People Like Us - Work, Rest & Play (2007)

People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) never fails to amaze me. Check out this piece courtesy of UBU web.

The Green Kingdom - CD review

Tofaki has a great piece on two releases by The Green Kingdom including "Laminae" from The Land Of. Thanks Tofaki!

“Laminae” is so much more than an aural refuge for stressed-out ears, however. The result of years of continued reconsidering, recombining, recomposing and eventually returning to the simplicity of the first, inspired moment, it manages to peal structure and immediacy from essentially free-flowing ambient clouds. Cottone is unafraid of allowing the occasional dissonant Piano tone and impurely plucked Guitar string into his soundscapes, he uses whispery thunderstorms and silently babbling brooks for instruments, sends out pulsating waves on his cosmic Rhodes and builds tension through a careful friction between complete outward harmony and a galaxy of diversely interrelated micro-events underneath the surface. Nothing lasts forever here and sometimes, you find yourself reminiscing that one, irresistible moment of bliss which will never return. But isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?"

Sympathy for the Devil

This past weekend I was able to check out Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 at Musée d'art contemporain in Montréal. I can't recommend this enough! It ends Jan 11th. I took the above photo before a security guard had a few words but once I put the camera away I checked out some Christian Marclay collages, paintings by Robert Longo (above), some of the original Peter Saville work for New Order's Power Corruption & Lies and much more.

From the site:

"Among the New York artists featured are Rita Ackermann, Robert Longo, Richard Prince, Christian Marclay, Adam Pendleton, Mika Tajima and Jack Pierson. A group of portrait photographs by Richard Prince depicts such legendary art and music figures as Brian Eno, David Byrne, Dee Dee Ramone, Tina Weymouth, Adele Bertei, Kate Pierson, Cindy Wilson and Laurie Anderson. Also on display are photographs from Richard Kern’s New York Girls series and stills from his film Submit to Me Now, as well as Christian Marclay’s Untitled (1987-2007), made up of vinyl LP albums spread over a gallery floor."

Ohrwurms

The WSJ has a interesting article on the psychological effects of music that covers everything from holiday music torture to the future of social interaction through music.

Kitchen Daily Blog

I've really been enjoying April Lee's Kitchen Daily photo blog. In addition to her beautiful photography work she is also 1/2 of the group Aspidistrafly and a designer as well. Check it out.