Esta lista dos discos que mais gostei de ouvir ao longo de 2010 é constituída com base na minha (fraca) memória, ou seja, daqui a 2 horas, provavelmente seria completamente diferente… Kayo Dot – Coyote Neil Young – Le Noise Faust – Faust Is Last Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté – Ali and Toumani Wyatt Atzmon Stephen - For The Ghosts Within Scout Niblett - The Calcination of Scout Niblett Land Of Kush – Monogamy Paus – É uma água The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream Linda Martini - Casa Ocupada

Sam Shalabi é um dos compositores mais criativo e experimental da cena musical de Montreal, tendo passado por projectos colectivos como os GY!BE, e há muito ligado à editora Constellation. Os seus projectos a solo demonstram em pleno a sua capacidade criativa e um imaginário único no panorama musical actual. Os seus registos têm mostrado uma variedade impressionante, desde a música de cariz electrónica ambiental até a incursões pela música oriental, Shalabi tem a habilidade de fundir vários conceitos num só. No projecto Land of Kush, do qual edita agora o segundo trabalho, Monogamy, Shalabi explora o conceito [...]
ZACH THAT: Vic Chestnut – "Chain" Grand Archives – Silver Among The Gold" Pissed Jeans – "False Jesii Part 2" Fruit Bats – "The Ruminant Band" Benjy Ferree – "Fear" Elfin Saddle – "Temple Daughter" Land Of Kush - "Against The Day" Deer Tick – "Smith Hill" The [...]
Una selezione di MP3 dal catalogo della Constellation, etichetta con sede a Montreal e casa, tra gli altri, di Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Clues, Elfin Saddle, Do Make Say Think, Vic Chesnutt, Evangelista/Carla Bozulich e di moltissimi altri artisti che amo. Dedico questo post all'amico delso, il più grande fan al mondo dell'etichetta canadese. Land Of Kush"Against [...]

You're probably going to laugh at me, but I ate pho for the first time today. It was delicious. Super-spicy and weird and great. When you carry out from this local Vietnamese place they put raw beef in a little plastic baggie, and it is your job to very quickly transfer the beef into the piping hot soup so that it can cook all the way through. Somehow it works. It goes great with fresh spring rolls filled with pork, shrimp and herbs, too. Sunday is here again. It is time for another mix tape. I'm pretty sure [...]

• Earlier this week I had a very brief discussion with Vegan Nick about some of the more popular theories regarding Shakespeare's identity. The very next day, CNN ran an article titled, "Unique portrait from Shakespeare's life unveiled". Apparently a 400-year old portrait was kept anonymously in an Irish home has been confirmed as the only painting of Shakespeare created during his lifetime. I guess that dispels the rumors that he was actually Francis Bacon or Christopher Marlowe, right? [ story ] • Twice before I have shared links to stories about robot/human interactions, specifically as they relate [...]
The Good : Neko Case - "People Got A Lot of Nerve" ; At the moment I'm only mildly excited for the new Neko Case album. As is the case with the AC Newman solo release, I would much rather see these musicians (and Dan Bejar) focusing on The New Pornographers but obviously that's not gonna happen. Instead we get a mildly solid track that is not offending, but it doesn't drive me the way some Porno songs can. Anyway, they are donating $5 to a charity because I posted this so [...]
These days the land of Kush is anyplace with legalized medicinal-marijuana use. But the original land of Kush was an ancient civilization also known as Nubia, located in the present-day Republic of Sudan. And the stuff the rappers smoke was named after a mountain range in Afghanistan, so yeah. The Land of Kush relevant to this post is a 30-plus-member Montreal ensemble "modeled on classical orchestras from late Nasser-era Egypt." Yep, that sounds like a Land of Kush, all right. Led by veteran local musician/composer Sam Shalabi, Land of Kush debuted [...]