slick, grandiose and intimate, mysterious and matter-of-fact, Nick Cave's songs unfold like short stories from bygone eras — that is, until Hannah Montana and Wikipedia make their jarring appearances. On Cave's 15th album, Push the Sky Away, the Australian singer and writer assembles a string of slow-burning ballads that seethe and surprise, punctuated with Warren Ellis' gorgeous strings and bits of Cave's own grabby, pervy innuendo. Out Feb. 19, Push the Sky Away may be broken into nine pieces, but the whole is paced like one magnificent 43-minute Nick Cave song: tense and mysterious at first, then increasingly full-blooded and lovely as the strings make their portentous entry at the top of "Water's Edge." Cave even pulls off a neat meta trick, as he crafts a hypnotic six-and-a-half-minute dirge in "Jubilee Street" before returning a few tracks later with "Finishing Jubilee Street" — a song whose fantastical wanderings commence with its namesake's completion. Of course, writing "Jubilee Street" is itself a feat worth noting: The song captures the essence of Push the Sky Away perfectly. Take this string of words right here: "I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain / and a 10-ton catastrophe on a 60-pound chain / And I'm pushing my wheel of love on Jubilee Street." As uneasy corniness ("love in my tummy," "wheel of love") collides with haunting and hard-bitten poetry ("a 10-ton catastrophe on a 60-pound chain"), every unselfconscious word commands rapt attention and consideration. Short of Tom Waits or maybe Greg Dulli, it's hard to imagine many singers perfecting such an unlikely mix. But Cave and his band have always made it sound positively majestic, as their songs conjure a glittering gutter that extends all the way to the heavens by NPR

Ludovico Einaudi "Walk" (Official Video)

Τετάρτη 6 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

Σάββατο 2 Φεβρουαρίου 2013