lights and tracers digging through the november dark

it has been to long
but i've been listening

to new swathers
and concrete plains
when the mice run

1. The Antlers - Apple Orchard (Beach House Cover)
2. Beach House - Norway
3. Benoît Pioulard - Fir
4. Bon Iver & St. Vincent - Roslyn
5. Califone - Michigan Girls
6. CANT - Ghosts
7. Caribou - Melody Day (Four Tet Remix)
8. CocoRosie - Madonna
9. Deradoorian - You Carry The Deed
10. Fight Bite - Swiss Ex Lover
11. Grizzly Bear - Slow Life
12. I Am Oak - Furrows
13. Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum - Avalanches
14. Kurt Vile - I Wanted Everything
15. Land & People - Awake
16. The Lord Dog Bird - Song Of The Woodthrush
17. Rain Machine - Driftwood Heart
18. Sea Snakes - Conception Bay, South
19. Shapes & Sizes - Taste In My Mouth (7" Version)
20. Shearwater - The Snow Leopard
21. Sun Kil Moon - Pancho Villa
22. Taken By Trees - Watch The Waves
23. Tim Hardin - Red Ballon
24. Tiny Vipers - On This Side
25. Ugly Cassanove - So Long For The Holidays
26. Wilderness - Beautiful Alarms
27. Women - Everyone Is In Love With You

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and the traces and lights
exhaled through the night

sure why not

another video

the great sand heron

two videos sent to me recently

amazing lightbox/sand art/performance are/etc

A Hole in the Place of Heart from DavidMyriam on Vimeo.

my favourite bird

The Great Blue Heron of Stanley Park from Mike McKinlay on Vimeo.

towns i passed through on the way to the coast

Superfriend Dave Pwned'house asked me to make a mix of my favourite kurt vile stuff. I am much obliged....












In no particular order:

1. Kurt Vile - Hunchback
2. Kurt Vile - Overnight Religion
   
3. Kurt Vile - Blackberry Song
   
4. Kurt Vile - Unknown
5. Kurt Vile - Freeway
   
6. Kurt Vile - Slow Talker
7. Kurt Vile - Don't Get Cute
   
8. Kurt Vile - Beach On The Moon (Recycled Lyrics)
9. Kurt Vile - My Best Friends (Don't Even Pass This)
10. Kurt Vile - Song For John D
11. Kurt Vile - The Hunchback
    
12. Kurt Vile - Losing It
13. War On Drugs - Taking The Farm
    
14. War On Drugs - Buenos Aires Beach
    

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Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz. It developed after the discovery of diamonds in the area in 1908, to provide shelter for workers from the harsh environment of the Namib Desert. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners the village was built like a German town, with facilities like a hospital, ballroom, power station, school, skittle-alley, theater and sport-hall, casino, ice factory and the first x-ray-station^[3] in the southern hemisphere as well as the first tram in Africa. It had a railway link to Lüderitz. The town declined after World War I as diamond prices crashed, and operations moved to Oranjemund. It was abandoned in 1956.

more stop motion

love it...

potholes of sound and random strings i've found

a random grab bag of songs that are new or new to me, a fair bit of canadian stuff, for you listening pleasure














Jason Molina and Will Johnson have collaborated and have an album coming out. Judging by the track below its going to be on constant rotation for me. Spiral Stairs makes me want to go see the Pavement reunion and remember a great show they did with BSS at sled island. Forest City Lovers have a new 7' and continue to refine their sound. Mountain Man reminds me Alela Diane, not as haunting, but a similar style to her first amazing album The Pirates Gospel. Woods played three new tracks on Daytrotter, these are my two favs, been loving these guys for years. Golden Isles are a Canadian band that is new to me, at first they reminded me of tons of the NME style British crap but on further listens I think they come at their music without the aspirations of a magazine cover. Videotape, often compared to Women which i find a stretch, are also new to me but judging by the tracks I found they are keepers. I generally hate 'remixes', they are music for people who go to clubs to try and get their photos taken by scene photographers for facebook glory. I fucking love the Soft Pact (formerly the Muslims) and I like how much they have changed the song in their remix. Finally, I had heard a little buzz about Valleys before Pop Montreal who's show I unfortunately didnt make it too, but I really with I could have. They remind me of Citizens Here and Abroad but, from the sounds of it, less hit and miss. Ok thats my review? Synopsis?

1. Molina & Johnson - Twenty Cycles To The Ground*
2. Spiral Stairs - A Mighty Mighty Fall
3. Forest City Lovers - Phodilus and Tyto
   
4. Forest City Lovers - If I Were A Tree
   
5. Mountain Man - Sewee Sewee
6. Woods - Death Rattle*
7. Woods - Suffering Season
8. Golden Isles - Going Out Tonight
9. Videotape - Nightlights*
   
10. Videotape - He The Moon
11. Phoenix - Fences (Soft Pact Remix)
12. Valleys - Killer Legs*
13. Valleys - Silent Woods
    

*Asterisk donates my picks













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images: random

on the threshold between the 2nd and 3rd dimensions...

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

An experimental film made up of over 35,000 photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques. I think it pairs well with the background music. Now turn off your lights and watch it in the dark over and over again....

Beneath, Ink and Resin works (sculptures? paintings? installations?) that make me question what dimension to 'view' these works from. Wikipedia tells me Dustin Yellin's (http://www.dustinyellin.com/) artworks are based on a unique process of painting 3d forms in resin. Common subjects in his artworks are biological imagery. While historic artists like Leopold Blaschka and Ernst Haeckel have used their techniques to represent real biological forms, Dustin Yellin's artworks exist as permutations of natural life and form. His paintings use a method to represent 3d forms that is reminiscent of both lenticular images and rapid prototyping. The technique approximates a static volumetric display and is autostereoscopic as his artworks appear three dimensional without the use of special glasses or viewing equipment.


































how tenuous our perception has become...

avian evil eye

Boredom has got the best of me (there is only so much online scrabble you can play, books you can read, guitar you can play, and lloyd roberston on ctv new net you can take in one afternoon)... I figured I would make a post with some lesser known Canadian stuff that I've been listening to... Well, I guess Land of Talk is sort of well know but i doubt many people have heard their new EP so i'll post that for the time being along with some tracks by Zeroes (which included member[s] of land of talk if i remember correctly) and Pick A Piper (which includes a guy from Caribou)... Land of Talk seems to bringing some of their 'edge' back on the ep 'fun and laugther', which i hope leads to a return of the energy that applause cheer boo hiss had. Zeroes kind of does the synth-rock thing but adds a angular element that is at times spastic but in no means overdone; i also hear their live shows are great and recommend people going to see them if they want to get their dance on. Pick A Piper reminds me of a more percussion based Caribou, the tracks are hit and miss for me but overall enjoyable.

1. Land of Talk - Sixteen Asterisk
   
2. Land of Talk - May You Never*
   
3. Land of Talk - As Me
4. Land of Talk - A Series of Small Flames
   
5. Zeroes - The Disappearance of The Skyscraper*
   
6. Zeroes - Arena
   
7. Zeroes - PVC
   
8. Zeroes - Mudslinger
   
9. Pick A Piper - Yellowknife*
   
10. Pick A Piper - Rooms
    
11. Pick A Piper - Bechtel Park

asterisk denotes the best track off each ep imo
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all images from: http://www.frankgonzales.net/PAINTINGS.html

all colours come to agree in the dark

Ive been really enjoying kyp malone's solo album under the moniker 'rain machine'. perhaps one of my top three albums of the year thus far, so put on some headphones and listen to a few tracks for yourself. As well, a couple chad v.g. b-sides from soft aeroplane i enjoy at the moment.

1. Rain Machine - Driftwood Heart
2. Rain Machine - Smiling Black Faces
   
3. Rain Machine - Winter Song
   
4. Rain Machine - Desperate Bitch
   
5. Rain Machine - Leave The Lights on
   
6. Chad Vangaalen - Corvette
   
7. Chad Vangaalen - Did You Find Peace?
   

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History of the Night

Throughout the course of th generations men constructed the night. At first she was blindness; thorns raking bare feet, fear of wolves. We shall never know who forged the word for the interval of shadow dividing the two twilights; we shall never know in what age it came to mean the starry hours. Others created the myth. They made her the mother of the unruffled Fates that spin our destiny, thev sacrificed black ewes to her, and the cock who crows his own death. The Chaldeans assigned to her twelve houses; to Zeno, infinite words. She took shape from Latin hexameters and the terror of Pascal. Luis de Leon saw in her the homeland of his stricken soul. Now we feel her to be inexhuastible like an ancient wine and no one can gaze on her without vertigo and time has charged her with eternity. And to think that she wouldn't exist except for those fragile instruments, the eyes. Jorge Luis Borges

all images by lorna simpson and printed on felt panels or news print: http://lsimpsonstudio.com/

jousting with shadows

i find blu's work/art fascinating: often temporary, most often for a temporary online audience, a fluid use of static frames, political and satirical (yet less obvious than a lot of stencil art), and performed in the forgotten spaces of the city. perhaps it is the fact that it not for sale galleries, that while the canvas turns to rubble so does the work, that attracts me most. i posted the video for 'muto' some time ago and the new video 'combo' continues to further my fascination. each frame itself a piece of 'art', something university activists would surely buy prints of at urban outfitters before their safe local gathering of bored middle class issues and the poverty of action, but the frame is not to be found. white wash and white wash falls like justice and joy...

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

i mistaked you for a chanterelle...

its been a while since i've posted, yet again, but with my thesis done and a job found i should be able to post more regularly again...















i figured i would post some new stuff i've been into lately. firstly, alela diane's last album was an over produced mess which lost what had originally made her music capitivating. her new 10' ep with alina hardin seems to be moving back to the rustic acoustic mountain sound that got her attention in the first place. Califone are one of my all time favourite bands and for the life of me i cant figure out why they dont get more attention (although if they did i would probably bemoan it). Anyway, there new album, 'all my friends are funeral singers' is absolutely amazing... the two wooden sky tracks are from their tour ep - thanks to tyson for the help - and the songs continue with the quality of their recent album. not sure about super group monsters of folk yet, but i dont mind these two tracks. the clientele's new album is their best since strange geometry, nothing new, but they pull it off well. kings of convenience seem to be getting close to a new album, although riot on an empty street is a b-side from their last album of the same name. i hope they return to their darker and glacial side for the coming record. kurt mother fucking vile, i love this album and his previous work so much, just great rock music. and finally, while i can't get behind the new fuck buttons album, i like this b-side to their single as it has a very animal collective rhythm and such... not sure why i just wrote all of that, moral of the story listen to califone and kurt vile...

1. Alela Diane feat. Alina Hardin - Amidst The Movement
   
2. Alela Diane feat. Alina Hardin - Rake
3. Califone - Funeral Singers
   
4. Califone - 1928
   
5. Califone - Buñuel
   
6. The Wooden Sky - Colorado Girl
   
7. The Wooden Sky - I Am Raw Youth
   
8. Monsters of Folk - Map Of The World
   
9. Monsters of Folk - His Master's Voice
   
10. The Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath
    
11. The Clientele - Harvest Time
    
12. Kings of Convenience - Mrs. Cold
    
13. Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
    
14. Kurt Vile - Blackberry Song
    
15. Kurt Vile - Overnight Religion
    
16. Kurt Vile - Hunchback
    
17. Fuck Buttons - New Crossbow
    

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all images by amy ross, from: http://www.amyross.com/portfolio/worksonpaper/22.html

i watched as the slide and hammond left karman vortexes behind the faces in the crowd...

love:
hammond b3
slide guitar
mandolin
banjo
harmony

• The Wooden Sky - Something Hiding For Us In The Night
  
• The Wooden Sky - An Evening Hymn
  
• The Wooden Sky - Oh My God (It Still Means A Lot To Me)
  
• The Wooden Sky - When We Were Young
  
• Blue Rodeo - Til I Am Myself Again
  
• Blue Rodeo - Hasn't Hit Me Yet
• Black Diamond Bay - What We Wanted
  
• Entire Cities - Coffee
  
• Entire Cities - Talkers
• Timbre Timbre - Until The Night Is Over
  
• Caledonia - We Are America
• The Band - Chest Fever
• The Band - Long Black Veil
• The Deep Dark Woods - The Gallows
  
• The Deep Dark Woods - All The Money I Had Is Gone
• Amy Milan - Towers
  
• Amy Milan - I Will Follow You Into The Dark
• The Great Lake Swimmers - Various Stages (live)
• Slow Down, Molasses - The Dirt Beneath Our Daydreams
• Olenka & The Autumn Lovers - Flash In The Pan
• Gillian Welch - Look At Miss Ohio
  
• Gillian Welch - Revelator
  

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all canadian
minus gillian welch
i couldnt resist

cannot stop listening to the new wooden sky album