The Album Leaf

2010-03-17
The Album Leaf The Album Leaf.
Alternative/Indie/Electronica.

On MySpace, listen: Stand Still (from A Chorus of Storytellers, 2010).

On PureVolume, listen: The Outer Banks (from In a Safe Place, 2004).

Categories : music

Trololololololololololo

2010-03-07
“The number was not conceived out of some desire to cater to the so-bad-it’s-good tastes of the Western YouTube generation, but in fact was meant to please Soviet audiences, who were capable of placing this routine, this man, and this song into a familiar context.”.

(Justin E.H. Smith)

Trololololololololololo by Edward Anatolevich Hill

Trololololololololololo. This should be the new Rick Roll.

Above: Eduard Khil* singing I’m so glad because I’m finally back home (1976).

*Referred as: Edward, Eduard, Hill, Hil, Khil, Gil

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Categories : music, phenomena, video

Bersarin Quartett

2010-02-22
Bersarin Quartett

“Imaginary fictional filmscores”.

Bersarin Quartett: the solo project of Thomas Bücker. Electronic/Experimental.
Debut album re-release on 29th of March 2010.

Listen: Oktober and St. Petersburg.

Above: album cover, detail.

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Agosto

2010-02-21


August
is the coldest month of the year
winter moves six months forward
and this is not the South Pole
here is not the South Pole

August
The alarm clock breaks the silence
Someone is on vacation
and she sounds for hours
How cold it is

August
you look out on a sick heart
five o’clock in the evening
and it’s already pitch dark
winter in August

The ice
settles and covers things
the waiting for the warm freezes also the dead
How cold it is

If it is not true that you’re afraid
it’s not true that you feel alone
it’s not true that it’s cold
then why are you trembling in this August?

August
is written on your calendar
maybe you slept six months
but you’re so tired
so tired

August
is the coldest month of the year
in the other hemisphere they call it winter
August

Agosto

Agosto (August): a song* of Perturbazione (2002).
Video: Paroles en l’air (1995) by Sylvain Vincendeau**.

*Text in Italian    **Text in French

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Categories : animation, music

The Loudness War

2010-01-11

“…You listen to these modern records,
they’re atrocious, they have sound all over them.
There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like … static.”.

(Bob Dylan, interviewed by Rolling Stone, 1996)

The Loudness War, or “the practice of digitally mastering albums with progressively increasing levels of loudness and reduced dynamic range.”.

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Hiromi Uehara

2009-07-23

Hiromi Uehara: Jazz, experimental, progressive.
Listen : The Tom and Jerry Show and Time Difference.

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Efdemin

2008-12-26
Efdemin.
Techno/House/Experimental. From Berlin.
Efdemin - Phillip Sollmann

Listen: Bergwein.

Above: Phillip Sollmann (photo by Yasmina Haddad).

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AudioBody

2008-09-20

And now, a cup of Diet Coke + Mentos: AudioBody.
Listen : You Gotta Tap, Not Easy, Going to Michigan, Bass Aquatic, Fireflys.

Techno / Rock / Electronica.

Categories : music, phenomena

Alphabeat

2008-04-25

And now a cup of Alphabeat. Listen and see: Fascination.
Pop, from Denmark.
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Ezekiel Honig

2008-04-07

“Sounds like: bumping into a chair while humming.
Influences: musique concrete, film, everyday life, randomness, the artists on Anticipate and Microcosm.”.
Ezekiel Honig. Listen: Concrete and Plastic.

Categories : music