"I am heavily biased towards Irish artists, athletes, authors...I'll defend Enya and Martin O'Neill like they're family members!" The G-Man chats with the multi-talented Rachel Zeffira ahead of her upcoming Irish dates... Canadian composer, opera singer and now indie starlet, Rachel Zeffira has been busy since she was accidentally deported a few years back. The moronic mistake by English customs may have caused heartbreak at the time ( Zeffira was in London to sing soprano at a [...]
Ya estamos en Diciembre, y las noticias del split de Chelsea Wolfe y King Dude aún siguen sin aparecer, pese a que se tenía contemplado que Sargent House lo estuviera editando en este mismo mes, sin embargo hasta el momento solo han confirmado un par de fechas juntos para los primeros meses de 2013. Pero bueno, mientras tanto hace unos momentos se dio a conocer este fragmento de la mas reciente aparición de Chelsea Wolfe en las Glassroom Sessions, en donde decidió hacer un cover de "The End" de Sibylle Baier que, para ser [...]
It doesn't take much to realize that today's musical trends are firmly pushing the idea that BIGGER IS BETTER. Just go and look at the tracks on our home page; most go for massive sound, with glossy synths and huge beats. I'm not going to lie, I'm a fan of the formula, but it's always refreshing to see some artists stray from that and present fairly stripped back numbers with a heavy emphasis on emotion. My first exposure to 9mary - real name Flo Morrissey - a seventeen (!!!) year-old London native [...]
I came across Sibylle Baier just this week when I saw an old Youtube video posted up and I listened to a track off her (only?) album The Colour Green and immediately wanted to know more. For those who don't know she's a German folk artist whose early 70s recordings were collected by her son in 2006 and got into the hands of J Mascis who sent it over to a label to release. So it took 30 years for the songs to get out but I'm so glad they did. There's something incredibly peaceful about her music. [...]
"Give me your smile for the while, May it guide us through the dark..." A six pack to while away the time until the Smile Sessions come out. :-) Sibylle Baier - Give Me A Smile MP3 The Dream Syndicate - When You Smile MP3 Operation Ivy - Smiling MP3 Faust - Giggy Smile MP3 John Prine - Illegal Smile MP3 [...]
Sibylle Baier - Tonight This might be one of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard. Simple yet elegant. Soft yet emotionally powerful. I could listen to Sibylle sing this song for hours on end into the night. I feel like it would be the perfect soundtrack to sitting in an old house watching the city scape change as snow falls with just the glow of street lamps. Recorded in the early 70s on a reel-to-reel tape recorder at her home. Big hat tip to Jeff Walls of the band Campfire and his guest post on [...]
Bloody Mess is a new monthly goth party by Diva Dompe and Meghan Edwards. Tonight is their second, taking over Three Clubs in Hollywood with all kinds of gothy dizziness. The above photo is meant as an attire suggestion. Here is a mixtape from Diva to get you in the mood. Diva's side: Stretching The Limits A Bit MP3: Bloody Mixtape "Diva's Side: Stretching The Limits A Bit" 1. The Echoes Fade - Poeme Electronique 2. To [...]
I have a secret. It's not that Radiohead is my favorite band. Or that I used to be (and to a much smaller degree still am) a giant fanboy. My secret is that leadsinger Thom Yorke is my older brother. How else can you explain the number of bands that I've been introduced to by Radiohead (through their webcasts, radio playlists, openers, and collaborations)? A quick glance through my iPod reveals that a virtual who's who of my musical taste has been stolen from Radiohead: Autechre, The Beta Band, Can, Clinic, DJ Shadow, Four [...]
The other day I began to describe the origins of the Sunday Mix Tape feature. Today, I'll describe the end of an era. The second fifty mix tapes, which commenced on January 28th, 2007, saw an increased amount of attention paid to marginalized artists. It was almost as if the first few dozen installments were my way of convincing people to come along for the ride, and the second fifty mix tapes were my way of introducing people to the really good shit. Three years ago, before the reissue and the recent Pitchfork review, you'd never see an [...]
SPOOK HILL :: SEPTEMBER MIXTAPE :: BOY ATTRACTIONS Walker and I have had this one in the works for a while. We decided a month or so ago (after our last mixtape) that we wanted to try something a bit different from our usual mixes. We settled on the idea of compiling our favorite songs recorded before 2000 that were relatively unknown or obscure (or at least if the artist was relatively known, one of their hidden gems). That was really the only restriction. Interestingly enough, there was a clear divide in the years [...]
None of the news that's fit to print. Just kidding... A lot of writers, with recently insane released by Phantom Family Halo, Nerves Jr., and others have been asking "what's in the water in Louisville?" Here's your answer: drugs . A lot of drugs - via an expose by The Louisville Courier-Journal . Speaking of local music, looks like music legend and Rodan/Rachel's founder Jason Nobel is doing pretty well, as a new Shipping News record, One Less Heartless To Hear , hits on November 9 via Karate [...]
he gently to ok my arm we had chan ge of the moon I know very little about the music of Sibylle Baier, but it seems that nobody really did. She only ever recorded one album, back in 1973, which only found release in 2006. How? After giving up music after one album, those recordings fell into the hands of the lead singer of Dinosaur Jr thirty years later, who passed them on to Orange Twin Records. The songs are sparse, mostly [...]
When I heard Kevin Barnes' cover of "Tonight," I knew I had to track down Sibylle Baier's album Colour Green. After just one listen through, I can already see why it inspired Kevin to pick up his guitar and record a take on the first track. MP3: Sibylle Baier - Tonight MP3: Kevin Barnes - [...]
Apr 28, 2010, 12:58am
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via takeoverkids We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. - Orson Welles Sibylle Baier - Tonight whoa orson, downer.
Is February over yet? Everyone in Canada, and most likely our friends in the US capitol, gets terrible seasonal affective disorder this time of year. All things considered, its been a pretty mild winter in Toronto, but even so, after I drag myself to and from work, all I want to do is become one with my couch and hibernate under a huge pile of blankets and pillows. Is a little sunlight too much to ask for? Load up on the Vitamin D and download this month's comp from our friends [...]
[The internet has a habit of making friends of strangers and I guess I would have to describe Campfires & Battlefields as my best friend-I've-never-met. He is one of the longest standing readers and commenters of this blog, and has written another two fine Sunday Supplement posts for us this week. Cheers C&B.] To me modern German music has always been about the monosyllabic pioneers of Krautrock. Can. Faust. Neu! Or perhaps the ear-shattering crunch of Einsturzende Neubauten’s strategies against architecture. Brilliant stuff, but forbidding too; and sometimes a little too Baader-Meinhof for my bourgeois ass. [...]
[The internet has a habit of making friends of strangers and I guess I would have to describe Campfires & Battlefields as my best friend-I've-never-met. He is one of the longest standing readers and commenters of this blog, and has written another two fine Sunday Supplement posts for us this week. Cheers C&B.] To me modern German music has always been about the monosyllabic pioneers of Krautrock. Can. Faust. Neu! Or perhaps the ear-shattering crunch of Einsturzende Neubauten’s strategies against architecture. Brilliant stuff, but forbidding too; and sometimes a little too Baader-Meinhof for my bourgeois ass. [...]
This week marked a week of "ends" in my life. I'm officially cutting off buying records for the next month (dropped $300 on one record is...like...I don't even want to talk about how dumb I feel right now). I'm done free-spending in general (I just bought an expensive camera, too). LOST is over for the next eight or nine months. I ended my boycott of the beach, put on a bathing suit and spent a day at the shore. I don't know, some other shit ended too. That's why today's mix tape is called "The End." [...]
Discovery is a true commodity nowadays. It's obvious when Bigfoot sightings don't deliver and people claim to have found Atlantis using Google Earth, but luckily, there always seems to be relics of good music to uncover. Most recently, we soaked in the missed-connection allure of proto-punkers Death , but a few years ago, an equally remarkable keepsake was brought to light in the form of German folk songstress Sibylle Baier. In the early 1970's, during a "particuarly dark and moody period of her young life," a good friend took Sibylle on a road [...]
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