Some percussive noise for your Tuesday.
Tag Archives: Guest DJ
O’Keefe Music Foundation – Sober (Tool)
Hey, remember these kids? They've got another Tool cover out.
Bohren & der Club of Gore – On Demon Wings
German TV, 2012
Self-described "doom ridden jazz music" from the German band. The darkest of noir. Their album Sunset Mission (another fave to paint rainy day scenes to.)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN4YdsOeRNM
Thanks to the DJ's for giving me a couple extra days to burn off my picks. I balls you two.
Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather
Kurt Vile cohort steps out on his own. Doing the title track from his swell 2014 release. Antwerp, Belgium, 2014.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEgYIG-ISGw
You can tell he's listened to a lot of the great English folk guitarists--Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson, etc.
Arvo Pärt – Fratres for Cello and Harp
Arpège Duo is George Durham on cello and Kihwa Lee on harp.
Wonderful piece played beautifully and shot with style.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAwtpy_qBFQ
I've been listening to a lot more classical music of late. Continue reading Arvo Pärt – Fratres for Cello and Harp
Deathprod – Treetop Drive
Oslo, Norway, 2014
A big shout-out to Will Oldham for making me aware of the dark ambient music of Norwegian artist Helge Sten, who goes by the moniker Deathprod. The whole of "Treetop Drive" is three movements that clock in at over a half an hour. This is a truncated version. This became one of my favorite pieces to paint to last winter. I also nicked part of it for a short film I put together last Fall.
The Replacements – Whole Food Blues
LA, CA, 2015
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p14pOJlu30 Continue reading The Replacements – Whole Food Blues
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band – It’s Hard To Be A Saint in the City
I was the king of the alley, mama
I could talk some trash
Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, 1975.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS5uyOPTGuE
There were reasons behind the hype that landed Bruce on the covers of Time and Newsweek simultaneously in 1975. Continue reading Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band – It’s Hard To Be A Saint in the City
William Tyler – Geography of Nowhere
Nashville guitarist conjures up the open road on this lovely instrumental.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx1l5W6YSMs
Julia Holter – Silhouette
Live at her alma mater: Cal Arts, June, 2015.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCy7X5bzlis&list=PLk1bxwjXwDYZKl_Q2RZmMLHAlynmxOxCN&index=6
This song will appear on her highly anticipated fall release Have You In My Wilderness. Video for the first single from the upcoming album after the jump Continue reading Julia Holter – Silhouette