been a bit of an excellent exhausting weeekend, one of matrimony and last dances, barefoot walks home on country lanes, dawn breaking as you find the door. success and excesses. sunday night songs are needed; the lazy ones that bask in recollection and smiles.
yo la tengo
are one of these bands that hook your eyelids closed, push you off to dreams. they write some of the sweetest love songs i've ever heard. maybe you're not meant to hear.
Justin Vernon
forecast for emma... for all to hear when noone was listening. With an old keyboard and Nebraska sending him to sleep when that beer has done the job. The video for this is a blurry take on it, those drives you take at night to think things over, when all you hear is that record and relive all the clues.
Tindersticks
smokey bars, dark eyes, dirty beds, a scandel or two, all dressed in strings and that baritone voice that swoons and pleads. cinematic, sexy. videoless but listen.
The National
have been in my pocket of life for the past few years. almost everywhere. i love this video. french, bohemian, red wine and countryside, the acoustic harmonies dancing in the dark. i want to make videos like this.
I am happy for my friends successes this weekend. If they read then they know who they are.
bon soir.
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
take me away
music has always been important to me. solice. joy. love. loss. the way out. the way in. a blog is always something i've meant to begin.
live music videos seem to be pleasing and inspiring everyone these days; those french inspired take-away shows from blogotheque.net have been amongst the most fantastic captures of modern musicians i can think of.
here are a small selection of some favourites.
bon iver
i came across him when my relationship was falling apart. seams popping silently. its sad beauty, those golden harmonies, his soul baring fragility brought me some comfort, and,down the line, became a big influence on me.
priscilla ahn
beautiful. everything is beautiful about her; her music, her voice, this song. In that slight breeze and late sunshine, she even makes L.A look lovely.
sigur ros
a rather sweet acoustic session compared to their grandious sonic shows.
my brightest diamond
she reminds me of classical singers, with that sweetest of old style voices, of old towns with oak shutters and cobbled streets and sunday markets with a dust that never settles, that gentle music box chiming sweetly out a high window you can't see in.
margot & the nuclear so and so's
i do love this song, even at the time it became so apparent, even now in the after. i wonder how many people stumble through relationships with that void.
low (alan sparhawk)
there is such soft determination here, a hint of vitriol that these quiet pretty streets dapple and contain but can't hide, like the best of low's music.
live music videos seem to be pleasing and inspiring everyone these days; those french inspired take-away shows from blogotheque.net have been amongst the most fantastic captures of modern musicians i can think of.
here are a small selection of some favourites.
bon iver
i came across him when my relationship was falling apart. seams popping silently. its sad beauty, those golden harmonies, his soul baring fragility brought me some comfort, and,down the line, became a big influence on me.
priscilla ahn
beautiful. everything is beautiful about her; her music, her voice, this song. In that slight breeze and late sunshine, she even makes L.A look lovely.
sigur ros
a rather sweet acoustic session compared to their grandious sonic shows.
Sigur Ros - Við spilum endalaust - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
my brightest diamond
she reminds me of classical singers, with that sweetest of old style voices, of old towns with oak shutters and cobbled streets and sunday markets with a dust that never settles, that gentle music box chiming sweetly out a high window you can't see in.
margot & the nuclear so and so's
i do love this song, even at the time it became so apparent, even now in the after. i wonder how many people stumble through relationships with that void.
Margot and the Nuclear So & So's - As Tall as cliffs - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
low (alan sparhawk)
there is such soft determination here, a hint of vitriol that these quiet pretty streets dapple and contain but can't hide, like the best of low's music.
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