This was not easy?Feel free to leave a comment with your favorite album and selected song from that album in the comments. My other list will follow but for now here are my 2006 Album Picks: 1. [...]
Photo by Jason Quigley I don’t want to spoil the future, but here it is: Talkdemonic’s Beat Romantic will rank very, very high on my year-end list while most others will overlook it. It won’t be much of a surprise, given that the duo of Kevin O’Connor and Lisa Molinaro isn’t yet receiving the rapturous acclaim they totally deserve. I guess they can be a tough sell in this near-monolithic indie climate: their album has no vocals, serves up an unclassifiable blend of instruments and electronics they’ve dubbed [...]
I took the day off to sit on a chilly length of Ocean Beach, meditating on not eating and absolving all the sins I spent the other 364 days accumulating. Everything else seemed to be proceeding as normal. The 38 still chugged down Geary like a tired worm, its windows perpetually crammed with shriveled Chinese men and painted Russian babushkas. The prickly odors of pork dumplings and sweet buns still lunged at me from dingy storefronts. The homeless men still flashed their battered-window grins and the twelve-year-old skateboard pseudopunks still snaked through ever-coming traffic. I waited for wisdom to arrive [...]
Let's face facts: for better or worse, we live in a hybridized world. Borders are wearing down, the lines between races and genders and nationalities are eroding. Strange genes are being spliced into fruits and vegetables. Electric battery-gas engine cars are starting to show up more and more. It's no wonder that music is reflecting these changes, freely hybridizing sounds with a big assist from technology. From the east-west beats of M.I.A. to the reggae-hip hop-Latin fusion of reggaeton, the hybrid is grabbing a lot of ears. A different but no less noteworthy example of the hybrid is [...]
Tired...Must sleep. Talkdemonic Brilliant music! mp3: Talkdemonic, Cascade Locks.mp3 mp3: Talkdemonic, Bering.mp3 Album available here
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Video: Chromatics – “These Streets Will Never Look The Same”
Video: 2:54 - "Creeping"
