Ormonde = Anna Lynne Williams (of Trespassers William) and Robert Gomez, whose debut album will be released soon on Hometapes . They met at a the recording of the John Grant album, found a lot of musical similarities ('Sotol, Gainsbourg, Nabokov, Neil Hamburger, stars'), rented a house later on and recorded an album. Machines, for which I don't know a release-date, will feature a Serge Gainsbourg cover, Lemon Incest, that you can already hear on Robert's Soundcloud.
Three dudes who were once local but aren't any longer -- Will Johnson (Austin), Josh T. Pearson (Paris) and Robert Gomez (Seattle) -- are up to some cool things of late. One just released a new E... Continue reading "Will Johnson Releases Solo EP, Josh T. Pearon Gets Daytrotted and Robert Gomez Gets Smart." >
It's getting better. Gomez - Getting Better (The Beatles cover)
The Great Kaboom (laptop demo) by RobertGomez http://www.robertgomezmusic.co m/
The Great Kaboom (laptop demo) by RobertGomez http://www.robertgomezmusic.co m/
SoCal has fond memories of Trespassers William , the Orange County-bred dreampop outfit who fled to the Pacific Northwest around the time 2004's "Different Stars" was worming its way into our ears. Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams have released precious little TW music since 2006 (only two EPs), but Williams has been involved in other projects — collaborating with Texas folk artist Robert Gomez as well as doing a solo album as Lotte Kestner . The latter work, titled "China Mountain," came out this summer on Silber Records, and it's [...]
Filed under: The Hit List , Free MP3 Download of the Day With South by Southwest rapidly approaching, it's time to start brushing up on your buzz bands. With thousands of performers filling out this year's bill, even the most dedicated music fan couldn't possibly keep up with all of them. Fortunately, Spinner is here to consume some space on your iPod: Help yourself to these free MP3s from SXSW artists to whet your appetite before all the action in Austin. Artist: [...]
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For those not currently in the know, it might seem strange to hear that the soft-hearted anti-folk artist Robert Gomez was once a member a popular Texas based mambo band known as the Latin Pimps. Or that he once toured as a circus performer (of sorts). You won't hear much direct influence from these experiences on his latest solo effort, Pine Sticks and Phosphorus . But there is an obvious "influenced by the earth" feel to the album. As well as it being a cut above your average singer/songwriter's work. [...]
I have to say I'm really digging a lot of the DC-9 in Space weekly installments. The one for this week is Robert Gomez...and I'm diggin' it. Like most of these installments it's shot very well and edited very well and the bands always sound great. Plus, it's the best use of an old typewriter as percussion I've ever witnessed.
When it comes to an artist who has been doin' work don't look anywhere other than Denton's Robert Gomez . The man seems like he's constantly working: record label owner, solo artist and trusty sideman to local musicians. Despite not being a household name he's been featured as NPR's "Song of The Day" and an instrumental version of his song "Hunting Song" was featured on David Byrne's website. His new album Pine Sticks and Phosphorus has been in a steady rotation around here lately. [...]
Friday is back and so is Ten Tracks You Need. After a week off, we've got a bonus post w/a few more tracks than normal and it's what I've been jamming to over the last week or so. I'm not going to ramble on here, but I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who participated in our 300th post contest. Three of you lucky kids got a whole heap of stuff mailed to you. You know who you are. We'll have more contests and giveaways and all you have to do to participate is follow [...]
Denton, Texas songwriter Robert Gomez's latest album, Pine Sticks & Phosphorus , isn't quite the stuff of summer jams - a restrained, gentle folk collection, it's unlikely to unseat, say, Jay-Z's "DOA" from your party playlist. But luckily Gomez's latest is an album for all seasons, a carefully arranged set that recalls pop dabbler Jim O'Rourke's more pastoral moments. Tracks such as "On This Day," with Gomez's hushed, measured vocal cadence and its interlocking guitar arpeggiations, could share space with the former Wilco producer's "Memory Lame" or even Michigan -era Sufjan Stevens. Pine Sticks doesn't have [...]
I've been listening to Robert Gomez 's "On This Day" quite a bit recently. I like how the finger-picked guitar meshes nicely with the mechanical sounding drum machine. His music is so, so, good. MP3: Robert Gomez - On This Day
Do you remember those English teachers that made you turn in the gigantic term papers at the end of the school year in a big yellow envelope filled with notecards, outlines and rough drafts? I'm that English teacher. The mention of my name this time of year is likely to spark a multitude of emotions, particularly a healthy mix of dread and outrage. If I were to go spy on the facebook pages of my students, I'd no doubt find a slew of insults, swearing, and outright threats streaming down their update threads. Sometimes I laugh because I'm in complete [...]
Using a revamped antique pedal organ, David Byrne has transformed New York's empty Battery Maritime Building into a musical instrument that visitors can play. Playing the Building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure (the physical plant of the building) is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements [...]
"Beck's softer moments, Grandaddy's playful pastoralism and John Lennon's melodic shifts haunt these songs beautifully." — The Guardian Listen: Robert Gomez-On This Day mp3 Also, using a revamped antique pedal organ, David Byrne, of Talking Heads fame, has transformed New York's empty Battery Maritime Building into a musical instrument that visitors can play. After hearing of this inventive musical creation, Robert decided to sample some sounds and employ them on his song, 'Hunting Song'. The folks at www.DavidByrne.com have posted the song and more info about 'Playing [...]
To call Robert Gomez's musical past colorful would be an understatement. A guitarist from a young age, Gomez made his first real introduction into pop music in college with underground mambo band Latin Pimps which lasted only a short while, after which he recorded a jazz album under his own name, got bored, started singing, and eventually produced his first singer/songwriter record. After that, he toured with the circus for a while (no, seriously - click on 'about'), released another album and then toured with Midlake for a bit. That brings us to 2009, where Gomez has recently [...]
Talking Heads mastermind David Byrne has created a sound installation at the Roundhouse arts venue in London called Playing The Building which is exactly what the name implies. Visitors can use a modi... Continue reading "David Byrne Web Site Features Robert Gomez Playing--No Kidding--A Building" >
Pine Sticks and Phosphorus is the new work from Robert Gomez, filled with beautiful episodes and other orchestrations, bound to infiltrate the head. The album was co-produced by Matt Pence of Centro-Matic and featuring members of The Polyphonic Spree, Midlake, Postmarks and Sarah Jaffe. Robert Gomez began making music at age of 7, putting on his first show for friends and family at a Baldwin piano store in his hometown of Corpus Christi, TX. audio: Middle of Nowhere dates: Apr 25 [...]
Someone once asked me what the POP! Stereo was all about. This is what I told him...The POP! Stereo benchmarks customized mindshare in an effort to facilitate end-to-end bandwidth and mesh virtual communities through strategizing visionary users. I feel as though by synergizing impactful portals it allows the blog to e-enable user-centric deliverables and optimize out-of-the-box infrastructures which further ables the blog to exploit enterprise systems. What the hell am I talking about? Well that's corporate speak for: it's Friday and it's time for another installment of Ten Tracks You Need. I've [...]
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