Janelle Monae returns with her first new single since her...:
Janelle Monae returns with her first new single since her phenomenal debut album The ArchAndroid, and it’s a doozy. “Q.U.E.E.N.” pairs the funk-pop superstar with neo-soul queen Erykah Badu and it’s all anthemic space-age synth funk for the first half, before a jazzy breakdown (that trumpet!), strings and a Erykah Badu rap closes things out beautifully.
Janelle Monae’s sophomore album The Electric Lady is out this year on Atlantic Records.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
“An instructional film made by The Visitors for Human...
“An instructional film made by The Visitors for Human...:
“An instructional film made by The Visitors for Human Collaborators on Edité-Frignim (Earth).”Building A Human (by Peter Serafinowicz)
David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity
David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity:
David Lynch meditates, and he meditates hard. Beginning his practice in earnest after it helped him solve a creative problem during the production of his breakout 1977 film Eraserhead, he has continued meditating assiduously ever since, going so far as to found the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and Peace and publish a pro-meditation book called Catching the Big Fish. It might seem nonsensical to hear an artist of the grotesque like Lynch speak rapturously about voyaging into his own consciousness, let alone in his fractured all-American, askew-Jimmy-Stewart manner, but he does meditate for a practical reason: it gives him ideas. Only by meditating, he says, can he dive down and catch the “big fish” he uses as ingredients in his inimitable film, music, and visual art. You can hear more of his thoughts on meditation, consciousness, and creativity in his nine-minute speech above.
If you’d like to hear more, the video just above offers a nearly two-hour presentation at UC Berkeley with Lynch as its star. You’ll also hear from outspoken quantum physicist John Hagelin and Fred Travis, director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition Maharishi University of Management. Some of what they say might make good sense to you: after all, we could all use a method to clear our minds so we can create what we need to create. Some of what they say might strike you as total nonsense. But if you feel tempted to dismiss all as too bizarre for serious consideration, you might meditate, as it were, on other things Lynchian: backwards-talking dwarves, severed ears on suburban lawns, alien babies, women living in radiators, sitcom families in rabbit suits. He’s certainly pitched us weirder concepts than meditation.
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David Lynch’s Surreal Commercials
Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on literature, film, cities, Asia, and aesthetics. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
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Related content:
David Lynch Talks Meditation with Paul McCartney
Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi Explains Why the Source of Happiness Lies in Creativity and Flow, Not Money
David Lynch’s Surreal Commercials
Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on literature, film, cities, Asia, and aesthetics. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
Andrés Segovia: Song of the Guitar, Beautifully Filmed at the Alhambra
Andrés Segovia: Song of the Guitar, Beautifully Filmed at the Alhambra:
Not long ago we posted a beautiful scene featuring the legendary guitarist Andrés Segovia playing Johann Sebastian Bach at the Alhambra, the storied 14th century Moorish palace in Granada, Spain. Today we’re pleased to bring you the entire 50-minute film from which it came, Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar.
The documentary was made in 1976 by the South African-born filmmaker Christopher Nupen. Segovia was 84 years old at the time. When he was a child living in Granada, Segovia loved to bring his guitar to the Alhambra and play for friends. “It was here,” he says in the film, “that I opened my eyes to the beauty of nature and art. To be here is to feel oneself to be near, very near, paradise.” Segovia is often described as the father of modern classical guitar. In the liner notes to the film, which is available on DVD along with another film on Segovia by Nupen, it says:
The Story of the Guitar: The Complete Three-Part Documentary
The Art of Making a Flamenco Guitar: 299 Hours of Blood, Sweat & Tears Experienced in 3 Minutes
The Guitar Prodigy from Karachi
Andrés Segovia: Song of the Guitar, Beautifully Filmed at the Alhambra is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
The documentary was made in 1976 by the South African-born filmmaker Christopher Nupen. Segovia was 84 years old at the time. When he was a child living in Granada, Segovia loved to bring his guitar to the Alhambra and play for friends. “It was here,” he says in the film, “that I opened my eyes to the beauty of nature and art. To be here is to feel oneself to be near, very near, paradise.” Segovia is often described as the father of modern classical guitar. In the liner notes to the film, which is available on DVD along with another film on Segovia by Nupen, it says:
As an instrumentalist, Segovia did for the guitar what Casals did for the cello, but he did it with an instrument that had never before been taken seriously as a concert instrument. Within his own lifetime, Segovia taught himself the instrument, revolutionised the technique and elevated a folk instrument to the highest levels of the international concert platform. As a musician, he has come to be recognised as one of the most refined and profound of his time.
In the film, Segovia reminisces about his early days in Grenada and his happy discovery of the guitar. He plays ten pieces, all beautifully filmed in the courtyards of the Alhambra:- “Capricho Catalán” by Isaac Albéniz
- “La Maja de Goya” by Enrique Granados
- “Torre Bermeja” by Isaac Albéniz
- “Sonata in E Minor” by Domenico Scarlatti
- “Minuet” by Jean-Philippe Rameau”
- “Minuet” by Fernando Sor
- “Ballet and Allegretto” by Manuel Ponce
- “Gavotte I & II” by Johann Sebastian Bach
- “Leyenda” by Isaac Albéniz
- “El Noi de la Mare” a Catalan folk song
The Story of the Guitar: The Complete Three-Part Documentary
The Art of Making a Flamenco Guitar: 299 Hours of Blood, Sweat & Tears Experienced in 3 Minutes
The Guitar Prodigy from Karachi
Andrés Segovia: Song of the Guitar, Beautifully Filmed at the Alhambra is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
Friday, April 26, 2013
All That is Carnal
All That is Carnal: The strange ecstatic journey of a Shaker hymn from rural New York to Soul Train.
Come Life, Shaker Life began as a Shaker hymn composed by Issachar Bates in 1835. The Shakers, more properly known as the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing gained their nickname as a reference to their ecstatic style of worship, which often featured particular forms of dance and movement. You may know their more well-known hymn Simple Gifts, also featured in Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring.
In an unexpected turn, Richie Havens used this hymn as the basis for his song Run, Shaker Life. It was in turn picked up the the Voices of East Harlem and performed at an incredible concert at Sing Sing prison. Though the context shift from 19th century religious practice to 1970s funk, soul and rock seems abrupt, the ecstatic nature of the music remains present in this performance on Soul Train. The seemingly unrelated Run Shakers Life by Joe Cocker can be found on his album On Air which was recorded live at the BBC from 1968-1969.
Come Life, Shaker Life began as a Shaker hymn composed by Issachar Bates in 1835. The Shakers, more properly known as the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing gained their nickname as a reference to their ecstatic style of worship, which often featured particular forms of dance and movement. You may know their more well-known hymn Simple Gifts, also featured in Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring.
In an unexpected turn, Richie Havens used this hymn as the basis for his song Run, Shaker Life. It was in turn picked up the the Voices of East Harlem and performed at an incredible concert at Sing Sing prison. Though the context shift from 19th century religious practice to 1970s funk, soul and rock seems abrupt, the ecstatic nature of the music remains present in this performance on Soul Train. The seemingly unrelated Run Shakers Life by Joe Cocker can be found on his album On Air which was recorded live at the BBC from 1968-1969.
Hope is the thing with feathers
Hope is the thing with feathers: Listening to birdsong is really good for you. But many of us live in urban environments where birdsong is a scarce resource, so you might consider opening up this YouTube audio clip, or this one, or this one, and just let those little birdies serenade you while you work at your computer, or savor your morning coffee, or do your household errands. It's good for the soul.
"Music exists in nature to make you smarter."
"Music exists in nature to make you smarter.": Bob Brozman, the undisputed master of the National Resonator Guitar, has passed away at age 59. Ethnomusicologist, virtuoso fingerpicker, musical historian, and anarchist philosopher Bob Brozman fell in love with National's metal body resonator guitars as a teenager and made them his life's passion.
He began as a teenager mastering Delta blues, jazz and Hawaian slide styles, and then performing with cartoonist Robert Crumb's Cheap Suit Serenaders. Brozman went on to record with legends like Hawaiian Tau Moe, Indian slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya, and Mauritian maloya accordionist René Lacaille. He was fascinated by the music of colonial regions – how colonizers brought music that had a rhythmic emphasis on the first beat (like a march) while the people being colonized preferred emphasizing the off beats and playing in open tunings. His most recent efforts had been to explore the world of Papuan string band music - and he always liked to bring a bag of Bolivian charangos as gifts to see how different cultures adapted them to their music. "Music exists in nature to make you smarter. Commercial music is designed to make people stupid."
He began as a teenager mastering Delta blues, jazz and Hawaian slide styles, and then performing with cartoonist Robert Crumb's Cheap Suit Serenaders. Brozman went on to record with legends like Hawaiian Tau Moe, Indian slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya, and Mauritian maloya accordionist René Lacaille. He was fascinated by the music of colonial regions – how colonizers brought music that had a rhythmic emphasis on the first beat (like a march) while the people being colonized preferred emphasizing the off beats and playing in open tunings. His most recent efforts had been to explore the world of Papuan string band music - and he always liked to bring a bag of Bolivian charangos as gifts to see how different cultures adapted them to their music. "Music exists in nature to make you smarter. Commercial music is designed to make people stupid."
Thursday, April 25, 2013
The CLUB HANGOVER Archive, 1954-58
The CLUB HANGOVER Archive, 1954-58: In the 1950s, Club Hangover was the place to go in San Francisco to hear Dixieland and New Orleans jazz. Thanks to tapes from KCBS being preserved and passed on, you can now listen to 25 complete and unedited half-hour broadcasts from Club Hangover, with recordings of Louis Armstrong, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Kid Ory, Muggsy Spanier, Ralph Sutton, and Jack Teagarden, all from 1954-58.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Benny Andersson and the organ with 9000 pipes
Benny Andersson and the organ with 9000 pipes: Benny Andersson & orgeln med 9000 pipor (58m, in Swedish, English, German, no subtitles that aren't from the Swedish TV source) presents the newly-built Organ Acusticum in the Studio Acusticum concert hall to Swedish television audiences. Performances include ABBA's Dancing Queen (with Benny on piano accompanied by the organ) and the premier of Benny's new composition specifically for this event En skrift i snön performed with Orsa Spelmän and choir. Lyrics can be found here (scroll down, Google Translate of lyrics).
There's no sound like it.
There's no sound like it.: Every Day We Are Dying and Outer Space Does Not Give One Single Fuck, a 60 minute ambient piano suite by Jared Brickman of One Hello World.
One Hello World previously on the blue.
SoundCloud blog interview with Brickman.
via Disuiet.com
One Hello World previously on the blue.
SoundCloud blog interview with Brickman.
via Disuiet.com
The Caged Bird Sang
The Caged Bird Sang: In 1957, famed studio guitarist Tommy Tedesco, along with percussionist Al Bello, recorded Miss Calypso, featuring a young singer named Maya Angelou.
Run Joe
Stone Cold Dead In The Market
Run Joe
Stone Cold Dead In The Market
Oh, pretty boy, can't you show me nothing but surrender?
Oh, pretty boy, can't you show me nothing but surrender?: You keep doing your work, because you have to, because it's your calling... one does their work for the people. And the more people you can touch, the more wonderful it is...
Patti Smith's Advice to the young
but it's not all wonderful.
To be a human being in these times, it's all difficult. You have to go through life, trying to stay healthy. Be as happy as you can. And doing what you want.... and understand that it's going to be hard. Because life is really difficult...
Patti Smith's Advice to the young
but it's not all wonderful.
To be a human being in these times, it's all difficult. You have to go through life, trying to stay healthy. Be as happy as you can. And doing what you want.... and understand that it's going to be hard. Because life is really difficult...
Fwoosh! Zoom!
Fwoosh! Zoom!: "If you spend any time looking for records at flea markets and garage sales, you come to recognize a variety of common vintage records: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Barbra Streisand, box collections of "best of" classical music, the band America.
And then there are the rare finds, the albums that you would never expect to exist. My latest find at the Alameda Point Antiques Fair falls into that category ... it became my possession for $2. And now yours, via SoundCloud, for nothing."
Sounds of X-15s, Atlas missiles, Nieuport biplanes, and more.
And then there are the rare finds, the albums that you would never expect to exist. My latest find at the Alameda Point Antiques Fair falls into that category ... it became my possession for $2. And now yours, via SoundCloud, for nothing."
Sounds of X-15s, Atlas missiles, Nieuport biplanes, and more.
Sounds with an "eternal essence"
Sounds with an "eternal essence": Sometimes called the "Alan Lomaxes of India," the founders of Amarrass Records are on a mission to record and revitalize interest in traditional music from India, Turkey, and beyond. Over 100 videos on their YouTube channel chronicle their field recordings and festivals featuring artists like Lakha Khan, the Barmer Boys, Bombino, and many others.
Twitter, Facebook.
Twitter, Facebook.
Keep it simple, keep it real.
Keep it simple, keep it real.: If you're a fan of deeply grooving and righteously soulful music that's stripped down to its barest essentials, then you'll love Brushy One String's Chicken In The Corn, not to mention No Man Can Stop Me, They Are Going Down and Boom Bang Deng. A voice and a one string guitar. All you need, really.
Karma Chameleons
Karma Chameleons: There have been lots of great covers of Radiohead's Karma Police, but this one that just dropped may be the best you'll ever hear. The amazing video is thanks to a successful kickstarter campaign.
There Is No Word For Kiss
There Is No Word For Kiss: At long last you can finally hear Six Pence None The Richer's 1997 hit "Kiss Me" the way it was intended to be heard, in the original Klingon.
Kurt Cobain’s Isolated Vocal Track From ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ 1991
Kurt Cobain’s Isolated Vocal Track From ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ 1991:
In 1991, Nirvana’s Nevermind album exploded into mainstream popular culture like–as one writer describes it– “a grenade detonating in your car radio.” The album, and the Seattle-based grunge rock movement it emerged from, was like a booster shot of 70s punk attitude into heavy metal, sweeping away the hedonism and vanity of 80s bands like Quiet Riot and Mötley Crüe. The song that epitomized the new attitude, for many, was the opening track of Nevermind, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” with its explosive expression of youthful alienation:
With the lights out, it’s less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
The line “Here we are now, entertain us” was a joke Nirvana’s guitarist and singer Kurt Cobain liked to call out to break the ice whenever he would arrive at a party. “A lot of times,” Cobain told Rolling Stone in a 1994 interview, “when you’re standing around with people in a room, it’s really boring and uncomfortable. So it was ‘Well, here we are, entertain us.’” The title of the song was taken from something his friend Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill, had spray painted across his wall: “Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Hanna meant that Cobain smelled like Teen Spirit, a brand of deodorant worn by his girlfriend, but Cobain claimed not to know that until much later. Instead, he saw irony and rebellion.
You can hear Cobain’s isolated vocal track from “Smells Like Teen Spirit” above. The song was recorded at Sound City studios in Van Nuys, California in May of 1991. The band reportedly chose the second of three takes. The extreme dynamics of the performance–soft to loud, apathy to rage–were inspired by the music of the Pixies. To watch a video of Nirvana trying out an early version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” before an audience at Seattle’s OK Hotel a month before the song was recorded, see Josh Jones’s December post, “The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ (1991).”
via That Eric Alper
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Patti Smith’s Cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Strips the Song Down to its Heart
Nirvana’s Home Videos: An Intimate Look at the Band’s Life Away From the Spotlight (1988)
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Kurt Cobain’s Isolated Vocal Track From ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ 1991 is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
With the lights out, it’s less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
The line “Here we are now, entertain us” was a joke Nirvana’s guitarist and singer Kurt Cobain liked to call out to break the ice whenever he would arrive at a party. “A lot of times,” Cobain told Rolling Stone in a 1994 interview, “when you’re standing around with people in a room, it’s really boring and uncomfortable. So it was ‘Well, here we are, entertain us.’” The title of the song was taken from something his friend Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill, had spray painted across his wall: “Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Hanna meant that Cobain smelled like Teen Spirit, a brand of deodorant worn by his girlfriend, but Cobain claimed not to know that until much later. Instead, he saw irony and rebellion.
You can hear Cobain’s isolated vocal track from “Smells Like Teen Spirit” above. The song was recorded at Sound City studios in Van Nuys, California in May of 1991. The band reportedly chose the second of three takes. The extreme dynamics of the performance–soft to loud, apathy to rage–were inspired by the music of the Pixies. To watch a video of Nirvana trying out an early version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” before an audience at Seattle’s OK Hotel a month before the song was recorded, see Josh Jones’s December post, “The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ (1991).”
via That Eric Alper
Related Content:
Patti Smith’s Cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Strips the Song Down to its Heart
Nirvana’s Home Videos: An Intimate Look at the Band’s Life Away From the Spotlight (1988)
The Pixies “Acoustic Sessions”: See the Alt-Rock Stars Rehearse for the 2005 Newport Folk Festival
Kurt Cobain’s Isolated Vocal Track From ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ 1991 is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
A Middle-Eastern Version of Radiohead’s 1997 Hit “Karma Police”
A Middle-Eastern Version of Radiohead’s 1997 Hit “Karma Police”:
We’ve shown you Pakistani musicians playing an amazing version of Dave Brubeck’s Jazz Classic, “Take Five”; also Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Voodoo Chile’ performed on a Gayageum (a traditional Korean instrument); and then the Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” played with traditional Chinese instruments. There’s nothing better than these felicitous meetings of east and west. So, today we present a Middle-Eastern flavored version of Radiohead’s 1997 hit “Karma Police,” which originally appeared on the album OK Computer. The video above features Tel Aviv-based singer Rotem Shefy on vocals, Leat Sabbah on cello, Yaniv Taichman on the oud, and Ori Dekel on percussion. This video emerged from a Kickstarter campaign that was successfully funded at the end of 2012.
via Metafilter
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A Middle-Eastern Version of Radiohead’s 1997 Hit “Karma Police” is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
via Metafilter
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Radiohead-Approved, Fan-Made Film of the Band at Roseland for 2011′s The King of Limbs Tour
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Gives Teenage Girls Endearing Advice About Boys (And Much More)
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Film: Great Job, Internet!: Watch Michael Shannon do a dramatic reading of the world's nastiest sorority e-mail and rejoice
Film: Great Job, Internet!: Watch Michael Shannon do a dramatic reading of the world's nastiest sorority e-mail and rejoice: 
When a hilariously nasty letter from a University Of Maryland sorority sister started making the Internet rounds last week, the use of phrases from the letter, like “cunt punt,” became insider winks at those in the know. You’d either read the lengthy screed from the Delta Gamma sister, or you hadn’t. (But, seriously, read it.)
Fortunately for the world, Michael Shannon read it, liked it, and decided to bring his sardonic reading of the text to Funny Or Die. The resulting four-minute clip is essential viewing and is so great that it should, arguably, be the final word on this burgeoning meme.
Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter from Michael Shannon
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When a hilariously nasty letter from a University Of Maryland sorority sister started making the Internet rounds last week, the use of phrases from the letter, like “cunt punt,” became insider winks at those in the know. You’d either read the lengthy screed from the Delta Gamma sister, or you hadn’t. (But, seriously, read it.)
Fortunately for the world, Michael Shannon read it, liked it, and decided to bring his sardonic reading of the text to Funny Or Die. The resulting four-minute clip is essential viewing and is so great that it should, arguably, be the final word on this burgeoning meme.
Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter from Michael Shannon
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Music: Great Job, Internet!: Someone pitch-shifted Daft Punk's new single, and now it sounds like Michael Jackson
Music: Great Job, Internet!: Someone pitch-shifted Daft Punk's new single, and now it sounds like Michael Jackson: 
Daft Punk’s new single “Get Lucky” has already built an enormous amount of anticipation for the robots' new record Random Access Memories, first in snippets and a Coachella trailer, then in multiple unofficial leaks before the song's official debut last Friday. But now there’s yet another curiosity regarding the track—a YouTube video pitch-shifting the song that makes Pharell’s vocals sound like a long-lost Michael Jackson collaboration. It’s not completely precise, but by pitch-shifting instead of simply speeding up the track, it’s the same length and tempo, just with the ghost of the King Of Pop hovering over everything.
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Daft Punk’s new single “Get Lucky” has already built an enormous amount of anticipation for the robots' new record Random Access Memories, first in snippets and a Coachella trailer, then in multiple unofficial leaks before the song's official debut last Friday. But now there’s yet another curiosity regarding the track—a YouTube video pitch-shifting the song that makes Pharell’s vocals sound like a long-lost Michael Jackson collaboration. It’s not completely precise, but by pitch-shifting instead of simply speeding up the track, it’s the same length and tempo, just with the ghost of the King Of Pop hovering over everything.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
(SLDFWYT)
(SLDFWYT): David Foster Wallace discusses ambition, perfectionism, tennis and teaching in an interview with Leonard Lopate from the PBS Digital Studios series Blank On Blank.
Keepintime: documentaries and collaborations between drummers and DJs
Keepintime: documentaries and collaborations between drummers and DJs: Keepintime started as a simple idea, to bring some of the most revered and notable L.A. session drummers together for a photo shoot, then have them talk about the recordings that were famous to hip-hop DJs and producers, with some top LA beat jugglers. From that effort in 2002 came the short film, Keepintime: Talking Drums and Whispering Vinyl (2 parts on YouTube). The short documentary toured around, and in 2002, along with the screening, some of the drummers and DJs put on a live improvised show in Los Angeles. From that 2 hour show, a 45 minute film was made: Keepintime - A Live Recording. Later that year, after screening the short film in England, the Keepintime crew were invited to Brasil, to team up with Brasilian percussionists of renown, and make a beat record. They also put on an epic live show. That whole enterprise was made into an almost two-hour long documentary, Brasilintime. More information on the artists inside.
The original Keepintime photo shoot was to include Roy Porter (YouTube sample track), Earl Palmer (short bio video), Paul Humphrey (YT sample track) and James Gadson (YT sample video). The DJs were Babu (sample video), J.Rocc (sample video) and Cut Chemist (sample video). The session was filmed by Brian Cross (aka B+) and J.Rocc, who is also a prolific videographer. Unfortunately, Roy Porter passed away before that first session took place, though the video director, B+, had interviewed Porter earlier.
For the extended live session in Los Angeles that took place in 2002, Gadson and Humphrey were joined by Derf Reklaw (note: autoplaying music; live performance clip), with Madlib (live clip)and DJ NuMark (live clip) joining the DJs. In Brasil, some of the crew re-assembled. Cut Chemist left a tour with Jurrassic 5, while J.Rocc and Babu flew twenty four hours straight from Japan to get there. James Gadson turned down a tour with Beck to make it. Paul Humphrey and Derf Reklaw were also there, where they met João Parahyba (Google auto-translated bio; live clip), Wilson das Neves (performance clip), Mamão (Ivan Conti) (performance clip), and DJ Nuts (live clip) as their guide to the local hip-hop scene.
For more history of how Keepintime came about, Directors Notes interviewed Brian Cross about the first short documentary. Red Bull Music Academy, who invited the Keepintime crew to Brasil, previewed a rough cut of the film, opening first with a 41 minute lecture from Brian Cross (B+), seen here on Vimeo. Brian also has 318 photos from the Brasilintime session.
Both Mochilla and Ninja Tune released Keepintime Live on DVD with a bonus CD, or those CD tracks on vinyl. The Ninja Tune edition included a 13 track CD (Grooveshark stream). Mochilla also released a 2xDVD set of Brasilintime.
As a parting note, Earl Palmer passed away in 2008, living long enough to not only meet some of the DJs who really appreciated his drumming, but also getting to tour wit them and perform live improvisations around the world.
The original Keepintime photo shoot was to include Roy Porter (YouTube sample track), Earl Palmer (short bio video), Paul Humphrey (YT sample track) and James Gadson (YT sample video). The DJs were Babu (sample video), J.Rocc (sample video) and Cut Chemist (sample video). The session was filmed by Brian Cross (aka B+) and J.Rocc, who is also a prolific videographer. Unfortunately, Roy Porter passed away before that first session took place, though the video director, B+, had interviewed Porter earlier.
For the extended live session in Los Angeles that took place in 2002, Gadson and Humphrey were joined by Derf Reklaw (note: autoplaying music; live performance clip), with Madlib (live clip)and DJ NuMark (live clip) joining the DJs. In Brasil, some of the crew re-assembled. Cut Chemist left a tour with Jurrassic 5, while J.Rocc and Babu flew twenty four hours straight from Japan to get there. James Gadson turned down a tour with Beck to make it. Paul Humphrey and Derf Reklaw were also there, where they met João Parahyba (Google auto-translated bio; live clip), Wilson das Neves (performance clip), Mamão (Ivan Conti) (performance clip), and DJ Nuts (live clip) as their guide to the local hip-hop scene.
For more history of how Keepintime came about, Directors Notes interviewed Brian Cross about the first short documentary. Red Bull Music Academy, who invited the Keepintime crew to Brasil, previewed a rough cut of the film, opening first with a 41 minute lecture from Brian Cross (B+), seen here on Vimeo. Brian also has 318 photos from the Brasilintime session.
Both Mochilla and Ninja Tune released Keepintime Live on DVD with a bonus CD, or those CD tracks on vinyl. The Ninja Tune edition included a 13 track CD (Grooveshark stream). Mochilla also released a 2xDVD set of Brasilintime.
As a parting note, Earl Palmer passed away in 2008, living long enough to not only meet some of the DJs who really appreciated his drumming, but also getting to tour wit them and perform live improvisations around the world.
When I stop listening, I have a hard time believing I just heard it.
When I stop listening, I have a hard time believing I just heard it.: Katra Turana is the most delightfully baffling band I know. Sometimes they sound like a calypso band gone mad. Sometimes they sound like a tornado slamming into a string quartet. Sometimes they're catchy and heartwarming. Sometimes they're sparse and sinister. Or they're annoying in grandiose ways. And sometimes they blossom into something that's vulnerable, lush, and devastatingly beautiful. I know next to nothing about them. They confound me. I hope you find them as wondrous and as special as I do.
Live Video: La Luz
Live Video: La Luz:
How is walking through the woods on a foggy, chilly late spring day similar to strolling past the closed fun houses and ferris wheels on a boardwalk at the end of summer? You could just as easily listen to the melancholic surf bee-bop of Seattle’s La Luz in both of the situations. What started at as a side project for Shana and Marianne after touring for The Curious Mystery has now rapidly become one of the smoothest sounding, Ronnettes-influenced bands around. They released their debut cassette, Damp Face, on Burger Records and have since been called one of the best bands of the year by City Arts as well as had their fortunes told with The Stranger (am I riffing too had on the boardwalk vibes?). It’s like smooth sailing on a cloudly day, sweet singing with a little bit of melancholy, a big sound with a quiet melody, so We were estatic to get them in studio. On KEXP’s Audioasis, they started with a brand new track, “Big Big Blood,” before playing their classic “Call Me In The Day,” for which they recently released this beautiful video. After chatting with DJ Sharlese, they gave us another new track, “It’s Alive,” before ending their session by crooning their way through another new track “Sure As Spring.” In case you missed the lyrics to that one the first time through, instead drawn to the “hey!”‘s and keyboard jams, that’s “When you were mine, I never had the time, when you were mine, now I kind of want to die.” The future for these girls is looking as bright and wonderful as a sunny, bittersweet, end of summer day.
Full performance:
How is walking through the woods on a foggy, chilly late spring day similar to strolling past the closed fun houses and ferris wheels on a boardwalk at the end of summer? You could just as easily listen to the melancholic surf bee-bop of Seattle’s La Luz in both of the situations. What started at as a side project for Shana and Marianne after touring for The Curious Mystery has now rapidly become one of the smoothest sounding, Ronnettes-influenced bands around. They released their debut cassette, Damp Face, on Burger Records and have since been called one of the best bands of the year by City Arts as well as had their fortunes told with The Stranger (am I riffing too had on the boardwalk vibes?). It’s like smooth sailing on a cloudly day, sweet singing with a little bit of melancholy, a big sound with a quiet melody, so We were estatic to get them in studio. On KEXP’s Audioasis, they started with a brand new track, “Big Big Blood,” before playing their classic “Call Me In The Day,” for which they recently released this beautiful video. After chatting with DJ Sharlese, they gave us another new track, “It’s Alive,” before ending their session by crooning their way through another new track “Sure As Spring.” In case you missed the lyrics to that one the first time through, instead drawn to the “hey!”‘s and keyboard jams, that’s “When you were mine, I never had the time, when you were mine, now I kind of want to die.” The future for these girls is looking as bright and wonderful as a sunny, bittersweet, end of summer day.
Full performance:
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