Image: Artwork from Boustrophedon (ECM, 2008) Here's an eclectic jazz-oriented list to start off September with some sly foot-tapping grooves and mostly laid-back spirit. The theme of the list flows from several relaxed yet sumptuous tunes to a much more brooding atmosphere and finally turning into an urgent yet seemingly directionless endeavour. Lately I've increasingly been finding myself going back to jazz records and gigs again. So more than anything else I guess I made this list for myself just to play around a bit with a certain mood that I wanted to create. I [...]
I'm going on an end of summer blogging holiday for the next week or so, coinciding with my annual trip to Vermont and my annual running out of energy to keep posting every weekday. So hopefully I'll be back on Labor Day with some new posts, some new music , and the Phillies in first place. Don't hold your breath. Until then, I leave you with a bunch of songs. Most are new, some are a little older, and the one after the jump I [...]
Hey kids. Today was a long one. Got to work a half-hour before opening to prepare for a big storewide sale, and just walked into Nicci's place five minutes ago. Some of the discounts were larger than my normal employee discount, so I bought a handful of records that I'd been holding onto for a few weeks. Superfuzz Bigmuff , a Steve Reich record, the first Saints album ( I'm Stranded ), and a bunch of seven-inch records (Big Black's Il Duce , Minutemen's Paranoid Time , two Flying Saucer attack 7"s and a Tortoise 7"). All [...]
Today I bring you a live Spoon recording from earlier this month at Prospect Park Bandshell that showed up recently on archive dot org . They played a total of 22 tracks, 2 of which were covers. Unfortunenately, Spoon did not play anything off Telephono . Quick Aside: how long until Spoon tours playing Telephono in it's entirety??? Hmmm, if they did take part in the trend of playing classic albums what album WOULD they play? Anyway, they did play an oldie off [...]
Dirty Three - Sister Let Them Try and Follow from She Has No Strings, Apollo [2003] I was on the speech team in High School, okay? People consider me articulate, and I can write in sentences that make sense. But my truest thoughts aren't words at all. I think best in colored shapes that move together in space. Ribbons, or big giant squares. And they make sense to me, but I can't really articulate it except by saying "it's like a blue ribbon arced [...]
Here are some songs that I like... Enjoy them : Ever since - Dirty Three (mp3) She doesn't live here anymore - Jay-Jay Johanson (mp3) Strange religion - Mark Lanegan [...]
Beaucoup de travail, beaucoup de concerts, et forcément peu de temps pour écrire... Mon médecin m'a imposé un régime strict, auquel je m'astreins sans résistance. La posologie est claire : deux concerts par semaine a minima pour se se sentir un peu plus vivant. Ces derniers jours, le dosage était un peu plus puissant. L'apothéose, c'était hier, j'en ai pris plein la tronche, mes os ont résonné,
Shawn Smith - Suffering (Live) Isobel Campbel and Mark Lanegan - The False Husband Concrete Blonde - Little Conversations Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - God Is In The House The Replacements - Answering Machine (Live) Dirty Three - Long way to Go With No Punch The Twilight Singers - The Lure Would Prove Too Much
fucking snow. the exit - home for an island the detroit cobras - let's forget about the past the afghan whigs - john the baptist possum dixon - in her disco suicide - rocket usa [...]
Deepavali. Also known as Diwali, or the Festival of Lights. One of the most important days in Hinduism. Celebrated on the end of the seventh month of the Hindu calendar. In many Asian nations, it is declared a public holiday. Through the day, candles are lit. Houses are open. Mutton, chutney and lassi are the spreads of the day. Everyone is happy. Pirativali. Also known as the Festival of Seafaring Shitheads In Love, Fluffy and Ready To Spit (which can be abbreviated to FOSSILFARTS). Easily the most important day in Animism, Pastafarianism and the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae [...]
feist 1 2 3 4 (live on letterman) beirut elephant gun (live at glastonbury) jens lekman a sweet summers night on hammer hill animal collective good lovin outside (BBC session 2005) ryan adams goodnight rose (live - paris 2007) neil young hold back the tears (solo studio version) the shins breathe (pink floyd cover) john ralston fragile dirty three stellar iron & wine jezebel (demo) iron & wine such great heights iron & wine love and some verses [[THIS IS ONLY A SUMMARY OF THIS *Sixeyes POST. PLEASE VISIT *Sixeyes FOR LINKS, MP3s, AND [...]
* Dirty Three : Deep Water (25.0 mb) From Live On Studio 22 : Sept 23, 1999 : Melbourne, Australia Since I posted the collaboration between Nina Nastasia and Jim White earlier, I thought it was only fitting that I posted some songs by Jim White's main band, Dirty Three . Hailing from Australia, this trio consisting of the aforementioned Jim White on drums, Mick Turner on guitar and Warren Ellis on violin might seem like a recipe for some unforgettable Muzak, but [...]
Boy did I get drunk last night. Bear Republic Big Bear Black Stout, you are no longer my friend, no matter how deliciously alcoholic you might be. There was a period of time when I found myself "falling asleep" (blacking out?) on a pillow-covered floor for one or two minutes at a time. I don't remember stretches of conversation that occurred between myself and the person with whom I was hanging out, but I can always pretend my cognitions were fascinating and insightful. Now here's the music! RULES for uninitiated noobs : With 100MB of webspace, [...]
Bedhead's music was generally subdued, with a polyphonic sound based on the interlocking of single-line melodies played by three electric guitars and one electric bass guitar (often played with a capo), nearly always using clean (undistorted) tones - Wikipieda That kids, is what you and I would refer to as slo-core. I've long had an unhealthy obsession with slow, plodding, miserable songs. I've probably listened to Bedhead's Transaction De Novo well over 150 times, it was a point of obsession for a bit. I had the idea of making a [...]
Still from Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Andrei Rublev' (1969) Probably one of my favourite scenes in a motion picture comes from Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Andrei Rublev'. The film – a true masterpiece in itself – ends with a shot of several horses in the rain, a beautiful symbolic image. This is what Andrei Tarkovsky himself had to say about this scene: I'd like to point out the film ends with an image of horses in rain. It is a symbolic image as horse for me is a synonym of life. When I'm looking at a [...]
Photo credit: Cole Rise On a hot summer day (like today) I like to listen to some folk related music. A genre which also generally reminds me of horses. Horses roaming a stretched out countryside and where time still passes freely. It's actually not just an image that forms inside my head (I couldn't draw it for you if I wanted to), but more like an almost lifelike sensation of being in such surroundings. The sunlight burning my skin, the humid heat making the air heavy and almost difficult to breathe, the graceful sounds [...]
Did you know instrumental is an anagram of "Lunar Mittens"? Yet another instrumental session is upon us, this will be a bumper issue as there will be a lack of mentaling next week (I apologise but holidays come first!). Bit of a mix today, with instrumental only tracks from Interpol and Spiritualized , and an acapella Bjork (this counts as the other end of the spectrum from instrumental). First up though I would like to introduce Amiina , a band from Iceland who you have all heard but never knew [...]
STAGES ATP: ALEXANDER TUCKER, ELVIS PERKINS, COMETS ON FIRE, FENNESZ & MIKE PATTON, BOLA CD ROME BY VUELING: ANTICONCEPTIVAS, THE LIGHT BRIGADE, ZA, VERACRUZ, PARENTHETICAL GIRLS, GHOULS'N'GHOSTS, FUJIYA & MIYAGI, JUSTICE, GIRL TALK ESTRELLA DAMM: HERMAN DUNE, MELVINS, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ROCKDELUX BY FRIDAY'S PROJECT: DIRTY THREE, SLINT, THE WHITE STRIPES Da dove cominciare? Come fare per sbrogliare l'intera matassa di ricordi e suggestioni di uno dei viaggi più belli ed intensi che abbia fatto in [...]
Still from Vozvrashcheniye by Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2003 The sea seems to attract people in a most irresistible and overwhelming manner. There is nothing like gazing into the horizon and getting lost in the immensity of the sea. I grew up very close to the sea – The North Sea was a mere couple of minutes away from our home – and spent many days along the shoreline. I favoured the sea in the autumn, unlike most people who preferably went to the beach during the summer. This preference for the autumn sea fits well with my [...]
motel de moka
VAGUE SPACE
Swan Fungus
GIMME TINNITUS
So Well Remembered
And the ass saw the angel
la case de l'affreux thom
Visions and Revisions
pigeon kicking
Pirates of the Bargain Bin
*SIXEYES
the of mirror eye
It's hard to Find a Friend
Freddy Krueger's Bidet
Indie For BUNNIES
Rihanna Gets Nude For Nude
Craft Spells
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